Tiny's Happy House of Hydro

Sorry has taken so long but I did promise it would happen. Here come the pics and I'll try to explain things a lil.
Room is aprox 12x8x6 2x4 walled with plywood for walls and r13 insulation on the outside of wall. Have a nice lil heater that does good job for room size but without any type of glowing element, the only light from it is temp setting and such which is covered up. Dehumidifier also with red bucket full light blanked. 16' osilating fan. 6" 435 cfm exhaust fan pulling through 100% organic charcoal filter. 2 Nextgen 600w ballasts running 2 Sun System Yeild Master II supreme reflectors. 6" 435 cfm fan pulling through same type filter to cool lights. Atm light cooling is just dumped outside room into basement but hooking up to old dryer vent to get heat outside for summer. Using Ebb&Grow system, only ran 10 buckets on virgin run. 55 gal rez, 300w aquarium heater, 2 4" airstones that will be replaced by 2 12" stones next run, CAP tri-meter, 1/3 hp sump pump that pumps 600 gph to drain rez and a washing machine water supply to fill the s o b. Still running GH 3-part and have quite the shopping list for round 2 which I am also adding 8 more buckets for total of 18 plants next run. Hopefull I not leave anything out but if ?? just ask :jointsmile:

pic 1 Ballast light 1
pic 2 Ballast light 2
pic 3 water supply
pic 4 Rez and drain
pic 5 wall with door and intake

only post 5 pics at a time ........ /sigh

pic 1 door, intake and breaker box
pic 2 Breaker box
pic 3 rez
pic 4 left is light exhaust and right is room exhaust
pic 5 room exhaust fan

fingers getting tired .........

pic 1 tri-meter .... friggin PH
pic 2 tri-meter ...... PH correct
pic 3 Heater and Dehumidifier
pic 4 Humidity
pic 5 Temp

Finger's just went numb ..........

pic 1 when bucket full machine not run
pic 2 runs now and no tinkle on floor hehe
pic 3 looking west
pic 4 looking east
pic 5 1 more west view

This is week 8 of 9 flowering and they are running half str this week and plain for week 9.

Upcoming changes .........
1) adding 8 more buckets
2) seperating heater and dehumidifier, different ends of room so have to add 1 outlet.
3) adding 400w cooltube between the 600's

Enjoy the nudididity!! :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by tinytoon

This is week 8 of 9 flowering and they are running half str this week and plain for week 9.

Upcoming changes .........
1) adding 8 more buckets
2) seperating heater and dehumidifier, different ends of room so have to add 1 outlet.
3) adding 400w cooltube between the 600's

Enjoy the nudididity!! :jointsmile:

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VERY NICE setup, thanks for sharing. Makes my 6x6x6 grow tent look very weak. :)

Awesome set-up, are those carbon scrubbers cones? Haha looked like you went to autozone and bought an intake cone.

-C

AWESOME TINY!!!! Looking sexy. I can't wait to watch a full grow in your new room! Congrats! Looks like all the work is paying off!

ty all for the kind words so far, about killed myself putting the dam thing together. 11 days of work and that includes working FT and the only thing not done by me was 2 coats of reflective paint.

Those filters are organic charcoal filters. Organic Air charcoal fiber filters nicknamed the freshmaker. It's funny how you referred to Auto Zone since I am an ASE certified mechanic by trade but no that is not part of a cold air intake lol :D


BTW anyone going to Bike Week in Laconia NH?

also have a stupid simple question that I believe I already have an answer to but will ask to verify, when growing with supplements (calmag, koolbloom, florishous plus, etc) they effect the ppm of your mix correct?? Have onyl really played with GH 3-part and wanted to make sure before I started mixing 40+ gals of water just to go "shit" at the end and have to dump it and start over. Have read allot as many of you know but cant remember ever seeing this in black and white even though it's prob a "no duh" answer lol :wtf:

They all effect the mix. I used to start by adding calmag to bring the ppm's up to 250.

Looking very good and I can see alot of hard work. Can't wait to see the turn out.

I was suppose to go to Michigan and help a friend build a room just about like yours but the engine in my van cracked a block or something and I have oil in the water. Trying to get my MGB going but that's a long trip and I can't carry many tools. LOL

Maybe when I pull the engine I'll clean it up and do a grow out of the cylinders. LOL

Very nice. You have been a busy bee my friend!

That is sweet man... One day I will have something like that.


I thought the same thing when i saw the filters!!! I was going to ask you how much HP they added to your grow lol.

I have to keep adding coolant to my truck but i cant find any drips in my driveway... making me go nuts trying to figure it out!


LOL Loc that would be awesome. Reminds me of some pictures I saw of an ambulance converted into a mobile grow room.

Haha did someone get jealous of martyr super rooms? lol. Very nice, can't wait to see all that comes out of there.

-C

Nice... Nice... I am running similar set up like yours. You stated something about this on one of my posts. It looks very good.I myself had to do alot of reading on the e.c. and ppm as it pertains to nutes. Had to do one of those Oh Shit dumps like you are talking about. I added the requested amount but on the well water I'm on it shot to 1600 ppm over night. How I'm not sure.Dumped anyway and went with a one part grow with one additive.I sure hope my flowering period goes as well as yours looks like it is. I'm signed on and will be watching you progress.:thumbsup:

lol ForgetClassC....

Little do Tiny and Martyr know but they are both constructing a room for me soon!
Dont tell them because they dont know yet.

Loc sounds more like a cracked Head or blown head gasket to me.
GtoD check your passenger side floorboards to see if heater core is leaking. also any water on dipstick??

Ty all once again for the kind words. Today is clone day and doing another first. Need 18 so will be taken 20 or so. should be quite the happy family under the dome LOL.

Yup, I'll help build it but you should have stayed in VA. Gonna cost ya more now for the extra mileage :jointsmile:

Hey man I got water in my oil but no oil in the water. When the first freeze came this winter I thought I put enough antifreeze in the cars but mine didn't get enough. It's been running bad when it heats up and the oil with water mix gets thin. If I pull the plugs one by one I may find it's blown into a cylinder. Hopefully it's a head gasket.

All in all it's a 1999 Chevy Astro van and the motor must come out to fix anything. :(

Good news is if there is no crack. Then a total rebuild is in order. Try and get a garage to do that nowadays. :wtf:
I will tear it down and take it to the machine shop and put it back together myself. Save a few thousand that could build a bigger growroom. :stoned:

well got to go work on my 1980 MGB it's like driving a gocart but hard to keep one lit with the top down. LOL

Loc: Atleast the snow is gone :thumbsup:

Ok it has started!! Today was clone day and have never taken this many at 1 time.

Ok how to clone .......
pic 1 Gather supplies (notice bong in background :))
pic 2 size up your opponent (Moma got quite bushy)
pic 3 other side of Moma (Lil 1 in bucket is Moma replacement, Moma will be flowering with the clones she gives today)
pic 4 Grab hold and CHOP!!
pic 5 All set to put on stove and make soup :wtf:

pic 1 The Babies (aint they cute!!!)
pic 2 Moma after crash diet
pic 3 Side B

If any want to know step by step how I clone I can post it up

Wow your mother is huge now. Did you take a pic of her after the cuttings?

I still havent checked the heater core because its hot outside. I dont see any water on the dipstick btw. When I drove it down here it started to burn some oil up somewhere but that has stopped and since it stopped its starting to consume the coolant.

Wish I could buy a new truck but I dont have the money.

nevermind about the pics I posted while you were uploading lol

tiny looks good man what strain you got growing there?

Strain is called Medi-Bud. Strain developed in Holland and recently out on market. Short to medium height with a 8-9 week flower. We are currently doing 9 weeks but I'm gonna sneak in a 10 week somewhere to see if there is much difference. Dont get me wrong this is VERY good smoke but if your not trying to make it just a lil better then your taking the fun out of it. This strain loves hydro and has very high hopes for it's medicinal qualities. Only found 1 bank on the net that sells it. We spent the extra bills for feminized that way if I end up with a dude there is only 1 way to point the finger ...... straight up!! :wtf:

The last grow I logged was the first time I used any additive outside of Superthrive for starting clones and veg. This time we are continuing with the ST and adding 1 or 2 others :D

Gh 3-part as always, I wont use anything else (can I be a paid spokesperson??:jointsmile:)
There rest is all GH brand so I'm not gonna type GH for it all.
Calmag, Koolbloom, Florishous Plus. The tent saw 8oz off 3 1/2 plants for my virgin DWC run under a 400w Cooltube. I cant wait for the finish of this. Oh before I forget I hooked up my light exhaust to an old dryer vent that isnt used anymore to get the heat away from my rez, rez has dropped about 2-3 degrees and the only way to tell anything coming out is to try to watch the grass move. 10 ladies in there on there last week of life and no smell :thumbsup:

Well nothing new to report except had to do some emergency surgery on 3 of the clones. I believe that I ended up with an air bubble in each one, I dont think the stem was crushed when put in the RR. I did a 45' cut above the damaged area and reinserted in RR. Inside of RR still had a coating of gel so didnt add anymore.

Lil Mom is doing quite well. She has 6 roots that have found water and one of them is that nice fuzzy looking kind :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by tinytoon

Well nothing new to report except had to do some emergency surgery on 3 of the clones. I believe that I ended up with an air bubble in each one, I dont think the stem was crushed when put in the RR. I did a 45' cut above the damaged area and reinserted in RR. Inside of RR still had a coating of gel so didnt add anymore.

Lil Mom is doing quite well. She has 6 roots that have found water and one of them is that nice fuzzy looking kind :thumbsup:

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My first and second clone efforts sucked so I had to plant seeds to get something going (way behind time wize). Couple of questions for you on what you said in this post:

1) What do you mean "air bubble"?
2) What do you mean with it was crushed? Do you mean you did not have a good 45 angle cut and you cut above the bad cut and cut it again?

Since I sucked at cloning this go around I am trying to learn for next time I try to clone. :)

I love the way a nice full root mass looks in hydro, so clean and crisp.

Have you tried the maxi series? Just wondering if you use the 3 part Flora because of dissolvebility? (Idk if that's a word, but it should be)

-C

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Originally Posted by scottcc5s

My first and second clone efforts sucked so I had to plant seeds to get something going (way behind time wize). Couple of questions for you on what you said in this post:

1) What do you mean "air bubble"?
2) What do you mean with it was crushed? Do you mean you did not have a good 45 angle cut and you cut above the bad cut and cut it again?

Since I sucked at cloning this go around I am trying to learn for next time I try to clone. :)

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You need to read my POST on 100% CLONE RATE

Hint: spliting the RR cubes down one side avoids crushing or crumpling the stem :thumbsup:

Daddy

the air bubble I'm talking about is when you make a cut on the stem there is a very good chance that the stem will basicall suck air into it. when this happens it blocks anything from going up the stem to keep the plant alive. A crushed stem is when you either squeeze it to hard or when inserting into like a RR it bends enough to snap.


I have stayed with 3-part because it has never done me wrong. E&F, DWC and now downstairs and it always comes through for me. Now that the basement is running I just might experiment a lil in the tent.

Same process using Rapid Rooters Daddy?? Tried that once when I was still using Rockwool and the dam thing would not close back up. Had to use friggin bread ties to hold it together.

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Originally Posted by Daddynobucks

You need to read my POST on 100% CLONE RATE

Hint: spliting the RR cubes down one side avoids crushing or crumpling the stem :thumbsup:

Daddy

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Thanks Tiny and Daddy for the feedback and will check it out. Here are some of the errors I now understand I made:

1) I did not soak the rock cube in low PH (5.5) water.
2) I did not use a heat mat under my dome
3) I did not use low PH water. Water I used had PH in the 8 range

Have seeds going now and will try cloning again next time around. :)

Tiny:

You have a hell of a grow/setup going, great work and look forward to seeing the results. :)

Hey Tiny, I am not sure if you've tried but a bubbler clone works wonders for me and I am sure it would for you too! I don't manage my environment right now very well. When I mean I don't control my environment I mean that the clones are in 105 degree attic in a bubbler that really I don't even maintain. Still got roots in about 2 weeks on 15 girls. I even leave them in there once roots are showing and let them grow DWC style for another week or two. Once the roots can handle nutes I put them right into flower. I don't have to worry about anything when it comes to them rooting. :thumbsup: I know you already know what you are doing though:D

Well I would say I have a decent grasp of the situation :jointsmile:
I have looked into bubble cloners (DIY of course), and actually have 2 made containers all set and have quite a few airstones laying around and have enough air tubing to hang someone but my problem was a didnt have the lousy 10 bucks for a stupid air pump!! I am hoping that this will be 1 of the last times using the dome and such. Really hard to keep temp in range and such when I leave for work it is 68 outside and come home to 80+. As always ty all for input and hopefully this thing will turn out a nice yield. The virgin grow ends this friday so will spend holiday trimming and such.

Found the leak tiny... it was the radiator on the very top inside seam. Tried to use stopleak and it literally blew the fluid out of the hole! Glad it didnt happen when I was driving....

Been working on changing my radiator ALL DAY... yes I said all day for a radiator :P

Dont ask... Lets just say Pepboys> Advanced auto.

So far nothing died yet :thumbsup: This temp thing is really pissing me off though. Went to work about 79 under the dome and nice sweating. Get home from work and 91 under the dome and all I can say is glad it not me under there :wtf:

Glad you found the leak GToD and sorry bout the parts stores. Our Advance Auto isn't worth a shit either. Called one day from the shop wanting rear brake PADS and the parts guy asked me if it was disc or drum brakes in the rear, I told him nm and called somewhere else lol :D

LOL thats great... Thats almost as good as my Autozone experience. Went in asked the lady at the computer for a new rear differential gasket. She told me that they dont sell those and that they are a junkyard part and began telling me where the nearest junkyard was. lol...

Sorry missed a day or 2 put sure dont have many roses in my life atm. Today is cut day for the virgin run so I'm happy bout that. Clone wise still not looking real good this time . Heat, heat and more heat. I'm done, no more domes for me. I will have some sort of bubble cloner made by the time I need to clone again and hopefully move that to basement also. So far from what I see I gonna lose atleast 4 so I will be short of the 18 I needed but oh well not like I can run to the dispensery and pick up more, California peeps got it made LOL. OK enough typing for me. My friggin wrist is killing me and gonna make carrying buckets real fun. Dumbass pulled out in front of me otw home from work last night and I ended up laying my bike down not to hit the arsehole. Said he will pay for damages and all I can say is he better because if not there not enough medication around to keep me calmed down from kicking his ass!!
Later :thumbsup:

Damn I hope everything turns out ok. Things are sour down my way as well... You have to play the hand you are dealt i suppose.

I just bought a new dome for cloning and it has vents on the top that you can open. Does yours? I wonder if you got a new lid with vents if it would help your heat. I also have everything I need to make a bubble cloner but I wanted to try the dome first.


my first cloning attempts were no good to say the least lol.

Ok clone update, lost 7 took 10 more and cross fingers this time :wtf:

New clones I took are doing real well and the few that still remain from first cloning are still hanging in there. Temps should be down a lil for next few days so hopefully I can get these buggers rooted and on their way.

Finished trimming everything from virgin run yesterday and as soon as dry will post a weight.

Clones still look green and healthy. Still no roots for the first bunch I took but they have been through allot so hoping the new batch can catch them hehe :thumbsup:

Do have a few more pics of the finish of the virgin run, these are from just before cutting

few more of harvest. Total weight dry 2lbs 2.75 oz from 10 plants and 1200w for a gpw of .83

I'm happy!! :rastabanna:

Damn thats sweet! .83 is great!

Im sure you will get that 1gpw after you dial that room in...


I know you said you dont like to get your hands dirty lol, but have you ever grown in soil?

You should try a purple or blue strain! I bet a sea of blue buds hanging like yours would be sweet.

Grats man and dont forget to pass it this way.