Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

my enclosure is 16x30x43 inches

1.3x2.5x3.6= ft


your aquarium plants are pretty cool. is that an expensive hobby? seems like fishtanks are just expensive or at least my exp with them


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matthebrute said:

my enclosure is 16x30x43 inches
1.3x2.5x3.6= ft
your aquarium plants are pretty cool. is that an expensive hobby? seems like fishtanks are just expensive or at least my exp with them
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.023lb of sugar which is ~10grams. But like i said on the previous page I would use substantially more due to you venting your enclosure.

Fish tanks can be extremely expensive of fairly cheap. Salt water tanks cost a fortune - setting up my 40g would cost several thousand. Fresh water aquariums are much much cheaper. I got my tank during petcos' $1/gallon sale so the 40g was $40. I got two of my filters and my 28g from a garage sale for $10 (aquariums are always being sold at garage sales for super super cheap). The hood of my 40g is DIY out of old barn wood I had around and two $3 bathroom vanity fixture I had for vegging my bud plants. My substrate is the same dirty I grow in capped with local river sand and I got all of my plants from an aquarium forum for ~$15. I want to say that after food, supplemental carbon, net, aquarium hose, and fish I had spent around $100.

I'm cheap though. One could easily spend 200 on a 40g tank, 200 on a light, 200 on substrate, 200 on fish, 300 on a CO2 system, 200 on nutes/test chems...

/e I built an enclosed ecosystem what requires very very little maintenance. If you don't go the biological route it kind of like going hydro - you need to pay super close attention to everything and that requires expensive equipment.

thankis gas appreciate the help, do you think 40grams would be sufficient?


i think the fistanks cost me alot because i was learning so constantly fixing some problem.
i would love a saltwater tank but hell they are so expensive it will never happen, freshwater is cool too but i like big fish and dont have the room to setup a huge aquarium

Probably. I have a hard time picture 40 grams. Generally a cup or two of sugar per 2liter bottle is a good ratio. Make sure not to fill the bottle completely with water, leave several inches of air so that you don't wake up with overflow all over your plants. And make sure to either use aquarium tubing to direct the CO2 to the plants canopy or use a fan to blow it onto the plants. You might have noticed how I had air tubing attached to the fan I had blowing down on my canopy.

problem is i dont have a small fan in my grow cab, i just drilled some really small holes in the cap so that it builds pressure and shoots the CO2 up instead of it just rising and then sinnking to bottom of cab.

just weighed out 40g of sugar and it was about a 1/2 a cup

i guess i could go find a cheap fan, it there any way to rig up a battery operated fan to a small 9v power plug?

matthebrute said:

problem is i dont have a small fan in my grow cab, i just drilled some really small holes in the cap so that it builds pressure and shoots the CO2 up instead of it just rising and then sinnking to bottom of cab.

just weighed out 40g of sugar and it was about a 1/2 a cup

i guess i could go find a cheap fan, it there any way to rig up a battery operated fan to a small 9v power plug?

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You can wire an old computer fan to 9v batteries or a small current adaptor. I use old cell phone chargers to power computer fans - just match up the mA

only cpu fan i have is in a brand new power supply, not sure if i want to take another brand new power supply apart for the fan since its still a usable piece..

i see you figured out how to change thread title

matthebrute said:

only cpu fan i have is in a brand new power supply, not sure if i want to take another brand new power supply apart for the fan since its still a usable piece..

i see you figured out how to change thread title

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Lol, nah I'm personally way to lazy to figure stuff like that out. Mellokitty however came to my rescue. Thanks Mellokitty!

matthebrute said:

problem is i dont have a small fan in my grow cab, i just drilled some really small holes in the cap so that it builds pressure and shoots the CO2 up instead of it just rising and then sinnking to bottom of cab.

just weighed out 40g of sugar and it was about a 1/2 a cup

i guess i could go find a cheap fan, it there any way to rig up a battery operated fan to a small 9v power plug?

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I bought the right adapters for my battery operated fans and they are not design to run 24/7, ... one of them died after 2 weeks, the other one is getting weak.. weird... I got them them from a camping supplies store.

damnit, i need a *themesong*!

one of the guys i work for has a ginormous salt water tank.... i'll get some pics next time i'm there.
(i don't know how much he spends on it -- a maintenance crew comes in every other week for it)

mellokitty said:

damnit, i need a *themesong*!

one of the guys i work for has a ginormous salt water tank.... i'll get some pics next time i'm there.
(i don't know how much he spends on it -- a maintenance crew comes in every other week for it)

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Oh jeez, that has got to cost a fortune. It would be a blast to be the maintenance guys though.

I guess you aren't polydatcly...

[video=youtube;g8dPM5_5RBM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dPM5_5RBM[/video]

well, i WAS born with opposable thumbs...... (phew! it wasn't a nyan cat video! )

the maintenace crew are just regular joes from one of the local aquarium places... and not pot people. (how can fish people not be pot people? lol)

In the soil is 1 Chocolope cross of my own (if like the last one I just killed, its just as fruity but much more cheesy), 1 vet/w russian cross of my own, 1 DNA fem chocolope, and 1 DNA fem chocolope that I badly damaged and am not sure will recover. I am germming 7 more chocolope crosses that should all be fem. I'm thinking of running the pot crowded with a shorter veg time.

Before transplanting I dug up all the soil and loosened it, added an additional bag of Happy Frog that I had heavily amended several weeks ago, added a few more handfuls of all my nutes, and then saturated it heavily with some good water. Plants all just received a thorough dunking in Azamax - hopefully they will perk up after they adjust to the MH. I'l be lowering my light as well once they are acclimated.

not wasting any time huh

matthebrute said:

not wasting any time huh

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Not real big into waste ...of anything really.

If I plan on getting another round in and still having time to leisurely move this one needs to be a quick one. Same timing as last grow will work, and I might be able to even go a week or two longer, but any more than that and I'll be fighting the clock for move out. I really don't like it when the landlord starts stopping by to show the property and there's a closet full of dope.

I'm actually pretty mad at myself for not having the other 7 Chocolope all ready to go Would have been nice if the plants only needed a week and a half of veg before flip.

what made you change your mind about just leaving the roots in the soil?

mistyriffs said:

what made you change your mind about just leaving the roots in the soil?

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Eh? I pulled up the plants main tap roots but I didn't remove the vast majority of the finer roots. Aerated the soil and broke up the hard chunks is all. The added bag of soil got mixed in but didn't replace any of the soil that was already in there. Legitimate 65g of soil in the container now.

Gastanker said:

Not real big into waste ...of anything really.

If I plan on getting another round in and still having time to leisurely move this one needs to be a quick one. Same timing as last grow will work, and I might be able to even go a week or two longer, but any more than that and I'll be fighting the clock for move out. I really don't like it when the landlord starts stopping by to show the property and there's a closet full of dope.

I'm actually pretty mad at myself for not having the other 7 Chocolope all ready to go Would have been nice if the plants only needed a week and a half of veg before flip.

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You got this man

lol how u change a thread title!?!? def would love to do that to mine...

dude i see that 65 gal pot now. just posted in my thread about seeing it. seems like it could be beneficial lol.

about tanks, i spent a fair amount on mine as well, and ALSO got my 29 during the dollar a gallon sale. funny thing is i bought a 40 gal (breeder, like urs) and couldn't fit it on anything without overhang, so had to return it. PISSED. lol. will be getting a 90 or 120 gal soon. freshwater all the way baby. salt is WAY too expensive. maybe after i get that 4x4x8 cab setup, and income increases slightly eh? either way my 6 liter c02 system is pretty sick, i literally WATCH my dwarf lilys sprout a new pad every day. no joke. i don't take readings but shit my ppms must be off the charts. no joke i snip a pad a day going full blown on the c02. not to mention the micro sword, java fern, java moss, amazon sword, red sword, etc...i put a cup and a half of sugar, a teaspoon of baking soda, a package of flieshmans yeast, and 3 quarters full of body temp water into a 2l for my reactors, times 3...i replace one reactor a week, they last about 3 weeks each so as one dies it is replaced. thinking of doing this in my cab, but ROOM is an issue, and do i do it in the veg cab AND the flower cab? i suppose both...

anyway excited to see where this latest planting goes. I'm nowhere near even knowing what strain I'm growing so...good to learn. will be keeping up.