Macgyverup
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Hello out there in 420 land and thanks to this great site for allowing all these great ideas to come together in one place! As the title says I grew outdoors many, many years ago in the Golden Triangle of Cal, and can't remember a thing 
I didn't think I would enjoy it as I love being outdoors, but what I found is that it has been really challenging and well... fun... at least so far... still awake? Good!
A friend thinks I can make just about anything out of well... anything, and encouraged me to share my experience. Hence the user name. So here goes!
What strain is it? Indica as best I know.
They're currently in Veg. I started with ten HOG clones from the local collective. They were brought home on 1/31/2011. So my best guess is they have been in veg for about 6 weeks. Two weeks at the collective and @4 weeks with there new dad.
I have converted an old shed and put it together in my garage. Getting this built inside the garage was a real challenge.
Pics to follow.
The soil they are in is a mix of @ 55% Medicine Man, 32% ReadyGro, 10% Perlite, 3% Wormcastings and 30 ml of high N Bat Guano, in 5 gal containers.
I use 2 ea. 600w MH in 6" Cooltubes with reflectors (for veg).
The lights are cooled with 1 ea 6" Vortex inline fan w/speed control, and draw air from the lower front part outside the grow room (see pics). There is also an 4" Vortex fan w/speed control w/an 6" x 16" Phresh filter.
I maintain the room temp @ 75-82 f. The room is cooled using a HydroFarm A/C unit, 16" oscillating fan and 2 small 6" fans. The temperature is controlled by an LuxPro 300 thermostat.
The two 6" fans are used along with Co2 BoostBuckets. I now have a full Co2 setup and will remove these as they run out. I use a CAP Reg1 regulator set at .5 cfh. The timer is set to an on/off 15 min cycle. The room is @ 500 cf. 9.5'x7.5'x7' high. The actual grow area is 4'x8'. I have perforated Co2 tubing just above the lights.
RH is kept at 40% using a HydroFarm dehumidifier and GreenAir controller.
I use tap water ph'd to 6.8 after it has been airified using a Eco Air dual air pump and stones for 24 hr minimum. I have a 20 gl container I use for this and my nutrient tea.
I have been struggling with Fungus Gnats this past week. I have been using pest strips and wine in small disks to get them under control. I plan on using bti as soon as I can purchase some. Will probably use mosquito dunks.
I water with nutrient tea about every other day or so with 32 oz/950 ml of tea.
My nutrient tea consists of:
High N bat guano (will change to high P when in flower)
Worm castings
Hygrozyme
Thrive Alive
Sweet Raw
Liquid Karma
Cal Mag
Maxsea 16-16-16
Unsulphured Molasses
Every third batch I add Subculture B
Since I am new to growing indoors please feel free to pipe in on anything you think I have missed or could do better. I do have some questions and will post them later. Thanks for reading!
Here's my grow room in the garage.
These are the girls transplanted to 1 gl containers when I brought them to there new home on 1/31/2011.
Two weeks later (2/14/2011) I transferred them to 5 gl containers.
I'll add more pics soon. My connection is really slowwww! These will show where I'm at to-date.
I didn't think I would enjoy it as I love being outdoors, but what I found is that it has been really challenging and well... fun... at least so far... still awake? Good!A friend thinks I can make just about anything out of well... anything, and encouraged me to share my experience. Hence the user name. So here goes!
What strain is it? Indica as best I know.
They're currently in Veg. I started with ten HOG clones from the local collective. They were brought home on 1/31/2011. So my best guess is they have been in veg for about 6 weeks. Two weeks at the collective and @4 weeks with there new dad.
I have converted an old shed and put it together in my garage. Getting this built inside the garage was a real challenge.
Pics to follow.The soil they are in is a mix of @ 55% Medicine Man, 32% ReadyGro, 10% Perlite, 3% Wormcastings and 30 ml of high N Bat Guano, in 5 gal containers.
I use 2 ea. 600w MH in 6" Cooltubes with reflectors (for veg).
The lights are cooled with 1 ea 6" Vortex inline fan w/speed control, and draw air from the lower front part outside the grow room (see pics). There is also an 4" Vortex fan w/speed control w/an 6" x 16" Phresh filter.
I maintain the room temp @ 75-82 f. The room is cooled using a HydroFarm A/C unit, 16" oscillating fan and 2 small 6" fans. The temperature is controlled by an LuxPro 300 thermostat.
The two 6" fans are used along with Co2 BoostBuckets. I now have a full Co2 setup and will remove these as they run out. I use a CAP Reg1 regulator set at .5 cfh. The timer is set to an on/off 15 min cycle. The room is @ 500 cf. 9.5'x7.5'x7' high. The actual grow area is 4'x8'. I have perforated Co2 tubing just above the lights.
RH is kept at 40% using a HydroFarm dehumidifier and GreenAir controller.
I use tap water ph'd to 6.8 after it has been airified using a Eco Air dual air pump and stones for 24 hr minimum. I have a 20 gl container I use for this and my nutrient tea.
I have been struggling with Fungus Gnats this past week. I have been using pest strips and wine in small disks to get them under control. I plan on using bti as soon as I can purchase some. Will probably use mosquito dunks.
I water with nutrient tea about every other day or so with 32 oz/950 ml of tea.
My nutrient tea consists of:
High N bat guano (will change to high P when in flower)
Worm castings
Hygrozyme
Thrive Alive
Sweet Raw
Liquid Karma
Cal Mag
Maxsea 16-16-16
Unsulphured Molasses
Every third batch I add Subculture B
Since I am new to growing indoors please feel free to pipe in on anything you think I have missed or could do better. I do have some questions and will post them later. Thanks for reading!
Here's my grow room in the garage.
These are the girls transplanted to 1 gl containers when I brought them to there new home on 1/31/2011.
Two weeks later (2/14/2011) I transferred them to 5 gl containers.
I'll add more pics soon. My connection is really slowwww! These will show where I'm at to-date.
Seems to be helping. I also started treating them with bti today. This should help eliminate the problem.
Anyone got advice on cloning HOG? I tried a few weeks ago with rockwool with Rootech and 5.5 ph'd H2O but not one started any roots after 14 days.
Two days after I applied it there were hundreds if not thousands of dead gnats falling on the floor and trays. I first thought it was specks of dirt, almost like sand, but when I took a closer look it was all dead gnats. Thanks to 420 for helping me find an organic solution.
Looks Like you got everything covered even a portable A/C. Babies Are looking good I am going to stick around for this one.