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 Mrshroom
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 Going to start building a grow room but need some input 
#650853 - 12/12/12 09:30 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well I have a 20x11 room to work with in my basement.. what I want to do it set it up so I cycle plants.. figure try to harvest 4 plants every month.. So would it be easier to just have two small grow tents? on tent with a mh light for 4 plants vegging..and one with hps light for 4 flowering plants.. (or should I just use hps for both veg and flower???
Now would 400 watts be enoff? or should I go 600? I want to try to get a 6-8oz a plants.
and for mother(1-3) plants and clone/seedlings I figured just get couple cfl or t5 light? and make a small closet it for that so I can try to cut down on power usage if possible
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 scarfaceofweed
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#650899 - 12/13/12 07:50 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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tents should be fine.
LED is enough for veg.. you can use HPS for that too but it's just not needed.
With HPS you need a vent for cooling as well because it's so much hotter than LED.
400w hps is enough for 4 plants.
What I'm going to do with veg/motherplants is cut off a stickling from each motherplant about a week before the flowering plants are going to be harvested.
Then move the motherplants into flowering and let the new sticklings grow into the new motherplants.
I just don't have enough space in my closet for both motherplants and "normal" veg plants that will be moved to flowering.
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Mrshroom
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: scarfaceofweed]
#650980 - 12/13/12 05:43 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ok with a 400 watt light will there be enoff lumm's to be able to get a 8oz off each plant? or would I be better off with 600 watt?
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651011 - 12/13/12 08:01 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Definitely not. That would be 2 pounds man. You'd have a hard time getting that from a thouie
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Mrshroom
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#651027 - 12/14/12 01:24 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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ok would there be the potential a 600 watt light for 4 plants be able to yield about 6oz each?
Edited by Mrshroom (12/14/12 01:25 AM)
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651028 - 12/14/12 01:34 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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That's still over a pound. That'd be hard for someone experienced to get, let alone a newbie.
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81renaissance
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#651056 - 12/14/12 10:34 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hawk's right, you'd have to veg those bitches for a long-ass time, and/or have a crazy high production strain.
Why do you care about volume so much? Plannin' on being a droogz dealer?
I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but based just on your posts that Hawk/myself have responded in, it seems like you're not really putting in the work in terms of researching and preparing your grow; rather you just post questions as you think of them:
Obviously we can (and are happy to) answer the questions you put out there, but what about the important questions that you don't even know to ask yet?
I really recommend buying a book or two, and reading them cover to cover before you put your seeds in the soil.
Edited by 81renaissance (12/14/12 10:41 AM)
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Mrshroom
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: 81renaissance]
#651059 - 12/14/12 10:48 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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umm I have been reading the marijuana horticulture book. Im going to be a care taker and I can take care up to 6 people so the reason I been asking about volume is because I want to be able o make sure I can grow enoff to take care of them all. So I just been asking questions that come to mind while im reading.. LIke I been reading about training plants..i like the how the method of Fim can increase yield but have a big risk of infection.. So I was going also ask what low stress training method would have the highest out put?
Edited by Mrshroom (12/14/12 10:49 AM)
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651060 - 12/14/12 10:51 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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and I also got my hands on another book called growing elite marijuana that im going to read after
Edited by Mrshroom (12/14/12 10:55 AM)
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#651072 - 12/14/12 11:45 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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hawksapprentice said:
That's still over a pound. That'd be hard for someone experienced to get, let alone a newbie.
also one of the reason I was wondering If I would be able to yield 1-1.5 pounds is because I read you log were you got almost 6 pounds with 6 plants with 3000 watts.. so I figured it I had 1/5 of the light watts that you had so figured I could get 1/5 the yield. Well I don't expect it to happen the first yield or anything because I know that u have experience under your belt were I don't. but just wanted to see if its possible to get that kind of yield after so grows to get the most yield I can for my investment to take care of patients I will be taking care of
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651095 - 12/14/12 01:47 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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It took me a few years to find a strain that yields this much. It took awhile to learn this strain and know what it wants, when it wants it, and how to train it. I have also been growing for around 8 years. And yes, I get 2 pounds per 1000 watt light every harvest, as long as I stick with this strain. I tried out some blueberry and another random strain, had 3/4's of a pound under that thouie.
Get a light, have low expectations, and start getting the experience in. Don't grow for other people that are depending on you for medicine when you don't have any experience.
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#651199 - 12/15/12 12:56 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
hawksapprentice said:
It took me a few years to find a strain that yields this much. It took awhile to learn this strain and know what it wants, when it wants it, and how to train it. I have also been growing for around 8 years. And yes, I get 2 pounds per 1000 watt light every harvest, as long as I stick with this strain. I tried out some blueberry and another random strain, had 3/4's of a pound under that thouie.
Get a light, have low expectations, and start getting the experience in. Don't grow for other people that are depending on you for medicine when you don't have any experience.
ok well I guess then how I should have asked it was, how much lighting would I need to have the abilty to grow that much? the reason im asking this is as u stated it took u time to figure out how to get that much.. and I understand that I guess how im looking at it right now is to get the right equipment to start off right so that I don't have to upgrade latter and spend twice the money cause of getting under powered lights. So when I do have the experience and learn how to get better yields I will be all set up right for it then.
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651202 - 12/15/12 01:42 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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The minimal lumen you want is 3,000 per square meter and optimal is 6,000 per squaremeter.
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: scarfaceofweed]
#651214 - 12/15/12 03:52 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Get 2 1000 watt lights. Start there.
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Mrshroom
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#651228 - 12/15/12 06:04 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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hawksapprentice said:
Get 2 1000 watt lights. Start there.
k will do... now im looking at grow tents I was thinking a 3x3 .. will that be big enoff for 4 plants to grow out and not be growing into each other? or would I be better off with a 4x4?
as for the 1000 watt lights. if I do two grow tents one for vegging and one for flowering.. Would I need 1000 watt light per each tent or 2 per a tent?
Edited by Mrshroom (12/15/12 06:18 PM)
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651234 - 12/15/12 06:46 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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2 for the flowering tent. 1 for the veg tent. Or you can do 2 tents of the same size, have 2 1000 watt lights in each and stagger harvests and harvest more often at the same time.
And would go with 4x8 tents.
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Mrshroom
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#651247 - 12/15/12 08:23 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
hawksapprentice said:
2 for the flowering tent. 1 for the veg tent. Or you can do 2 tents of the same size, have 2 1000 watt lights in each and stagger harvests and harvest more often at the same time.
And would go with 4x8 tents.
yah that's what I was thinking about trying to do was to get it my grow going were I can harvest 4 plants every month.. figured try to get it going were I would have 4 plants in the young clone/seedling stage then 4 veg stage and 4 flowering
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651278 - 12/16/12 12:02 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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When buying your tents, you can go with a cheap tent for the veg room, but make sure to get a REALLY good one for the flower room. unless you don't mind taping up pinhole light leaks...
Or just make one out of 2x2's and panda-film, if you're handy with tools...
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Tank333]
#651318 - 12/16/12 11:06 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Tank333 said:
When buying your tents, you can go with a cheap tent for the veg room, but make sure to get a REALLY good one for the flower room. unless you don't mind taping up pinhole light leaks...
Or just make one out of 2x2's and panda-film, if you're handy with tools...
well what are good brands to look at? I was looking at secret jardin are those good to go with? or would you know of any other brands that are better or just as good for less?
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Re: Going to start building a grow room but need some input [Re: Mrshroom]
#651431 - 12/16/12 05:13 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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