McB

minor update, ladies got a full feed at last, grabbed some bloom and grow from Grow Guru.

think my little  barneys LSD seedling is a little stunned with the monsters surrounding her, should really het her into a smaller space

dwc chilli has finally hit the water, removed the recirc pump and drippers and its cruising, res change this weekend and another grow feed.

heat wave of note today so lets hope shit stays frosty

Ek lewe nog so why not ? 

2 words... Incubation period

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Next gen of charlottes angel and Remo chemo waiting for me to tidy up and find apce for a veg tebt
Running out of time. May get my micros back online

Outdoor looking happy. Pot plant blew over and snapped 2 main stems... Taped up didn't even hesitate. Just kept growing


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Bare in mind. 2x 400w digitals will run you about 5k best case. Add Lamps, hangers and reflectors and your are very close if not at gavita pricing.
It's actually not that far a stretch.
I tend to get a little stuck on the concept of lighting the room not the plant. Hence my lights are high up and plentiful but 600w will do nicely across 2 plants



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the 400wx2 in 1.5x1.5 was my initial plan, 600 is a more balanced watt\lumen and as far as i  know the most efficient of the old school hid options

 

im running 2x 400w and a '360'w led in 2x2 for 4 plants and honestly feel like a 4th light would not be  amiss 

best case would be a gavita 750 in there imo, but non cooled hood adds a lot of temp considerations in a tent too small to optimally supplement co2

47 minutes ago, Pat999 said:

Well made my payment for the new equipment. Saved up all year essentially and now they haven't gotten the payment and I might have kotsed a little bit this morning

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joh, i would probably shit the new highest peak in africa. i live in perpetual fear of fucking up a number and paying someone random a large sum of money. worst i have done luckily is sponsor some mtn airtime to a bra with a number close to mine(okay fine, i did the airtime thing twice)

How so pat. Stress ain't good... Not dick shrinking stress anyway

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18 minutes ago, Pvt_sToNeR said:

Ding Ding Ding......We have a winner!

beautiful capture bro.

much appreciated, but can do a lot better if i could find my slr's battery charger

Pic taken a few days ago in my flower tent

 

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1 hour ago, Hydrochronic said:

@McB If you were a chick I'll kiss ya , seriously, thanks you just have me a idea on how to stack them.

hahahahaha, pass. all good, the idea is from a greenhousy thing i bodged together a few years ago.

if memory serves i cut holes in the flat disc and threaded a nipple into it, pvc welded and it gave 2 horizontal 2 vertical per coupling

 

Just now, McB said:

yup, thats the frankenstein part of this tent, it absorbed most of the 80x80's poles in its re, erm animation

funny part is my 1.5x1.5 is nearing being ready to ship, search high and low for a tent, eventually loan a monster , scrog to the point of no return....and tada, have your pic sir, how many would you like

 

3 minutes ago, Hydrochronic said:

McB in your second image, that black three way elbow (next to the bricks) I'm guessing its from a tent right ?

yup, thats the frankenstein part of this tent, it absorbed most of the 80x80's poles in its re, erm animation

21 minutes ago, Hydrochronic said:

 

Looks like you will be scrogging before me as my tent still needs some hardware before I start growing (The plants in there are bag seeds and I'm only using them to test the system). I am looking forward to seeing some images of those autos

@Batista Just a teaser, fitted the scrog last night but will be taking it down. I would like to modify it so that one can stack up to three scrogs above each other with out having to tie them down...... if that make sense.

 

Dry fitted the reservoir controller. This puppy should allow me to fill and drain the reservoir with only one hose-pipe. This weekend I should have most of the plumbing done.

 

that res controller would have saved me so much ballache last night
great idea, may have t implement something similar, makes me want to rig up the main res too sommer

brought an old youtube channel back from the archives, now i can share some of the ig videos

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lms7RI4qm8

18 minutes ago, greenkush said:

Ah okay cool, thanks, I got similar from GT, but just felt pretty flimsy.

its is pretty thin, kinda half supported by the thicker branches vs fully rigid netting supporting the plant

Where did you get that scrog meshy  material? 

Got it from grow guru

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Plants responding well to the scrog. Remo a little slow but I did snap 3 nice growth points on initial scrog.
Gravity feed flooded my tent... Time to add a valve

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As a slightly less elegant but somewhat more expandable. The round junction boxes work nicely for multipoint connections and expansion

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[mention=1195]Smelly Joe[/mention] been through ya activities and can't seem to find you growing with Hydro. I have been growing veggies outside in DWC for years so I agree with  [mention=1499]Dope_Boy26[/mention] a control reservoir makes all the difference.

Agreed. 45l will be too small to reliably use long term look at adding a main res and making it a recirculating dwc. More water more pH stability less top ups. But as batista says flood and drain seems to be the simplest

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Skaam jou. How would you feel if you were that chili . Never had luck with autos

No no. She's in an autopot system. Not an auto plant. Did my time. Like keep my favourote stains and can't clone autos. For me it's massively false economy single seed VS a potential lifetime of the genetic
LOL yeah that chilli plant must ha e a severe inferiority complex

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For a bit of a script flip... Here's my outdoor autopot girl. Charlotte's angel cbd.

Also organic. Same soil. Just a layer of perlite in the bottom for capilary wicking up to soil. Top fed with organics matters vermicast and alfalfa mulch. Happy lady and almost maintenance free. Fill res walk away

 

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so i reckon i literally designed and built myself to burnout this week.
started hunting soaker hose/drip tape/drip line/netafim techline yesterday for further watering system trials and just realised i'm over it. placed my order for drip line and put it to bed until next week

 turns out i'm not travelling next week so pressure is off. backing away a little and thinking.

buddy of mine has given me a bit to think about regarding cleaning of the system between watering. showed me how  organic nutes can develop quite the aroma if left standing for only an hour or two, thinking i may need to add a flush valve and line running to waste for the lawn/veggies or garden.

testing is a real bitch, cant exactly over water my pots getting it dialled nor can get a decent idea of spread in any other container of soil as i only have 4 bags...bleh, im going to have a bong and wait for some preflowers

lookling amazing, have to agree, lst for the wind is a winner, just leave a little flex in the ties.
cant believe how happy my outdoor lady is in PE's gale force kak

Nice. Got a dwc chilli plant going for the hell of it too.
Can see it poking it's head out above the Charlotte's angel

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5 hours ago, Pat999 said:

Lmao you know how it goes. My brain went into overdrive with this new upgrade to the setup

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yup, im already designing scrog tables on wheels for the next run, if you saw how i had to get to my back scrog net you would laugh your ass off. its like im being birthed by a 2x2 scrog net, erm, lady part.