Starting my grow - I have some questions

[vancouvercanuck]

Hey how's it going guys? I'm finally ready to start my grow, i have the time, means and equipment to begin. But I am a noob when it comes to this sort of thing. And I do have some questions I am still not sure about. First of all my grow room is about 12 Feet long, 7 Feet High, and 6 Feet Wide. Its a pretty small room.

I have no way of circulating air in and out of the room besides the door to get inside. So I am using a C02 system which the guy at the hydroponics store said should be good enough for the plants. I'm setting it to 30 Minutes Off, and 30 Seconds on to start.

I am using a Carbon Filter to cover the smell. The bulbs I am using are one 1000 W MH Sylvania Bulb. And the other is a HPS 1000 W Sylvania Bulb. The room has been covered with Black and White Poly except the ceiling. For the first two weeks I was going to light the plants for 18 hours, because I simply do not have enough time to watch them for
24 hours straight unfortunately.

I ordered my seeds and I have 2 different strains: 10 seeds of Northern Lights which has a vegetation of 4-7 internodes. Flowering takes 55 days. Average height is 0.5 - 0.75 Meters. Yield is 300 - 325 grams / m2 (dried / indoor). The other strain I have is Skunk #1. Basically I am looking to grow as many plants as I can with the lights I have. So if anyone can answer these questions for me that would be great:


1. How many plants can I grow effectively? I was thinking about 6-8 plants. But I understand the more plants I have may not grow properly is that correct? It would be nice to get as much cannabis as I can from one grow room as possible.


2. Can I use the two different strains, like Northern Lights and Skunk in the same crop? Or would it be better to just stick with Northern Lights for now?


3. I don't have any peat moss pots, but instead the guy at the store gave me these small pucks I am supposed to put the seeds in. Will those work just as good? I was going to Germinize the seeds, use Super Thrive, put them in my humidity chamber, and when they sprout place the pucks in 2 galloon pots I had. Then when they get big enough I
was going to transplant them into the larger 6 galloon pots. Does that sound good?


If you guys could help me with some of these questions that would be great. Any other suggestions would be great as
well. Thanks alot.

[SmknVTEC]

So you plan to use 1000 watts at a time right not 2000 watts at a time? For 1000 watts you could do 6-8 really nice big plants in 6 gallon pots.

Those lights get hot, I hope the room will be ok without any formal exhaust.

Growing different strains at the same time is ok as long as they are not in the same hydro reservoir which sounds like it does not pertain to you.

Are those pucks Rockwool?

[vancouvercanuck]

Originally Posted by SmknVTEC

So you plan to use 1000 watts at a time right not 2000 watts at a time? For 1000 watts you could do 6-8 really nice big plants in 6 gallon pots.

Those lights get hot, I hope the room will be ok without any formal exhaust.

Growing different strains at the same time is ok as long as they are not in the same hydro reservoir which sounds like it does not pertain to you.

Are those pucks Rockwool?

Hey thanks for the reply.Yes that's correct, i'm going to use 1000 W at a time. But I have a larger and a smaller light because I don't want to use the large light at first. I read it may be too powerful for the plants at first.

8 plants sounds great to me i'll give that a try. I have a fan for the room, do you think I should probably purchase another one?

I'm not 100% if they are Rockwool or not. If I had to guess from looking at them I would say yes, but again I am not entirely sure. Does that make a big difference? Because I can ask the guy at the store if I have to.

Let's say the seed sprouts, do I just stick it inside the puck or do I just gently lay it inside the little hole? Thanks again.

[Don Piano]

Two strains is fine, but here is one disadvantage. Say one strain grows taller and you have to raise the light. One strain will not receive enough light.

In an enclosed area with no exhaust or intake, you more than likely will need some way to cool that room.

Are you growing in a closet? what are your circumstances? Live with someone and need to be stealth, or alone? Can I have some more info?

[vancouvercanuck]

Originally Posted by Don Piano

Two strains is fine, but here is one disadvantage. Say one strain grows taller and you have to raise the light. One strain will not receive enough light.

In an enclosed area with no exhaust or intake, you more than likely will need some way to cool that room.

Are you growing in a closet? what are your circumstances? Live with someone and need to be stealth, or alone? Can I have some more info?

I was probably going to stick with one strain. No need to complicate things

Well like I said before I have a fan. What else can I do to keep the room cool?

I'm growing it in a spare bedroom. In a large split level condo. I live by myself.

[SmknVTEC]

The room is air conditioned right. You will need to run that shit cool. I would certainly get another fan. If you could turn the light on with all your fans before you get the seeds in there that would be wise to do a dry run to see how hot it gets in there. Turn it on for 18 hours and check temp. I would just germinate using sylez's method in the sticky. It is simple and straight forward.

[vancouvercanuck]

Originally Posted by SmknVTEC

The room is air conditioned right. You will need to run that shit cool. I would certainly get another fan. If you could turn the light on with all your fans before you get the seeds in there that would be wise to do a dry run to see how hot it gets in there. Turn it on for 18 hours and check temp. I would just germinate using sylez's method in the sticky. It is simple and straight forward.

Sure no problem. I will buy another fan. And no I DON'T have air conditioning inside the room.

Also, do you think its necessary to place the Poly on the ceiling? I will do it if I have to but its going to be difficult.

EDIT: The walls and ceiling are white BTW.

I'll make sure I do a dry run and see how it goes. I'm still not 100% sure how the C02 system works. I opened up the valve on the tank and heard a loud hissing noise. But I did not open up the gauge on the tank. Will I be able to see the C02 coming out?

[SmknVTEC]

See the CO2 NAW I don't think so. But I don't use co2 so I don't know for sure. If the room has A/C that will be fine too; it does not need to be in the room as long as cool air can trickle in. Then you can face the fans so that cool room air is blown into the closet. That will at least help out and hopefully be enough. Don't be too surprised or disapointed if you have to run a smaller HID in there for heat reasons.

[vancouvercanuck]

Originally Posted by SmknVTEC

See the CO2 NAW I don't think so. But I don't use co2 so I don't know for sure. If the room has A/C that will be fine too; it does not need to be in the room as long as cool air can trickle in. Then you can face the fans so that cool room air is blown into the closet. That will at least help out and hopefully be enough. Don't be too surprised or disapointed if you have to run a smaller HID in there for heat reasons.

I'll try buying a portable air conditioner and another fan if the temperature is too hot for the dry run. And its not in a closet BTW. Its in a spare bedroom, with a window that does not open very easily. I'm not even going to bother putting Poly in the ceiling for now. Its going to be too much trouble.

[Gesus47]

you won't see the CO2, it will hiss cause theres the valve on the tank. I would have the valve open just a little bit..you don't need to empty the tank so quickly

[Gesus47]

if the ceiling is white, then you really don't need to do much with it.