[mitch_connor]

Originally Posted by Kman1965

Hello Mitch, This is an awesome thread. I'm so envious. Your living the dream, congrats on your new enterprise. I can't wait to grow out a few of your new strains! It takes alot of balls and heart to chase your dreams. Its been inspirational following your journey. Comtinued success bro:

Peace,
K

Thanks mate,
It has been and still is hard!
It would be fantastic to say we were living the life of riley, but 'poco a poco' (little by little) we are making progress.

Stay tuned anyhow, I'll get another update up soon

Cheers, mitch

[mitch_connor]

About 3 weeks ago, we set about doing a little renovation.
One of the smaller rooms here was known as the 'tent room' , an in between room that leads through to the larger room we built shown earlier in the thread.

It housed 4 x 1.2m tents each with a 600w, these were good (and now relocated) however we felt we could get more from this space and utilise it for larger mephisto project grows.

This is how it looked in it's old state, bits and pieces in there as we were giving the main room a big clean down:


With the tents disassembled and the room cleaned, it looked like this:


When we first arrived we added a dedicated circuit for this room in order to run the tents, and installed two double waterproof sockets, and mounted ballasts on the wall.
UK spec sockets to match the equipment we had brought over:


We ordered some extra equipment, and set aside some items already to hand that we could make use off. The plan was to affix a damp proof membrane (thick plastic sheeting) to all walls, and cover over the top of that with black/white for reflectivity.
Then to do the same for the floor.

At this stage the walls were done and we began to roughly mark out the layout of the room and figure out where to position the lights. There are areas of the room that cannot be used, as there is the hot water heater, a door and the walkway into the mainroom.


Here are the reflectors hung, and the grow area in white:


To be continued..

[paulo73]

Nice!!!
Have you thought about liquid silicone?!
It´s just like a very thick paint that after drying creates a damp proof membrane.
Not cheap but good stuff mainly for walls&ceilings.
I look forward to the next update.

Great thread Mitch. I look forward to see what creations you have hatched.

That hash pancake looks like a giant choc chip cookie.

[mitch_connor]

Originally Posted by paulo73

Nice!!!
Have you thought about liquid silicone?!
It´s just like a very thick paint that after drying creates a damp proof membrane.
Not cheap but good stuff mainly for walls&ceilings.
I look forward to the next update.

Hi Paulo, thanks for reminding me, I forgot to mention.
One wall is underground, on that wall prior to the membrane, we painted it with 'bitchumen paint' , It's a thick tarry paint that seals the wall and will not let moisture through.
It's around 25 euros for a decent sized tin.

I did several basement conversions in England, and if you've been down in a victorian houses cellar they are very damp usually

So in comparison, this was a breeze. Better to go belt and braces wherever possible though!

Cheers, Mitch!

[paulo73]

I seem to forgot you came from sunny England
Nice to see you got it all covered.

[mitch_connor]

One thing we really wanted to do with this room was make a raised growing platform to separate the cold floor from the pots.
If we had more time and a bigger budget we would have built a timber framed floor. However using what we had to hand, we raised the floor using breezeblocks (cinderblocks) and safety glass. (No plans to be jumping up and down on them) But with weight evenly distributed on them, they seem plenty sturdy.
We will see how we get on with them for a run or two, and then there's always the option to upgrade.


We added some wall mounted circulatory fans, added ducting and inline fans, lengthening any wires where needed.


With the room 95% complete, we were able to add a few little gizmos.
Lights just fired up, it's pretty cold in spain!


And finally a little toy from mr c.

[paulo73]

Safety is paramount!!!

[mitch_connor]

Hey guys, now all the build progress and general documentation is out of the way, I can start to show some of the project strains we have been steadily working on. Some are well over two years in the making, but we are doing our best now to strike whilst the iron is hot, and make constant progress.

We have an extensive list of projects in the works, but I'll break you in gently with one!

Our first new strain is named '24 carat' (Sour Boggle x P.I ),
The F3's of these are currently running. The pictures here are all of the F1 plants.

Background info:
This is the most indica strain in our line-up. The plants when young exhibit very afghanica looking leaves. Fast flowering, thick, and highly potent plants is the objective.
It will be my strain of choice to run AF-SOG's, minimal branching when roots are restricted, but should you wish to grow them out in lower densities, and allow the roots more space to explore, a good grow and environment will see a bushier and higher yielding plant as an end result.

I made the F1's as a two way cross, Crossing a male Sour Boggle to the breeding AFs (I had a group of 60 Auto female plants to choose from and I dusted only two from this selection that had the traits I was seeking),
I also crossed a male AF, to my star female cutting. I passed my sour B cutting out to several friends and received very positive feedback.
She is stocky and produces rock hard nugs and has leaves as big as dinner plates if you let her grow as a single cola plant. However unlike a pure Sour bubble, it has great vigour and responds very well to topping and training. The effect is highly medicinal, the buds are completely frosted and in cooler conditions she will purple up. It was also chosen for it's mould resistant qualities. (an important trait for SOG use)

I kept the batches from both crosses separate in the hope of getting the best of both to show in the F1 plants.

Here are some past images of her. F4 beans going to be made this run and I will capture many more images.











I was really very impressed with the f1's and f2's so far. Greatly Exceeding expectations.
The plant produces what I can only describe as proper nuggets of bud. And it is an absolute joy to trim and process.
We trimmed a whole room of a huge variety of plants, and this stuck out for me as the easiest.
High bud per plant ratio, Very high flower to leaf ratio.
She is being bred for absolute quality and power, and not to be an outright yielder on a single plant basis, however employ a group of them together and you will for sure be rewarded with a nice tally.

Hope you like guys. Peace Mitch

[paulo73]

I do like it.
I´ve even learnt something new just by reading your detailed explanation, thanks buddy!