a Lone Wolf.... in the ATTIC with 4000 watts!

[Tonatiuh]

dayum yo thats crazy,i never seen a bat on a sticky trap.too bad for the little guy but ur right man gotta keep the home safe.no need to feel bad yo as far as im concerned the wildlife can be outside where it belongs,come in my home uninvited and its pretty much the same fate for everything big small short or tall...b'bye.
peace-T-

 

[grwAer0]

damn u did the right thing can not call a professional pest control company because well


Dont feel so bad circle of life darwinsm and all that stuff mixed together.

 

[stoney419]

Bump bump how's it going up there

 

[BeardedClam]

What do you mean I need a ticket to watch this show!!!

What do you mean I need a ticket to watch this show!!!

 

[DankSide]

Yah man there's something nicer about a rat with wings rather than a rat with legs. I'd have put it out of its misery but its a pretty hard thing to bring yourself to do.

Minimizing pests is key though, you don't want rodents the same way you don't want mites!

Good luck on your attic setup. We have been thinking about doing this but are concerned about venting to the roof and may try to figure out a good way to vent to the garage.

 

[HOVAH2.0]

u need a cat, even though i hate um...

 

[Lone Wolf]

whats up guys, sorry i havent posted here in a very longgggg time...

there are some pics above of some of what i harvested... did very well with the harvest... paid off alot of shit... paid ALOT of taxes also so don't worry LEO, you got your cut...

anyways, its starting to get HOT out here, and I am growing in an attic so im having HIGH heat issues...

does anyone have any recommendations for what I should do in order to start cooling this baby down??

I am thinking about downgrading to 600s to keep the heat down a bit - then I am thinking about building an AC box and running it in here, or I might get a portable AC unit... I am just wondering if you guys think any portable unit or window unit would be strong enough to cool it down on say a 90 degree day? i insulated the room very well using insulation AND that styrofoam insulation with the foil stuff on one side... so im wondering If that insulation will be enough to keep the hot sun rays from penetrating the roof and eventually making its way into my grow... currently I have suspended growing in the attic until I can come up with a real solution... until then, I am just getting mass clones ready and doing all of that prep work...

if anyone can add any recommendations that would be cool.... anyone?

 

[solarz]

may want to look into a mini split ac unit for your cooling needs.

 

[CovertCultivatr]

Nice nuggs, Wolfy! Im a month into 12/12 on my 1st grow in over 3 yrs and let me tell you, your harvest is getting me excited about mine. AC is SOOOOOOOOOO worth it! I have 1 x 1000 watts in an 8x3x3 room ( in a garage in Texas) and my window unit is a life saver. I'd go with at least 12,000 BTUs. Mini splits are rad but can be expensive.

 

[Lone Wolf]

hey thanks guys.... a mini split is wayyy out of the question... the home I am in has a central air unit outside already.. .i was thinking of tapping into the duct somehow and bringing some of the AC up there, but there is NO WAY that that is enough cooling power....

i am going to have to go pick up a nice sized window unit, or perhaps a portable unit off of ebay... i will letcha guys know whats up

another thing i need to do that I havent addressed is get the hot air that is pulled from the lights into another area then expel it out of the attic some how.. i was thinking of building a box, putting my big ass scrubber in it, then exhausting that box straight out of the ventilation opening at the peak of the attic... right now i have the hot air going out of the room and just sitting in the attic all around the room that I built... that CANT be good... winter YES, summer NO... TIME TO GET MOVING!

 

[CovertCultivatr]

Inject some CO2 and take advantage of the warmer temps. It'll save on AC costs in the long run and your girls will thrive.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Inject some CO2 and take advantage of the warmer temps. It'll save on AC costs in the long run and your girls will thrive.

really? how high of temperatures can you run with co2?

 

[CovertCultivatr]

My bloom room is at 85 during lights on. At that temp, the plants metabolize more/faster. Thus the need more CO2 and water/nutes (plants actually can't metabolize extra CO2 at lower temps, so adding CO2 at below 80 is a waste). This increase in uptake directly relates to a dramatic increase in growth/yield. Then, during lights off the temps fall to 68. I've read that temps can go as high as 90-95 with increased CO2. Kind of a bonus if you ask me.

Check our this article:
http://www.quickgrowsouth.com/gardening_articles/co2_enrichment.html

 

[supervaca]

Up to 34-36 º C i've seen ; like 1700 ppm CO2 ...
Here says less, but you can go safe 33-34 (this I checked personally, is very hot here).
http://www.budseed.com/rockwool4.html

 

[NHMI]

This is an awesome setup but you are gonna probably end up with a mold problem with all that plastic and insulation. I would remove all the insul from the roof decking so your ridgevent is exposed...unless you have a fan-driven ventilation system, though the plastic will keep the moisture on the outside, between the plastic and the insul...I do mold Remediation for a living and can't see how you pulled it off with summer temps....the average attic hits 125 degrees easily in the summer and with all that insul I would think your ventilation would suck and create issues.

You have an amazing setup otherwise though....I would spray Protex all over the roof decking at least and then put the insul back up or leave it down, mold wont be able to grow at all if you were to do that....looks like you got everything covered though, I bet that was a great harvest but how high was your electric bill??Great work!

 

[puff adder]

My room's hot air exits into the attic. Attics usually have vent grates to expel hot air, and I took a $10 square box fan and some hooks and hung the fan in front of the vent to suck the hot air out. This would also work from the inside pushing out.

This also helped with odor.

You are running your lights at night correct?

 

[Lone Wolf]

Incest is the BEST

Incest is the BEST

heres some blueberry skunk that has been curing for about 6 months now... just found a jar of it that I had hid from myself and recently relocated!

anyways, on to what I have been up to these days... I purchased a chain driven light mover to move my 600w parabolic hood. Its a pretty good deal. I am vegging out over 100 plants right now with it and its working phenomenal. No need to run a bunch of lights to veg. All you really need is what I have here... i do have it quite jimmy rigged tho, as I have it on a make-shift "rack" so to speak. i pretty much took a bunch of pvc and cut it up. Never glued anything, just stuck it together. I am real big on being able to dismantle EVERY aspect of my grow within minutes if ever the need may arise. Looking into the future is key, and having an escape plan readily available is also KEY to survival in a non-med state with extremely harsh laws... I am also a very paranoid man by nature, so operating like this helps me sleep at night. Here are some pictures to show you whats up. Most of these plants you see here were started from seeds that I made. I have been germinating about 50 seeds every week or so, then putting them into red plastic party cups, and then vegging them underneath a T5 for another week, and then taking them from the T5 and transplanting into 4 or 5 inch *cant remember exactly what size* pots which then go underneath my cool parabolic invention... its a big cycle.. at the moment i have about 200 or so seeds that I created going very strong and looking phenomenal. Crossing awesome genetics and then watching the seeds grow is a very cool aspect of growing that I highly encourage EVERYONE to try. I crossed blueberry skunk (that bud you see up top that I am holding there) with a bunch of great strains - BOG's sourbubble and LSD, along with Chronic, AND some of Rez's Williams Wonder... the mother was the blueberry skunk plant, and the male pollen came from the aforementioned plants. Also, I used a Fucking Incredible mother plant and threw that same pollen on her, so in my mix of plants I have a bunch of FI progeny going as well. The FI mother was exactly that, FUCKING INCREDIBLE. So to see how her offspring turns out with this pollen will be quite a show if you ask me. I am going to appreciate every plant that I get- Males I will collect the pollen, and Females I will be sure to take many clones from and re-pollinate with the male pollen. Its going to be one big inbreeding festival, but thats fine with me - I plan on making some cool shit here... I doubt there is anyone out there who wouldn't like to get their hands on any of this stuff... Don't worry, I have plans to make everything available to you guys... anyways, enough with the ranting and raving, here are some pictures of my temporary vegetation quarters...

here are some of the blueberry skunk babies

some more babies growing up real strong. I germinated these things using the wet paper towel/baggie method, and I shit you not they were ready to be stuck into coco in 24 hours... VERY vigorous- in 48 hours they had long hypocotyls shooting out, and in 72 hours they were fully emerged from the casings, cotyledons fully exposed.. I take the quickest growing plants and transplant them into the large pots then stick them under the bad boy 600 watter... its a nice cycle...

while all of this stuff is vegging out... I am re-constructing my flowering chambers to be able to withstand outside read as well as heat from the hot hot bulbs...

I am debating between buying a nice heavy duty window unit and building a box around it, or getting a portable unit... I really do not feel like building the box around the window unit, but its seeming like thats the route I am going to have to take after doing research on the portable units... it seems like I stand no chance in hell using one of those things... either way, I am going to make SOMETHING happen... i always do...


see ya around next time...

 

[BigGreen]

I would build a box out of the pink 2" thick foam insulation board from home depot. Its easy as hell and you just use reflective tape to hold it together. Worked great for me. Someone has a thread on here on how to build it easy as pie.
Good luck

 

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[logitach420.]

Hey man nice thread. I read your cooling problem

Why dont you vent your air cooled lids out of the attic? I know there has to be a vent or two you can tap into. In the summer no problem because you wont see any steam like you would if you were dumping 100+ degree air into the winter cold.

You do that and you can run a 6500btu a/c unit and be just fine. Then consider co2.