Dopey's ghetto to stealth 2400w

dopeyG

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Its been awhile, but i'm at it again, starting as ghetto as ever. I'm a little more prepared with lights and fans this time, but i decided to germinate the seeds before i build the room they are going to be grown in, which seems to be the tradition every time. Anyway, let's get started. I have germinated an unknown amount of some breeder seeds (either Dutch Treat or NL) i have had kicking around the house for a couple years now, they actually went thru the wash so I decided to try and germinate them all before i throw them in the garbage. Low and behold i have 17, or 18 little sprouts which i have now planted into solo cups and put under a 400w Light in the "to be" grow room. What I am going to be doing is building a wall across 6 ft long to the jog out in the wall and then from the wall to the jog out will be a false wall/secret door which will be at the back of a "closet". I am going to use hanging clothes to distract from the idea of there being any kind of doorway back there, kinda like Narnia lol. There is a heat vent protruding from the wall in this location which i will be hooking my exhaust up to and re-routing to my chimney, as directly on the opposite side of that wall is my furnace and chimney. Inside I will be putting 80 clones from the strongest females out of these seedlings. Below are a few pics of my progress and equipment so far. The rubbermaid tub is a portable seedling box that runs off a portable charger pack, i just dont have any bulbs for it and lets face it a HID beats a cfl any day. Feel free to make comments or ask questions. I am open to all criticism and ideas.
 

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dopeyG

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Well, alot has changed in just a few days. A buddy of mine happened to have a tent that he wasn't using kickin' around so the hidden room is temporarily on hold. I will build the secret wall when I need a 2nd room. As you can see I am just exhausting into the room i have the tent in. I will be running a duct to the heating vent and rerouting it on the other side of the wall to the chimney so all my exhaust goes out the chimney. I'm not really sure what size filter i should be using for my fan. I have no idea how many cfm its drawing, all i know is it is a 6 inch inline fan that creates a pretty intense negative pressure in that tent. If anyone could shed some insight on fans and filters that would be much appreciated, especially in the case of not knowing the cfm of the fan. Currently I'm just using a 400w magnetic with no hood. Just straight hanging bulb. I have a 1000w digital i will be switching to once i get into flower, i just don't see a point in wasting power on veg and seedlings. That and the magnetic ballasts are switchable between hps and mh, so that's pretty handy. Once that happens i will probably get a cool tube, but we will deal with that when the time comes.
In case i forgot to mention it in the last post, i am growing either Dutch treat or NL X White Rhino. Not sure which bag it was, the label was worn off. they seem to be coming along pretty healthy The strongest and healthiest of these are going to be mothers of our mothers. once i take a cutting from each one I will be putting them all into flower to determine the sex. Any males will be destroyed with the exception of one which will be contained so that i can harvest the pollen for future breeding. The crappy thing is that I'm not sure if this is an 8 week strain or a 10 week strain so we will have to determine that as well. If you have any advice or comments please feel free to tear apart my work.

-DopeyG
 

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dopeyG

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Just a little update:
Not much has changed but things are doing well. Definitely seen a fair bit of growth in the the last few days. I'm still waiting for 2 to sprout. I believe they are a different strain because i got the seeds out of a different bag. However i am only sure that one of these seeds is from that bag. the other one is in question. But it makes sense that they are the only 2 that haven't sprouted yet and there was only 2 seeds that sprouted from a different bag. I decided to raise them up off the ground so that they got a little bit more air flow from my circulating fan because i was noticing the top of my soil was getting a little fuzzy. within 24 hours that problem was taken care of.
I'm also doing a cubensis grow if anyone was wondering what the bags of seed are. I injected them about 3 days ago and now I'm just waiting for them to inoculate. They are pretty big bags, so I'm not entirely sure how long they are going to take. I've never done bags like this and i'm not really sure If I injected enough spores. Only time will tell.
 

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