MrMeanGreen
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Lol.... I can see it now with a rig in the back ground, budding plants etc.
I did it .......... my waaaaay!!!
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Kannah-krazy
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Deusracing
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Simply fantastic photos. great grow there loving it...
http://www.hydropon
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Decided to throw my style out there with a few pics. Ya don't really get the full effetct from the pics as I can't get a wider angle but ya can get the general idea. What you got to remember is that my bud is all the way round, not just the parts facing the light.
Room is 8ft x 8ft x 6ft high. Angles are deceiving, the plants are about 5.5 ft tall and about 3ft wide.
3 stacked 600w cool tubes. Extractor is fitted to the bottom of the stack and now pulls the heat through the floor and down into my kitchen where the warm air exits frow under my kitchen units. This is a clean extraction as inlet comes from outside room and does not need a scrubber.
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I also have a second extractor that scrubs the dirty air from the room and pumps down into my bedroom. If you haven't already worked it out, my room is in the loft. There is also an extra 600w bare bulb outside the ring (you can see it in the back ground) of plants but summer is coming, temps are rising and it just spews to much heat.
Each plants is individually caged which in my opinion is a no brainer, more work to set up but worth it. There are litterally 100 reasons to do this but that for discussion later.
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Each plant is on its own lazy susan /bearing. This was an excellent find, each bearing can hold over 200kg and are available on ebay for just £4.50 each. These give me total access to each and every plant equally and allow for easy rotation, feeding, inspection, maintainance and training. I have just bought a high torque, low rpm motor and intend hooking them up to rotate about once every 5 mins. Rotating manually at the moment but automated will follow. The motor was just £20.
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In hindsight I have made a few errors, training shoud start at the very bottom of the plant. I stripped the bottom 12" which put my lower light out of work pretty much, not alot of green to feed. The same goes for the top of the plant, the main top cola's almost have a light all to themselves, not very efficient I know. Will be topping or super cropping next run to allow the top ring of growth to push up to the top light and maximise efficiency.
My aim next run is to get a 5ft barrel of green on each plant. Could waffle on but too much text is boring, heres a few more pics of plants, 1 week left of 8 but will prob leave a bit longer.
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Slag me off, ask questions, rip me to pieces, I am a stubborn old fuka and welcome it all.
Pinworm
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Are you even old enough to be European?
Deusracing
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Nope just young enough to be a proud lithuanian
Deusracing
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Old enough to hook this beautiful lil system up
Scrogmonkey
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Whats that spinning thing on top of the MP3 player? lol
Deusracing
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ITs old frisbee
MrMeanGreen
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Cheers matey, and thanx for chirping in. The wiring on the motor is now soldered and all the terminals are siliconed up, little to no risk there. Things are already looking better. The one plant with the motor is stood straight and leafage is looking normal where as the other plants that spend a full 24hrs in 1 position before manual rotation tend to lean and swist a bit towards the light. The rotating plant seems much happier. Just waitin on the other motors.
only1realhigh
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I really like your rotation idea with the motor, I rotated mine by hand when I did it, but I am retired and loved being in the grow room.
The secret is, did it all grow to your expectation?
The secret is, did it all grow to your expectation?
MrMeanGreen
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Hello all, it's been a while. Home life got a bit hectic for a while, zero spare time to get on here.
Update...
So I completed my new rig, 6 individually caged plants mounted on rotating drip trays. 3 x 600w cool tubed lights up the centre.
New plants went in and away we went. Didn't notice that I hadn't changed my light routine back to veg from flower..... OMFG what a pleb I am. That cost me a month getting them back into veg. Then we were hit with a rare natural phenomena here in blighty..... A nice summer and high temps and my lights were on during the day. OMFG what a double pleb, 36-37 degree's, heat stress --> stunted growth and yellow plants. This is what happens when you don't pay attention. Sorted out the problems and got em back on track but my personal stash was running low and needed to get em flipped. My intention was to veg em up to 4ft then flip. I have found that vert only causes about a 50% stretch so a 4ft plant will finish at about 6ft.
When the true vert light kicked in (No horizontal light) and rotation switched on I noticed my leaves starting to double curl. The tips were curling under and sides were curling round. It seemed like my leaves didnt know their arse from there elbow with regards to where the light source was coming from and didn't know which way to point the green matter to catch the light. Everything was dialed in enviromentally and feed wise, everything was bang on. I did 2 things, I put a timer on my rotation system, they now rotate for 15 mins every 45 mins and built a kinda relective umbrella around the top of the light tower to reflect the light down to the plants to give the illusion of the sun being above, which vertical light doesn't give. This worked a treat and the leaves opened up again over night.
I now have 6 plants at about 4 ft tall. At about 5 weeks into bloom. Cages are only at about 50% effective coz I didnt get the vegging I wanted but all is looking good up to now and the plants are responding very well to the new rotating rig.
I didn't lollipop this time so all the bottom of the plants have nugged up nicely. Buds are tight and plants seem to be loving it. I will get some pics up soon and if it is possible, I will post a short video clip showing it all in motion.
Oh I forgot to mention, I have a couple of contol plants in there for comparison at the end. One plant is not motorised and only gets a quarter turn daily (manually) and one plant has no cage but rotates. Will talk about these another day when their results are showing a bit more.
Sorry for the long waffle. Laters
Update...
So I completed my new rig, 6 individually caged plants mounted on rotating drip trays. 3 x 600w cool tubed lights up the centre.
New plants went in and away we went. Didn't notice that I hadn't changed my light routine back to veg from flower..... OMFG what a pleb I am. That cost me a month getting them back into veg. Then we were hit with a rare natural phenomena here in blighty..... A nice summer and high temps and my lights were on during the day. OMFG what a double pleb, 36-37 degree's, heat stress --> stunted growth and yellow plants. This is what happens when you don't pay attention. Sorted out the problems and got em back on track but my personal stash was running low and needed to get em flipped. My intention was to veg em up to 4ft then flip. I have found that vert only causes about a 50% stretch so a 4ft plant will finish at about 6ft.
When the true vert light kicked in (No horizontal light) and rotation switched on I noticed my leaves starting to double curl. The tips were curling under and sides were curling round. It seemed like my leaves didnt know their arse from there elbow with regards to where the light source was coming from and didn't know which way to point the green matter to catch the light. Everything was dialed in enviromentally and feed wise, everything was bang on. I did 2 things, I put a timer on my rotation system, they now rotate for 15 mins every 45 mins and built a kinda relective umbrella around the top of the light tower to reflect the light down to the plants to give the illusion of the sun being above, which vertical light doesn't give. This worked a treat and the leaves opened up again over night.
I now have 6 plants at about 4 ft tall. At about 5 weeks into bloom. Cages are only at about 50% effective coz I didnt get the vegging I wanted but all is looking good up to now and the plants are responding very well to the new rotating rig.
I didn't lollipop this time so all the bottom of the plants have nugged up nicely. Buds are tight and plants seem to be loving it. I will get some pics up soon and if it is possible, I will post a short video clip showing it all in motion.
Oh I forgot to mention, I have a couple of contol plants in there for comparison at the end. One plant is not motorised and only gets a quarter turn daily (manually) and one plant has no cage but rotates. Will talk about these another day when their results are showing a bit more.
Sorry for the long waffle. Laters
BuDz047
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That's nuking futs. Would love to get a setup like that but I'm afraid of increasing my energy bill. I currently run a 600 w, 2 centrifugal fans, and 2 regular fans. That should be close to 850w that I'm running. You have 3-4 600 w, aren't you afraid of being caught with such high energy consumption?
er0senin
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When you start getting up to 5000w, thats when you should worry. Anything below 2000w you could even run in an appartment for years no prob.
BuDz047
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Oooooooooooooh.
