Hey whats up guys? I haven't posted in a long time... most likely because I haven't been doing my thing for a few months. So like the title says I'm growing 29 casey jones plants under 2000 watts. They're a little over a month old, I'm waiting just a few more days before I flip them. Heres what my set up's like: - 1 sg lite 1000w ballast, 1 lumatek 1000w ballast - 2 hotrilux 1000w ful spectrum bulbs - 8" cool tubes - 7 gallon smart pots I folded over onto themselves so they've got about 4.5 - 5 gallons of coco in them. - 4 plants in 5 gallon bucket DWC set up (first time experiment) - 1/2 and 1/2 mix of the dehydrated coco bricks by GH and basement mix. Ive always done that and it seems to work out pretty well as long as I remember to go light on the nutrients for the first week or so. - 740 cfm fan - 9000 btu AC - nutrients- floragrow, floramicro(hardwater), florabloom, floranectar, florablend, liquid and dry koolbloom, floralicious plus, calimagic, superthrive - compost tea I brew with humus and snail castings at least once a week - Plant success (mycorrhizal fungi for the roots) I use a filter in my shower head to fill up my rez, it removes chlorine, sediments and pharmaceuticals. Im hand watering the plants because last time i had an auto water it leaked and i am not cool with that. I spray the plants once a week with end all to keep any nasty bugs away. I run the lights at night and the temp in the room has been around 77.5. The plants look like they're a little stretched and Im guessing that its due to the strain being 80% sativa. I'm blasting them with 2000w from metal halide bulbs and the lights are about 2 feet from the tops of the plants. Well I think thats pretty much it, I keep a primitive grow log just to keep some organization to this whole thing. I only have 2 pics right now but Ill be sure to update with pics frequently. Thanks guys!
I grow in roughly the same size rooms. I lose 3 feet for walkway so i use about 12'x 12' for the plants. I have 4 x 1000 watt lights in each of two rooms this size and have 20 plants in each room. (i tried varying the number of plants but this number works best with the strain I grow and the time I want them to grow). I ask because I think you may need more light for optimum yield. My rule of thumb is to have no more than 4 feet between any plant and a light of 1000 watts. (3 feet for 600 watts). I had an acquaintance scrimp on lumens with same strain and nutes in similar spaces to me and his yield was 1/2 of what mine was. Just a heads up
Honestly I was planning on running another light but I had to give it up on account of my air conditioner... I live in san diego and its been pretty hot lately. If I didn't live in an apt where the box is outside and pretty far away I would have the power beefed up but I don't.... maybe I could grab another cool tube and run 2 600's and a 1000 but I'm not sure...