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The Story
So as we are all painfully aware life in the USA these days is hard and getting harder every day. My wife and I used to own a restaurant in Wyoming and then the economy fell apart. Now we are Bankrupt and back in our home state of Michigan looking for work and failing miserably.
On one of our first nights back we got together with some friends and as the Wyoming Dank was being passed around the room everyone was ecstatic as schwagg has been the norm here for some time now. After everyone was thoroughly blazed some one started talking about how Michigan was a legal medicinal marijuana state now and you can start applying for cards on April 4, 2009.
Of course my immediate thought was that they were yanking me around. So I smiled and let the topic pass (silly stoners). The next day my wife and I decided maybe we'd see how true the comment really was, and lo and behold
the people of this state did it! The law is real, has some holes, and doesn't do anything to ensure the quality/cost/attainability of medicinal MJ but it allows those in need to smoke and those they need to assist in any way without fear of prosecution.
So it is with great pleasure that I have the opportunity to share this grow with all of you. I was a former OG'er and after it fell I have hid from the fallout but now I'm back in a new home with a purpose.
So with no further ado I present for your input and assistance the first grow of the Michigan Organization for Professional Medicinal Marijuana!:jawdrop:
The Rooms
After years of research and development and many failed experiments along the way we will be starting with a simple 16x10 space split into 2 rooms one 10x10 for flowering and one 6x10 for veg and mothers.
The walls of the rooms are a simple frame of 2x4 anchored to the ceiling built from the top down. We got the thickest black and white poly film we could find to make the walls and a couple of adhesive backed zippers for doors. We used white duct tape to secure all seems and make them as airtight as possible. We cut windows into the Veg room from the outside and from the veg room to the flowering room to allow for a pressurized air intake into the room.
This is looking along the entrance halway to the rooms with doors closed
This one is doors open Lights are on in both pictures
The outside air intake on the left with the open zipper door on the right
The air intake from veg to flowering room
The ventilation is powered by a 660 cfm Eclipse in line duct fan pulling air through a Can 33 carbon air filter. The one fan also powers the air cooling of the 1000w HPS flowering lamp and the 400w MH veg lamp. The cool part is i vent this MJ free warm air into my living room which helps heat my house!
Thats right green friendly
So for all you visual thinkers...
filter --->>> Light Reflector 1000w--->>> Fan --->>> Light Reflector 400w --->>> Living room
The filter
Hydro Farm Daystar AC Reflector
The fan
The Veg reflector
Real green energy on its way to heat my house
We are using a home built DWC/KFB hybrid system with recycled kitty litter buckets for the plants and 40 gallon knock-off Rubbermaid tubs for reservoirs that have been spray painted white with Krylon Paint for plastic. The nutrient solution is sprayed directly onto the sides of the net pots from two 1/4" feed lines in each bucket powered by a General Hydroponics Blue Stone 1100 gph mag pump. The buckets drain under gravity return to the reservoir through 1" PVC and each drain is located at the max water level for the buckets.
One half of the flowering room plumbing
The other half of flowering room plumbing as well as the reservoir and GH Blue Stone pump
The same layout in the veg room on a smaller scale
So as we are all painfully aware life in the USA these days is hard and getting harder every day. My wife and I used to own a restaurant in Wyoming and then the economy fell apart. Now we are Bankrupt and back in our home state of Michigan looking for work and failing miserably.
On one of our first nights back we got together with some friends and as the Wyoming Dank was being passed around the room everyone was ecstatic as schwagg has been the norm here for some time now. After everyone was thoroughly blazed some one started talking about how Michigan was a legal medicinal marijuana state now and you can start applying for cards on April 4, 2009.
Of course my immediate thought was that they were yanking me around. So I smiled and let the topic pass (silly stoners). The next day my wife and I decided maybe we'd see how true the comment really was, and lo and behold
the people of this state did it! The law is real, has some holes, and doesn't do anything to ensure the quality/cost/attainability of medicinal MJ but it allows those in need to smoke and those they need to assist in any way without fear of prosecution.
So it is with great pleasure that I have the opportunity to share this grow with all of you. I was a former OG'er and after it fell I have hid from the fallout but now I'm back in a new home with a purpose.
So with no further ado I present for your input and assistance the first grow of the Michigan Organization for Professional Medicinal Marijuana!:jawdrop:
The Rooms
After years of research and development and many failed experiments along the way we will be starting with a simple 16x10 space split into 2 rooms one 10x10 for flowering and one 6x10 for veg and mothers.
The walls of the rooms are a simple frame of 2x4 anchored to the ceiling built from the top down. We got the thickest black and white poly film we could find to make the walls and a couple of adhesive backed zippers for doors. We used white duct tape to secure all seems and make them as airtight as possible. We cut windows into the Veg room from the outside and from the veg room to the flowering room to allow for a pressurized air intake into the room.
This is looking along the entrance halway to the rooms with doors closed
This one is doors open Lights are on in both pictures
The outside air intake on the left with the open zipper door on the right
The air intake from veg to flowering room
The ventilation is powered by a 660 cfm Eclipse in line duct fan pulling air through a Can 33 carbon air filter. The one fan also powers the air cooling of the 1000w HPS flowering lamp and the 400w MH veg lamp. The cool part is i vent this MJ free warm air into my living room which helps heat my house!
Thats right green friendlySo for all you visual thinkers...
filter --->>> Light Reflector 1000w--->>> Fan --->>> Light Reflector 400w --->>> Living room
The filter
Hydro Farm Daystar AC Reflector
The fan
The Veg reflector
Real green energy on its way to heat my house
We are using a home built DWC/KFB hybrid system with recycled kitty litter buckets for the plants and 40 gallon knock-off Rubbermaid tubs for reservoirs that have been spray painted white with Krylon Paint for plastic. The nutrient solution is sprayed directly onto the sides of the net pots from two 1/4" feed lines in each bucket powered by a General Hydroponics Blue Stone 1100 gph mag pump. The buckets drain under gravity return to the reservoir through 1" PVC and each drain is located at the max water level for the buckets.
One half of the flowering room plumbing
The other half of flowering room plumbing as well as the reservoir and GH Blue Stone pump
The same layout in the veg room on a smaller scale
). This ensures that the bubbles be churning no matter what.
). I got Sweet Purple, White Satin, White Widow, Tribal Vision and some Skunk#1 x Neville's Haze. All of these strains are proven Cannabis cup winners and are top shelf smoke. After careful consideration we opted to start this grow with White Satin from Mandala Seeds, and Sweet Purple from Paradise seeds.
. After that I checked the Sweet Purple :jawdrop: all nine of little purple girls had popped taproots! I got some 1" rock wool prepped and the next morning after the White Satins had all germinated the babies were chillin in my latest concept built NFT cloner.
I just love watching them grow 
! I am trying to get it dialed and that's why YOU GUYS ALL ROCK!!! If it weren't for the hundreds of forums I've lurked in over the the last 7 years and all of the amazing growers out there sharing ideas and practical experience there is no way I'd be able to do what I am doing so props to you guys for keeping it real!
) is popping them out of her main stem wherever she feels like it. She may also be the most floral scented of all the plants at this point which to me is also a good sign ( I like stinky Bitches
