The Jewels
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Our doorway for the basement access tucks under the second story stairwell . The opening is only about 5 ft tall , and for as long as we have lived here, we have lovingly referred it to it as "The Hobbit Hole" .
My wife is licenced for 20 plants, and last fall we started getting busy down there.
,,,and we built this
It does not appear much , but , that photo illustrates the successful manipulation of the environment . I had carved out a space that could provide heat, light and humidity for our endeavour .
The basement location has a concrete floor. I keep a porcelain cup full of water on the bare floor, today it was 8 degrees Celsius. The ambient air in the room is fairly consistent day and night at 13 Celsius .
For the garden space , I shrouded in a nook that has drywall on three sides. I cordoned off a bubble of plastic film lining the walls and opening. I then installed an additional layer, this time using blue house wrap, seen in all the photos . I have never seen anyone else use it , although, it was free and I had a whole roll of it . I figured if it could keep moisture out of a house, it could keep moisture in a grow room.
The blue material comprises one entire wall and also the pedestrian opening . The final dimensions of the room are just short of 6 feet wide and I ran it about 12 ft long . I ended up closing in a flower room at the far end. I may have goofed up the ratio somewhat. The flower room as it sits right now is the full five and a half feet wide , but I only took four and a half feet depth.
I perhaps should have gone for more depth.
Dunno
We will see .
Something I should admit @ this point - to anyone interested, is I am shooting for a zero buget build.
I have kept ponds and aquariums for years now , and I own just about every tool I know how to use. I seem to have everything I need it on hand to get this project rolling .
And while I am in the confessional, I will also mention that the grow that I am documenting is already in progress- I have the plants in flower at the moment.
I considered jumping in from today but, I felt introductions were in order, as I have been lurking on this site for some time and I wanted to post up my adventure ,so anyone smarter than me can avoid all of the stupid things that I have done over the last few months.
I have been keeping a consistent photo log of these plants growth and development .
So we start at the beginning .
This is a jar,,,notice there is no weed in it.
That is the beginning and the end right there, my friend.
I want this jar to be full of weed so I decided I was going to have to do something about that .
On our first crack everything went along swimmingly . Seedling came up, went hard , vegged for a bit, and was totally a dude.
That was fun.
Had another go at it .Planted two this time .
Still no luck ..Alls balls .
I am getting pissy now . They were some fine plants .I tell myself that it is a learning experience and indeed I was starting to get some confidence - I am battling to provide a comfy environment for these things despite the harsh surrounding conditions. I know I can keep them alive now ---I just need some pink !
They were nice enough, just no good to me .
Winter was setting in. Things were getting chilly .
I know these boys got to go, so I decide to f*** with them a little bit. How
would you like to spend the night without a heater ?
That was 13 C.
Bastards looked fine the day .
So I cut them down
It was looking like a sad Christmas.
Dont despair,,,
Santa brought me these Angels.
My wife is licenced for 20 plants, and last fall we started getting busy down there.
,,,and we built this
It does not appear much , but , that photo illustrates the successful manipulation of the environment . I had carved out a space that could provide heat, light and humidity for our endeavour .
The basement location has a concrete floor. I keep a porcelain cup full of water on the bare floor, today it was 8 degrees Celsius. The ambient air in the room is fairly consistent day and night at 13 Celsius .
For the garden space , I shrouded in a nook that has drywall on three sides. I cordoned off a bubble of plastic film lining the walls and opening. I then installed an additional layer, this time using blue house wrap, seen in all the photos . I have never seen anyone else use it , although, it was free and I had a whole roll of it . I figured if it could keep moisture out of a house, it could keep moisture in a grow room.
The blue material comprises one entire wall and also the pedestrian opening . The final dimensions of the room are just short of 6 feet wide and I ran it about 12 ft long . I ended up closing in a flower room at the far end. I may have goofed up the ratio somewhat. The flower room as it sits right now is the full five and a half feet wide , but I only took four and a half feet depth.
I perhaps should have gone for more depth.
Dunno
We will see .
Something I should admit @ this point - to anyone interested, is I am shooting for a zero buget build.
I have kept ponds and aquariums for years now , and I own just about every tool I know how to use. I seem to have everything I need it on hand to get this project rolling .
And while I am in the confessional, I will also mention that the grow that I am documenting is already in progress- I have the plants in flower at the moment.
I considered jumping in from today but, I felt introductions were in order, as I have been lurking on this site for some time and I wanted to post up my adventure ,so anyone smarter than me can avoid all of the stupid things that I have done over the last few months.
I have been keeping a consistent photo log of these plants growth and development .
So we start at the beginning .
This is a jar,,,notice there is no weed in it.
That is the beginning and the end right there, my friend.
I want this jar to be full of weed so I decided I was going to have to do something about that .
On our first crack everything went along swimmingly . Seedling came up, went hard , vegged for a bit, and was totally a dude.
That was fun.
Had another go at it .Planted two this time .
Still no luck ..Alls balls .
I am getting pissy now . They were some fine plants .I tell myself that it is a learning experience and indeed I was starting to get some confidence - I am battling to provide a comfy environment for these things despite the harsh surrounding conditions. I know I can keep them alive now ---I just need some pink !
They were nice enough, just no good to me .
Winter was setting in. Things were getting chilly .
I know these boys got to go, so I decide to f*** with them a little bit. How
would you like to spend the night without a heater ?
That was 13 C.
Bastards looked fine the day .
So I cut them down
It was looking like a sad Christmas.
Dont despair,,,
Santa brought me these Angels.
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