MrHowardMarks' experienced grower journal.

[MrHowardMarks]

Oh shit...

I was meaning to mention what my buddy got himself for christmas...

It's called the "Eyeclops" it's supposed to be a toy. You can get it at Toys R Us...

It's a supermagnification device, up to 400x... The 100x and 200x work best...

There is a LCD screen on the back just like a digital camera, and you can take pictures/video just the same.

Awesome for up close magnification of your buds.

There's even a plug so you can put it on you TV...

Best toy ever... I'm going to start a thread about it.

 

[twistedentities]

mr marks, just wanna say happy new year to ya.....

 

[Thundercat]

Hey man Happy New Year MHM!! I also have an idea on your ballast. I'm not real good with electrical, but I think the problem wasn't with the new fuse at all necessarily. I imagine the reason the fuse blew in the first place was due to a malfunction in the ballast its self. Then when you added the new fuse, perhaps it allowed that malfuntion to blow the ballast? Just a thought.

 

[SlikWiLL13]

i checked out that eyeclops...i cant believe its only 20 bucks! it looks like the shit!

 

[DIRTBAG]

I have seen those "toys" lol! On line... There really nice..!

Like a damn electron microscope, but your moniter is the view lens, and a must see..>!


Db.~tlb!

 

[DR. VonDankenstine]

I gotta have one------nice!!!

 

[SlikWiLL13]

maybe we can get a discount on a case of 'em.

 

[MrHowardMarks]

For real... They are badass... I was just playing with it, I wish I could upload some pics from it. I found that he had a few spider mites in his veg room, (he's blind as a bat) and I also found some banannas on his Northern Light's cross...

I shot some video chasing a spider mite around the bottom of a leaf... They are ugly motherfuckers, like little humpbacked ticks, little egg laying bastards...

Anyway, a douse of Azatrol and there's a mite genocide happening in there tonight...

I'm spraying my room with einstein oil tomorrow just to be on the safe side.



-Oh and yeah Thundercat I was thinking the same thing, otherwise why would it have blown the first time... And I also found out it'll only cost 50 bucks to get it rebuilt.




In the mean time my buddy had an extra 600W digital lying around, one I originally sold him, so he let me have it for the time being, he didn't have the cord set for it anyway, and he runs 1000W lights. Friends are nice to have.

So...

I'm back to 6 lights...

 

[SlikWiLL13]

business as usual, huh. good to hear downtime was minimal.

happy new year

 

[MrHowardMarks]

It's great when you know other growers... Because most, myself included, have a closet or a bunch of boxes that is basically half a hydro store... Usually there's enough unused equipment to start up a decent small scale grow.

 

[DIRTBAG]

it's great when you know other growers... Because most, myself included, have a closet or a bunch of boxes that is basically half a hydro store... Usually there's enough unused equipment to start up a decent small scale grow.

that is allways good...!
That is also what the tlb' does to
over grow the world..!

When we find a med' patient with no money, they get set up... Big time..!

They wont no more....for med's...!!!
And it just brings anothier to the table..!

Db.~tlb!

 

[MrHowardMarks]

I always am the first to give away crap I don't use... On the list of goodies; CAP PPM2A fuzzy logic co2 controller, 6 3ftx3ft hydro tables w/ resevoirs, and pumps, a chiller... 3 600W magnetic ballasts, 1 1000W magnetic ballast. (Which I was rather upset to find out after I upgraded to digital ballasts that there was no energy savings...) 8 EZ cloners, 2 4fixture t5 satelights... Hanna combo meter... That's enough... At least what I can remember.

Used equipment works just as good as new, help out you friends, and clear out your closet of excess crap.

 

[SlikWiLL13]

dirtbag - where can i find out more about this 3 little birds? was it you that posted that wonderfull tidbit about molasses they put out? it was great reading/

 

[raiderman]

can the 3ft tables be used for flood tables for soil containers.

 

[multisonic]

I have the day off and I know I'm WAY behind on this one but it made me laugh because this exact thing happened to me. My heart hurt all day afterwards and I wouldn't wish the experience on anybody.

 

[Nacho420]

The cheap bulbs you can get at Home Depot, like the Phillips, aren't argricultural bulbs, they put of a different spectrum, yes, they'll work... But not nearly as well. I'd spend the extra money on the right bulb.

Both the bulbs are on a online growing store that I was looking at...

Cheaper one...
http://organic-hydroponicsupplies.thebigtomato.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=tbt&StoreType=BtoC&Count1=401073634&Count2=318214058&CategoryID=24&Target=products.asp

Blue MH....
http://organic-hydroponicsupplies.thebigtomato.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=tbt&StoreType=BtoC&Count1=401073634&Count2=318214058&CategoryID=24&Target=products.asp

I'm not sure what the difference is but you are probably right about going with the blue mh

Those links didn't work quite right, but you get the idea...

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Yep, you gotta be careful, electricity jumping across the heart can kill you...

Raiderman, I think you're asking if you can use the hydro tables for soil... You could, but they are too shallow in my opinion, and drainage would be a big problem... At 100 bucks each, I'd buy 40 5 gallon buckets for the same price...

Don't know what you're talking about "3 little birds".

 

[DIRTBAG]

dirtbag - where can i find out more about this 3 little birds? Was it you that posted that wonderfull tidbit about molasses they put out? It was great reading/

sorry for the high jack...!

At a lose on the topic of three
little birds...!

I did run a post about the use of
apple juice during the bloom portion,
in loo of molasses...!


Db.~

 

[sb101]

damn. gone for 3 weeks and i just had a lot of catching up to do! so MHM, what do you think, can you tell whether the advanced nutrients or fox farm are working better?

I ask because i'm still not getting a great yield, just had my second harvest and trying to get a nute regiment, started with some MG i had lying around, then picked up some big bloom and dolomite lime, then the botanicare pureblend pro grown and bloom. also got some perlite for my second grow but still been using Lowe's regular soil with nutes that was messin me up. I'm like 3 days from finishing harvest and want get my pH/soil/nutrients right for this grow, so i'm thinking i'll get foxfarm soil and pH up/down and a few different nutrients, but i'm on a tight budget and gotta figure out what I necessarily need vs something i can hold off on.

Happy 2009 ... 18 days!

 

[MrHowardMarks]

I really, really don't like the soil they have at Lowe's or Home Depot, you look around and you can't find any potting soil that doesn't have fertilizer in it already.

If you look by the mulch, you should be able to find Premier Sphagnum Peat Moss at Lowe's, Home Depot might have Pro-Mix, which is a bit more expensive, but it's the same crap with perlite added. So, if you can get perlite from a garden supply store, not MG perlite because we're getting away from the soil with nutes.

Another thing is the potting soil you can buy isn't as airy as you want, soil turns to mud, and that's bad... Pro-mix, and peat moss/perlite is technically "soil-less" growing, because there isn't soil in it... Unless you use earthworm castings...

Fox Farm's Big Bloom is not very strong at all, it's moreover beneficial guanos, Tiger Bloom is the concentrated fertilizer that really packs on weight.

Also, the soluables, Open Sesame, Beastie Budz, and ChaChing are really made for boosting the yield and resin...

You can follow whatever major nutrient chart you want, I'm finding out more and more that products are basically the same thing... That is the main ingredients, the NPK, it all is derived from the same shit...

Advanced Nutrients are all derived from "pharmacudical grade" origins, other products are from "test grade" materials.

They're more concentrated, and possibly easier for the plant to uptake, but who really knows...

On an upside, the FoxFarm is working out fairly well... I'm not following the chart really... Just using the TDS to tell me what's going on. I add the different parts at the strengths I want... Close to what the chart recommends.

I'm adding the soluables by measuring the ppm, I'm upping it by 250 points with the soluables... I'll up it to 300 ppm when they start to pack it on. They are currently getting 600 ppm of Tiger Bloom/Big Bloom, and 250 of Open Sesame, along with Sweet Leaf, Carbo Load, and Barricade.

The AN side is being fed 600ppm of 2part bloom, and Mother Earth Bloom, and 250 ppm of Open Sesame, along with the SweetLeaf, Carboload, Barricade...

So far, not any differences, however a 9Mile shot up at least 5 inches from this time yesterday... I'm trying to control the bitches, but the sativa's a hard bitch to tame... They're going to be massive, I've taken some pictures, but I might not be able to post them until Sunday...