DutchinAB
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Do you have your lights dimmed at all, or running wide open?
Planet Express & The Attempt To Repopulate Mars
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BudShark
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I have no kids but alway's still expecting a call or message on facebook with a long lost soul looking for his dad, navy days. LolHappy Father's Day !
I delivered a mattress and a bag of medicine to my son. And a fresh baked loaf of sourdough bread to my father. Now waiting on my dinner. Wife is making one of my favourites sweet and sour meatballs on rice yum yum.
Have a great night!
CADBOY
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Hell yeah. I wanna see these results. Awesome job buddy. Nice looking plants.
Care to elaborate on your "soil mix" ? Seems very similar to what I'm doing.
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Thanks @Radogast,
Good Genetics.... check
Adequate room... check
Gardening skill.... mediocre lol
Sorry you had to shut the business down. I’m sure you’ll find something again when you get bored!Looking Sweethave been wanting one of those lights for some time but unfortunately it's going to have to wait a little longer.
Thanks Lip.
Nice to see you @The Celt.
Thanks brother. Not much of a mixture really. Just Pro-Mix HP, BigBox bought organic compost with worm castings, Organic black earth with gypsum and extra earthly matter organic wormcastings. No exact parts per, just eyeballed out and hand mixed.
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I think you can check all categories
Thanks but I am feeling ok about it
CADBOY
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Nice man nice, looks super healthy.
I'm using HP Pro mix with Mycorrhizae
Bag of regular dirt
Gaia green 444, 284 and worm Castings.
Just watering after that.
CADBOY
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I missed what type of lights your leds are?
Look nice.
Look nice.
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That would be nice, I’m starting to look into things like this, right now I’m running Advanced Nutrients. I have been tempted to get some MC though.
Pictured is the 500w Series 3 RSPEC, I also have 2- 240w kingbrite V2 RSPEC,
Then in the other room I have a Phlizon 630w actual draw, I thought about putting the 100w 4000k highbay in it aswell.
Im hoping to put the a couple 250w Veg spec on XL heat sinks by @Budget LED in that room to replace the ones in it.
Eventually I’d like to run nothing but Budget in both rooms. The quality and craftsmanship of their lights are second to none. IMO
Modest Grower
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I would recommend giving MC a test and see what you think! I personally am a fan. So easy and really have been noticing the results as I get better at reading the plant at different stages.
politoed
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hey duderino.. plants are looking fantastic as usual. and the photos are well framed too.
was hoping i could pick your brain a bit as im done with the construction portion of
my rooms and on to the specs.. im sure you went through this brainstorming process a bit and id love your input. sorry for the bad handwriting
i am daisy chaining the ventilation so the a/c unit can cool both rooms. my main thing here is that i dont want any indicators outside that something is amiss. so i dont want to have a duct showing.
im not sure if there would be a better way to ventilate it, and im also not sure where to put the humidifier and dehumidifier for best results. what do you think prof farnsworth?
was hoping i could pick your brain a bit as im done with the construction portion of
my rooms and on to the specs.. im sure you went through this brainstorming process a bit and id love your input. sorry for the bad handwriting
i am daisy chaining the ventilation so the a/c unit can cool both rooms. my main thing here is that i dont want any indicators outside that something is amiss. so i dont want to have a duct showing.
im not sure if there would be a better way to ventilate it, and im also not sure where to put the humidifier and dehumidifier for best results. what do you think prof farnsworth?
I also use and recommend mega crop!
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@politoed
Okay so here’s my train of thought, I’m in a basement so my setup will vary since heat is a non issue.
The intake from downstairs this is a passive intake? And an active intake with the wall AC unit?
Weather will play into the humidity factor huge, good news is you’ll be wanting the Veg room higher in humidity anyways. With that being said I would think the fan will have to work harder to pull the air through the filter. They say you’ll want 1 full exchange of air every 1-3 minutes. So 200CFM x .8 (not exactly sure on the reduction factor) puts you at 185CFM still within the 1-3mins full exchange. Portable humidifier? I’d put the humidifier in the veg area for the time being.
Let’s move on to the flower room, 450CFM x .8 is 360CFM the total area of exchange is 430CFM (both rooms) assuming you either synchronize the 2 inline fans on timers or run them all the time. The fan won’t have to work as hard since it’s piggybacked that way and still within the 1-3mins exchange. Dehumidifier in the Flower room. Since it’s gonna get thick in there mid flower with perspiration. Shouldn’t be an issue as long as you got fans moving the air around. As far as cross draft goes I think the layout in the picture is set up pretty well.
The drying area I’m going to assume as roof vents to let the air escape, I’d maybe consider installing a whirlybird on the roof to help draw out the air more actively than passively. Cheap, easy to install and completely natural on a roof.
Those are my thoughts, I’m not going room to room with the air exchange, so I could be a little off. I think @Preston9mm goes room to room maybe he could add I little more insight.
Okay so here’s my train of thought, I’m in a basement so my setup will vary since heat is a non issue.
The intake from downstairs this is a passive intake? And an active intake with the wall AC unit?
Weather will play into the humidity factor huge, good news is you’ll be wanting the Veg room higher in humidity anyways. With that being said I would think the fan will have to work harder to pull the air through the filter. They say you’ll want 1 full exchange of air every 1-3 minutes. So 200CFM x .8 (not exactly sure on the reduction factor) puts you at 185CFM still within the 1-3mins full exchange. Portable humidifier? I’d put the humidifier in the veg area for the time being.
Let’s move on to the flower room, 450CFM x .8 is 360CFM the total area of exchange is 430CFM (both rooms) assuming you either synchronize the 2 inline fans on timers or run them all the time. The fan won’t have to work as hard since it’s piggybacked that way and still within the 1-3mins exchange. Dehumidifier in the Flower room. Since it’s gonna get thick in there mid flower with perspiration. Shouldn’t be an issue as long as you got fans moving the air around. As far as cross draft goes I think the layout in the picture is set up pretty well.
The drying area I’m going to assume as roof vents to let the air escape, I’d maybe consider installing a whirlybird on the roof to help draw out the air more actively than passively. Cheap, easy to install and completely natural on a roof.
Those are my thoughts, I’m not going room to room with the air exchange, so I could be a little off. I think @Preston9mm goes room to room maybe he could add I little more insight.
politoed
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pretty much what i was thinking! the intake from downstairs is an active intake. the bottom of the duct rests against a closed door to another room with a 2 inch gap at the bottom. so itll be pulling already cooled fresh air from downstairs, so the upstairs (18/6 room) A/c doesnt have to work as hard. ill be battling heat in the summer and cold in the winter. i was thinking dehu in the flower room too as ive seen in some daisy chained setups the humidity can accumulate in room B. re the whirlybird.. i can also draw the air out into the other room of the attic or into the crawlspace if need be. the rest of the attic is drafty, leaky and uninsulated enough plus theres a window. i just worry that ill be pumping out 100cfm+ of cooled air which might make it hard to maintain cool temps?
it is my understanding that most window a/c units are actually sucking the air from the room, conditioning it and recirculating it back into the room. and the outside section of the a/c is just venting off the heat the appliance generates, rather than acting as an input. that is the main reason i decided to add the active intake into the chain rather than just circulating the air around the attic with a passive intake, if that makes sense. maybe hooking the fan/filter (a 4" combo for extra oomph) in the drying area to exhaust out into the attic would be a good option? not trying to hijack your thread here
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You are correct, most do work like that. Pulls air from the room and passes it over the evaporator to cool it. It will still bring in air from the outside though through the “radiator”. How hot does it get in the attic? Heat has never been an issue for me at all. Another option Is you could also just use an evaporative air chiller instead of a humidifier and ac unit.
and no problem about the Hi-Jack buddy! That’s what these places are for!
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Also make sure your panel can handle that, I’m not sure what size breaker you are on and if it’s designated spots for each rooms. 15AMP breakers can handle I believe a max of 2800w, keep that in mind. What’s the AC unit? 1500w alone?
Edit: apparently I should re-read before I post! The 1 and 2 are so close together. Old Smokey is correct. Good catch!
1800w
Edit: apparently I should re-read before I post! The 1 and 2 are so close together. Old Smokey is correct. Good catch!
1800w
15 amp x 120 volt=1800 watts
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Good catch brother! I should re read before I post. This is correct.
politoed
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thanks for clearing that up about the a/c. im no appliance expert, thats for sure. tbh im not sure i will need the humidifier very much. the dehu i will definitely need. the average rh outside where i live is around 67%. in my current room (tents in a bedroom with an a/c unit in the window) i can very easily maintain whatever temp i set, and the rh stays between 40-60%, unless its raining. in the tent it is a bit higher with a lot of plant mass. in the winter inside the humidity stays around 35-40% and i have old style steam heated radiators for heat. mild dehu during flowering is def the top priority. the attic without the a/c in the window will be the same temperature it is outside, minus 10 degrees at most in the summer. kind of a bitch. in the winter it gets down to about 50ºF.. but super easy to control with plastic curtains and a space heater. also the ac unit im buying has built in dehu but not settable, so im thinking it should keep it between 40-50% on its own and the dedicated dehu wont have to do TOO much.
re: electricity
20 amp breakers, each room on its own breaker
18/6 room - the a/c unit is 695w. the draw of the lights combined is about 650w, plus a couple fans. that runs on one circuit (extension cords from two downstairs outlets) with fans id estimate about 1600w
12/12 room - lights are 500w combined. fans add to about 100w, plus whatever the dehu would be.
Well it begins,
I rechecked the Colloidal Silver it’s at 45ppm. I went ahead and poured the solutions into hand misters and labelled them. Chose the donors and administered the first dose. The colloidal silver will be sprayed 3x a day for the 5 days leading up to the flip, then 1-2 times a day until sacs form. GA3 will be administered once per day for the 5 days leading up to the flip then left alone.
