jonnynobody
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Yesterday I did my usual morning checks on the nurseries and discovered about 4" of water in the bottom of my clone tent. The tote sprung a leak and it caused a flood inside the tent. Needless to say I was not wearing my happy face. The entire day was devoted, for the most part, to fixing the leak. It was the most awful day I've had in recent memory from beginning to end. Just awful. I completely reconstructed the manifold with new nozzles. I then adjusted the PVC by twisting it with channel locks to an appropriate setting where the spray nozzles were not shooting water up to the edges of the lid. It's really all about proper spray trajectory. That is what creates a leak free clone tote. I made the same error several times attempting to solve the leak issue by doing all the wrong things. Make the water go where you want it and keep the trajectory away from the lid edges. I shortened up the manifold in length and width. That coupled with changing the trajectory of the spray pattern away from the lid solved the leak. If I had to do this again I would adjust the nozzles in the back yard with the pump running inside of a kiddie pool. That way you can fill the pool with water and drop the pump in with manifold and make your adjustments in real time so you can see that the trajectory of the spray from the nozzles is where you want it. This is a very difficult goal to accomplish from your basement and makes a considerable mess even at doing it at the sewer drain. Be it as it is the motherfucker is fixed and not leaking. I'll take pics of the new manifold later.
I'm dissatisfied with the way the plants in nursery B are responding to the 600w metal halide lamp. As a solution I have swapped the 450W quantum board from my flower room and placed it into nursery B. I then took the 600W ballast and hood and relocated them to the flower room in place of the 450W quantum board. I installed a 600W hortilux HPS lamp in the hood. I did this all during lights off with my green headlight. It wasn't a fun process, but it's finished. I've used a metal halide lamp for vegetative growth once before with the same lackluster results. I figure it's best to place the 600W HPS at full power in the flower room with the hortilux lamp which I know will produce great buds, and place the 450W quantum board in the nursery which I know will produce great growth with tight node spacing. Both units are now setup to operate at full power, whereas before the swap I was only able to operate the 600W ballast at 60% power. It makes me feel better now knowing that I'm getting full performance out of both units, and the plants in nursery B will not suffer slow growth due to the poor performance of the metal halide lamp.
Edit: I do still have the 660W quantum board in the flower room. After my next harvest I think I will be purchasing another one of the same model. The flowers underneath of that particular light are just bursting beautifully. I'll report back with additional pictures shortly.
Lights on in about 45 minutes. I'll report back with pictures of everything.
I'm dissatisfied with the way the plants in nursery B are responding to the 600w metal halide lamp. As a solution I have swapped the 450W quantum board from my flower room and placed it into nursery B. I then took the 600W ballast and hood and relocated them to the flower room in place of the 450W quantum board. I installed a 600W hortilux HPS lamp in the hood. I did this all during lights off with my green headlight. It wasn't a fun process, but it's finished. I've used a metal halide lamp for vegetative growth once before with the same lackluster results. I figure it's best to place the 600W HPS at full power in the flower room with the hortilux lamp which I know will produce great buds, and place the 450W quantum board in the nursery which I know will produce great growth with tight node spacing. Both units are now setup to operate at full power, whereas before the swap I was only able to operate the 600W ballast at 60% power. It makes me feel better now knowing that I'm getting full performance out of both units, and the plants in nursery B will not suffer slow growth due to the poor performance of the metal halide lamp.
Edit: I do still have the 660W quantum board in the flower room. After my next harvest I think I will be purchasing another one of the same model. The flowers underneath of that particular light are just bursting beautifully. I'll report back with additional pictures shortly.
Lights on in about 45 minutes. I'll report back with pictures of everything.
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