Comes a Time, First Grow, Please Step Inside -- 2000 watt Sour Diesel

Ah Razz, NPK is something that you need to know to build up your basic foundation. N* Nitrogen, P* Potassium K* Phosphorous . These are the major macro nutrient make ups in all fertilizers. In veg you need a nute with a high N and in flower you will want a nute that is high in P and K. You will find this on all fert bags and bottles. I am giving you a basic description, but you want to take about a half hour and do some reading on the MJ plants need for NPK and how it plays a major role in having a good grow, as a matter of fact here is a link for you, www.marijuanagrowing.com/article.php?sid=26 .
Get the moisture tester and you will save your self allot of guess work on the watering thingy IMO. DWC is "Deep Water Culture.
" I have a thread in the hydro section titled "Water Farm/DWC club where you can pick up some idea on what it is as people dialog back and forth, but in short it can be set up using a 5 gallon bucket with a net pot in the lid of the bucket that holds grow rocks and your plant. You fill the bucket with your water/nutes and get a $10 air pump from Wally Mart and get these little $1.50 air stones that they use in aquariums and place two in the bottom of the bucket and the water is saturated with O2 as the air stones produce bubbles in the water and splash onto the roots of your plant feeding it and watering it. The plant is able to experience amazing growth because un like in soil where the plants roots have to stretch out threw the soil to find food and water, the nute/water is given directly to the roots every second and the plant is able to focus its energy on growing buds instead of roots. When done right, up to 3 ounces can be harvested from one plant with a veg time no longer than 3 weeks and in soil this is a really hard thing to do..
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Corecction, "N* Nitrogen, P* Potassium K* Phosphorous" is wrong, correctway , N* Nitrogen, P* Phosphorous K* Potassium is right way. LOL
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Ahh, yes I have seen friends do it this way indeed. Thanks for the info. I am off to home depot to get some stuff so I can set up the ventilation for the lights today, then I can close the room. Of course, shortly after that ventilation for the room has to be done so the fresh air is always coming in. I can leave the door of the room open slightly during the day, but at night it needs to get closed. I have no carbon filter yet, but that will be soon, and then I can hook the carbon filter up, and begin to get fresh air in my room all the time. Will get a moisture meter as well. Thanks again! Will keep you guys updated.
P.S These clones are growing at a crazy rate! Seems like everyday they have formed new leaves - I just can't believe how fast the process is. It must be amazing to see it with DWC, an even faster method. Will update with pictures later on... thanks gang!

Bit of a road block here, setting up the ventilation right now and realized I never put the tempered glass in the 1000 watt lamp. You have to unscrew it on one side to slide it in the panel, and I can't get enough force with the light already hanging. I don't want to take the lamp down and do the work from the ground as it might confuse the plants I would guess? Anyone care to comment?

Hi everybody!

Just wanted to introduce myself since I have been kind of lurking around this thread since it started. I am a huge fan of Sour Diesel, and I have been planning a project similar to this for a while. I will be watching and learning if that is OK with everybody here. I know there is a lot I can learn from some of the people here, and beeing a noob I need all the help I can get.

TIA

Howdy folks... Hope everyone is doing well!

I just set up my ventilation and for now the circuit is open, so it's airing out the room, but will become a closed circuit when I attach it to the vent in the floor, and cold air will come in through that vent (I enclosed a picture of the vent) Also set up the fan suspended in air with bungee cords, and the air getting pushed into the attic. Little bit of a celebration, one step closer to having a stable room!

Few questions for the seasoned vets:

a.) I already posted this, but this is a stupid question to have to ask. My lamp got set up without the glass in the hood, I am a moron, but the glass was in my girlfriends car at the time. I have tried unscrewing on the side to get it in, I can't create enough force to get the screws out. Unfortunately I only bought one veg light, so I can't simply put the glass in the other 1000 watt and then fire up the veg light, then put the glass in this one. What the hell am I to do? lol.


b.) Although the fan is suspended in air, it's still quite noisey to be honest! It can be heard outside of the room, and I am not sure how to makes things a little more quiet - I figured suspending the fan in air would help. I would assume it will become a little quieter once the circuit is closed, as you won't be able to hear as much of the suction. I can't imagine it will decrease the volume THAT much though. Perhaps a fair amount of noise is also being created from air coming in under the door. Anyone care to comment?

About to give the plants 400 ppm distilled water shortly. I know the pictures are a bit dark, I am a bit pressed for time right now but I will update soon. Amazed at how fast these ladies are shooting up, leave structure looks pretty tight - happy so far! Thanks for all the advice guys, you are great - I am trying to pass on what little I do know to the community, it's a great thing we have going on here! Cheers! :rasta: :pimp:



--KindMidas, thank you for reading the thread. Stay posted, I am going to be updating as frequently as possible. While I am very impressed with the advice given by a few members of this forum and will benefit from it greatly, I do hope some can learn from my simple mistakes and questions. And if you are trying to plan a 2000 watt grow, you can learn some without question! I am new to this as well so I will sometimes be posting in great detail - alot of folks here will be able to give you advice if you have taken a step in the wrong direction. My advice to you from my current position is to get the lamps set up, get your clones, and try to do things step by step (requires lots of money, and a fair amount of time) I of course have a luxury that most might not, and that's plenty of space, not sure what you are planning. --

Best of luck to all! :thumbsup:

Hey RAZZ... I always mount my fans to a piece of wood with a bicycle tire or like piece of rubber between he wood and the fan.. Hanging it seems smart..

I will keep turning this one around in my head.. Although, my first thought is hanging a blanket in the room... ideally on the walls closest to the fan.. Blankets absorb NOISE.. very well actually!

iloveyou

My second thought is to record yourself banging the bee-jeezus out of your girlfriend and play it in a loop over and over.... to cover/mask the sound of the fan..

iloveyou


You can' t get the screw out to put the glass in? Have you tried w-d40? Basically the screw is stuck? Is there away you could drill a new hole and mount it differently...

Do not use duct tape.. it will not hold... LOL...

cheers

I REALLLY REALLY appreciate the pictures!!!!!

W-D40...no I haven't. It's just that I can't get enough force to get an already hard to get out screw. Because the light is already hanging. It's such a stupid problem, all I had to do was put it in to begin with but oh well. I am planning to try to close the circuit very shortly, but if I can't get the glass on the lamp can't be moved as close to the plants as it should be. Ugh, lol. Will try out the blanket idea. Keep ya posted Knowm, I will have better pictures soon brother man. And guess, the lady deserves some good love making, she has been a huge help thus far!

Also thinking of maybe putting those egg cret things that people use to line studios up in the grow room... perhaps those would absorb a bunch of noise?

those work well. i sound proofed my dads house with tire-inline tubes i got at the dump, just a thought.