Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

Dirthawker, what container is that your using for your res? And what size pump are you using?

Skick looking set up!

Thats a 40 gallon panda res with 4 posts.. 1ft spacing between plants.
800gph pumps. Im trying to find the sweet spot of how many plants to run.
Theres 16 holes, 4 per post. The tops were already harvested on the 16 plant blackberry unit on the left. The unit on the right has 13 plants. and the unit under the MH has only 8.

How much you wanna bet the 8 plant unit yields the most.

The only drawback is you use alot of nutrients with the bigger res.

hey just wanted to know how often the water in the rez in the flowering room would hav to be replaced?? i know that in the clone and veg its every three week i read in an earlier post what about flowering??

DIRTHAWKER said:

heres a couple pics of my new room... no c02 yet but im trying to figure out a way to use my natural gas centrel house heater in a closet right next to the room to supplement the grow room with co2


any ideas?

heater below

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Locate the gas line brother... put a T on it and plumb it to where you need it. Make sure you use teflon tape and pipe dope on your threads. Pipe dope first then teflon tape. Also you want to be sure to use a rated shut off valve for your newley plumbed line. Once everything is plumbed... spray all conections with mild sope/water solution and check for leaks. Gas is not something you want to fuck with if you are not sure how to do it. Can blow you up or kill your in your sleep.

Hope this helps.

hell yea!! this op is exactly what i was planning on setting upp and you even cleared upp all those little kinks i was concerned about before.. super excited.. does anyone happen to use a propane burner as their co2 supply by the way?!

DIRTHAWKER said:

heres a couple pics of my new room... no c02 yet but im trying to figure out a way to use my natural gas centrel house heater in a closet right next to the room to supplement the grow room with co2


any ideas?

heater below

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That heater is a 80% heater and should not be messed with when trying to get CO2. The heater gases dont stay in the heat exchanger long enough to burn properly. Therfore, Carbon Monoxide will mostly be present in high ppm. Dont do it. Maybe with a 95% furnace, but not that one.

DIRTHAWKER said:

heres a couple pics of my new room... no c02 yet but im trying to figure out a way to use my natural gas centrel house heater in a closet right next to the room to supplement the grow room with co2


any ideas?

heater below

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damn super sexy room man!!!

sagensour said:

That heater is a 80% heater and should not be messed with when trying to get CO2. The heater gases dont stay in the heat exchanger long enough to burn properly. Therfore, Carbon Monoxide will mostly be present in high ppm. Dont do it. Maybe with a 95% furnace, but not that one.

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Thanks sage, but how do you know if its 80% or 95%? I did quite a bit of research on this and it really seems doable...check this article out.

http://ezinearticles.com/?CO2-for-Free&id=48431

DIRTHAWKER said:

heres a couple pics of my new room... no c02 yet but im trying to figure out a way to use my natural gas centrel house heater in a closet right next to the room to supplement the grow room with co2


any ideas?

heater below

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First I hate you because you room is so nice. Just want that to be clear before you use any help I offer.

C02 from your heater has bad stuff in it from years of use, maybe a few days it won't matter. Over time you are building up extra crap. That is what I was told, I think I will take it to the bank.

Its natural gas.. it has an exhaust, a manual thermostat, and is supplied 120v power. In reality its a co2 generator on steroids..lol

all i would need to do is hook a controller to the heater and tap into the exhaust to vent into the room with a duct booster. Set my controller to say 1700, set my deadband to 200 .. Whenever the co2 in the room drops to 1500 it powers the heater which powers the gas valve open ignites the pilot that fires up the heater that burns the fuel which creates c02 that is exhausted up the exhaust pipe the duct booster powers on simutaneously and refills the room to 1700 then shuts power to the heater and booster.....

piece a cake.

Natural gas burns very clean.. as long as the flame is blue then only minimal amounts of carbon monoxide is produced if any. Of course its imperative that you have carbon monoxide detectors in place.
In reality all co2 generators on the market sold for grow rooms are basicly small heaters that burn fuel to create co2. So whats the difference if my heater is on steroids..

thanks for the compliments on the grow stinkbuds!

I want to use my heater as C02 generator too, it is on the other side of the wall from my grow room. But I don't want to wake up dead. Or end up with headaches from the weed I can't stop smoking even though I know it is poisoned.. lol

LOL.. yea its a good thing nobody lives in there.. but will see if it pans out.. if not i guess ill have to buy an overpriced marketed co2 generator that does the exact same thing...LOL

A natural gas flame produces CO2. Water heater....gas heater...Gas Dryer....Gas stove....anything that burns propane or natural gas.

The problem comes when oxygen runs out, the flame starts to burn CO2 (yellow flame) since there's not much left. Carbon Monoxide becomes the by-product from this point.

A simple fix....allow fresh air in the area! The same requirements with the expensive CO2 Generators give this same warning.....you MUST have a fresh air source for the burner.

Once all these safety percautions are taken it will be as safe as any co2 generator.

anyone know if a co2 regulator for fish tanks will work just as the higher priced ones for growing outside fishtanks? It looks the same to me but I dont know and the fish ones say something about a bubble counter.
like this one
http://cgi.ebay.com/AQUATEK-CO2-Regulator-NEW-COOL-TOUCH-SOLENOID_W0QQitemZ230440067305QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a74c60e9

I think the only dif would be a flow rate but thats why Im askin you all.
Please help
thanks

HerbalTreeMate520

Dagobaker is using propane for his co2 supply.

His in this thread a lot but not recently check a couple hundred pages back.

Peace

Sounds like it would go in a tank of water though. Where would we find one of those to put it in with our aero gardens? Oh wait I have an idea!!

Hey Mejuana....is stinkbud's site back up yet? I tried to login and haven't been able to....

zalfed said:

Hey Mejuana....is stinkbud's site back up yet? I tried to login and haven't been able to....

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I just went there and checked. Everything is working. When it first came back up, I had to go in and start over with my username and password. I was able to use my old one, so it must have started from scratch.

zalfed yeah it is running but it is just a temporary site. All the original posts are saved, pictures all that stuff. He is just updating all the software still. Just make a temp account there on the temp server so we can still talk.

I am going to to start using my stink bud jr this weekend and I have one question, I was using the fox farm line for soil and I am wondering if I can use the grow big for soil instead of buying a new bottle of the hydro formula can anyone help me?