Gastanker
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Wish my mother had warned me. Or maybe she did... I don't listen that well. Hope you have a great one too.
Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow
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Wish my mother had warned me. Or maybe she did... I don't listen that well. Hope you have a great one too.
hammer6913
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happy new year tanker and everyone.. lots of great iformation here bro.. learn something every time i show up. thanks bro..
as far as landlord, i think if talk to other land lord he porlly wont say anything. u left on good terms. he didnt call the cops on ya. so imo he wont say anything but good for u.. good luck with this...
now lets see the harvest. i see ur online..
as far as landlord, i think if talk to other land lord he porlly wont say anything. u left on good terms. he didnt call the cops on ya. so imo he wont say anything but good for u.. good luck with this...
now lets see the harvest. i see ur online..
Gastanker
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I've done it before but really can't imagine it having any real effect on the bud. I have never noticed a difference between the two so no, not this time. Not saying it doesn't do something - just nothing I've ever noticed.
Last pics before cut -
Plant 1:
Rough trim and hanging -
One down:
Plant 2 cut and hanging:
Looking pathetic with just two left - that one in the back is all over the place without supports.
Thrid plant - by far the smallest
I couldn't manage to get a pic of plant 4 hanging without getting the other buds in the shot - I want to say yield went in this order: 1,4,2,3. Here is all of it minus some popcorn not pictured.
mistyriffs
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hell yeah man! nice chops.
hammer6913
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mice job bro.. thats a big cola man. enjoy.. wish i could be sittin ur living room when ya fire that up..
matthebrute
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looks great man, you get a wet weight ?
Gastanker
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Nope. Don't think I've ever taken a wet weight, just doesn't mean much to me - especially then there is still so much stem. When dry I'll cut everything off the stem and weight it and then post cure I'll do a second manicure and weigh again.
I've de rooted my pot and am adding more soil/nutes that I've had getting ready in the greenhouse. Should have the tent up and running for veg by later tonight/tomorrow morning. I have three plants to put in immediately and will be germing an additional 3-6 chocolope crosses as well.
matthebrute
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check out my new compost bin when you get a chance and send some advice my way on it 
i think i did alright but i always overlook something, im a bit concerned about worms getting out of the bin and not sure how to remedy this as they like to climb the walls of the tote
i think i did alright but i always overlook something, im a bit concerned about worms getting out of the bin and not sure how to remedy this as they like to climb the walls of the tote
radeonDEUS
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wow man that is crazy. I've never seen a setup like that its SOOO cool lol. so whats the deal with the X-ray bulbs?
matthebrute
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i think they are just normal flouros..well most of em i think some ar UVB reptile lights not sure tho
Gastanker
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lol. that is a bit misleading - no x-ray bulbs. My side lighting is actually the panels they have mounted to the walls of hospitals for viewing the old x-ray photos - I have them turned on their sides. Now a days x-rays are digital and thus prints are rarely made and the lighting units are becoming obsolete. The two panels I have are hospital grade General Electrics that cost around $3,000 new - my local hospital literally had them sitting in a dumpster with working bulbs and everything. I asked the hospital and they said I could grab whatever I wanted. I gave a few similar panels away to friends. I run 50% 10.0 UV bulbs in my side lighting and 50% 6500K to supplement the spectrum of my HPS.
Each of my panels is essentially 8 of these with the plastic removed. If you look real close in some of my pictures you can see the switches read on/off/auto, auto being turn on whenever there is film completing the circuit.
I'm running a 600w HID and not a 1kW HID as well. Made that transition a while ago but have no idea how to change the title of the thread.
Gastanker
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So with the harvest over things might be boring for a while... I'm putting three several week old plants into the big container tomorrow and adding some seedlings to veg but in the mean time I'm thinking I might focus the thread on my other hobby, aquariums.
If you missed it before I have a few of these. All are organic dirt bottom planted fresh water tanks; 10g, 40g, 28g, and my newest xmas present which is a 3g pico. This tiny tank is going to my dedicated shrimp tank planted pretty simple. The filter is starting it's cycling on my 10g and right now I'm in the middle of dry planting glosso and dwarf baby tears. Not as exciting as pot but once the shrimp are in there is should be entertaining.
40g:
[video=youtube;nIysWfTOT_A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIysWfTOT_A[/video]
New 3g pico:
If you missed it before I have a few of these. All are organic dirt bottom planted fresh water tanks; 10g, 40g, 28g, and my newest xmas present which is a 3g pico. This tiny tank is going to my dedicated shrimp tank planted pretty simple. The filter is starting it's cycling on my 10g and right now I'm in the middle of dry planting glosso and dwarf baby tears. Not as exciting as pot but once the shrimp are in there is should be entertaining.
40g:
[video=youtube;nIysWfTOT_A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIysWfTOT_A[/video]
New 3g pico:
radeonDEUS
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ha dude thats a sick tank! im into aquascaping myself...really dig the 40gal. ill upload a pic of mine soon...i made a c02 reactor system with 3 2l bottles as reactors, all hosed into a 1l i have water in for a bubble counter, and then its split to my 2 aquaclear filters i have running on this 29g. its got TONS of fish in it, and some pretty nice plants. actually had to take 2 amazon sword plants out cause they were WAYY too big. well for my taste anyway. they would look GREAT in a bigger tank. i used to run 3 or 4 other tanks too, couple 10s and a 20 long. condensed into this 29g and i really like it.
ANYWAY just have to mention again how jealous i am of your harvest. hilarious misunderstanding on my part about the xray viewers. lol. i was like OOOooooOOHh xray bulbs? what does THAT do...then i thought about it. hahaha...anyways ill post some pics of the tank and c02 setup if u wana see
been thinking about just setting up a c02 reactor in the cab...dono if it would do anything on such a small grow space...what u think?
ANYWAY just have to mention again how jealous i am of your harvest. hilarious misunderstanding on my part about the xray viewers. lol. i was like OOOooooOOHh xray bulbs? what does THAT do...then i thought about it. hahaha...anyways ill post some pics of the tank and c02 setup if u wana see
been thinking about just setting up a c02 reactor in the cab...dono if it would do anything on such a small grow space...what u think?
Gastanker
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Would love to see pic of your tank. My 40g looks very very different now than in that picture/video - much more overgrown with a ton more grass, a dozen danios, and a ton of cherry shrimp. My 40g runs 2 DIY CO2 systems
DIY all the way - that hood is a DIY CFL fixture I made from some of my old CFL cab. I run similar DIY CO2 in my tent as I do in my tanks but with a bit more sugar and yeast. DIY CO2 works great as long as you do the math for it. Read this and let me know if you need help; I have a simplified form of the equations around here somewhere. http://www.hydrofarm.com/articles/co2_enrichment.php
Found it -
ottawaliquid
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Fantastic tips on the CO2. I just rigged up one myself willy-nilly but those calculations should help me out a lot! My grow tent is super small (54 cu ft) so looks like I will need to add about 100g of sugar per day!
Thanks so much for this! Timing was perfect.. if you check my grow journal I added a photo of my ghetto CO2 generator just two minutes ago!
Thanks so much for this! Timing was perfect.. if you check my grow journal I added a photo of my ghetto CO2 generator just two minutes ago!
matthebrute
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fish tank is cool looking man. i tried to do a regualr tank with no liveplants and my fish all got Ick and died. then my plecos who didnt get Ick ended up on the bottom of the tank dead with some weird gelatin stuff growing on them.
my most sucessfull was the 50g freshwater setup i had, ran it for around a year with a couple issues here and there but nothing extreme untill my local pet store sold me a redtail catfish and it just grew and grew and eventually ended up in the swimming pool outside, lived out there with a turtle for a while untill a coon or cat got it, sucked too cuz i was going to eat him, i heard brazilians fish and eat em all the time lol.
i had a youtube vid of it eating out of my hand but it must not have got enough views and been removed
my most sucessfull was the 50g freshwater setup i had, ran it for around a year with a couple issues here and there but nothing extreme untill my local pet store sold me a redtail catfish and it just grew and grew and eventually ended up in the swimming pool outside, lived out there with a turtle for a while untill a coon or cat got it, sucked too cuz i was going to eat him, i heard brazilians fish and eat em all the time lol.
i had a youtube vid of it eating out of my hand but it must not have got enough views and been removed
Endur0xX
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whos signing the fish song!? greatly inspired by radiohead isnt!? cool hobby Gas, it's tempting!! what is the white at the top of the 40g?, a type of fish or just some water plants? and what are you growing in the 3g ?
Also I run a DIY co2 system as well, I bought it from ebay for 25$, and it's all you need to do it with vinegar and baking soda : http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-DI...iffuser-aquarium-/260824493358#ht_4048wt_1110
I started using it not that long ago, seems to work fine!
Also I run a DIY co2 system as well, I bought it from ebay for 25$, and it's all you need to do it with vinegar and baking soda : http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-DI...iffuser-aquarium-/260824493358#ht_4048wt_1110
I started using it not that long ago, seems to work fine!
matthebrute
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Would love to see pic of your tank. My 40g looks very very different now than in that picture/video - much more overgrown with a ton more grass, a dozen danios, and a ton of cherry shrimp. My 40g runs 2 DIY CO2 systems
I run similar DIY CO2 in my tent as I do in my tanks but with a bit more sugar and yeast. DIY CO2 works great as long as you do the math for it. Read this and let me know if you need help; I have a simplified form of the equations around here somewhere. http://www.hydrofarm.com/articles/co2_enrichment.php
Found it -
ok so i did the calculation and came up with .004 for pounds of sugar. converted this to a fraction and got 1/250 of a pound. this dosent seem right. i am definatly no math person but 1/250 of a pound is like 2 grams. right. dam i suck at math
Gastanker
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The artist is Ethan J Perry - title is "I wish I were a fish". Those are floating plants up top that looks like this -
The small tank is growing dwarf baby tears and glosso
Baby tears are the smallest aquatic plant commonly used in aquariums - it's the foreground for this tank (not mine)
Glosso looks like this -
How large is your enclosure? 3x3x3? My memory is terrible, sorry.
3*3*3=9=X 9*.0013=.0117 .0117/8.7=.00133448 .00133448*13.2=.01775lbs/day That would be 8 grams a day. Doesn't seem like much but keep in mind that a 3x3x3 room is 14 times smaller in volume than a 4x4x8 - thats a ton smaller. If I was you I would use a full pound of sugar - your venting and don't have a sealed room so it isn't going to build up to the 1300ppm, but if you use a whole lb of sugar youll be blowing enough CO2 directly on the plant to get decent absorption before the co2 is vented off.
