Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

[repvip]

I might have mentioned this before but - GFCI - GFCI - GFCI. Water and electricity don't mix. Bathrooms, kitchens, and grow rooms should all have GFCI.

just curious.. would the GFCI circuit flip as the pump is now leaking current in the water? Or would it flip when I touch the water and make the ground? (and I still don't really get why it wouldn't ground with the ground from the 3-prong plug..) either way I replaced it with a spare.

thanks

 

[andyman]

McMaster-Carr, where did you get yours? It is a bit cheaper than what I paid. I looked at automation-direct also, but passed on it because you cannot control off time separate from on time.
Where did you get your contactor? I think you said something about a specific store (hot tub/ jacuzzi)?

P.S. Sorry SB for the thread jack.

a place called "Hoover instument"
Mansfield, Ohio.
they are like radio shack but without all the junk. mostly higher voltage factory/buisness stuff. or stuff to wire your buisness.
contactor I had sitting at work (we sell them). timer is very nice and very accurate.
heat/ac hvac places should have the contactor.

 

[andyman]

just got my tds meter and my ph meter.
now the ph meter box says "Allways keep hp probe wet with water"
does that mean even in storage? or just when testing? I dont really understand . never used one before.
Its a milwaukee ph600
the tds meter I dont really know how to use it yet either but it came with directions and the ph didnt.
the tds meter is a HM digital tds-3 with temp. figure I will get a nice probe one for each seperate res. down the road.
any help would be nice.
thanks

ps just tried the tds here are the results
cold tap water 268 ppm
cold filtered tap water 267 ppm
hot tap water 262 ppm,
water in my cloner for over a week 274 ppm
not sure why my brita filter didnt lower it that much

 

[DragonPhoenix]

I'm trying to keep up with the thread but time has been at a premium as of late and I've been very busy improving my horticultural area etc.

So without making any more excuses, here's a bud shot of some WW I harvested a couple weeks ago - I know how everyone loves cannaporn.

Also below is a shot of my flower room. I could not fit it all in one shot so what you see is two shots - one looking left and one looking right. The plants in the middle system have 4-5w left. There are actually only 6 plants in the system. The system on the LEFT I just put the plants in. They are a sativa dominant so until I build my 4th system I loaded up half the system with all the sativas (They are mostly Delta-9 Fruit of the Gods) and in 2w from now I will fill the rest of the system up with the indicas so I can harvest the entire system at the same time. The plants in the system on the right have been in for about 2w.

One of my Barney's Farm Sweet Tooth plants is an absolute MONSTER. The stem is almost 1" thick and I will literally have to SAW through it to harvest it. In any case - I know how you love pics Stink so these are for you!

Oh and the really tall plant in the midde bloom system is a Fruit of the Gods - it is climbing like CRAZY. The sweet tooth is actually a little bit back on the right side of the middle system.

Cheers,
DP

 

[Kingpin69]

Hey stink, instead of draining all the buckets back to a common res, why not use the buckets as the res. In a system for large plants it puts you at a disadvantage having to raise them. I have an illustration of the common res method as opposed to the design I drew which is actually similar to some bucket hydro systems that you see in local shops, only they operate on a drip emitter rather than root sprayers.

The only thing I can see being a problem with this system is that it would be harder to drain and refill but thats really not that hard to deal with. Also, if your doing a bunch of big plants say outdoors in these buckets, you can step it up and design every bucket to have a garden hose attachment and then build as many as you like and connect both the sprayers and the drains via short garden hose pieces and then its super easy to clean and take apart whenever you need to, and if the plants become too crowded, just swap out the hoses for longer ones. What do you think!

 

[torrey420]

Well, my second xmas is coming in! Wired the 240v to my room, got the fence posts for the flower systems along with all the other piping to make it work, my first of 4 hydrofarm air cooled reflectors, waiting on my lumatek dual 600w ballast and 240v master timer setup. I swapped out my 400wMH light I was using for veg/cloner for a 3 bulb T8 light to save some energy costs as I add more lights. Also glad to report that my first set of clones have all begun sprouting roots!!! I thought they were all dying but apparently they begin to yellow a bit right before the shoot some roots. Very excitied to get my flower room growing, I only have about 6-8 plants to move into it but they are some monsters!

Happy Growing!

 

[repvip]

DP! Looks great stink buddy!! +rep but I 'gots to spread it around a more' haha

Hoping to get my second flower unit up and running soon.

 

[StinkBud]

I'm trying to keep up with the thread but time has been at a premium as of late and I've been very busy improving my horticultural area etc.

So without making any more excuses, here's a bud shot of some WW I harvested a couple weeks ago - I know how everyone loves cannaporn.

Yea baby!!! That's what I'm talking about.
Everything looks to be going great for you. It looks like you have reached a perpetual harvest already.

It's a trip. As soon as one batch is dry you are already starting the flush on the next. Pretty soon you will get sick of all the trimming!

StinkBud tip for the day:

As your plants in flower get bigger you will need to tie up branches, pull dead leaves and clean. Your arms and hands will become covered in icky sticky resin that won't wash off with soap and water.

I always keep a bottle of rubbing alcohol handy to clean my hands and arms. It also works great for cleaning your trimming scissors also.

 

[mindphuk]

Finally got through this thread. Great information from SB and so many other contributors. I especially like the relay circuit to run multiple high current draw devices on a single 15a timer.

I think I read most every post and I did not see the following tip mentioned. If you want to give yourself an easier time of installing the misters, buy a 10 32 tap to use after you drill your pilot hole into the PVC. They are only about $5 and then those little red puppies just screw right in.

I was at HD the other day and Lowes today. I can only find the 18 and the 10 gallon roughnecks. The 10 gal is definitely too short, the misters would have to lie at the bottom of the container to be effective but then that would put them underwater -- NOT effective.

And Happy New Year everone!

 

[repvip]

It's been two weeks since the first flower unit was put in operation. Plan on two week intervals with probably 4 units total. Remember, these are the full 6' posts! I can't get far enough back for a better pic. I have two veg chambers and two clone chambers. I haven't really needed the second veg chamber, but it was nice to have two cloners.

These are almost exclusively blue cheese. New mothers were just placed in flower room after cloning today and include blueberry, white berry, white widow.. lots of the whites and blues.

ps - lol thinking about the earlier days of high rez temps!! This couldn't be working better. Really.

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

Lookin sweet rev!!!!

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

Picture time! We need to make a stinkbuddies national anthem..so we can all sing along

 

[repvip]

Picture time! We need to make a stinkbuddies national anthem..so we can all sing along

my good lord!!!!

how big are those bottom fan leaves?? 7-8 inches?

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

my good lord!!!!

how big are those bottom fan leaves?? 7-8 inches?

theres some big suckers in there..lol

how did you put the stink buddie avatar
like that?

 

[repvip]

theres some big suckers in there..lol

how did you put the stink buddie avatar
like that?

windows paint!

Just save your avatar to say your desktop, and stink's avator to the same place.

Open stinks avatar in paint
under image do stretch/skew
horizontal about 40%
vertical same 40%
edit->select all
edit->copy
file->open your avator
edit->paste
move
save!

 

[LionsRoor]

It's been two weeks since the first flower unit was put in operation. Plan on two week intervals with probably 4 units total. Remember, these are the full 6' posts! I can't get far enough back for a better pic. I have two veg chambers and two clone chambers. I haven't really needed the second veg chamber, but it was nice to have two cloners.

These are almost exclusively blue cheese. New mothers were just placed in flower room after cloning today and include blueberry, white berry, white widow.. lots of the whites and blues.

ps - lol thinking about the earlier days of high rez temps!! This couldn't be working better. Really.

Yeah, Rep - looks choice!!!

Picture time! We need to make a stinkbuddies national anthem..so we can all sing along

Yeah, Dirt - looks choice!!! The 4 x 600's are clean! Sunshine indoors!

Wow - this is the best motivation... we all know Stink is the man and he can produce the killer medicine with his system... and now you two show us know it can be duplicated as promised. Thanks again for the pics, guys - they are so helpful, so motivating, so beautiful!

Blown away...

 

[LionsRoor]

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Originally Posted by DubB83
I was thinking about making this one.
http://ozreef.org/diy_plans/water_mo...wavemaker.html

here is a pic of the one I made with a contactor built in so you could run larger higher amp pumps.
not sure if those plans you have there are for pumps like this uses or little fishtank air pumps that draw less power

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Nice, AndyMan - thanks again for those plans!

 

[G33kDro]

I came across something that looked like this for drying and we haven't touched base on this in StinkBud's class!
since everyone else is doing it, (no peer pressure) haha, i will post some pics tomorrow of my SB based designs, and what i did a lil differnet in my designs.

-G33k

 

[beeker187]

All i can say is wow!!!!your grows are amazing i am speechless

 

[uptosumpn]

........................wow, just wow