What did you accomplish today?

Tangerine_

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I started using rockwool for my cutting about a month ago. My little cloner only holds 24 which is plenty for me, but with outdoor season upon us I had a lot friends and fam requesting clones. I've been so busy lately I neglected to check the few remaining stubborn cuts I'd left going from 3 weeks prior.

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That KLN is good shit! I'll be able to skip the beer cups and go straight into 2 gals with these. But now I'm thinking I'd like to try the pool shock too.
 

Aeroknow

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Cause I am me. Can anyone give the difference between tap water concentrations of chlorine concentrations of pool shock as being discussed?
Check out this older thread it covers that in the very first post
I started using rockwool for my cutting about a month ago. My little cloner only holds 24 which is plenty for me, but with outdoor season upon us I had a lot friends and fam requesting clones. I've been so busy lately I neglected to check the few remaining stubborn cuts I'd left going from 3 weeks prior.

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That KLN is good shit! I'll be able to skip the beer cups and go straight into 2 gals with these. But now I'm thinking I'd like to try the pool shock too.
I def would not go without using the pool shock. It gets messed up once nasties take hold. Trust me. You’ll go from “cloners are the best” to hating them. More and more cuts will take longer to root compared to the rest. And from my experience it only gets worse until you fix the problem.
Really good idea also to super sterilize in between clone crops.
If I knew about using pool shock to keep it clean years ago, i would probably still be growing in tubes. The ones like the Aeroflo ones. The ones I came up with years before GH supposedly had some NASA engineer do it :-)

my problems in tubes didn’t start until I switched to making and using RO water. My tap water(in multiple towns) was just fine but got convinced from some people on Overgrow that RO water is the best. Lmao. Looking back, the chlorine, and if it had monochloromine in the tap water i was using before was assisting in keeping shit clean before I started removing it.

This post is probably already TLDR worthy and i’m sorry but I have to add this. Back in like ‘96 When helping to build the then newer Palo Alto VA hospital, I ripped my hand open pretty good. Was sent to Stanford University Medical center to get stitched up. I participated in an experiment. The experiment was to see if their tap water was just as effective as saline solution to clean out the cut prior to closing it. They never told me what one I got, it was a blind test kind of thing. It worked.
Would be cool finding out how that experiment turned out@curious2garden do you have a way to find out? i asked google before and couldn’t find anything. But i’m dumb so.

well shit! I just asked google again and I think this was that experiment.
 
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Tangerine_

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Check out this older thread it covers that in the very first post

I def would not go without using the pool shock. It gets messed up once nasties take hold. Trust me. You’ll go from “cloners are the best” to hating them. More and more cuts will take longer to root compared to the rest. And from my experience it only gets worse until you fix the problem.
Really good idea also to super sterilize in between clone crops.
If I knew about using pool shock to keep it clean years ago, i would probably still be growing in tubes. The ones like the Aeroflo ones. The ones I came up with years before GH supposedly had some NASA engineer do it :-)

my problems in tubes didn’t start until I switched to making and using RO water. My tap water(in multiple towns) was just fine but got convinced from some people on Overgrow that RO water is the best. Lmao. Looking back, the chlorine, and if it had monochloromine in the tap water i was using before was assisting in keeping shit clean before I started removing it.

This post is probably already TLDR worthy and i’m sorry but I have to add this. Back in like ‘96 When helping to build the then newer Palo Alto VA hospital, I ripped my hand open pretty good. Was sent to Stanford University Medical center to get stitched up. I participated in an experiment. The experiment was to see if their tap water was just as effective as saline solution to clean out the cut prior to closing it. They never told me what one I got, it was a blind test kind of thing. It worked.
Would be cool finding out how that experiment turned out@curious2garden do you have a way to find out? i asked google before and couldn’t find anything. But i’m dumb so.

well shit! I just asked google again and I think this was that experiment.
I stopped using RO water and went with straight tap a couple summers ago. I couldn't keep the temps down in the cloner and with RO it seemed like it only took 4-5 days before the slime showed up. The tap water cured that but I still pack up the cloner during the hot summer months and use peat plugs but now I'm really digging these rockwool cubes. I've done 4 trays of 72 cuts in the last month and only lost maybe a dozen or so.

Last weekend I traded a whole tray of cuttings with our farmer friend that lives near our camp. He gave me a case a pure maple syrup he and wife had just processed plus 10 dozen eggs. No clue what I'm gonna do with all these eggs.
 

FresnoFarmer

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Finally weeded out the front yard flower bed. Also tilled in some alfalfa pellets. Moved the mint plants to where the weeds usually pop up in various places around the lawn in hopes that the mint will out compete the weeds. I did the same thing in the backyard. Mowed the back lawn reel quick;) with the reel mower my mother-in-law let me have because “it’s too hard to push”. I just raised the blade an inch and lubricated all the working parts. Smooth like butter.:hump:
 

Laughing Grass

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The LG on it is pimping
you can barely make it out on the white filament. I should have went a little deeper

An interesting trinket.
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What was the inspiration for it? lol
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I found that model online. :mrgreen: It slowly spins as filament is pushed in.

What brand of 3D printer do you have and what filament types does it req'?
It’s creality cr10. I use cheap amazon branded 1.75mm pla spools.

I think this is going to work a lot better than the clips
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curious2garden

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you can barely make it out on the white filament. I should have went a little deeper



I found that model online. :mrgreen: It slowly spins as filament is pushed in.



It’s creality cr10. I use cheap amazon branded 1.75mm pla spools.

I think this is going to work a lot better than the clips
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Now I want a 3D printer for loom parts.
 
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