Indoor Grow with 2 x 65 W fat Neon Bulbs - Blue Widow & Cheese

GrowManSoft

Member
High friends,
here i will report my indoor grow with 2 fat 65 W Neon lights in a secret growbox in a corner of an unused room in my house.
neighbours etc. are no problem, so the ventilation ist well done and smells no problem.

I built the corner growbox on the carpet, just "with hot needle".
Only 4 vertical wooden slats, 2 sides coverd with 3 mm thick hardwoodplates. the other two sides are the wall :-o
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The inner side is covered with rescue folie for cars (gold and silver), the silver side shows to the plants.
i overed all with that, wall, floor and roof - its cheap, covers the light to the outsides, reflects and is very very cheap :clap:

the ventilators are 2 from Mainframe Computers (approx. 12 cm), each sucks 180 m³/h - so enough for the ~ 4 m² :weed:
the inner ventilator is a small (8 cm) one from normal pc - all of them are running with 12 V =, because here in europe he power is very very expensive.

the reflector is DIY, too - simple a wooden plate (where the neons hang below), covered with alu folie.
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also i installed Temp & HUM-Sensors via active USB-cable, also a webcam to get control whenever (and where ever) i want to :clap:
the software for this is also self made, more pics from this and a description of the features, you can find here: http://growman.bplaced.net

i started growing on Septembre 7th, and now, after 46 blossom days and 83 growing days the girls will get killed this weekend.
The strains are 2 Blue Widows and 2 Cheese, both from DinaFEM in Spain.

But first we'll have a nice picture show, made from the webcam connected to my software ( a nice featurem because you can follow the plants over the day by making pics automatically, and in the clip view you can see how they act & grow up :joint:

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Looks & tasts very nice...since today they are in the drakroom for 48 h, after that they will be cutted and hung for a week in the cahmber with no light, but ventilation.

...more pics will come...

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Last "butt" not least, the "Control Center" and some other screens of GrowMan:
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Its connected to a usb relay card, which controls the lights, ventilation, watering and even the daily "spray shower" will work fine (also remote from vacations :hump:)
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Today i killed the 1st Blue Widow
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127 grams (wet)

2 days before i cutted off all leafs and put te girly in an extra chamber with approx. 20 ° C and about 28% Humidity, no water that time.

After tiling in little pieces i placed all on a fine webbed curtain with a little venti (8 cm from PC) below.the drying box now stands for about 1 week there for drying.
After that i will put them over night in ZipLock-Bags and placed them overday on the drying box again (all that for a week) - this is for Fermentation.
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1 day later - looking at the drying-box:
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bioWheel

Well-Known Member
Nice journal. Thanks for sharing. Like that pic with the light and plant at the end of the dark room. Looks like an oasis. :weed:
 

kentuckyboy

Well-Known Member
That is fucking cool man! I have never seen anything like that program and how you can check your grow out remotely. Great job!
 

GrowManSoft

Member
Yo Kentuckyboy,

thx for the flowers :-)
Was a hard job to make it fit for all needs - btu now it works quite fine.
RemoteControl via i.e. Teamviewer, Upload via FTP, Waether forecast for outdoor (next year additional), measuring, controlling, steering, watching.......@ll in 1.

And if anybody buys seeds for 100 bucks, he can invest additonal 100 for this cool software :joint:

P.S.: sorry for my english, i am from netherland

btw: today i killed the 1st Blue Widow...see new pic in opening thread
 

Roll&Grow

Member
Nice Pic, Great Sett up,

Once i get a Full Harves of the new room Im planing to add the Remote to have full control of the room.
Any Special Tips for the Cheese ?

Thanks
 

GrowManSoft

Member
High,

@Cheese pay attention on fresh air.
Last year i had one (of 4) with spider mite - the breather-ventilator was a little to small (only 120 m³/h).
Now i use a 180 m³/h one, so no problems at all with that.

btw: i added a pic from the Growthplan - Window in GrowMan.
Here you can follow the heigth in a grapical diagramm bongsmilie
 

GrowManSoft

Member
Update of the GrowMan-Interface:

I tuned the Interface a little bit and added an I²C-Bus system to it, also a ON-Delay (5 sec) for the ATMEL-Board.
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Next i want to connect the show LCD (i have several of them "on stock" :blsmoke:) so I am able to work with the system without PC-Connection :joint:
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btw: Blue Widow knallt wie der Teufel - und schmeckt wie Nektar bongsmilie
 

GrowManSoft

Member
Yo men,
yesterday the 2nd Blue Widow was harvested (heigth = 88 cm).
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Meanwhile the 2 remaining cheese have so heavy buds that i substituted them with a wooden pin to stabilize :-)
One week to go before harvesting...

See more actual pics from harvesting Blue Widow 2 in the opening thread....:evil: coudn't be edited any longer....
So here we go:

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Weigth of this Blue Widow 2 is 188 gr (wet)

The net weigth of the Blue Widow 1 was 56 gr - and turned like the devil and tasts like a Liqueur/Nectar - Cocktail :joint:
 

GrowManSoft

Member
High Bro's,

here are the last pics of the both living Cheese (Dinafem).
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You can see the one (in front / left) with the broken top bud - it has had such a heavy weigth that i brokes after spraying (some days ago) :fire: - but was nearly ready and is now in a good half-dry condition bongsmilie.
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The Cheeses spreaded, because there was light also from the bottom :weed:
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So IMHO is that a quite good result for that 2 neon bulbs, supported by 2 real-bulbs for holding the temps high ;-)

When completly finished, i will post more results - also over power consumption: i plugged in a digital counter before starting and will see then, how much kW went through for ALL components (including ventilation etc, which runs with 12 V= :bigjoint:
 

GrowManSoft

Member
High Guys,

1st i will show the result of Cheese1:
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now here the latest pics of this Harvest - see here the last Cheese:
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Heigth is 88 cm
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THIS TopBud kept in place (beause i stabilized the bottom before)
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The TopBud after prepairing for drying:
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Since the result is better then the other one, i had to built a greater drying box
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And here now the result of Cheese 2:
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Okay, the weigth of Cheese1 was 182 grams (wet), and this one has 198 grams (wet)

The total power consumption from the 09. September to the 15th Deember was 221 Kw/h, what makes costs (in my country) for power of only ~62 EUR: not so bad for a total amount of (maybe) 180 grams (dry) with only 4 plants :-)

The next seeds yet arrived (Skunk#1 (fem) from SensiSeeds) - and will start in he new year.

So, for now, have all a nice Xmas and a happe new year - and when i wrote Happy i mean it :bigjoint:
 

Sincerely420

New Member
Yo ouwe,

Ik ben Amerikaan maar ik spreek een beetje Nederlands! Ik was in Amersfoort voor ongeveer twee jaar en gehad de taal te leeren dus ik kon kinderen engels leeren in Soest. Ken je De Schommel(dicht 2010)? Of Trenchtown? Of Zoo Coffeeshop?! Snap je what ik bedoeld of niet? If you don't get the dutch my bad haha it's been a couple years!

Those were the shops I frequented in Amersfoort! Also went be to a lot of places in Utrecht, Nijmegen(had a girlfriend named Nina that I met here in NY from Nijmegen), Zeist, Friesland, Rotterdam, Arhnem, Groningen, and Amsterdamn of Course. Pretty much I've been around haha

Experiencing the world cup over there made "voetbal" like my second favorite sport after American Football haha. Before I went to Soest I though Soccer was for pussies!
I played for Amersfoort Untouchables there and won a national championship(nummer twee rode schonen)
->My team in action. I'm the QB. There were 2 other American on the team, and two half Americans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2TeKo0ZB48

But it's funny the man..The whole time I was there it was legal to grow up to 5 plants, and I never thought twice about it haha..Instead i blew a few thousand dollars in coffeshops...
But I'm working on a Blue Widow myself man, and hope for a good a result like yours...I saw a guy on here who only harvested like 10g from his Bluw Widow and started thinking damn...that's all..But 56 is a little more doable! That's 2 US ounces or like a good month and a half worth of smoke.

I wanna know tho, did you get that result using two tubes and two CFLs?

Fijn roken haha!
 
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