bobblehead overtakes

[DHF]

I like the idea of a breathable exterior wall insulated stud cavities if inside as well as outside grow area environment`s dialed , but osb seals the insulated walls inside and out and will definitely have a better R-factor......

Started ta say osb cuz that`s all I used , but thought yas might be pinched on the budget end of things.....anyways....

Good luck....Freds..........

 

[bobblehead]

I just got a new credit card... and maxed it out the same day with 4 brand new 600w nextgen ballasts, 12 600w lamps, 4 DPDT relays, 10' x 100' of panda and an 8" fan... Oh yes... Nothing like retail therapy to put me in a good mood. 2013 is going to be a great year.

 

[megayields]

lol...nice

 

[d4nk]

Just wanted to put in my 2 cents about the small buds with giant calyxes... I think its low temps specifically in the root zone. Also seen it with ethylene gas poisoning from too much unused co2 in sealed rooms

 

[greenmatter]

Just wanted to put in my 2 cents about the small buds with giant calyxes... I think its low temps specifically in the root zone. Also seen it with ethylene gas poisoning from too much unused co2 in sealed rooms

ethylene gas poisoning from too much co2 ??????

could you give some more info on that? a link maybe?

you lost me

 

[bobblehead]

Big news this week. I had a year shaved off my growing plan, so I'm down to 2.5 years. I'm not going to have as much flexibility in my schedule coming up this fall, so I think I'll be shutting down the lake house this summer. If I'm going to continue to grow on this scale I'll have to find a location that's closer to home... but honestly I see myself going legal, and growing trees. I'm so close to having a professional license that will guarantee me steady income for the rest of my life... No need to fuck it all up running 5-600 plants... However many it is I have right now. I've lost count. So, I'm gonna finish up the lake house SOG style and make some quick cash... and then I'll be converting everything over to tree grows and closer to home.

I decided not to insulate... The worst of winter is over. I'm shutting this place down in the summer. The money I'd spend on insulation I need for more ballasts cause I have so many damn plants! Goodbye space heaters, hello more lights!

Starting with the oldest gals... Oh yeah, I forgot the camera again so it's crappy cell phone shots... It's been a busy week.

Headband @ 8weeks

Goat and Straw DD @ 6 weeks

I've been told this is Chem 4 and not Chem D... w/e it is it's still a nice plant. @ 2 weeks. The first week was cold and they didn't take off. We'll see how it turns out, but I don't think I'll be overcrowded...

Headband @ 0 weeks- Ok so I went horizontal, what are you gonna do about it? I was contemplating what to do with all these clones for the past few weeks now. I just don't have the time available to build another vert SOG room that actually works... And I had this flood tray.. So I went to HD and bought some landscape fabric, lined the tray, filled it with coco/perlite and 66 clones. This is in what was my 10 x 14 veg room... but I think this room is going to be getting 2 more flood trays just like this one... Currently there's 2 600's over that table, and I'm gonna add another 600w... Just gotta get a reflector and some more ballasts. Actually I'm gonna need a lot more reflectors.

I made a 7.5' x 7.5' room my new veg room... I can put clones anywhere. I built the flood table out of pressure treated lumber and OSB. It's solid enough that I can walk on/in it. I didn't have pondliner so I used 6 mil plastic... Word to the wise, use multiple layers, better yet, get the pondliner! I used one layer, big mistake. I had holes all over. I replaced it with 4 layers... and I'm ordering some pondliner. Sometimes you just have to make do with what you have.

 

[megayields]

Good luck bro....you'll succeed in whatever you do! Hopefully you'll still be around for a while to help up who need help! LOL...

 

[silver hawaiian]

Diggin' the overhead and the manifold setup. Is that your usual coco/perlite mix? How often are you watering?

 

[bobblehead]

Diggin' the overhead and the manifold setup. Is that your usual coco/perlite mix? How often are you watering?

Yessir the regular coco/perlite mix, and freshly thawed so I know it's bug free. Currently I'm irrigating 1 minute 1x a day. I'll add feeds as needed.

On another note... I have so many plants going on different schedules... Hand applying the CAPS beneficials was starting to become a chore. Now I'm adding them to the reservoir. Idk how I feel about it yet. I'm thinking about just hanging a tea bag in the res and changing it every week. Why brew for 24hs when my res has plenty of oxygenation...

What else... Hmm... idk, feel free to ask questions... I'm a bit consumed with figuring out how to light the new horizontal room. Equipment to purchase and all...

 

[silver hawaiian]

Awesome. Diggin' it, for sure. I think you're gonna murder it with the overhead SOG setup with the Headband. I ran that cut once as a SOG/single cola deal, and got 32 grams, if I reckon right.

With the overhead setups, are you going to connect & vent through the hoods? .. If not, why not just go with some adjust-a-wings? Cheaper, for shore.. ?

 

[megayields]

LOL my bro and I went to a "nursery show" today in San Mateo...saw a 150 gallon compost vortex tea brewer ($1,400.00 show price)....thought of you, then I thought....HEY we might need 3 of these in the GH!

Heheh

 

[bobblehead]

No I'm not venting the hoods. Hanging around in the vert forum all this time I caught on to the fact that hoods are radiators for heat... And bottlenecks for exhaust... That's why I'm buying reflectors, made mostly from aluminum. Aluminum is a poor conductor, so it doesn't hold onto heat. I went with the Pro Reflector 6 pack from hydrofarm, I got 6 reflectors for about $250 shipped. I need to see about getting more, like another 6... Otherwise that leaves me without any relfectors in my veg room.

 

[silver hawaiian]

$250 for 6 of those reflectors shipped is like a sore dick

Can't beat it

 

[Anti]

a sore dick

Can't beat it

Speak for yourself, pussy. No pain, no gain.

 

[megayields]

reflectors...bleah

 

[FlowerFarmer]

Ok so I went horizontal

Boooo!



Nah, I totally feel you. For quick hit-in-runs sometimes its easier to just toss a few sixers over some clones. Strip the bottoms, trellis those bitches, and call it done.

Better yet, call it easy success.


Who cares if you're not breaking GPW barriers, hoonin' like its baby shit.

Simplicity and conˈsecutiveness is what pays the bills.

 

[DaveTheNewbie]

consecutiveness is what pays the bills.

yup ive found that one out the hard way

 

[bobblehead]

Boooo!



Nah, I totally feel you. For quick hit-in-runs sometimes its easier to just toss a few sixers over some clones. Strip the bottoms, trellis those bitches, and call it done.

Better yet, call it easy success.


Who cares if you're not breaking GPW barriers, hoonin' like its baby shit.

Simplicity and conˈsecutiveness is what pays the bills.

lol... Still hoonin... I finally have plants in every room. For comparison though, I have 96 plants with 1800w, taking up an 8x8 space. That flood tray is 4x8, it will have 1800w next week, and it has 66 clones. I can fit fewer clones on the table, but it takes up half the space of the octagon. Maybe I won't smash gpw's with a horizontal setup, but I can fit 2x the lights, up the environmental controls, and I'm sure yields will follow with 1800w of extra light.

I'm starting to get the feeling that when it comes to making hay... The horizontal room is going to outproduce the lower wattage flip rooms given yield per square foot, not looking at gpws... but I'm sure I can hit 1 gpw easily enough horizontal... Vert SOG yields have been eluding me for the past year... so a horizontal setup can't hurt any.

I was thinking that if I wanted... I could make the whole floor a flood table... Run planks across it to walk on so that I can tend to the plants... idk it might just be my imagination running wild. We'll see what I come up with. I would like to do away with the buckets though and just put the plants down on the floor in any configuration... No worries about how I'm going to collect runoff.

I'm still gonna go hard and try to push the limits with vert SOG before shutting down this house in the summer... but it's good to have a backup plan, huh?

 

[Arminius]

bobblehead overtakes

Rather than spend hundreds on plastic trays, I typically build my "tables" into the floor, and plug a drain at the low point.

 

[Anti]

I build my tables waist high, because human ancestors have only been walking upright for maybe a million years and our spines have not yet evolved to handle the load. Back pain is real. You will get older. Plan accordingly.