istari72
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8k+ watt
Vertical Tree Grow
soilless
Greetings and Welcome fellow farmers! Thanks for coming :) I have decided to start my first grow thread! Though I am admitedly posting a little late as I am already almost halfway through flowering, this will serve as a bonus for us short-term attention folks. Comments, questions, and other positive means of participation is certainly encouraged. Let's get straight to it.
Grow Room Dimensions:
22 x 11 x 10 building
Panda plastic covers walls
layout picture will be provided next posting
Lighting:
2x 1000w Eye Hortilux MH bulbs
1x 1000w PlantMax Dual Arc bulb (I broke the other one ffs)
5x 1000w Eye Hortilux Super HPS bulbs
overhead Green Floodlight and green LED headlamp for 'lights out' work
Side Lighting:
4x 105w CFL's with Hydrofarm Vertical CFL Mogul base fixtures (fixtures only rated to 100 watts but 105'3 are ok per Hydrofarm tech).
Ballasts:
4x ipower digital, dimmable 4-6-10k ballasts
2x SunSytems 1000w HPS ballasts
2x Generic 1000w MH ballasts
Ventilation:
6x 8" cool tubes (one circuit of 4, one circuit of 2)
Heavy Duty Insulated 8" ducting
2x Valueline 8" fans
Environmental Control:
2x floor fans on opposite sides of room
6x Econoline wall mounted circulation fans (3x 18", 3x 16"; 18's far superior)
2x common dehumidifiers with 5 gallon DIY resevior
Green Aire CO2 burner
10k BTU window mount A/C
Heater on thermostat (to maintain 70 degrees at night)
Strains: Elephant, Querkle (3 phenotypes), Cheese, Crticial +
(next round will be OG Raskal's White Fire, Paradise's White Berry, and Critical Bilbo, and hopefully Gage Green Group's Dumbo (Grape Stomper Bx), Sun Maiden, and Purple Snowman)
Nutrients:
Advanced Nutrients A and B
Hygrozyme
Carboload
Vitamin B1
wetting agent
occassional CalMag
Bud Blood – first week of flower
Big Bud – flowering weeks 2-4
OverDrive – flowering 5-6
Ph: originally 6.5, reduced to 5.5 (*based upon runoff)
PPM: 800-1000 ppm, raised to 1350 ppm beginning of week 4
Tea: appx. 10-14 day intervals
Companion Microbial Inoculant
Sulpher Free Molasses
Great White Myochorizae
Vegetative: Mexican Bat Guano + Maxicrop
Flowering: AN Tea + Budswell
Containers and Medium:
32 gallon Trash cans on dollies, holes drilled in bottom, lid inversed and serves as drain tray between can and dolly
Excess nute water wet vacuumed out of lid drain trays
Sunshine Mix #4
Each can has 3 custom perforated 1/2" PVC pipes for improved drainage, top of pipes sealed to prevent blockage
No gravel at bottom of containers!
Experience: 15 years
Intital Pictures:
02/21-28/12
I had some serious droop/'ram horn'/leaf curl here which was sigificantly anxiety producing. Quick smoke break, adjustment to musical selection, and I'm at it! Possible issues which may have been causing this problem which would have to be excluded, one by one, included root rot problem, oversaturation and/or compaction issues, poor O2 at root level, Ph/PPM/nutrient problems, lumen shock....I had to ferret these out.
Fixes:
Hanna meter was not working properly, replaced it.
installed perforated 1/2" PVC pipe, sealed at top, installed 3x per can for improved drainage.
Did H2O2 flush individually, followed 4 days later with Tea
***Primary issue, however, was........Lumen Shock. I took plants directly from 2x 1000k watt MH horizontally positioned lights to suddenly being broadsided by Six horizontally positioned 1000k's...took me five days to put this together, raised lights 2 feet and observed a dramatic difference by the next day. I slowly lowered them for period of 4 more days and they were good to go. My experience has clearly demonstrated to me that Lumen Shock is no myth!
02/28/12
my working view :)
all other pix up to present in next posts....
Lessons/Possibilities thus far...
+ Smart pot fabric incorporated into trash cans? eg. Line inside of cans with fabric after drilling holes of some form, shape, etc. On side of cans to imporve root conditions?
+ Regarding Innoculants, i'm now under the impression that once them critters have colonized the roots, they're home. Keep the carbs coming, don't kill 'em with chlorine or H2O2, and they're good.
+will incorporate hydroton into SS#4 mix next round, while I become familiar with under current hydro system.
+I'm investigating nutrients in a more thorough manner to determine if high priced nutes like AN are price effective, and what alternatives are available...will keep posted in future
Pending Changes
+will be adding another ipower 1000k lamp with 1000k Eye Super HPS bulb in vented 8" "Ocho" overhead reflector – haven't decided placement yet...
Next posts will include all other pictures and comments to date. Thanks for showing up, and take care of yourselves and each other.
Istari72
Vertical Tree Grow
soilless
Greetings and Welcome fellow farmers! Thanks for coming :) I have decided to start my first grow thread! Though I am admitedly posting a little late as I am already almost halfway through flowering, this will serve as a bonus for us short-term attention folks. Comments, questions, and other positive means of participation is certainly encouraged. Let's get straight to it.
Grow Room Dimensions:
22 x 11 x 10 building
Panda plastic covers walls
layout picture will be provided next posting
Lighting:
2x 1000w Eye Hortilux MH bulbs
1x 1000w PlantMax Dual Arc bulb (I broke the other one ffs)
5x 1000w Eye Hortilux Super HPS bulbs
overhead Green Floodlight and green LED headlamp for 'lights out' work
Side Lighting:
4x 105w CFL's with Hydrofarm Vertical CFL Mogul base fixtures (fixtures only rated to 100 watts but 105'3 are ok per Hydrofarm tech).
Ballasts:
4x ipower digital, dimmable 4-6-10k ballasts
2x SunSytems 1000w HPS ballasts
2x Generic 1000w MH ballasts
Ventilation:
6x 8" cool tubes (one circuit of 4, one circuit of 2)
Heavy Duty Insulated 8" ducting
2x Valueline 8" fans
Environmental Control:
2x floor fans on opposite sides of room
6x Econoline wall mounted circulation fans (3x 18", 3x 16"; 18's far superior)
2x common dehumidifiers with 5 gallon DIY resevior
Green Aire CO2 burner
10k BTU window mount A/C
Heater on thermostat (to maintain 70 degrees at night)
Strains: Elephant, Querkle (3 phenotypes), Cheese, Crticial +
(next round will be OG Raskal's White Fire, Paradise's White Berry, and Critical Bilbo, and hopefully Gage Green Group's Dumbo (Grape Stomper Bx), Sun Maiden, and Purple Snowman)
Nutrients:
Advanced Nutrients A and B
Hygrozyme
Carboload
Vitamin B1
wetting agent
occassional CalMag
Bud Blood – first week of flower
Big Bud – flowering weeks 2-4
OverDrive – flowering 5-6
Ph: originally 6.5, reduced to 5.5 (*based upon runoff)
PPM: 800-1000 ppm, raised to 1350 ppm beginning of week 4
Tea: appx. 10-14 day intervals
Companion Microbial Inoculant
Sulpher Free Molasses
Great White Myochorizae
Vegetative: Mexican Bat Guano + Maxicrop
Flowering: AN Tea + Budswell
Containers and Medium:
32 gallon Trash cans on dollies, holes drilled in bottom, lid inversed and serves as drain tray between can and dolly
Excess nute water wet vacuumed out of lid drain trays
Sunshine Mix #4
Each can has 3 custom perforated 1/2" PVC pipes for improved drainage, top of pipes sealed to prevent blockage
No gravel at bottom of containers!
Experience: 15 years
Intital Pictures:
02/21-28/12
I had some serious droop/'ram horn'/leaf curl here which was sigificantly anxiety producing. Quick smoke break, adjustment to musical selection, and I'm at it! Possible issues which may have been causing this problem which would have to be excluded, one by one, included root rot problem, oversaturation and/or compaction issues, poor O2 at root level, Ph/PPM/nutrient problems, lumen shock....I had to ferret these out.
Fixes:
Hanna meter was not working properly, replaced it.
installed perforated 1/2" PVC pipe, sealed at top, installed 3x per can for improved drainage.
Did H2O2 flush individually, followed 4 days later with Tea
***Primary issue, however, was........Lumen Shock. I took plants directly from 2x 1000k watt MH horizontally positioned lights to suddenly being broadsided by Six horizontally positioned 1000k's...took me five days to put this together, raised lights 2 feet and observed a dramatic difference by the next day. I slowly lowered them for period of 4 more days and they were good to go. My experience has clearly demonstrated to me that Lumen Shock is no myth!
02/28/12
my working view :)
all other pix up to present in next posts....
Lessons/Possibilities thus far...
+ Smart pot fabric incorporated into trash cans? eg. Line inside of cans with fabric after drilling holes of some form, shape, etc. On side of cans to imporve root conditions?
+ Regarding Innoculants, i'm now under the impression that once them critters have colonized the roots, they're home. Keep the carbs coming, don't kill 'em with chlorine or H2O2, and they're good.
+will incorporate hydroton into SS#4 mix next round, while I become familiar with under current hydro system.
+I'm investigating nutrients in a more thorough manner to determine if high priced nutes like AN are price effective, and what alternatives are available...will keep posted in future
Pending Changes
+will be adding another ipower 1000k lamp with 1000k Eye Super HPS bulb in vented 8" "Ocho" overhead reflector – haven't decided placement yet...
Next posts will include all other pictures and comments to date. Thanks for showing up, and take care of yourselves and each other.
Istari72