28000 watts of madness

[ShOrTbUs]

Hey Hal, how do you raise and lower the lights in that beautiful setup? I'm soo jealous!

most likely they are in a fixed position. raising and lowering the plants actually proves to be much simpler. provided you don't shell out the cash for a custom automated system. i doubt it would be cost effective anyway.

 

[NorCalHal]

If you look close at the pics, you can see the light "ratchets" holding the lights up. I can move them if I need to, but I put them up pretty high and have not yet had to move them. It is SO bright in the rooms, I don't think I will have to move them at all.
The last couple of days, I have been staking up the plants to help them as they start to put weight on.
There are 4 strains I am running on this run. 2 rooms, 4 rows total, growing 1 strain per room.
Room 1 has Cataract Kush and Alien OG. These are shorter strains, more Indica dominant, so they will grow nicely together in the same room.

Room 2 is Larry OG and Holy Grail OG. Both Sativa dom and really stretch. The Indy dom strains don't really need stakes till close to the end of the cycle, but the OG's need help right away, as they stretch crazy.

 

[trillions of atoms]

: props :

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

:holysheep: Wow, you got balls that CLANK. I would love to grow on that scale but around here there are way too many herd animals who would be willing to kill me for it. :angrywife:

 

[Sin inc]

wow @%$%`

 

[Hushpuppy]

Hey Hal; I would like to pic your brain a little if you don't mind My Bro has a building that is exactly like this setup that you have here and he wants to do some serious growing. He will start off smaller and work up. I am curious about how much room you have between the plants(the spacing) and how tall you will let them(or expect them to) get. How deep are the rows of plant pictured? it appears to be about 4'. Do you think you get a better yield having that many plants closely packed versus fewer plants(like 1 plant in a 3x3' space)? The reason I ask that is because his building has very high ceilings. Thanks man

 

[NorCalHal]

HaHa YYZ...I just believe in my rights and am following the California Attorney Generals guidelines on cultivation.
As far as thievery, plans and measures are in place, well in place.

The tables are 26 feet long and 4 feet wide. Each table has around 30 or so plants, so pot to pot, they are a foot or so apart.
Some of the Indy strains will only reach about 2.5-3 feet tall, where the Sativa's will hit from 3.5-4.6 feet tall.
The picture shown is right before I ditched a few plants that were runts, and really pruned them up. This is the first run at this place, so I packed them in there a little tighter then I normally would, to ensure I hit mad weight.
Strain dictates how many and how close I get the plants.
Knowing your strains are KEY in achieving max yield.

 

[akhockey]

Big props my man. I would love to do this some day.

 

[cmd420]

nice.. are you doing all your own electrical?

 

[NorCalHal]

nice.. are you doing all your own electrical?

Yes Sir, well, myself and a friend. I am not an "electrician" per say, but I understand it well.

 

[Hushpuppy]

Keep us updated with some bud **** Brother Hal :hubba: These should have some killer bud ****

 

[xoddah]

awesome, ab so lutely
I have a carbon copy, size room, in the process of adding another 24x24 within the same building. carpenter and electrician here today, talking with them
then after reading "this" post.
i decided to finish the room with electrical 100amps each room, then up-grade the first room, before I outfit the second
...that's a lot of money honey... i will replace all hoods and window style A/C's with mini-split heat pumps, I was smart enough to put my ceiling at 10ft
insulated with 2" 4x8 Styrofoam panels, push up and move around with 2 fingers. in the "attic" i installed a 14" max fan to remove hot air, too much fan, it will suck the panda film right off the walls and spin the 2 unused 8" intake fans like a jet engine i am working on that, gable fans might be the answer
I have 2 grows on existing room, learning curve, went from 2oz per to 3.5 per and current grow, week 5, i am confident i will have 4 oz/plant.
what i am shooting for is, more watts, more plants, shorter rotation, uniform
growth 2 strains instead of 4 or 5 ... i learned all about LST the hard way
sativa next to indica
I wanna be Nor Cal Hal

 

[NorCalHal]

Been a while. I see MP is going to be around, so I thought I would post a few pics of the room right before I cut it.
Did well.
First pic is Cataract Kush, the 2nd is Alien OG, the third is an over shot of 2 rows, which are Holy Grail OG on the left, and Larry OG on the right. Pic 4 is the Holy Grail OG.
Holy Grail and Larry are the clear winners for best dank, with Cataract coming in 3rd, but she made up for in yield, and the Alien is last for sure, OK herb, not super, but put on the most yield of all. Still got kicked out of the stable though.

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[Locked]

Damn brosef....nice way to bring this thread back....with straight ****.

Looking great, man that's a lot of smoke.

Glad to see you back here, MP is alive and kicking.

 

[trillions of atoms]

Schweeeeet!!!


Thanks for the update hal! Beautiful as always!!

:48:

 

[robertr]

Real nice.

 

[Rosebud]

WOW, wonder how it smells in there. Thanks for the update, Like Hammy said we are really glad you are here. I am in awe of that room up there... speechless almost...

Thanks Hal!

 

[NorCalHal]

Thanks for the comments! It was a great run.
Rose...it smells dank! I just had to replace and add a bunch of filters, so now I am running 5 filters in each room.
This run I am just running GSC and Holy Grail, and they both reek big time, so the extra filters were needed.
Ihave a camera, so I just need to get it dialed and take some newer pics.

 

[bwanabud]

Wow NCH, my idol

Very nice professional work = great yields & safe growing environment.

 

[Hushpuppy]

With all that you should eventually be able to sell the filters to people so that they can smoke the carbon and get stoned