Clearly not my first grow but it has been a long time since I had a satifactorily safe location. There may be questions and some comments. But with no further ado …
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A personally fashioned Batwing reflector holding a 400w metal halide , the electrical guts come from highbay factory lights. And check out the kids hardening up
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This fixture was also fashioned by me it is born from a heavier sheet of aluminum one of my earliest pieces of work. I displayed it on the old OG site, I am comparing the two lights for spread and coverage
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Oh I have enough equipment I think, there are two more 400w metal halide ballast sets yet unwired. And these 3 sets of 250w hps ballasts
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nice reflector designs @Uncle_Al. It looks like they spread the light effectively, I wonder how efficiently those reflectors reflect the output…
So- what’s hardening up in there? Multiple varieties or mono crop?
Welcome back home brother and good luck getting the green back in your thumbs 
Stay Hazed,
Jake
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Thanks for the praise, as for strain/s I forgot. these beans are in excess of ten years old but I am suspecting that some are northern lights some are C99 and they came from the now defunct heaven’s stairway
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Yes you have that right ten year old seeds and that is a very generous summation.maybe more. the seeds we’re stored in an climatically uncontrolled Storage bin , yet I managed to pack them away in sealed containers. I am highly surprised they germinated . Many of them layed inert
Back to the equipment here I have the ballasts in " mock up" meaning the are going to be mounted solidly inside this old pentiumII computer cabinet . I ask you this, does it look like I have a college degree as an industrial electrician? The ballasts are currently controlled by a common plug in timer that inputs to a pair of 3 phase motor starters. The motor starters have a bad output leg making them perfect for 120v single phase operation. These too are escapees from the “plant” where I work
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Oh yeah how about some Co2 enrichment? Thank you PepsiCo for your sponsorship of these soda tanks and regulators. There is a very nice set of N2o solenoid I will use to control a timely release Ok I will have to get the tanks pressure tested at fill up but that is a relatively minor expense
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Smell problems? Mmmmm got it covered. These two beauties are ozone generators no need to pay a lot for your equipment. I bought these at Goodwill and the VOA thrift store and a refused to pay full price then the white one is marked 1.99/y the VOA color code prices and things get a discount as they hang around. I paid .25 cents for it and the one from Goodwill was marked 14.99 that cost me 7.00
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The ozone generators are identical internally with the exception of which side had the controls they are made by the same company.
Window unit air conditioner keeping the temps right, I painted the internal air baffles black to stop light. The side gap spreaders have been reinforced against intentional penetration, wood, metal and screws the odd colored rag underneath is soaked in insecticide.
those are some fugly curtains
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Two basement dehumidifiers the primary one is set at 50% humidity and is plumbed directly into a floor drain in the garage
the other is a backup that has a activated charcoal canister and hepa filter
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Grow room has a cozy fireplace, I have a dual window fan that fits up in the flue. That will be for odor remediation
please feel free to peruse the nutrient and soil amendents.
Under no circumstances should you use the Alaska odorless fish fertilizer indoors, the odorless part is a horrendous lie
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Of course I at least monitor temp and humidity, this is a big ol thermometer/humidity meter that came from Walmart off of the season clearance rack. Now only 5.99 down from 9.00. I checked it’s calibration with my high dollar professional test equipment
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And about those fugly curtains the material is a black upholstery fabric. I used to work for the manufacturer who has gone out of business. The material is constructed on a substrate material that was spread with a latex type adhesive,then the glue is pelted with electrostatically charges particles that produce a perfectly oriented very velvety touch and appearance and then dyed and washed in vats then heat treated treated with a generic scotch guard and U.V. protectant . The material was quality control pieces that was tossed in the trash. Recovered by me at no cost. The material is on the windows in double layers. Light leakage was checked by using my light amplifying night vision rifle scope
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“I should start growing again. Let me just see what I have lying around…”
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And that Ladies and Gentlemen is the full TMZ bus tour of my primary grow room , there is another room that will be placed in service when this one gets to flowering. The other room will be used for next set of clones (who am I fooling 
, I have yet to propagate clones successfully) there are a batch of feminized beans on the way and I’ll thread that up later but I hope to break the clone barrier with what’s in the lights now
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How are you not growing?
I was under the impression that you just got started again, and was just making light of your… extensive equipment collection. When I started again, I had a 3x3 tent, a 4-tube T5, and a 400w HPS 
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