Hello everyone! My name is Lucas, nick GrowingDreams, I´m 36. And I´m here to share some of my experience being a medical user of marijuana in Brazil.

I hadn’t planted since 2017 due to the invasion of my house and the seizure of my plants by the Brazilian police. I wasn’t home at the time, but I presented myself at the police station, I wasn’t indicted in the drug trafficking case, but the district attorney filed charges, and I responded to a trafficking lawsuit. More than 5 years later, I was acquitted, as it was proven that the use was medicinal. Today, with judicial authorization, I was finally able to have peace to cultivate my medicine.

I was diagnosed with ADHD many years ago, and after seeing all kinds of doctors, my tremors, which I’ve had since I was a child and were supposedly essential tremors, were diagnosed as early-onset Parkinson’s. I need high CBD and high CBG, and I’m researching for strains in this line to restart.
I’ve been cultivating since 2009-2010. My last grow was hydroponic, using a 3280w LED and HPS mixed system in 2016. I didn’t need to grow for a long time after that, but by the end of 2017, I was starting again when my house was invaded, and my plants were seized.

But the bad phase is over, and today I am at peace, with judicial authorization after 7 years of legal struggle. I just want to maintain my perpetual cultivation to extract my oil and never run out again.

This was my last grow in 2016:



My actual room before cleaning, paint and remodeling (all by my own hands, extremely tight budget here) :



After the remodeling, cleaning, paintng and installing some equip...


Progressing with the electrical setup, the panel is mounted and tested. No jerry-rigs!

There are two relays/ contactors of 40 amps each, each connected to a Sonoff (Wi-Fi controller).
The power enters through the circuit breaker on the upper left side, then passes through the first contactor.
This functions as a main switch, turning everything on and off, including the air conditioner and the three outlets at the bottom where I plug in the timers for the pumps.
In addition, I took advantage of the fact that the first contactor had a free phase, so I ran 110v through it to power pumps that are not 220v.
After the first contactor, there’s a split for a circuit breaker for the air conditioner and a second contactor for the flowering lighting. This one is currently connected to a Wi-Fi controller, but I’ll add a timer after the controller to ensure reliability, as I don’t trust the timers on these controllers. If the Wi-Fi fails, it could cause delays, etc. I will only use it if I need to turn off the lighting for an emergency. (I’ve already installed cameras so I can see what’s going on with the plants when I’m not around).
This black and green power strip is the energy output for the lighting.
This timer on the right, next to the black and green power strip, will be placed between the Wi-Fi controller and the second contactor.
Everything was sized with plenty of headroom; this system could handle 32 amps in total, it wouldn’t reach 40 amps because the incoming circuit breaker is 32 amps. Completely overkill, I won’t even use a third of that. Haha.

For veg/clones and mothers, I´m using a 3ftx3ftx6ft growbox, with a 65w Quantum Board Led, and a homemade bubbler for propagation..


For flowering, I have 2 600w HPS over the bigger Hydro tray (200cm x100cm x 25cm), + 1 400wHPS, over the 2 smaller hydro trays. (60cm x 40cm x25cm each)





Hydroton in place!




Reservoir 300 L (80 gallon), Ph/ppm meters, nutrients...



Totally sealed growroom : AC 12btu + co2 Controller + airscrubber, analog ballasts (I already had this frrom 2015-16)



Half of the clones are Gorila Kush and the other half are Critical Lemon. (The only genetics strains acessible for me until my high CBD/CBG seeds arrive) .

35 plants on hydro Today. 27 on the bigger tray, and 4 on each smaller tray.


Growbox 3ftx3ft for cloning, mother plants ....



Entire GR today.


Any comments or opinions are welcome! Thanks folks!