Bigworm1982
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Just a word of advice, if the ac is blowing on the dehumidifier it will not work very well.
Take it for what it is.
Grow room build round three: Full environment control and no compromises
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Just a word of advice, if the ac is blowing on the dehumidifier it will not work very well.
Take it for what it is.
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SmokeyMcFly
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Thanks for the advice!
This is how it ended up once I hooked it up. I’m not really in love with the location but it seems to be working ok but maybe it could work better I have no way of knowing. I was more worried about it blowing heat on the ac and messing up its thermostat but the controller is keeping everything right where I tell it to
I don’t have a sink hookup that’s the one thing I still want to do one of these days. There is water in the wall of the room but I might do it right outside the room since space inside is tight unless I ditch the third tent. I do have my water filter right outside the room already but the waste water currently runs into a 5 gal bucket I have to take out and dump all the time. Once I get a couple harvests I can probably trade a plumber I know some bud to put one in for me so I have been holding off on that project
Bigworm1982
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Thanks for the advice!
This is how it ended up once I hooked it up. I’m not really in love with the location but it seems to be working ok but maybe it could work better I have no way of knowing. I was more worried about it blowing heat on the ac and messing up its thermostat but the controller is keeping everything right where I tell it to
I don’t have a sink hookup that’s the one thing I still want to do one of these days. There is water in the wall of the room but I might do it right outside the room since space inside is tight unless I ditch the third tent. I do have my water filter right outside the room already but the waste water currently runs into a 5 gal bucket I have to take out and dump all the time. Once I get a couple harvests I can probably trade a plumber I know some bud to put one in for me so I have been holding off on that project
I bought one of those laundry sinks and ran the flexable 3/4in rubber house out a wall to outside works great. I was hauling 14 gallons of water a day in and always pushing the time untill i emptied my buckets. Water on the floor many times until i put the sink in. Now it all drains out on its own, was in the top 5 upgrades i did.
Love the new panel! My boards made a big difference in my tent.
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SmokeyMcFly
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Awesome! What was your before setup?
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SmokeyMcFly
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That’s pretty much what I was planning on doing. I might put it beside my hot water heater it would be the easiest place to set it up. My old place I had to filter the water in the garage and then lug it up the stairs to a bedroom on the second floor in five gallon buckets which was a nightmare so it’s already an improvement but a sink and drain will be much much better
I went from 2 600 watt hps' in my 4 by 8 to 2 315 watt cmh's and then I changed those out for 12 boards. I have seen an improvement in yield and it is typically cooler in the tent as well.
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SmokeyMcFly
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I went from 2 600 watt hps' in my 4 by 8 to 2 315 watt cmh's and then I changed those out for 12 boards. I have seen an improvement in yield and it is typically cooler in the tent as well.
Absolutely beautiful setup
Absolutely beautiful setup
bud! I could probably do without all the ratchet ropes hanging down every where lol but the panels are fantastic! 
I've forgotten Smokey - how many watts per board are you running? Those are the 304s?
How many watts/sqft? I'm finding that it doesn't take as much as I estimated. 40 watts/sqft is pretty intense.
Your setup has a definite elegance to it - beautiful!
How many watts/sqft? I'm finding that it doesn't take as much as I estimated. 40 watts/sqft is pretty intense.
Your setup has a definite elegance to it - beautiful!
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SmokeyMcFly
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It’s just under 500 real watts total.
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SmokeyMcFly
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This is my lighting setup in the flower tent currently
P300 180w, once I turn it on
P600 345w
HLG 480w
I figure in my 5x5 once I take out the couple sqft the fans take up I have no more than 23 sqft of growing space which puts me at 35w per sqft currently and once I turn the other light on it will be around 43w, 40 on the dot if you count the entire tent
They're growing pretty fast I might have to up my
to keep up with them.Currently I run them at 84 degrees, 60rh, 1500ppm co2 and between 800-1050 par across the canopy for daytime which I i'm about to push up to 1000 - 1200. For night time it drops to 70 degrees, 50rh, 400ppm co2 currently. Once there's some buds to worry about I might drop the rh down a bit more. I really love being able to set it to what ever I want and not worry that its not gonna stay that way
Couple pics
Topped and flipped the purple haze x malawi into a 5gal softie, I thought they I had three's but I thought wrong, it only has probably 3 gal of soil in it though cause thats all I had.
Six days ago
Taken tonight.
Have a good night all Im about to smoke some of this cob stuff I have been hearing so much about for the first time
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SmokeyMcFly
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WOW! this rooms epic!
I’ll absorb this and maybe have a real comment eventually
Thanks and welcome
Haven’t done to much to the room since the last update other than raise the new light a bit a couple of the tops we’re getting ~1600umols
Just added the recharge to the flowering plants tonight it’s been just over two weeks since flip hopefully they stop stretching now...And the cherry queens
Looking good Smokey. What do you have flowering again? I know one is Malawi x PCK but I don't remember the other ones.
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SmokeyMcFly
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Thanks bud The back two are Malawi x pck and the front one is a mystery bag seed. The lil one in there is the purple haze x Malawi.
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SmokeyMcFly
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After putting a few of these together you start to learn what works what doesn’t and what works but is a pita. My main goal other than being able to provide an ideal environment for them was to keep it as maintenance free as possible. I didn’t want to have to worry that my params were messed up all over again because the temp changes ten degrees outside or something like I had to with the last room and so far so good
The cherry queen was listed on ace’s website as one of the strains available from their new partner breeders but it disappeared right after I ordered it on the site so there’s no way to link the info for it unless they bring it back. The pictures looked like giant donkey d colas that were pretty much the entire plant though so hopefully I can find a keeper out of the pack.
Yep lol I’d imagine so, glad this newest build has been working out well so far, I’m just finishing up my first ever grow, this site has been a super valuable resource for me so far. I have no room built or anything just 2 tents in my basement and a table between them with water hookup. Then 2 other work tables a chair and couch and few creature comforts lol. I’ve struggled and am still with humidity, running 3 little humidifiers 24/7 but I’m super happy with my first plants so I can’t complain. I have 1/2 of my basement as an area to work in 16x22 is the space I’m occupying now, maybe one day it will get built out proper.
Cool nothing wrong with donkey D colas
While I’m happy to found this grow, I’ll def be hanging out and look forward to learning some stuff here, you’ve good some good knowledge.
Cool nothing wrong with donkey D colas
While I’m happy to found this grow, I’ll def be hanging out and look forward to learning some stuff here, you’ve good some good knowledge.
