For almost a year now, I've been working on getting my first 'real' grow going. I've had a few small grows before, with my best being ~220 grams from 600w, but this is definitely going to be much more legit than the small setup I had to run before.
I've never really built anything of this size before and have never framed a room, but I had the basic idea of what to do and I'm ok with my hands so I said fuck it and jumped in. Nothing's really perfectly square (or I assume so, I don't actually own a square lol) or cut evenly, but it all came together in the end. Stoner craftsmanship at its best.
I'm going for a 6 plant setup with two 600w lights in the middle. I'll probably start the lights side by side and will raise one up gradually pulling the plants up with it. The setup itself is a RDWC/undercurrent-ish type of thing. I've got all of the buckets connected with 1" tubing and I'm going to have a 3/4" return line. This will be running like a UC setup in that the pump will be pulling water from the end of the loop and dumping into the res. And by the pump, I mean dual 396GPH Ecoplus pumps that I'm planning on running side by side. I was going only be running one pump, but I somehow completely forgot that I already owned one 396GPH pump when I bought the second. When I realized what I did, I again said fuck it and decided to run them together.
The strain that I'll be running for a while is Trainwreck. I got a few clones of her a couple years ago and almost lost it completely once. I'm glad still have her though. I surprised a couple friends with the insanely frosty, rock hard nugs that I was able to pull from my last grow. I can't wait to see what she's going to do with a vert setup.
And a few pics of how it's turned out so far.
The front of the room with my mother/clone tent off the the right.
Inside the room, buckets in the general layout that I'm going for. There's ~ 5'x5' of floor space in there.
To the right again, 4x2 mother tent that used to be my apartment flower room. Mechanibus inspired Stanley blower on top.
In the lower left of the picture, you can see the 1" tubing sticking out of the wall. The res will be sitting somewhere down there, possibly on the concrete floor depending on water temps. Above it I'll also have a second tub with fresh water topping off the res 24/7 via float valve.
This is all taking up about half of the garage. I might get to take over a bedroom some day, but for now the GF (and landlord) told me to keep it in the garage.
One nice thing about being in the garage is being directly next to the shiney new 200a electrical panel, seen above. I'm going to drop in 3 new 20a breakers, with 2 of them to power 2 sets of recetacles mounted in a box on the wall for the ballasts, the third will be ran to a receptacle in the grow room itself for fans and a possible AC down the road. The garage also already has a 20a GFCI on the wall that's powering the mother tent.
So yeah, it's pretty close to being done. I just need to run to the grow shop tomorrow to get a couple more fittings. The last online orders were made today for the second 600w light and another Stanley blower. Hopefully I'll get the tubing all connected tomorrow so I can do leak testing. The exhaust ducting also needs to be hung and then connected to the blower when it arrives.
I think that's about it for now. I'm pretty high right now so I really hope I made sense...
I've never really built anything of this size before and have never framed a room, but I had the basic idea of what to do and I'm ok with my hands so I said fuck it and jumped in. Nothing's really perfectly square (or I assume so, I don't actually own a square lol) or cut evenly, but it all came together in the end. Stoner craftsmanship at its best.
I'm going for a 6 plant setup with two 600w lights in the middle. I'll probably start the lights side by side and will raise one up gradually pulling the plants up with it. The setup itself is a RDWC/undercurrent-ish type of thing. I've got all of the buckets connected with 1" tubing and I'm going to have a 3/4" return line. This will be running like a UC setup in that the pump will be pulling water from the end of the loop and dumping into the res. And by the pump, I mean dual 396GPH Ecoplus pumps that I'm planning on running side by side. I was going only be running one pump, but I somehow completely forgot that I already owned one 396GPH pump when I bought the second. When I realized what I did, I again said fuck it and decided to run them together.
The strain that I'll be running for a while is Trainwreck. I got a few clones of her a couple years ago and almost lost it completely once. I'm glad still have her though. I surprised a couple friends with the insanely frosty, rock hard nugs that I was able to pull from my last grow. I can't wait to see what she's going to do with a vert setup.
And a few pics of how it's turned out so far.
The front of the room with my mother/clone tent off the the right.
Inside the room, buckets in the general layout that I'm going for. There's ~ 5'x5' of floor space in there.
To the right again, 4x2 mother tent that used to be my apartment flower room. Mechanibus inspired Stanley blower on top.
In the lower left of the picture, you can see the 1" tubing sticking out of the wall. The res will be sitting somewhere down there, possibly on the concrete floor depending on water temps. Above it I'll also have a second tub with fresh water topping off the res 24/7 via float valve.
This is all taking up about half of the garage. I might get to take over a bedroom some day, but for now the GF (and landlord) told me to keep it in the garage.
One nice thing about being in the garage is being directly next to the shiney new 200a electrical panel, seen above. I'm going to drop in 3 new 20a breakers, with 2 of them to power 2 sets of recetacles mounted in a box on the wall for the ballasts, the third will be ran to a receptacle in the grow room itself for fans and a possible AC down the road. The garage also already has a 20a GFCI on the wall that's powering the mother tent.
So yeah, it's pretty close to being done. I just need to run to the grow shop tomorrow to get a couple more fittings. The last online orders were made today for the second 600w light and another Stanley blower. Hopefully I'll get the tubing all connected tomorrow so I can do leak testing. The exhaust ducting also needs to be hung and then connected to the blower when it arrives.
I think that's about it for now. I'm pretty high right now so I really hope I made sense...