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dura72

dura72

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An Arab national is interviewed at the Embassy for a visa:


Consul: Your name please?

Arab: Abu Zina.

Consul: Sex?

Arab: Every day.

Consul: Er, I mean, male or female?

Arab: Dont matter, sometimes even Camel.

Consul: Holy cow!

Arab: Yes, cows and donkey too.

Consul: Isn't that hostile?

Arab: Hosstyle, Dogstyle, any style!.

Consul: Oh dear!

Arab: No deer! Asshole too tight and run too fast.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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lol

i need to make up a third tote tomorrow so i'm tempted just to make it a 2 plant tote. they'll drink less and have more light and space to play with.
 
dura72

dura72

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ive noticed that a lot of the homemade dwc boxes i see have 4/6/8 net pots in them and when i think of how much bush my plants put on during veg and the subsequent growth boost when they go into flower i wonder why, and how , people put them in so tightly, are the majority scrog, sog, lst or lollypopping? other thing i was going to ask u tip was how do the plants stay vertical, by that i mean they dont seem to have much of a root grip like they do in soil, do u use yo yos or what?
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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haha, i ran into that problem on thursday :lol: in the cab it's all fine as they just lol against the wall. i'm still trying to come up with a better method, but as it is, i got a piece of heavy wood the size of the lid, cut that lengthways, then cut two long nothes out of each, so they kinda look like square funky M's :P without the top groove. then that slides onto the lid with the stems in the notches it's working well so far, but it's making lifintg the cover a bit of a pain (the wood slides and pulls the stalk over badly). a work in progress, works, but not ideally.

as to the 6/8 pots etc, i know what you mean, and constantly warn buys against potting it up to it's max capacity, as like you say, it's ridiculous. and at the end of the day you're just going to nd up with a bunch of acverage plants instead of one or two great ones. i'm defo going 2 tomorrow, it'll allow all the main stems to get lots of light instead of just what you can see from above, i tend to get a lot of fluff.

mounting my airstones on the bottom of the tub is my next task, as it is i just throw a clean glass inside it and the increasing diameter of the glass holds it down, before they just slowly slid around as they pleased leaving roots starving at times.
 
dura72

dura72

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concerning the air stones, ive got two ideas; either silicon them down with fishtank silicon( its non toxic) or wrap fishing weights on to them with fishing gut. i'm gonna sit and think up a way to keep the plants uprite although yoyos are cheap as fuck.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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you must bear in mind that you need to be pulling the plants out and such all the time, and when they're out, that's when they fall. yoyo's would work perfect while in the tent, but the moment you pull the top off the tote to empty and clean and refill, they're gonna be all over the shop.
 
dura72

dura72

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some sort of light weight frame mite work , maybe made from garden canes and gaffa tape or even thin aluminium rods.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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a solid scrog. i reckong that would work, wait for em to get a certain height, "scrog" the stems, keep the alu tubes nice anc close (rubber bands, duck tape etc) and then let it grow upwards as normal. that sou/nds good. 4 metal rods on each corner can just be bolted onto the lid easy enough. i'm just very vyer lazy :lol:
 
ultimate buds

ultimate buds

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dura72 said:
some sort of light weight frame mite work , maybe made from garden canes and gaffa tape or even thin aluminium rods.
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you can use the whit plastic overflow pipes from plumbing shopes its about 50p a meter an about £2.50 for 10 fittings just build a 3d rectangle the same size as the outside rim of the lid for the dwc you can also extend the 4 uprights to whatever height you want then just zip tie it to the lid as there extremly light that way you can still lift the lid on an off but dont get any damage to plants
you want the white 21.5 mm rigid stuff
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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that sounds ideal :) you could the go bonkers and turn said pipe into a SCROG/support cage AND co2 :lol: think i'll settle with the easy option. alternatively you just screw 3 or 4 hooks onto the top of the lid and simply tie it down like a radio tower :)
 
ultimate buds

ultimate buds

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tip top toker said:
that sounds ideal :) you could the go bonkers and turn said pipe into a SCROG/support cage AND co2 :lol: think i'll settle with the easy option. alternatively you just screw 3 or 4 hooks onto the top of the lid and simply tie it down like a radio tower :)
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now thats an excellent idea runnin co2 through the pipe aswll as usin it for a support i think im gonna have to give that a try on my next grow only il be usin an nft tray rather than totes but itl work the same, cheers m8 brilliant
 
ultimate buds

ultimate buds

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+oh well thats it iv just flippd 5 bag seed that are supposed to be silver haze an 4 strawberry thai into 12/12 there only about 8" high an about 12" wide cos i was advised to go 12/12 from seed as there mostly sativa but i giv em 3 weeks veg under 400w from seed anyway i just gotta hope thay dont get to tall now or im really in the shit, an with a bit of luck there will only be 4 of them that are female i only want 5 oz of them altogether as my cheese are ready to flower in about another 10 or 12 days just gotta work out where i can flower em now as im runnin outa room, the joys of growin lol !!!
 
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nexusmick

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Hi guys, new to this growing lark but having fun. Down in South East and get AK47 for £150 Oz, good stuff and trichs I like :) . Got two bucket flood & drain going under 600w and about to start some white rhino in one and some Hawaiian snow fem seeds I picked up in Eindhoven recently. Will try to post as I go. Also about to try some Lemon Skunk and some Super silver haze out in the garden. About 2 weeks away from going into the ground, so will also try to update and post tidbits as I go. Peace & Love people :)
 
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nexusmick

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Hi guys, new to this growing lark but having fun. Down in South East and get AK47 for £150 Oz, good stuff and trichs I like . Got two bucket flood & drain going under 600w and about to start some white rhino in one and some Hawaiian snow fem seeds I picked up in Eindhoven recently. Will try to post as I go. Also about to try some Lemon Skunk and some Super silver haze out in the garden. About 2 weeks away from going into the ground, so will also try to update and post tidbits as I go. Peace & Love people
 
mr west

mr west

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sigh, well ym cupboard is not at full capacity. both totes and 8 plants in there. and it's stupid. i need to get a bit of space between the two totes, the flowered plants are just shadowing the little runts. the flat is mine for a further 2 months, so i'm tempted to buy a grow tent 1.2 and then just shift it to a friend when the spare room is occupied ebginning of july.

how obvious and obtrusive are these tents? do you guys have to tell guests what's going down or do you somehow keep it all to yourselves? (in that you lock the room it's in etc or?? i just gotta get a better space, mine is long and thin and it's hassssssssle.
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I dont have ppl in the flat that aint in the ring of trust lol. I thought of a way to hide my tent in my living room but that would mean turning the outside into a tadis, cover in in cardboard and paint it blur lol stick a flashin light on the top and jus tell ppl ur a major Dr Who nut lol. they are quite inya face wot with the fan blowing out air all day they make quite a noise
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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a'll be out of my flat in days if british gas don't pull their heads outta their arses. apparently i used 15 units of electricity (15 kwh) in a 12 hour period when i went to bed and turned everything off, not even the grow lights were on. 15 units.... the average household usage is 9 a day... they wither want me to pay a bill of close to £1000 for 2 months of electricity or pay to hae someone come and check the meter, they really think i need to pay for the check, just in case it's fine.... 15 units while i slept!!!!!!! FUCKERS! is getting me well paranoid and such, luckily my meter is 4 floors down :)
 
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