I'm nearing the 6 month mark lurking/posting here on IC and growing this magnificent plant. It's something I've wanted to do for more than a decade, and circumstance finally lined up to allow it this last year. I wouldn't have anything of consequence to show for all of my good intentions if it weren't for several years of backlogged and ongoing conversations by uncountable posters in these forums. A few of you know who you are, many of you do not - but to each and every one of you I owe a great debt.
This hobby is proving to be one of the most rewarding, educational, empowering and humbling experiences of my life - and this community very much makes it what it is. Share this with me:
All the mooshy shit aside, it's time to show you all what I've done so far with my access to this vast knowledge bank we call IC Mag. I won't have some fancy seed -> smoke report diary here. I'm in the chaotic middle of an evolving perpetual microgrow. I haven't finished a second run of anything, only a first run of 2 strains, and by no stretch of the imagination is anything 'dialed in.' By anything - to be clear - I mean strain, cabinet, process, or grower. It's all new. Mistakes have been and will be made, but I could not be happier with the first few harvests.
Let's take the tour. The setting is a residential bedroom closet. The box began life as a piece of wooden bedroom furniture:
I've never been one to follow the instructions too closely. Mine has some extra bits:
The 2 spiral CFLs down the middle are standard 42w bulbs from the Home Despot. The other bulbs are 8w 12" T5s - 12 of em - and though it's hard to see there is aluminum tape lining the ceiling. It's not the best reflector, but it sure is bright in there and I only lose 1.3" of ceiling height. I am running 180w of total light. The bulbs in question rate out at a total of about 13,000 (initial) lumens. In my ~1.8 square foot space, that's 100 watts and ~7250 lumens per. Ventilation is handled by two 37cfm, 92mm PC fans. They keep temps to 7-10F above ambient at the top of the canopy. Odor control is a carbon filter and a 120cfm Panasonic Whisperline fan exhausting from the top corner of the closet into the attic.
It has become a much better place to raise plants than as originally designed - which is fortunate because it just so happens I have a few! As they say... there are no coincidences.
This hobby is proving to be one of the most rewarding, educational, empowering and humbling experiences of my life - and this community very much makes it what it is. Share this with me:
All the mooshy shit aside, it's time to show you all what I've done so far with my access to this vast knowledge bank we call IC Mag. I won't have some fancy seed -> smoke report diary here. I'm in the chaotic middle of an evolving perpetual microgrow. I haven't finished a second run of anything, only a first run of 2 strains, and by no stretch of the imagination is anything 'dialed in.' By anything - to be clear - I mean strain, cabinet, process, or grower. It's all new. Mistakes have been and will be made, but I could not be happier with the first few harvests.
Let's take the tour. The setting is a residential bedroom closet. The box began life as a piece of wooden bedroom furniture:
I've never been one to follow the instructions too closely. Mine has some extra bits:
The 2 spiral CFLs down the middle are standard 42w bulbs from the Home Despot. The other bulbs are 8w 12" T5s - 12 of em - and though it's hard to see there is aluminum tape lining the ceiling. It's not the best reflector, but it sure is bright in there and I only lose 1.3" of ceiling height. I am running 180w of total light. The bulbs in question rate out at a total of about 13,000 (initial) lumens. In my ~1.8 square foot space, that's 100 watts and ~7250 lumens per. Ventilation is handled by two 37cfm, 92mm PC fans. They keep temps to 7-10F above ambient at the top of the canopy. Odor control is a carbon filter and a 120cfm Panasonic Whisperline fan exhausting from the top corner of the closet into the attic.
It has become a much better place to raise plants than as originally designed - which is fortunate because it just so happens I have a few! As they say... there are no coincidences.
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