Kit Kat
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Hi y'all! After my last grow I tore everything down and moved thinking I had a good handle on the mistakes from last time and was going to replicate everything I did previously, only without the fuckups.
Unfortunately I had to get this place sight unseen (rental market here is bloody crazy) and didn't realize the basements were only 6' 4". Not able to get the tents set up so things'll hafta be a bit different this time. Pretty disappointing because I love the security of knowing I can tear down and leave no trace but an empty room when using tents.
The space this time around is going to be 9.5' x 9.5' and I plan on doing a perpetual style vscrog using Ichabod Crane's screen design. Screens are 24" x 36". The rest of the room is roughly 5x8 with a closet as well, this will be a working and storage area.
The ladies are the same old school OG Kush cut and the first round is going to be the few cuts I left with that stayed in a paper bag for almost a week, thrown under whatever light I could find while I was moving in, bushed out then chopped to bits for cuts and finally stripped and splayed open on a screen. Poor gals. They've been through some shit, I tell ya hwhat.
Same nutrient line as last time, full House & Garden fed via blumats - until I run out, at which point I'll swap over to Jack's. EC will be maintained in the feed res between 1.2 - 1.5 EC and no higher. Ladies'll be flowered in 2 gallon Air Pots with Canna Coco.
There will be 4 plants per 600w, with possibly 4 of these set ups filling the room eventually (perhaps 3, depending on how easy it is to move around in there). Each 4 plant set up will have its own blumat feed line ring with a T hooking up to a quick disconnect (once they arrive) - since this is going to be perpetual, I want to be able to easily unhook a 4 set loop and connect a straight water res for the flush period.
The worry I have so far with this is 24" x 36" screens with 4 of them gives me 24sqft of canopy, with one 600w bulb, clocking in at 25w/sqft. Should I stack another bulb in there to bring it up to 50w/sqft? Does it matter? Regardless for the first set it'll just be the one bulb, want to keep things easy while I get used to the new place.
Hope that covers everything, on with some pics!
Transplanted on 5/1, and this is what the rootball in a 1g Air Pot looked like three weeks later.
Since they were a bit tall for a 2 gallon Air Pot I had to saw off the bottom 1.5" of the rootball to get them to fit. They were dusted all around with Mykos. Pretty pissed off at this point, hah.
4 days later, the screens were set up. Ichabod's instructions were fantastic, and the cost with everything came out to about $18 per screen after picking everything up from Home Depot. I went with plastic garden screen since all that was available for the suggested metal fencing was 100' rolls and I just didn't want to deal with that. Once I add the PVC supports on the corners I'll hang reflectix here as well to bounce the light back in from the gaps.
This lady was chopped back pretty heavily and tied down - never really done a screen before, but I hope this looks alright.
Mounting the fan against the ceiling would leave holes I don't much want to patch/explain in case of a tear down and would make the house hum anyways, so I took a page from sunnydog's book and built a frame from 1/2" pipe. Sucker is strong, I did a half dozen pullups from it no problem and it's big enough to upgrade to a larger fan/scrubber/muffler combo down the road.
Next up is moving the plants out and laying down a 10x10 piece of pond liner to act as an overflow catch. Lights are being hung with hooks from the recessed light mounts that were already in place, I just removed the bulbs and housings.
Not sure what I should do about the ballasts yet, those I might just have to mount on a plywood board but at least the impact to the wall will be minimal.
Thanks for dropping in!
Unfortunately I had to get this place sight unseen (rental market here is bloody crazy) and didn't realize the basements were only 6' 4". Not able to get the tents set up so things'll hafta be a bit different this time. Pretty disappointing because I love the security of knowing I can tear down and leave no trace but an empty room when using tents.
The space this time around is going to be 9.5' x 9.5' and I plan on doing a perpetual style vscrog using Ichabod Crane's screen design. Screens are 24" x 36". The rest of the room is roughly 5x8 with a closet as well, this will be a working and storage area.
The ladies are the same old school OG Kush cut and the first round is going to be the few cuts I left with that stayed in a paper bag for almost a week, thrown under whatever light I could find while I was moving in, bushed out then chopped to bits for cuts and finally stripped and splayed open on a screen. Poor gals. They've been through some shit, I tell ya hwhat.
Same nutrient line as last time, full House & Garden fed via blumats - until I run out, at which point I'll swap over to Jack's. EC will be maintained in the feed res between 1.2 - 1.5 EC and no higher. Ladies'll be flowered in 2 gallon Air Pots with Canna Coco.
There will be 4 plants per 600w, with possibly 4 of these set ups filling the room eventually (perhaps 3, depending on how easy it is to move around in there). Each 4 plant set up will have its own blumat feed line ring with a T hooking up to a quick disconnect (once they arrive) - since this is going to be perpetual, I want to be able to easily unhook a 4 set loop and connect a straight water res for the flush period.
The worry I have so far with this is 24" x 36" screens with 4 of them gives me 24sqft of canopy, with one 600w bulb, clocking in at 25w/sqft. Should I stack another bulb in there to bring it up to 50w/sqft? Does it matter? Regardless for the first set it'll just be the one bulb, want to keep things easy while I get used to the new place.
Hope that covers everything, on with some pics!
Transplanted on 5/1, and this is what the rootball in a 1g Air Pot looked like three weeks later.
Since they were a bit tall for a 2 gallon Air Pot I had to saw off the bottom 1.5" of the rootball to get them to fit. They were dusted all around with Mykos. Pretty pissed off at this point, hah.
4 days later, the screens were set up. Ichabod's instructions were fantastic, and the cost with everything came out to about $18 per screen after picking everything up from Home Depot. I went with plastic garden screen since all that was available for the suggested metal fencing was 100' rolls and I just didn't want to deal with that. Once I add the PVC supports on the corners I'll hang reflectix here as well to bounce the light back in from the gaps.
This lady was chopped back pretty heavily and tied down - never really done a screen before, but I hope this looks alright.
Mounting the fan against the ceiling would leave holes I don't much want to patch/explain in case of a tear down and would make the house hum anyways, so I took a page from sunnydog's book and built a frame from 1/2" pipe. Sucker is strong, I did a half dozen pullups from it no problem and it's big enough to upgrade to a larger fan/scrubber/muffler combo down the road.
Next up is moving the plants out and laying down a 10x10 piece of pond liner to act as an overflow catch. Lights are being hung with hooks from the recessed light mounts that were already in place, I just removed the bulbs and housings.
Not sure what I should do about the ballasts yet, those I might just have to mount on a plywood board but at least the impact to the wall will be minimal.
Thanks for dropping in!
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