DunHav`nFun
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When I started growin outside in the mid 70`s , I was smart enough to use the extra cash to buy property cheap , and then every yr after I`d buy another piece of equipment to excavate and build my house...….As a teenager I was taught carpentry and framed houses every summer for several yrs ,^^^ you did/accomplished all that as a one man show ??
so it was a natural progression to move toward a small construction and remodeling co. to pay taxes and hide income , so I did....and….
For 12 yrs I cropped my ass off with a nuthin ass partner I loved dearly and overlooked his bullshit for many yrs , but that`s another story.....In those 12 yrs I learned as much about every aspect of home construction as I did with growin dope , so when the military started developing what they called "phosflourescent imaging" to be able to spot coca and pot fields in Colombia for Reagan`s "War on Drugs" , I was lucky enough to have a cousin stationed at said base that was picked for the project.....
He came straight to me on his first furlough and told me they`d be testin the shit exactly where I`d been growin and the whole lower 1/3 of the state the following spring , so I planned my last harvest and moved toward building shit …..the following yr , every redneck country boy hippie that had anything planted in the woods got a visit from repelling paratroopers and assault rifles all the way down to an old man that had 1 plant behind his barn under some damn oak trees , so IOW.....the technology worked but was so expensive it died with the Reagan era.....but...
My dumbass EX-partner decided he was smarter than the chopper tech and went balls out that yr anyways since we were on private razor ribboned paper company land with him being the caretaker for all those yrs we grew and prospered , but just wouldn`t listen to logic , on top of havin a damn monkey on his back from likin Peruvian marchin powder too much with a habit he hadta maintain , so what happens ?.....Paratroopers drop in take 100`s of big ass plants almost done , and dumbass went to jail …….
Gets out on bond and immediately starts wheelin and dealin in that shit , gets set up by LEO and gets double whammied with all manners of prison time looming over his sorry ass head , and what does he do ?......Rolls on me and claimed I was the mastermind behind all his ignorant charades , that he worked for me.....so yeah.....Star Crash.....that`s why I became a 1 man army , cuz I could trust me...….bottom line.....
Cost me an unborn child in lawyer fees but ultimately dumbass went to prison and I was never charged or indicted.....now....with that put away , we`re now at the point where I`m dyin to start growin indoors cuz outside was certainly a no go , so I started experimenting with waysta make it happen with very limited info available at the time , so it was buncha fluorescents and plant grow bulbs just to see wtf if I could even grow buds inside , but I did.....granted , it was pitiful for todays standards but hey.....I was hooked , and the internet was coming along so I dove in and we fast forward to today …..and....
Star Crash.....Every setup I ran had redundancy built in since I never grew where I lived , so there were double pumps and timers everywhere a failure could occur without me being onsite and comin back to piles of mush....also had high temp shutoffs to kill lights in case ac`s took a shit in deep summer.....only thing not employed was standby generators cuz power outages and acts of God never were a problem.....anyways....once dialed ….
I only went to each location once a week and only stayed max couple hrs when I did go cuz I had all the other places to upkeep.....and yeah SC..... it was rough and took up a lotta my time while dialin , but I was building somethin for my son to have when I`m gone , so I fought it and made it a job.....
The biggest part is scheduling each task to be done when you`re there to make sure all bells and whistles are at optimum working condition , all timers are right , all pumps are hoonin , and then every plant maintenance task necessary for pruning , shaping and cuts taken , then everything`s checked off on the dry erase board till next visit....gotta work it like a job , and hey....in the early yrs I babysat plants till I was blue in the face , but once I got sick of it , I hadta figure shit out for more me time.....so I did and it worked.....so.....
Swap....I don`t suggest you dive off down the rabbit hole just yet on the racks , that`s not why I came here.....I think you needta work your plan and let`s gravitate toward implementing a new setup as we go.....first off.....you need product , and dialin new shit ain`t the wayta get it , so get some plants goin , get some harveys happening for the bills and such and then let`s set up a designated area for plants up the wall and howta get to all of em throughout the grow till end of cycle....that`s half the battle....
My rooms were 8 x 8 with 1' angled shelves covered in pondliner and angled corners that held wall fans and intakes , plus 1 corner was the lil cubbyhole access in and out …...reflectix on everything that wasn`t green including the ceilings , with #5 smartpots as full as possible with 1/3 coco stringy fibers , 1/3 coco chunks , and 1/3 chunky perlite fed once a day hence the bigass 5 gal sp`s , but it was again redundancy built in cuz I didn`t go to the locations except on the weekends, and with DTW , that was the easiest shit I EVER dialed but neither here nor there.....
Plumbing was a bit tedious since yas gotta dial "head pressure" on the bigass pond pumps I used , plus a bypass back to rez to accommodate all the 5200 gph pressure those bitches put out , and then ball valves to control flow up to each different level so equal flow and pressure to each plantsite was guaranteed with open ended 1/4" driptubing hooked to basket sprayer stakes long before dripclean ever came on the market.....and....
On top of it all , the most important part of the puzzle......the loopfield manifold to pressurize all at once during feed sequence to insure pressure and flow stay constant to each level and each plantsite once equilibrium is achieved...….aight.....thanks for allowing my long drawn out bullshit Bro....it`s actually therapeutic to this old ass to get it out and let it go......anyways.....and again.....Swap....
Thanks for your time and we`ll getchas there ….but slowly.....already had 1 disaster case back in the day with a member not here anymore cuz he liked doin things his way instead of tried and true proven procedures , and then got snakes in his head that I was a fraud but I digress.....not goin thru that again so please understand.....
Peace.....DHF..... …..
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