Vert Beansly Style
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Beansly
RIU Bulldog
Hey Phlly, where the hell you been dude? I was never out of the saddle, I just got lazy and stopped posting updates. Plus I kinda messed up the last thread up. Thanks for checking out my new thread man.
Lmao I think you're right!
I love my milk crates. Getting them is a little dangerous if you get caught, but otherwise, grabbing them from the back of grocery stores is no problem
The crates and stuff are the 'beansly style' part of the title. I have a habit of making due with things around the house. I like finding new ways to use things. My light is Jerry rigged if you didn't notice. I could afford the vert set up so I took an old hood, and took the rivets off the part where the bulb goes and took it off.
I used that to mount the light vertically and tied it with the twine you can get outside of Home Depot.
I'm not a rich man haha.
The room is like 8 x 10ft but the area around the light is a square, 3-1/2ft on all sides. But the way it's set up, the farthest plant is only 2ft away from the bulb and those are one the two in the corners. That still gives them 10,000 lumen of light. Still, most of the plants are in the 1 - 1 1/2ft
away from the bulb. If I had a 600w light, I'd feel comfortable adding another tier or two. MY yeild has been going up each harvest so I can't really give you a good answer, but last time I cracked 9 ounces. If I would've Scrogged all the plants last time it would've been closer to 12.
I planted 20ish Bubba S1's from a plant that had a tendency to hermie. I'm hoping I can get a pheno that doesn't so I can work with it and stabilize it. I don't know if the bubba I got is really Pre98 but it sure has a lot of bubba qualities and i like it. It produces dense, ping-pong balls of strong, trichome covered buds. It's has a pretty good yeild too, and it turns purple at flush.
I like using a seed bed rather than individual pots cause it seems to make bigger seedlings than a tiny pot. I made this one out of a bread delivery tray and two pieces of picket fence wood (1/2 x 6 in) lined with some spare painter plastic and a screen from an old screen door I had.
I wanted to show you the second half of my little operation.
The mother and clone section. It's in another closet of the house under separate 4 bulb and 2 bulb t5's. Under the 2 bulb are 2 plushberrys, the green and purple pheno. I want to try and re-veg it and try it again.
Under the 4 bulb are the True OG and Pre98 Bubba soon-to-be mothers.
There's also some Purple Hindu clones that I made a small DWC setup for. I'm planning to switch entirely to hydroponics in the next few weeks, so I got a little jump on it. It''s just tap water, Fox Farm Grow Big and H&G Algen Extract. One is growing a lot faster than the others but they are the same (I'm told).
Thedillestpickle
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Yea looks good Beansley. its always fascinating to see the grows where everything looks like it was planned out by an engineer and hundreds of dollars are used just making it all look clean, but it doesnt need to be done like that. My setup is pretty high powered but its still super ghetto looking lol. There's a gasline that runs right through the middle of the room, one of my plants is starting to touch it. As long as it works though really.
I utilize the bread trays for flushing, you put the bread tray over a tote, and put your plant on the tray, now you can flush away. I also use the milk crates for a few different things. Problem is I only have 2 milk crates and I'm afraid to steal anymore since I don't drive, so I'd have to walk them home, and I could only carry 4 at a time. I'd be more than willing to actually purchase the milk crates lol but I don't know how to go about doing that. Everyone would just assume I stole them anyways though
Funny I actually bought an A&W rootbeer glass mug once and everyone just assumes I stole it... Ha! nope I paid 7$ for it, and it was worth every penny
Beansley what do you think about creating a sphere of chicken wire to surround the 400 bulb? Then you can bring the plants as close as possible and they will never be able to touch the bulb? I guess it could block like 2% of the light though. I'm actually doing that right now in my room with my 400, just wondering what you think of that idea.
Thats a funny looking 400w btw, My MH looks the same size as my 1000w
I utilize the bread trays for flushing, you put the bread tray over a tote, and put your plant on the tray, now you can flush away. I also use the milk crates for a few different things. Problem is I only have 2 milk crates and I'm afraid to steal anymore since I don't drive, so I'd have to walk them home, and I could only carry 4 at a time. I'd be more than willing to actually purchase the milk crates lol but I don't know how to go about doing that. Everyone would just assume I stole them anyways though
Funny I actually bought an A&W rootbeer glass mug once and everyone just assumes I stole it... Ha! nope I paid 7$ for it, and it was worth every penny
Beansley what do you think about creating a sphere of chicken wire to surround the 400 bulb? Then you can bring the plants as close as possible and they will never be able to touch the bulb? I guess it could block like 2% of the light though. I'm actually doing that right now in my room with my 400, just wondering what you think of that idea.
Thats a funny looking 400w btw, My MH looks the same size as my 1000w
Beansly
RIU Bulldog
I'm glad you like it dude, I'm very proud of my baby. I've seen grows where people put chicken wire around the bulb and I think that's a good idea. In fact I probably could've usesd used some chicken wire around the bulb cause I actually burned some buds from them getting too close. Not a lot, but it still hurts. It think as long as it doesn't get annoying or in the way, then it's cool. If you look, on of my plants that's flowering is vert scrogged. Check out the scrog net I made. It's connected at the top with a 'T' joint so when you stick the points into the dirt, it leans at an angle against the plant.
If I do it like this again, I'm definitely scroging every plant instead of only half. It just looks like it yielded a lot more.
Thedillestpickle
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Looks like the perfect scrog screen beansley, 6 of those around a 400 ought to do really nice things. I'm a little confused though, do you have multiple grows happening? If your thinking of doing more scrogs like that what are you going to do with that many veg plants? You have more vegging plants than you can flower by the looks of it, unless your not scrogging and doing a vertical SOG?
I think the MH during the last 2 weeks probaby adds a nice touch to the THC content of the trichs, I plan to switch out the HPS for a 10000kelvin MH during the last 2 weeks of flower just to spice things up a little
I think the MH during the last 2 weeks probaby adds a nice touch to the THC content of the trichs, I plan to switch out the HPS for a 10000kelvin MH during the last 2 weeks of flower just to spice things up a little
Samwell Seed Well
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dude i need those bad, heres what my vert is looking like this round
not very detialed in pic but its 6.6ft X 10.5ft with bulbs in a 8 x 11 pattern in middle suspended at different hieght
so far its working out well. what do you think?
not very detialed in pic but its 6.6ft X 10.5ft with bulbs in a 8 x 11 pattern in middle suspended at different hieght
so far its working out well. what do you think?
Thedillestpickle
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I like it! How many watts are the bulbs?
Samwell Seed Well
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they are hortilux HPS 1k's
skunkd0c
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thanks for the tour m8, all looking nice, 9-12 oz is a good yield 
they are not commercial strains either, so that's a very nice yield from a 400w light
im sure you will have no issues taking those plants through rejuvenation , its something i have done a fair bit
i normally leave a nice amount of bottom bud and a few leaves , pretty much like you have,
they come back nicely, in a few weeks after the distorted regrowth has gone and you thin them out .. they go crazy and spit so many shoots out of the buds, i only keep the stronger regrowth lots of thinning out
you can take some cuts, and reflower it or whatever
i have seen others take it completely all the way back with little to nothing left on it other than a little stub and 2 or 3 buds, and they still come back
peace m8
they are not commercial strains either, so that's a very nice yield from a 400w light im sure you will have no issues taking those plants through rejuvenation , its something i have done a fair bit
i normally leave a nice amount of bottom bud and a few leaves , pretty much like you have,
they come back nicely, in a few weeks after the distorted regrowth has gone and you thin them out .. they go crazy and spit so many shoots out of the buds, i only keep the stronger regrowth lots of thinning out
you can take some cuts, and reflower it or whatever
i have seen others take it completely all the way back with little to nothing left on it other than a little stub and 2 or 3 buds, and they still come back
peace m8
Beansly
RIU Bulldog
I want to find a good pheno of each strain and the high numbers are gonna help me do that. I plan on culling any plant that shows any sign of genetic weakness. I'm also accounting for the ones that are gonna hermie on me right from the start considering they came from a hermie mother. I'm gonna throw out any that hermie again. After I make a little money on the two I have now, I'm gonna get another light so I can partition off the room and flower and veg at the same time.
For now, I'm gonna eventually take clones of all the plants vegging and germinating and put them in a Heath Robinson shoe-rack style vert hydro SOG system. I'm hoping to have around 100-120 plants around either two 6's (if I can afford it) or a 6 and a 4.
...that's the idea anyways...
Dude that is sick. Me likee. I want something like someday. The scrog nets where pretty easy to make, if a little time consuming. Try to find someone with some leftover chickenwire, otherwise you can get a 50ft roll for $30.
Thanks for the reassurance.
mellokitty
Moderatrix of Journals
wow, somebody's been a busy bee.
looking good beans. some nice colours you got in there.
looking good beans. some nice colours you got in there.
Beansly
RIU Bulldog
Thank you so much #^^#wow, somebody's been a busy bee.
looking good beans. some nice colours you got in there.
Beansly
RIU Bulldog
Yeah it IS quite a bit huh for one 400 huh? lol.
And I still have the 30-40 more coming from the seeds that are germinating. I'm getting another light here soon and when I do, I'm gonna hang it vertically above the one I have now, and stack the plants on a modified shoe-rack vert system. It's gonna be sick dude. All made DIY by me. Stick around.
UKHG
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I would get both hps hanging each end of a peice of wood enough for a 3rd in the middle if needed THEN get a slow motor and hav that attached to a chain what goes to a upside down v to keep the bulbs level and have them SLOWLEY ROTATING AS NOT TO SWING THE BULBS
SIDE BY SIDE UR GUNNA LOOSE SOME LIGHT
employedmale
Member
Beansly,
How are you separating the flowering plants from the younger plants? Or have you just set them all in a 12/12 tent? The screen grow and the mature bagged plant look real close to harvest.
How are you separating the flowering plants from the younger plants? Or have you just set them all in a 12/12 tent? The screen grow and the mature bagged plant look real close to harvest.
UKHG
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TENT? lol looks like a chiken coop to me!
scrub my last plan ai just thought it will need slight adjustment
a motor on each bulb turning very slowley the opposite way to the main motor for the light
technicle but if u get it going be fukin awsome!so 3 motors
employedmale
Member
I used the term very loosely.
Thedillestpickle
Well-Known Member
hahah what?TENT? lol looks like a chiken coop to me!
scrub my last plan ai just thought it will need slight adjustment
a motor on each bulb turning very slowley the opposite way to the main motor for the light
so 3 motors
He's not planning to put two bulbs side by side.. hes going one over the other and having two rows of plants
Beans that sounds like a cool idea. Gunna be a bit of work putting together a hydro setup like Heath's, but sure as hell worth it. Remember it's hard to get inside the circle once it's built so you gotta leave some room underneath to stem inside for any trimming.
Personally if I had the room which it looks like you do have I would go with a 1000w bulb or even two. reason being that you give yourself alot more room to move around inside the circle if you ever need to go in for trimming things up or any other reason. Plus with all that hard work going into making the hydro tubes and all that might as well make it payoff as much as possible
I think I kinda get what you were describing EKHG but man... that sounds fucking hard to do... Your thinking to orbit the 2 two bulbs around a central point, operated by a motor. then have a motor dircectly on each bulb to orient the bulbs so they always shine on the plants? Ok so that assumes you also have reflectors behind each light lol
AND it's going to be nearly impossible unless you work for NASA to figure out a way to spin all that crap and still provide the electricity to the bulbs? you can't just keep spinning wires around forever... so even if you could build what you just described it would stop working within 30 seconds as the power cords get all spun up hahaha