[whadeezlrg]

so it's been literally forever since I've done a grow thread...and I suppose it's about time I give you guys a look at what I've been working on lately.

I bought this 20' shipping container last September, with every intention of having it up and running within 2 months MAX!...well, that didn't exactly work out. So, needless to say, I'm completely OVER growing in tents...my yields have suffered, my quality has suffered...I'm just ready to be done with this friggin build...but it's been dragging on, a lot had to do with my available budget, a lot had to do with being lazy...regardless of all of that, it is nearing completion, and it couldn't be quick enough.



so specs:

20' x 8' x 8' are the total dimensions of the container, I built a wall at 14.5' from the back of the container to separate it into two rooms.



so my flower room is 14.5' x 7.5' x 7'8", the plan for now is just 3kw aircooled along the left side, leaving me about 1.5' of walkway on the right side. I have a 1ton soleus minisplit that was given to me that I will be utilizing until I ultimately upgrade to gavita flex's.


walls are done with 2" RMAX insulation panels, ceiling has from top down: Radiant barrier, r-13 fiberglass roll insulation, and 1" RMAX panels...last summer I truly realized the importance of insulation, and it was a BIG deal with this build...this thing maintains a pretty constant temperature, regardless of outside conditions...dope!
It will be a sealed room w/ bottled co2, that I'll keep around 1000-1100 ppms

on the left side directly when you walk in the front door there is an elevated veg area that is roughly 4'x'4x5'(please ignore the mess! LOL)...I'll have a 400w mh in there keeping the little ones happy, and although it's still on my to-do list, I'm planning on making a diy light proof vent that I can install in the wall between the veg and flower room in order to keep the climate within range(along with negative pressure from the aircooling of the 400w)



beneath the veg "tray" I'll have all my nutes & 4 reservoirs, one for each light. The plan is to have an every 3 week perpetual pull of 1kw

I grow in b'cuzz coco with canna base nutes, some h&g additives, and a few other things...but that's the gist of it...if anyone wants to know more just ask and I'll get more detailed.

The whole container is running on a 50A sub panel, that is fed with a 100ft 6/3 twistlock extension cord...so I have a little cushion below the recommended 80%max load on the circuit.(pics on next post)

the driving force behind me building out a container instead of a room in the house is I'm sick of building rooms and getting one or two harvests out of them before I'm tearing down and rebuilding...this way, I move my room moves...and all I have to do is plug it in and she's rockin....no more downtime, no more wasted time and money on temporary builds that don't provide my ideal growing environment...just plug and play...if I need it moved it cost me a few hundred bucks to get it pulled up onto a tow truck and dropped off right where I need it...another huge benefit is that the thing is fuggin steel, so thieves can go fuck themselves if they know whats good for em.

here's a list of the strains I currently have:

SFV OG
XXX OG
Tahoe OG
Florida Crippy
SSH
Jelly Donuts(Louis XIII OG x Forum cookies)
Million Dollar Baby(Cherry pie x Forum cookies)
ECSD
Lucy
Chloe
Sour Dubb
Original Glue #4
Albert Walker
OG Mango
Little Dragon (BTY og x White Widow)
POW!(like pow! not p.o.w....LVPK x LV Sour Diesel)


well, that's al I have for now...I'll snap a couple plant shots in the next couple day to try and spice up the tread while we're waiting on me to finish up this build...did I mention it's taking FOR-EV-ER? lol

JUST A WARNING: if you want to see this thing finally up and running, you're gonna have to skip to about page 23...

[whadeezlrg]

twist lock inlet


Panel wiring

and I may as well add a few more for good measure ; )



2nd place us sativa at Denver HTCC & 1st place us sativa at Seattle HTCC w/ SSH

[SurfdOut]

Trump tight. Where did you get Fla Krippy?

[whadeezlrg]

we don't talk about fight club

[Arthritis_sucks]

Subbed for this extravaganja!!!! Digging the modular situation, easy to cut an run when need be.

Hoarder

[whadeezlrg]

Originally Posted by Arthritis_sucks

Subbed for this extravaganja!!!! Digging the modular situation, easy to cut an run when need be.

Hoarder

LOL I've literally been running 90%+ of SSH over the last 2 years, I'm burnt out on it...just added a lot of them because I gotta make this fun again, and in order to do that I gotta take it in the direction that I want to go with it, not the direction the market intends on dictating...just got to do it for me again.

the easy cut and run was 10000% a reason why I'm going this route...I rent, so packin up and leaving at a moments notice is always a possibility...and down time means I'm eating ramen...not the dank ass spicy chicken cup of noodles either, we're talking straight up like expired "beef" flavored ramen hahaha

[iTarzan]

Better late than never deez. You have a great project space to work with.

LOL! All that work and the first comment is "how did you get the crippy". Understandable but funny.

Why did you say tents were holding back your yield. Space and no CO2?

[whadeezlrg]

Originally Posted by iTarzan

Better late than never deez. You have a great project space to work with.

LOL! All that work and the first comment is "how did you get the crippy". Understandable but funny.

Why did you say tents were holding back your yield. Space and no CO2?

the tents were hurting yield because of height restrictions, the negative pressure takes away like 20% of the canopy area, and the temporary nature that I had the tents working with in terms of hvac...it really made environmental control a challenge, and I honestly didn't have my head in it 100%, like I said just kinda burnt out growing nothing but haze...historically speaking I've never really put too much time in with sealed rooms, so this is a new one for me, but everyone that I know that runs sealed rooms are staples of consistency...something I'm still trying to achieve(my summer runs are consistently less dank, so at least that's consistent! LOL)

[Midwest sticky]

Hey now expired beef flavored ramens got my ass through some rough times lol, subbed for the show.
Good luck with the container

[Relentless]

sub'd for the show! looks like its gonna be a hella nice one too!
good luck bro!