Merchant's Closet Perpetual Hydro

Hola welcome. Currently growing out of my closet. I'm about to set up a new flower chamber with a 3 bucket RDWC system. That I hope will work. I haven't built it yet, so I figured a journal would be good motivation to get me to start it. I have most of the supplies just need to make another trip to the hardware store/hydro shop. Here is what's growing up in the veg chamber getting ready for this next grow round.

1 Pineapple Kush Clone
1 Purple Mamba
2 Purple Mr Nice Guys
1 Kings Kush
1 Mystery Bagseed

Currently, all of them are veg'n out in my 6 pot tote. Running on 4 - 26w CFLs 6500k. I figure as long as 3 turn out to be female, be able to fill the flower chamber for next round. Have a mother chamber also set up in another part of the house. For flower I'm using 2 65w CFLs 2700k. I'm trying to make up my mind on how to upgrade my flower light setup, I don't know if I'm going to stick to CFLs and add more, or make the move to HID. Since I live in the desert heat is a big issue. Have some pictures of the setup and a paint mock up I did.

And also please feel free to give advice, call me names, tell me lies, or interact with me in anyway.

Mini update. Going tomorrow to get the rest of supplies for the build.

I think I'm right about to chop her up? I could use a more experienced opinion.

I don't wanna miss this ride!!! sub'd for sure!!!

she looks good man!!! she is very close!!! let me save the photo and zoom it in... see if I can't see the trics. do you have a loop or a scope by chance?

I'd give it at least 5 days...

Thank you stoney sir, love having an experienced grower to always ask help from. I need to get a scope but I haven't picked one up yet. Will have a good harvest update and build update in a few days. Thanks bud!

my rule of thumb is, when they look like there right about there... wait a week. can't wait to see the harvest picks!!!!

Progress! I have been so busy lately. I'm ready to pick up production though Have a new veg area going. From smallest to tallest on the veg chamber I got kings kush, two purple mr nice guys, and the bigger one on the left is the Pineapple Kush. Got the little cloner going with seedlings. Built my RDWC system, it's running full speed with no leaks finally. Happy about that, it's a 15 gallon system. 3 buckets, one res. Hopefully I'll have some really good stuff to show off here in a couple months All my harvest pictures accidently got deleted bummer I had so many of them. But I made cookies with the trim. I got 22 grams from her, not what I was hoping but it was seed from some mexican dirtweed hah. Cheers!

very nice!!! I like the new setup and by the looks of those plants they love it to!!! those cookies are making me hungry!!

Thank you sir! I'm about to flower these three see if I can start weeding the bad genes/males out of the garden. Those cookies got me pretty stoney, I used double the butter the recipe called for so I was pretty fucked up all night long.

theoldmerchant said:

Thank you sir! I'm about to flower these three see if I can start weeding the bad genes/males out of the garden. Those cookies got me pretty stoney, I used double the butter the recipe called for so I was pretty fucked up all night long.

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I tried baking some buds last week. just made peanut butter crackers, but i was wrecked!!!!! didn't realize it, then when i went to smoke i only needed one hit and i was staring off in space. I should make some again!!

Hell yeah the way your body just goes off after you eat some edibles and then smoke some herb. I'm going down to pick up a 150w HPS tomorrow to also throw in there so hopefully I'll be upping the yieldage around here.

hell yea, a 150 should do nicely for ya!! I need to get one of those for a cabinet i want to use for males.

Hope this light brings me on new adventures Yeah....so I'm not very good at fire hazard prevention....I'm not a super neat person.

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That's a great video man!!! that is the perfect example of what roots should look like!!!!!!! and yea, you could use a wire tie or bread twisty in there to get the wires up and out of the way of the tubbing. as an electrician, it made me cringe just a bit...

Looking good though can't wait to see em all turn to females!!!

Yeah I'm definitely going to work on cleaning it up. Finally finished the setup so now I can focus on the cleanup. Haha no fair stoney you have a whole profession to back up your hobby. I'm just reading as much as I can trying to catch up.

This is the house Pit. He loves watching the garden as much as I do.

Your gonna be amazed at how much denser those buds will be. Mine are rock solid now.....reggie or not, that HID makes a HUGE difference!

that's funny with your dog just watching them!!!!! the new light looks great!!

Psychild hopefully it blows me away, this time around I know I actually have some good genetics. Stoney he loves just sitting there watching the plants grow with me. Hah he's a good boy. Starting to stretch out over on the right.

Very nice. I just got the same light. Im loving it and so are the plants . Tons of people getting into hydro, and your setup looks great btw. I was going to use a screen, turned out to be to small. I need to figure something else out maybe. One thing, how far do you try to keep that hps from your plants?




Ill keep checking in ;p

Thank you sir. Yeah after I tried soil and then did hydro, there was no turning back. Hydro is too easy, and I love traveling and going out of town, so it's nice to be able to leave things for awhile and not have to worry. The screen is 6 inches off the top of the buckets, and the light is just shy of 10 inches above the screen. Not sure how far I'm supposed to keep it, but this is making the heat manageable in my closet. This is my first time using a screen so I'm excited to fill it in see how she goes. Cheers