Putting the flower room into overdrive. 1110 Watts quantum boards + 2000 Watts HPS

dbz

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I have a feeling the exercise tiles interlocking together was a better route for flooring. A bit more expensive, but more stable with less shifting. Trying to get the floor tight with the foamular might get a little tricky buttoning up the edge for a "tight" fit. I'd curse my way through that one for sure. Did you have to trim the tiles much to fit?
They were really easy to cut, and a little smaller, so it was real easy to snap them together and then trim to fit. They certainly help with both sound and for insulation purposes.

I love your trash can washer bubble hash setup!
 

jonnynobody

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They were really easy to cut, and a little smaller, so it was real easy to snap them together and then trim to fit. They certainly help with both sound and for insulation purposes.

I love your trash can washer bubble hash setup!
Thanks man. A buddy of mine turned me on to bubble hash making with my trim from harvests. He uses those wash machines widely available on the net and I almost bought one until I saw the price and number of complaints with them. Most were over $100 and was nothing more than a portable wash machine very cheaply made with a high failure rate mostly for leaks and motor failures. I really wanted something more bullet proof. So I gave my buddy a ring and asked him what he thought of the setup I was working on and if it would work. He suggested the taps at the bottom of the trash can and they wound up working fantastic for emptying the container. Instead of working the material in a 5 gallon bucket like I see a lot of people do I wanted to do it the way the wash machines function by placing all the work material into a 220 micron bag. Agitate, then drain the liquid through the drain bucket lined with the sieve bags. It really does work great and it's quick. Plus I feel I can provide more thorough agitation of the material increasing my yields versus just swishing the bag back and forth the way those hash wash machines do. I just keep adding ice as I need to in the trash can. Eventually I'd like to invest in a small ice maker that would allow me to keep 200 pounds or so on hand. I went through about 88 pounds to process that batch and I really could have used a bit more.
 

jonnynobody

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I snapped a few pics just before lights on and I did a flush today on all containers. I ran 2 gallons of RO water through each bucket. The runoff was about 160ppm afterwards. Acceptable in my book. I watered in 850ppm fertilizer afterwards. It was long overdue. I may start using florakleen to help aid in rinsing away the salts to see if it significantly helps reducing the runoff while running the same volume of water I did. That stuff gets crusty around the rims of the drip saucers. Inside your pots aren't drying up like a drip saucer, so it's not like that inside the container, but there's definitely accumulation occurring that needs to be rinsed away periodically. GH recommends every 3rd watering. Funk that :)

My apologies for the poor photos. My camera sucks balls.
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jonnynobody

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How many plants are there of Jager?
1 sir. She's a fucking monster. I've never seen anything like it. I have to water her twice a day now. Out of the 5 seeds I planted she was the only female. My buddy who sent them to me planted 5 and got all males. I have 1 in veg. I'm going to have to approach things differently with her for the next flower cycle. I'm thinking a 10L hempy bucket like @Renfro uses would be more appropriate and reduce watering frequency. And extensive supports early in flower. I spent nearly 24 hours over the course of a week supporting branches and straightening out the mess last week. My wife just got used to me disappearing into the flower room for 5-6 hours at a time until it was all over.
 

jonnynobody

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I think I just figured out a problem I've experienced with maxi bloom when attempting to hold a pre-mixed reservoir to use throughout the week. Something always precipitates and the mixture goes cloudy the next day. I found a thread on ICMAG that seems to zero in on the problem. In a nutshell it's mixing the base fertilizer with scalding hot water like I've been doing that's the problem:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=231051&page=5
The Mg, Ca, and Fe in maxibloom are in a meta-stable soluble state when dissolved in cold water. The concentrated hot dilution method does not and will not ever work since it provides the activation energy to form the insoluble Ca3(PO4)2 (Ksp=2.07x10^-33), Mg3(PO4)2 (Ksp=1.04x10-24), and FePO4(Ksp=9.91x10-16). The solubility constant (Ksp) defines the thermodynamics governing the solubility of a particular salt. Thus calcium has the lowest solubility next is magnesium finally iron phosphate happens to be a little more soluble. Heat is what provides the activation energy to form these highly insoluble salts which are practically impossible to redissolve. so we should all be in agreement that best practice is not to heat maxibloom. I think 50 ppm calcium is recommended for plants which comes to 1.25x10-3 M. If you heat maxi the max conc of calcium at equilibrium would be 4.9x10-7 M. This is 0.039% of recommended Ca similar levels for Mg and Fe would precipitate the deficiencies. Aged maxibloom that turns hard in solid form is forming these product thus the insolubles. This is probably why is not good to use old wet maxi. Keep in a sealed contain since the reseal ziplock on the bag is shite.

I'll be mixing with cold water today to see if a precipitate forms tomorrow. If there is no precipitate the fella that posted that response 8 years ago is spot on and just made my life much easier. I hate mixing on demand each day I have to water. It's much easier to mix a large veg reservoir and a large flower reservoir to use throughout the week instead of mixing 2 of them up for each area of the garden every other day. It gets old quick. This will hopefully make my life a little easier. I was planning to switch to mega crop or jack's 3-2-1 if I was unable to resolve this solubility issue. Hopefully this keeps me on the maxi program. I'd like to experiment with jack's again down the road. It's just so darn cheap. It's foolish not to give it a shot.
 

jonnynobody

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Update:
I installed one of these babies so I can use an inline fan to pump cold winter air into my flower room during lights on. It's got a screen to keep rodents and birds from entering. This way it can be used as an intake louver. I'm using a 6" inline fan to pump cold outside air into the flower room during lights on with a timer. The portable AC probably won't even run anymore until summer. At least I hope :)
https://www.lowes.com/pd/IMPERIAL-6-in-dia-Galvanized-Steel-R2-Exhaust-Intake-Dryer-Vent-Hood/4598558
I was thinking why the fuck pay for a portable air conditioner to suck down electricity 12 hours a day when mother nature's giving that shit away for free?
I'm testing my first holding reservoir of maxi bloom using cold water. If a precipitation occurs again I will go back to mixing on demand, and I will switch to either jack's or the GH flora series when my maxi has depleted. I'll know by tomorrow and will report back if the res went bad on me again.

Nurseries are getting very tight. I'm buying another 4'x8' to expand my nursery space. I simply don't have room to spread the ladies out the way I want to. What can ya do? Upgrade time!

Here are pics of the nurseries and I'll snap flower room pics just before lights on today. It's quite unbelievable in there right now. Seeing is believing :)

Nursery A
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Nursery B
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Maui re-VEG

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Blue dream that got her hair cut and topping:
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jonnynobody

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Thanks to @BrassNwood over @grasscity for providing the how to for my latest project - Hallucinating Hash Capsules!

I decarbed 20 grams of bubble hash @ 240 for 40 minutes last night. I removed the foil today and the consistency has changed significantly. It's almost like a brown sugar now but stickier. The aroma is overwhelming like I've never smelled before from hash. Then again I've never decarbed hash before. It's almost like a hash perfume :) I'll be using this to make the hallucinating hash capsules as outlined by @BrassNwood. My electric hot plate, 1000 00 gel caps, 32oz of coconut oil, and 16 oz container of liquid soy lecithin will arrive on Monday. As soon as the package hits my door step I'll begin the cooking process. I'll report back results. @BrassNwood suggests not licking the cooking utensils. I intend to break that rule :)

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jonnynobody

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Some of the pics turned out really blurry. Phone cam isn't as good as I'd like it to be. I'll snap some more pics tomorrow with an iphone cam. The only thing an iphone is good for :)
 
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