Troutie's Green O'matic Stealth grow

here is how the cabinet looks now... getting rather busy in there... and i have no idea how to get those two lamps hung horizontal yet ... but as you can see a lot more light, shame most of it's bouncing off the walls!
and you can see the homemade E40 hanger/duct-tape sculpture LMFAO

aww, im jealous, i want big lights!

dopeyG said:

aww, im jealous, i want big lights!

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big lights = major headache to hang lol..... but they will fit front to back which will be handy, just can't use that reflector hanging side on..... so lets see what i can figure out

did you get the new lights in?

nice looking setup. subbed. check out my thread, kinda similar but smaller and not as well made

Noice You been a busy lad too! It'll be even better once you get them babies hung sideways - Have you considered a H shape? That's kind of how I've done mine.
Your O'Matics are looking happy as well.

ermmmm Cumbers ..... i had cosidered it ...but unfortunately the power cord of the first one plays havoc with fitting one in bottom end, i've just tryed get them hung and level just for last night..... and i'll try to come up with something today....

welcome GB .... its what you put in that counts, and not the decor of your grobox (and most importantly what comes out at the end hehehehe) glad to have you onboard fella

Sub Edit: " i love them scrog pots your doing GB... wow PUKKA idea!"

anotherdaymusic said:

did you get the new lights in?

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yeah... snapped the inside of one of the light hangers... tryed to fix it with ashesive and solder.... resulted in a bang (lamp survived Thank Jebus) i have put the two new lamps on a pair of rails so i could have them horizontal... the third one is still in the reflector and is 2" higher then the other two.... i was going to have all three inline.... and the reflector hanging above them .... but toying with the idea of the H system that Cumbers mentioned and after the trouble i had mounting two on the rails ... sounds like a plan ... i'll have a think about it, but for now they are in a H shape

how the lights are at present, would like 3 in a row really ... but it took 2 hours and a full stress to get it to this point lol
plant #2 (far left) seems bigger then plant #1 now.. but is more compact.
plant #1 .(centre).... the original big girl.... now 2nd largest i'd say.

what do you think?

Plants looking healthy and happy

And your H setup seems to be working too!
I'd leave it as is for the now and work out the reflector business later. They're getting what they need so that's all that matters.

Cereal box and tin foil mate - I tells ya, it's key to my design! lol

onlycucumbershere said:

Plants looking healthy and happy

And your H setup seems to be working too!
I'd leave it as is for the now and work out the reflector business later. They're getting what they need so that's all that matters.

Cereal box and tin foil mate - I tells ya, it's key to my design! lol

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yeah i think you could be right ... i have finished spending on this grow, mark my words not a penny more...... so it could be a make do and mend reflector... but i'm on the look out for something suitable and it might end up being card and foil

i know what you mean about seeing stuff all the time until you need it .... then you can't find any for looking

Oh ... in all the fuss and stress of getting the lights hung correctly i forgot to mention i have noticed no ill effect from the first nute feed i gave them yesterday... no discolouration of leaves, they were a little droopy after lights came back on ... but hoping thats nothing to worry about ... but on the whole i think it may have been ok

Get yourself an industrial temp. control and wire fans to them to come on/off... You can get them with high/low points...
Sort of like these:
http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/accessory/controls.shtml
If you have a Grainger around, they have the old school mechanical ones that should be fairly cheap and very reliable. Made by Honeywell I think. They use them in Green houses. Check it out!

Looks like normal healthy growth to me... They want to get bigger!

i want them to get bigger..... much bigger

Supposedly the Molasses promotes growing of microorganisms in the soil which makes your soil more healthy. Kind of like worm food etc. I wonder if anyone has tried puitting worms in their grow pots. I need to search that one....Would make some really excellent fert., you would have to feed them some veg. matter but that's great.... I got compost anyway.....

Dont Fear The Reefer said:

Supposedly the Molasses promotes growing of microorganisms in the soil which makes your soil more healthy. Kind of like worm food etc. I wonder if anyone has tried puitting worms in their grow pots. I need to search that one....Would make some really excellent fert., you would have to feed them some veg. matter but that's great.... I got compost anyway.....

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well the jurys still out on the molasses.... do the pro's outway the con's.... i've asked a trusted grower and the advise i was given was "if you decide to try it then less is more"

worms ...lol (my son is worm mad... have to check his pockets when he comes in from the garden) ... think worms would be ok if you was growing in some hench raised bed .... but might be too distructive in pots i think? i don't know... but have a vision of removing a rootball from a pot and finding a load of flattened worms lol

todays inspection was fine... all standing up straight and looking quite nice, some of the lower leaves have a kind of matt finish and tougher leaf then the sativas i've grown (ill treated lol)...they are all nice and green.... but these Green O's seem to have rough feel to the touch, i have never grown one that feels like a plastic plant before... is this normal?

the growth at the top of each plant seems to be slow, but there is more growth happening at once now.. i'm seeing side branches between leaf sets too... so i guess they are switching into 2nd gear .

after having to core drill 2 more 75mm exhaust holes in the bulk head after the new lights were put in yesterday (temps were constant 81 for 3 hours after installation), temps settled down to 72-75 overnight ... had to cover all lights and plants with a blanket and work around them. i hate any sort of upset and wished i had ironed out these things before starting, but this is not an ideal world so i will just have to be as careful as i can be.

sweet dude. I have been slacking hardcore on my updates. I will def put up a pic update. The plants have had 3 nights of 12/12, and they have stretched about 2 inches since the 12/12. crazy. ill show you some pics today when the lights kick on in a couple of hours

My lights were due to change tomoz, but now I gots to wait for my seed to pop out of the soil first I got some small electrical changes to make first anyways for my setup...

Looking forward to taking pics for my update tomoz though

onlycucumbershere said:

My lights were due to change tomoz, but now I gots to wait for my seed to pop out of the soil first I got some small electrical changes to make first anyways for my setup...

Looking forward to taking pics for my update tomoz though

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yeah man!.... weeks slowly ticking past do you still hope to be done for christmas??? or do you think it might be new years now???