A Cannabinerd's Journey

Sativied

Sativied

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AlphaPhase said:
Got the room set! Trellis together, lights up, buckets together, res filled, test run complete, just need to add the plants tomorrow, wish me luck :) if they get too big I'll flower the other batch, I should know within the first 10 days if it won't be manageable, but I'm hoping my ninja training skills work out :p

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Looking good man, nice space. I highly recommend adding this to the walls:
http://www.easy-grow.co.uk/products/reflective-sheeting/diamond-lightite/ (or similar thickness and structure). Pricey but will earn it back easily in a single run with that space.
 
ThaMagnificent

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So I ran into a problem for the test run. The buckets are not draining and filling. They do when I lift up the controller bucket so that the tubing isn't uneven going through the tent hole. I'm guessing this is because of the unevenness of the tubing? Did you have to cut a hole at the bottom of the tent for the tubing to stay even across the ground?
 

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eastcoastmo

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ThaMagnificent said:
So I ran into a problem for the test run. The buckets are not draining and filling. They do when I lift up the controller bucket so that the tubing isn't uneven going through the tent hole. I'm guessing this is because of the unevenness of the tubing? Did you have to cut a hole at the bottom of the tent for the tubing to stay even across the ground?
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Are your buckets sitting higher than your res? If not, they won't drain back to the res. I always kept my res about 2-3 inches below the pots and it worked great.
 
ThaMagnificent

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Think I fixed it. Had to cut a hole in bottom of the tent because the lines were slightly raised having to go through the vent.

Another thing was hydrofarm put the bigger barbs on the controller bucket. Had to take them out and insert the smaller ones for the right fit for the tubing. Then 5 gal version must have bigger lines.


Now I have to figure out this timer....
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Sativied said:
Looking good man, nice space. I highly recommend adding this to the walls:
http://www.easy-grow.co.uk/products/reflective-sheeting/diamond-lightite/ (or similar thickness and structure). Pricey but will earn it back easily in a single run with that space.
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Thanks brother, I'll definitely use some reflective material when I move, just trying to keep things minimal here because one minute I think I'm moving and the next I'm not lol. I may go with flat white paint though when I move for the ease and no moisture barrier behind the film /wall. Whatevers clever at the time (I can't fucking wait to built a new room lol)
 
AlphaPhase

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Mohican said:
Looks amazing!

What is the house progress?

Remember - 2006 might have Chinese drywall.
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Thanks bro, the house hunting makes me want to shoot my face off lol. It's so much harder in this county than it was in NY, so many sketchy houses that look OK but once you start digging in deeper they are 100% over priced and falling apart :( I took @Aeroknow over to the house I'm in escrow on and it wasn't good. The sellers never signed the disclosures so I figured something was up and took another look with him before moving forward with more inspections. I guess now I'm just going to wait for the right place to come up or save a bit more money for a place I like that's already listed that I can't afford. There's a place that's 1 mile away from my house that I love but it's too much $. Been listed for 90 days now though so hoping for a price reduction soon, it seems most good houses that are listed with a really high price come down 40k with in 60 days, people must just want to see if someone will bite, that's what I've been seeing here anyway :p I hope to find something but don't want a money pit or pay too much and being close to work is a plus. We almost pulled the trigger on a nice place yesterday but after my fiance got out of work and imagined driving back there she said no) it's a 45 min drive) I understand
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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ThaMagnificent said:
So I ran into a problem for the test run. The buckets are not draining and filling. They do when I lift up the controller bucket so that the tubing isn't uneven going through the tent hole. I'm guessing this is because of the unevenness of the tubing? Did you have to cut a hole at the bottom of the tent for the tubing to stay even across the ground?
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Yeah, I cut small hole the size of the tubing in the tent, since the buckets work with gravity, the tubes need to be mostly flat on the ground to drain back to the res
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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ThaMagnificent said:
Think I fixed it. Had to cut a hole in bottom of the tent because the lines were slightly raised having to go through the vent.

Another thing was hydrofarm put the bigger barbs on the controller bucket. Had to take them out and insert the smaller ones for the right fit for the tubing. Then 5 gal version must have bigger lines.


Now I have to figure out this timer....
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The timer I flood every 1.5 hrs with suspended pots and every 3-4 hrs with the buckets filled with medium, more roots =more floods, I like to have a nice root mass before flower then let it rip
 
AlphaPhase

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I'll have some pic updates in a couple days, I have a drip setup going with dosido and animal cookies almost 2 weeks in using 3x2 rockwool blocks on a rockwool slab, 3 plants per slab and 1 dripper per plant. It's going well! Drain to waste. I really like it. The double ended light grow is about 2 weeks in as well and filled in nicely in the suspended ebb buckets, I think it's going to kick ass. The other ebb bucket grow will be 7 weeks in a couple days and my oh my, the buds did well and I'm pretty stoked, probably my best run so far since I got rid of the bs dud / wierd crap. Got some donkey dick nugs woot! I took a batch of cuts just in case I don't find a house by the time I harvest in a couple weeks, they rooted and I'll be doing a drip system but using my ebb buckets. That will be another experiment if I'm still in this house and if it works well I may keep rocking the drip system. Uses more water but so far it's easy peasy
 
AlphaPhase

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eastcoastmo said:
Great to have you back bro, sorry to hear about all the stuff around with houses though :( I'm sure something will come along when you are 100% ready!! Good things come to those who wait ;)
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Thanks brother I finally got it out of my head that finding a place that will work won't be so easy, realized it'll take some time and that's OK :) I'm glad I have a place that I live in now that I like and am able to stay as long as I need to. Going to keep the grow going for now and just wait it out, it's too stressful wanting a place when I don't need a place because I have a place I live in already. When a house does come along I'll just go with the flow :)
 
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