1st Grow

[senorx12562]

This is my 1st time growing, but I decided not to economize, as I intend to continue barring unforseen circumstances. Veg room is about 10x5 and currently has 18 White Rhino, 4 unknown seedlings (free seeds for ordering from Amsterdam Seeds), a White Rhino mother (big one on the right in back) a Blueberry mother (smaller, left foreground) and about 100 clones. I'm using 2 400w Mh lamps, and an 8 tube t8 flourescent fixture for clones. I got the small plants from a friend as rooted clones, and also the mothers. Also pictured is my Flowering room, which is 10x12. In that room, I've got 4 600w HPS, and 2 400w MH. The mothers look kind of sparse because I've taken 60 cuttings in the last 2 days. Of course, I've got nothing flowering yet, so who knows what will happen? I'll keep you all up to date.

senorx12562 Reviewed by senorx12562 on 11-12-2009. 1st Grow This is my 1st time growing, but I decided not to economize, as I intend to continue barring unforseen circumstances. Veg room is about 10x5 and currently has 18 White Rhino, 4 unknown seedlings (free seeds for ordering from Amsterdam Seeds), a White Rhino mother (big one on the right in back) a Blueberry mother (smaller, left foreground) and about 100 clones. I'm using 2 400w Mh lamps, and an 8 tube t8 flourescent fixture for clones. I got the small plants from a friend as rooted clones, and Rating: 5

[senorx12562]

Or not.

[Felixthecat]

are those 6in or 8in air cooled
was there a reason you brought daystar AC instead of radiant AC

[senorx12562]

AC flanges are 6 in. I bought the daystars because the light pattern they put out was more concentrated and less diffuse than the radiants. Since my rooms have plenty of coverage I thought that was the way to go, versus going for more coverage at the expense of output at the canopy. As I recall they were about $20 cheaper too, although that wasn't a huge factor. It was all guesswork tho, as I still have no clue what I'm doing.

[Felixthecat]

they don't have 8in flange for ac daystar rite only radiant?

[senorx12562]

I'm not sure to be honest. Since I have two rows of 3 reflectors, each row with an 8 inch inline fan (with reducers to 6 inch ) I didn't look into anything else.

[DreadedHermie]

Subscribed.

That looks like a killer setup once you get it dialed in. Love the straight 8" pipe, low drag. Are you pushing the airflow through the hoods?

[senorx12562]

I have two separate 8" fans pushing cooling air (from the next room in the case of one, and from outside in the case of the other) through 3 lights each. The straight pipe goes directly outside, as does the cooling air from the lights. I may have to put a carbon filter in the room once flowering starts in earnest. At least 12 of my girls are ready to go to 12/12, and possibly all 18. I have some final light-tightness issues to deal with this weekend, since I do in fact dread hermies. Come summer I may have some heat issues, even with the air-cooled lights. To help with that, I think my photo-period is going to be 10pm-10am. I'm hoping to end up with a continuous harvest set-up with approx. 80 plants in flower at any given time. Please feel free to comment as I'm always looking to learn more, noob that I am.

[senorx12562]

Today's the day. I put 16 white rhinos into flower today. I vegged them for 7 weeks from rooted clones, so they are 18-24 inches tall. Because I only have that many, I was able to use just half of my flowering room/lights. Now, if I could only figure out how to keep clones alive long enough to root, maybe I could fill the rest of the room.

[GetThisOrDie]

Sweet setup. Looks like you are going to have alot of fun with it.
I know how you feel about the clones... I too have problems with cloning. Its a learning process i suppose.

Keep us updated and good luck!