I thought I would share my post from my medical grow room thread.
Well, I've been hard at work reorganizing my grow room.
The only thing that has not changed is my 4x4 tent.I have finally moved my worm bin to behind the 4x4 tent. I have had it in a corner of the living room!
With the new method I'm using in the worm bin as explained in a post above, those worms are going absolutely crazy with their eating and their making of more baby worms! I also have been feeding the worms that were still in the EWC I harvested. I had to start doing that with all the cocoons beginning to hatch and there were lots and lots of baby worms. I will use this EWC when I pot up all my Earth box juniors.
This will be the first time that I have used earthworms in a significant amount in Earth boxes. I had used it previously outdoors, but the summer temperatures here are just too high to keep them alive, despite any insulating hay I added. I think they'll make a significant improvement indoors. I will do my cooking a bit different than previous grows with the worms being present. Since I do my cooking in totes outdoors, I will take a small portion of it in a smaller tote and keep it on top of the earthworm bin. Normally I add my amendments and set it up to start cooking. In the Cooking process, the temperature does increase and the worms just cannot survive that temperature. What I plan to do with the small tote is just let the worms eat up the vast root system that will be in the media. There will be significant enough topdressings that are uneaten leftover to amend the media without additional amendments added. With the worms working on the root system and the remaining top dressings, everything should be more available to the plant than before. This will give me a nutritional balanced Base media to start the next grow and will have worms already in it. This will give me a perfect opportunity to test this method side by side with traditionally cooked media with both pots being potted up and top dressed identically at the time of pot up. I really don't think that Tote will heat up, but it is very possible it could .
Gone from the grow room is the Mars 2.3x 2.3 tent and it was replaced with a Gorilla 3x3 tent that was on sale and VERY affordable. The increase in floor space will be helpful as well as the additional height. This will also allow me to run my two small lights in this tent. Both the HLG 200R And the Mars Hydro TS1000 Fit quite nicely and is a total of 350 watts in a three by three space. I can use it as a production tent or just use one light and become a clone and mom tent.
In that I tent I also added the AC Infinity 4 inch smart exhaust fan with 69 controller. I have the controller set up to control the light schedule of both lights along with the exhaust fan.
With this larger tent I had to do quite a bit of rearranging. With the additional equipment and rearranging, I had to do load testing on the circuits in that room and makes the appropriate changes.
I also purchased AC Infinity CLOUDFORGE T7, Environmental Plant Humidifier, 15L. This should give a more accurate control over the humidity in my grow room and give me a longer runtime before filling.
Another addition to the grow room is an AC Infinity CO2 controller. I'm not going to use the CO2 to
push the plants, just to
supplement the CO2. I think the only changes to the environment of the brew room will be higher temperatures during veg to help with the microbial activity, which I think is Significant in an organic grow. I think I will probably begin to reduce the temperature, probably about mid-flower to maintain my terps.
In the Mars hydro 2X4 tent, I have added Mars hydro deep red supplemental light. On this first run I will be selecting indicas or indica leaning girls. What I'm hoping to do is elongate the colas to help make a less fat cola, but hopefully at least the same amount of flower, but hopefully more with the longer node spacing from the additional red light.
Both the 20 gallon Grassroots Living Earth pots are growing quite well with a very pretty cover crop going. Both will get hit with Rootwise When I use that to hydrate the new pucks I'm using for seed sprouting.......... Coco Coin - Rooting Pucks by Char Coir. I'll also be using them in making clones.
The Earthbox Jr media that is cooking in a tote is finished. I will also use the root wise to inoculate and bring up the media to the proper moisture level just before potting up.
The only significant change to my plans for this grow is growing a couple or three Sour Stompers in the new Grassroots Living Earth 3gal pots. With this longer delay between Grows, I'm going to see if I can pull off finishing out the Stompers Along with these photo girls to have some flower before the photo girls are done. This is the shortest auto I have and just happen to have quite a bit of seeds that I made myself. I do expect better results just from the changeover from the Rain Science bags. If I can raise them up high enough to keep the DLI where I want it, I should have pretty good results . It will be an interesting experiment.
I'm hoping to start to grow in the next few days. The physical therapy has been quite physically demanding and has been taking its toll in dealing with the pain resulting. I'm also hoping for a warm up outside so that the root wise I add to the tote will be a bit more effective with the higher temperatures when I inoculate the tote.
I'm definitely excited for this next grow with all the different things I've added in what I plan on doing. It should be very interesting grow in several aspects!
I hope everyone had a fine 420!
