My First Grow! DIY DWC & Grow Area, SNOW WHITE FEM FROM SEED!

Buds are plumping and clones are....chillin there....so...yea.


huge finance exam in a few hours, time to get my study grind on.

Cost of capital = (e/(e+d))*cost of equity + (d/(d+e)*[cost of debt]*(1-t).

That shit's cake, bro.

Actually, this exam is only on the Stock Market, which is awesome because that is what I am most interested in. Sad thing is that a lot of it actually is pretty hard at times. Having a hard time breaking down the formulas, but it's the only way to do it. For a while I was completely lost because you never used the same equation from problem to problem, but now I am starting to see how to manipulate them a bit. Just using equations like:

Pt=Do (1+g)^t / (R-g)
Dt=Do(1+g)^t
R=D1/Po + g
Po = D1/(1+R)^1 + D2/(1+R)^2 + D3/(1+R)^3.... =SUM(Dn/(1+R)^n

blah blah blah

Then just like the terminology of the market. Broker, Trader, Dealer, Member, NYSE, NASDAQ, aspects of markets, 3 types of market efficiency etc.

fun fun fun

In the last 3 hours I have had a great breakthrough with it and my F mentality has bumped to a C or so which is great.

I'd come out there and take it for you - you should've let me know earlier, would've sent you some of my CFA study stuff.

Looks like you're just doing basic valuations - if you get stuck, just remember that the intrinsic value of any security is simply the discounted future value of its cash flows.

Knowing that concept, you can generally back into whatever answer you need - just don't forget to discount the future values back to present by using the discount rate.

Good luck.

Haha, I love that I know almost exactly what you are talking about haha.

Thanks man,



Oh, and the clones look good still, no real changes. I am leaving the domes off for a few hours today and going to see what happens. I just got lost in my closet staring at those buds for 10 minutes, they are getting really fucking big guys haha. I know they aren't THAT big, but I feel like for a first grow and also after Trim-Tragedy 2009, this is some seriously good shit haha.

Honestly, if the domes are working for you, then great, but I've never used domes in my bubble cloner or the E&F clone that I got to successfully root.

Regardless, if you're going to use the domes, take them off for longer and longer each day to harden the clones and prevent any stem rot from excessive moisture.

Good luck; now time to go build my fluorescent palace.

Well, I had them off for about 3 hours today and....they look terrible. This leads me to think that those plants weren't even thinking about rooting previously and were just living off of the humidity and the misting. I hopefully saved them and things will still work out.

My ph meter is also fucked. I'm so sick of that thing. I don't trust it and being at this crucial spot in the grow and not being able to avoid stress by keeping my plants smooth is terrible. I am going off of instinct and forecasts I kinda thought up from looking at the old info. That being said, they are still really healthy and I don't see any problems.


Now, what kind of ph meter do you guys suggest? I liked the one I have, but ever since I lost that rubber cap I'm never positive if it's reading correctly and calibrating properly. I would like to buy a nicer one, but the money is going to fucking suck. Do any of you guys have any brands or specific meters they suggest? It would really help me out.

I have a $30 Hanna off of eBay that works like a charm.

Eventually I'm gonna upgrade to a meter in each reservoir which measures EC/pH/PPM and never needs calibrating, but my cheap eBay ones are working fine.

That'd be my suggestion.

I have that same 30$ hannah, the white one with the small rubber cap?

Negative - mine's red with a black cap.

Ah, I know the one you are talking about. How often do you have to calibrate yours? Also, does it have that small rubber black cap? it's probably the same one. Basically, I lost that cap, so now the electrode dries up on me and i don't trust it. Do you think it's worth getting another one?

Definitely worth getting another one, and after not calibrating for a month and realizing how off I was, I'm planning on calibrating every two weeks, if not more often.

Takes about two minutes and is well worth it - pretty easy for me as well - once I calibrate to the 7.01, the 4.01 comes out exactly on, so I'm not fiddling with them for very long.

See, I was told to calibrate mine to 6.88 and 4.01 because of the air temp? I dunno man haha. Wonder if I can find any cheap ones

This is the one I have, works great.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SALE-NEW-HANNA-HI98107-98107-PH-METER-TESTER-CHECKER_W0QQitemZ310182622325QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4838533475

And as far as the calibration goes, I don't really care about .1 difference either way - going to the hundredth is kinda silly, IMHO.

as far as calibration goes, i use the 7.01 fluid. i don't even deal with 4.01. you're look for 5.5 - 6.5 in your res, so why deal with the 4.01 is the way i look at it.
i picked up a cheap one off amazon and it works just fine.


Shack

Go liquid ph stylez.. If mine isn't workin I just rinse and go again :/

Knickers, it's beyond that at this point man, I've been messing with it for a week. I'm gonna have to get a new one =/

liquid ph stylez? does that mean the little drops in the water tube? That is what I have been using haha

Yeah thats what I'm talkin bout!

Obviously has the major drawback of not being able to calibrate etc, but it's served me well, and generations before.

Yea, I used it for the first...25 or 30 days of growing with just my Snow White mother. It did serve me well indeed, but I want it to be more accurate I guess, especially because I keep track of all of my plant data in a spread sheet. I will most likely order another one today. It sucks, but I'll get over it I guess. the only thing that I realize now is that the one that Bob has that I like is really wide, so it can't fit into the calibration fluid container, which means, I'd need to put it in another container, which means that I need to get more haha.

Twas painful to toss that $55 at the world, but the deed is done. Now I just have to remember to hustle the hell out of myself at work, work my charm and get some good tips haha.