Starting Over - Learning From Mistakes Or Making Them - Ramblings Of A Stoner

[Mr Smith]

Hi.
I'm Mr Smith. Got a question for ya. Ever started a grow project that ever became a never ending search for improving it? Thats me. I try and try again to make it better, easier, and more productive. Tried some bizare shit over the years and did alot of fuckups that seems to come from being a stoner in the grow room. I have had alot of success and a few total failures.

Earlier this year I had a bunch of clones ready to go and because I didn't have a organized grow/veg area I lost them the day before transplant because my timer was over the on/off button of the powerstrip it was in and my partner accidently turned the strip off. It became a devastating lost of time because the mums just got a haircut the day before.
My veg room has gone through many renovations before but this time I put alot of thought into this one.
Check it out, it might give ya a few ideals. Then I am going to redo a few projects I have done in the past with a few improvements.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

First thing was to relocate the plants into a different room. That was easy because my flowering room was empty.

We have three mums, a few clippings going through the rooting process and a few seedlings in the megagarden ebb.

I do hydro so I setup grow areas that have easy access to a water supply and a drain.
My veg area has 1 dedicated 20amp 120v circuit for a ac unit and 1 20amp circuit to power the rest. I use t8 flouro bulb fixtures cause I got them for free and rewired them with lamp repair kits. Not as efficient as a t5 but uses less electricity and the coolwhite bulbs are cheep. Been using them for years.
The grow area is a small room. The floor is covered completely with pond liner with a 1 inch raised lip at the entry way. The walls were covered with reflective insulation bought at lowes.
Bought a bunch of 2by3s a sheet of good quality plywood and designed a veg table station big enough to meet my needs with a cloning station underneath. The build was slow, I needed to utilize space with light effciency. The table needed to be strong and rigid. It needed to be level. I have a bad back so the table can't be to deep. And I wanted to setup a organized power station for all the plugs and timers.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

Raised lips on sides and back. Two holes for my diy gravitydrain ebb controller.

Wires are protected and hidden behind reflective insulation.

Power station is well marked.

I'll continue this at a later date.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

The work staion is finished. table surfaces are lined with pond liner. The room is cleaned. The mums are brought up. The seedlings are transplanted into buckets.

The best clones that are in the 60 are put into the 45 unit then the 60 unit is refilled with more clippings from the mums and test clippings are taken from the seedlings.

The veg room is now in action.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

After a few days the clones in the 45 are strong enough for transplant.

The clones in the 60 are 8 to 10 days behind the clones in the 45.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

After a month and a half of downtime I finally have plants in flower. The clones that were in the 45 are transplanted into a aero 36 then put straight into flower.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

The clones I didn't need for the a36 were left in the 45 to make up for the weak clones that might develop in the 60. A few more clipping were added just because the water was still farely fresh.

A major haircut and tiedown was performed on the mums.

They grow so fast.

 

[Mrgivemethat]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

First seat in ur new journal my chair is pulled up

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

Its going to be a long story.
Day 14 flower for the a36 they got military hair cuts. High and tight. Day 15 the aero flo 60 was filled with clones.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

The mums are strong. The seedling are mature plants.

New haircuts are given often to keep short plants. I'll let them grow out for 2 weeks before I take clones again.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

A frame of 1by2 wood is built around the plants.

The lighting system for this flowering room is 2 600w hps on a light mover with a add a lamp trolly.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

Day 20 a36 and day 5 a60.
A light barrier of reflective insulation was installed surrounding the plants.

 

[Mr Smith]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

Day22 day 7.
They grow fast.

 

[QueenTokelove]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

Wow, that is one beauty of a set up. You can see by looking at the pics how well thought out it is.

 

[Chiodos367]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

looking forward to see this one!

 

[Mrgivemethat]

Re: Starting Over. Learning from mistakes or making them. Ramblings of a Stoner.

Gosh mr smith thats some gear u got there are both of those aero cloners in ur veg room one white and one black? Also are tge aero plants different ages? If so how by row or how? Love ur setup ill be upgrading soon to 1000 watter dimmable with a 25 x 26 inch aircooled hood hope my 2 liters give me 21 grams a peice in a 4 x 4 with 4 plants a square foot with defoliation at day 21 and 45 hopefully but nehou good job

 

[Mr Smith]

The white one is a botanical cloner 45, the black one is a ez cloner 60. The two aeroflo systems are 15 days apart in flower.

 

[Vapedogg223]

Very nice brother...count me in!

 

[Smokemupm8]

Hi mate how are ya??
Well so far it seems you ve learned well from ur last grow! I dunno if you have a journal on ur last one or not? But yeah, some great DIY in there Always love to see that, i mean yes easy pop up tent styles are good and easy solution. But to create a nice grow space thats far better in set up than a standard tent, you may have lower roof and longer grow room so height may play a factor or sumfin..
So customising is always good IMO, ive home made most of my first grows entire setup, in fact construction was being carried out above her in some cases, if it happened - at any time i could either have had a solid piece of timber5ft wide,3ft deep fall straight down onto my girl!! As i was by myself, NOT GOOD! Or if it slipped it would have knocked a large fan onto her too! So i nearly made amess off things, as im BI-polar, i sometimes jump into things without thinking, this being one of them occasions
But she survived and with my vaccuum on low and the fluffy thing on the end i lightly vacc'd up the paint chips,sawdust and stuff all over her leaves, then i lightly sprayed her foliage with a little hair spray bottle of water to help clear her pores
She was great, grew just over 5ft and gave me 8oz dry buds with a little popcorn
But anyways mate, i hope your grow is successful amd you get some juicy buds from em! TAKE IT EASY< SMOKEMUP

 

[Mr Smith]

Your lucky. Took me years to grow a plant that brought in over 4 ounces. This grow style with the aeroflo units only pull 7 to 20 grams per plant more ore less.