40+ lbs with 12 Plants in 2 Rooms on a Flip

Here is some shots of room A right as the lights came on:



It looks like the plant under the 600 watt CMH might be starting to fall behind a little bit in the stretch:

I always appreciate just how clean your rooms are kept. Nice job man

I have hard enough time keeping my tents clean and they are very small in comparison lol

I think it's actually easier to clean when you can walk around and use a broom or vacuum.

Renfro said:

I think it's actually easier to clean when you can walk around and use a broom or vacuum.

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I often tell myself that too, I'd have an easier time if I had more space

Reality is, I probably wouldn't lol

Not much space to move around and clean in a tent tho, your def right about that.

Well my girl helps a lot too, shes a real clean freak. I love it! lol

So I am going back to my roots of growing, I ordered a flood tray thats supposed to fit in my 2x4 tent. I plan to use a remote reservoir (outside the tent) and setup a flood and drain setup for the breeding project. This will make it a lot easier on the daily chores, just keep the res topped off and the pH right.

i just ordered my 4x8 table and 80g res couple of days ago.

im looking forward to trying that growing method.

It sure is easy, just gotta have a reliable flood timer or you end up with dead plants.

Renfro said:

It sure is easy, just gotta have a reliable flood timer or you end up with dead plants.

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Is there a way to set it up so a guy could use a backup timer in case the original fails?

Ya that would be a nightmare, come home to a table full of a dead plants, sounds terrible lol

Well if your pumps are powerful enough that one pump can out run the other dead pump draining back to the res you can use 2 pumps and 2 timers, one on each end of the tray. Thats what I used to do with my 4x8's back in the day. Don't remember the pump sizes tho. It may not get to full depth but it will keep them ok until you find the problem.

To keep the timers synched you probably wanna use digital programmable ones with a backup battery in them. Intermatic used to make a nice little one that was square, plugin timer. They were reliable. So many timers aren't and that defeats the purpose of a timer. lol

Ya i got one of those unreliable timers sitting in a drawer somewhere, should just throw it out

The 2 pump/timer suggestion sounds good, I will def want some sort of backup, for piece of mind if nothing else lol

I already have 2 pumps like the link below, not sure if they are any good for this setup or not. They are 400 gph

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07JYYXRVP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They should work.

So I had to take the 1000 watt UV CMH bulbs out of room A row 2, that row was getting shiny leaves and new growth didn't look so hot. Even the edges of the other rows were effected. So normal HPS bulbs are back in there now.

Think it was too much for them? How far away was it?

beacher said:

Think it was too much for them? How far away was it?

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Ill have to measure when the lights come on in there but it's not close, even the rows next to the middle row were effected on the close side so the UV was just too much lol. A plant that was between rows is half and half.

Here is some shots of room B 3 days into 12/12

You must REALLY like getting high

Renfro said:

Here is some shots of room B 3 days into 12/12

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They really starting to fill out now, looking good bud.

Looking great man!