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Howzit guys, just joined here, awesome to have a local community like this sharing this common interest. I'm looking forward to learning with you guys!

Thought a fitting introduction would be to tell you about my grow set up.

At the back of my property I have a small 3x3m room attached to my garage which has now become the grow room. I painted it out, coated the cement floor and replaced the glass windows with plexiglass so that I could lasercut appropriate holes for my ventilation. I 3D printed the louvers on the outside as well as the 100/150mm fittings for my ducting.

Environment

  • 2x 1.2x0.7x1.7m grow tents
  • Tent 1 = 1x BestVA 1200W (240W draw), upgrade will have to wait a while 😄
  • Tent 2 = 2x Blurple lights (180W draw each), again, these are not ideal but get the job done for now
  • 1x Ø150mm inline fan for extraction
  • 2x Ø100mm inline fans for intake (1 for each tent)
  • 4x Oscillating fans
  • Bug barriers
  • Temp/RH Displays

Grow Media

Short story:

Circulating DWC

Long story:

I built my own little circulating DWC system with a reservoir for each tent. I have an air pump that has a manifold for 6 outlets so I pump that into each bucket including the res, obviously with a air stone in each. To circulate I sized down the 40mm piping to 12mm and push the water through using a submersible pump. In the net pots I have my germinated seed in a rockwool starter cube and filled with clay pebbles.

For nutrients, at the moment, I'm using TA Tri Series, formerly GHE. I got a silica and oxygen boost from @GrowGuru that works pretty well and I finish off with Ripen 

What's in the box?

Currently I have 2x Dinafem Big Kush's in week 2 of flower in the the tent on the right and 2x Dutch Passion Durban Poison in week 3 of veg in the left tent.

I guess that's about it for my intro

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1 hour ago, Prom said:

Nice 3d Printer 😁 they are fun to play with.

Just remember for your ventilation... one in, one out.. you do not want to run a shrink wrap or balloon tent. Brings additional stress to the plants. đŸ€“

Man, I've printed tons of grow paraphernalia with that printer, really handy tool!

I have a 6" exhaust fan pulling from both tents and then 2x 4" intakes bringing in outside air for each tent. Was under the impression a you need a bit of negative pressure? My tents do starting sucking in slowly once it's zipped up but not quite "shrink wrapped" 😅

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3 minutes ago, 420SA said:

Welcome @donnob

Decent setup you got going there

I see you signed up twice for the growoff. Did you receive the link?

I haven't received a link no, I was hoping to get in by closing. I guess I stumbled upon this great community a little late, maybe next time

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19 hours ago, donnob said:

I haven't received a link no, I was hoping to get in by closing. I guess I stumbled upon this great community a little late, maybe next time

dont let that stop you if you still want in?

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Shot for the support guys, I think I'll have to contain myself until next time and plan properly. I'll only have a spot for 1 plant and the rules state to grow 3.

My set up is full but I have 1 girl in my tent I accidentally stunted when her roots got entangled in the air stone, so I could put her in a pot and replace her with a new grow

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3 minutes ago, 420SA said:

Absolutely. He will probably only receive the seeds on Monday but we can make an exception no probs

If he is in CT.. I still have a 3 pack Tortoni here.. he could get ASAP. 

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