Grow Mediums 2nd attempt at DWC Grow!!! Changed up my Grow cab!!

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Well hello AFN family. I am new on here under GhostRyder. I was on here back last February as Casper79. Unfortunately after my first DWC grow became an epic failure cause I fried my LR#2 babys by not setting up my grow box correctly. So with that being said, I left for awhile and when I came back I couldnt remember my login password.lol. So I hope to get great advice and help as I did the first attempt. I still need to properly finish setting up my box. Ive got a nice start on it. Ive taken pics of what I have so far with the box as well as all the supplies I have. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated. :grin:

This is my Grow box that is 46"Hx19"Wx26"D. I added the register vent to bottom for better fresh airflow intake, and a 65watt 2620 RPM exhaust blower with 6" x 12" Odor Scrubber for heat and smell
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Ok so I took Shumway's advice last time I was here and took the 2 black and orange CPU fans and installed them staggered on my light wing to help cool off the heat from MS/HPS bulbs and have them wired into a AC wall adapter. I have still have the lil red Holmes fan that swivels to aim up towards lights for extra cooling and airflow in box. Odor Scrubber, and my Revolt 250 watt MH/HPS electronic ballast. Thinking of attaching the blue 250watt electronic ballast about middle way up on left or right side. Not sure yet. Any suggestions on the placement of that?
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Here is my 250watt MH/HPS bulbs. I also have this 150 watt China Red/Blue LED thats 12x12 and 2 red spectrum and 2 blue spectrum CFL grow bulbs. I think that the MH/HPS will be plenty in my size box though. Any suggestions is cool with me.
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I still have a whole bag of hydroton, plus a 1/4 of a bag, plenty of 3 inch net pots, and enough rockwool for now.
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I am going to use the same nutes as before. AN Jungle Juice Micro, Grow, and Bloom. Ive also now got Voodoo, Big Bud, and Bud Candy all by AN as well. Ive got a whole bottle of PH UP and a bottle and a half of PH DOWN with stablizer. I also now have the dropper and got a sunleaves shot glass measurer. I still have the yellow PH tester but now got a PPH and water temp tester. The only thing ive noticed I DONT have is the calibration NACi mixture to calibrate. Any suggestions on that?
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I am using the 2 pictured airstones, attached to the dual pump pictured as well. I have the brinks timer to set on 20/4 which is perfect for Autos. And last but not least my resevoir is a dark blue 10 gallon rubbermaide tough tote. Which will hold roughly 5-6 gallons to bottom of net pots. The lid pictured is for 1 site lid, yet I have 2 of the same tubs and the other is a 6 site lid.


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Well thats everything except for the heated seedling mat, and humidity dome that I forgot to take pictures of. LOL. If you would like to leave comments on my setup or any suggestions, I would GREATLY appreciate it. I will be ready to start 2nd DWC grow prob within a few weeks. OHHH and I almost forgot the most important part!!! What beans I have!!!! LMAO, So Im not sure which ones to do yet cause im only gonna prob do 1-2 beans this time around. Last time I wasted 3 LR#2 beans :dunno: But heres what I have :
- 2 LowRyder#2 (feminised)
- 1 Delicious Northern Light Blue ( feminised)
- 2 LowRyder EasyRyder (feminised)
- 1 Sleestack X Skunk (regular)

All beans came from Herbies :grin: So any suggestions or comments on my beans would be great as well!!! Well Im out for now AFN family. Glad to be back :thumbs: I'll post new pics as soon as I get the box completed. Happy growing and smoking AFN!!!!

:peace: GHOSTRYDER
 
Thank you Smithiano

I will have more pics coming soon.

:peace: GhostRyder :wiggle:
 
Well hello AFN family. I am new on here under GhostRyder. I was on here back last February as Casper79. Unfortunately after my first DWC grow became an epic failure cause I fried my LR#2 babys by not setting up my grow box correctly. So with that being said, I left for awhile and when I came back I couldnt remember my login password.lol. So I hope to get great advice and help as I did the first attempt. I still need to properly finish setting up my box. Ive got a nice start on it. Ive taken pics of what I have so far with the box as well as all the supplies I have. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated. :grin:

This is my Grow box that is 46"Hx19"Wx26"D. I added the register vent to bottom for better fresh airflow intake, and a 65watt 2620 RPM exhaust blower with 6" x 12" Odor Scrubber for heat and smell
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Ok so I took Shumway's advice last time I was here and took the 2 black and orange CPU fans and installed them staggered on my light wing to help cool off the heat from MS/HPS bulbs and have them wired into a AC wall adapter. I have still have the lil red Holmes fan that swivels to aim up towards lights for extra cooling and airflow in box. Odor Scrubber, and my Revolt 250 watt MH/HPS electronic ballast. Thinking of attaching the blue 250watt electronic ballast about middle way up on left or right side. Not sure yet. Any suggestions on the placement of that?
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Here is my 250watt MH/HPS bulbs. I also have this 150 watt China Red/Blue LED thats 12x12 and 2 red spectrum and 2 blue spectrum CFL grow bulbs. I think that the MH/HPS will be plenty in my size box though. Any suggestions is cool with me.
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I still have a whole bag of hydroton, plus a 1/4 of a bag, plenty of 3 inch net pots, and enough rockwool for now.
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I am going to use the same nutes as before. AN Jungle Juice Micro, Grow, and Bloom. Ive also now got Voodoo, Big Bud, and Bud Candy all by AN as well. Ive got a whole bottle of PH UP and a bottle and a half of PH DOWN with stablizer. I also now have the dropper and got a sunleaves shot glass measurer. I still have the yellow PH tester but now got a PPH and water temp tester. The only thing ive noticed I DONT have is the calibration NACi mixture to calibrate. Any suggestions on that?
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I am using the 2 pictured airstones, attached to the dual pump pictured as well. I have the brinks timer to set on 20/4 which is perfect for Autos. And last but not least my resevoir is a dark blue 10 gallon rubbermaide tough tote. Which will hold roughly 5-6 gallons to bottom of net pots. The lid pictured is for 1 site lid, yet I have 2 of the same tubs and the other is a 6 site lid.


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Well thats everything except for the heated seedling mat, and humidity dome that I forgot to take pictures of. LOL. If you would like to leave comments on my setup or any suggestions, I would GREATLY appreciate it. I will be ready to start 2nd DWC grow prob within a few weeks. OHHH and I almost forgot the most important part!!! What beans I have!!!! LMAO, So Im not sure which ones to do yet cause im only gonna prob do 1-2 beans this time around. Last time I wasted 3 LR#2 beans :dunno: But heres what I have :
- 2 LowRyder#2 (feminised)
- 1 Delicious Northern Light Blue ( feminised)
- 2 LowRyder EasyRyder (feminised)
- 1 Sleestack X Skunk (regular)

All beans came from Herbies :grin: So any suggestions or comments on my beans would be great as well!!! Well Im out for now AFN family. Glad to be back :thumbs: I'll post new pics as soon as I get the box completed. Happy growing and smoking AFN!!!!

:peace: GHOSTRYDER

:rofl:Well....as you can see I subbed your thread and commented in mine before I read your thread!!!:roflcry:....WELCOME BACK GHOSTRYDER(aka CASPER)!!........you have what seems to be a great setup and plan of action!....I cannot comment much because super small places is one of the only places that I have never been "forced" to deal with..........that being said.....I do know that "micro" or super small grow boxes like yours can be extremely hard to dial in...its often easy to overdue things such as air movement and even light......so I can almost gaurantee you that someone with WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY more experience then myself with a similar setup as yours guide you in the right direction.............but....if I were to guess..you might be over doing it in the lights a bit for your size grow.....not sure but a guess......................Also.....I have heard amazing and wonderful things about Delicious seeds's northern light blue!!!just a friendly suggestion:thumbs:"My 2 cents"............once again Welcome back and I look forward to following your grow!:grin::tiphat::peace:
 
Hey Phillow :howdy: Thanks man. I got my old account back as Casper79. LOL... Muddy messaged me and told me he reset my password so I could log back in. He informed me that he is gonna switch all my posts, and pics from the GhostRyder account over to this one. He told me there was another guy that used to be on here named GhostRyder and he was banned. Guess he was a douche. :dunno: LOL But I dont want people thinking i was him. SOO, I'm glad Muddy got my old account back. Yeah Im kinda leary about the MH/HPS setup I have cause it may be too much. Hopefully somebody will chime in soon and help me. I have the LED red/blue 12 x 12 light. Think that would be suffient for doing just 1 bean? I want a tent someday when I get my own place again. I really want to do the Delicious NL bean but yet I dont wanna fry and burn the only one I have. Just be sure to follow Casper79 and NOT Ghost Ryder brotha!!! Air movement and light is my biggest concern right now before finishing my setup. Well have a smoke filled day dude and thanks again. I'll be following you too!!! Candy Kush will def be my next beans I get. Yours looked pheonmenal!!!! :jump:
 
Hey Phillow :howdy: Thanks man. I got my old account back as Casper79. LOL... Muddy messaged me and told me he reset my password so I could log back in. He informed me that he is gonna switch all my posts, and pics from the GhostRyder account over to this one. He told me there was another guy that used to be on here named GhostRyder and he was banned. Guess he was a douche. :dunno: LOL But I dont want people thinking i was him. SOO, I'm glad Muddy got my old account back. Yeah Im kinda leary about the MH/HPS setup I have cause it may be too much. Hopefully somebody will chime in soon and help me. I have the LED red/blue 12 x 12 light. Think that would be suffient for doing just 1 bean? I want a tent someday when I get my own place again. I really want to do the Delicious NL bean but yet I dont wanna fry and burn the only one I have. Just be sure to follow Casper79 and NOT Ghost Ryder brotha!!! Air movement and light is my biggest concern right now before finishing my setup. Well have a smoke filled day dude and thanks again. I'll be following you too!!! Candy Kush will def be my next beans I get. Yours looked pheonmenal!!!! :jump:

Hey casper!!super cool you got your nickname back!!!One of the countless reasons to LOVE this site!:grin: So far I have been lucky here on AFN....haven't encountered a single douche yet!!(knock knock!LOL) ........Also I just noticed your seed list again and yeah.....maybe you should save that one seed for when your setup is more dialed in:check:........if I were you I would germ the Easyryders......they should be the most forgiving of your strains(IMO)....also its one of the few Auto's that I happen to have experience with:thumbs:...you should check my avatar pic and my album in my profile page has some pics of a few of the Easyryders I pulled off back in 09.........as for L.E.D's....thats one of those subjects that I honestly have zero first hand experience with........as I am a diehard mh/hps user.....mainly for quality purposes and shear cost of the "good" ones......I'm gonna add you as a friend:tiphat:.......btw..you might have gotten my pics mixed up with someone else......haven't grown the Candy Kush yet but I have some Cream Mandarines a few days from finishing..here is my journal link.......https://www.autoflower.org/f61/5gal-dwc-cream-mandarine-400watt-tent-grow-27913.html glad to have you back with the best network on the net!!!!:pimp:AFN!!!!:grin::twist::dance2:
 
Your grow box is the same size of one I had built and the only problem I had was I out grew it by a lot. I only had one white dwarf in it and might have been able to deal with the height but the width of the plant got to be too much and wouldn't let light down thru it or air up thru it and doing water changes was becoming a pain in the butt so I had to build a bigger box I'm now up to a 4'x 2'x 7' this gives me plenty of room for all my equipment and for my plant to expand all it wants.
 
Yeah. This is the only box I can have right now cause its all I have room for in my bedroom. Dont have any other place to grow until I get another place on my own. I only plan to do one plant at a time for now until I can expand to a bigger box or a 2' x 2' x 7' tent. Plus right now I'm on a shoe string budget.lol. Im going to be doing a DWC grow as I did before on the 1st attempt last February. Im just waiting on tax money to come to buy a LED, some Cal Mag, and some black tubing for my dual port pump. Everything else I have. Thanks for that info dude :Sharing One:
 
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