djslife
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Hey Icmag,
Thanks for checking out my journal!
To start off I’d like to thank a some of the members from Icmag for the knowledge and motivation gained from your threads. I'm not here to kiss anyones butt, but I do believe in showing respect to the people that helped me along the way even if it is indirectly.
From Growing in Coco-Coir:
- H3ad (your overall attitude and general knowledge made learning about coco-coir enjoyable).
From Cannabis Harvesting & Processing:
- Simon (your perfect cure sticky was killer).
From Micro Grows:
- Aerohead (your ingenuity is inspirational and always reminds me how affordable high quality grows can be).
- Blynx (your 1sqft. Log was always awesome to read because you’re meticulous, keep it up!).
- DrBudGreengenes (just keep doing your thing man, you’ve already had enough praise and I appreciate your consistency).
From Growroom Designs and Equipment
- Pico (all your tutorials have super helpful).
From Side by Side Grow Experiments:
- Hempfield (your defoliation log with the NYCD cuts was really informative).
I've been lurking for a long time, just researching and planning and now I'm finally in an appropriate environment to start my first grow.
I built this setup piece by piece, but I tried to do it as clean as possible. I'm very open to hearing your ideas and wisdom from all of you is encouraged. Try to keep any debates that come up entertaining at least so we don’t have to read something boring.
I'll be posting periodically after taking weekly photos of my build, posting the numbers I've logged (pH, PPM, Temps), general progress, and shout-outs for help.
Now on to the details:
- Plants: Dark Heart Nursery's - Purple Kush (Clones) - 9-10 Week Flower Time
- Style: Ebb and Flow
- Room: Closet (3.5’x3.5’x8’)
- Walls: Lined with black and white panda film
- Sound Dampening: 1 - ¼” foam matt from Walmart (reduces some of the vibration from air and water-pump)
- Structure: 2 - Seven-foot racks secured back to back and placed on top of the sound dampening. They’re perfect because there’s a bottom platform, another platform about two to three feet above that so I can store the reservoir snuggly in between there, and then there’s a good four feet of grow space above that (minus the hood space).
- Reservoir: 1 - 27-gallon Professional Box from Target, Walmart, or Lowes
- Res. Oxygenation: 1 - Eco Plus - Ecoair2 adjustable double outlet air pump connected to two 12” airstones running 24/7 that are weighed down by heavy stainless steel chain that was sterilized (want to get better airstones eventually)
- Water Pump: I believe it pumps between 150-160 gallons per hour
- Tray: 1 - 2’x2’ Botanicare with bulkhead from local shop
- Pots: 4 - 10 gallon Smart Pots
- Medium: Hydrocorn (washed till clear and then 24 hour soak in pH’d water)
- Screen: 1 – Custom sized PVC square topped by a fence with 2”x4” holes
- Hood: 1 - Sun System Yield Master 2-6" Classic, sealed, but side ports are unsealed
- Bulb: Sunlight 250w Metal Halide w/mogul base (keeps closet temps between 75-85f) switching to 600w HPS for flowering (hoping winter temps are cold enough to keep temps reasonable).
- Nutrients: Keeping it simple and running the Lucas formula with General Hydroponics’ FloraMicro and FloraBloom (4ml/g Micro, 8ml/g Bloom to start the clones and 8ml/g Micro, 16ml/g Bloom once roots are established)
- Watering Schedule: Floods for three minutes each hour and a half (veg.) change to each hour (flower) (only when lights are on)
- Air Circulation: One clip on fan blowing over the glass of the hood and a small oscillating desk fan blowing all around the room
I will be getting a fan and activated filter, just have that in the budget for a few weeks from now.
The babies look pretty stressed right now 'cause I just transplanted them a few hours ago.
Sorry for the long post, but I figure the more information I put here, the less info people will need help finding down the road.
More pics are on the way!
Thanks for reading and being an awesome community in general,
-djslife
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