Get a Harvest Every 2 Weeks

smartfood said:

Hey Al, how many CFM's do you have going through your bud dryer? The reason I ask is that I just built one, but am pulling through a carbon filter (much like the ones on Ebay, but homemade for much less) but the fan is only 97cfm (before pulling through the carbon filter), it's probably more like 30 cfm now. I really don't want to mold out a batch just to test it out. Really doesn't feel like it's pulling much air and that worries me... Thanks!

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She'll be right, you don't need a wind tunnel for your buds. 30CFM will do OK. 10CFM would work! I've installed a motor speed controller on mine to slow my fans down. Too noisy, no need for massive airflow if the heater is doing its thing, dropping RH a bit to make the air run thru the box able to pick up more water.

Your carbon filter might not like the moisture from the buds. Might prematurely reduce its effectiveness. Check often.

Ever baked old carbon granules to reactivate it? Did it work?

potroast said:

Hey Man! Those ounces look light.


I can spot that from all the way up here.

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dude, a bushel of boulders always weighs more than 100 pecks of popcorn.

Density, density, density! Those are 30g 'ounces.' I also give the hash away as sort of a clever 'prize in every package!' marketing scheme.

I know you're having me on, but you've given me an oppty to sing the praises of SoG again- all top colas, all the time.

So what is it your trying to say, that by only growing the top colas you get better bud or something. VV

Al B. Fuct said:

Soon as the con artist... err... fuckknuckle... err... 'inventor' behind this one rewrites the rules of physics, it'll solve lots of problems.
There's no such thing as 'free energy' because you can't get more energy out of a system than you put in it. There's... um... no such thing as a free lunch.


'Free energy' is a tax on people stupid enough to believe in conspiracies and lazy enough not to understand basic science.

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more damn con artists.....errr fuckknuckles... errr...
YouTube - Electromagnetic Over Unity Power Plant

"There's no such thing as 'free energy' because you can't get more energy out of a system than you put in it. There's... um... no such thing as a free lunch."

im really dissapointed in these assholes that put false information on the internet...


.........................................................i told you so....................................

Look at the lip on that smiley after I told you so, Ha ha

VictorVIcious said:

So what is it your trying to say, that by only growing the top colas you get better bud or something. VV

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all the bud will be good regardless.


but the best fruit and such comes from the main stalk. who wants b + bud when you can have the a + mainstalk?

Kaosisglobal said:

Look at the lip on that smiley after I told you so, Ha ha

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you type ":lo l:" together with no spaces or you can click more faces and add it that way

Hey Al, is that finger hash one harvest worth of buds and work?

VictorVIcious said:

So what is it your trying to say, that by only growing the top colas you get better bud or something. VV

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Well, it's just a hypothesis at this point. I'll put another 8 years into the research and get back with you. Fack, where'd I leave my bong?

We TaRdED said:

im really dissapointed in these assholes that put false information on the internet...


.........................................................i told you so....................................

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Yeah- if it's on the INTARWEBS you KNOW it's true- so I can understand your dismay.

Did you hear that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?

I don't know what you think you've 'told me so' about nor do I particularly care.

BTW, I haven't wasted any of my monthly 60Gb data allowance on your linked YouTube fraud- I have DAYS worth of Hello Kitty videos to download first while I still have some bytes left. You don't want to be around me when I haven't gotten my HK fix, man...

WeT- I've asked you REASONABLY nicely to take your ridiculous snake oil off this thread. One more snake oil stain on this topic and you're on my ignore list. K?

Kuji said:

Hey Al, is that finger hash one harvest worth of buds and work?

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Nah, I get about one or two of those rat-turd looking things (about .25g) off each plant when manicuring. I really don't know for sure how much I get, to be honest- I have this really bad habit of smoking the finger hash during breaks in harvesting, so they're a bit hard to keep track of...

Hello Al, came back for another read, better than any newspsper
Also have a question I think you may be able to answer for me.
I grow in a space 48 ins x 48 ins x 84 ins and would like to know what size and from what material I should make my reflector from. I use a 600 watt lamp.
I have a blacksmith friend who can do the making of it.
Or is there a current reflector on the market you would recommend.

Thanks
Dave

DaveM said:

Hello Al, came back for another read, better than any newspsper
Also have a question I think you may be able to answer for me.
I grow in a space 48 ins x 48 ins x 84 ins and would like to know what size and from what material I should make my reflector from. I use a 600 watt lamp.
I have a blacksmith friend who can do the making of it.
Or is there a current reflector on the market you would recommend.

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Accent Hydroponics' Adjust-A-Wings are as good as they get if you want to buy one. The double parabola or 'batwing' is the most efficient shape for a reflector as all light leaving the lamp gets reflected toward the plants, not back to the lamp tube as happens with single parabola or 'Euro hood' type shades.

Here's some more of my awful kindergarten art:



You can make your own, of course. See the link in my sig to DIY batwing reflector. You can use either steel or aluminium. It's as simple as marking the centreline of a rectangular piece of aluminum sheet, rolling it up, partly unrolling it, clamping the sheet to your workbench and bending a 90 on the centreline. Use open-link chain to pull the far ends of the batwing toward each other. Lengthening or shortening the chains alters the focus of the reflector.

A batwing ref coupled with a cooltube is the very best light fixture for any op.

The size of your batwing ref isn't terribly critical, but bigger is better, up to a certain point. For a 48" square grow space, I might use a sheet of aluminium around 36" x 72". I'll go into the op later on and measure my 'large Avenger' Adjust-a-Wings (soon as my brain is fully marinated in coffee ).

Naturally, horizontal tube reflectors will lay down a mainly rectangular light pattern. You should organise your lighted grow space to be rectangular to take best advantage of the rectangular light pattern.

Much appreciated Al, I did read your post on the batwing prior to posting. I have several shades at my disposal but needed reassurance as toi how large they should be, will check back when your brain has been marinated and await the measurements of your largest reflector cause this quote seems wrong

"For a 48" square grow space, I might use a sheet of aluminium around 36" x 72"."

72" won't fit

Silly me....... must think before I type
The 72" will be far shorter when curved

Ok Al understand now my blacksmith friend should be able to make an exact replica of an adjustawing, don't you think?? if you think that the manufactured one cannot be copied to give the exact output I would save me pennies and buy one
Blacksmith friend says any chance of exact sizes as to copy from
This is my current shade.

I am gonna be a pest now and ask another question what do you think about the "heat shield" that is available for the adjustawing
Oh and any idea what the material is on the adjustawing...... I will probably end up buying one, I just know I will.

Hey Al,

First of all, I admire your work, and you've inspired me to replicate your grow in my own home. Now I have a couple of questions...


Do you have separate nutrients and separate ppm's for each rez? Or are they all relatively identical?

Also, with so many plants cramped into such a small area, how do you access all of your plants? And do you find the batwing reflector to be more efficient than say a Hydrofarm air cooled reflector?

he runs 1400 ppm in all 4 tanks, he has them in individual pots so he can move them about, and he just got done saying the batwing is the most efficient reflector along with a diagram as to why...

Yeah, I am retarted and missed that post. Just noticed that after I asked.

But that still leaves the question of plant access...

MajesticWhelk said:

Yeah, I am retarted and missed that post. Just noticed that after I asked.

But that still leaves the question of plant access...

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He uses individual pots to move them around for even lighting and pruning.

He does have a much bigger space than you.. be creative, and careful.





Enigma

Well me and a few local Med growers are setting up a grow at my friend's house and I'm the grow foreman.

We have a giant garage that is completely available to grow in and I am going to construct a freestanding room with adjacent freestanding mother and clone rooms, roughly based off of Al's design.

DaveM said:

Blacksmith friend says any chance of exact sizes as to copy from

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Yep, the AAWs are each made from 2 panels, 700mm along tube axis, 600mm from the centre bend to the edges. A single sheet, 700mm x 1200mm could be used.

You can duplicate the size and shape of the AAW but you won't be as able to replicate the reflector surface, which is highly polished then dimpled with a .5mm round nosed punch, about 20 dimples per cm^2. Home made batwings should be painted flat white with a hi-temp enamel spray.

I am gonna be a pest now and ask another question what do you think about the "heat shield" that is available for the adjustawing

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Good if you're not using cooltubes- but heaven only knows why you wouldn't be using cooltubes! The 'super spreader' is more of a 'super shade.' It allows you to drop the light lower without damaging plants nearest the lamp.

Oh and any idea what the material is on the adjustawing...... I will probably end up buying one, I just know I will.

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It's aluminium, apx 1mm thick.

The AAWs are not cheap but are very well made, with pressed pem nuts that stay put and all stainless and aluminium hardware. Worth buying, IMO.

MW, cmak & Enigma have filled in your blanks correctly. Thanks, fellers.

Plants in pots are portable. There's 4 separate 125L tanks, all Canna Flores 1400ppm @ 5.8, H2O2 50% grade at 1ml/L every 3-4 days.

If I am using a drip system, do I have to worry about root rot? Has it ever been a problem for you?
My plants are about 4 to 5 inches tall and the leaves are starting to droop down and have a light green color coming on. Some leaves are starting to fold upward like a taco. What should I do? I read some where that it could be root rot but I wanted to ask a Pro. Isn't Canna a soil specific nutrient solution?