freedominphilly
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Hey guys, what's up. I haven't posted in quite awhile so I'm starting a thread chronicling my trials and errors with this new project with the hopes of getting feedback from all you great folks on how to fine-tune my skills.
The space I am working in is 21.5'x10.75' with 7 foot ceilings. I decided to run 180 plants in this area, illuminated by 9x1000w HPS (if I wanted to leave myself with no room to walk around at all, I could have gone with 200 plants and 10 lights, but I need space for myself, as well as a reservoir and a couple standup canfan filters). The plants are being grown in 3 gallon growbags with PromixBX and added extra chunky perlite. Also some lime to adjust Promix's acidity. For the first two weeks of flowering during their stretch, I will hand water the plants, then at two weeks or so, switch to the irrigation system.
For the irrigation system, I've simply set up a bunch of 3/4in lines with spaghetti tubing and drippers at the ends going into each growbag. When the plants need to be watered, I will determine the nutrient mixture I feel they need that day, fill up the reservoir, pump it out and that's that. I've been using Botanicare's nutrients lately and I love them. I'll be using PureBlend Pro Grow and Bloom (soil formula), Sweet (berry), and Liquid Karma.
1 plant per square foot gives me a 5'x4' area of plants under each light, giving 50 watts per square foot.
I went with air cooled hoods because I am super paranoid about shit getting hot in here. The hoods have their own dedicated fresh air circulating at all times with a Vortex 6 inch fan. I also have an Eclipse 6 inch fan for exhaust. It's rating is 725cfm I believe, but with the CanFan filter attached, it drops to about 600 CFM. The entire volume of the room is just under 1600cu.ft., so I should have complete air exchange once every 2.5-3 minutes or so, if I did my math correctly.
So that's about it for now. The room will be complete by this evening. We're finishing up the electrical and ventilation this afternoon and then I have the fun task of checking for light-leaks. Tomorrow all the dirt gets mixed up and the 180 ladies get transplanted.
All comments, advice, and questions are warmly welcomed!
Here are some pictures to hopefully give you a better idea of what's going on.
this is before the wall went up.
wall is up and painted.
the ventilation for the lights all hooked up. I'll be tying up the slack from those parts of the ducting that are drooping down.
...and finally, the true stars of the show, the Sour Queen. These are from the first batch of SQ Rezdog put out. My buddy had a few phenos and I got ahold of this one. She's super easy to grow, looks BEAUTIFUL (check my gallery for some really colorful shots of her), has pretty low odor during flowering, gives you a great daytime smoke that gets you baked NICELY everytime you smoke it, smells really nice, and I can get at least 1 kilogram per light out of her. Honestly, the only thing I don't like about this strain is her taste. Other people don't have a problem with it, I just am disappointed when the smell doesn't translate well to the taste. But I digress.
The space I am working in is 21.5'x10.75' with 7 foot ceilings. I decided to run 180 plants in this area, illuminated by 9x1000w HPS (if I wanted to leave myself with no room to walk around at all, I could have gone with 200 plants and 10 lights, but I need space for myself, as well as a reservoir and a couple standup canfan filters). The plants are being grown in 3 gallon growbags with PromixBX and added extra chunky perlite. Also some lime to adjust Promix's acidity. For the first two weeks of flowering during their stretch, I will hand water the plants, then at two weeks or so, switch to the irrigation system.
For the irrigation system, I've simply set up a bunch of 3/4in lines with spaghetti tubing and drippers at the ends going into each growbag. When the plants need to be watered, I will determine the nutrient mixture I feel they need that day, fill up the reservoir, pump it out and that's that. I've been using Botanicare's nutrients lately and I love them. I'll be using PureBlend Pro Grow and Bloom (soil formula), Sweet (berry), and Liquid Karma.
1 plant per square foot gives me a 5'x4' area of plants under each light, giving 50 watts per square foot.
I went with air cooled hoods because I am super paranoid about shit getting hot in here. The hoods have their own dedicated fresh air circulating at all times with a Vortex 6 inch fan. I also have an Eclipse 6 inch fan for exhaust. It's rating is 725cfm I believe, but with the CanFan filter attached, it drops to about 600 CFM. The entire volume of the room is just under 1600cu.ft., so I should have complete air exchange once every 2.5-3 minutes or so, if I did my math correctly.
So that's about it for now. The room will be complete by this evening. We're finishing up the electrical and ventilation this afternoon and then I have the fun task of checking for light-leaks. Tomorrow all the dirt gets mixed up and the 180 ladies get transplanted.
All comments, advice, and questions are warmly welcomed!
Here are some pictures to hopefully give you a better idea of what's going on.
this is before the wall went up.
wall is up and painted.
the ventilation for the lights all hooked up. I'll be tying up the slack from those parts of the ducting that are drooping down.
...and finally, the true stars of the show, the Sour Queen. These are from the first batch of SQ Rezdog put out. My buddy had a few phenos and I got ahold of this one. She's super easy to grow, looks BEAUTIFUL (check my gallery for some really colorful shots of her), has pretty low odor during flowering, gives you a great daytime smoke that gets you baked NICELY everytime you smoke it, smells really nice, and I can get at least 1 kilogram per light out of her. Honestly, the only thing I don't like about this strain is her taste. Other people don't have a problem with it, I just am disappointed when the smell doesn't translate well to the taste. But I digress.