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Seems like it is time for me to post up a diary. I have been growing for about 3 years now and it seems there have been many struggles along the way from a vandalized flower room to various F'ups on my part to bugs. Seems like a have a fairly stable grow program now and I am focusing the last few cycles on yield improvement.
My setup:
-Custom built (DIY) Undercurrent Hydro with 8 grow sites a control bucket and top off reservoir (5 gallon control with 15 gallon top off).
-Custom built COB LED system, 90 CRI Luminous COBS, dimmable but capable of 750 watts total (12 Cobs in a 4X3 array). Running 65W per sq ft at full flower, 3000 and 3500K mix.
-LED drivers outside the room for thermal efficiency.
-4X5 grow area in a 6X5 room.
-Ideal air AC unit drawing input air from inside the house.
-Room slightly elevated pressure to keep bugs and other crap out. Incoming air filtered.
-1/4 hp chiller outside the room.
-950GPH air pump outside the room as well.
-Jack's Hydro Pro, Jack's Calcium Nitrate and Epsom in a 3-2-1 mix.
The plants:
-My own F2 version (Cheesequake X Cheesequake)
-Sorted the girls out by size and productivity
-Saw the unicorn in the mix the first run but my clones of her failed so did a second run to find that one plant and did. Cloned her successfully (difficult hybrid to clone!).
-Current grow still has a mix of plants (all strong), next grow will have fully sorted and better plants because they will be clones of the my 2 favorite phenos
My goals:
-To have a more controlled healthy grow.
-To beat my last yield (want to exceed .7 gr per watt or better)
Some pictures of the setup:
Laying out the system:
UC leak and functional test:
First run with UC
Control bucket with return line from chiller. Temperature probes in control bucket and chiller return line:
My setup:
-Custom built (DIY) Undercurrent Hydro with 8 grow sites a control bucket and top off reservoir (5 gallon control with 15 gallon top off).
-Custom built COB LED system, 90 CRI Luminous COBS, dimmable but capable of 750 watts total (12 Cobs in a 4X3 array). Running 65W per sq ft at full flower, 3000 and 3500K mix.
-LED drivers outside the room for thermal efficiency.
-4X5 grow area in a 6X5 room.
-Ideal air AC unit drawing input air from inside the house.
-Room slightly elevated pressure to keep bugs and other crap out. Incoming air filtered.
-1/4 hp chiller outside the room.
-950GPH air pump outside the room as well.
-Jack's Hydro Pro, Jack's Calcium Nitrate and Epsom in a 3-2-1 mix.
The plants:
-My own F2 version (Cheesequake X Cheesequake)
-Sorted the girls out by size and productivity
-Saw the unicorn in the mix the first run but my clones of her failed so did a second run to find that one plant and did. Cloned her successfully (difficult hybrid to clone!).
-Current grow still has a mix of plants (all strong), next grow will have fully sorted and better plants because they will be clones of the my 2 favorite phenos
My goals:
-To have a more controlled healthy grow.
-To beat my last yield (want to exceed .7 gr per watt or better)
Some pictures of the setup:
Laying out the system:
UC leak and functional test:
First run with UC
Control bucket with return line from chiller. Temperature probes in control bucket and chiller return line: