Refrigerator Grow

I did a build journal and 2 grow journals in my sig links using fridges/freezers. I'm hardly ever on this site, more on riddlem3.com. But check it out, you can see how I solved some of the problems using a fridge or freezer.
Plants look good.
 
well i love the info you have given thanks i read through the medicinal frig post before i started mine. Can you tell me what your average harvest was daniel?
 
rollinbud said:
Got a link Daniels?
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It's in my signature.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/372218-frigidare-2-indicas-infrared-spectrum.html
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/326553-medicinal-refridgerator.html
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/333603-two-queens-stuffed-fridge.html
frig guy said:
well i love the info you have given thanks i read through the medicinal frig post before i started mine. Can you tell me what your average harvest was Daniels?
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Not sure. Usually an Oz. or 2. It varies.
 
thank you so much for your helpful input sir
can i ask what you did to combat temps in the summer as i am good with temps right now but i am worried about summer a little i have a plan i want to try but your advice would be very appreciated
 
frig guy said:
thank you so much for your helpful input sir
can i ask what you did to combat temps in the summer as i am good with temps right now but i am worried about summer a little i have a plan i want to try but your advice would be very appreciated
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It's all about airflow. If intake is moving to exhaust fast enough then temp can't build up. Not sure if I quickly explained that. Intake from floor near the concrete is better too.
Also I run at night during the summer. It helps too.
 
Update

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April and Becky are looking so lovely and having vigorous growth. I have the plants about 7" away from the light and the canopy temp is 78 to 84 depending on if the fans are off or on. The low temp last night was -9 and my temps never went below 73 so i know i am gravy with that 4" air cooled hood. I plan on adding a second fan to the hood this summer.

Thanks guys

Frig
 
Good goin man, the one female I had in my flower room turned out to be a Hermie so I cut it down. Since the flower room is inside I decided to move all mt new seedlings in there so I temporarily stopped using fridge until I cut clones in a few weeks. Im satisfied it will work. What do you thinks gonna happen to your temps when Spring gets here?
 
I am guessing i will have to add a fan to the intake for cool air it is summer that I am worried about it got up to 104 last year with the heat index and i dont know if the freezer unit will keep it that cold ummm only way to find out is to wait
 
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Becky and April are loving the new light and you can see it lol look at how tall Becky is getting. I am totally happy with the temp test I did today it worked perfect with a freezer temp of -3 and a lights on temp in the flower box of 77 so i am happy with this.

Thanks

Frig





@ Danielsgb
thanks bro I have a one intake for the 4" air cooled sun master hood with a 12v pc fan running on a 6v power supply I plan on changing the power supply and another for the frig 12v pc fan with a 12v power supply. this moves a lot of air 145cfm and it can take the temp for 85 to 75 in about 2.5 min I have tested the system to see I will have to reverse the hookups on the thermostat for summer so i am pulling cool air from the freezer of the clone frig I was running the temps test all day had a external temp on the box of 94 with 2 50000btu heaters running all day I ran the freezer to see if i could keep the temps down. After letting the freezer get down to 15 I turned the system on and to my shock the temp in the freezer went down to -3 and the flower frig stayed a great temp of 77 for my norm after a high of 97 without fans on mind you. There were 2 50000btu heater in there and the ambient air temp was 94 outside the box
 
Sounds good man, you are taking a litttle different approach with your cooling than I did. Since mine was a side by side and I cut divider out my freezer never really gets very cold, esp. with all the air circulation. Just remember that the design of your fridge is to keep most of the cold air in the freezer. Did your test ever reach the point where the refrigerator cut off? With temps in the minus range in the freezer you will have a lot of residual cooling in your box. I would suggest seeing what happens to temps after fridge cuts off. My fridge thermostat would not let me set the temps. warm enough so I had to replace mine with one from an A/C. Dont know if you know it or not but there is most likely a defrost thermostat on your fridge that will turn off everything in the fridge and turn on the defrost heater at least once in a 24 hr. cycle, you are gonna want to circumvent this.
 
Looks like you have some heat stress. When the edges of leaves curl up like that it's more than likely heat stress. Nice color.
 
UPDATE BUD PORN !!!!!!!!!!!
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April and Becky are today in there third week of flowering and looking sexy I do have to say.
There smell is intoxicating and I cant wait to see how big these babies get I am guessing they will be a 10 week flower time.
I am very happy with the new Scrubber System I DIY'ed cause the passive was not cutting it at all.
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this is working so good it don't smell at all any more, where before I could smell as soon as i entered the room
I have 5 good looking clones and cant wait to get mom going in her veg room plus the 3 bag seed that made it look great
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Thanks guys for following my grow I look forward to Curing and would love to get some comments from you guys on the best way to do this i am going to be hang drying in the flower room for the 2 or three days they need dark to dry properly they will still have the fans running and the carbon scrubber.


Thanks
Frig
 
Hello all
I had a productive night last night. I decided to build a bubble cloning machine after reading that this is the fastest way to ensure good root growth and i want to be able to have a steady supply for the flower frig as i am going to be going SOG and not scrog I want to be able to put 6 to 8 plants at a time into the flower frig and know that there ready to go and will finish in time for the next batch.

here are the pics I forgot to take a pic of the pump other than on the side of the BC machine I taped everything i think would give light and took some clones.
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the container before I used it.
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going to upgrade the pump i think to a fish tank one


thanks guys
Frig guy
 
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