Gruendaumen
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Heyho Friends!
Long time Lurker here!
Learned a lot about hydroponics and sealed rooms here and on the archived overgrow.
About 6 years ago i took the leap and went from growing in tents to closed environment myself.
I had a little opticlimate 3500, a few cmh lamps and boy; was it a struggle... getting the air dialed in was a hustle and i made many mistakes. In the beginning i couldnt hang all lamps bc the electric installation crapped oit on me.
So the compressor of the ac unit ran for a minute, was off for a minute and so on until it got stuck after only a year and a half of use. So that was to change, and without cooling your grow room gets pretty baked with hid lamps...
Also i had some serious construction errors. For example; i insisted on laying tiles. Which was nice for the walls but laying tiles on wooden flooring is... well not the best choice. Wood moves and tiles just shouldnt. So the floor was covered in cracks and every sip of water that got spilled in there soaked into the wood below. Beautiful. At some point i even had shrooms come out of the cracks of the tiles. Yikes.
But none of this turned me off; i was eager to control environments and with my little setup i learned about the right dehum capacities, VPD, air handling and many more.
And, at least back then i thought, i was crushing it..
Super sticky buds and consistent flavor year round was my mission and for a while it seemed like i acieved.
But my room being only 4m² large and spiked with building flaws i always planned for the next room.
And the opportunity came this summer for a brand new room in a 50m² building made from shipping containers.
Im writing this thread as some sort of journal. I will post my grows and tries here and hope we learn together and become friends.
And as farewell heres a picture of the view my plants had in that fucked up little project of mine.
Long time Lurker here!
Learned a lot about hydroponics and sealed rooms here and on the archived overgrow.
About 6 years ago i took the leap and went from growing in tents to closed environment myself.
I had a little opticlimate 3500, a few cmh lamps and boy; was it a struggle... getting the air dialed in was a hustle and i made many mistakes. In the beginning i couldnt hang all lamps bc the electric installation crapped oit on me.
So the compressor of the ac unit ran for a minute, was off for a minute and so on until it got stuck after only a year and a half of use. So that was to change, and without cooling your grow room gets pretty baked with hid lamps...
Also i had some serious construction errors. For example; i insisted on laying tiles. Which was nice for the walls but laying tiles on wooden flooring is... well not the best choice. Wood moves and tiles just shouldnt. So the floor was covered in cracks and every sip of water that got spilled in there soaked into the wood below. Beautiful. At some point i even had shrooms come out of the cracks of the tiles. Yikes.
But none of this turned me off; i was eager to control environments and with my little setup i learned about the right dehum capacities, VPD, air handling and many more.
And, at least back then i thought, i was crushing it..
Super sticky buds and consistent flavor year round was my mission and for a while it seemed like i acieved.
But my room being only 4m² large and spiked with building flaws i always planned for the next room.
And the opportunity came this summer for a brand new room in a 50m² building made from shipping containers.
Im writing this thread as some sort of journal. I will post my grows and tries here and hope we learn together and become friends.
And as farewell heres a picture of the view my plants had in that fucked up little project of mine.