Smokey Mcpotster
my bone marrow is resin
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- Apr 20, 2009
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Well it's been about 2 months since I found this site. Haven't had time to post much, but I've been reading a lot. I still have questions but I am far enough along to start a journal. I really want to say thanks to the people on here for sharing what they know. I did a google search and found this site, I haven't been to any other site. I don't see a need to.
I'm tired of buying half assed meds that don't work. When I get a good sativa there are no aches, pains, depression or anxiety. I want to grow my own med and get what I need.
I started out by reading A LOT. You should to if your new and reading this. You can find most of your answers if you just look a little. I started out thinking I would do some auto's in a cabinet. I even brought one home. I realized I own my house and have room so I decided to build a small room for a couple of plants. I'm a bit long winded so I will try to edit my posts to be readable. This may get long I just don't know.:holysheep:
The first thing I looked at when looking for a space to build was LOCATION. I knew i would need to have acess to electricity and room for a fan. I found a nice little 3'x3'x68" area. 9 square feet and Just under 54 cubic feet. It had 3 walls ready to go, one is concrete block. I figure that will help keep temps down. I added a few studs to the walls to even them up and built a frame for the door. (Pic 1) I also added bracing in the ceiling, to give more support for the light.
Electrical. I'm not the greatest with wiring anything. I'll just say that selfhelpandmore.com is a great site. I ran a 20 amp breaker just for the room. (I figure I will add a small veg room in the future for clones,to save time.) I put 3 outlets in the room and one outside. I'm going to add one more outlet outside the room closer to where the ballast and fan will be. 2 ceiling fixtures for green lights or a screw in plug adapter if I ever need to plug something in up high. Pics 2 and 3. I'll get a picture of the room with the door on soon.
Light. I really was unsure about this for a while. I wanted to run one light, not a bunch of cfls. I really didn't want to mess with a MH bulb either.(I plan on making a small veg room for clones.) After some reading, I ran across several people who said they noticed little or no difference from MH to HPS for vegging. The other decision was to go with the minimum 400 watt or a 600. A 400 watt would give me 54,000 lumens or 6000 per square foot. The jump up to 600 was pretty big 95,000 lumens or 10,500 per square foot.
Everyone says the more lumens the better, so I went with the 600 watt digital ballast. I also spent the extra money for a cool tube. I'm waiting to see what the temp is in the room without a fan running. My light and fan came from HTG supply a couple of days ago. Shipping time was fast 4 days. Great people, best price I could find. I had placed my order later at night. After I was done I did some more reading and realized the air cooled hood I chose was not going to cool as well as the cool tube would. I called them the next morning and they changed the order for me with no trouble. I upgraded my fan as well just to be sure.
I need to hang my light and work on hooking up the fan. I will make new posts from here so the date is in line with what I'm doing. I want to be able to read this as well. I'm sure I'll have mistakes to correct, lol. Thanks for reading.
I'm tired of buying half assed meds that don't work. When I get a good sativa there are no aches, pains, depression or anxiety. I want to grow my own med and get what I need.
I started out by reading A LOT. You should to if your new and reading this. You can find most of your answers if you just look a little. I started out thinking I would do some auto's in a cabinet. I even brought one home. I realized I own my house and have room so I decided to build a small room for a couple of plants. I'm a bit long winded so I will try to edit my posts to be readable. This may get long I just don't know.:holysheep:
The first thing I looked at when looking for a space to build was LOCATION. I knew i would need to have acess to electricity and room for a fan. I found a nice little 3'x3'x68" area. 9 square feet and Just under 54 cubic feet. It had 3 walls ready to go, one is concrete block. I figure that will help keep temps down. I added a few studs to the walls to even them up and built a frame for the door. (Pic 1) I also added bracing in the ceiling, to give more support for the light.
Electrical. I'm not the greatest with wiring anything. I'll just say that selfhelpandmore.com is a great site. I ran a 20 amp breaker just for the room. (I figure I will add a small veg room in the future for clones,to save time.) I put 3 outlets in the room and one outside. I'm going to add one more outlet outside the room closer to where the ballast and fan will be. 2 ceiling fixtures for green lights or a screw in plug adapter if I ever need to plug something in up high. Pics 2 and 3. I'll get a picture of the room with the door on soon.
Light. I really was unsure about this for a while. I wanted to run one light, not a bunch of cfls. I really didn't want to mess with a MH bulb either.(I plan on making a small veg room for clones.) After some reading, I ran across several people who said they noticed little or no difference from MH to HPS for vegging. The other decision was to go with the minimum 400 watt or a 600. A 400 watt would give me 54,000 lumens or 6000 per square foot. The jump up to 600 was pretty big 95,000 lumens or 10,500 per square foot.
Everyone says the more lumens the better, so I went with the 600 watt digital ballast. I also spent the extra money for a cool tube. I'm waiting to see what the temp is in the room without a fan running. My light and fan came from HTG supply a couple of days ago. Shipping time was fast 4 days. Great people, best price I could find. I had placed my order later at night. After I was done I did some more reading and realized the air cooled hood I chose was not going to cool as well as the cool tube would. I called them the next morning and they changed the order for me with no trouble. I upgraded my fan as well just to be sure.
I need to hang my light and work on hooking up the fan. I will make new posts from here so the date is in line with what I'm doing. I want to be able to read this as well. I'm sure I'll have mistakes to correct, lol. Thanks for reading.