Al B. FAQt

Al B. Fuct said:

yeah, if he was an army sgt, he'd be shot by his own troops.

I'm SO not that. I really cringe with this whole guru trip ppl lay on me. I can do some stuff but I'm not any kind of Einstein nor do I need my ego massaged.

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Yea ABF i can understand how that would make you feel uncomfortable BUT there are people like myself that owe a great deal to you JUST because you took the time out of your day to respond to questions. That is a big deal my friend!! You are kinda like the big brother and we are all just little FUCT's following you around thinking your the cat meow!!

bugsrnme said:

well ....smart and humble....nope nothing there at all redeeming or noteworthy....your right. you suck

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I DO suck! I suck like Primus!

totally kidding...i love you and you can still have my wife and sister....( went waaaay back for that post, you prolly don't member! )

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Yeah, I do remember, was kinda hoping that had sorta evaporated or got lost in a disk crash or something...

Just curious, the wife and sis... umm.... they any good at manicuring buds? digging post holes and mixing concrete? running the rotohoe in the veggie patch?

Why do I ask, you say?

Cos all that shit ain't getting done while I'm dorking around on here!

hello, i have a plant problem and was directed by long dangly bits to ask for your opinion on whats wrong with my plants. its under plant problems called:yellow and curling and maybe nute burn??/pics

thanks for your time

Al B. Fuct said:

I DO suck! I suck like Primus!


Yeah, I do remember, was kinda hoping that had sorta evaporated or got lost in a disk crash or something...

Just curious, the wife and sis... umm.... they any good at manicuring buds? digging post holes and mixing concrete? running the rotohoe in the veggie patch?

Why do I ask, you say?

Cos all that shit ain't getting done while I'm dorking around on here!

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love the primus reference....you really that flexible....on second thought you might do dome acrobatic shit in bed then ....i'm single and have lost my garden slave. and yes they are from oklahoma and raised/worked on a farm.

but seriously......get to work

oops...funs over, doodie calls

sparkafire said:

Yea ABF i can understand how that would make you feel uncomfortable BUT there are people like myself that owe a great deal to you JUST because you took the time out of your day to respond to questions. That is a big deal my friend!! You are kinda like the big brother and we are all just little FUCT's following you around thinking your the cat meow!!

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Thanks.

It's all chain reaction karma to me. I'm in it to subvert bad laws and self-serving governments. I help you learn, you wire it up & dial it in, then you teach a couple more... ain't no way they can jail us all. Overthrowing by overgrowing, social change from the user-level on up.

now... coffee break's over, see ya.

asyouarei said:

hello, i have a plant problem and was directed by long dangly bits to ask for your opinion on whats wrong with my plants. its under plant problems called:yellow and curling and maybe nute burn??/pics

thanks for your time

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got a link?

you know...you just cant stop canyou?...lmao

hello my name is al......i'm a postaholic

It's not so much that- I'm just wired to the gills. I have 5 computers on my home LAN, upstairs, downstairs, in the kitchen, on the verandah and yes- there is one just outside the grow room. I get notified via SMS when emails from RIU come in. I pretty much just stand up & turn around and there's a networked PC handy.

Other than being wicked clean, are there any preventative measures or products you suggest using when it comes to pests? Every now and then there seem to be a few gnats flying around here and there and I could just see them loving my hydro setup.

Also, I am having difficulties finding anything more than drug store h2o2. I found a couple online sites but they didn't look right to me. Any online suggestions? or perhaps anyone out there in the states have a supplier?

Al . i know its not a hydro question but i have posted it twice and can get no answer and hoped you could help ...
i just bought an agrostar 1000 watt hps ballast to replace my cheap growbright ballast.
the new agrostar seems to be twice as loiud as the cheap one and its hot ... hot enough i have it reasting on concrete blocks because im afraid its going to start a fire ... question is .
is this normal for the 1000 watt ballast to run so hot or might i have a defective unit ?

hi albf
I have a question for you, I use RO water at 0 ppm then i add nutes to get about 800ppm.
You say tap water is fine, and my tap water is about 300-350ppm, Do i add 800ppm amoutn of nutes to get 1100-1150ppm to get the same as before? Or do i still add enough just to reach 800ppm. Thanks!

Jeebus said:

Other than being wicked clean, are there any preventative measures or products you suggest using when it comes to pests? Every now and then there seem to be a few gnats flying around here and there and I could just see them loving my hydro setup.

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Gnats are bloody everywhere. You'll almost always have a few. Use yellow sticky card traps. That'll trap most adults before they can lay eggs, but if things get really bad, where plants are affected (root probs), find some Gnatrol. Keep them hungry by killing the fungus they eat with H2O2.

Any online suggestions? or perhaps anyone out there in the states have a supplier?

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Google and ye shall find. Lots of results, filter it by your town name (unles you live in Bumfuckegypt, of course), you'll find it.

Al B. Fuct said:

got a link?

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https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-plant-problems/104662-yellow-curling-maybe-nute-burn.html

heres some additional info i dont have ph run off, humidity, or temperature.sorrryy:

recently trasfered plant from mg organic 10-5-5 to jiffers seedling starter mix
distilled water ph of 7.5
soil ph 7
no nutes at this time
lights 2 120 watt floro cfl spirals for capopy
2 80 watt floro cfl spiral for sides (18-6)
fan for circulation
i water once every three days with no runoff

Phinxter said:

is this normal for the 1000 watt ballast to run so hot or might i have a defective unit ?

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Should run pretty hot (case temp might be 60-70C), but should be dead silent. If it buzzes, you got a shit ballast. The bzzzzzzzzzz noise is caused by a poor quality or defective inductor with loose or insufficiently secured iron laminations. Loose laminations will cause inefficient running and hotter than normal operation, too.

Return it, make sure they are all not like that before accepting a replacement.

firsttimegroww said:

hi albf
I have a question for you, I use RO water at 0 ppm then i add nutes to get about 800ppm.
You say tap water is fine, and my tap water is about 300-350ppm, Do i add 800ppm amoutn of nutes to get 1100-1150ppm to get the same as before? Or do i still add enough just to reach 800ppm. Thanks!

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As long as the out of the tap EC is being caused by Mg & Ca and not NaCl salinity, it's fine to use. The plants will use the Mg & Ca as nutrients but won't want much NaCl (150ppm or 150mg/L max sodium). Check your water utility's website for water analysis data. If your tapwater is 300 from Ca & Mg and you want 1100, mix for 1400.

asyouarei said:

soil ph 7

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ah, soil.

Sorry, I'm just not a soil guy. Won't be able to help you much.

Purpling stem (P def), N deficient leaves... could be root probs, overwatering, pH error. The pH requirements for soil are different to hydro so I can't get you any closer than that, sorry.

Ask potroast.

Al B. Fuct said:

ah, soil.

Sorry, I'm just not a soil guy. Won't be able to help you much.

Purpling stem (P def), N deficient leaves... could be root probs, overwatering, pH error. The pH requirements for soil are different to hydro so I can't get you any closer than that, sorry.

Ask potroast.

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thanks yeah both have really purply stems but one is fine while the other is not... thanks

Yep, the plant has a couple of deficiencies, can be caused by actual absence of nutes but more often is caused by root damage from disease, overwatering is a good way to bring on root disease. A pH error can lock out certain nutrients. The purpling stem is a worry.

See if you can flag down potroast, this is his forte.

So, I was getting some high-quality data about lighting from a w33d b4R0n in some other thread and I'm told pointedly it's all about GRAMS PER WATT (all caps apparently necessary to make him righter ) and how HPS lighting is good doorstop material...

I'd never mathed out what my op does in those terms, didn't know what a 'good' g/W figure might be... so I crunched the numbers.

Al B. Fuct said:

OK, I light each pair of my 900x900mm trays with a 1000. I only harvest 1 tray at a time, every 2 weeks. Each tray yields 23-28.75oz (653.2-816.5g), so we'll double that to get a per-lamp yield, 1306.4-1633g per 1000HPS, or 1.306-1.633g/W. How'm I doing?

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Apparently... pretty friggin' well.

actually 1 gram per watt is what pro growers get. (Meaning per watt of light)

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hmm, ok. Any consensus on that 1g/W figure being 'great'?

bugsrnme sez in a +rep msg:

not that you need it...thanks, your +rep sent my points from 400sumthin to 600 sumthin....daaang yer powerfull,lol...bugsrnme

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I don't play the rep thing much, but that seems a lot. I hit Stoney McDoper with some +R (the only one he's ever gotten ). He says it was worth 28 points.

If I haven't +r'd you recently, let me know. I'll pop you some and you can chime in with how much it was worth. I'm not sure there's much rhyme or reason to it.