Well things are back in swing finally after a month long hiatus. Its been a fresh break, but all good things must come to an end. We have drastically altered the design and orientation of our larger hydro room and are very excited about the changes. They should make for an even more controlled environment and there is considerably more space to move around.

If you didn't see the previous setup, you can check the link here http://boards.cannabis.com/hydroponi...-grow-log.html. We have gone from 16 buckets down to 12 and have shrunk the size of the canopy. All the lights have been moved in approx 9" to better light the smaller and more dense canopy. There is no longer a central space, this is one rectangle that is about 7 feet by 6 feet. We are utilizing a screen with a frame, however the type of screen is undecided. We are going between 2"x4" and 4"x4". Ideally I would like a 3"x3" but I am having trouble locating such a thing. I like the smaller area, but it does require more work. We still have our reservoirs in the closet and we are still running the 500gph pump as well as the 35 watt single airpump for all our air needs. The airpump sits near the A/C unit in order to draw as cold of air as possible and there is a cardboard deflector that helps direct cold air at it. However...one thing I do notice is that the intake for the pump can have a 5/8" hose put on the end and can draw air from farther away. Obviously will decrease efficiency but I never noticed that.

The next big change is the new window box which is only 4" off the wall and made with much sounder materials and a 2"x4" wood frame. This allowed us to mount our window A/C higher then one normally would so that it wont be blowing directly at the canopy but instead up at the lights and above the canopy. We have gone from a 7,000 BTU A/C to a 10,000 BTU unit that has a working recirculating feature, allowing us to exchange no air with the outside (outside air is used to move the heat thats made from the compression). Quite nifty. We have also built a box for our 50 pint dehumidifier. This box allows us to either vent the hot air produced out of the room or allows us to direct the hot air to the top of the room so that it even disperses instead of concentrating on one area. It will also cut down on the noise.

A 6" CanFan still cools our 4 750watt digital HPS Lumatek lights, and while this is a bit overkill for the area, our 600s are in use elsewhere and hey, the more the merrier. We cut the energy from over 6000 watts to 4200 watts. Going much smaller this time as its just personal stuff (about to go into knee surgery soon so I need as much as I can get; painkillers make me vomit). A 5 foot tall carbon filter with a 10" CanFan Maxx keeps things smelling neutral, but I have yet to need to use it cause of the sealed room. Umm, what else... I guess not much in the equipment area. The room is controlled via an IGS-220 environment controller which handles temp, humidity, and CO2.

The clones are a G13 cross, which I was very excited to get ahold of, although I hate not knowing what it was crossed with (as pure G13 does not exist anymore since it was a clone only plant). My last G13 cross was devastating and the fastest growing plant I have ever seen. Less then 2 weeks of veg and it ended up 3.5 feet tall and yielding ounces and ounces, and it even traveled 50 miles in the back of a SUV halfway through flowering! They came slightly lanky, but very established. We will probably aggressively top them once they are fully adjusted to the buckets which are at about 550ppm-600ppm with Hygrozyme and a very light 1:1:1 ratio of GMB. Our other hydro room has 4 NYC Diesel clones that came to me huge! They were done in small flood and drain tables with hundreds in the Rockwool squares still connected to eachother. They were much bigger then I would like, but so it goes.
Racerx Reviewed by Racerx on . Racerx's G13 3000watt recirculating DWC grow Well things are back in swing finally after a month long hiatus. Its been a fresh break, but all good things must come to an end. We have drastically altered the design and orientation of our larger hydro room and are very excited about the changes. They should make for an even more controlled environment and there is considerably more space to move around. If you didn't see the previous setup, you can check the link here Rating: 5