DST's Vertical Step Grow - Headband and Cali Orange

[DST]

Hey peeps,

So the MH arrived today along with my giant fluro 300w - man thems are big bulbs, check it next to the 400w MH bulb..

So I picked up my cool tube and 400 ballast for 60 bucks, along with 5 metre 1.5mm cable, and some plugs. Still to get another E40 fitting for the fluro.

Here's the goodies,

And here's the light in place....adding a nice tinge of light blue to the area.

Comments good or bad welcome.

Peace out,

DST

 

[jigfresh]

A comment and a suggestion (that sounds like the title a hugh grant movie)... anyways...

comment: Fucking hell. I love the new setup.

suggestion: might want to raise the MH up a bit. Keep the hps where it is... just shorten that connector. Looks like some of the MH light is hitting the sides of the pots.

Great deal man. Looks eerily familiar?

 

[DST]

A comment and a suggestion (that sounds like the title a hugh grant movie)... anyways...

comment: Fucking hell. I love the new setup.

suggestion: might want to raise the MH up a bit. Keep the hps where it is... just shorten that connector. Looks like some of the MH light is hitting the sides of the pots.

Great deal man. Looks eerily familiar?

Eh, yup, I think you may have stumbled into a grow space like that a few times recently. And yup, the insipration came from your light set up for sure, Jig (and another guys who was in Canada - gone from RIU now). When I was looking at doing my vertical of course, Heath's was/is the bomb, but looks like summit from NASA. Which would start to scare my wife if she walked into that (jokes.) I just thought your set up was goedkoop ( a good purchase/reasonably priced)
Although I am hanging mine as well as it being attached at the bottom - if that makes sense and my inline is below (I am also going to add one above), it's pretty much similar. Oh, and it's organic-ish (no real sunlight in there-lol)

Okay, great minds are thinking alike here china. Just came back in after trudging through the snow, and clearing the snow drift from the door to the potting shed (blocks the natural vent into the room.) I was thinking the light was heating one of the pots up a tad, and I felt it was just a bit too close. Although I can leave my hand on the light for quite some time, so I think the duct inbetween will get moved to the bottom, and the cool tube connected directly onto the other cool tube. Will also spread the MH light better I think. So thanks for that!!! Awesome suggestion Bru.

Onto another note, quite weird smoking this Silver Bubble after having been on my OG Kush and Headband for months, kinda got me a bit wired. Og Kush for late night bongs I think.

Peace, DST

 

[DST]

Boo, can't Rep you for your suggestion, need to spread the love...ah well, another time, Jig.

EDIT: Ok, well this is an edit from earlier but I have been out and changed the light - hey presto -

And just a couple more snaps:
The OG Kush cliff dweller

And a couple of baby Headbands on the shelfs, and baby mangos behind the light.

 

[mr west]

looking good there dst, your grow remindes me of the space age grows that costs ya thousands like these, http://www.growell.co.uk/p/0757/The-EcoSystem-Vertical-Growing-System.html

 

[DST]

There are some pricey things out there, you seen these babies http://rotogrow.com

Constructing my 2x4 and old kitchen shelves cost me a fortune in blood sweat and tears though, lol.

 

[mr west]

i had a quick look just then, couldnt see a price and they are only in canada and the us lol.

 

[Dr. Greenhorn]

o.g. kush cliff dweller, I like it looking good bru

 

[DST]

i had a quick look just then, couldnt see a price and they are only in canada and the us lol.

I know, I even went through all their suppliers website, and couldn't find a price...I am guessing pretty expensive though..

o.g. kush cliff dweller, I like it looking good bru

Cheers, Doc, It's coming along nicely after a slow start.

 

[mr west]

Yeah at least in the thousands lol. If i was more handy id make one lol

 

[DST]

Yeah at least in the thousands lol. If i was more handy id make one lol

Man, I'd need the biggest roll of duct tape to make me one of them, lol.

 

[DST]

So after another adjustment, moving my inline to the top I think we are on. The temps with the extra 400 had gone up considerably at plant height (around 30c), however, by switching the fan to the top we are back down to 27c. I spoke to my bud who is an electrical engineer, and he said that air should def be pulled over the lights and not pushed onto them. Due to the bulbs having gas in them this seemingly reduces the shelf life of your bulbs as well, so my bulbs should also last longer. I asked about this before but I guess everyone just missed it. You live and learn. So as I have now seen in another thread, Fan - Light - exhaust in.

So here's the pic.

Oh, and also my dinner for this evening. looks disgusting, but it is the biz, Haggis!!! Braw!!!

And no, they do not run around mountains and have one set of legs shorter than the other...

 

[jigfresh]

I asked about this before but I guess everyone just missed it. You live and learn. So as I have now seen in another thread, Fan - Light - exhaust in.

I absolutely did miss that question. I would have steered you right. One thing about having the fan last is decreasing the fans life due to heat... but I would rather buy a new fan than new lights... cheaper. Another thing the fan may not pull as many cfms as below as hot air is less dense than cool air... BUT like you said the temps went down after changing the setup.

I think the major thing in this is the pressure change. Instead of having positive pressure on the lights and cooltubes... you now have negative. That positive pressure may have been pushing hot air out of gaps in the cooltube setup. The negative sucks extra cool air through those gaps now... even better.

The plans look awesome. I am really loving the Anasazi.

peace, me china

 

[DST]

I absolutely did miss that question. I would have steered you right. One thing about having the fan last is decreasing the fans life due to heat... but I would rather buy a new fan than new lights... cheaper. Another thing the fan may not pull as many cfms as below as hot air is less dense than cool air... BUT like you said the temps went down after changing the setup.

I think the major thing in this is the pressure change. Instead of having positive pressure on the lights and cooltubes... you now have negative. That positive pressure may have been pushing hot air out of gaps in the cooltube setup. The negative sucks extra cool air through those gaps now... even better.

The plans look awesome. I am really loving the Anasazi.

peace, me china

Well the temps went down, so something happened that was right. I think I'll still get another fan to create more pull for the air coming in the bottom....still not 100% happy. But then are we ever?

Okay, so you got me there, Jig. Anasazi, I looked it up...am I being dumb here? Not sure what you mean....
The word Anasazi is Navajo for "Ancient Ones" or "Ancient Enemy". Help?

 

[jigfresh]

The word Anasazi is Navajo for "Ancient Ones" or "Ancient Enemy". Help?

Ancient Pueblo People or Ancestral Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States. The cultural group has often been referred to in archaeology as the Anasazi.

The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best-known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.

 

[DST]

Nice pic, Jig. I did see that on Wikipedia but didn't read far enough for it to register (lazy git that i am). So the Anasazi girls on the cliff it is!! We hope they will be strong like bull!!

Edit: At first look you could think, funny looking ledge, then you look down and see those dinky little people.....awww. How tiny we really are....

 

[jigfresh]

We hope they will be strong like bull!!

And potent like cobra!

 

[mr west]

Thats mental looks like an advanced wasps nest lol then u see the ppl mental. Who said america dont have history lol

 

[DST]

Thats mental looks like an advanced wasps nest lol then u see the ppl mental. Who said america dont have history lol

You're right there Mr West. I remember having a wasps nest in my garage in Scotia...they had made a nest out of a black bin liner that was full of toilet rolls - what a bloody mess that was(use to live near a paper factory - nice smell of sulphar constantly!! barf - could be like living in a stink bomb)

 

[DST]

A good Sunday morning, afternoon, or whatever to you all.

Today the grow is going 12/12. The times have been adjusted so it's happy flowering time in DST's But-n-Ben potting shed.

So I have taken pics of the selection I am growing. Lets start with the young ones that I have decided to just throw straight into 12/12 (well they're a couple weeks old - old enough to sit at the table, old enough to eat.)

So here is the Blackjack

Blackjack from side

The NewYork 47

The Mango no1

And the other pheno Mango

And to compare Mangos

Couple of Headbands

Anasazi Headbands - no, it's not a new bread, read the Thread, lol

And a cali orange - it's like lime coloured

And the OG Kush's

The Twins, Thelma and Louise

The twins from above

The OG Kush I had the accident with - looking good me thinks

Anasazi OG Kush

And from underneath

Anasazi girls

Some of the girls up above

And a panoramic from below:

And the next thread will reveal the mystery girls...