Hello! I am new here. I will be posting a continuous grow journal in the next couple of days. In the mean time I'd like to give you a detailed view of my grow room and grow system.
The whole thing is built with convenience in mind from the way it was bought -- cutting 4'x8' plywood panels into 2'x4' panels at the home center so I could easily transport the materials home in my car -- to the way it was built; simply with an eye toward convenience for the grower. That's me. An old guy who isn't as strong as he was any more.
There are a total of three 2x2 workstations, and one 4x2 workstations.
Did I write workstations? While some may have skeletons in their grow closets, I have scientists. I really don't know what is worse. If this room looks like it might have been inspired by hanging out in one too many life-science labs, well ... it might have been.
Here's a look at the 4x2 on the left facing the three 2x2s on the right. In the middle back there are my nute pots with a couple of cheap drip irrigation timer/pumps on them. I use them for High-Frequency Fertigation (HFF) in pots filled with perlite.
The following two photos better show the three 2x2 stations. Each with its own purpose.
Let's take an even closer look. First the seed propagation and cloning booth. Originally designed to give plants the most room possible, with the lowest amount of room for the lights (and lowest amount of light, as well), these use 3/4" thick, 25w, 11.5X11.5 cheapo blurble lights. For breeding female plants for feminized pollen production, and allowing seed plants to seed out. The box works well.
Here it is empty.
Note the parallel cleats on the sides of the box. Those are for resting shelves. I move shelves, not lights.
And here it is shown ready for a couple of 2.7-gallon nursery pots in the nursery tray, plus the cloner down below.
The middle station is the Seedling station. Right now I'm getting ready to start an Amnesia Trance from Amsterdam Marijuana seeds. It's my favorite strain, but I've had a bit of trouble getting some seeds started. I think I got lazy. But that is beside the point.
Beneath the seedling shelf I have another nute bucket and drip irrigation timer/pump. That is for sending nutes to the veg station next door. If you ever want to try one out I suggest ordering black silicon tubing as the clear tubing set with the units I use clogs up with algae when exposed to light.
And, this is the Vegetation Station. This is where seeding transplants come to grow and get there first taste of manifolding. That's a 4'-tall grow box topped with an 18" "Light Head," featuring a ViparSpectra XS 1000 light. A perfect pairing. Inside the box is a newly manifolded Dos-Si-Dos from Pyramid Seeds and sold through 420 Magazine sponsor Seedsman.
Now, on to the juicy part! The Late Veg and Flowering station ...
See how the shelves, pots and chair all match up? Makes working EZ-PZ. And that's not all. Those 22" saucers sit on these turntable bearings:
And to enhance the mobility of the plants, I've cut these extension nipples into the line near the pots. No disconnecting the whole drip irrigation system. Very handy when flushing pots
As for flushing. I've found that using HFF in 2.7-gallon pots that flushing between nute changes is a fairly good idea. My PPMs in the runoff can get fairly high. So I make that easy. I have a special, clean saucer with a pour spout that I use for flushing. It's clean, which is important for taking PPM and ph. measurements in the runoff, and it has a pour spout. I simply attach my irrigation intake to a few gallons of ph.-adjusted water and go burn one and come back.
Now back to the eye candy. Here are a few shots of the current residents of the 4x2 station. A 36" White Widow on the left and a 24" White Widow on the right.
Up above, illuminating the way, each plant has a ViparSpectra XS 1500, currently set to full blast, 10" above the canopy.
In case you do not have enough eye candy, here are closer shots of the Widows.
Oh, and finally, at the other end of "This Old Coal Bin" is the boring part. Storage, a small humidifier and my drying rack.
That's the grow room. This is simply the prelude to my grow journal starting soon.
Thank you for making it this far!
MGM
The whole thing is built with convenience in mind from the way it was bought -- cutting 4'x8' plywood panels into 2'x4' panels at the home center so I could easily transport the materials home in my car -- to the way it was built; simply with an eye toward convenience for the grower. That's me. An old guy who isn't as strong as he was any more.
There are a total of three 2x2 workstations, and one 4x2 workstations.
Did I write workstations? While some may have skeletons in their grow closets, I have scientists. I really don't know what is worse. If this room looks like it might have been inspired by hanging out in one too many life-science labs, well ... it might have been.
Here's a look at the 4x2 on the left facing the three 2x2s on the right. In the middle back there are my nute pots with a couple of cheap drip irrigation timer/pumps on them. I use them for High-Frequency Fertigation (HFF) in pots filled with perlite.
The following two photos better show the three 2x2 stations. Each with its own purpose.
Let's take an even closer look. First the seed propagation and cloning booth. Originally designed to give plants the most room possible, with the lowest amount of room for the lights (and lowest amount of light, as well), these use 3/4" thick, 25w, 11.5X11.5 cheapo blurble lights. For breeding female plants for feminized pollen production, and allowing seed plants to seed out. The box works well.
Here it is empty.
Note the parallel cleats on the sides of the box. Those are for resting shelves. I move shelves, not lights.
And here it is shown ready for a couple of 2.7-gallon nursery pots in the nursery tray, plus the cloner down below.
The middle station is the Seedling station. Right now I'm getting ready to start an Amnesia Trance from Amsterdam Marijuana seeds. It's my favorite strain, but I've had a bit of trouble getting some seeds started. I think I got lazy. But that is beside the point.
Beneath the seedling shelf I have another nute bucket and drip irrigation timer/pump. That is for sending nutes to the veg station next door. If you ever want to try one out I suggest ordering black silicon tubing as the clear tubing set with the units I use clogs up with algae when exposed to light.
And, this is the Vegetation Station. This is where seeding transplants come to grow and get there first taste of manifolding. That's a 4'-tall grow box topped with an 18" "Light Head," featuring a ViparSpectra XS 1000 light. A perfect pairing. Inside the box is a newly manifolded Dos-Si-Dos from Pyramid Seeds and sold through 420 Magazine sponsor Seedsman.
Now, on to the juicy part! The Late Veg and Flowering station ...
See how the shelves, pots and chair all match up? Makes working EZ-PZ. And that's not all. Those 22" saucers sit on these turntable bearings:
And to enhance the mobility of the plants, I've cut these extension nipples into the line near the pots. No disconnecting the whole drip irrigation system. Very handy when flushing pots
As for flushing. I've found that using HFF in 2.7-gallon pots that flushing between nute changes is a fairly good idea. My PPMs in the runoff can get fairly high. So I make that easy. I have a special, clean saucer with a pour spout that I use for flushing. It's clean, which is important for taking PPM and ph. measurements in the runoff, and it has a pour spout. I simply attach my irrigation intake to a few gallons of ph.-adjusted water and go burn one and come back.
Now back to the eye candy. Here are a few shots of the current residents of the 4x2 station. A 36" White Widow on the left and a 24" White Widow on the right.
Up above, illuminating the way, each plant has a ViparSpectra XS 1500, currently set to full blast, 10" above the canopy.
In case you do not have enough eye candy, here are closer shots of the Widows.
Oh, and finally, at the other end of "This Old Coal Bin" is the boring part. Storage, a small humidifier and my drying rack.
That's the grow room. This is simply the prelude to my grow journal starting soon.
Thank you for making it this far!
MGM
