Maistre's 1200W Hydro-Organic Buffet

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #1

The Setup:

My room is in the basement, an area 6 X 10 X 7 feet high, sectioned off with Panda Plastic

2 - 600W PL Deep Refector Air-Cooled hoods with Phillips Son-T Plus Bulbs
2 - 3 X 3 Ebb & Flow tables
30 gallon resevoir sits on the floor with 1" insulation board under it and a 400w resevoir heater that will kick in if temps get below 68 C

Temps run 60 F at night and 80 F with lights on.

Humidity is now 50 - 75% and is supplied by a 5 head fogger floating in a 5 gallon bucket. I've been cycling it on and off every 15 minutes and it seems to be working well. Prior to that the humidity in the basement was 20-30%. I'll probably dial this back to 15 on... 30 off. This is sort of an experiment and the girls seem to be loving it... the garden is lush.

The Nutes

Pure Blend Pro Grow and Bloom, supplemented with Liquid Karma, Cal-Mag and Hydroplex.

R.O. Water at PH 7.0 and 15 ppm
Currently PH is 5.92 and 755 ppm


The Menu

Joining me in table #1 be:

From Clone:
12 BOG LSD
1 AK-47 (gis) - Serious Seeds
3 White Russian #1 - Serious Seeds
1 White Russian #4
1 White Russian #5
2 White Russian #7
1 White Russian #9
1 Bubblegum #7
1 Bubblegum #8

From Seed:
1 Nirvana Blue Mystic - Nirvana
1 Superfruit X Blue Satellite - Capt Crip

Table 2 is currently empty and waiting for some clones to get ready.

I have a C13 cabinet that I use for veg. It has 4 - 20W flouros and a 95W compact flourescent.

Also vegging from seed are:

5 Blue Thunder - Reeferman
6 Blue Moon Rocks - Bog
5 Bogglegum - Bog
3 DSD v2 - Rez

The Goals

Find some nice head stash
Find some STRONG meds for my sister who has Hep C and not doing very well... I want to help lessen her pain and brighten her day.
Find a nice SOG strain or two
Develope a continuous flow of meds.

I plan on duplicating this room and running it flip-flopped so that I'm running 1200W 24/7.

Soooooooo... feel free to pop in... comment... offer suggestions... and enjoy the buffet!

 

racketeer

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #2

 

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #3

Rackateer
Hey man... thanks for stopping by... better keep your girlfriend in tow... I won't need the fat lady to sing for another 5-6 weeks! *laffin*

I need to order an inline fan... where are the deals on these babies? I'm looking for a 6 inch fan. Vortech... Elicient... Fantech or others. I suppose I want some sort of controller for it as well... speed control... thermostatic control... suggestions?

I'm venting above the panda paper into the floor joist of the basement... right now I've got an 8" fan sorta rigged at one end just to provide some air movement throught the tube... sort of ghetto setup at the moment but it seems to work.

Currently, smell is not an issue... but... I do have some stinky stuff in there and plan on sending it into a homemade scrubber... I picked up 25#s of charcoal off of eBay recently for this purpose.

 

Sleepy

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #4

Wow Maistre,
looks like you are all set...
i'm pulling up a chair for this one.
sorry about your sister.

hope this helps her.

 

Sinfuldreams

Basement Garden Gnome

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #5

Nice Nice!

Nice Nice!

I bet those PL's work great over your tables.
can you ajust the Foot Print of the Light?

Great set up Maistre
Nice Strains too!
Sin

 

G

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #6

Way clean grow Maistre!

Im tagged in and watchin this one.

 

G

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• Feb 14, 2005

• #7

Sleepy
Come on in and sit a spell... My sister was in an accident in the early 70s and received blood... her Hep C as well as serveral other's started from there. Her liver is failing and there is not much they can do for her... she's doing clinical trials... it's about all they are offering her. Thanks for your thoughts.

Sin!
Hey bro... thanks for poppin in! About the only adjustment on the PLs is the base of the bulb holder... there are three setting depending on the size light you are using 250W - 400/600W -1000W.

The reflector is what determines the focus on PLs... I have the Deep Reflector which projects the light down in a square pattern. There are also reflectors that project light in a rectangular pattern.

The light is positioned about 14" above the canopy and seems to cover nicely out to the 4 corners. Positioning of the table under the light is just trial and error.

I've got it pretty well dialed in. Temperature of 79 - 82 C at the top of the plants.

phototropic
Hey man... thanks for the kind words... the Panda Film sure covers a multitude of sin... it's dog ugly on the other side.

I moved here in November... it's a rental house with a basement. The walls are green... the ceiling joists had decorative cobwebs from years gone by. We knocked all that down and hosed them into the drain on the floor.

My brother and bro-in-law (both growers) and I built this thing in about an hour and a few doobs. It seems to be working very well. I'm loving this Panda Film... picked up a 100' roll ten feet wide for well under a 100 bucks somewhere online. The door is just an overlapped area on the side. I do have zipper doors I should probably put in.

 

SuperToker

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #8

Lets get it on!


Anyone remember that show celebrity death match? lol.

 

mrwags

********* Female Seeds

ICMag Donor

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #9

Dr.Maistre I'm scrubbed up and ready for this one. I see you made an operating room out of a shit hole only you man. Good Job.

Mr.Wags

 

BigToke

Bio-Bucket Specialist *********

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #10

Wow Maistre that’s quite the line up you’ve got there, it’s good to see one of your grows good job.

 

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #11

SuperToker
Step right up for the celebrity salad... got some sweet stuff happening in there... thanks for dropping by.

Mr. Wags
Thanks bro... this came together pretty well... Let's see what these ebb & flows will do... TEXAS STYLE!

I've got a dozen clones of this running...

LSD is so damn yummy... even my old stoner friend liked it. Budro doesn't like much... been growing for 35 years... and thinks my water babies are heresy. He's purely a dirt and bat guano guy... but... said it tasted good and kicked his buzz up a notch....

BAM!!!

 

racketeer

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #12

Nice looking LSD - how's she smoke bud?

 

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #13

BigToke
Thanks for stopping in... I'ma happy man with these girls... I spend alot of time in my garden... it's a whole nother world... that makes me very happy. I've got some world class herb and world class friends... what more could one want? (besides a set of BigTokeBuckets?)

Racketeer
This LSD is simply delicious... she draws like silk over a virgin's flesh... goes in real smooth... you need to be really careful cuz she has a tendency E X P A N D! the exhale is slow... you want the earthiness of her to linger on your tongue as long as possible. The buzz just keeps going up... how high do you wanna soar? She's great socially... gives me the laughing fits over the dumbest stuff.

I like it... I love it... I want some more of it... LSD will be in my garden along time to come.

 

Capt. Crip

Strain Seeker/Mirage Reading Master

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #14

nice setup

nice setup

very professional looking!!

 

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #15

Capt. Crip
Thanks for coming by... I've got one of your Superfruit X Blue Satellite in the mix... she's a stinky fat-leaved lil bitch with a green color to the leaves that seems to almost shimmer... I'm very curious about her and what she will do.

 

G

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #16

Tagged!

Good work, nice grow. Can't wait til smoke report.

 

Soggy

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #17

looking money baby

looking money baby

Maistre Miaggi!! Glad to see u can finally run things how you've dreamed...I think ur going to be a very very happy camper this 2005...keep it up man, the sky is the limit :wink: :friends:

soggy san

 

G

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• Feb 15, 2005

• #18

bundesliga
Thanks man... ^5... hopefully we'll have something good to report... so far these girls are puttin' on the stretch... stick around and we'll see how they taste.

Soggy San
Yes, grasshopper... we did speak of such a grow last summer... I'm half the way there... will just need to walk this one out a bit.

I'd love to duplicate this room and flipflop it... 4 - 600W over 4 tables... two ballasts... I would then be running a continous 1200W. Something to think about... and will take a bit more $ to put together.

My interim option is this... I have a 1000W Hortilux Eye, PL with a rectanglar hood and a Light Rail 3.5... these buckets have caught my eye... BigTokes Bio-Blasting-Buckets and HOG's buckets... Buckets would be a lower cost option for me.

-=decisions=- -=decisions=- -=decisions=-

 

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• Feb 16, 2005

• #19

Today's Garden Shot

This cute lil White Russian #1 girl is packing the trichs on...

 

Bonzo

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• Feb 20, 2005

• #20

Howdy Maistre The garden looks great! You got me thinkin' about those P.L.s Hey i just did a search for R/O units and saw your setup, hows it workin' for you? I gotta get one and the price sure is right on that unit. What extras did you get? Thanks dude :friends: