Hope all my fellow growers are enjoying this extra stretch of summer we are having here in the states.
I'm new to autos, but have been researching for the last 6 months and figured I'd give a go at it. I have been straight photo/guerrilla grow, with a few indoors with friends, for almost 20 years but just moved to a medicinal state (the state a left looked like we had a shot but now.....not so much) so figured I'd try and indoor/auto grow. And low and behold, my wife is jumping in on this also (her first grow EVER)!
I have experience in hydro, so I decided to go that route because I've always had bigger yields with hydro. I started off with 2 1000 watt HID cool tube hoods and magnetic ballasts running Hortilux Eye MHS and switching to HPS once they start maturing. I'm in a 4x8 tent, with A/C (temps right around 75 degrees with a RH of 60%). Using a Root Spa 16 bucket system and maintains res temps around 72 degrees (watching for root rot and have hydro guard on stand by....just in case). 400 cfm inline exhaust with a carbon filter, two 240 cfm fans for my hoods (one drawing in cool air, the other exhausting the hot air), a humidifier, and two oscillating fans.
We're running a Hydrfarm RO 200 for all my water and storing it in a 55 gallon res (filling it the day before I use it). Running 0ppms for the water. I'll be running the complete PH Perfect line from Advanced Nutrients (most additives also).
We are orunning some Mephesto Genetics SODK, Sweet Seeds Red Poison and Black Creme, CBD Crew Med Gom 1.0, and a Nirvana Swiss Cheese, all at various ages.
The only issue we had is I didn't scrub our 55 gallon res before we stored water in it and caused our girls to lock out to avoid the harmful chemicals in the silicone used to seal the barrel. Once that was remedied, they took off.
So, sub in and see if we can pull off our first auto grow!
Cheers!
