cleaning hyroton between uses?

OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Airwalker16 said:
See, with a dry trim, you can have it smokeable and good to go in a week. Obviously it gets better with time and curing in lidded 5 gal buckets, but definitely able to blaze.
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I've got so much pot of at least a dozen strains on hand all the time the wait is not a problem. Gave a 1/4 oz to my fishing buddy yesterday and another to the psycho dude always panhandling around our little town. I've been growing in this house since I bought it 18 years ago and for years before that.

I bought a lightly used TrimPro Unplugged a few years ago but it just glues the bud leaves to the buds when they are fresh so useless to me. Now that pot is legal here I'm going to flog it on Craigs or Kijiji to get rid of it.

Lots of ways to skin this cat. ;)

:peace:
 
ounevinsmoke

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Just Be said:
Breathing ozone gas isn't good for us so I always make sure to be clear of the area when it's in progress. When I bagged my hand, I made sure to have a fan blowing on me and a good draft in the room that would carry the ozone out.

I tried finding the CAP machines on ebay but can't find them but if they have some kind of hose that comes off of it, it should do the trick.

I also use the machine to disinfect a CPAP mask, hoses and reservoir.
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The Air in hospitals is full of Ozone. It's how they kill airborne viruses and keep sicknesses from traveling room to room.
 
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Atomizer

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boybelue said:
Yeah the root material falls out the bottom and the mesh sorta has an edge to it that helps grab the roots off the hydroton.
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I tried to get a picture of the edge I mention on the mesh, it’s like each wire that runs across kinda laps on top of the next and if you drag your hand across it kinda grabs or digs into your hand. This works really well but your hydroton has to be super dry to the point the roots just turn to dust. I can grab a big scoop with both hands, throw it in and violently shake for 5 to 10 seconds and it comes out clean as a whistle. This is the best method I’ve found and I’ve tried many from the sink to the bathtub to the pressure washer and the dry method works so much better than any wet method. When the roots are wet and slimy they stick to the hydroton but dry they just fall off and turn to a dust mostly. I highly recommend trying it just be sure to dry the hydroton really dry. Moisture really hurts this method. There’s a company that makes something similar to this, I think it’s called “the root devil” but yeah man give it a try.
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The root devil is too labour intensive. What you need is a rotating mesh barrel/drum, a cross between a trommel and a ballmill. The cascading hydroton grinds up the roots and the spraybar washes out the debris. If you have a hot sunny climate you can dry the hydroton and run without a spraybar but its hellishly dusty and not recommended indoors. For small amounts of dry hydroton, like 100L or so, you can easily knock up an inexpensive machine using a steel mesh wastepaper basket, some wood and a couple of skate wheels. It could be drill powered or hand cranked.
 
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boybelue

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Atomizer said:
The root devil is too labour intensive. What you need is a rotating mesh barrel/drum, a cross between a trommel and a ballmill. The cascading hydroton grinds up the roots and the spraybar washes out the debris. If you have a hot sunny climate you can dry the hydroton and run without a spraybar but its hellishly dusty and not recommended indoors. For small amounts of dry hydroton, like 100L or so, you can easily knock up an inexpensive machine using a steel mesh wastepaper basket, some wood and a couple of skate wheels. It could be drill powered or hand cranked.
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If you only knew how many ideas I’ve had run through my head. Lol, I have learned to avoid water and go for a dry shift, but yeah the rotating mesh drum was an idea I had coupled with a leaf blower or some kind of forced air, preferably hot air.
My little cheap bucket works good enough for me, I can go through a 5 gallon bucket full in a couple minutes. I found the second bucket with the shop vac attached like the root devil hindered my speed and I couldn’t shake the xtra bucket coupled with the vac hose. Just using one bucket and shaking it vigorously works great.
 
Just Be

Just Be

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ounevinsmoke said:
The Air in hospitals is full of Ozone. It's how they kill airborne viruses and keep sicknesses from traveling room to room.
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Obviously (to some) I wasn't talking about breathing in the lightly ozonated air in that can be found in a 75,000 square foot hospital.
 
Johnny Lawrence

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OldMedUser said:
Food grade 35% peroxide would be my choice but chlorine will work and if rinsed well shouldn't be a problem. Chlorine evaporates too so airing it well with some mixing will help get rid of it.

Don't trust your sense of smell unless it's walking in 8 hours away from it. Chlorine, like ammonia and H2S gas, make you nose-blind real quick.

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I had a stack of 3M R95s that I used when working with chlorine so that my nose was still functioning afterwards. I ended up giving them all to a nurse homie of mine a couple days ago.
 
ounevinsmoke

ounevinsmoke

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Just Be said:
Obviously (to some) I wasn't talking about breathing in the lightly ozonated air in that can be found in a 75,000 square foot hospital.
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Ok, keep curing yourself with your ozone remedies bud;)

And when someone lights up a cigarette just crack a window and turn a fan on...
 
Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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boybelue said:
I cut the bottom out of a 5 gal bucket and put some screen on the bottom, let my hydroton get bone dry and then shake the shit out of a couple handfuls, works like a charm but still takes a little time.
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Hello, I've done something similar with a big plastic bucket - used an electric solderer to burn small holes into the bottom, there's probably 100 small holes there, but still not as large as the clay pebbles. So I can store the pebbles in that 30l bucket, shake them free of stuff or wash them.
 
Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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Airwalker16 said:
I thought that was replaced by germicidal UV-C lamps on their air intakes a long time ago?
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there exist UVC lamps that do or don't create ozone when the radiation hits atmospheric oxygen. I think the more energetic, ie. less high nm band, it'll ionize more heavily.

I thought ozone is dangerous to the human health?
 
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