GROW ROOM DISASTERS....

[philmb]

Yo homies.. =/

Dangerous places... These growrooms of ours. Burns, knocks n electric shocks!!

I recently (well it was ages ago actually) woke up to an inch of fkn water. The hose end had burst off my hose. Flooded the damn place. I use a hose to fill my res, left it in the middle of the living room.. ggrrrrr. wont be doin that again...

Anyhoo, who's done what?

 

[Dr Dog]

Other than the obvious things like bulb burns, cutting my head on sharp reflector corners, and putting some part of my body into the uncaged fan blades, I have yet to suffer anything major

But I am interested in learning what everyone else has learned from

Phlimb, I had that happen to me at a former work place, but it was more than an inch, the police called me at home to tell me that there was water running out my doors!! I had left the hose on, with a spray gun attached, a hole blew into the side, and about 9 hours of water later!

 

[DogBoy]

I once grew the best chronic looking strains the world has ever seen only to drop a whirling fan onto them and turn them into confetti.

I duly spent the rest of the day moaning a lot and trying to find someone else to blame for my stupidity.

 

[philmb]

Shit Dr dog, sounds like quite the 'spill' I got woke up by the chick downstairs about 4am. Water runnin over my balcony woke her up. Still cant beleive it didnt wake me up. I'm a really light sleeper, constantly wakin up.

Bet you were gutted dogboy, N it would have happened on one of ya best grows hey..

 

[Dr Dog]

It was crazy dude

The windows were all fogged up, and all my neighbours in that strip mall were just waitin on my arrival

Took me about a week to get everything dry, it was like around this time of year, very hard to dry carpet when it is at 0c/32f

 

[philmb]

0c...!!! ggrrrrrr, far to cold for me bro =) it was about 40c here, so dryed pretty quick but fkn stunk. Was like a sauna, Was really worried about mould..

 

[DogBoy]

Mould can only grow in still air so if you keep air moving well over your room you will reduce the chances of getting moulding problems.

 

[Dr Dog]

There is snow on the ground outside here man
I just checked, and it is 0 outside right now

Yeah my place stunk for a while, wet carpet sucks, kind of smells like when you leave laundry in the washer for a couple days.

But eventually we got that smell out. I dont recall much if any mold, the drywall stopped about 2 inches from floor, and that gap was covered with a large commercial molding, so the water just had a clear path to the exits.

I think the worse part was having the cuffs of my pants wet or if I had to kneel down to get something from under a desk. The carpets were damp for a while. I wish they had "Shamwows" back then

 

[OGguerilla]

nice boxer

nice boxer

Yea i know a similiar situation where a siberian husky got into a grow room where there were flowering plants.. killed to dabneys and a og abusive 5 weeks into flowering!!

 

[cellardweller]

none yet..
:knocks on wood:

 

[HairlessCaveApe]

After gettin lotsa li'l holes in my head I put tape over the corners of my reflectors. I got cool tubes now and there much less painfull. And -If you use powderd nutes that need to be boiled and you mix in a coffee cup, be carefull when your drinkin coffee and mixin nutes. 0-27-17 aint coffe and it dont even taste close to it!

 

[Suby]

Back when I used cheap bathroom fans I had one die on my.
I was running a 430W HPS in a closet 20" x 40" : and the plants where real close.
The odour of weed in the house was incredible, like I had a rasta party all night.
They where cooking something fierce, it was well over 95 and my digital themometer actually blitzed out.

 

[Brother Bear]

nothing to bad yet
i dropped a brand new 150w cfl and broke it, good thing i always order a spare just in case
smashed three small seedlings in the process, again i was in luck they were all topped - so i only lost the one side to each of them

hmmm..... just after i got my EZ cloner, i left the top ajar just a bit in the back without realizing it
LOL it was almost empty the next morning
then less than a week later the air hose came loose and siphoned it almost empty again
i had it in my bathroom temperary when this went down, carpeted floors​

 

[Ipsissimus]

sprung major leaks in 40 5gall bucket setup, had to re-plaster the ceiling on the entire floor below. I've had my powershut off in the winter and had the pipes explode. that sucked too.

 

[kmk420kali]

Last year in this barn, the guy I work with was pulling off dead leaves, and reached into a plant, and there was a rattlesnake in the bucket!! He jumped back, and destroyed like 4 plants-- At least he didn't get bit...needless to say, the snake got dead!!

 

[SomeGuy]

Hehe, when I built my cab I went to the sheet metal shop and got them to build me a drip pan with a 3" lip.

Using a recirculating deepwater, one day one of the drains gets plugged with roots and that caused an overflow. I came in to find water within an inch of the top of my drip pan and an empty reservoir!!!

That $60 drip pan saved me from having 10 gallons of water all over the place, best money I ever spent!!!!

 

[Suby]

It's always the little things that either cost or save you money

 

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

It was crazy dude

The windows were all fogged up, and all my neighbours in that strip mall were just waitin on my arrival

Took me about a week to get everything dry, it was like around this time of year, very hard to dry carpet when it is at 0c/32f

next time tell them it was meant to be ice rink for the children

nobody ever questions motifs that are "for the children"

 

[Smooth B]

Yeah, I've had a disaster...

Yeah, I've had a disaster...

We had a grow room in a Dean's house in a large college. He didn't live there. No questions, please.

Mylar wall to wall, 1000 mh on a mover, and Skunk #1 female clones.

Somebody came to inspect the house. We had to move the grow.

We put numbers on all the plants. Numbers were put in a pot. There were 3 of us. We drew. The dood at house put his in the yard. (later found by pigs) and we drove 2/3 of the plants to a nearby apartment 1 mile away. The equipment was ours.

We had a good harvest. Hash making is out of my league. I did get some innocent church girl and friend high off some brownies. Hey, these are chocolate. One of them sat in the corner of her room freakin'

I don't have to make this shit up. I am strange enough as it is.

Peace. Smooth B

 

[johnipedestran]

Rattlesnake in the grow sounds pretty bad.

I remember a thread on Overgrow called I POCKED MY EYE OUT (WITH PICS)
I thought it was hilarious that he misspelled poked, and of course the pictures were great, he jammed his eye into one of our friendly green stakes. anybody remember that one?

peace
jip