SomeGuy's LED & Other Grows. 2014-15 Season

Lemon and avacado trees in 45gl each

Black krim and champion 2 tomatoes

First transplant to the new 4*4. Will carry 9 10gl.

Pre 98 bubba

Everything looKS awesome SG
great garden

Sorry to hear of the troubles Jig.

The Veggies look great SG.

My Kale was not sold as "Tree Kale" but it has not flowered and it getting big.

Both Kale and Chard have been real deliverers of food to my table.

JD

SomeGuy said:

FYI!

Finished my first of two veg lights for the 2x4x5 split level tent. passive vero10 bar. about 50w. Ill post some pics tomorrow. I took some of the build too. Kept it super simple and small as I need headroom in the veg space.

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Is that just some right angle brackets running along the side on those?

very nice SG nothing like picking your dinner from your backyard. Have you done the avocado before or this your first one? Are they easy to grow? How long til you get fruit?

BobBitchen said:

Everything looKS awesome SG
great garden

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Thanks BOB! How is yours doing? You recovering from ski season well?

Javadog said:

Sorry to hear of the troubles Jig.

The Veggies look great SG.

My Kale was not sold as "Tree Kale" but it has not flowered and it getting big.

Both Kale and Chard have been real deliverers of food to my table.

JD

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We have ate so much Kale. She just goes out an grabs a bunch and it seems they grow back as quick as they are ate!

Mo! said:

Is that just some right angle brackets running along the side on those?

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I kinda made a frame with L aluminum. I will have to post some pics I took

fumble said:

very nice SG nothing like picking your dinner from your backyard. Have you done the avocado before or this your first one? Are they easy to grow? How long til you get fruit?

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This is my first time with lemon and avocado... so I'm just a virgin. LOL! I will find out though I imagine.

Hopefully we can buy a place that is at least .4 acre so I can do a hoop house and grow a majority of our food! I love all forms of DIY.

jigfresh said:

I come back on Saturday. But I will be safe anyways, haha. Shit's taken a turn over here and I think we are going to have to move to a different house. Real bummer.

My wife said you sent her a real nice note and that she appreciated it. Thanks for being such a good guy some guy. lol

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Crazy SHIAT! damn jiggy. what happened?

I did and Im glad she is rocking the recovery! what a Pain in the Shoulder. I bet you and the girls are super happy to be seeing each other soon!

I would love to have an avocado tree. I have a Meyer Lemon and a Navel Orange. I have never gotten the lemon to fruit yet...had it about 5 years so far. My orange just lost all its leaves and flowers for some reason...probably need to up pot or put in the ground. they in 15 gallon smart pots

fumble said:

I would love to have an avocado tree. I have a Meyer Lemon and a Navel Orange. I have never gotten the lemon to fruit yet...had it about 5 years so far. My orange just lost all its leaves and flowers for some reason...probably need to up pot or put in the ground. they in 15 gallon smart pots

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up pot. these two are in 45gl. bitch to move but it is possible still LOL!

that's probably what I'll do. I would like to put them in the ground but we rent, so I kinda want to keep them somewhat mobile.

fumble said:

that's probably what I'll do. I would like to put them in the ground but we rent, so I kinda want to keep them somewhat mobile.

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We are renting too. I have put other things in the ground before but then I have to make it look all pretty again. With the container garden I could feasibly move everything if need be. We are on the track to buying in the next 12-24mo though

The landlord is a bit of a dick and freaked out the other night. His gardener put shit in his mind about us doing illegal things and he wanted in right then to look around with his wife. I suddenly didn't speak any spanish anymore. I don't think they have the right to kick us out... but it's not going to work here. I'm looking at properties tomorrow. Really not happy about the whole situation. My stress level is through the roof.

jigfresh said:

The landlord is a bit of a dick and freaked out the other night. His gardener put shit in his mind about us doing illegal things and he wanted in right then to look around with his wife. I suddenly didn't speak any spanish anymore. I don't think they have the right to kick us out... but it's not going to work here. I'm looking at properties tomorrow. Really not happy about the whole situation. My stress level is through the roof.

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Holy crapoly. Shittay. Definitely not the situation to be having that sort of operation at. Sorry about the stress man. H hit me back text. If only she wasnt taking D-test I would hook her up phat.... LOL

Here are the pics from my VERO-10 build. I built two of these. They roughly veg a 2x4 area each. Cheap to build really.

36" piece of 2" heatsink
angle aluminum
misc hardware
5 vero 10 5000k
1 fastech driver (each cob is at roughly 8-9watts)

Here is the sink with angle irons attached.



Mounted the cobs and put heat-shrink on the ezmates.




Cobs are wired in series to the driver.

I put a switch inline to the driver power so I could mess with them easier. Yay

nicro pressed some wire rope on for the hanger
Here are some plants loving the light.



I built two of these in an afternoon. I needed really simple veg lights that did not take up a bunch of head room. Im not posting these in a new thread because I have no time to deal with the myriad of questions that come from posting builds. Maybe with my next big light bar improvement. I have secret plans. LOL

jigfresh said:

... and he wanted in right then to look around with his wife. I suddenly didn't speak any spanish anymore. ....

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LOL, good for you Jig. Good luck in re-establishing the effort.

JD

Sorry to hear that Jig...good luck with finding anew place

jigfresh said:

The landlord is a bit of a dick and freaked out the other night. His gardener put shit in his mind about us doing illegal things and he wanted in right then to look around with his wife. I suddenly didn't speak any spanish anymore. I don't think they have the right to kick us out... but it's not going to work here. I'm looking at properties tomorrow. Really not happy about the whole situation. My stress level is through the roof.

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Damn I am sorry!

SomeGuy said:

Here are the pics from my VERO-10 build. I built two of these. They roughly veg a 2x4 area each. Cheap to build really.

36" piece of 2" heatsink
angle aluminum
misc hardware
5 vero 10 5000k
1 fastech driver (each cob is at roughly 8-9watts)

Here is the sink with angle irons attached.
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Mounted the cobs and put heat-shrink on the ezmates.
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Cobs are wired in series to the driver. View attachment 3390266

I put a switch inline to the driver power so I could mess with them easier. YayView attachment 3390267

nicro pressed some wire rope on for the hangerView attachment 3390268
Here are some plants loving the light.
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I built two of these in an afternoon. I needed really simple veg lights that did not take up a bunch of head room. Im not posting these in a new thread because I have no time to deal with the myriad of questions that come from posting builds. Maybe with my next big light bar improvement. I have secret plans. LOL

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Look killer! some how I have been here but did not watch the thread