Tank333
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Well, it has definitely been a while since I've posted a log here. Been shut down for almost a year now. Had some landlord problems and I'm just now getting back under the lights.
I've got a 10'x6' space in the basement of my house. It's walled off with 2x4's and panda film. Four air cooled hoods with 1kw in each. Ourside air comes through the hoods and exits without co-mingling with the room's air. 8" Hepa filter on the FAI. Huge carbon scrubber with a 6" inline fan exhausts outside the room to bring in FAE.
I have no AC, as I'm going to be using a DIY chiller and a repurposed air handler from an old walk-in freezer. That is mounted on the ceiling in the center of the room. The fan pulls air up into it and forces it over the radiator coils filled with chilled water. I'm hoping this, along with a 10" max fan pulling air through the hoods, will be sufficient to keep the room cool, even in the middle of summer.
Just cut clones 4 days ago (Wednesday). We had two small plants of each, Urkel and God, and we COMPLETELY butchered them for every clone we could take. They looked so pitiful when we were done. But we got a total of 55! I'm pretty optimistic that most of them will make it through the rooting process. Its been a minute wince we took clones last, but when we were before, we had it down to a science. My wife cut the clones and scraped the bottom of the stem (removing the cambium?), and then I would cut the leaves all back, dip it in clonex and slide it into the plug. Only took us about 3 hours.
Those girls are up in the upstairs spare room for now. I've got my tent in there with a 4' 4-bulb T-5 over the clones. Once they root, they've got two destinies. The strongest 12-15 will be set aside to be moved downstairs. The remaining 37-40 clones will be potted and flipped almost immediately. I know I'll have a low yeild with them, but its just something to get bills paid in early February. Come the end of Feb, the rest of these girls will get harvested and that'll be the big payday.
The girls going downstairs will be a part of the next flower cycle (the first full one). They'll be vegged for 2-3 weeks, depending on how well they perform, and then once I feel I'll have a nice even canopy, I'll take a few clones for the next round and flip em into flower...
I'm hoping to get enough in the first four harvests to outfit the spare room upstairs into a second flower room. I really can't wait to be running with both rooms going full bore! I'm thinking about putting 4 1500w masterblasters in there.... :D
Oh, and I tossed in a picture of my last full harvest. 4kw in a 10x10 room, final yield was a little over three pounds, I think...
I've got a 10'x6' space in the basement of my house. It's walled off with 2x4's and panda film. Four air cooled hoods with 1kw in each. Ourside air comes through the hoods and exits without co-mingling with the room's air. 8" Hepa filter on the FAI. Huge carbon scrubber with a 6" inline fan exhausts outside the room to bring in FAE.
I have no AC, as I'm going to be using a DIY chiller and a repurposed air handler from an old walk-in freezer. That is mounted on the ceiling in the center of the room. The fan pulls air up into it and forces it over the radiator coils filled with chilled water. I'm hoping this, along with a 10" max fan pulling air through the hoods, will be sufficient to keep the room cool, even in the middle of summer.
Just cut clones 4 days ago (Wednesday). We had two small plants of each, Urkel and God, and we COMPLETELY butchered them for every clone we could take. They looked so pitiful when we were done. But we got a total of 55! I'm pretty optimistic that most of them will make it through the rooting process. Its been a minute wince we took clones last, but when we were before, we had it down to a science. My wife cut the clones and scraped the bottom of the stem (removing the cambium?), and then I would cut the leaves all back, dip it in clonex and slide it into the plug. Only took us about 3 hours.
Those girls are up in the upstairs spare room for now. I've got my tent in there with a 4' 4-bulb T-5 over the clones. Once they root, they've got two destinies. The strongest 12-15 will be set aside to be moved downstairs. The remaining 37-40 clones will be potted and flipped almost immediately. I know I'll have a low yeild with them, but its just something to get bills paid in early February. Come the end of Feb, the rest of these girls will get harvested and that'll be the big payday.
The girls going downstairs will be a part of the next flower cycle (the first full one). They'll be vegged for 2-3 weeks, depending on how well they perform, and then once I feel I'll have a nice even canopy, I'll take a few clones for the next round and flip em into flower...
I'm hoping to get enough in the first four harvests to outfit the spare room upstairs into a second flower room. I really can't wait to be running with both rooms going full bore! I'm thinking about putting 4 1500w masterblasters in there.... :D
Oh, and I tossed in a picture of my last full harvest. 4kw in a 10x10 room, final yield was a little over three pounds, I think...
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