7000w guerrilla gardens. 170 plant Sea of green

verticalgrow

verticalgrow

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jimmy.d said:
Thanks dude, much love! 149 plants under 7k should be good. To think i was gunna run 170 clones in there......lol

As far as stakes or a scrog net, im undecided. I like stakes cause everything stays mobile. Can move plants around as need be if need be. Scrog nets are great but you lose your mobility in the room.only way scrog nets would work is if I had 2 nets under each row of lights with a break in the middle directly beneath the 10" hard pipe for a walk way. Great question and the answer has alluded me thus far lol. Thats the great part about this community. Were all along for the ride and here to learn, teach and help each other out. Im super open and receptive to suggestions!
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:idea::idea: scrog 1/2 the room & stake the other 1/2 :idea::idea:
:leaf:best of both worlds in 1 room:leaf:
 
jimmy.d

jimmy.d

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Substanda_4.jpg Substanda_1.jpg Substanda.jpg 20170322_212845.jpg Whats up everyone. A few pics of today, day 24 of veg, and an introduction to Mowgli, our head of cultivation and lead horticulturist, here at the Guerrilla Gardens Growlab! Things are looking great, I'm starting to get this new room dialed in. Transplanting into 3 gallon pots and flipping in the next 7 - 10 days
 
Greenthumbskunk

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jimmy.d said:
View attachment 3911593 View attachment 3911594 View attachment 3911595 View attachment 3911596 Whats up everyone. A few pics of today, day 24 of veg, and an introduction to Mowgli, our head of cultivation and lead horticulturist, here at the Guerrilla Gardens Growlab! Things are looking great, I'm starting to get this new room dialed in. Transplanting into 3 gallon pots and flipping in the next 7 - 10 days
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You don't think you will be crowded? Or you gonna set up another row of lights to spread the plants out more?
 
jimmy.d

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714steadyeddie said:
Big time grow. Looks good man can't wait to see the ladies in action
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Happy to have to along for the ride. Its slow going during veg. Not too exciting as of yet. Im Trying to keep the content coming without becoming too redundant. This is the first run in this facility so there will be a learning curve for me with learning to manage the space, but its coming along. A few more weeks and things will start taking off
 
Jaybodankly

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Lookin good. Must be nice to have 12' ceiling problems. I noticed your plants sitting on the concrete. That might slow them down a bit. Being winter and all.
 
jimmy.d

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Jaybodankly said:
Lookin good. Must be nice to have 12' ceiling problems. I noticed your plants sitting on the concrete. That might slow them down a bit. Being winter and all.
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Hahahaha actually is the exact polor oppossite. Thats an assumption that most people wrongly make without really understanding the true way, hid lights and concrete work together. This is one of those times where theroy and actual application are miles apart. Concrete is a conductor of both heat and cold. It will also absorb water. So without a heat source a concrete slab will remain frigidly cold. On the other hand, with a heat source, like say......for example.........4000 watts of bare bulb HID lighting running 24/0 that same concrete slab does and will absorb and retain the heat put off by the lights, even in the dead of winter when its freezing out side. Obviously if you have a concrete slab and HID lights above it running 24/0 it would be quite silly to think the concrete would be cold and the roots unhappy. The reality is that, roots like warm. So If you can imagine a huge smooth and flat rock the size of a car on a beach getting hit with perfect 78-80 degree summer sunshine all day long for a month strait, how nice and warm the rock would be. And how nice, warm, comfy and relaxing it would feel to lay on that rock......my roots feel the same. so the issue its caused me now is accelerated root growth to the point where the roots have burst out of the bottom of the pots and they are growing out onto the concrete slab as they love the warmth and heat it puts off so it's cause me to become root bound earlier in veg than I normally would and they outgrow their pots sooner than they normally would and the veg growth has been quicker then it normally would be. Roots love warm concrete floors and thats why we run 24/0 veg light cycles during winter when growing on a concrete floor. 18/6 or 20/4 Allows a break in the heat source and gives the concrete the opportunity to now be a conductor of the cold outside temps and cool down and Roots dont like cold, as we all know. So I understand why you would " think " they wouldn't like it. But theroy and application yeild far different results in life and this is a great example of that.
 
verticalgrow

verticalgrow

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jimmy.d said:
Hahahaha actually is the exact polor oppossite. Thats an assumption that most people wrongly make without really understanding the true way, hid lights and concrete work together. This is one of those times where theroy and actual application are miles apart. Concrete is a conductor of both heat and cold. It will also absorb water. So without a heat source a concrete slab will remain frigidly cold. On the other hand, with a heat source, like say......for example.........4000 watts of bare bulb HID lighting running 24/0 that same concrete slab does and will absorb and retain the heat put off by the lights, even in the dead of winter when its freezing out side. Obviously if you have a concrete slab and HID lights above it running 24/0 it would be quite silly to think the concrete would be cold and the roots unhappy. The reality is that, roots like warm. So If you can imagine a huge smooth and flat rock the size of a car on a beach getting hit with perfect 78-80 degree summer sunshine all day long for a month strait, how nice and warm the rock would be. And how nice, warm, comfy and relaxing it would feel to lay on that rock......my roots feel the same. so the issue its caused me now is accelerated root growth to the point where the roots have burst out of the bottom of the pots and they are growing out onto the concrete slab as they love the warmth and heat it puts off so it's cause me to become root bound earlier in veg than I normally would and they outgrow their pots sooner than they normally would and the veg growth has been quicker then it normally would be. Roots love warm concrete floors and thats why we run 24/0 veg light cycles during winter when growing on a concrete floor. 18/6 or 20/4 Allows a break in the heat source and gives the concrete the opportunity to now be a conductor of the cold outside temps and cool down and Roots dont like cold, as we all know. So I understand why you would " think " they wouldn't like it. But theroy and application yeild far different results in life and this is a great example of that.
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hi Jimmy,
Do u water by hand?
Are u going to automate?
:peace:VG:eyesmoke:
 
jimmy.d

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Jaybodankly said:
Lookin good. Must be nice to have 12' ceiling problems. I noticed your plants sitting on the concrete. That might slow them down a bit. Being winter and all.
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Heres the roots around day 14 of veg after sitting on the concrete floor. Pretty neat for being winter and all....
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jimmy.d

jimmy.d

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verticalgrow said:
hi Jimmy,
Do u water by hand?
Are u going to automate?
:peace:VG:eyesmoke:
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Yup hand water with a watering wand. Automation is unrealistic with 150 plants without flood tables and using 3 gallon pots. But next run I will be flowering 80 plants in 5 gallon pots with a 2 month veg instead and setting up an automated watering system then. So automation is in the works for next crop
 
Jaybodankly

Jaybodankly

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Didnt see your reply. More growers need to understand how to use thermal mass in a grow room. That bottom heat makes plants bounce. Look forward to the rest of your grow.
 
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