Turbo Bucket's Take On RADDWC: Grow Room Build-Up

Correct. I don't really like cutting into a bud. It leaves a bunch of damaged tissue that can end up infected. It's not overly common but it does leave an open avenue for it to occur. If I have to do it I usually do it before now and I typically just take the top budlet clean off. That's what I had to do with the fruit punch (coincidentally also #4) a couple rounds back.

I think I can make some more headroom, I have to move that giant carbon filter to the back wall though.
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Tent #2 has been reloaded
This time around we have gorilla bomb on the right, my Bagseed Barbie in the middle and purple Trainwreck on the left. This wave also includes my vulx sample plants. They are arranged diagonally front left, center, and back right, one of each strain differing locations under the lights, two control plants per strain in plain Coco. I use an automated watering system from Cannabis irrigation supply utilizing their 12 outlet manifolds. Plants get watered 6 times a day starting at lights on every two hours with the last cycle an hour before lights out.
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Lights are lm561c in every color temp with some reds and blues, this rig is capable of 700watts. Powered by a pair of HLG 480h c2100b drivers. I usually run it around 500watts and a foot or less off the plants.
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Nutes are still the same, Dyna-Gro foliage pro, calmag+, protekt. I still run a compost/ kelp tea on Fridays with orca liquid mychorrizae.
 
Tent #2
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Tent #1
Stickay-st-st-st-stickay. To run dmc tricky lol We need a music note emoji.

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Idk if I was a little later on the trim or what but these were the stickiest gooiest plants I've trimmed. Gummed up my silicone gloves, gummed up 4 pairs of scissors and still didn't finish the trim lol
 
I found these the other day on Amazon, cheap $1a piece. 12vdc green lights. They're sold as rock lights/underglow lights. I wanted some green lights for the flower room, I store a lot of my grow stuff in there but the tent lights go out at 6:00 pm so it's hard to use the space, these should help. I have a couple 3a variable voltage power supplies laying around so it should work nicely.
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I love it. I frequently have a need for something like this when my flower tent is off I keep all lights off and it becomes an issue. Do they just plug in an outlet or battery powered?
 
Silverfox125 said:
I love it. I frequently have a need for something like this when my flower tent is off I keep all lights off and it becomes an issue. Do they just plug in an outlet or battery powered?
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12vdc so couple different ways you could power them. You could just use a charged car battery, or a battery with a float charger plugged into the wall, or a battery with a solar panel to charge it would be cool.
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I have some of these laying around. 12vdc 3.3a variable voltage powersupply. They're used for led lighting in refrigerated display cases (and lots of other applications too I'm sure)

So a pigtail let's me plug this into the wall with a switch and wire the rest of the lights to this. I use them with 2ft led strips in the garage for lighting up my storage shelves and under cabinet lighting.
 
From what I understand, may have to double check me on this but I read that if you use 730nm lighting (far red) for about 15 minutes after it's like the plants saw no light at all. People use them to put the plants "to sleep" quicker but they work supposedly to also let you do what you gotta do after lights off with lights on. Once you finish turn the far red lighting on for 15- 20 min and it's like the plant saw no additional lighting. I have some 730nm far red strips but dont have the balls to give it a try.
 
Rich Farmer said:
From what I understand, may have to double check me on this but I read that if you use 730nm lighting (far red) for about 15 minutes after it's like the plants saw no light at all. People use them to put the plants "to sleep" quicker but they work supposedly to also let you do what you gotta do after lights off with lights on. Once you finish turn the far red lighting on for 15- 20 min and it's like the plant saw no additional lighting. I have some 730nm far red strips but dont have the balls to give it a try.
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That's interesting. I've wanted to add some far red pucks for awhile just haven't gotten there. My luck I'd forget to turn them back off after 20 mins haha, I guess you could put them on a countdown timer like they use for bath fans and stuff.

I'm just gonna wire these green ones up with a switch by the door so I can pick white or green lights when I walk in.
 
Yeah those lights are much better than the phone app i've been using lol. just make sure you don't hit the wrong switch at lights out ;)
 
Slapped together a couple bars to hold the new green lights. Nothing fancy just some c channel aluminum with holes drilled in it. I hooked it up with stat wire but I'll probably finish it with something a little more flexible.
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Yay goodies! Been waiting forever to finally order this fan for the veg closet.
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In case you don't know, I love hyperfans. They kick so much ass. I get a TON of push back when I suggest them though. People will gladly drop a grand on a light but balk at $250 for a fan and temperature speed controller.

These fans move more air per watt than anything else. Everyone is always trying to squeeze every last photon out of their lights and every last gram from their plants, why not demand the same performance from your environmental setup? There's no reason to waste energy your going to pay for it at some point.

Here's some of the documentation to further illustrate why these things rock. Keep in mind it is provided by the manufacturer but the claims seem accurate to the 8in fan I've had running continually for 2 years now. It powers two 4x4 tents.

This shows how fast they pay off the cost difference to cheap fans.
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These are fan curves that show the actual performance of the fan once it's loaded up with a carbon filter. They only provide numbers for their line but it shows how every fan reacts to being loaded up. Your not getting the airflow numbers listed on the box, hate to break your heart but your 6in centrifugal isn't moving 300 CFM with a filter on it, or even duct really.
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Here's a little bit more info on why the motor they use is better than anything else on the market.
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I'm not paid by hyperfan, I just can't stand watching people waste energy simply because they're cheap and Ill informed. The average household uses about 30kw/h per day, a lot of grows use that much, 2x 1000 watt hoods on a flower schedule is 24kw/h per day, almost as much as an entire household uses, just for two lights. Just think.
 
Little bit of room in the veg closet at the moment. Clones from the last couple waves that I still need to pick a keeper out of are in there too so it'll be getting thinned out eventually.
Veglings
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Mommas
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Sexing a couple clones from some donated bagseed, don't need an unexpected male spewing in my scrog.
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TurboBucket said:
Yay goodies! Been waiting forever to finally order this fan for the veg closet.
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In case you don't know, I love hyperfans. They kick so much ass. I get a TON of push back when I suggest them though. People will gladly drop a grand on a light but balk at $250 for a fan and temperature speed controller.

These fans move more air per watt than anything else. Everyone is always trying to squeeze every last photon out of their lights and every last gram from their plants, why not demand the same performance from your environmental setup? There's no reason to waste energy your going to pay for it at some point.

Here's some of the documentation to further illustrate why these things rock. Keep in mind it is provided by the manufacturer but the claims seem accurate to the 8in fan I've had running continually for 2 years now. It powers two 4x4 tents.

This shows how fast they pay off the cost difference to cheap fans.
IMG_20200118_105823117.jpg

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These are fan curves that show the actual performance of the fan once it's loaded up with a carbon filter. They only provide numbers for their line but it shows how every fan reacts to being loaded up. Your not getting the airflow numbers listed on the box, hate to break your heart but your 6in centrifugal isn't moving 300 CFM with a filter on it, or even duct really.
IMG_20200118_105846190.jpg

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IMG_20200118_105841227.jpg

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Here's a little bit more info on why the motor they use is better than anything else on the market.
IMG_20200118_105919277.jpg

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I'm not paid by hyperfan, I just can't stand watching people waste energy simply because they're cheap and Ill informed. The average household uses about 30kw/h per day, a lot of grows use that much, 2x 1000 watt hoods on a flower schedule is 24kw/h per day, almost as much as an entire household uses, just for two lights. Just think.
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Is it loud ? I haven't found a good fan that doesn't sound like a jet plane waiting to take off !
 
Northern Hydro said:
Is it loud ? I haven't found a good fan that doesn't sound like a jet plane waiting to take off !
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They make a stealth version that's even quieter. :thumb:

Your ducting will make a big difference in noise level. A furnace with no duct is noisy, but when installed properly you barely notice them, poorly installed you jump Everytime they kick on.

My tents are directly underneath my front door/dining room, it dumps into my return air trunk for the furnace/Central air, there's a double Bay return right next to the front door, 32"x8" if you listen carefully you can tell when it ramps up to high speed. I've never had a comment about it.
 
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