I started this journal because of all of you here at 420 and you're wonderful vibe and encouragement to become an active participant in something I also believe in with all my heart. Legalize.
In fact you’re all to blame for this grow attempt.lol Reading all the information and learning how others have done it, made me think “Hey” I can do that too. But what really did it for me was how all of you sound like football coaches before the big game. Big time encouragement one and all. I know that with your help I’ll get through this with some success, if not I will just start again. In another time and place.
I tend to get a bit wordy, please bare with me. I am not joking when I say that you folks fired me up. Visions of big buds. Nasty females. No more hunt and search for smoke.
This building process has been a kick in the butt. I use mmj for quite a few reasons. I do not have great mobility or stamina, but what the hell. Immediately, I tripped on a drop cloth and fell on an unopened gallon of paint. 3 cracked ribs. Didn’t really hurt until the next morning. Now you know why I have the saying below on my posts.
I’ve been in Hawaii too long. I have a big room I play in with eight big windows across the back, cool trade winds blow in and it’s quite comfortable. My big surprise came the day I got my Thermometer/Humidity gage in the mail. I turn on the lights in the little cab and it was 96 degrees with 67% humidity. Yee Cats! What the hell? Then I thought about it and realized I was just acclimatized to Hawaii. Duh! If you’ve never been here, people walk around with sweaters on all year round. You really get used to the weather.
Lets call this a temporary lapse of memory or being to stoned. In short I didn’t think this completely through in my haste. Time for a change in plans.
I started this as a project that would be as cheap as I could make it and be successful.
That too has been a challenge. Some things I just couldn’t be cheap about and expect to have success.
OK by now all of you realize I like Indica dominant mmj. I go for couchlock highs. I actually really love to sit in a stupor and watch the space/time continuum change. Put on some music like “See that red house over yonder, that’s where my baby used to stay “ with mad guitar riffs. Contented.
I really did not think this through enough. I live in a 1952 Hawaiian house and it has been upgraded more than once, but basically it’s old. My play room is built with concrete blocks, hence no vents through the wall, in or out. Ok, I have windows to suck in air and push the hot air out. I camouflaged the window screen and it’s cool from the outside. Many of the old houses here are damn near built on top of each other. You can hear most of what’s being said all around you. I am a legal mmj smoker, however I don’t want to advertise and end up getting robbed of my grow.
I have a 24000 BTU air conditioner which I haven’t used in years. I try t o keep my electric bill below $300. When I run the air my bill easily goes over $500. It’s a 120v and it sucks the juice up. However, I want my smoke so the air conditioner is on. At this very moment it is on and my Cab is sitting right next to it. Maybe a foot away. My fans move in and out 90 CFM. They are Cooler Master 120mm pc fans
I have a 6” intake and exhaust tubes for the fans. Get this, the intake is maybe one foot below the AC’s output and it is still 90 degrees in the cab. Tomorrow I think I will attach the input tube to the AC’s output. The input fan blows right on the girls and it might freeze them. Lol. Another thing I have learned is all the outlets in the room are on the on the same circuit breaker, so if I turn on both my computers the circuit breaker turns the whole thing off. The whole flipping room goes black. Great Huh? Would love that to happen some time when I am not here.
Obviously I really don’t see how this will work and I guess that’s OK. I have learned allot and have gotten plenty of exercise. Be sure to think things through before you start. I am posting this journal as an example of what not to do. Who knows? Maybe one of you gurus will think of something. All comments and help welcome.
I’ll post some pictures for you of my Cab and my young ladies.
The PRICES you pay for livin' in paradise right OldMedMan, Sounds like your puttin' your best foot forward!! 
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