Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

Gastanker

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Yeah. Google scholar has some great papers on UVs effect on various crops and many of them use MHs to achieve their UV but none of them state in their methods how large of a lamp they were using, from what distance, nor if it was shielded or not - they only state the umol of PAR and UV at canopy. Even GE's own spec sheet failed to state the UV.
 
polyarcturus

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most say the 1000w is the one that really produces any usable UV (the higher amps have a different effect on the arc tube "igniting" more luminous material that would otherwise be inactive)

i just read about it somewhere about IWASAKI/EYE lights
 
flowamasta

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Yeah... I was being stupid. Growing in a low class apartment building while doing nothing to control the smell aside from smoking a shit ton of pot. lol. You could pretty much smell my 4th floor apartment from the parking lot. Got to call the cops though which really boosted my confidence when it comes to being legal. They took pictures, finger printed, took a very very detailed list of what was taken... Very impressive considering I half expected them to laugh at me and then arrest me. Wont catch me growing without a fresh carbon filter now. Hell I don't even smoke in my own yard or with my windows open anymore.
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wow there we go again legal ;) the joys of legality i just leave the kitchen fan on and blow the smoke into the roof lol by the time it gets out, its stale and doesn't smell like choof no more....i think the neighbors know, they hear me cough away, and the outdoor plants had a good gawk at at one point, old russians across the yard, never hear one work of english, and other side is asians, they smell like mongolian beef all day, i worry sometimes though, i think us as growers seem to forget that the smell travels quite some distances
 
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I agree. I just hashed out a jar of bud and at first I smelled nothing but after leaving the house and returning it smacked me in the face like a hammer.

This will be going into two sticks of butter for cookies :)

 
flowamasta

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Gastanker said:
I agree. I just hashed out a jar of bud and at first I smelled nothing but after leaving the house and returning it smacked me in the face like a hammer.

This will be going into two sticks of butter for cookies :)

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:) that's nuts Gas! is that just a 20 micron screen over a jar with frozen erbs, or you got dry ice in there? tripper, great idea for small batches man! good stuff
 
Gastanker

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flowamasta said:
:) that's nuts Gas! is that just a 20 micron screen over a jar with frozen erbs, or you got dry ice in there? tripper, great idea for small batches man! good stuff
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Just dry ice in a jar with some silk screen. Not sure of the size but I want to say it's much larger holes than a standard work bag.

I shook as hard and as long as I could as I don't really care about quality when baking... but I just checked and it's actually fairly clean considering.



Took all of $0.50 worth of dry ice.
 
polyarcturus

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damn those look good. hey gastanker i decided against the metal halide experiments till i can get a hold of some UV meters i emailed my local reptile center to see if they would be interested in doing some testing i will let you know how it goes! right now im just gonna throw a 160w MV Hagen Solar Glo in there and see what she does, i got 2 white widows that are about to come out, big yeild not frosty, lets see what happens! those bulbs are expesive but seeing as how they dont lose output like a fluoro(as long as they are kept cool output can remain the same for years) and use specialty glass, i can kinda understand the price.
 
Endur0xX

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the buns made you hungry Clonex or the joint you just smoked~?! hehe,

I know you guys arent into LEDs much, but I should let you know that I just ordered a FERO 336x3W, it draws about 540Watts and it will replace my 2x400Watters, I just cant stand the fire hazard (as little as it is) of HIDs when I am away from home for days at a time. Also I have had decent results with leds so far and it's time to go bigger. Anyway, I will put this light on it's own in the room and I will probably start another journal as the seeds sprouts, first run with it should be a 12/12er. With this light on it's own in the room, I will be using just over half the power I was using, looking forward to compare the yields!( so far I am getting 8-10 oz(super high grade) per run with a total of 1300 watts(including fans and everything, this setup as never been optimal though) I can't wait to plug it in! Looking forward to let you guys know how it's workin out.

Oh and nice job on the Hash Gas, it looks fukin great! I wouldnt waste it in cookies ;) but thats just me!
 
flowamasta

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hey gas, can you cook erb butter with fresh frozen bud? or does it have to be dried? i still got a couple of oz of popcorn from last grow. wondering if i should bubble it or make some butter for cooking, or hash, then butter!! like you, thoughts?? if i have to get some dry ice then i will

btw! they look deeeeelish :) love the weed print? howd u do that!
 
polyarcturus

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he baked it with a leaf on top or placed a leaf and sprinkled brown sugar(or maybe more thc or a mix which would be pretty sweet!). depends either way works but it depends on your taste some like some weed taste too their food others dont.

whats the longest amount of time you spent laying about from brownies ect.?

i spent 3 days in and out of a haze the first time i cooked up about 3lbs of bullshit trim into to 2 cups of oil for a tray of brownies. cooking the trim took a long time in front of the stove though not worth it for potent cooking oil very time consuming. i prefer the same method gastanker uses for getting thc extract.(other than some very fancey chemical work to make what known as sugar hash, very difficult and you have to know a lot of chemistry)


hay gastanker i just threw up the solar Glo 160w + my x2 reptiglo 10.0 26w that makes about 200w how many watts are you running? what are the dimensions of your room?(mine are 3x5x5) and because of the design (had to think this one out) of the solar glo it has a slight frost and reflects the UV in a way that it does not work quite like a flood would normally but concentrates the UV in one spot, literally had a purple glow on black carpet surrounded by yellow light. so if you can imagine this, i put foil on the outside of my cool tube(reflector is inside) and i put the MV bulb above so when the UV light would hit it would break out in all direction and a lot of my plants would getting hit by the UV from side angles and without the intensity it is designed for, think this would be the best way to utilize it? i just moved the cfl to light the corner of the room. so they are out the way just lighting corners and hitting the plants from the sides.
 
Gastanker

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Clonex said:
Darn those buns made me hungry !
Nice!
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:) thanks

Endur0xX said:
the buns made you hungry Clonex or the joint you just smoked~?! hehe,

I know you guys arent into LEDs much, but I should let you know that I just ordered a FERO 336x3W, it draws about 540Watts and it will replace my 2x400Watters, I just cant stand the fire hazard (as little as it is) of HIDs when I am away from home for days at a time. Also I have had decent results with leds so far and it's time to go bigger. Anyway, I will put this light on it's own in the room and I will probably start another journal as the seeds sprouts, first run with it should be a 12/12er. With this light on it's own in the room, I will be using just over half the power I was using, looking forward to compare the yields!( so far I am getting 8-10 oz(super high grade) per run with a total of 1300 watts(including fans and everything, this setup as never been optimal though) I can't wait to plug it in! Looking forward to let you guys know how it's workin out.

Oh and nice job on the Hash Gas, it looks fukin great! I wouldnt waste it in cookies ;) but thats just me!
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Make sure to post a link to your new thread once it's up. I've got better hash for smoking :) That was baking grade for sure.

flowamasta said:
hey gas, can you cook erb butter with fresh frozen bud? or does it have to be dried? i still got a couple of oz of popcorn from last grow. wondering if i should bubble it or make some butter for cooking, or hash, then butter!! like you, thoughts?? if i have to get some dry ice then i will

btw! they look deeeeelish :) love the weed print? howd u do that!
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I'm sure you could cook with fresh frozen but it'll have a much stronger pot flavor and color - huge difference in the amount of THC. Might have a bit more popping in your butter during the decarb as well due to the moisture in the plant matter. Used a few leaves from my males for the pot print. Placed a bunch of leaves down and then threw cinnamon and sugar at em. Kinda worked. I have a feeling a cut out piece of paper would have worked better.

polyarcturus said:
he baked it with a leaf on top or placed a leaf and sprinkled brown sugar(or maybe more thc or a mix which would be pretty sweet!). depends either way works but it depends on your taste some like some weed taste too their food others dont.

whats the longest amount of time you spent laying about from brownies ect.?

i spent 3 days in and out of a haze the first time i cooked up about 3lbs of bullshit trim into to 2 cups of oil for a tray of brownies. cooking the trim took a long time in front of the stove though not worth it for potent cooking oil very time consuming. i prefer the same method gastanker uses for getting thc extract.(other than some very fancey chemical work to make what known as sugar hash, very difficult and you have to know a lot of chemistry)


hay gastanker i just threw up the solar Glo 160w + my x2 reptiglo 10.0 26w that makes about 200w how many watts are you running? what are the dimensions of your room?(mine are 3x5x5) and because of the design (had to think this one out) of the solar glo it has a slight frost and reflects the UV in a way that it does not work quite like a flood would normally but concentrates the UV in one spot, literally had a purple glow on black carpet surrounded by yellow light. so if you can imagine this, i put foil on the outside of my cool tube(reflector is inside) and i put the MV bulb above so when the UV light would hit it would break out in all direction and a lot of my plants would getting hit by the UV from side angles and without the intensity it is designed for, think this would be the best way to utilize it? i just moved the cfl to light the corner of the room. so they are out the way just lighting corners and hitting the plants from the sides.
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I dunno the longest I was put out but one time my sister came to visit for a few hours and ate a cookie... left the next day at ~5pm. She normally doesn't come over at all so I was kind of weirded out the entire time but thrilled that she was enjoying herself. When she finally got up to go (the next day) she said, "damn, finally I think I'm ok to drive." lol - suddenly made sense.

I would put your MV bulb in a spotlight fixture and just mount it from a high enough distance that it gets the propper spread. I'm currently running zer0 UV :( but when I'm using my pannels it's 144w.
 
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