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tekdc911

tekdc911

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Dr.D81 said:
Your plants look happy tec:-) you still will have a nice size garden. I will sketch what i would do with your space and throw it up here tonight.
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thank you brother it means alot ....
those are some of the F1's from a positronic purple haze #1 and a KC45 semi auto male 3 months old roughly , in a soil less blend i make , ive tortured the hell out of them ... on purpose of course trying to cull out the he/she's but i dont think im gonna find any
they are either short or tall with slight differences plant to plant im sure the F2's will be every where but thats half the fun in it
believe it or not those plants rarely get fed and are only under a 400w and 2 x 135w led's but i have pulled the led's and moved them over my seedlings
 
tekdc911

tekdc911

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Dr.D81 said:
Hell yea i have several new crosses flowering this time, and some are looking killer already.
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i havent grown photo's on a large scale in a while is it normal to get trichs forming during stretch ?
they have been on 12/12 for a while and still are just growing away ......... i can tell its flower growth ..... but its not the stacking flower growth its the beefy crazy branching growth / zig zag
 
tekdc911

tekdc911

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13 on ?
and its been like 3 weeks or so ....... and its just getting to the heavy preflower stage on some
males flowered on 16/8 3 of them did
and a couple of the tall lanky females started around 14 on or so
the mom took like a month to flip
and at 8 weeks when i had to chop still looked like it could of used another 4-6 weeks to be " right "
i have 6 strains going and a bag seed
 
Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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Yea i run 13 on. Dj short swears you get better pheno expression with it. I do it to give them that extra hour and it gives me some overlap to get in them both after work:-)
 
tekdc911

tekdc911

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Dr.D81 said:
I haven't forgotten about you tek:-) been working on getting a new job. Had an interview today and it is looking good.
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i think i figured it out ...... congrats on the interview i hope it pans out .....
i think i have it figured out
depending on what this next answer is .....
what size silo for a 600w
and the room is 3 4.2' squares i measured last night when i had all the plants out for some cleaning

im thinking about running a C shape and just leave a little room by the front wall for access and put the light towards the corner so i could try and have a bit more canopy ill draw up what im talking about and run it by you to see if it will work out or not
 
tekdc911

tekdc911

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thinking something like this maybe Untitled.png its out of whack but thats the idea i had ... ( forgive the 3rd grade paint pic lol )


have you ever ran mendo purp ? @ DR. and would it be suitable to run in a vert
im looking for something i can knock out of the park with my first run
 
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a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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@Dr.D81 what kind of delay do you have with your light rail?

Mine just came in the mail and has anywhere from 2s to 60s delay.

I'll be using mine in a similar fashion to yours, with pulleys at both ends moving two lights up and down like a yo-yo.

With a 2s delay the lights would spend the most time in the middle, with a longer delay the lights would spend more time at the ends.

I'm thinking 15s may be a sweet spot, what do you think?
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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Dr.D81 said:
Mine is dose not have that option it has a delay as the chain passes the cog at the ends. It is like 10 sec or so. 15 should be fine:-)
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Once it is in place I will time how long it takes it to travel the track.

I think I may just make it 10-15seconds so that the lights aren't still for too long...

We'll see, I don't see how I can really go wrong anyway I do it...


Thanks! And your grow is awesome BTW

I'm doing a 4x8 tent with lights hanging barebulb at 2ft and 6ft with the light rail moving them vertically. Vert scrog method I hope to fit 8 plants in 7-10gallon fabric pots...

I will post a thread once it gets rolling...

Thanks again and happy growing
 
Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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What is the length of travel you are going to use. Whodat and i agree 16 in is what we fill is the best. That will make more difference than the pause at the end. I did 23 in first then had to modify it to the16 inches i use now. I will get some pics up tonight.
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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Dr.D81 said:
What is the length of travel you are going to use. Whodat and i agree 16 in is what we fill is the best. That will make more difference than the pause at the end. I did 23 in first then had to modify it to the16 inches i use now. I will get some pics up tonight.
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I was thinking around 40 inches. My tent is 4x8x7 and my trellis is 4ft.

I would think that length of travel would be dependent upon things like LxWxH of the room and how many lights, light type and strength.

How did you reach 16inches? And what are the specs of the octagon again?
 
Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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Just lurned as we went :-) My first vert room was 6 x 6 x 8 and no mover. Second was odd becouse of the space i was in. It was 5 x 5 x 7 with one corner bobed off. The face of that corner was 30 in and had the door. This time it is a 4 ft octagon 6 ft 8 in and i like it fine, but when i move next summer i want 3 of them so i can harvest one a month. The two i will have to build will be 4.5 x 4.5 x 7. The 16 in stroke on the light is a little more then a bulb length, and it covers my 4 ft of canopy just right. mine comes 8 to 10 in below the the top buds depending on how much each plant stretches, and it covers the same below the bulb fine. A hid light throws light off the element in a sideways hour glass pattern so there is no need to drop it so much, and when you do the other end is getting very little light. It cycles faster aswell. Hope this helps just what me and Whodat have come up with bouncing ideas of each other. He gave me the idea for the mover, and room size and pest control i helped him with. His vert grows are good reads ;)
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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Dr.D81 said:
Just lurned as we went :-) My first vert room was 6 x 6 x 8 and no mover. Second was odd becouse of the space i was in. It was 5 x 5 x 7 with one corner bobed off. The face of that corner was 30 in and had the door. This time it is a 4 ft octagon 6 ft 8 in and i like it fine, but when i move next summer i want 3 of them so i can harvest one a month. The two i will have to build will be 4.5 x 4.5 x 7. The 16 in stroke on the light is a little more then a bulb length, and it covers my 4 ft of canopy just right. mine comes 8 to 10 in below the the top buds depending on how much each plant stretches, and it covers the same below the bulb fine. A hid light throws light off the element in a sideways hour glass pattern so there is no need to drop it so much, and when you do the other end is getting very little light. It cycles faster aswell. Hope this helps just what me and Whodat have come up with bouncing ideas of each other. He gave me the idea for the mover, and room size and pest control i helped him with. His vert grows are good reads ;)
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I see what you're saying. Once I install it I will play with it, but I feel as though mine will be closer to 30inches or so...

Hopefully I'll only have to use half the rail that came with the unit, its 36inches long.

Thanks for the input, I'll check out those very grows.

Have a good one.
 
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