DIY - A Grow-room Log

[PharmaCan]

Today was fun - a few finishing touches and then it's done.

The ballasts were hung from the garage wall. Well, they had to go somewhere and this seemed like a good spot with good ventillation.

The vent - this is the air intake vent - in the laundry room doesn't look at all out place. After all, I don't want to drive down the value of my home with rinky-dink work.

The last of the controls are installed and the cables that are passing thru the wall are sealed for light.

[PharmaCan]

And finally - Mission Accomplished!!!

The girls are relaxing in their new home.

Temps are holding steady at 79f. Hummidity 51%

[Dizzy1]

Bitch'n!

I only wish I had that much free space to hook up a nice cab. You did it up proper.

And she wasn't teaching my Sunday classroom either. lol

[TheGreenFog]

Yea, Pharma. :yippee: Excellent. I'd be happy to have that as my entire flower cab! lol. Nice use of your space. I'm sure everyone wishes they had such a nice generous space. You gonna paint the outside green? lol

So, those plants are mother plants in there, huh? Have you considered topping them and bushing them out a bit? Temps & RH seem ideal. "Thumbsup!" :thumbsup:

Now, onto the flower room!!!! Where are you going to do your cloning?


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[PharmaCan]

Yea, Pharma. :yippee: Excellent. I'd be happy to have that as my entire flower cab! lol. Nice use of your space. I'm sure everyone wishes they had such a nice generous space. You gonna paint the outside green? lol

So, those plants are mother plants in there, huh? Have you considered topping them and bushing them out a bit? Temps & RH seem ideal. "Thumbsup!" :thumbsup:

Now, onto the flower room!!!! Where are you going to do your cloning?


The Fog :rastasmoke:

Hey Fog - I've been studying up on cloning. There's a whole lot of good information on cloning techniques - Stinky has a step-by-step a moron could follow - but darn little info on cutting and maintaining the mother plant. I figured topping is something I would do when I cut the clones??? I'm about to go on pure water for one week, so there wouldn't be much sense in topping now, would there?

I just cleared out my 2' x 2' box, so I imagine I'll do the cloning in there. What do the clones need to root? A couple of cfl's on 18/6? I've got the cloning tray & dome & those kinda bark things Stinky recommends & everything else I need except wilt-pruf, which I can't seem to find locally even though I live in farm country.

My garage is drywall with a heavy coat of texture and no paint. I'll match that for now and when the flower room is done paint the whole inside of the garage.

The flower room is actually going to be a whole lot easier than this cabinet. No ceiling, no floor, just three walls with openings for a door, a/c and a couple vents. I can buy a pre-hung door and have it installed in 30 minutes. This cabinet had two doors and all the jambs had to be custom made and the hinges and hardware hand chisled and the doors modified... Anyway, just from a construction standpoint, the flower room will be a piece of cake compared to the cabinet.

Live long and prosper!

[TheGreenFog]

Hey, Pharm. Well, yea, cloning is pretty easy. Lots of info out there and it is basically all the same, with a few variances. I personally would prefer using rockwool cubes to root, but that's only because of the following hydro setup. I guess those jiffy pellets work well for most, esp. if you are in soil. Wilt-pruf is unnecessary, IMO...but may be beneficial if you can't keep up with misting them and such. Oh, and yea, a couple CFLs on 18/6 or even 24/0...or anywhere between.

As far as mother plant maintenance, if I'm not correct, there is some information in Bluebear's Bonsai Mum thread about mother maintenance, but basically if you keep them unrootbound and on light nutes, you can keep a mom chillin' for a long time. There is some pruning and even root-pruning involved to keep high-producing, short, bushy mother plant.

I hear ya about the flower room. Sounds like it will still be a pretty decent day or two's work. Looking forward to the pics. You do excellent work. I like that kind of work. It's nice to see your own final product when you build something of quality and function...kinda like growin' weed! lol

Be cool. :smokin:


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[Al B. Fuct]

PharmaCan, what a nice piece of work! Well done. Can I hire you to do some stuff around here? Unfortunately, I think you'd hate the 12,000 mile commute.

A good subterfuge for the neighbours is to call it a 'photo darkroom.' Explains ventilation fans to some degree. I DO like the network ops T1 1024Mbps hub gobbledygook, tho. You can just see the eyes glassing over.

I see you have your cooltubes in series. Just wondering, what is the temp of the air when it enters the 2nd tube? Considered ducting them in 'parallel'?

You might find some use in this tutorial on cloning in rockwool.

[PharmaCan]

PharmaCan, what a nice piece of work! Well done. Can I hire you to do some stuff around here? Unfortunately, I think you'd hate the 12,000 mile commute.

A good subterfuge for the neighbours is to call it a 'photo darkroom.' Explains ventilation fans to some degree. I DO like the network ops T1 1024Mbps hub gobbledygook, tho. You can just see the eyes glassing over.

I see you have your cooltubes in series. Just wondering, what is the temp of the air when it enters the 2nd tube? Considered ducting them in 'parallel'?

You might find some use in this tutorial on cloning in rockwool.

Al - the cool tubes are way cool, even connected in series. The hottest point of the whole setup is cooler than a 26w cfl. I think you could let the plants touch the tubes and it wouldn't scorch them.

[Al B. Fuct]

PC, thanks for that. Are your cool tubes commercially made or did you make them?

[PharmaCan]

PC, thanks for that. Are your cool tubes commercially made or did you make them?

Al - They're Hydrogrow (commercial) tubes. I was going to build the tubes myself using 6" bake-a-rounds. I went to E'bay and found two bake-a-rounds and tried to order them. For some unknown reason, PayPal wouldn't process updating the expiration on my c/c and I wrote the vendors to make other payment arrangements and they never wrote back to me and I finally just said "fuck it!" and bought the commercial units.

IF you could get the 6" bake-a-rounds, the tubes would be simple enough to make. If you just wanted a single light (not two or more hooked in series), you could use just about any Lowe's lamp glass. But my cool tubes only cost US$80, so you might save $30 - $40 each by making them yourself.

And really - the cool tubes don't have to be all that well made. There is more air flow and more air turbulance in your vacuum cleaner hose than in the cool tubes. I have a 470cfm fan. With all the twists and turns and filter, it's probably moving 350cfm - 400cfm. The air flow thru the tubes is maybe like a hair dryer on medium setting. The point I'm trying to make is you don't really need to get all that gung-ho worrying about sealing the tubes. There's very little air pressure involved, so simple taping would suffice. And the tubes never get much more than warm, so duct tape or foil tape will work well and last a long time.

my keyboard batteries are very low - sorry if there's a bunch of typos in this.