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Prelude... To A Come Up

5th

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I'm not using the tote unless I have people staying the weekend wildgrow. Then the plants go in there and into my snow covered shed lol.

I like to think of my house as a grow box MrCopy...the temps are indicative of the ambient (outside) weather.
 

tleaf jr.

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don't worry fifth I just had my two flo plants kick the bucket from freezing becuz my ACwas letting cold air rite into my grow cab ...frozen solid in less than a hour smh all you can do is hope for the best and figure something out
gl :tiphat:
 

yesum

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I always say do the beer can reflector for these small cfls. I measured double the lumens using a clamp reflector for a cfl.

I may have missed it but do you have a speed controller for the fan? I keep mine turned all the way down.
 

5th

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I actually have a reflector just sitting around I could use...but after seeing the results of blynx, KNOT's and a few other I didn't think it mattered either way. Interesting to hear about your findings as fas as lumens is concerned though....very interesting.

I do have a speed controller on the fan, sometimes I even have it hooked up to a timer so I can exhaust for a few seconds then let the box heat up again for a few minutes.

Decided to bite the bullet again...gonna have the furnace repair douche come back over tomorrow to see if he can get the damn thing working again...
So now I gotta move the cab n' contents into my back room again...lol...wtf
 

5th

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lol...so much for regular updates. It's veg...its fukn' boring.

Remember the ghetto cloner?

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BAAAAMMMM....peanut butter n' JAAAAMMMM!!!!

So heres some of the mawfuks beside their rooted offspring...

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Check out the green on the front one...lushy ....lushy...

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Nuff' o' this shit. I'm gonna start 12/12 tomorrow I think. Or Monday at the latest.
 

5th

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Well I'm spending about $600 every month n' a half to heat the house due to shitty insulation and inefficient duct work. I'll be replacing the current 100A electrical service with a 200A this summer and installing baseboard heaters.

Oil furnace is loud as fuck...hate the damn thing. By beefing up the electrical I hope to accomplish a few things.

-gonna have a sub panel wired in so I can run my 8000w genny incase of power outage
-not burn my fucking place down when I get my new grow space built.

Nothing went into flower last Monday because I'm a lazy assfuck. Timers are set up. I have a oil filled heater in my back room where the cab is located. Timer on it also. At 6 am the lights for the cab go off and the heater turns on.


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Let the shit show begin... :tiphat:
 

wildgrow

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Have you looked into pellet stoves?

Good call with the oil filled heater running when the lights are off - doing the same here.
 

5th

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I have bro, insurance is a real cocksucker for pellet/wood stoves.

I live in a "modular unit" (thats right buddy, not just white trash online...I live that shit) so because it's like 14ft wide n' 40ft long oil/propane is a huge waste of fuel. Unless my daughters are here I only use 1/3 of the trailer....so for 12 days at a time I'm heating space I'm not using.
With baseboard heaters I can adjust the temps in the rooms as I see fit.

This oil filled heater is the shit. I had it cranked to the tits and walked in there about 9am...realized I had to put it on its lowest setting or the temps in the cab would be higher then with lights on. lol Awesome.
 

5th

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5 or 6 days of flowering...

5 or 6 days of flowering...

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I'm gonna start a lil' training tomorrow, everyones getting straight tap water for now. No idea what the ph or ppm of my water here is...might have to look into that lol.

I'm using the thermometer in the cab as my height gauge.

Rock Pile, hard as fuck. :tiphat:
 
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wildgrow

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I have bro, insurance is a real cocksucker for pellet/wood stoves.

I live in a "modular unit" (thats right buddy, not just white trash online...I live that shit) so because it's like 14ft wide n' 40ft long oil/propane is a huge waste of fuel. Unless my daughters are here I only use 1/3 of the trailer....so for 12 days at a time I'm heating space I'm not using.
With baseboard heaters I can adjust the temps in the rooms as I see fit.

This oil filled heater is the shit. I had it cranked to the tits and walked in there about 9am...realized I had to put it on its lowest setting or the temps in the cab would be higher then with lights on. lol Awesome.

Ahh... Gotcha. Almost ended up in a 10 x 50 trailer on a 12 x 55 lot myself a few years back with my (ex)wife and 2 kids.

Those heaters are 'the shit', as you so eloquently put it. :biggrin:
 

5th

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Yeah bro I really lucked out on my "modular unit" haha.

I live in a touristy area, hate it with a passion. Was either live up north in the sticks like I prefer or live down here and get to see my kids regularly.

Bank wouldn't gimme a mortgage due to semi retirement the past 7 years...so trailer park life it is. :biggrin:
 

5th

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It's a sad day in Mattersville friends...

Like Jean Luc Picard I had my "numba won"...and like Picard's numba won...its a dude....dude?

Father son moment...
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...cloned quickly....but in that "you have a purdy mouth" kinda way...
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Had everything I wanted...dank smell...I mean the fukn' cron son...

Well I'm not gonna get to hung up on it lol...I just thought it woulda been a awesome smoke.

More to kill...I mean come soon...
 

5th

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You know how we do Chloe... Sometimes I rock the shoes with velcro insteada laces when I ride the bus....

Hey jr., thanks. Was a real piss off to baby one of the eight just for it to turn around n' grow nuts.

Lights come on in another 2-3 hours. Gonna pull everyone out to look at their naughty bits. If I have a bad ratio I might do a seed run or something stupid like that...then again....was gonna do a few yogurt cups in there so I can hang out with the cool kids from the yogi thread....this hangover isn't helping much either...I'll have a few beer n' come back in a few hours.

Stay safe. :tiphat:


Edit: Ok....so the plants....1-8, M or F.

1-M
2-M
3-F
4-M
5-M
6-F
7-F
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Left alot of room in the cab lol.
 
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tleaf jr.

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4 ladies isn't to bad pretty sure youll find something nice to play around with,,,were the males that far along were you could've grabbed pollen off of them?
 

5th

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Hey tleaf,

The clusters of pollen sack's wouldn't have opened for atleast another week. The only reason I kept #5 to possibly make a few seeds with was due to vigor and smell.

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