GoozMan
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Hello to all my heroes in the vert thread. I am revamping my balcony garden shed to go vertical, it should really fit the dimensions of the shed better than what I had been doing. The shed sits on my top floor corner apartment balcony and blows over a busy street - an ideal spot. I've been thinking about this shed and planning this remodel for the last three months and I think I've got a design that will work. I'm posting it here to get ideas from all you bright people and avoid any mistakes as this is all still pretty new to me.
The shed is 26"x16" footprint with 66" height. I had already setup the shed's ventilation from the previous grows - a 256cfm dayton blower sitting on top of the shed in a separate bucket pulling air through with two passive 4" intakes at the bottom - everything else is new for this round. I've gotten most of my materials together, now its a matter of assembling. So far I've built a table and started the drainage plumbing. I'm going for a sort of NFT waterfall thing, I know I've seen it before on some other people's threads here. I'll be adding some 1/2" tubing to pump water up to the top and down through each column. I've got two 250w HPS lamps that I've removed from hoods and spliced extension cords to the sockets with junction boxes, and a big powerbox to hold the ballasts and a small fan on a small table behind the shed.
For strain, I've grown out some seeds I got from a dispensary nearby - Pride of Amsterdam x Blueberry Hogsbreath. I don't know anything about this strain, I'm growing it out for the first time, really I'm just excited to be growing out some seeds. They must have been feminized because all four seedlings that I kept were female. I've got 11 rooted clones vegging in a tub and another 35 in a cabinet in my kitchen waiting for roots. If all goes well, the 35 will root and I'll pick the best 16 to fill out the shed for this round.
I would love any feedback, thanks for reading.
The shed is 26"x16" footprint with 66" height. I had already setup the shed's ventilation from the previous grows - a 256cfm dayton blower sitting on top of the shed in a separate bucket pulling air through with two passive 4" intakes at the bottom - everything else is new for this round. I've gotten most of my materials together, now its a matter of assembling. So far I've built a table and started the drainage plumbing. I'm going for a sort of NFT waterfall thing, I know I've seen it before on some other people's threads here. I'll be adding some 1/2" tubing to pump water up to the top and down through each column. I've got two 250w HPS lamps that I've removed from hoods and spliced extension cords to the sockets with junction boxes, and a big powerbox to hold the ballasts and a small fan on a small table behind the shed.
For strain, I've grown out some seeds I got from a dispensary nearby - Pride of Amsterdam x Blueberry Hogsbreath. I don't know anything about this strain, I'm growing it out for the first time, really I'm just excited to be growing out some seeds. They must have been feminized because all four seedlings that I kept were female. I've got 11 rooted clones vegging in a tub and another 35 in a cabinet in my kitchen waiting for roots. If all goes well, the 35 will root and I'll pick the best 16 to fill out the shed for this round.
I would love any feedback, thanks for reading.
Today is day 2 of veg in the new shed, before that the girls had been vegging under CFL's for about 3 weeks, after taking about 2 weeks to root from cuttings.
I wonder if its doing anything at all but I had the fogger sitting around in my closet so there you go. All in all I'm not dissatisfied and I'm optimistic that these girls will bounce back nicely.
