Saved from the ax. READ ME!! PICS!!!!

I am trying to keep the machine running. After bringing my girls to the brink of death there seems to be some hope for a harvest after all. I have added a new flower chamber to my set up. I used this to help control my heat issue that I had in the first part of my grow. Adding a flower chamber is allowing me to use my old cabinet for straight vegging. It also have added 2 DIY cooltubes and used a Stanley blower mod to extract the air from the two cabinets via passive ducts and cool my bulbs as well. The heated air from the cabinets is then pumped into an DIY ozone chamber home made ozone cost $22.50 Then a DIY boster fan pushes the mix into the next room smelling like a lightning storm.


PICS as promised


The Ozone chamber

Ozone generator is 1 10kv neon sign transformer from ebay hooked to 2 strips of window screen glued with silicone to a sheet of glass. The larger the surface area of screen the more ozone. I had to make it smaller this time cuz last time I think there was too much and it hurt my girls.



Passive vents feeding the Stanley blower

Stanley blower worth every fucking penny!!!!!!!!! It is quiet and move a shitton of air.

My mod on the blower was just to attach 3" exhaust ducts and tape them in place with foil tape. Foil tape rocks beats the crap out of the chrome duct tape I had used before.




Temps seem to hover around 80 which is great for me since before I was hitting the mid 90's



Active intake for flower cabinet fan from thrift store humidifier $2. 6" flex duct as light trap from my cloneing area.



Active into veg room. Home made fan.


Flower intake


Clone in area 5 gal with 350 GPH pump spraying stems.

Shot of the girls




Flower room light with Hurricane cooltube. Hurricane glass $2 @goodwill. 4-3 Reducers from HD $4 Copper wire to hold in place were scraps no relector since the whole cab is lined with mylar.



Not dead yet



One of my buds that is on its deathbed.



More



Clones in with their moms. Havent gotten my ballast wired up yet. so they are sharing a room



Another cooltube




With the cover in place sealing the venting chambers.


Well thats it for now. I will be wireing my ballast tomorrow and finishing the doors.

I am pretty sure that the main cause of the stress on my plants was nute lock up combined with heat. I have very hard water as I have discovered since I purchased a TDS meter also have a PH meter now no more drops.

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WOOO HOOO... You just saved lives. Nice man, those plants are totally going to make it. I'm glad you didn't actually cut them, I'm sure you are too.

I love all the work, looks clean and it looks like you've been working. Good stuff. My only advise is to shorten up the exit duct coming out of the cool tube setup. The shorter run and less turns will keep the light even cooler. If you are like me, you just hooked it up real quick to shorten it up later. I had mine hanging around for a month before I got around to it.

And that is so not fair that you found the glass at the Thrift store. I had to pay top dollar for mine.

keep it up.

jigfresh said:

My only advise is to shorten up the exit duct coming out of the cool tube setup. The shorter run and less turns will keep the light even cooler. ..................................

And that is so not fair that you found the glass at the Thrift store. I had to pay top dollar for mine.

keep it up.

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It is flex exhaust duct so I have it scrunched up that way I can still move the lights up and down. I need to figure a way to keep it scrunched together though. Still 77-79 very happy. Didn't get a chance to work on the doors picke up another hurricane shade and a Sun Systems 250 grow light for $11.83 after tax at a stop along the way today. I think that I am gonna build a stealth fridge grow for a buddy. I will have to take a bunch of pict along the way and make a DIY for that one.


Whats with like 70 views and only one reply?

It's amazing how many views you can get with nothing. I've found it takes a bit to get people on board, but once the ball is rolling it gets better. If you check my journals 1st page I had 8 posts over 2 weeks before I got a "looks good". I think I had about 3,000 views before I got more than 3 people to respond.

I think the only thing that requires more patience than waiting for others on RIU is waiting for the damn plants to finish.

I wish I could help with sinching up the light ducting... I never figured out how to hold mine better... just let it hang. I figure if our temps are where we want them top be, it doesn't really matter what the ducts do.

247420 said:

It is flex exhaust duct so I have it scrunched up that way I can still move the lights up and down. I need to figure a way to keep it scrunched together though. Still 77-79 very happy. Didn't get a chance to work on the doors picke up another hurricane shade and a Sun Systems 250 grow light for $11.83 after tax at a stop along the way today. I think that I am gonna build a stealth fridge grow for a buddy. I will have to take a bunch of pict along the way and make a DIY for that one.


Whats with like 70 views and only one reply?

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i keep my ducts scrunched up together with some mini clamps i bought from home depot. i just unclamp and readjust when i need to move the lights. just be careful not to tear the ducts when clamping. here's a pic


it can be discouraging on here when you're posting up and people are looking at your threads but saying nothing. like jigfresh said, it requires just as much patience as growing. but keep up the good work. i can tell you're really into this because it looks like you've constructed just about everything yourself. if you get the temps under control, the girls will grow, grow, grow!!

how much overall space are you working with? i wish i had the balls to grow in soil!

Overall space in my cabs is 72*48*20 for my new flower cab and 42*48*22 for my veg cab. Thanks for the post and the idea on the clamp I will have to pick up a set. Sometimes I'm not sure what I'm more into the construction or the growing. Now that my temps are under control My visits to my room are only lasting 10 mins or so to catch one and admire my ladies. At least my clones are pulling through. Just waiting on them to get a little taller so that I can clone my top again. I keep using the same top from my plants that sprouted back in January.

Hey 247420, thanks for the info bro. Could you post more detailed info on how to build the DIY Ozone Generator? I'd like to try and build one myself.