Does anyone use 1 of these?
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OldMedUser
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Watering twice a day? Using coco? I'd be setting up some kind of auto watering system if I had to do that. I generally grow in pots that can go 4 days between waterings. I use ProMix HP with organics and sometimes hydro nutes for supplementation. Soak good then come back 4 days later to soak again.
The wand should work fine tho.
budolskie
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Yes coco/perlite and i have most of the stuff to make an auto feed,Watering twice a day? Using coco? I'd be setting up some kind of auto watering system if I had to do that. I generally grow in pots that can go 4 days between waterings. I use ProMix HP with organics and sometimes hydro nutes for supplementation. Soak good then come back 4 days later to soak again.
The wand should work fine tho.
just havnt got round to it as such as need a good plan to get rid of run off without me empty in bath..
OldMedUser
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Constant watering is one of the reasons I won't use coco. The other is lack of availability and cost which is 3X what ProMix costs me. I do have a big bag of Canna coco I plan to use in a small side-by-side grow. I just want to see if it can work like the HP and only water when it's allowed to dry out like the HP. I only use 4gal pots for indoor grows and 4 days is my usual watering interval. If my RH wasn't so chronically low I could probably go 5 or 6 days. Hemp farm down the road means no more outdoor growing for me but I didn't like all the bugs stuck in my buds that needed brushing out while trimming anyway.
You couldn't set the plants on a raised container to drain into a low rez? Then use a drill pump to send it to a drain down the hall or something. A 25L boat fuel tank is only about 6" tall and should work well. I just got a 12' boat that has one for the 9.9 motor.
budolskie
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Here is a picture a do have them raised and a tub to catch water off each tray, i do have deck drains and a y splitter to plumb the tray drains together just need to plan where to have my drain res and pumpConstant watering is one of the reasons I won't use coco. The other is lack of availability and cost which is 3X what ProMix costs me. I do have a big bag of Canna coco I plan to use in a small side-by-side grow. I just want to see if it can work like the HP and only water when it's allowed to dry out like the HP. I only use 4gal pots for indoor grows and 4 days is my usual watering interval. If my RH wasn't so chronically low I could probably go 5 or 6 days. Hemp farm down the road means no more outdoor growing for me but I didn't like all the bugs stuck in my buds that needed brushing out while trimming anyway.
You couldn't set the plants on a raised container to drain into a low rez? Then use a drill pump to send it to a drain down the hall or something. A 25L boat fuel tank is only about 6" tall and should work well. I just got a 12' boat that has one for the 9.9 motor.
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budolskie
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Thanks i will look into that i as gona get a remote plug aswell to save pressure building up in the wand for leaks.... plan on leaving the wand open and control flow by remote once i measure how much comes out in what time
OldMedUser
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Much too neat and tidy for my tastes but looks like a great setup!
Don't often see parabolic reflectors these days. What are you running for lights? I use batwing type open reflectors with various sizes of HID bulbs depending on how much area I want to cover. The max usable space in my 7x9x6'6"h room is about 5x5 so I have room for fans and be able to move pots around for watering etc. Smooth, painted cement floor so it's easy to just slide the pots in their trays around. Kind of like curling without all the sweeping and Hurry Hard! nonsense.
This is about the biggest grow I ever did in 20 years of growing in that room. 27 plants with tall OG#18 on each side for 8 - 4gal pails and a SoG type thing going on in the middle with 3 - 5 plants per 2gal pot. 940W EYE Hortilux HPS conversion bulb that runs off my 1000W MH/HPS magnetic ballast in MH mode. Best bulb I ever had but now around $300 retail. I got mine for $170 and have only used it for one other grow. It was riding on my Light Rail 4.0 up and down the middle only a foot away from some of the tops. So much trimming! lol
budolskie
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Nice grow, i was using 2x600w hps in those parabolics in an 8x4 tent but got my self a 10x5 tent and went with 2x1000w hps which im yet to use but i think these shade take up to much head room and been thinking of shade like yours or just the cheap basic hps reflectorsMuch too neat and tidy for my tastes but looks like a great setup!
Don't often see parabolic reflectors these days. What are you running for lights? I use batwing type open reflectors with various sizes of HID bulbs depending on how much area I want to cover. The max usable space in my 7x9x6'6"h room is about 5x5 so I have room for fans and be able to move pots around for watering etc. Smooth, painted cement floor so it's easy to just slide the pots in their trays around. Kind of like curling without all the sweeping and Hurry Hard! nonsense.
This is about the biggest grow I ever did in 20 years of growing in that room. 27 plants with tall OG#18 on each side for 8 - 4gal pails and a SoG type thing going on in the middle with 3 - 5 plants per 2gal pot. 940W EYE Hortilux HPS conversion bulb that runs off my 1000W MH/HPS magnetic ballast in MH mode. Best bulb I ever had but now around $300 retail. I got mine for $170 and have only used it for one other grow. It was riding on my Light Rail 4.0 up and down the middle only a foot away from some of the tops. So much trimming! lol
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EBgrows420
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What coco you running? I usually only have to water once a day at most. Might not be soaking them enough
budolskie
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Canna coco, i use 8.5ltr pots and in flower twice a day i had done last run and got a better yeild!
Wasnt sureitf it was down to that as differnt strain but still was best to date in my 8x4 so plan on trying it again also going from 1200w to 2000w of hps
@EastCoastGenetix
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Yep I do. I run 4 3x3's and 2 2x4's and even in the greenhouse. I use SIP planters for veg though.
budolskie
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Nice bible i have book also helped me understand lots
OldMedUser
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2000 watts cranks out a lot of heat so are you going to be able to deal with it? I did have plans to add on an 8x4 flowering room and use 2 x 600W HPS on the light rail I bought specifically for that purpose. I did a little research and 2x600 Hortilux SHPS gave me 50% more light for 20% more power than the same light in 1000W. I've slowed down my growing as I could quit now and not run out of pot for 4 or 5 years. I did recently get some 30:1 CBD seeds but am waiting until the fall to start any up. 90% of what I grow gets/will get made into oils to use in edibles. Much less trimming involved and with my arthritis that's a blessing.
That reflector in the pic is a cheap basic one. Nice feature is that you can bend them in or out to get the spread you want for best coverage. Think I paid $40 for that at a hydro store. About 5 years ago I wandered into a hydro store in BC on a visit to see family and they had 24 - 600W used digital setups from a grow-op for $50 with a digital ballast, basic shade and Hortilux SHPS bulb so I bought 5 and gave two to a buddy for a Xmas present. He recently died and I'll be getting them back along with an 8x4 tent that I plan to use as a clean room to set up my lab gear in the shop.
budolskie
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2000 watts cranks out a lot of heat so are you going to be able to deal with it? I did have plans to add on an 8x4 flowering room and use 2 x 600W HPS on the light rail I bought specifically for that purpose. I did a little research and 2x600 Hortilux SHPS gave me 50% more light for 20% more power than the same light in 1000W. I've slowed down my growing as I could quit now and not run out of pot for 4 or 5 years. I did recently get some 30:1 CBD seeds but am waiting until the fall to start any up. 90% of what I grow gets/will get made into oils to use in edibles. Much less trimming involved and with my arthritis that's a blessing.
That reflector in the pic is a cheap basic one. Nice feature is that you can bend them in or out to get the spread you want for best coverage. Think I paid $40 for that at a hydro store. About 5 years ago I wandered into a hydro store in BC on a visit to see family and they had 24 - 600W used digital setups from a grow-op for $50 with a digital ballast, basic shade and Hortilux SHPS bulb so I bought 5 and gave two to a buddy for a Xmas present. He recently died and I'll be getting them back along with an 8x4 tent that I plan to use as a clean room to set up my lab gear in the shop.
Yes iv read about the heat hopefully my 8 inch can fan can hack it or i dont mind going upto a 12 if needs be see how goes cos summer here aswell soon
budolskie
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2000 watts cranks out a lot of heat so are you going to be able to deal with it? I did have plans to add on an 8x4 flowering room and use 2 x 600W HPS on the light rail I bought specifically for that purpose. I did a little research and 2x600 Hortilux SHPS gave me 50% more light for 20% more power than the same light in 1000W. I've slowed down my growing as I could quit now and not run out of pot for 4 or 5 years. I did recently get some 30:1 CBD seeds but am waiting until the fall to start any up. 90% of what I grow gets/will get made into oils to use in edibles. Much less trimming involved and with my arthritis that's a blessing.
That reflector in the pic is a cheap basic one. Nice feature is that you can bend them in or out to get the spread you want for best coverage. Think I paid $40 for that at a hydro store. About 5 years ago I wandered into a hydro store in BC on a visit to see family and they had 24 - 600W used digital setups from a grow-op for $50 with a digital ballast, basic shade and Hortilux SHPS bulb so I bought 5 and gave two to a buddy for a Xmas present. He recently died and I'll be getting them back along with an 8x4 tent that I plan to use as a clean room to set up my lab gear in the shop.
I also only smoke dabs so must mine gets ran into oil also
OldMedUser
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Just a bigger fan won't cut it unless the air being drawn into the grow area is cooler but when it's 90F outside you can't get lower than that without A/C. My grow room is underground and the warmest it's ever got down there is 68F. All the air pulled into the grow room comes from the greater area of the basement which is really just a big crawl space with a 7' ceiling. It's 10x30ft and the room is in one corner. It was built as a cold-storage room by the previous owner and a big selling feature for me. I had the shelving ripped out and plants in there the day after we took possession.
An 8" with carbon filter is only moving about 500cfm. Without the filter should move 750 or thereabouts so with your 10x10 at 80" tall is 666.66666667cf so you're looking at a complete air exchange around every minute which should be plenty.
I'm way up in northern Alberta and the summers here have been getting longer and a lot hotter/drier than they used to be 20 years ago. Very little snow last winter and the first time my yard hasn't been flooded from the spring melt in a decade. My little 2x4 tent in the spare bedroom gets way too warm to grow in during the summer. This month has been pretty hot already and was last year too.
Kola_Kreator
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Set up an auto feed system. If you want the best out of your coco you need to water multiple times per day. I water then about 8-10 times per day while they are in flower.
For the drainage just put them into some type of tray and have the tray run off into some type of low lying collection container.
For the drainage just put them into some type of tray and have the tray run off into some type of low lying collection container.