Dual Areoponic Cabinet, Ceramic Metal Halide

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cruzer101

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DenseBuds said:
Good luck! I had good experiences with that cloner.
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Cool, yea I seen some nasty root action with one of these at GTO's journal.

cutman said:
dude i love my cloner, well you have seen it , and i have a 100% success rate with it and it takes less time as well than a dome ever did, with no wilting what so ever, just simply love it. wit in 3-4 days root are there. did you use you cloneing solution in your water, and did you use the gel to? i use both in my cloner.
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Na man, I just put a couple drops of superthrive in the water.

Integra21 said:
Did you get all of your pests taken care of? And did you say in the other thread you are moving the God Bud into your cab?
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I wiped the cab down with a water/bleach mix a couple times but I didnt bomb it. Then I replaced the tub with one without the drain holes in it.

The move, Well thats what I am doing today but I dont have room for all three.
I guess I messed up when the god bud went into flower, she seems stuck. So I took a couple cuttings from her and Im gonna try again. The Mazar and the Afghan Widow are in flower and don't want to snap out of it so Im flowering those while the cuttings root.
Mazar on the left AK on the right,








I put godbud outside after taking a few cuttings. I'm afraid she is not gonna make it man. Sorry.


My little cloner is full now.







Blueberry in the middle, the 4 to the left are Blue dream and the 3 to the right are godbud.
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cruzer101

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OK, these two girls are not doing anything, its been like three weeks and still they seem dormant. I do have a nice little colony of white flies now along with the mites. I am gonna pull them and take what ever bud I can salvage and clean the cabs again.

I will be using one of the cabs for vegging so the title of this thread doesn't fit anymore. I just got that new chiller so I do plan on more hydro grows. Once I decide exactly what I am going to do I will post a link here to a new journal.

I guess i will finish with a thank you to all who have followed and contributed to my journal and a final smoke report on the last afghan grow.

Afghan Kush, grown under 400w ceramic metal halide lamp: The finished product is not as fragrant once cured as it was at harvest. Buds have an average amount of trichomes and red hairs, wispy foxtail type of buds. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it is smooth smoke. 3 hit stuff. slight resin after taste on the lips. Its not a couch lock nor a real cerebral high just a good mix. Lasts about an hour and a half.

White Rhino:
Now this stuff is dank. smells just like it did while it was finishing, big tight buds loaded with trichomes. this is couch lock for about 2 hours.

Funny thing, the Afghan is listed as a higher THC content, about 19% but from what I experienced the rhino is stronger stuff. could have been the mites, I didn't see many on the rhino, my guess is the rhino is less susceptible to mites.

My conclusion in regards to the lighting I have used is I like the metal halide better then the HPS. About 20% less yield but better quality. T-5 floros produced the most trichomes but the smallest yield out of them all.

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psari

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So has has the transfer indoor gone with them? I know keeping up all over the place is a pain, but I figured it has been long enough to ask how it went/is going.
 
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cruzer101

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psari said:
So has has the transfer indoor gone with them? I know keeping up all over the place is a pain, but I figured it has been long enough to ask how it went/is going.
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The transfer indoors didnt help at all. Sorry I wasnt clear on that.
Thats the two plants I was talking about in the previous post.

I was hopeing the buds would grow but they didnt. All I got is more mites and white flys. I should have tossed them right away and started a hydro in here. Now its too late if Im gonna use this as veg space for a winter harvest in the GH.

I cut them today and got them hanging. The Mazar on the right AK widow on the left.



kinda looks like the lower has finished more then the upper part of the plant.​
 
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psari

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No, that was all me this time. Darn Chrome didn't load a fresh page to see your update prior to my post there. Eerie timing tbh. Question was easily answered in the post previous. Still not sure why it does that sometimes.

Actually the cut pic does help illustrate the lack of progress better than the text in some ways. So maybe it is worth the oopsie.

Good experience overall with the attempt though. Darn pests and the whole lot are why some people really dont quite understand this isn't as simple as growing a house plant. Just recently had an argument over the idea anyone can grow with little more effort than popping a seed in soil and putting it in a window sill. But what should we expect? Ignorance runs rampart and has been fueled by suppression of this community for far too long. /mini rant off

At least there was some salvage from this all.

On the lights I'm still partial to the results from the Ceramic Metal Halides. Only hang up there is the ballast restrictions and the smaller bulb sizes available. But the results are nice. Extra spectrum, UV etc. Being happy with your results is a far better goal than trying to strive with world records or comparing yourself to the Jones'. Striving for quality over quantity sits better with me at least.

Sorry for the mashup there. Going to make sure I'm mashing ctrl-F5 more with Chrome again.
 
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Someguy15

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psari said:
On the lights I'm still partial to the results from the Ceramic Metal Halides. Only hang up there is the ballast restrictions and the smaller bulb sizes available. But the results are nice. Extra spectrum, UV etc. Being happy with your results is a far better goal than trying to strive with world records or comparing yourself to the Jones'. Striving for quality over quantity sits better with me at least.
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If you need spectrum coverage like CMH in higher wattage u can use a dual arc hps/mh bulb...but only 1kw varieties, no luck for the 600w crowd.
 
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psari

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Previously the cost of the bulbs really made me baulk on putting them through their paces. Still over $200 per on average now. I got suckered into CMH because someone handed me a crate of bulbs. Though I was happy enough with the results to dig on what people thought. Seems you love or hate the darn things. Thanks for the reminder though. Definitely a close match if you have a 1K setup. All threads need at least one diversion into "what"s better light" after they hit 100+ pages, no? *grins*
 
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Whatsup Cruzer, I've read thru most of this thread, as well as your greenhouse, which are both excellent projects. Your attention to detail really shows. Congrats, and good luck on future grows. I'm hoping that my cabinet turns out as clean as yours
 
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WaRpIg

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train track ? you mean trainwreck ? that the stain called trainwreck ...
cruzer101 said:
9-21-09

Temps 88 res 68°
PPM's 660
PH 5.2

The Ph keeps dropping on this new res, Brought it back to 6.0
Plants didn't use much water and its been warm. I hope this settles down.

Floro res is 600PPM I have changed water cycle to 4 hours on when lights on and one hour before lights out.
I go through more water but the ppms have remained the same so I got that dialed in. Topped off with water today.

Girls are 2.5 weeks into flower and slowing down some.




The Purple Kush is way ahead of the others, well the widow and the Kush are about the same age but PK is in bloom
where WW is just starting. I did a bit of training but I think its about time to let them go.












These are the Train Wreck





I think by increasing watering time while they stretch helps increase mass.


OK

Got some real Bud Shots today.

These girls are in week 6 of flower.
Train Wreck looks done but could always use more mass. Widow is just now filling out.





















Right angle shot, Thats my Train Track.
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cruzer101

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Yes, the strain is called Train Wreck. It was a joke.
A bunch of train wreck in a row I call my Train Track.
I guess it wasnt funny. Killer smoke though!
 
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cruzer101

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I am working on a fresh water feed to the cabs now. I got the r/o installed and a feed line ran to a res with a float valve. I still need to install a shut-off valve but the line works. I'm tired of hauling all that water. Now the res will top off itself. I picked up a 600w setup and i'm gonna give that a run. Been buzy with the greenhouse but the cabs will be up and running soon.
 
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cruzer101

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Looks like you you don't know what your talking about and should have stayed in school.
I guess everyone is entitled to there opinion, even if they got their head up their ass.
Congrats, you are the first person I will use the ignore feature on.
 
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cruzer101

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It was a while back, I guess a year ago, I was at your thread and you had a pic of your girls, there was a TV in the background. We joked about them watching the tv. I thought it was you. Maybe not.
 
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cruzer101 said:
It was a while back, I guess a year ago, I was at your thread and you had a pic of your girls, there was a TV in the background. We joked about them watching the tv. I thought it was you. Maybe not.
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Oh okay that was me.Yeah i was taking a break from the site but im back now.Got some new babies going now.1 Super lemon haze and 1 kushberry just put to flower last night.Started 1x headband,1x og kush 18,1x white russian,1x cataract kush and 3 og kushx lemon larry og kush and chemdog d.Just waiting for the taproots to show then off in soil they go.
 
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