drymouth
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Hey Icmag, This will be my first grow journal her on this lovely site. Let me start off with my name, I’m drymouth for those that don’t know me nice to meet you! Ok...let’s get on with the show!
Here are the specs tools and equipment being used for this grows
- 2 4 x 8 Hydro huts
- 2 6”600cfm Hurricane brand exhaust fans for intake and out
- 1 8”800cfm Ecoplus brand inline fan for evacuating the hut
- 1 6”309 Elicent inline for air-cooled feature
- 1 4”172cfm inline for air-cooled feature
- 1 4x8 Growtech black flood table
- 1 115 gallon botanicare reservoir
- 1 Gh 4 outlet air pump
- 1 950Gph Magdrive water pump for main supply to drippers
- 1 2100 Rio Gph? For circulating and draining the reservoir
- 32 8L white square pots for one of the huts
- 23 4L white square pots for the other hut
- 1 Hanna Hi9813 ph and ec/ppm meter
- 2 1000W Hydrofarm Radiant 6 Ac
- 2 1000W Sunlight supply ballast & supper horizontal reflectors
- Hydrologic 200Gllons per day stealth Ro unit
- Nutrients: An’s Grow-Micro-Bloom G5ml pergal/M5ml pergal/B1ml. per gal 5.8/950
- Additives: Mycomadness .5mlper2gal Floralicious + 1tspper5gal 5.8/970
STRAINS: 23 PURPLE KUSHES(BLUE SKY CUT) 32 HINDU KUSHS
Temps in the huts run about 75 – 85degrees on any giving day 40 – 50% RH. The medium I chose on this grow is, Down-to-Earth chunky coco compressed blocks with 1” of, Fossil rock(which is a silica based rock like Higromite) at the bottom of each pot to aid in draining as I didn’t want the roots to be saturated and soggy all the time. Note: Down-to-Earth is some salty stuff! I had to rinse 3 times with, Clear x just to get the ppm down to 100 I hope that’s acceptable? I really don’t know much about coco just that you got to rinse before using. I didn’t soak this coco in cal-mag I hope that wont effect the grow. My fist grows I used, Fossil rock the medium I mentioned earlier, this rock is fare superior then hydroton, as it has a high amount of total porosity and retains a very high amount of water making it really effective in increasing the capillary porosity, and increasing oxygen in the root zone. Right now I’m hand watering my Purple Kushes 2 times a day in the Fossil Rock medium. Some growers might say, “oh... well, I might be all that, but how well does the medium holds its ph?” I don’t know if it was the nutrients or the water filter or a combination of both, but on my last grow I didn’t have to touch my ph at all! It was a spot dead on 5.8. Even after dumping like 60gallons of water in the res it still never budged! But, still here I am using coco because, “you cant knock something before you try it” Same goes for the nutrients, as I’m using Advanced 3 part I normally would use Floranova bloom 8mlpergal.(Lucas formula) but.. Like I said, “you can’t knock something before you try it” Well... Enough babbling here goes some pictures.
Just to give you a general idea of the size of the grow
Here gos a pic of the supply with a 1/2" compressed shut off and my inline filter.
Here in this pic i'm trying to illustrate my 2nd Rio2100 pump that has a barbed tee in the res that i was not able to get a pic of but it runs constantly and shoots out water threw the tee causing a water fall effect for added oxygen as well as circulation in the res. As you can see it's connected to 3/4" tubing with a shut off on it, thats were i drain the res, all i do is twist that baby on, and it makes draining 115gallons a breez!
Here goes were the other end of that 3/4" tube leads to. It leads to a 3" castiron clean out, straight to the drain!
Here goes the water filter hooked to a standerd washing machine hoes bib
And heres were it leads to, stream lined with 1/4" tubing to these 44 gallon Brute garbage cans oh, excuse my french... i mean,high tech reservoirs
From there i have a little water pump in there which i flip on and top up!
Here i am posting pics... and forgot to show the babys here are a few shoots not much to see just some scroggly looking Hindu kush ladys at day 2 veg.
Now for the exhaust, check this crazy looking thing out! all the air going out including the air from the lights is going out this main 14" existing duct work i once had it going out into the room, but what good is it when the hot air is being sucked right back in the Hydrohut, because thats all its doing! the hydrohut is nothing more then just a room with in a room. So i came up with this.As you could see i had to cut the Hydrohut new holes and abanden the factory ones just to line everything up right! Plus my celling hight is right at 8' so the Hut fits very snug to the celling giving me no room what so ever.
4000W + the heat from the ballast+the general heat thats all ready there! Can you say, "Hell!"
Theres both the rooms
Look at tis nightmare! an electrician would come in here and faint!
Here goes my little work station/ mixing table/storage cart/analysis work station/weed rolling table/ uh... lets just say it serves its purpose...
Here are the specs tools and equipment being used for this grows
- 2 4 x 8 Hydro huts
- 2 6”600cfm Hurricane brand exhaust fans for intake and out
- 1 8”800cfm Ecoplus brand inline fan for evacuating the hut
- 1 6”309 Elicent inline for air-cooled feature
- 1 4”172cfm inline for air-cooled feature
- 1 4x8 Growtech black flood table
- 1 115 gallon botanicare reservoir
- 1 Gh 4 outlet air pump
- 1 950Gph Magdrive water pump for main supply to drippers
- 1 2100 Rio Gph? For circulating and draining the reservoir
- 32 8L white square pots for one of the huts
- 23 4L white square pots for the other hut
- 1 Hanna Hi9813 ph and ec/ppm meter
- 2 1000W Hydrofarm Radiant 6 Ac
- 2 1000W Sunlight supply ballast & supper horizontal reflectors
- Hydrologic 200Gllons per day stealth Ro unit
- Nutrients: An’s Grow-Micro-Bloom G5ml pergal/M5ml pergal/B1ml. per gal 5.8/950
- Additives: Mycomadness .5mlper2gal Floralicious + 1tspper5gal 5.8/970
STRAINS: 23 PURPLE KUSHES(BLUE SKY CUT) 32 HINDU KUSHS
Temps in the huts run about 75 – 85degrees on any giving day 40 – 50% RH. The medium I chose on this grow is, Down-to-Earth chunky coco compressed blocks with 1” of, Fossil rock(which is a silica based rock like Higromite) at the bottom of each pot to aid in draining as I didn’t want the roots to be saturated and soggy all the time. Note: Down-to-Earth is some salty stuff! I had to rinse 3 times with, Clear x just to get the ppm down to 100 I hope that’s acceptable? I really don’t know much about coco just that you got to rinse before using. I didn’t soak this coco in cal-mag I hope that wont effect the grow. My fist grows I used, Fossil rock the medium I mentioned earlier, this rock is fare superior then hydroton, as it has a high amount of total porosity and retains a very high amount of water making it really effective in increasing the capillary porosity, and increasing oxygen in the root zone. Right now I’m hand watering my Purple Kushes 2 times a day in the Fossil Rock medium. Some growers might say, “oh... well, I might be all that, but how well does the medium holds its ph?” I don’t know if it was the nutrients or the water filter or a combination of both, but on my last grow I didn’t have to touch my ph at all! It was a spot dead on 5.8. Even after dumping like 60gallons of water in the res it still never budged! But, still here I am using coco because, “you cant knock something before you try it” Same goes for the nutrients, as I’m using Advanced 3 part I normally would use Floranova bloom 8mlpergal.(Lucas formula) but.. Like I said, “you can’t knock something before you try it” Well... Enough babbling here goes some pictures.
Just to give you a general idea of the size of the grow
Here gos a pic of the supply with a 1/2" compressed shut off and my inline filter.
Here in this pic i'm trying to illustrate my 2nd Rio2100 pump that has a barbed tee in the res that i was not able to get a pic of but it runs constantly and shoots out water threw the tee causing a water fall effect for added oxygen as well as circulation in the res. As you can see it's connected to 3/4" tubing with a shut off on it, thats were i drain the res, all i do is twist that baby on, and it makes draining 115gallons a breez!
Here goes were the other end of that 3/4" tube leads to. It leads to a 3" castiron clean out, straight to the drain!
Here goes the water filter hooked to a standerd washing machine hoes bib
And heres were it leads to, stream lined with 1/4" tubing to these 44 gallon Brute garbage cans oh, excuse my french... i mean,high tech reservoirs
From there i have a little water pump in there which i flip on and top up!
Here i am posting pics... and forgot to show the babys here are a few shoots not much to see just some scroggly looking Hindu kush ladys at day 2 veg.
Now for the exhaust, check this crazy looking thing out! all the air going out including the air from the lights is going out this main 14" existing duct work i once had it going out into the room, but what good is it when the hot air is being sucked right back in the Hydrohut, because thats all its doing! the hydrohut is nothing more then just a room with in a room. So i came up with this.As you could see i had to cut the Hydrohut new holes and abanden the factory ones just to line everything up right! Plus my celling hight is right at 8' so the Hut fits very snug to the celling giving me no room what so ever.
4000W + the heat from the ballast+the general heat thats all ready there! Can you say, "Hell!"
Theres both the rooms
Look at tis nightmare! an electrician would come in here and faint!
Here goes my little work station/ mixing table/storage cart/analysis work station/weed rolling table/ uh... lets just say it serves its purpose...
PEACE
