3000W SCROG inspired by the "Doc"

[LEDNewbie]

I guess I will try it out. If temps are crazy hot in my garage then I will have to figure something out. I have a couple ideas but I'd rather not have any air exchanging in my garage just in case those broads come from outside? I'm sure I got those broads from the clones originally. But if not I'd hate to be constantly introducing them into my garage via air exchange. One of the reasons I'm adding a/c.....
If I do need to box around the a/c unit, how do I seal it so it so a fan draws air from a duct but still be able to drain the water dripping from the unit?

So first batch of bud did end up still being a little moist. Took it out of the bag and gave it another 12 hours on the rack. Rebagged it and it was now 230 grams with the bag. I thought it might have been still a little "moist" but hen I rolled a joint and it burned no problems and never went out. Burned like cigarette. If anything, maybe a Snatch hair dry on the burn....?

Anyhow just surprised me that the bag is only 2/3 full and there is 220 grams of meds in there! Could I have a big zip lock bag? Those little buds are packing some weight!!!! Hahaha. I'll get some pics in the morning. Gotta hit the sack.

 

[DrFever]

Zip loc bag should be 26.8 cm x 27.3 cm look on the box lol
454 grams per pound 227 per half pound 235 - 236 grams with bag included in weight
you can have i guess 3/4 full little more in a bag of weed to make 227 grams seen it a few times but most half pound bags are filled to the rim or very close to it

check your scale out put a loonie on it if it comes to 7 grams scale is right on if not then your out to lunch lol on weights

 

[LEDNewbie]

Hey everyone. Shits been busy over here!!! And the next 2 weeks are going to be all out 24/7!!!

Finally the last of my meds finished drying today.... before I head to work tomorrow I'll get some dry shots and some weights.

Today I started construction on my new scrog tables. They are turning out better than I thought. Couple design changes made on the fly that made them way better than what I envisioned!!! Hoping to finish tables tomorrow before I head to work. Then the real fun begins.........

The building of the base of my rolling tables is actually the easy part. The rest of my design is where its going to get tricky. Couple issues to address when trying to make your plants moveable and do a scrog. Usually scrog tables are hung from the ceiling so making your plants moveable posses a problem with a ceiling mounted scrog table. So now the scrog needs to be able to move with your plants. Not only does the scrog need to be attached to the table but it also must be adjustable for height. So over the next week I will document the build on my table. Plus I have a little surprise to unveil once tables are finished. Pretty sure it will be the first time something like this has been incorporated into a moving table. Or at least the first time I've seen it done

 

[BasementGrower]

i used the big bags 2.5 gallon bags.. got 9 full last harvest..

 

[GP73LPC]

sounds cool lednewbie.

look forward to seeing your scrog table build.

 

[LEDNewbie]

Sorry guys. Just heading out the door to go to work. No time for pics. Will get some up in the next couple days. Didn't get to work on my tables either... I wanted to get rooms cleaned up before bringing tables in as it would be much more difficult to give floors a good mopping once tables were in there.

Rooms were pretty clean already. But cause of my obvious bug situation I figured I would mop floors with bleach. I just bought a fog master Jr and it was worth every penny!!! After mopping floors I loaded up the fogmaster with some spectracide and fogged my whole room. Every wall and every knock and cranny got fogged. Then I brought my tables in and fogged every square each of those tables.

Now I will finish up the build of my tables in the flower room. Once complete my rooms will get a 120-130 degree heat treatment, plus a 10,000ppm co2 treatment as well. And if that's not enough right before I'm ready to go live next Saturday I will pylon bomb both my flower and vegg room as well as my lung room!!!!

After all that I can't see there being any survivors!!! But I will continue to do heat treatments in my rooms every two weeks as well as treat plants with preventatives during veg.

 

[LEDNewbie]

little update..... been crazy busy revamping my room!! Its been a TON OF WORK!! I think I will be done by Thursday night. Friday will do a test run, then heat treat room and co2 kill everything that may be lingering around. Then saturday bring my new girls home

Anybody have any advice on what to treat my new girls with? Guy already told me no garuntees that they don't have mites!!! I'm thinking a dip in Forbid before bringing them into the room? I also have Avid. Once plants are in there I will most likely do another heat treatment a week after they have had a chance to adjust to there new pots. Then I will release a Pylon bomb after heat treatment.....

SO here is my dried bud shots from last harvest. I actually did allot better than I thought I would being that I threw out 80-90% of the buds!!! I thought I was going to get 1 bag total. I ended up with 1 pound and 6 ounces dried. Way under my license but should tie me over for now.

I let a "seasoned" 30 year smoker try it out and he said it had good flavour and smoked well. Not bad for my first trim/dry job. Plus not to mention the damage from my issues that I had.

I gotta say, these buds must be DENSE as hell!! 1/2 pound barely fills the bag 3/4 full!!! Couple friends I've shown that to all say they are barely getting the bag closed at the 1/2 pound mark!

 

[LEDNewbie]

 

[LEDNewbie]

And here are my PPP seedlings in my furnace room. Not ideal conditions as humidity has been around the 20-30% mostly. Temps are decent around 70 lights off and 77-80 lights on.

Some of the girls are allot smaller than others and also lighter green. I believe this is from me not being careful and giving water to ones that I should have just let dry out for an extra few days. The ones that had good root growth from the beginning just took off. Last 3 days I've started being more careful and only giving water/nutes to the ones that need it. Hoping the little ones recover ok. In the last 24 hours they are already looking better as leaves have started to darken up some. Few more days and I'll transplant them into there final pot size and then they will be basking under Gavita light witch should really make them explode with growth!

 

[LEDNewbie]

Well its been a fucking haul thats for sure!!! Tables are built, new system is complete and ready to go. Some bumps along the way but I got everything working 100%, I think Tables turned out great. Will have pics and full build details tomorrow or Monday.

Last night I brought room temps up to 125 degrees for about 40 minutes and around 120 degrees for 2.5 hours. Not only that but I had Co2 past 11,000ppm for over an hour, over 10,000ppm's for 2.5 hours and then I left Co2 in there and went to bed. When I got up 8 hours later room was around 7000ppm. If that that didn't kill everything that could have been remaining in the room after I sprayed it down with Spectracide then I don't know what will!!!!

Today I went and got my new girls, seemed like healthy cuts rooted in rockwool. I have no where to "quarantine" them so I'm keeping them in my other half of the garage for a week. As soon as they entered my garage today I dipped the roots/rockwool in a very light nute solution with Merit 75WP wich has 75% Imid in it. And then dunked the rest of the plant in Forbid. In 3-4 days I will give them a dunk in Avid. 3 days later when I go to transplant I will dunk them in some Eagle 20. I really don't think I could do much more to them to make sure they are bug free?!? Once they enter my grow room I will set off a Spectracide bomb in my garage and then a Pylon bomb. That should take care of any critters that may be around?

Only thing I really have left to do is finish cleaning up and organizing my garage. WIll try and get that done this week and then I can focus all my energy on keeping my new girls nice and healthy!! After all this, if I lose another battle to bugs I will burn my fucking garage down!!

 

[LEDNewbie]

Ok boys and girls, pics of my tables.... Built two tables on wheels so that I can access the far side of the table easily to work and train plants. Integrated into my tables is a fully adjustable for height scrog table as well as fully timed drip system!!! Drip system is on quick disconnects so that I can move tables around.

 

[LEDNewbie]

Here is the drain setup for my drain to waste system. drains feed into high end condensate pump wich then pumps into my sink outside the room


I have four 8 port drip manifolds per table.


I will be feeding plants with 2 drippers per plant using these really nice pressure compensating drippers

 

[LEDNewbie]

Here are my two 55 gallon nutrient reservoirs outside the room. System will be using two little giant pumps that way if I have a pump failure the other pump will get the job done and I won't get the evil fried plant syndrome!! Also in my reservoir is a Marineland pump that will constantly be mixing my nutrients 24/7 that way the nutes don't fall out of suspension....



Here is where the the feed lines meet up from each pump. They "T" together with one way check valves that way if there is a pump failure the other pumps pressure doesn't get back feed to the dead pump. Plus the check valves keep the pumps primed properly



And here is my A/C unit all hooked up and working




And here is my dehumidifier finally hooked up to its own condensate pump so I no longer have to empty out buckets of water!!!

 

[GP73LPC]

i like it !!!

 

[LEDNewbie]

Quick pic of where the main feed line comes in from my nute barrels. Comes into room, goes threw a 200 micron filter, then a shut off valve, hose and then quick disconnect

 

[LEDNewbie]

And here are my new girls. Rockstar x Kush. Got 37 of them. Plan on keeping the best 30 and flowering 15 in each table in 2 gallon Smart Pots in Canna Coco feed 5-6 times a day. I'm increasing my plants in flower that way I don't need to veg as long. Planning on vegging under T5's for 3-4 weeks. Then once they are brought into the flower room I plan on vegging for another 7-10 days and then flip. Also you can see my 10 PPP seedlings. One of them is really taking off. Hoping its a female!!! The rest are a bit behind. And a couple are really small. I think its mostly due to the fact that I wasn't paying attention and giving water to ones that were still wet and they took an extra 10 days to get rooted. Over the past few days I have only been watering the ones that need it and seems like the little ones are starting to green up. I"ve also noticed some roots out the bottom of the pots on the little ones so I know they must be progressing. Gave the PPP seedlings a dip in some Forbid last night as well. In another 3 days all plants will get a dip in some Avid. Then on Thursday I will transplant into my 2 gallon Smart Pots wich I will also dip all plants in some Eagle 20 to take care of any PM issues they may have. Plants will be hand feed for the first week while roots search for water in there new homes. Then I will install drippers. They will get feed once a day for the next week. Then the remainder of veg they will get feed 3 times a day. Once I flip to flower they will get feed 6 times a day. Baring any bug issues they should just explode with growth!!!

Full Co2 use now that I have A/C. Only piece of equipment I'm missing is a good commercial style ultrasonic humidifier!! I was promised one by a company for Feb. and still don't have it!! I will give them till the end of April, if they still haven't come through by then I will go purchase one at Mainelandmart. Once I have that piece of equipment I will no longer have to refill humidifiers by hand or empty buckets of water from the dehumidifier!!! I will only have to make nutes in my barrels and brew my OG Biowar Tea once a week. Then majority of my time can be focused on plant training and bug prevention......

 

[DrFever]

thats awesome buddy let this round make up for last

 

[noyd666]

very cool set up, like the quick disconnects very handy, lets pray for bug free grow.

 

[LEDNewbie]

thats awesome buddy let this round make up for last

I sure hope so buddy!!!

 

[Mister_D]

Love the progress and cleanliness of your setup LED . I'll be over here watching