Andy
Yo guys what is up welcome back to another episode of marijuana sa weekly and I’m gonna jump straight into today’s podcast and we’re doing a bit of a DIY a bit of a tutorial or like not a DIY, but a bit of an explainer video is showing you guys exactly what you need for a no comma eight by naught comma eight indoor growth system. We’re going to break it down piece by piece. And basically this should hopefully help you guys pick out all the ingredients that you would need for your system. And I’m going to jump into the sharing of course Dean’s here as always to guide us with this today Drina I mean, where do you want to start with? Like, where do you envision us starting off with this,

Dean
I always say to clients is three things that are important to a Grow Tent. And the first one is this guy over here, your gross space leg, either, if it’s going to be obviously like, obviously, we’re talking about tents now, but like, your space is definitely the most important thing. When you’re, when you’re doing a grow, you know, I mean, without the space or a solid space, you’re going to have problems like lightly and, you know, people barging into it or, or, you know, multiple different issue. So I always think that the space is, is definitely the most important. And then after space, there’s there’s two environmental goals, which sort of form sort of the, I would say the sort of base of of any successful grow. Number one being the sun shining bright,

Andy
I just want to jump in, you guys can also access this via the link in the description. You guys won’t be able to move it around like we can, but you’ll be able to view it in retrospect in the future, and just like move some, like have a look at it after the fact. But anyway, yeah, sorry, you’re talking about the sun. Yeah, that’s a nice light. And this is also specific, we have a lot of this stuff available on the store. So you can also check that there will be some links below. And this is a like a recommended setup, right? So like this would be the 240 Watch. King bright, that suit like that would fit perfectly in there’s no comma A by Nakama a tent. Yeah. And

Dean
you’d maximise it completely with it, you know, you’d be able to pull massive yields for very small amount of space. And you know, personally the the king Brighton and from what I’ve seen, I mean, I actually saw some went on Facebook on one of the growth groups, they did 1440 watts of King by 240s. And they pulled 1.8 kilos off that you know, so it’s showing that that’s more than a gramme of white so really really it’s honestly my favourite life like I really like Rolla

Andy
light we got the tent. Let’s have a look obviously I think something like this, like little supplement while we while we on the lighting thing, I’ve made it a bit smaller because it’s maybe not as as critical but it is it is critical technically

Dean
though, because like like what I say to clients is who tried to do it themselves, like clients like consistency. So if you don’t have a robot turning your light on and off, it’s never going to be successful. You need that you need that robot you know, so this is a timer and timer. Yeah, yeah, if you don’t have a timer, you need a timer for for grow here. Now. This is

Andy
usually going to set you back like 300 bucks, like $15 sort of range. You can get one for maybe like five ish dollars, but I don’t really like the analogue ones that are confusing.

Dean
Yeah, I like in South Africa specifically, we deal with the intermittent power cuts. So like the time scene, the electronic timer will keep your child will keep your time whereas manual would miss out. So it’s like then it becomes manual. You know, if you’re away for the weekend, and there’s a load shedding cat, you’re gonna lose your you’re gonna lose your time. Yeah, and obviously unless you have you have something like, like this over here, our inverter battery system, which is you know, which is I’d say for our international viewers maybe I mean it’s probably maybe necessary but like how often are you so how often are you getting in like load shedding in America? I don’t think ever here No.

Andy
This is gonna be basically for it’s like a power system for when the power runs out. You just run it connected to all itself charges as big batteries in that bottom piece. And like you know, as soon as the second power cuts the thing on the top will know the powers off and I’ll turn it on. And Bob’s your uncle this Yeah, we don’t stop at the moment.

Dean
And you do need to run like with with that you you know it would keep your leisure environmentalist going and just sort of going back to it to our essential. There’s one other sort of main essential that I always suggest, well that unique because like plants need fresh air. So like there’s this guy over here. The inline fan. What’s nice about using it Tank is you technically only need one inline fan, because you’d use it as your exit and then either the tank has sort of seals and it would get a negative pressure running into the tank. So you run this as your exit, you run the the fan as your exit and then you basically technically now have recreated what’s happening outside you’ve got light and you’ve got and you’ve got air movement and you’ve got a grow space and is that

Andy
just a nice filtered intake but like something you can do with that just with the with the ducting is like with the inline it’s like obviously you need the ducting which is that like silver tube stuff guys and that’s going to run I would maybe put depending on I suppose you could you might need to run a little bit like coming out of out of thing like I would have an intake another these always have multiple if they have two holes I would have your intake hole which is usually I think at the bottom and that I would have some ducting running out there not cover that was a bit of a sock filter stocking type thing just to keep it

Dean
I always suggest to clients get the long one like a long acting thing and cut it into pieces three pieces one piece to go before the inline fan one piece to go after the inline fan and then the third piece to go into your entrance at the bottom and then obviously you don’t don’t like put your your one piece of ducting blasting onto the other piece of ducting try and like separate the way they are at you know and hot air does rise so having your your exit at the top and your intake at the bottom makes technical technical

Andy
and then just with bench What about this guy?

Dean
Yeah, so with the air movement is going to get you your parameters going but you do need to then strengthen up that plot you know outside you have wind and wind will blow and when the when the wind blows, it’s going to increase your stem strength and allow their plan to be hardier. So if you have no wind blowing around inside the growth space, you’re actually going to get smaller yields because your plant is not going to have strong stems in order to hold strong heavy bands you know as soon as it starts to do that soon as it starts to bad it’s going to just like flop over because it’s so weak so if you don’t have any air movement inside the space, you’re actually going to negatively affect your yield because your plants are going to be weak.

Andy
And this This is not like there can be opportunities for like because your intakes your your inline fan is going to create like a steady stream of airflow through your tent like this but like the oscillating fan is going to move like this and it’s going to be able to do like any dead spots of air you know like this like hot stagnant air that’s sitting there you just want to move that into your inlines path and then we’ll get sucked out and taken care of

Dean
I suppose that’s the other aspect too you know mould and dead spots and and stuff like that in the air flow can be caused or mould can be caused by dents but less prevalent

Andy
maybe in the size of the tent right? I mean it’s for a dead spot of an open air but like on your front it’s for a smaller team like that it’s much more important for the growth in the simulation. Yeah, straightening the plant and suddenly we may be overlooked with your you know with your light. You need one of these guys just hanging kit

Dean
or road ratchet. Always a good product and you can use a piece of rope and tie it off as well but like having the ability to click it up each time and slowly move your light and or bring it down when necessary. You know all of those are important aspects that’s definitely a product which you you you often see if someone’s taking a light they are taking a hanging kit or a robe ratchet what’s cool about the king bride 240 specifically is it actually comes with its own row brackets which is quite cool. If you guys

Andy
go from this slide then this will become a might need an essential might need not necessarily an essential so we’ll put

Dean
that but if you enter live without it, obviously yeah it’s an essential yeah so it’s either or.

Andy
Okay so now moving on to something I mean I don’t really like yeah pots I suppose it is essential but depending on what type these are like more fancy fabric base pots, reusable fabric. You could go for hours I mean in this case, I think they I tried to get like he can’t see the size but they I think these were 37 litres but we also have like a 30 litre which be fine with climatic freedom farms freedom parts, there’s like a whole bunch of different types. But you could also get a slightly cheaper option of just like plastic plastic parts from wherever

Dean
nursery bags or plastic parts and you know with a 10 size or a two like you also want to then look at how many plants you want to do if you’re wanting to do one plant you go I’d go for like a 30 or a 50. But if you’re wanting to do like multiple plants and you’re obviously going to go for a smaller size and do and do smaller, smaller plants more high density kind of kind of crop. I also do Just want to quickly on. On that point, before we move more into the growing, I would also just put this here as an essential the hygrometer. Yeah, basic data is important. And the two basic data parameters is your humidity and your temperatures because if you don’t know those, you’re not going to be able to you’re just shooting in the in the in the park. So what’s cool about the you know, the, the specific hygrometer, it’s super cheap, gives you a max and a min, and it gives you a current, and you can reset your max and your men daily. And then you can start to record data in a book or on a whiteboard or something like that. So you know, just having your data is highly important. And you can get data for cheap, you know, it’s cheaper than that. It’s cheaper than the timer.

Andy
This is 150 bucks at the moment, I think it’s it’s six $7.50 It’s next to nothing. So yeah, it’s definitely definitely an addition that’s essential. 100% agreed. With data and stuff like then you were talking about like shooting in the dark and whatnot. I think something like this the pH I’m going to put it down. Yes, solar Central, but I’m gonna put some of the newts and stuff together. pH Yeah, you’re going to be wanting to take your your watering, whatever you’re watering, whether you’re doing a new field, or whether you’re just watering, you want to be checking your pH and like pH differs, like if we say we don’t need a check, because like our pH in Cape Town as a specific balance, it might not be the same like literally in from Somerset west to maybe like even corns bears close votes. So it’s like, it’s different water supplies, you know, like, they’re gonna have slightly different variances and the pH

Dean
even gonna need to, and it changes over time. You know, like, generally my pH is 100% Fine. But then on the odd occasion, I tested and I’m like, Oh, the system, we’re, we’re still here, it is still important to test regularly, even if you are normally fine. Like, I generally know, mine’s fine. So because I’m in a rush, I’ll wing it. But I still like to test as regularly as possible. Yeah. And like so then I’m, for example, some people are getting like very high or very low, you know, and, and also, then also your nutrients and putting stuff into water, obviously adjust your pH, though, then it’s important to be testing.

Andy
Right, it was feeding schedules and such, I think I’m gonna pop these guys in, you can give a little bit of explanation on these two.

Dean
Yeah, so I mean, we basically gave two very basic nutrients here we’ve given one high nitrogen grow nutrient and white one, high phosphorus, potassium, flowering nutrient. And, you know, when you’re trying to achieve sort of bigger yields, you can, I mean, a lot of the craft soils are specifically the, you know, like the crossovers that we offer are packed with nutrients, but if you’re wanting to enter into it, so they will generally be fine. But, you know, if you’re wanting to pump pump out a bit harder is the two basic need, you will need two basic nutrients at least and we really liked the omega range. It’s a semi organic powder based range. And, and and it’s locally made, so yeah, it’s really weird. Yeah, super cheap. Were you back

Andy
700 bucks sometimes.

Dean
Yeah, I went through a load of them that summer season to be honest.

Andy
It’s, it’s an hydrated so it’s you know, as powder based, you know, when you add water it goes goes a long way. Just because it’s like in the powder is a good form factor for shipping nutrients and moving them around. So yeah, those are critical, but then like these other sort of users, I think, I mean, you obviously want to put your wedding agents is a critical, right?

Dean
Yeah, so I didn’t used to be the biggest sprayer back in the day. But like now, as a, as someone who’s dealt with, like, multiple problems over multiple years, my IPM is highly important and, you know, just this specific product, the wetting agent is an insecticidal soap even to the test this past weekend where I actually did the test of using of spraying water onto a plant without wetting agent and with wetting agent to do the test. And what I actually noticed afterwards is you know, the the it achieved it did it sweating but then it also like the leaf was clean, you know, the one leaf where the wetting agent on was clean and the other one wasn’t so like it’s just something that your plant seems to eat up and build resilience and and help grow and you know, some of the other the insecticide and the funghi side, you could potentially if your parameters are really good, you could potentially put those as might need recommended, but I would definitely say that every grower needs to own a bottle of wetting agent I’ve we came into contact with it maybe a year and a half ago and I’ve I’ve since not I have since the neck not looked back and I sprayed it every single week. In my in my grow

Andy
yams. I’m gonna pop these on your recommendation insecticide like you might need these If you develop like if any of these are the Margaret Roberts insecticide I think there’s a marker or organic insecticide as well

Dean
like that is the organic ones that both know they both fully organic and they both made from like vegetable oils and licks and stuff like yeah they have very strong smells and you know they you might need a slash recommended but like if you are going to get very serious and you’re doing a bit more scale and you have more plants than you can sort of you know keep a daily eye on then it would become an essential so

Andy
yeah only time we wouldn’t recommend recommend like these down years like if you’re really on a budget like you really you know you really want to just wait a couple of like you might not Yeah, you could probably one month get this stuff at the top and then the next month just get a couple like supplement with you know stuff from Yeah, yeah,

Dean
like before you go into flour. I’d say they’re essentials but in bed you know like you could you could maybe push a good few weeks. Yeah, so get the top first and then get the everything else below. And then as soon as loadshedding hits you’ll be buying the inverter battery.

Andy
This guy MacGyver here growing medium. There’s a couple of options you can obviously choose between freedom from classic craft. The Augusto Lux is a What’s that one up in Joburg, the living organic matters, organics matters, which is also really really good. Yeah, this is you’re going to need a medium look at this is more on the pricier side but it’s designed for the job whereas a lot of the stuff at the at the garden centre is going to be like cheaper but not necessarily geared. It’s like more geared for both just throwing on the lawn.

Dean
Yeah, what I often see what I often see with beginner growers using like garden Garden Supply, potting soils and stuff like that is there hold a lot of moisture and you often get over watering or damping or seedlings dying, you know. So going for as a as a noob, or as a newbie, going for like a specific craft, so it can help you avoid some of those sort of early issues. What I’ve noticed, yeah,

Andy
I do it for the money. It’s like it’s worth 100% I can make

Dean
some you can reuse them. You can go watch our videos about oh, and these videos about the ABA that he did with Mike bronchi farms with the soil analysis. And you can see that they’re actually like can go the distance you know,

Andy
I suppose the again Jiffy pellets and seeds. I mean, seeds

Dean
seeds are definitely I’ve seen Sure. I can’t grow ganja without gadget seeds.

Andy
I’m gonna put, I mean, I suppose in this case, yeah, I’m gonna say it’s essentially even if it wasn’t like, in this case, it’s premium seeds. And I’m so going to reiterate that, like if you guys are going to spend all of this money on like this equipment, like just put that last 500 bucks into a good pack of seeds in the last in the last mile. You know, like don’t spend this and then go and grow bag seed and get to males in your tiny little space, your electricity bills going to be through the roof, and now it’s for nothing. So yeah, I would I would strongly recommend getting a seed you’d recommend like a you know, if someone’s going, like, I mean, I would probably say just get a normal photo of feminised photo for the for the 10 I mean, you could go auto, right?

Dean
I mean, foreign if you’re new, I’d say go for a fam fam photo, and you’ve got a because you are there. They’re just a little bit more resilient in the early stages. But I would potentially turn that grow tent on its side and put autos in it then, you know, like, Yeah, but like, I’m an advocate more so for fems photo fence, then autos, but I mean, both will work it just depends on what kind of you want to you want to do and what you’re interested in,

Andy
you know, 100% Yeah, guys, I mean, that’s pretty much the full setup that you will need for your nakoma eight by Nakama eight. Obviously once you get these it’s only the beginning you have to go through quite a journey. But yeah, we do get lost asked quite a lot what, what you might need. So hopefully this helped you, guide you in the right direction, no matter what country you are. And as always, please make sure to like support are like and support our channel. A lot of the stuff we do for free because YouTube won’t let us monetize, obviously due to the nature of the education we’re sharing. So yeah, any support really, really does help and obviously check out some of the links below that has helped help our channel quite a lot. And yeah, thanks so much guys, till next week.

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