Hi AFN, been lurking here for a year and finally decided to get involved.
About 1.5 years ago I decided that I'd like to try cannabis. As a kid I'd had really bad asthma, even a hint of cigarette smoke could trigger me off, so canna was never really on the cards (didn't know about edibles then). Fast forward twenty years and the asthma is long gone and for some reason I can't explain the herb started calling out to me (middle age crisis perhaps
) but I didn't know how to get any. After a bit of pondering I figured the only way would be to grow it myself, and spent a couple of weeks immersed in grow forums online. That was slightly off-putting because so many of them seemed to be populated with a lot of aggressive and argumentative people, which is the opposite of what I thought stoners were supposed to be! Luckily I came across AFN and saw the great people here. Reading AFN obsessively gave me enough confidence to set everything up. So last November I converted a cupboard (Mrs Kushdog thought I'd gone mad), bought a mars hydro, and popped some beans. I got five beautiful plants (3 DP Blackberry and 2 DP Euphoria), and after curing them bought a vaporizer and had a try. Turns out I like the stuff! Like, a lot. Since then I've grown a DP White Widow, some Mephisto Bubbly Blues and Sour hound x Heisenberg. So many strains to try, only so much canna me and Mrs Kushdog (who it turns out also likes the stuff) can get through! But for some reason I can't stop growing and tinkering with the setup, it's just too much fun. Next one, which I hope to do under my swanky DIY COB, is going to be FB Mexican Airlines and Dinafem Haze CBD.
So now, a year later, my Mars Hydro II 400w is running too hot (was fine to start with but has deteriorated with each grow), and I'd like to jump on the DIY COB express to craft something just right for my space. So here's what I've got:
A cupboard with a grow space of 90cmx60cm with a height of 1.5m which I'm in the process of raising to 2m.
About to upgrade my fan to a TD silent (thanks to @Corgy for that), which will be pulling air in from the room and exhausting back out.
Temps in the space without any light on stay the same as the room itself, around 20c in winter, bit higher in summer. Heat is the real issue, the last grow was running at 30c which meant I had to crank the fan up to jet-engine sound levels.
I'm going to spend some time over the next week trying to get my head around what I really need for that space and then I'll post a list of what I've come up with in the hope of some guidance. If anyone in the meantime has some thoughts in which direction I should be looking then do let me know!
Cheers
About 1.5 years ago I decided that I'd like to try cannabis. As a kid I'd had really bad asthma, even a hint of cigarette smoke could trigger me off, so canna was never really on the cards (didn't know about edibles then). Fast forward twenty years and the asthma is long gone and for some reason I can't explain the herb started calling out to me (middle age crisis perhaps
) but I didn't know how to get any. After a bit of pondering I figured the only way would be to grow it myself, and spent a couple of weeks immersed in grow forums online. That was slightly off-putting because so many of them seemed to be populated with a lot of aggressive and argumentative people, which is the opposite of what I thought stoners were supposed to be! Luckily I came across AFN and saw the great people here. Reading AFN obsessively gave me enough confidence to set everything up. So last November I converted a cupboard (Mrs Kushdog thought I'd gone mad), bought a mars hydro, and popped some beans. I got five beautiful plants (3 DP Blackberry and 2 DP Euphoria), and after curing them bought a vaporizer and had a try. Turns out I like the stuff! Like, a lot. Since then I've grown a DP White Widow, some Mephisto Bubbly Blues and Sour hound x Heisenberg. So many strains to try, only so much canna me and Mrs Kushdog (who it turns out also likes the stuff) can get through! But for some reason I can't stop growing and tinkering with the setup, it's just too much fun. Next one, which I hope to do under my swanky DIY COB, is going to be FB Mexican Airlines and Dinafem Haze CBD.So now, a year later, my Mars Hydro II 400w is running too hot (was fine to start with but has deteriorated with each grow), and I'd like to jump on the DIY COB express to craft something just right for my space. So here's what I've got:
A cupboard with a grow space of 90cmx60cm with a height of 1.5m which I'm in the process of raising to 2m.
About to upgrade my fan to a TD silent (thanks to @Corgy for that), which will be pulling air in from the room and exhausting back out.
Temps in the space without any light on stay the same as the room itself, around 20c in winter, bit higher in summer. Heat is the real issue, the last grow was running at 30c which meant I had to crank the fan up to jet-engine sound levels.
I'm going to spend some time over the next week trying to get my head around what I really need for that space and then I'll post a list of what I've come up with in the hope of some guidance. If anyone in the meantime has some thoughts in which direction I should be looking then do let me know!
Cheers
