C5 Mango #3
Taken without flash, really makes a big difference in the apperance huh…
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Just a tip on the heat problem. I had the same issue with LED’s. I switch to HPS in the winter. If I am using 1500 watts to heat the place I may as well have the heating source make light. I still use LED but swap a few of my led’s for 600 watt HPS. Next year I may swap my HPS and LED out for multiple new 315 CMH…just for winter.
Something to think about. It works well for me. I love following your DIY build, very impressive. I almost love building my grow as much as growing…lol.
-Tommy
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I am already running HPS, it’s mainly a question about im far from done building and setting up my grow.
Still need to propper insulate the attic, did what I could with the budget I had at the time. With hope about expanding a bit this year, and have the budget to setup the ventilation and insulation better.
Atm I an venting the hot air from my HPS’s into the attic, due to the flower test’s I am running in my veg closet. It’s drawing air from the veg area, thru my Ozone box fan, cooltubes and into the attic. As I was missing a box fan I had in a storage room I had forgotten about. Found it with the hash tumbler, a few old Wilma systems and a bunch of old 400W lights.
Once im done, as to the plan I posted earlyer.
The cooltubes will circulate air, heating up the scullery and groffice.
Also I will need to put in a foot of insulation in the attic, right now there is only about 2/3 ft insulation in the ceeling over the scullery and some of the HPS room.
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996 gr total, from the 2x 600W HPS
m super happy with that, with the many differnt phenos and strains.
The Cheese didn’t yeald, as well as it have done the past two grows.
Now I have to cure the C5 Mango, and select a keeper mom.
Im gonna take a short break, why I haven’t taken any new clones yet.
I will take clones in a few weeks, the next grow will be a mono crop of the THH x C99 Cross.
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Cleaned up the flower room, washed the flow table and vaccum cleaned the floor.
Washed the reservoir out and got all of the muck out of the bottom, emptied out the pots and removed the majority of the root ball.
Started washing the hydroton, but my back have a hard time handling this task.
So I desided to go with bacteria and enzymes, and filled the unwashed clay pepples back in the pots.
Uncapped all the drippers, so they could flush out loose gunk. Refilled the reservoir, and started the pump.
Now I have been keeping fish for many years, and know a few people with Koi ponds.
My flow table with hydroton drip, if I turn it on 24/7. It turns into one big biofilter, a ‘Bakki’ filter in Koi talk or trickling filter if we talk wastewater cleaning.
The bacteria is already pressent in my hydroton, as well as the bio sponges in the reservoir.
Enzymes will speed up everything, not that they break down the old roots. But they will boost the bacterias, so they can do their work faster.
Weekly dose to my 250L reservoir 5 ml
Will do a weekly 50% water change, before redosing with enzymes.
I have used Koi pond enzymes before, but never to clean hydroton like this.
In theory this should work great, but how fast it will break down old dead roots, will be very interesting.
I will keep up using the enzymes, thru out the next grow.
5 ml a week.
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Nice harvest! Should last ya a week or 2 
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If not, I got the LED cab ready to harvest in a few weeks! 
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Done
Took a while to get each door mounted correct, so it would close with a tight fit and be level. With the twin door, and lining up with the other closet’s two doors.
Got it to where I think it’s acceptable, and it won’t look crooked.
Nice to get done with this step
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@Palindrome
Is each vertical section going to be divided into 3 sections (3 doors) or one tall section? If one tall, why didn’t you use one door per side?
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They are gonna be devided into individual horizontal cabinets, just like my veg closet but a little different devided.
All details should be there, in prev. posts on messurments.
For the veg closet, it’s not a problem with the tall doors.
But they leak light between the layers, I have had to hand curtains for my flower tests.
And I can’t have that in the flower cabinet, in case I need to run the layers on different cycles.
I fear that in the summer time, I might not be able to run all 3 layers at once.
Where if I run the top and bottom, during the day and the middle section at night.
I won’t have as much heat build up, as if all 3 layers run at once.
It might not become a problem, but I do my best to plan ahead.
Day 64 LED Flower test
6666 side
12/12 from clone side
Another 2-3 weeks , trichomes are starting to get cloudy, but I am aiming for ambers.
From the look of it, there should be nothing preventing me, from letting them go as long as needed.
I won’t start flushing them, untill I start spotting ambers. And then start flushing them, till they are nice, yellow and ripen.
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Got the last of the C5 Mango trim tumbled, and handpressed it into a ball
Total yeald from my trim of the 2 prev. harvests is around 34 grams
It’s far from a pure quality, and it contains some plant matter.
Each ball have been vacuum packs, and will be heat cured in a mason jar.
Placed at a hot spot in my boiler room, at a constant 32C degree temp.
I will store it like that for 6-12 months, turning the balls or flip the jar once in a while.
I have only once done this many years ago, will be nice if it works out as well as last time.
This round I don’t have any male pollen to mix in, future project once I get some males flowering.
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Cutting up some more wood sheets
Im not done yet and to save a little money, I have to make the bottom sheet’s in two parts.
I wasn’t able to get sheet’s wide enough, so cutting one peace bottom sheets, would result in a lot of waste.
Still need to cut the end of the bottoms, and the heat reflectors that will be placed between each layer.
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It’s coming along nicely. I love the concept.
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Thank you @ReikoX
Got the last bottom sheets cut, still need to fit an edge and cut the IR reflector.
Done for today!
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I recognise that joinery build skills anywhere, nice to see you full circle bro. K+
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Thank you bean, and good to see you here. K++
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