fred b
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hey folks,
after reading through all these awesome threads for ages I thought it's time for me to create an own grow report.
I've grown for a few years already but had to take a break of ~5yrs and since my old place and growroom is long gone I kinda had to rebuild everything from scratch. but no problem I like DIY
(sorry euro here, measurements will be in the metric system)
so here we go:
Growroom:
Homebox L - 1x1x2m (I wish I would have taken the larger 1,2x1,2m tent tho)
below the tent is a 1x1m wooden plate and below that are two wheel boards, so its easy for me to move the tent around
the tent is in a seperate room with an isolated door. the room has got a big 3 part window which has been isolated with wooden plates from the outside so just 2x 125mm pipes go to the outside.
no light gets through these windows but they still can be opened.
(this room also houses my computer lab/servers, so it always was quite noisy in there but you cannot hear anything when the isolated door is closed)
Equipment:
inside the tent:
outside the tent
I just love technology! so I used a old notebook with a custom software, 2 USB controllable powerswitches, and USB measurement instruments to build my own computer controlled growroom
on the top left you see the switchable ballast, next to it is the notebooks AC adapter and then the notebook
underneath are the two USB controlable powerswitches connected to a active USB hub, which is connected to the notebook (electronic interferences would be very annoying otherwise)
the measurement devices are also connected to the USB hub but are inside the tent.
underneath you can see a part of the reservoir.
the notebook acts as monitor (sorry the graph is real old, I don't have a up-to-date one handy but you get the idea)
it also acts as thermostat/hygrostat and exact to the second timeswitch
I can plan the whole grow with all the light cycles, irrigation times etc in my program similiar to a calendar. but this topic is kinda too big and I rather wanna talk about the ladies and the grow
THE LADIES
the most important part
these pics were taken when they just were transplanted into their new homes, so they look abit sad.
here you can see them with and without HPI lights
14 Agent Orange
2 Leela (they're marked with a pink thingie)
10 Agent Orange + 2 Leela are in 5liter Airpots and 4 Agent Orange are in rectangular 6,5liter pots (I couldn't fit 16 plants in airpots on the dumabak table otherwise)
so each plant got 3 drippers
the medium is Canna Coco. the fertilizers are Canna Coco A+B and additives are Cannazym, Rhizotonic and PH- and sometimes Ataclean (it's similiar to dripclean).
this time I didn't have time to prewash the coco, so the plants where just transplanted into fresh from the bag canna coco and then each plant got watered ~7liters of nutrient solution by hand at EC 1.1 PH 5.9 (with rhizotonic).
the plants won't get watered for 3 days after this first flushing so they will have to build a good root system already. then the first week they get 3 waterings each light cycle and then 4 till the end. just the irrigation times will vary.
I am planning to top all the plants when they've developed abit.
Well I think that's a good start for my report for now. If you have any questions, feel free to post them and I'll try to answer
Thread will be periodically updated.
greets
fred b
after reading through all these awesome threads for ages I thought it's time for me to create an own grow report.
I've grown for a few years already but had to take a break of ~5yrs and since my old place and growroom is long gone I kinda had to rebuild everything from scratch. but no problem I like DIY
(sorry euro here, measurements will be in the metric system)
so here we go:
Growroom:
Homebox L - 1x1x2m (I wish I would have taken the larger 1,2x1,2m tent tho)
below the tent is a 1x1m wooden plate and below that are two wheel boards, so its easy for me to move the tent around
the tent is in a seperate room with an isolated door. the room has got a big 3 part window which has been isolated with wooden plates from the outside so just 2x 125mm pipes go to the outside.
no light gets through these windows but they still can be opened.
(this room also houses my computer lab/servers, so it always was quite noisy in there but you cannot hear anything when the isolated door is closed)
Equipment:
inside the tent:
- 240/360m³/h exhaust fan + 400m³/h active carbon scrubber
- Super Sun2 air cooled reflector with either
- Philips HPI-T Master 400W for veg or Osram NAV-T 600W for bloom.
- exhaust and reflecter are connected together with isolated ducting which runs out of the tent and along the wall straight to the window
- two connected flat plastic bowls, which hold 80l together for the drain
- a custom wooden table standing in the plastic bowls with old fert. bottles around the feet to protect the wood
- a dumabak plastic table with PE pipes on the edges, held there with cable clips
- in the PE pipes i stuck 6x8 so that's 48 x 1liter/hour top drippers
outside the tent
- a switchable ballast for HPS and HPI bulbs. switchable between 400W and 600W
- active additional air fan (220m³/h) connected to the back of the tent(you can see the opening in the back of the ladies pics further down), which pulls fresh air from outside
- 120liter round tank/reservoir with a 11.000liter/h pump inside and
- a small circulating pump to keep the nutrient solution in move
(a hose runs from the big pump to a water filter and then to the PE pipe:
)
Electronics / Controlling / Monitoring:
I just love technology! so I used a old notebook with a custom software, 2 USB controllable powerswitches, and USB measurement instruments to build my own computer controlled growroom
on the top left you see the switchable ballast, next to it is the notebooks AC adapter and then the notebook
underneath are the two USB controlable powerswitches connected to a active USB hub, which is connected to the notebook (electronic interferences would be very annoying otherwise)
the measurement devices are also connected to the USB hub but are inside the tent.
underneath you can see a part of the reservoir.
the notebook acts as monitor (sorry the graph is real old, I don't have a up-to-date one handy but you get the idea)
it also acts as thermostat/hygrostat and exact to the second timeswitch
I can plan the whole grow with all the light cycles, irrigation times etc in my program similiar to a calendar. but this topic is kinda too big and I rather wanna talk about the ladies and the grow
THE LADIES
the most important part
these pics were taken when they just were transplanted into their new homes, so they look abit sad.
here you can see them with and without HPI lights
14 Agent Orange
2 Leela (they're marked with a pink thingie)
10 Agent Orange + 2 Leela are in 5liter Airpots and 4 Agent Orange are in rectangular 6,5liter pots (I couldn't fit 16 plants in airpots on the dumabak table otherwise)
so each plant got 3 drippers
the medium is Canna Coco. the fertilizers are Canna Coco A+B and additives are Cannazym, Rhizotonic and PH- and sometimes Ataclean (it's similiar to dripclean).
this time I didn't have time to prewash the coco, so the plants where just transplanted into fresh from the bag canna coco and then each plant got watered ~7liters of nutrient solution by hand at EC 1.1 PH 5.9 (with rhizotonic).
the plants won't get watered for 3 days after this first flushing so they will have to build a good root system already. then the first week they get 3 waterings each light cycle and then 4 till the end. just the irrigation times will vary.
I am planning to top all the plants when they've developed abit.
Well I think that's a good start for my report for now. If you have any questions, feel free to post them and I'll try to answer
Thread will be periodically updated.
greets
fred b
