Bubblelicious, New York Power Diesel, and Super Skunk in DWC

[Bob Smith]

Hope you guys got before/after shots for us.

I definitely do - couldn't sleep so logged on at about 2:00pm, and fucking RIU wouldn't let me load the pics.

Anyways, about to start on today's work, should be a few hours.

Also heading to the hydro store (3rd day straight) to order 50 more neoprene inserts (building a three bucket, 72 site system) and also to buy some 6" square pots to hold my mothers.

Looking through the catalog now to see if there's 4" square pots to veg 72 plants under my 400 - I'm sure they're somewhere, if not at the hydro store then online it will have to be.

Tent's starting to look really, really sick - plus, ,I'm now kinda handy with a drill, so I'm mounting the electrical and making all that look as pretty as possible.

 

[smokingrubber]

... plus, ,I'm now kinda handy with a drill, so I'm mounting the electrical ....

Oh shit! Good supply of band-aids too? No hammers . . . right?

 

[Bob Smith]

Oh shit! Good supply of band-aids too? No hammers . . . right?

I've actually been injury free so far (knock on wood).

About 85% done, now just mounting the electrical and checking that the top tray is cool - just flooded the bottom tray, and all's well there.

Have decided to ditch the bubble cloner, as the space didn't lend itself to buckets in addition to a tray on the bottom shelf - will probably go back to that eventually, but would need three buckets for the 72 clones I'm taking for my next run, and that's just not happening in that space.

Gonna go back to Rapid Rooters in a humidity dome, which isn't the worst thing in the world.

This fucking tent is badass right now, stoked to post pics and see what you guys think.

BTW, anyone know if there's such a thing as fireproof plywood (or a similar material)?

You guys are gonna flip your shit when you see what I've got planned to pump CO2 from the generator to my tent - it's some next level type shit.

Get your popcorn ready (and possibly a fire extinguisher or two ).

 

[smokingrubber]

BTW, anyone know if there's such a thing as fireproof plywood (or a similar material)?

You guys are gonna flip your shit when you see what I've got planned to pump CO2 from the generator to my tent - it's some next level type shit.

Get your popcorn ready (and possibly a fire extinguisher or two ).

It's available http://www.ecplaza.net/search/1s1nf5sell/fireproof_plywood.html

But it's pretty custom and probably not available at Depot (but it couldnt hurt to look). Back in the old days , they used brick or some kind of mortar setup. You could also use regualr plywood and line it with flame retardant cloth or some kind of spray. Who knows what kind of gassing you'd get off those materials.

 

[Integra21]

you dont need to use buckets to make a bubble cloner. you can us a standard flat sterilite tub and fit a shitload of clones in. it's easy and cheap to do and saves a lot of space over the buckets. will easily fit on shelves too.

tis is the standard for my clone tub. I used 3.5" heavy duty pots, so only 8 could fit, but you could fit much more with the smaller collars or a bigger tub. this tub is about 7" tall.

 

[Bob Smith]

you dont need to use buckets to make a bubble cloner. you can us a standard flat sterilite tub and fit a shitload of clones in. it's easy and cheap to do and saves a lot of space over the buckets. will easily fit on shelves too.

tis is the standard for my clone tub. I used 3.5" heavy duty pots, so only 8 could fit, but you could fit much more with the smaller collars or a bigger tub. this tub is about 7" tall.

Yeah, should've mentioned that I was planning on doing that - just need to find one with the right measurements for me - looking for about 2.5' by 10", give or take.

Just need to do some research.

Anyways, it is with both happiness and regret that I'm currently ecstatic with the new tent setup, yet I must inform you all that it (probably) won't be done until tomorrow (poker's calling) - of course, might do it afterwards, but doubtful.

I'll say again, that shit is fucking badass - Rubber, you're gonna love the electrical setup, it's some Bob Vila (sp.?) shit.

Also, should mention that I'm going to take clones tomorrow, but because they'll be fairly large clones, I'm going to clone them in 6" square pots (28 of them in my bottom tray).

Will probably also take "normal" clones in a humidity dome with a heating pad, just in case something happens and the others don't make it as well as to get practice for my run of 72 coming up in about a month.

 

[Bob Smith]

Hey Bob Veg tent overhaul complete over here. Pics are uploading now!

Goddam braggart!!!

Just kidding, saw it and it looks good..........and there's no excuse for my laziness and procrastination, but I'm hoping that when it's done it'll be well worth the wait for all of us............tune in tomorrow afternoon..........

 

[wonderblunder]

Hey bob Just built a nifty little watering system. Not automatic or anything but is gonna make my life way easier.....

 

[Bob Smith]

Title says it all, just gonna post pics and anyone with any questions about any of them feel free..............getting the 3.5" square pots that I ordered (75 of them) delivered on Monday, so gonna hold off on taking clones until then (maybe, might take some as tester); also, had to use my 633GPH pump for the top tray, as the 398GPH was struggling to make it all the way up there..........

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[Integra21]

Looking good bob. Glad you got all of the electrical off of the floor this time. it has nothing to do with performance, but once you know everything is setup how you like it, you can make the wiring look a lot cleaner using zipties. I'll have pics of what a difference they can make in appearance hopefully later tonight. I'm supposed to go check my buddys setup and snap some pics. And if I pull that off, expext a huge update from me by morning.

 

[smokingrubber]

Looks great Bob. Make sure your drain is adeqete on the top tray or that big pump will outpace it and overfill. Maybe not a problem now, but it fills faster when the tray is full. Good job. When are the new tennants moving in?

 

[Bob Smith]

Looks great Bob. Make sure your drain is adeqete on the top tray or that big pump will outpace it and overfill. Maybe not a problem now, but it fills faster when the tray is full. Good job. When are the new tennants moving in?

Yeah, that overflow drain is plenty sufficient to handle it - it's 3/4" tubing and fittings, vs. the 1/2" for the inflow valve.

Thinking of taking some clones tonight - gonna take four or five in the top tray and try to root them in E&F, and also take 20 or 30 in the lower tray in a humidome on a heatmat.

Gonna do that and some massive cleanup in there, I really made a fucking mess.

Also, need to put the 400HPS on the light yo-yos that I have at some point in the near future - figure I might as well use them, and what better place then there.

Finally, got my ozone generator delivered today, and also ordered an additional temperature controller to control the fan that cools my light in the flower tent - makes no sense to me that it would be running and necessitate the heater running (1500 watts) when I could just have it automated, save electricity, and keep my temps in a tighter band.

 

[smokingrubber]

Too bad they don't have more connection options available on the sentinal. It seems like that's something that should be built in? I hope it helps.

 

[Integra21]

no lights out pics?

 

[tmsculli]

integra, I actually made the EXACT same cloning bubbler as you. Sadly I suck at cloning for some reason and had 12 clones die in attempts to getting them rooted =/


Bob, everything looks great man. Can't wait to see some pics of the plants being nice and happy in their homes.

 

[Bob Smith]

Too bad they don't have more connection options available on the sentinal. It seems like that's something that should be built in? I hope it helps.

If I wanted to, I could hook that fan up to the other two fans in the "cooling" setting, but I'd prefer for them to come on as little as possible, so I need to have that fan controlled by itself - they could make that change on the Sentinel, methinks, but they'd have to have two different cooling outlets and two different setpoints for them - my cooling comes on at 82, so I'm going to have the "light fan" turn on at about 77, to keep the exhaust fans from having to turn on.

Integra, sorry, been playing poker until about 4:00am every night, and haven't been up at 8:50am to get in there and take some pics - will make another effort tomorrow, assuming I can get to sleep at a reasonable hour.

Also, holding off until tomorrow to take the clones because that's when my 3.5" square pots are getting delivered - will take longer then usual for them to root and start vegging because they're already two weeks into flowering, so I'm going to take as many clones as possible - shooting for ~80ish, but we'll see.

Gonna do as many as I can in the E&F top tray, and then do the rest in a humidome under the fluorescents on bottom.

 

[cazador]

Bob, Any pictures and description of your new CO2 setup? Interested to see how it's working out for you and what system you setup to get it to work outside your tent.

 

[Bob Smith]

Bob, Any pictures and description of your new CO2 setup? Interested to see how it's working out for you and what system you setup to get it to work outside your tent.

The generator's not getting delivered until tomorrow, so that's not gonna be up and running for at least a couple of days - need to run it and get a feel for the heat and CO2 generated, and then adjust my vision to fit that reality - BTW, seems as though at 1500PPMs, I'm going through a tank a week (died this morning, and am going to replace in a minute).

As far as today goes, going to do some changing of the veg tent (install and active intake and also put the 400HPS on some yo-yos for height adjustment).

Planning on the 3.5" pots being delivered around 5ish, so when they get here, going to take tons of clones.

Will take pics of the flower tent before and after their haircuts to show the amount of plant matter I've removed.

EDIT: Integra, still getting up too late to get those pics, but I guess I could do it right after the lights go out - assuming this wouldn't fuck around with the plants at all? For some reason I have it in my head that before lights on would be fine, but after lights off might be bad...........

 

[smokingrubber]

I think before Lights On would be better because they're awake and waiting for the lights, vs right after Lights out when they're heads already on the pillow and they're about to slip off to amsterdam (or wherever plants dream about being).

Set your alarm stoner! You can go right back to bed LOL.

 

[wonderblunder]

I hear ya with the before lights on good, and after lights off bad. I feel the same way but not sure why.