4X4 Tent, 2 600w HPS. 25 Ladies

ballo

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So Ive had to downgrade quite a bit, and ended up with a 4x4. One for now, but my roommate and I are getting another so we can harvest every 30 days.
We originally had 10 ladies under one 1000w HPS and then added 15 more to fill up the rest of the tent. And decided to switch to two 600w HPS instead. We're hoping for some monster buds this time. In the closet we've got the other 25 or so that are vegging under a 1000w MH. We also set up a little expirement with a 5gal DWC bucket with a Frosty in it.
Frosty: (Sour Diesel X OG Kush)
The others are blue dream, and 3 purple erkles.
The original ten we started with are unknown. There at least two SFV OG Kush's though.

Heres pics:
 

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ballo

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I have a fan controller in the back of the tent. otherwise yea, that fan is EXTRA loud. The grey one in the closet isn't too loud.
As far as nutes,
For vegging im using Cal-Mag Plus and Foxfarm GrowBig, soil ph 6.5; hydro ph 5.5
For flowering im using Cal-Mag Plus, Foxfarm Tigerbloom, Foxfarm Open seasame, and Advanced Nutrient BudCandy
I'm using the recommended amount of everything. My last grow was destroyed by me using too much nutes, so i'd rather go with too little than too much, especially in the DWC bucket.
I'll put up the other pics with the two 600's tonight or tomorrow
 

breakneck

Calyx LED
Where did u get the fan controller? I need one. I just ordered a 4" fan and filter and don't want to be blasting my eardrums out in my bedroom lol.
 

Humboldt14

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nice setup ,

i got 22 in a 4x4 tent. week 2 of flower

i thought i was the only 1 putting that many in a 4x4.

how long you vegging for?
 

ballo

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i got the fan controller at the hydro store close by. i live in norcal so hydro stores are as common as gas stations.
for vegging. we're setting it up to veg for 30 days with a 60(ish) day flower. we might do one tent with the soil 2 gallon bags, and do about 25 of them, and the like 8 5gal dwc buckets in the other tent.
 

budding09

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how do you keep your tent cool my fuck 4X4 tent gets hot as hell
fucking buds dont get to dense in that fucking thing
 

ballo

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it's have a closed tent. like i cool the light with a fan pulling from the outside, blowing to the outside. we just added another 4x4 in my roommates bedroom haha. there's 20 ladies under a 1kwatt and 25 in the other, under two 600's
 

ballo

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So i bought a second 4x4 tent so that we can actually have a perpetual harvest every 30 days.
Currently, we're just vegging the plants in the second tent under a 1000w MH 18/6. We're doing this until the 30th then flipping to 12/12 with a 1000watt HPS.

The first tent is looking nice. all the ladies look healthy and perky. We put the DWC bucket into flower. Notice the difference in 8 DAYS!!! It's grown so much, hopefully it flowers as well.

I also just took clones a few today. so they will have a good little while to root and then veg.

As far as nutes, we're still using the reccomended amounts of:
Flower:
Tiger
Calmag
Bud Candy
Open Seasame

Veg:
GrowBig
CalMag
 

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ballo

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just switched the 1000watt MH to the 1000watt HPS...i'm not liking the way they grow under that MH. it seems slow compared to what they do under an HPS
 

silverhazefiend

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Its not that there slow its that the MH spectrum keeps the plants short..the hps is gonna give it a stretch..MH has a better spectrum for veg but the Hps is better for flower although u can use both..
 

Caregivin

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The tent club will be the next big thing, I run a 4x4 400 watt hps on 18 hour cycle for veg, and 1000 watt adj-a-wing lighting a 8x8 tent. If you got the space, it is BA. I keep a smaller crop I started big with 12 in the 4x4...outgrew it too fast, and not enough space for perpetual grow. Once they begin to crowd a bit prune em and try to keep an eye out for powdery mildew, them tents get humid. Just my advise, but you got a good start for a great grow no doubt. What are you growing may I ask?
 

ballo

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Frosty: a strain my friend made, OG KushXeast coast sour diesel
Blue Dream
XXX Chem
and some other randoms.
We bought the tents at the local grow stores.
 

ballo

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They've got about 5 weeks left! I'm stoked! The original 10 or 11 that we threw in are a variety of strains. Not sure which is what, so they'll be labelled afterwards. They should be done about the same time as the rest since they had an extra week of flowering time. Andddd, hopefully the Blue Dreams will done around then too, but I doubt it since it's a 9-10 week flowering strain :( haha.

The nutes are still the same except we're just adding full srength of General Hydro. - KoolBloom.
We've switched the other tent over to 12/12 so that it'll be done at the end of October and we have about 25 clones (20 Frosty & 5 B.D.) that are under the T5's about to start vegging under another 1k HPS. I'm looking to trade a 1k Watt for a 400wat and some cash or something else, just to be able to veg. more efficiently.

The Frosty in the 5gal DWC bucket is blowing up still, she's loving the koolBloom. I'm not too happy about some of the Blue Dream clones. Some are doing great and some are doing really crappy, as you can see in one of the pictures below. The thing is flowering at the same size it was when we threw it into flowering. We kept one to mother out in hopes of it being a better pheno.
The frosty is all around a great strain to grow, SOG or not. It's gone through it's period of being mothered out from seed and had the best, dankest pheno picked, then re mothered again and only given to a few people. Not a soul on the west coast except ME lollll.
Heres the pics:
 

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ballo

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Oh yea, there is a picture of the fan speed controller I use, for the poeple who've asked
 

ballo

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so we've fried 2 timers and the 1k HPS in the second tent ended up being off for 38 hours or so while we were gone. pretty shitty. and then again after the lights were only on for 6 hours, they got 14 hours of darkness. hopefully they wont herm
 

IndianLung

Active Member
What kind of reservoir is that you have your plants sitting in? I need to get one for my 4x4 tent as well and right now I have them on some cheesey grates over some plastic tubs
 
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