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After spending quite amount of time researching the FAQ’s and scouring through the top posts, I have decided to start a grow journal.
Everyone’s input is welcome. Please be kind and remember that we were all here at one point.
I love constructive criticisms as long as they hold merit and value. So please feel free to speak freely. Keep in mind, our freedom of speech is in jeopardy. But let us not venture down the path of political debate.
So hey! My name is Fabz and I reside in beautiful Niagara Ontario Canada. I’m 39 years old with two amazing teens for kiddos. I am an electrician, welder and barber by trade.
From the age of 15, when I found out my father (rip) was illegally cultivating 2 plants of cannabis, I immediately became obsessed. After years of secretly watching my dad cultivate and reading countless grow bibles and cultivation magazines, I, the student, became the teacher.
There were so many things my father was doing “wrong”! I had to speak up.
When I turned 18, I confronted my dad about his “hibiscus garden”. It only took 20 minutes to help him see he was busted and that his son had all of a sudden, become a cannabis expert (not even close, but we’ve all been there. Young and dumb)
So over the next few years my dad taught me everything he knew and I helped him understand what the new advancements were with cannabis cultivation. Remember, this was back in the 90’s when cannabis was driven by Marc emery and big Mike. God bless those two.
eventually I bought my own home with my new wife and I built my first garden. It was a 4x8 secret room in the basement that no one knew about! I ran a dual 400w HID MH/HPS ballast with an air cooled hood and a generic carbon filter with a 4” stealth fan. Worked out pretty well. I found out after that my biggest downfall was the duct sizing I chose. So I knew moving forward, any garden I build would never have 4” duct again!
After multiple successful harvest, my wife at the time announced she was pregnant with our son. We agreed that the garden was too high of a risk with an infant in the house.
We finished the last 3 flowering plants and then we put away the garden.... for 16 years.
So here I am today, with a beautiful 16 year old son and an even more stunning 14 year old daughter. All grown up with lives and friends and probably lovers too So I decided it was time I build my garden again. I FINALLY can return to my one passion. Cultivating cannabis. Aside from my kids, gaming and drumming, cultivation is part of who I am and a deep seeded passion. I’m finally back.
Novemeber of 2020 I began designing my flower room. Here she is today...
Specs:
Flower chamber room size: 5x12’ (5x8’ usable grow area)
2x 1000w digital ballast
1x 1000w hortilux blue
1x 1000w hortilux super HPS
Dual 6” air cooled reflectors
PRO75 6” atmosphere carbon filter (not installed in photos)
Vortex vtx600 6” inline exhaust
20” hurricane wall fan
16” hurricane figure 8 fan
8” AC Infinity cloudline T8 intake
Co2 generator (a+b+water kind)
Custom electrical panel designed by moi.
STRAINS currently residing at FabzGardenz:
THC bomb
Bruce Banner #3
Great white shark
Sunset sherbet- removed for having hermie genetics. So fucking sad. One banana and she’s out. That’s how I run my Gardenz.
Thanks for taking a look at the very beginning of my grow diary. There is SO much info to add. I am out of time for today, my girls need me. Please check back in on this post as I add to it each day.
much love.
Fabz.
All photos are from my gardens flower chamber at day 25 flower.
Everyone’s input is welcome. Please be kind and remember that we were all here at one point.
I love constructive criticisms as long as they hold merit and value. So please feel free to speak freely. Keep in mind, our freedom of speech is in jeopardy. But let us not venture down the path of political debate.
So hey! My name is Fabz and I reside in beautiful Niagara Ontario Canada. I’m 39 years old with two amazing teens for kiddos. I am an electrician, welder and barber by trade.
From the age of 15, when I found out my father (rip) was illegally cultivating 2 plants of cannabis, I immediately became obsessed. After years of secretly watching my dad cultivate and reading countless grow bibles and cultivation magazines, I, the student, became the teacher.
There were so many things my father was doing “wrong”! I had to speak up.
When I turned 18, I confronted my dad about his “hibiscus garden”. It only took 20 minutes to help him see he was busted and that his son had all of a sudden, become a cannabis expert (not even close, but we’ve all been there. Young and dumb)
So over the next few years my dad taught me everything he knew and I helped him understand what the new advancements were with cannabis cultivation. Remember, this was back in the 90’s when cannabis was driven by Marc emery and big Mike. God bless those two.
eventually I bought my own home with my new wife and I built my first garden. It was a 4x8 secret room in the basement that no one knew about! I ran a dual 400w HID MH/HPS ballast with an air cooled hood and a generic carbon filter with a 4” stealth fan. Worked out pretty well. I found out after that my biggest downfall was the duct sizing I chose. So I knew moving forward, any garden I build would never have 4” duct again!
After multiple successful harvest, my wife at the time announced she was pregnant with our son. We agreed that the garden was too high of a risk with an infant in the house.
We finished the last 3 flowering plants and then we put away the garden.... for 16 years.
So here I am today, with a beautiful 16 year old son and an even more stunning 14 year old daughter. All grown up with lives and friends and probably lovers too So I decided it was time I build my garden again. I FINALLY can return to my one passion. Cultivating cannabis. Aside from my kids, gaming and drumming, cultivation is part of who I am and a deep seeded passion. I’m finally back.
Novemeber of 2020 I began designing my flower room. Here she is today...
Specs:
Flower chamber room size: 5x12’ (5x8’ usable grow area)
2x 1000w digital ballast
1x 1000w hortilux blue
1x 1000w hortilux super HPS
Dual 6” air cooled reflectors
PRO75 6” atmosphere carbon filter (not installed in photos)
Vortex vtx600 6” inline exhaust
20” hurricane wall fan
16” hurricane figure 8 fan
8” AC Infinity cloudline T8 intake
Co2 generator (a+b+water kind)
Custom electrical panel designed by moi.
STRAINS currently residing at FabzGardenz:
THC bomb
Bruce Banner #3
Great white shark
Sunset sherbet- removed for having hermie genetics. So fucking sad. One banana and she’s out. That’s how I run my Gardenz.
Thanks for taking a look at the very beginning of my grow diary. There is SO much info to add. I am out of time for today, my girls need me. Please check back in on this post as I add to it each day.
much love.
Fabz.
All photos are from my gardens flower chamber at day 25 flower.
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