Just need to grab one more extension cord for the oscillating fan and I'm done.
Apologies in advance for the disjointed nature of this post - kinda buzzed but also very, very excited to be all but done with the flowering tent setup.
The clone all have nice pre-roots showing and will be officially "rooted" by Sunday at the latest, me thinks (and hopes). Since I didn't have the wherewithal to take pics of the rootzone, you're just gonna have to take my word for that.
Came up with what (I thought) was a clever way to clean brand new hydroton (which, if any don't know, is dirty as hell) - I took one of the Rubbermaids I initially thought I'd be using and drilled numerous little holes in it, and ran that hydroton under the shower for a few hours - worked pretty damn well, if I do say so myself.
A couple of pics of my two drain setups - looked for forever in HD and couldn't find a way to make that hole in the middle work, so superglued a stopper in there - leak free, which is kinda big to me
Twils, great phucking call on the worm drive clamps - those shits are badass, and I don't even need to use duct tape anymore
The only issue I still have is that taping a a semi-rigid duct to a fan or flange is still a bitch - the clamps only work on flexible ducting.
At some point I'm gonna make everything less loud with some of this fiberglass ducting, but it was too much of a bitch for me to deal with today.
Here's a pic showing that my tray can fit 30 plants - doubt that's how many are going to finish flowering in a week or two, but that's how many are gonna start.
So even though I bought a 16" wall mount fan for this tent, it seems as though the old 12" stand fan is the way to go - works great, ran it for a couple of hours and this is my personal favorite part of the tent (for my ingenuity).
Mounted the Sentinel on the wall - just turned it on a half hour ago, that shit is phucking badass. Take my word for it.
This is where I hung the sensor - about 6" under the light, but not directly beneath it (although pretty close).
And this is how it looks with the tray in there - still an inch or two of space on each side, and you can see that I've cleaned the tray out pretty well - pretty spotless.
This is a pic of the 50 gallon Rubbermaid reservoir that I picked up today underneath the table - about 4 to 5" of space, but whatever the number, I'm 100% sure I'll have enough room.
A pic of the reservoir - actually went for the Sterilite 45 gallon reservoir, but the Rubbermaid was 2" shorter, darker, and held five more gallons..................just one little problem............
For some reason, the makers of this decided to put holes right in the handle - a phucking annoyance, if you ask me. Clearly need to figure out how to make them waterproof.
So let's talk CO2 - the floor where the tank is has a tilt, so I had to flatten it out with that cardboard.
So this a pic of the regulator that I screwed on; couldn't have been easier. Just plugged it into the Sentinel and (I assume) it's good to go.
Where the CO2 plug is on the Sentinel.
Pic of the valve that exhausts the actual CO2 - same diameter as any airpump tubing would be.
The regulator came with 12' of "CO2 Tubing"; my issue was that the tank was outside of the tent, so I didn't want tubing outside shooting CO2 wherever, so I used some general aquarium air pump tubing to run it into the tent.
Had to use a "T" fitting to another "T" fitting to run to the specialized tubing (once the specialized tubing was already in the grow tent).
Pics of the "special" tubing running at the top of the tent - CO2's heavier then air, so you want the tubing to be high.
So this is what I did about the holes in the handle of my rez - took a cheapo vinyle placemat from Walmart and cut pieces out to cover the parts that had holes (on the outside of the rez)..............after that dried, took some aquarium sealant and bombarded the inside of the rez with it - pretty sure that it should work, but I'll know more tomorrow.........
Anyhow, that's about it for now - just about 100% setup for flowering, clones should be totally rooted in 2-3 days, still planning on starting flowering on Novemer 8th, +/- 3 days.