Thanks man! And what you said is very very true - I wouldn't be anywhere near where I am without this community and a few others I depend on. The support is much more appreciated than you know. Thank you and all you experienced growers for your willingness to share your knowledge with us newbies. One can research all day forever online and learn a ton of stuff - but it's not the same as being able to take that knowledge and ask someone with hands on experience about why this or how that or when something else or hey I read this is it true. There's no substitute for experience. Besides, the bud porn on this site is amazing!
Thanks man! I'm about to check out your journals. Appreciate the support!
Couldn't have said it better myself. Right on
the bud porn on this site is amazing!
I'm definitely along for the ride and hope to learn a thing or two from how you have your garage set up. From one garage grower to another 
Thanks man. I like how everyone says "so far" and "thus far." It's cuz they know the journey has only begun. But it's still a victory to get to this point. You gotta celebrate the little victories all along the way, I think. That way when you take a hit it doesn't hurt as bad. Lmao. I share your excitement too. I know you gotta be getting antsy when you're as close as you are. I had a hard time learning patience my first grow, and it's an important lesson. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to re-learn that one every single grow.Couldn't have said it better myself. Right on
It is isn't it?
I share your excitement my friend, I'm with you on that 100 %
Good job thus far, looking forward to see how they'd grow
Cool, thanks MH! Yeah, a window would be nice so I could vent to the outside, but I really have nothing to complain about. A ton of people have to adapt spaces way worse than mine. I know I am in a fortunate position. But my level of OCD about my setup is two-fold: one, I'm kind of naturally that way, and two, I have to be hyper about the setup cuz of the wheelchair thing. It forces me to think ahead, which turns out to be a good thing. Btw, I'm finding that so far in the Gorilla tent I am not going to have to use the AC very much at all cuz the light puts out almost ZERO heat. It's really amazing and far exceeding my expectation in that regard. I will need the AC in the blurples tent cuz they get way hotter. That is why I am trying the coming in from above and exiting the cold air above the lights thing this time in that tent. I'll be posting the autoflower tent pics as soon as it's started in a couple days. I decided to separate the starts of the two grows by a week or so, so that I can kind of get the photos going and know they'll be okay first, and especially because with a light I have never used I want to be able to give that tent my sole attention for a week or so.Wow man impressive set up you have there
Ha! I appreciate that Michael. Yeah, my climate for the next two months or so is incredibly perfect. After that it gets a bit warm. But thanks for the thought. I couldn't do that anyway, I'm a renter.I'm windowless in the space we have as well. Ran our vent up into the ceiling, over the exterior wall and out the soffit outside. I will admit, it was a lot of time on a ladder to set that up so i cant imagine a wheelchair would make that any easier. I'd offer to help, but your comment about lack of need for AC shows that we do not live anywhere near one another
Hey Michael does your garage get real hot in the day and too cold at night? That's how it is for me. I have spent the last three days since the cups went in the tent working on tweaking the temperature/humidity regulation. From about 8 am til around noon I can run the tent with the lights on and the doors a bit open and the garage door shut. That maintains my temps in the low 80s. Then from around noon to five I have to use my low AC setting or the garage gets too hot and the tent then gets too hot. So I do that. Then around five it starts to get more like the morning so I go back to open doors but with the garage door opened a little, and then from around 9 pm til 1 am when they go to bed I have the garage door closed, the tent closed, and the house door open. CHRIST. So I am wondering if you experience something similar? Seems this is the bane of garage growing, depending on your garage. In my case it's just a classic one car garage that get direct sun for around six hours a day and has no windows. It's a challenge for sure. The 8 speed adjustable exhaust fan (Cloudline s6, great fan) is essential. Without the adjustability it would be way more difficult. If you go through any of this I'd love to hear about some of your coping mechanisms.Wow man impressive set up you have there
I feel your pain man. Without a climate controlled garage we have to do a strange dance to try and keep conditions right. We have some crazy temp swings here but i have our on a timer so that it’s lights out between noon and 6. The hottest part of our day here. Our temp swings seem to come day to day. Yesterday it got up to 85* with crazy humidity and today its in the 40’s, with crazy humidity. Humidity is our real Achilles heel here. Our outside RH frequently hits the 80-90% mark. Sweating concrete concrete in the garage, and moisture on everything is starting to be our main problem. In a few weeks it’ll be hot even at night, and hotter during the day. Really not looking forward to it. Gonna need to add another 20a outlet in our closet to take some of the load for all this cooling we are going to need. Feel free to stop by my journal to follow along and we can bounce ideas between our two similar situations.
Awesome. Thanks. I will do so. There's gotta be a lot of folks in our position. In your case do you just AC the whole garage itself? I considered that, and with two window units I probably could do it and then just work the tents. But then I have to run them both start to finish 24/7, which is costly as hell. And then also I have less control over each tent, versus having the two AC units going to individual tents as I do. I use them as needed during the grow and they are necessary all the time once buds start forming. I thought about that night/day schedule, but with two tents going and one being photo and one auto and it basically being 18/6 or 12/12 versus 20/4, the easiest way to do it and for me to be able to sleep at the same time was to do it along my sleep schedule. This is only because I'm stupid and don't trust any timer but trust myself so I am the start to finish timer for turning lights off and on for both tents the entire grow. Dumb, eh? Lol. It feeds my addiction. Yeah, it's a strange dance indeed, I dig that, Lol.
Yeah well I just made the decision to put a few more bucks in Jeff Bezos' pocket and went ahead and ordered a humidifier from Amazon. It'll be here tomorrow. The weather here is so dry this time of year that I've already found that unless it's raining outside I cannot maintain a humidity level higher than about 50%, and that's a struggle. I know my babies want it to be 70%. I tried misting the tent, adding standing water, adjusting all my fans, ac, not ac, open house door, not open house door, etc...and nothing will maintain what I know I need. Would it be alright at 50% humidity, or 45%, for now til budding (all of veg)? Probably wouldn't be THAT big of a deal. I'm sure it would work out just fine. But as I stated before, I ain't going for "fine." This is MY weed. I want the best I can possibly produce. So it comes down to, what's your own weed worth to you? I decided mine was worth spending $56 for a good humidifier with a three prong power cord and large reservoir that has a digital readout of the ambient humidity and you can set the humidity level you want. I'm 99% sure this will solve the problem within a half an hour of when it gets delivered tomorrow. Lol. Goddamn grow getting more expensive already. Lol. I justified the expense by telling myself the manufacturer of my light is correct and it really WILL cut my electric lighting bill by 40%. Ha!I actually just built the whole thing so i haven't gotten as far as to air condition the whole garage yet. Gonna put a portable unit in the closet eventually when the temp dictates it. Haven't had any air temps above 82 in the tent yet. The heats coming though, and an ac is going to be next after the chiller. You could always use an Inkbird controller to help you run the ac units on thermostats in each tent.
Funny you mentioned the timer thing. I was thinking about that comment while doing some work on the house and sure enough, our light shut off earlier than expected for some reason. Weird how the universe works like that
Thanks. I had that concern but our water is pretty soft here and I really only feel the need to run it for around the first 18-21 days of seedling to veg. I think it'll work out okay for that short a time. I'm okay at around 55% for veg once they get past the seedling stage and develop a few leaves, and I can make that without the humidifier. If I gotta get 15 gallons of distilled water, so be it. But thanks, it's a good point.I hope you have good water quality? Putting in overtime with any humidifier will leave white powder all over the place if you have a high mineral count in your area.
I had a humidity problem myself and I had the bud luck of poor water quality and had to use distilled water in my humidifiers to make the solution sustainable. I hope you don't have that problem because it can be more expensive than high power lighting... A good quality water distiller (that can keep up with high demand) can run $1500; ask me how and why I know...?
