DocCrow
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Here is my experiment for your viewing pleasure. It has been a while since i have grown. I used to grow guerrilla outdoors back in the day. I have recently decided to set up a grow to supply meds for myself, my wife, and to share with friends, etc. I need to produce quality smoke, about a half oz a week. I also would like a variety, and need to keep a small stealth footprint. SO I came on here and started to do some research.
I have decided a DR Bud style SOG Flowering Cabinet should fit my needs quite well. I have found and taken ideas from many here in designing and building my cabinet. I have a little over 2.5 sq feet lit by 420 watts of CFLs. I have enough sites for 36 plants. This first test run has 15, since I will be growing them all at once. Putting 4 in a week on a 9 week cycle will let me fit more in once i select moms and start going perpetual.
Once finding Dr Buds cabinet threads and seeing the work being done by such members as Anti, TexMex Mcdirt and others I kept diggin aroung and found the PPK threads with D9 Imaginary Friend OldOne and others. I figured I could come up with a way to adapt the PPK to my micro SOG Medicine cabinet. So I Did.
The Cabinet:
As previously stated just over 2.5 sq' lit with 420W of CFLs
THe PPK
The Control Tank is 14"W x 27"Long and 6"Deep. It has 36 holes in the top to accept the pots. The pots are ~1L 3"x 8" Mini tree pots from Stewe. They come with a hole perfectly sized to accept the 1.5" tailpiece. There is a float valve inside to control the water level in the reservoir. I also added a pump to allow for pulse feeding in the future, I still need to make a manifold and get tubing to hook it up. It is auto topped off via the float valve from an 18 gallon Rubbermaid tub that is my bulk reservoir. I should be able to leave this setup for a week or two with no problems.
Plants, Medium, Nutes
I am running a variety this first test grow. 15 total. they are 8 Regular Safari Mix from Mandala, 4 Female Seeds AK-47, 1 Kandy Kush, 1 Black Domina X OG Kush, and 1 White Widow X Blueberry. They are a few weeks from seed and the lights just went out for their first 12 hour dark cycle for 12/12. I will take as many clones as possible from each, and at the end of the run decide which ones to keep as moms, and start filling up the cabinet. 4 in and 4 out every week is the goal. I will keep a stock of clones ready to go, so I will just run it to have one ready to go in every time a plant is ready. If I get 4 in and out every week then each 9 week cycle will be 36 plants. an average of 7 grams per cut will give me 28 grams per week, which will cover my needs. I think I can double that once dialed in.
I am growing in General Hydro CocoTek Coco. Plants are being fed Jacks Hydro plus Calcium Nitrate. I feed 2 tsp of jacks and 1 1/4 tsp of Calcium Nitrate per gallon of water. This should be ~360 PPM of Jacks and ~240 PPM of calNit which should put me right on the money. I don't own a PPM meter of a PH meter. I don't think I will need one.
All plants will be lolly popped and grown straight from clone to 12/12.
Once I get running I plan on getting more genetics and hope to have a stable of 8 or so top quality moms to supply this.
Come On in and enjoy the show. Hopefully it is boring. And Beautiful. Beautifully boring. I am purposefully trying to do this as simply as possible. Once set up I want to be able to completely tend my garden once a week. Top off reservoir, take 4 clones out for harvest, put 4 new ones in, trim the rest. Done.
I have decided a DR Bud style SOG Flowering Cabinet should fit my needs quite well. I have found and taken ideas from many here in designing and building my cabinet. I have a little over 2.5 sq feet lit by 420 watts of CFLs. I have enough sites for 36 plants. This first test run has 15, since I will be growing them all at once. Putting 4 in a week on a 9 week cycle will let me fit more in once i select moms and start going perpetual.
Once finding Dr Buds cabinet threads and seeing the work being done by such members as Anti, TexMex Mcdirt and others I kept diggin aroung and found the PPK threads with D9 Imaginary Friend OldOne and others. I figured I could come up with a way to adapt the PPK to my micro SOG Medicine cabinet. So I Did.
The Cabinet:
As previously stated just over 2.5 sq' lit with 420W of CFLs
THe PPK
The Control Tank is 14"W x 27"Long and 6"Deep. It has 36 holes in the top to accept the pots. The pots are ~1L 3"x 8" Mini tree pots from Stewe. They come with a hole perfectly sized to accept the 1.5" tailpiece. There is a float valve inside to control the water level in the reservoir. I also added a pump to allow for pulse feeding in the future, I still need to make a manifold and get tubing to hook it up. It is auto topped off via the float valve from an 18 gallon Rubbermaid tub that is my bulk reservoir. I should be able to leave this setup for a week or two with no problems.
Plants, Medium, Nutes
I am running a variety this first test grow. 15 total. they are 8 Regular Safari Mix from Mandala, 4 Female Seeds AK-47, 1 Kandy Kush, 1 Black Domina X OG Kush, and 1 White Widow X Blueberry. They are a few weeks from seed and the lights just went out for their first 12 hour dark cycle for 12/12. I will take as many clones as possible from each, and at the end of the run decide which ones to keep as moms, and start filling up the cabinet. 4 in and 4 out every week is the goal. I will keep a stock of clones ready to go, so I will just run it to have one ready to go in every time a plant is ready. If I get 4 in and out every week then each 9 week cycle will be 36 plants. an average of 7 grams per cut will give me 28 grams per week, which will cover my needs. I think I can double that once dialed in.
I am growing in General Hydro CocoTek Coco. Plants are being fed Jacks Hydro plus Calcium Nitrate. I feed 2 tsp of jacks and 1 1/4 tsp of Calcium Nitrate per gallon of water. This should be ~360 PPM of Jacks and ~240 PPM of calNit which should put me right on the money. I don't own a PPM meter of a PH meter. I don't think I will need one.
All plants will be lolly popped and grown straight from clone to 12/12.
Once I get running I plan on getting more genetics and hope to have a stable of 8 or so top quality moms to supply this.
Come On in and enjoy the show. Hopefully it is boring. And Beautiful. Beautifully boring. I am purposefully trying to do this as simply as possible. Once set up I want to be able to completely tend my garden once a week. Top off reservoir, take 4 clones out for harvest, put 4 new ones in, trim the rest. Done.