Awesome, love stumbling across threads like yours 
The Prodigal Son
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Which, the 4,000 or the 600? Both amounts were acquired locally, Once these get bigger I'm sure we will start knocking them out by the 1000's tho.
Clones are EASY to make if you have the vegetative material. The rest is just time and supplies!
Clones are EASY to make if you have the vegetative material. The rest is just time and supplies!
Skunkpassion
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I was talking about the 4000 but was obviously very stoned...
With your setup you should be able to take 1000's...
Love it keep up the good work...
With 3 helpers and 2 screwguns this came together rather quickly!
Center supports now...
Slight roof pitch, just enough so that water doesn't puddle....
(we were originally going to make a hoop roof, but with the 8ft sidewalls I would have been like 30 ft tall, decided to change the design on the fly and use the PVC ribs we got elsewhere.)
About 6:30 here, the sun is still totally hitting the roof plane so just imagin how bright it will be with the white poly film on, diffusing all the afternoon longwave sunshine!
A few furring strip 1x2's and this bitch is rock solid!
Center supports now...
Slight roof pitch, just enough so that water doesn't puddle....
(we were originally going to make a hoop roof, but with the 8ft sidewalls I would have been like 30 ft tall, decided to change the design on the fly and use the PVC ribs we got elsewhere.)
About 6:30 here, the sun is still totally hitting the roof plane so just imagin how bright it will be with the white poly film on, diffusing all the afternoon longwave sunshine!
A few furring strip 1x2's and this bitch is rock solid!
hell yeah man... can't wait to get myself into a greenhouse. i love working outdoors...
A Humboldt Hillside...
This is what we did today:
This is what we did today:
amazing thread man, great to see all these different projects progressing. kudos on your speed of building, sounds like you are useful to have around lol. how did the home made tank work out? did you find a way to keep the nutrient solution stirred well enough in that long tank?
can't wait to see the new outdoor project taking shape.
great show and tell, thanks for sharing.
can't wait to see the new outdoor project taking shape.
great show and tell, thanks for sharing.
great thread man, is really cool to see the details of such fine grows, great grow and building skills bro, gonna tag along for the rest of the ride!!
cheers
cheers
Yessir, those long rez's have a 1200 or so GPH pump at the very end in a purpose built low spot that is on a 1on 4 off recirc timer with a hose that runs all the way to the other end to keep everything stirred. That big pump is also our means to drain the rez when its water change time, I just open one 3/4" valve and close another and it switches tubes from its recirc circuit to its drain line...
You do realize all my cleverness comes directly from laziness; I mean, desire for efficiency
You do realize all my cleverness comes directly from laziness; I mean, desire for efficiency
I tell yah, the things that can be done with a tape measure, peice of paper, proper bowl smoke, and a brain. Shit you should see some of the schematics I whip up.. im faaaaaar from an engineer, but I swear I have know idea how some ppl manage.
I guess thats the peebs that logon to icmag and ask with 10 posts "what size fan do I need to keep this 400w in my closet cool?"
ofcourse, the best time savers are always thought of in order to save on work, lol. was it hard to make the rez totally safe for use as a rez? i mean how strong did you make it, was there a formula you used to decide the thickness of the walls etc? how did you make it water proof, is it pond liner on the inside? have often thought of making custom rez like that to take the least space, but then i worry that it will not be 100% reliable in terms of stability when full of water.
Extremely surprised the thread isn't 30+ pages long with the cool stuff going on n here
^^^ this thread has definitely been a hidden gem.
Hella, what's your current exhaust setup like?
i've always just vented into the attic and had power exhaust fans at the topmost point of the roof (which btw dropped the ambient temp of my house by about 10f during the day and up to 30f at night.) but i wanna bypass the attic with the new setup and i'm thinking of just ducting straight up to a vent cover. like you pointed out, i could use that chimney i've got right in the exhaust room but i feel like it'd be a bottleneck vs. 14" ducting straight up. using 14" maxfans, 1800cfm.
Hella, what's your current exhaust setup like?
i've always just vented into the attic and had power exhaust fans at the topmost point of the roof (which btw dropped the ambient temp of my house by about 10f during the day and up to 30f at night.) but i wanna bypass the attic with the new setup and i'm thinking of just ducting straight up to a vent cover. like you pointed out, i could use that chimney i've got right in the exhaust room but i feel like it'd be a bottleneck vs. 14" ducting straight up. using 14" maxfans, 1800cfm.
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Where did you get those big foam filter blocks? Did they come with the pumps?
Jesus Christ man, if I could accomplish in a day what you do in a year, I would consider myself blessed! wait I got that backwards. Way to go man!
In that case i can't wait to show you what I have cooked up for getting the dirt up the hill most efficiently!
It wasn't hard to make the rez once I stopped overthinking it...
We had support straps across the top of it and everything, untill I remembered the 100 gallon fishtank I used to have that had 6mm thick glass, and I stopped engineering the shit out of thing when I compared that to the 2x12's I was using!
Yes, it has a layer of 10mil? Firestone pondliner in it from our local garden center.
We did end up supporting the "bumpy" parts of the trough with an extra layer of pondliner from the pieces we trimmed off the edges. Inserting the peices between the trough construction and the rubber membrane that we wanted to protect.
The "bumpy" parts being where the boards came together and had sharp nail plates and the screw heads poking out, places where the plywood bottom joined together and had a rough transition area, and knots or other not so smooth places on the boards themselves..
As you see in that picture, we originally had the pumps in big net baskets as a prefilter for the prefilters, but for a reason I can't now recall we changed plans, and made "guards" of sorts for the big heavy pumps to sit on so their weight and constant vibrations wouldn't damage the pondliner. We vacuum sealed large 4x6"? metal nail plates so they wouldn't interact with the water chemistry but were heavy enough to not vibrate loose and float away like the first ones we made :facepalm:
Shhhhhh, don't tell anybody! nah, j/k, share the love!
If it wasn't for OVERGROW.COM I wouldn't wouldn't be sitting here typing things out right now....
Were running 4x 12" Max-fans the garage is broken into two areas left and right with 15 and 16K respectivly (the footprints are slightly different because of a wall, 3 rows of 5 1k's and 4 rows of 4 1k's..)
Its cycling kinda often for my likes with only 1/2 the lights on for vegging, and its not even August yet, we have double the ventilation options then what we are utilizing, so room to expand incase... Were planning to aircool the hoods and seal the rooms with watercooled co2 and mebbe even A/C next run.
Either way, were in the Redwood Belt, so heat I'm not reall worried about, especially with our ability to add up to 4 more 12" max's at any time..
I dont like dumping it straight into the attic, I atleast run the duct to the passive vent at the eaves so that the attic is the least positively pressurized as possible. I have also hooked ducting straight up to the "whirly birds" that are up on top of the roof of some attic spaces.
Just run a few sheet metal screws through the spinny part to freeze it so its not spinning 10k RPM!
