
ALLegal420
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Hey guys and gals! I'm very excited to finally start my own thread about a grow that I have helped design and setup for a couple of friends that are med patients. It's been a while since I've posted because... Well life happens, I have been lurking a lot though the last few months and soaking up as much info as possible. Thank you to everyone on here for posting up so much information and sharing their grows, both good and bad ones, I've learned a lot from you all and am more confident that we can actually pull this off! lol
Backstory:
-This is a completely legal grow (2 medical marijuana card holders - 30 plant limit)
-1 of us has some hydro experience, the other has soil experience and I've done a lot of research but no actual experience. So please feel free to throw your thoughts up, good or bad! Any and all information/comments/help will be much appreciated! I'm sure we will have numerous stupid questions (for you people with experience).
-My card holder buddy used to grow back in the day, in soil. Well he tried to again a few months ago and didn't get anywhere near the yield he was looking for... I've been talking with him about 'Doubled's MPB setups' for a while now and after a less than stellar soil run, he said screw it "let's try your hydro setup".
-I spent a lot of time in Doubled's MPB section in the past and thought I wanted to run that setup if the opportunity ever arose. Well after another buddy of mine that is helping set this up told me to check out the Undercurrent setups, we decided to combine the 2 systems. We both really like the simplicity of UC with how everything is fed and setup compared to the MPB's (cost was another factor). I've read through a lot of the grows and stickies in this forums and it is very inspirational and frightening at the same time!*
Setup:
-18ft x 18ft x 9ft tall sealed room (room within a room)
-5 - 1000w lights hung vertical (240v magnetic ballast; 4hps and 1mh)
-4 - 27 gallon totes for plants from home depot
-1 - 70 gallon main Rez from home depot
-3" PVC to connect everything
-1 - Ecoplus 1/4hp water chiller
-1 - Ecoplus 1056 Pump (have another for backup and a 633 pump as well)
-2 - 15,000btu wall banger A/C units
-CO2 (20lb tank with controller)
-Blue stone air pump 320gph
-10 - 4" Ecoplus air discs (2 for each tote and 2 in main Rez)
X = plant
0 = light (1000w vertical)
OXO
XOX
OXO
The room and setup is almost finished, hopefully we will be doing the first dry run of the setup mid next week to check for leaks and make sure temperatures stay within range. This took far more time and effort than I previously expected, but we did take our time though and built everything right and have insulated the hell out of everything!*
The cuttings have been in the cloner for about 5 days now. We will also be rocking 8 plants in soil around the outside 4 lights of the hydro setup for backup.
**Lemon Kush will be ran in the Hydro setup**
Other strains we have available (picked up from a Seattle dispensary):
God bud
Moonwreck
Bubble gum
Cali orange
Tangerine dream
Elephant
Purple pinecone
Goo
Purple Kush (5th generation)
Ghost (unknown strain we named)
We picked Lemon Kush because we don't have much info on any of the strains and haven't seen any flowered in person. If anyone has more info or experience with any of these please let me know. Or if you think something might be better suited in the system... We know anything more indica dominant will rock in the system and the lemon Kush looks pretty good.
Looking forward to your feedback!
Pictures coming soon!
-ALLegal420
Backstory:
-This is a completely legal grow (2 medical marijuana card holders - 30 plant limit)
-1 of us has some hydro experience, the other has soil experience and I've done a lot of research but no actual experience. So please feel free to throw your thoughts up, good or bad! Any and all information/comments/help will be much appreciated! I'm sure we will have numerous stupid questions (for you people with experience).
-My card holder buddy used to grow back in the day, in soil. Well he tried to again a few months ago and didn't get anywhere near the yield he was looking for... I've been talking with him about 'Doubled's MPB setups' for a while now and after a less than stellar soil run, he said screw it "let's try your hydro setup".
-I spent a lot of time in Doubled's MPB section in the past and thought I wanted to run that setup if the opportunity ever arose. Well after another buddy of mine that is helping set this up told me to check out the Undercurrent setups, we decided to combine the 2 systems. We both really like the simplicity of UC with how everything is fed and setup compared to the MPB's (cost was another factor). I've read through a lot of the grows and stickies in this forums and it is very inspirational and frightening at the same time!*
Setup:
-18ft x 18ft x 9ft tall sealed room (room within a room)
-5 - 1000w lights hung vertical (240v magnetic ballast; 4hps and 1mh)
-4 - 27 gallon totes for plants from home depot
-1 - 70 gallon main Rez from home depot
-3" PVC to connect everything
-1 - Ecoplus 1/4hp water chiller
-1 - Ecoplus 1056 Pump (have another for backup and a 633 pump as well)
-2 - 15,000btu wall banger A/C units
-CO2 (20lb tank with controller)
-Blue stone air pump 320gph
-10 - 4" Ecoplus air discs (2 for each tote and 2 in main Rez)
X = plant
0 = light (1000w vertical)
OXO
XOX
OXO
The room and setup is almost finished, hopefully we will be doing the first dry run of the setup mid next week to check for leaks and make sure temperatures stay within range. This took far more time and effort than I previously expected, but we did take our time though and built everything right and have insulated the hell out of everything!*
The cuttings have been in the cloner for about 5 days now. We will also be rocking 8 plants in soil around the outside 4 lights of the hydro setup for backup.
**Lemon Kush will be ran in the Hydro setup**
Other strains we have available (picked up from a Seattle dispensary):
God bud
Moonwreck
Bubble gum
Cali orange
Tangerine dream
Elephant
Purple pinecone
Goo
Purple Kush (5th generation)
Ghost (unknown strain we named)
We picked Lemon Kush because we don't have much info on any of the strains and haven't seen any flowered in person. If anyone has more info or experience with any of these please let me know. Or if you think something might be better suited in the system... We know anything more indica dominant will rock in the system and the lemon Kush looks pretty good.
Looking forward to your feedback!
Pictures coming soon!
-ALLegal420