F | T | F Growery: Cultivating In Growpito(Cancelled Due To Pest)

Quick run down of my entire setup and the etc. of the methods I use to not kill everything I touch. I'm a big believer in dialed in environments and the best lighting you can afford but also understanding what needs to be purchased and for what reasons. I see a lot mistakes and failures happen because these things aren't done well or even taken into consideration.

• Grow tents - 5x5 and a 4x4 give me enough space for mothers, cuttings, seeds, and rotating vegetables. All tents are subpart IMO but this is space that is available for now lol.
• Lighting - Bridgelux EB gen 2 3000k strips are the go to for my flower and veg with 480w to flower and 185-370w in veg. Great lights that I built to reach 2.5umols/j while delivering excellent coverage with decent penetration.
• Air circulation - 200cfm and 400cfm looped to both tents. I have an intake hole connected to my 400cfm that brings in fresh air at a slow rate while the air is circulated between both tents for heat and humidity. I also use two 18" box fans in flower and one in veg. Keeps everything really well circulated so stagnation and micro climates are kept to a minimum.
• Temperature - heater connected to InkBird controller maintains 82-86f. Outside the tents is an AC for the window that brings the room temp down overall as air is reintroduced back into the large room.
• Humidity - controlled by an AIRCARE 6 gallon humidifier that maintains 55+ rh year round. Humidity is produced outside the tents so the overall room humidity sits perfectly as intake air. Really helpful with full canopies and the veg room
• Water - reverse osmosis through an Axxeon system with carbon and sediment filters. Runs 2500gpd but much less for my situation. I use two 55g drums for the clean and the discharge

I do suggest renting or buying a PAR meter as that is an incredible piece of technology that I did not have a manufacturer to rely on for. DIY lights are a guessing game and to some extent so are pre built as manufacturers are prone to lying. A lux meter can be a decent second if you have the spectral distribution conversion or you have used a PAR meter already OR the manufacturer or someone on YouTube has provided it. Either way a PAR meter and a LUX meter measure two very different things like a screwdriver and wrench and one is not a substitute for the other. On to my medium and fertilizers...

• Medium - Growpito Sim Mix. That's what this is all about
• Pots - 5 gallon for flower and a hodgepodge for veg
• Base fertilizer - Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Bloom for hydroponics. I use this for everything without issue
• Additives - Botanicare Liquid Karma, Fulvic Acid, Silica, and yucca powder
• Beneficials - Growpito Beneficials and Blast are N and P fixing formulas that I love contains kelp, yucca, humic, trichoderma, myco, microbes, and enzymes.
• Irrigation system - 3x3 flood and drain table for flower and two 30g reservoirs. Otherwise I hand water the mothers...

I do also suggest a c02 monitor and a hot tip wind prove to measure more parameters.