DIY Closet DWC Grow - First grow ever

Well that's a bummer... I guess we won't be high till harvest.

Here's how to upload pics...

a picture story:

1. my pictures are in a folder called 'herb garden' on my desktop.
2. You can reply to a message a couple ways, but the best is the 'reply' button.
3. Replying to you
4. Managing Attachments to add my pics
5. Browsing for pics
6. Picking individual pic, notice I am choosing from the 'herb garden' folder
7. Chose my 4 pics at one time... pressed upload... now i have to wait
8. Uploaded and listed in my reply as well as the upload window
9. Submit that good stuff
10. There you are

Alright guys, I knew something had to happen.

I don't know if it is the sweetener or what.... I haven't checked my airstones for pretty much ever. I was giving someone advise telling them how my airstones never clog... it got me thinking and I checked...

Out of the 8 - 1" airstones and the single 6" airstone every single 1" airstone is totally clogged. My girls have been getting very little oxygen for at least a few days now... I thought the growth had slowed.

Anyways... WHAT DO I DO... I can't really get into the rez. I guess I will do something like just cut the old ones out, leave them where they are, then try to drop new ones in...

This sucks. Not the end of the world I guess, they are still healthy looking, but I'm losing bud right now... sucks.

that is why DWC scares me.

my 3 big 1's are hempy pots, the rest, are in soil. i dont flower out the moms i grow, if i choose to keep them. and soil is easier to keep a long term mother going. i will do a top water hydro. i am new to the hydro scene, and indoors i always hydro-organic type of grows. i use real good soils,and nute boost them with hydro weekly.

this 1 here, i got these seeds,"Sour Bubble" on Fab 20th, grown in hempy buckets.

jigfresh said:

Alright guys, I knew something had to happen.

I don't know if it is the sweetener or what.... I haven't checked my airstones for pretty much ever. I was giving someone advise telling them how my airstones never clog... it got me thinking and I checked...

Out of the 8 - 1" airstones and the single 6" airstone every single 1" airstone is totally clogged. My girls have been getting very little oxygen for at least a few days now... I thought the growth had slowed.

Anyways... WHAT DO I DO... I can't really get into the rez. I guess I will do something like just cut the old ones out, leave them where they are, then try to drop new ones in...

This sucks. Not the end of the world I guess, they are still healthy looking, but I'm losing bud right now... sucks.

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this is the error i get, when i try to post a pic


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jigfresh said:

Alright guys, I knew something had to happen.

I don't know if it is the sweetener or what.... I haven't checked my airstones for pretty much ever. I was giving someone advise telling them how my airstones never clog... it got me thinking and I checked...

Out of the 8 - 1" airstones and the single 6" airstone every single 1" airstone is totally clogged. My girls have been getting very little oxygen for at least a few days now... I thought the growth had slowed.

Anyways... WHAT DO I DO... I can't really get into the rez. I guess I will do something like just cut the old ones out, leave them where they are, then try to drop new ones in...

This sucks. Not the end of the world I guess, they are still healthy looking, but I'm losing bud right now... sucks.

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dam man no good but your right easy fix....... i have the same problem my air stones have been in my roots for ever now since i only have a 2 gallon dwc but the bottom of my dwc maybe two inchs up is just roots so i always have to at least one gallon of water or the air stones just fucking up the roots.

I would do what you said man you have the right idea cut your old ones just leave them in tell your finished and get some new ones to put in the res for now.

I am thinking of a better way to see inside with out opening up the top of the dwc. Right now i just have two plants in a 6 dwc so its easy i just take out one of the sponge pucks and i can fill and test every thing from there. I made a water gage tube not as good as yours so i will have to fix that mine tells me the water level only some times hahaha i dont know why but some times it says its full then i just check for the fun and its almost empty but i noticed if i flick it a few times then it changes level to whats right. I already started making a list of what i want to change around in my room and how i want to fix everything up........lmao dam my sons just falling alseep in my lap this is a good sign i might be able to get something done tonight woo hoo im out going to go play with him for a hour make him really tired

Thor... I think you broke the computer, haha. But seriously, that sucks about your pics... I don't know what the problem is... I tried to upload a picture with the same name and size as you tried and it worked for me.

Computers sure do Suck sometimes.

I uploaded two new videos to youtube... these two are strictly bud porn. One from below, one from above... just so I covered everyones fetish.

[youtube]BORLS2CAHA8[/youtube]

[youtube]8-pwWOqNWMk[/youtube]

hahaha just taking rips and watching your videos man looking reallly nice......those cooltubes are working really good for you, didnt you say somthing about the 600wat bulbs the bigboys they wont fit in those hurrican glass right ? they look to skinny. I am still debating if i want to throw my 250 mh or 600 mh in my flower room, going to need to make a cooltube setup like that. I hate having to do things twice oh well

Haha the good kind of sticky fingers.

mmmm you're gonna pull some weight off that screen.

i tried getting through the whole thing, lol, alot of reading to do, i;ll have to do it in chunks, great high reading though,lol, and awesome grow

Hey jig just found this guys grow on another site. i know your into computers and are really handy when it comes to wiring and all, so i was just dropping this link on you if you want to check it out. The guy has a really nice setup for being so small, but the thing about it i like the most is that he has the extra res outside his grow box hidden that he mixes all this nutes in then it feeds to his grow room in tubes. He also had this crazy pump nutrient and ph up and ph down setup so the water takes care of its self you just have to set it for what you want and it adds nutes if the ppm is off and it adjust the ph if its off. I just thought you would might be interested. woo hooo getting ideas are fun. http://www.uk420.com/boards/lofiversion/index.php/t79481.html hahaha forgot the link had to edit lmao dam stoner

Nice Video man, im definitely subscribing to this,

Hulk Nugs said:

Hey jig just found this guys grow on another site. i know your into computers and are really handy when it comes to wiring and all, so i was just dropping this link on you if you want to check it out. The guy has a really nice setup for being so small, but the thing about it i like the most is that he has the extra res outside his grow box hidden that he mixes all this nutes in then it feeds to his grow room in tubes. He also had this crazy pump nutrient and ph up and ph down setup so the water takes care of its self you just have to set it for what you want and it adds nutes if the ppm is off and it adjust the ph if its off. I just thought you would might be interested. woo hooo getting ideas are fun. http://www.uk420.com/boards/lofiversion/index.php/t79481.html hahaha forgot the link had to edit lmao dam stoner

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Jesus, thats such a clean set-up. Sooooo many ideas. I've looked up those welco peristaltic pumps he got, but the manufacture didn't have a way to buy. I think i remember that you have to contact the company. But they're tiny, durable, and powerful for what they are. I also think they were relatively cheap. Great link.

Hey guys... had the scare of the grow today. I was on another thread telling la9 that I never have any issues with my airstones clogging. I decided since I was giving advice to make sure I was telling the truth so I checked my airstones by blowing through the airhose... well, all but one of my airstones were totally clogged.

I went to a baseball game tonight, opening night for the local minor league team. Because I didn't have forever to fix the situation I just cut some new airhose and stuck the open ends of the hose in the water to make bubble. So now there is 5 air hose parts going into the rez with no airstone on them. There is also the 6" airstone that was never clogged, but I have a feeling it will clog soon.

I went to petsmart on the way to the game to buy supplies, not sure what I'm going to do for a permanent fix (at least til the end of this grow).

The first picture give you an idea where our seats were... 3rd row. Get this... 2 Tickets, Parking, 2 'jumbo' Hot Dogs, 2 'regular' Sodas, 1 Pretzel, and a $2 tip and the whole night cost $54. Parking at dodger stadium is $25, haha. Too bad our team was losing 13-0 by the 5th.

I'm also including pics of the schedule I made up, so you can see how I keep myself organized... I don't need to write this stuff down, but if I don't I keep figuring it out in my head like 5 times a day to make sure I'm not missing something. This way, I can just look at the paper 5 times a day... it's quicker and makes my head hurt less.

And just when you thougt my meaningless charting stops with growing.... haha, I also included the score card I was keeping score with at the game. I'm a nerd, haha. Oh yeah.... it's also a diy scorecard... I'm always the same. And if any of you can read a scorecard you can see that we were getting Whooped. Their pitcher was very impressive however.

Hulk Nugs said:

hahaha just taking rips and watching your videos man looking reallly nice......those cooltubes are working really good for you, didnt you say somthing about the 600wat bulbs the bigboys they wont fit in those hurrican glass right ? they look to skinny.

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It is not the wattage that says if the bulb can fit in the glass or not... it is the shape. For example there are 1000w bulbs that are shaped like mine, all skinny. There are also 400w bulbs that are way too big for the glass. All depends on the shape.

Here is a post I made once, it might help:

jigfresh said:

I meant actual size. There are different shapes of metal halide bulbs. BT, ED, and T. BT - Blown Tubular, ED - Elliptical Dimpled, and T - Tubular. 400w bulbs come in BT-28, BT-37, ED-18, ED-28, ED-37, T-15.

Examples (all are inches)
BT-37 ---- 11.5 x 7
ED-18 ----- 9.8 x 2.3
ED-28 ----- 8.5 x 3.5
ED-37 ---- 11.5 x 4.6
T-15 ------ 9.8 x 1.9

Here is a link with pictures.

http://www.venturelighting.com/TechCenter/Bulb_Shape_Comparison.html

Hope that helps.

edit: There are also different spectrums in different lamps, but that's another thing.

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dj crane said:

i tried getting through the whole thing, lol, alot of reading to do, i;ll have to do it in chunks, great high reading though,lol, and awesome grow

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good luck with that... I will tell you, I think it is worth reading, not becuase it is mine, but becuase I have tried to share all my thought on the first go round with everything, so it's like learning along with me (at least I think so).

[quote="SICC";2376014]Nice Video man, im definitely subscribing to this, [/quote]

Thank you and Welcome.

Still need to check your link hulk, but as always I appreciate the help. Also, I really love hearing about you and your son... that's great. I know you'd probably rather be working and supporting the family, but this time you have now is very special and precious... so feel lucky, you have the rest of your life to work, little man's only little 1 time.

jigfresh said:

It is not the wattage that says if the bulb can fit in the glass or not... it is the shape. For example there are 1000w bulbs that are shaped like mine, all skinny. There are also 400w bulbs that are way too big for the glass. All depends on the shape.

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yea i got some big boys that are all fat my 600wat is around 3, 4 inches around maybe a little bigger. i checked one michaels and they didnt have any so i have to keep looking .... i am looking into the pyrex bake a round... they do the same thing glass tubes.. ...... yea i love my little man some times hes a hand full but just breath hes a baby and smile ...if it gets really bad i just take a hit and i am good to go its going to be really fun teaching him everything i know plus some stuff i dont hahaha

Today I pulled some more leaves and such... that's why my lighter is stuck to me. I swear I try not to touch to many things either. If I was trying to get sticky I could really do some stuff. I could probably rub a quarter gram of hash out of it, but why would I want to do that?

The airstone situation I explained a bit in a future post... I'm just going to copy and paste it, forgive my lazyness...

have I figured out the airstone thing... not really... at the moment I have 6 'ends' just sticking into the water/ roots. I tried to get them so they are near the bottom. Then there is still the big one at the bottom, it might still be working. Then I put in one of those little ceramic ones I bought, I think it is just sorta sitting on top of the root mass, so don't know how much it's doing.

I've been thinking about it alot and I think what I will do is this... widen the holes next to each plant. Now there is a hole just big enough for the airhose, I will make them big enough for the ceramic airstones plus a little extra. I figure I'll use my extra lid for my next grow if this one is ruined... rather ruin a lid than my plants. So anyways I figure I'll connect a ceramic airstone per plant and use some sort of clothes hanger/ poker thing to get the airstones all the way down into the roots. I think it should be alright... it just sucks because I feel like I've lost a week of growth...

I'm not complaining though... I'll take this as the biggest problem I've had... and hope no more to come.

One thing that crazy to me... I stick the ends of the airhose in there, just by themselves, you know, no airstone... and the roots just totally hook to the thing. I was trying to pull the couple out to fill the water today (i changed rez') and it was really really hard to pull them out... I though I was going to rip out a bunch of roots, it's pretty wild.

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I don't know how close you guys have been looking at my pics, but I did a really big cleaning job in my room. You can tell (if you can) on top of the tank, it used to be all messy, and the saran wrap was there, I also shop vac'ed, and removed everything from beneath (like my sprayer and other stuff). Overnight the rez cooled alot, I think becuase there was more air circulation. I think I will put the saran wrap back as the 'swamp' smell is kinda stong with it off.

I thought the pics of the underside with the lights of was cool... hope you guys like it.

Nice'n Sticky is better then hot'n juicy any day.

thor369 said:

Nice'n Sticky is better then hot'n juicy any day.

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I just can't get over how sticky they are. Thats really incredible. haha screw smoking it patent that shit as an adhesive

smoote1987 said:

I just can't get over how sticky they are. Thats really incredible. haha screw smoking it patent that shit as an adhesive

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I think I'm going to ruin my camera... or at least the shutter button.

It's also really hard to use the mouse pad on the laptop.