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I didn't know where to put this thread so i stuck it in general. Its just a little story about what happened the other day. Well, i climbed into my loft before work to check on the ladies and when i got up there, a little bird was flapping about. i think it was a Starling. i was a little confused as to how and why it was up there as there is no outside access but i figured it must of found a little gap somewhere and crawled in. After doing my spider monkey impression for a while, climbing around all the struts and supports trying to catch the little guy it flew down a gap between the roof and wall where i couldn't reach him. OK, i thought. nothing i can do about that now. ill check on the girls then get ready for work. so i looked in my tent, and was greeted by chaos! one of my lights is in a cool tube and connected directly to my extractor and carbon filter, all hanging from some battening secured to the frame of my tent. This had collapsed, the screws holding it in place had just pulled loose from the wood. luckily a few emergency support wires i had strung up were stopping the whole rig from falling directly on to my plants but my ducting had come away from the extractor meaning air had not been venting from the room. The direct result was a rise in heat and rapid evaporation of the water in my DWC buckets. luckily i had caught it pretty soon so the plants were fine, but the buckets were near as empty, the RH was nearly 100% and there was condensation EVERYWHERE! i'm lucky it didn't cause an electrical short. Well as i labored a quick fix to the lighting collapse, now late for work, i noticed that my canopy was kinda messed up. Some of the branches were a bit bent and some leaves had been kind of disrupted. When i looked closer i clearly saw bird droppings on some of the fan leaves and stalks! Now bear in mind this is a small tent grow. its double sealed with black and white and duct tape. light and air proofed to create negative pressure in the tent. I just cant figure out how he got in there! I think he must of found a little gap somewhere, maybe the entrance flap, then flew around pooing before finally perching on the cross beam. That must of been like the straw that broke the camels back. This little bird that only weighs a few ounces bought the whole thing crashing down. Actually maybe that was what made him fly around pooing. Afterwards it must of gotten back out of the tent the same way it had gotten in.
When i checked the wood of my beam i realized that it had split when id originally screwed it in and was considerably weakened. Its much more sturdy now. i was gunna clean the poo of the leaves but ended up leaving it. I figured a little extra foliar N couldn't hurt, and bird poos sposed to be lucky, right?
I just left the loft hatch open and a window and when i got home from work the little dude seemed to have gone. i hope the experience wasn't too traumatic for him. I'm just glad he bought this serious and potentially catastrophic design fault to my attention.
When i checked the wood of my beam i realized that it had split when id originally screwed it in and was considerably weakened. Its much more sturdy now. i was gunna clean the poo of the leaves but ended up leaving it. I figured a little extra foliar N couldn't hurt, and bird poos sposed to be lucky, right?
I just left the loft hatch open and a window and when i got home from work the little dude seemed to have gone. i hope the experience wasn't too traumatic for him. I'm just glad he bought this serious and potentially catastrophic design fault to my attention.