2000 Watt - 69 Plants

[DocBuddin]

Plus if your lights are not sealed with the glass your going to essentially be pulling air out the room that is not scrubbed. My personal opinion is that any co2 you put in there is just going to be exhausted through your current setup.

Check mine out. I have a separate fan on my charcoal filter that turns on when the heat needs to be exchanged. I also pull cold air from outside through my lights and back out of the house. Both are hooked up to a fan controller

 

[DocBuddin]

Good question. Its always best to gradually increase light over a few days maybe even weeks. I switched from a t5 to a 600w metal halide. If the leaves are pointing up later today I will first turn the ballast to 75%. And then tomorrow if the leaves are pointing up Ill turn the ballast up again to 100%. From there using the same technique I would start to lower the hood.

Just so you know if you dim your lights with the ballast this alters your color spectrum. Just some points I noticed. Sick setup, plants are looking awesome

 

[luckiestman13]

Nice I have one too.

The hoods I have are sealed separate from the lights. Its very slick.

AC/DE sun system hoods

My temperate controller will be hooked up to the 8in hyper fan (delivered tomw!) that will pull air from the crawl space beneath my house until I finish up the room being sealed.

 

[TheBlaze]

Good question. Its always best to gradually increase light over a few days maybe even weeks. I switched from a t5 to a 600w metal halide. If the leaves are pointing up later today I will first turn the ballast to 75%. And then tomorrow if the leaves are pointing up Ill turn the ballast up again to 100%. From there using the same technique I would start to lower the hood.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I do the same with seedlings, but the size of your plants threw me off. Forgot you mentioned switching out from T5.

 

[DocBuddin]

O I thought you had said you took the glass out. I misread then

 

[luckiestman13]

Just so you know if you dim your lights with the ballast this alters your color spectrum. Just some points I noticed. Sick setup, plants are looking awesome

Unfortunately that is true. But in my opinion thats better than risking shocking the plants with to much light. What do you think?

 

[luckiestman13]

O I thought you had said you took the glass out. I misread then

I will take the glass out. They are made to be sealed with the glass off. They were super expensive hoods.

 

[DocBuddin]

O that's pretty cool. Never heard of that. I run raptors

 

[luckiestman13]

O that's pretty cool. Never heard of that. I run raptors

Sun System AC/DE HPS PAR Test - YouTube

 

[Christine Green]

Subbed for sure!!! This is a grow I want to watch!! Beautiful set up 4 sure!

 

[Canna Montana]

I'll sit in on your grow. Looks really sweet!

 

[luckiestman13]

64 for 64 from cuttings to clones. And super healthy roots! Even making a newbie mistake at first and having the light to close I still got superb results.

Remember more roots more fruits.

 

[Christine Green]

You are the luckiest man! How beautiful!

Are you going to make it to the virtual[h=2]Great 4/20 Smokathon of 2016? [/h]

 

[luckiestman13]

You are the luckiest man! How beautiful!

Are you going to make it to the virtual[h=2]Great 4/20 Smokathon of 2016? [/h]

It helps to use the right equipment at the right time.

 

[luckiestman13]

I need to start deciding how I'm going to store and grow my mothers. I think I want 4-6 mothers of different strains. I originally had 5 ga buckets with air stones but thats a little more work obviously than soil. But soil is so dirty. Anyway I'm up to suggestions.


I also brought home a 18,500 btu air conditioner for my grow room. It was lasts years model and on clearance! Almost half off

Ive read I need about 4000 btu's per 1,000w of lighting. So this air conditioner will be more than enough especially bc eventually Ill be mounting my exhaust fan for my lights outside my room. I have awesome hoods that are sealed and still allow for open bulb application.

So they hoods will be exhausted yet the room will still be sealed. The plan is to use the a/c as little as possible.

 

[luckiestman13]

In the next few days the clones will be transferred into the 100 ga reservoir. I filled it the other day with water. And today I got a medium sized pump to mix the reservoir with and generally just move water around.

I came up w a solution to quieting the air pump. It is virtually undetectable by ear. Which is pretty impressive because it's fairly large.

I also am pretty set on a top drain system into rockwool for my mothers unless someone can talk me out of it. It seems easy enough and low maintenance.

 

[luckiestman13]

Traced all the spots for the 3 in pots. 69 pots in total. Couldn't of planned this out if I tried LOL.

New 18,500 btu A/C

PERFECT DAY TO LABEL MY EQUIPMENT!

How I solved my sound problem. I might still need to put a fan in the side of the box. But for now its super quiet!

 

[TheBlaze]

Impressive! I take it this is a commercial grow op? Apologies if it has been mentioned already.

 

[luckiestman13]

Impressive! I take it this is a commercial grow op? Apologies if it has been mentioned already.

Nope. Just a man here interested in growing the best and most medicine in a limited space.

 

[luckiestman13]

okay

Vlad

Where did you go Vlad?