Enjoy the freedom. Experimenting is always fun. I'm actually looking for my own grow facility cause the wife don't like. My just have to buy another house for myself and my "other ladies".
[420]Haze;5752918 said:
Good job man, welcome, your off to a flying start !!!! Your obviously a fella with patience, it will serve you well during your grows.
wow, that feeling of liberation is palpable
i will most definitely be following you with your experiments
my girlfriend and i are working on some experiments of our own, but sadly i have not studied RIU as long as yourself :'(
im actually in the process of creating my own grow journal, but sadly not a journal from seed, but happily in a 10x8x7 room O_O
ill be linking it to my siggy ^_^
Wow, you three have no idea how close to home your references to "patience" and "experiments" really was while building out my vegging area...
So, I began last weekend thinking to myself, "Gee MrCartoon, you have read these boards for three years and have been very meticulous about what you would do if you could grow... You will be an expert with no issues and become a W33d B4ar0n in no time at all!!1!"
Oh how little did I know!
So as you all saw in my first set of pics, I was going to build an Ebb and Flow style set up... well, it doesn't work so well when your tub can't drain back down through your MONSTER fountain pump that has a motor like a tricked out muscle car! (Note to self, you don't need 3 billion GPH through your pump)
Anyhow, I ended up doing an improvised (and very pathetic looking!) drip system for my seedlings that sliced in half whatever machismo I had started with! BUT it works and all my seeds have cracked and sprung up... so couldn't be THAT bad! Besides, the drip system is temporary until I get my mothers vegged with my next system. But let's not get ahead of ourselves!
FIRST LESSON OF GROW: Leave the ego at the door of the grow closet and be ready to adapt if needed!
However, during my ego shattering experience with my failed "Ebb and Flow TUB OF DOOM", I decided that my Hydro dream might need a backup! So I grabbed some left over poting soil and perlite and threw one of my cracked seedlings in just for some insurance just in case I killed the other four in my dip system.
I then spend the remainder of my free time on the weekend building out my much cooler, and much more successful "AEROPONIC TUB OF AWESOMENESS!".
In reality its just six netpots drilled into a tub with a PVC rack inside with fantastic twirling sprinklers, but it LOOKS much cooler and sleek than my puny drip system. Works too, which is an added bonus!
I plan to move my 4 hydro girls into this once they are big enough and continue to veg in this for the time being.
I still have big dreams for a bigger setup once I dial in my skills a bit and have some mothers to take clones from, but for now I am happy to simply say all 5 Blueberry girls are alive and growing!