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I believe I had shown the chest I had placed upon my cupboard as a control-centre? Therein lies the brains of this grow. Heat/Humi controllers, suction/blow fans. timers etc.
1-8: Chest/Closet filled with equipment

 

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For the aforementioned 120mm vent, I had built a filter type sys for it to only draw in clean/dust free, as best, air. I had added yet another larger suction fan, so each half of the closet has its own suction sys. They are joined together, via ducting to blow the hot/humid/used air out the window.. more to that later/unfinished.
There is pretty well only one "feed/blow" fan, for both halves. (NVP should be somewhat higher.. sucking more out than being blown in. There is actually a small hiss when I open the doors)
1-8: More equipment/ducting

 

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Just a few more, then I am going to bed. it is just after 0400 here...
1: Micro filter with anti vibes frame installed under the small vent
2-4: More equipment/ducting
5-8: Closet + Chest from the front, not up to date

 

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This is what the closet looks like from the front. I have added a few clamping/holding levers. The bloom side has a few more than the veg side, to ensure proper sealing. (Air and light).
1-8: Closet and/or Chest

Info: Added 3 LED Light strips to the Chest so I can see what on earth I am doing. (Top R/H Side)

 

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Just a quick recap of the lighting:
Veg has a CLW SS 275W
Bloom has a CLW SS 550W
Added to Veg: 2 ea 42 w Tleds, 2 ea 26 w Tleds (Removed again for elsewhere)
Added to Bloom: 2 ea 26 w Tleds, 12 ea 12v/25w LED stripes (red - blue = 4:1)
1-8: Lighting in Bloom Area
Note: Silver Foil now installed

 

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Took the lids from 2 Paintcans, cur slits in the sides, covered with foam/insulation, to cover the protruding 46w Tleds (96cm length!!! 1/2 Closet is 88cm wide..)
1: 46w Tleds for Upper/Prop Area (Has been revised/changed since)
2: Tleds protruding into Bloom Area, cables/wires being led out of the veg/bloom areas, into the chest/control centre
3 + 4: Paintcan lids used as covers for the protruding Tleds
5: Veg + Prop Areas, lights off
6-8: Veg Area Lights on. 26w/54cm Tleds installed in rear right corner, where "Mom" resides, hoping to give her more/extra light. Has since been revised

 

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I have taken/moved the Tleds completely around.
1) Prop area now has its own space/external to the closet, own lighting/heating/cooling/humi control
2) 46w Tleds now reside as extra lighting in the Veg plant foliage. I have them come on later than the CLW, around 10:00 - 14:00, "High Noon" so to say. The main/larger of the suction fans is off for a while at this time aswell, creating a rise in heat, a true high noon.
1-8: 46w Tleds now used as extra/under foliar lighting

 

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Instead of drilling thru to the Bloom Area again, to install the long Tleds, I screwed 2 boards together, drilled out 2 holes to accommodate the ends of the Tleds, drilled thru only the outside of the Veg Area, Tleds protrude outwards now approx. 8cm/3 inch. This protrusion covered with tape/foil. Lights are adjustable, in a rotational axis.
1-5: More Tled fun. In Nr. 5, Mom is the Gal in the middle. They have pretty well all stayed short, not stunted, look to healthy for that, IMO. I gather the usage of more blue light has caused this. I do not mind. Mom is/was cropped/FIM'd, and tied down. Quite the girth, and this is after cutting 13 clones off her!!
6: 2 plants in one pot. Seems not to bother them
7: Cable Salad. Anyone hungry??
8: Tleds protruding outwards, covered

 

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In the Bloom area I too have installed Tleds. 2 ea 26w/54 cm Secret Jardin specific for bloom. Also used as high noon, under leaf/extra lighting.
The LED stripes I have installed, I use as morning/evening lights. They come on 30 min before the reactor/CLW 550 comes on. It too I have set, via controller to 'Ramp up' 30 min, to full strength. (R=99%, W=99%, B=60%). The overcut between the stripes and the CLW is 15min, meaning after the CLW starts ramping up/down, the stripes are on another 15 min. 45min morns, 45min eve's. Lighting time bloom is 0600-1800. Tleds are on again from 1000-1400.
1: Old set-up of Propagation. Did not work out either. Again too hot
2: 2 ea 26W Bloom Tleds
3: Wachstum means Veg/Growth
4: Speaks for it's self
5: Seamstress measuring tape, to control growth and/or lamp height adjustment
6 + 7: 'Moin' means 'Morning/Good Morning' in German/Hamburger Dialect
8: 'Morgenroete' means as much as Morning Red (Sky)

 

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SCROG'd
1: huge pots!!! (3 plants in bloom taking up as much as 8 + Mom in Veg.. pots are too big!!
2-4: Self explanitory

 

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Equipment. Like it or love it...
pH/EC/Temp Tester, with calibration liquids, Test tubes for keeping probes of cal liquids. I change these once a month.
nutrient bottles all have their own eye dropper, as not to mix/contaminate the goods. I hot glued a small piece of garden hose as a holder for the eye droppers.
pH plus/minus I filled into smaller, more handly drip bottles
Magnetic Mixer, heated. Canna nutes says that mixing parts A and B together is a no-go, they 'clump'. Using the mag mixer, with heat, I have not seen this...
Measuring devices: Cups, beakers, pitchers, watering cans etc.
Pots, saucers etc.
Did I say that I've gone the Perlite route? 100% Perlite. Ok, Ok, Germination is in jiffy pads. Netcups/neoprene holders didn't work for me yet, 2 tries. Jiffys work just fine. Soaked/expanded them (and further 'fed' the babies) in a Neem-Tea/Seed solution, diluted. This can also be used as foliar spray. Smell is not nice, but covers the plants own odour nicely.
Heaters, fans, mini humidifiers. used here and there, somewhat overkill... oopps
Bag full of extra eye droppers, drip bottles.
3x 2 pcs tea bags in various micron counts. For screening the Neem seeds after making tea.
Tea 'eggs', for making neem seed tea with loose material. The smaller ones will be used as screens to keep Perliote out of the water reservoirs/pumps.
Extra filters for the Reverse Osmosis sys.
Tupperware for anything/everything that needs holding/putting away.
Mini propagators, with driptrays.
Light and Heat Meters
Perlite
Sulpur wafers, Aroma oil/Sulphur 'burner', Morser and Baton for crushing up Sulphur
Etc., Etc.

 

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Last few pix are items for my newest project/idea: UVA, Far/IR Red, and Deep Blue (NM off top of my head =..???)

 

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NEW Propagation area. Bought some Secret jardin Tent poles and corners, and built a frame that fits inside the Growbox, to hang 2 ea Secret Jardin 26w/54cm Tleds. The lid of the Box came only with little plastic rotateable air vents. I removed these and installed 2 mini 5v fans. One blows in (above the fogger, to spread the fog around), the other sucks out. Heating mat installed under approx. 6-8 cm/3 inches of Perlite. Tupperware with clear water buried into the Perlite so the edge/top is equal to the Perlite/Plant base height. The screen above the fogger holds back larger drops/droplets. Otherwise the reservoir would empty in no time and/or splash the young plants.
Mounty Sponge Bob stands 'en garde' for me!! >
Heating mat controlled via controller (duh!!!)
Fogger/Mini vents controlled by another controller.
Built a heat/light cover for the box, using an automobile anti-ice/snow windshield cover. Holes cut out for the vents.

 

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Prop box (2)

 

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Prop box (3) - Finale for now, gotta go to work... hrmpf!

 

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The tap water here in my City is pretty rough. I know from our coffee machine, that there is a lot of Calcium in the water. Coffee machine had to be decalcified once a month or go broke. We now rteceive 5 gal/20 Litres bottled water delivered to the door. This is for drinking/eating only. ANY food that needs contact with water, for cooking (Noodles/rice/washing salads etc) this water is used. It is a bit too much to also use this water for feeding the gals, so I bought a 3 stg. Reverse osmosis sys. It is installed under my kitchen sink, where the water valve and/or connections are. If the weather allows, I fill up one of these 5 gal/20 L bottles on the balcony, incase water does run over. It takes a good 3 hrs to fill the bottle. If I had a pump installed, before/infront of the filters, I could raise the flow, but for me, it\s fine as it is. Perhaps I will install a floater/swimmer valve, to shut it off when the bottle is full. Perhaps later...
1, 2, 3, 6, 7 + 8: Osmosis sys and 20 l bottle/reservoir
4 + 5: Nutrient reservoir (17l), with self built water level gauge

 

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I will probably harvest a shit storm for this, but let me explain: I have heard and/or read about people saying that foliar spraying should not be done during lights on. Also, I hear Pigeons420 in one of his YouTube videos exclaiming, Loud and Clear: NO TOUCHY TOUCHY!!
I tend to foliar spray when the lights are on... BUT I 1) Set up an oscilating fan, infront of open doors, to "Blow dry" the girls, as not to burn the leaves due to refracted light in the water.
2) I also tend to, after about 30 min of "Drying/Airating", go ahead and literally "grab' the girls and give them a good shaking, rub vigorously across their heads, to rid them of any larger droplets of water, left over from spraying, that the fan didn't blow off/away. YES I wash my hands before, no sanitizing sprays/sharp alcohol, just soap and water.
1+2: Foilar spray by night.
3: Filming myself giving the girls a shake/rub down after foliar spraying.

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