Hey everyone!
I'm looking into growing my own cannabis so i can stop paying good money for meh bud. After doing some research I've chosen to do autoflowering plants and I've got a pretty good idea of what i want to do so i'm just going to write out what the plan is in my head to hopefully get some experienced growers advice. All of this is still in the planning stages and can be adapted as needed.
1 DIY grow tent, 3.5' x 2' and 4 or 5 feet tall made from 1" PVC piping and panda film. A la http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdMdD4Oc7Gk
CFL Lighting, I'd shoot for 4000 lumens/sqft which would end up being 18 23w bulbs or 11 42w bulbs. I'm not entirely sure which wattage to choose but I'm leaning towards 23's because i can't find any 42w 5000k CFL's here. For the 23w's i would put 6 lights hanging, 6 lights on the back and then 3 lights on bith sides, 20/4 the whole lifespan
I want to grow the Heavyweight 2 Fast 2 Vast preferably but Fast and Vast would be just as good, i just like that potential 1% THC boost. My only concern is some of the pictures ive seen of these things are massive, would a 3.5'x2' or even a 4'x2' box hold them?
I know plant size will ultimately depend on pot size and length of time until it gets root locked(I think?)
I'm planning on using either 2 or 3 gallon buckets
The only local nursery here only sells Dr Earth fertilizers, but after looking them up http://drearth.net/ i think they sound pretty good and since im not on the biggest budget shipping nutes here seems pretty expensive. They also sell soils with their organic nutes in them, i can't find a lot on autoflowers with that brand but none i have found seemed to have adverse seedling effects from the nuted soil.
Fans/ventilation is one thing i still havent really figured out but I do have an old junk computer i can scrap with 3 fans in it (I think it's 2 80mm's and a 120mm, do I really need to get a fart fan to hook up to a carbon scrubber? is there something smaller or quieter i can use that will still move enough air through the filter to be stank free outside of the box?
Any help is greatly appreciated, I'm very eager to get growing soon
I'm looking into growing my own cannabis so i can stop paying good money for meh bud. After doing some research I've chosen to do autoflowering plants and I've got a pretty good idea of what i want to do so i'm just going to write out what the plan is in my head to hopefully get some experienced growers advice. All of this is still in the planning stages and can be adapted as needed.
1 DIY grow tent, 3.5' x 2' and 4 or 5 feet tall made from 1" PVC piping and panda film. A la http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdMdD4Oc7Gk
CFL Lighting, I'd shoot for 4000 lumens/sqft which would end up being 18 23w bulbs or 11 42w bulbs. I'm not entirely sure which wattage to choose but I'm leaning towards 23's because i can't find any 42w 5000k CFL's here. For the 23w's i would put 6 lights hanging, 6 lights on the back and then 3 lights on bith sides, 20/4 the whole lifespan
I want to grow the Heavyweight 2 Fast 2 Vast preferably but Fast and Vast would be just as good, i just like that potential 1% THC boost. My only concern is some of the pictures ive seen of these things are massive, would a 3.5'x2' or even a 4'x2' box hold them?
I know plant size will ultimately depend on pot size and length of time until it gets root locked(I think?)
I'm planning on using either 2 or 3 gallon buckets
The only local nursery here only sells Dr Earth fertilizers, but after looking them up http://drearth.net/ i think they sound pretty good and since im not on the biggest budget shipping nutes here seems pretty expensive. They also sell soils with their organic nutes in them, i can't find a lot on autoflowers with that brand but none i have found seemed to have adverse seedling effects from the nuted soil.
Fans/ventilation is one thing i still havent really figured out but I do have an old junk computer i can scrap with 3 fans in it (I think it's 2 80mm's and a 120mm, do I really need to get a fart fan to hook up to a carbon scrubber? is there something smaller or quieter i can use that will still move enough air through the filter to be stank free outside of the box?
Any help is greatly appreciated, I'm very eager to get growing soon