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8K Bluedream

Mr. Clean

Member
Welcome to the thread. This will be a weekly updated diary.
The grow tent exterior dimensions are 9'4" squared.
The tent is under negative pressure @ 910 cfm.
2 6" x 24" phresh filters each going to a 6" vortex inline fan rated @ 445cfm.
From that point the blowers are split on a "T" that takes care of 4 lamps.
The air circuits are divided in half, only 2 lights in series.
6" duct really only can handle around 100 cfm, and 2 lights in series does not create excessive heat in the second reflector.
The reflectors are 6" cooltubes, chosen for minimal cfm reduction, and small footprint.
All lamps are hortilux super HPS.
The ducting gets a 6" to 8" reducer and then joins a 8" "T".
This is duplicated twice and then routed into the house via air supply registers.
8KW over 87.1 square feet workouts to be 91.84 watts per sqare foot.
The exhaust circuit is a 20A 120V that activates the lighting contactor coil, in the event event of a exhaust failure the contractor becomes open and turns off the HID lights.
There will be 72 5g root pots filled with ocean forest.
Hand watered via a pump and wand.
Feeding schedule includes grow big, tiger bloom, open sesame, big bloom, beasty bloom, cha ching, liquid karma, catalyst, great white, and superthrive.
Pics will be up within half an hour.
 

Mr. Clean

Member
Day one of flower.
Reduced from 72 to 64, i did not like the lighting down the middle when the lights dropped.
All were topped leaving 4 nodes.
 

Fly by Night

Like a Wing
Veteran
I dunno homie...6in vortex per 4k hps? See how it goes, but my experience would say you may be under-ventilated. For instance I use 12in vortex per 4k@ over 1000cfm ...lemme kno wats goodie?!?

Peace
 

Mr. Clean

Member
I'm an electrician, and i do hvac also. 6" duct can only handle about 100 cfm. My temps are great. The presh filters are rated at 550 cfm, the blowers are rated at 450 cfm. So each duct has about 225 cfm going thru them. having it where only 2 lights are in series is letting me have the lights a foot above canopy. Thanks for stopping by. Also when i build a second room identical to this one I'm going to load it up with sour.
 
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Alone

Subbed for sure. I just had my first sample of BlueDream yesterday. Its really good.
Your grow looks very efficient and clean. Gorgeous.
 

944s2

Well-known member
ICMag Donor
Veteran
hiya, mr clean,very nice work,nice an sterile looking,look forward to seeing blue dream on the go,well done buddy,lovely room,,good luck,, peace and safe growing,s2
 
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Hey man looks really good. I'm wondering if many people have hung their cool tubes vert, and if that would work? All in all looks really good. plants look happy, canopy is nice and even, looks great. You say you run a shopvac in the tent? or just outside?

Good luck man, looks great!
Happy Grows.. GrowtechLB :watchplant:
 

Mr. Clean

Member
Beut clarke? As far as vertical lights i had a friend that years ago did vertical lights with vertical aeroponics. That system is still one of best I've seen. Also i use the shopvac all the time for everything. Thanks for stopping by guys.
 
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DryNobBob

can't wait to see how it turns out. The new Blue Hen redux aka Blue Dream is makin the rounds and everyone seems to like her. Whatever happened to Boo and the Blue Grass Seeds boys, they did make some good hybrids.
 

Mr. Clean

Member
Thanks for stopping by guys. If you guys like this just wait till after this crop. I'm going to duplicate this room, build a 2k 4x8 tent for veg, and a clone tent.
 
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BIGBADBAZ

Hey nice setup dood and lovin the blue dream do you know which particular cut she is?
Subbed and ATB to the finishing line lad! As always nuff respect.....
 
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