Cold$moke's Frost heave

Cold$moke

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Thank you very much, I have dreamt about this build for some time now, especially the low profile trays (or troughs as I call them).
I started a journal of it pretty much start to finish buildout but stupid me started in the indoor section, should have started it here maybe mods can move it over.

Ya I have everything at 1150w tonight and temps are still only 72 in the room, I really want to give some LED a go in the near future.

Drop in my thread sometime man if you would like...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/13x30-8k-de-build-32-site-diy-top-feed-hydro.959342/
Definitely!
 

klx

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I cant wait till this run is done so i can get my new system built and in .

I already have
2 exodus
1blimburn green crack
1 th seeds bubblegum
1lemon gold drops
I'm subbed. Setup looks clean man, props. Hope you have better luck with the TH Bubblegum than I did. I was amped on it but was disappointed with the 5 seeds I popped. It looked pretty but final product was meh.
 

Cold$moke

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Yea last th seed product i had was ....shit i cant even remember it was that good :) i think it was the hog or somthing eles in that time frame.(years ago when they where popular)


Didnt wow me either so i never bought them much after that

The list in the veg room is me clearing out my old freebies for new seeds coming in :)


Thanks for dropping in @klx
 

jonsnow399

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I was in the same boat when i bought the gavita over the leds available.

But i figured i should rock the gavita in the winter
For heat and led in the summer cause of the heat lol.

Again nice op you got there budd:hump:
exactly my thoughts, I got 300 watts of QB's and two cmh for the summer. I just turned my single gavita down to 600 and cranked up my other one.
You have a clean op man. subbed.
 

klx

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Yea last th seed product i had was ....shit i cant even remember it was that good :) i think it was the hog or somthing eles in that time frame.(years ago when they where popular)


Didnt wow me either so i never bought them much after that

The list in the veg room is me clearing out my old freebies for new seeds coming in :)


Thanks for dropping in @klx
Here you go man, I dug up a pic of the Bubblegums. This is what you have to look forward to - not the best but could be worse haha

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Cold$moke

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I'm subbed. Setup looks clean man, props. Hope you have better luck with the TH Bubblegum than I did. I was amped on it but was disappointed with the 5 seeds I popped. It looked pretty but final product was meh.
Out of those i only paid for the exodus.

Outa all the differnt strains ive grown over the years (mabey 40?) At least 30 plus for sure mabey in the 50s lol

I havent been too overly wowed by anything.

With the exception of
Dna lemon skunk from back in the day(fucking bomb in all regaurds)
Paradise white berry from back in the day (tastey and a great plant)
Big buddah cheesus from bitd
Dutch passion blueberry
Rare dankness? Lima bean og (straight fire )
Some tga stuff was good think it was timewarp

And others bodhi is good GGG was good.

But to be honest i dont buy twice unless im wowed. And i have bought other DNA. Stuff chocolope and wasnt wowed.

But i rebought the lemon skunk from DNA. And green house(eek) to try and find the same pheno i had :(

I also bought white berry again cuase i remember being so fond of it just a tastey smoke.

But its super rare if i even buy from the same breeder again unless i find something special
 

Cold$moke

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exactly my thoughts, I got 300 watts of QB's and two cmh for the summer. I just turned my single gavita down to 600 and cranked up my other one.
You have a clean op man. subbed.
Thanks man !

Thanks for stopping in

Im glad to hear your running a gavita too

Would like to see how you set yours up one day too :)
 

Cold$moke

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Here you go man, I dug up a pic of the Bubblegums. This is what you have to look forward to - not the best but could be worse haha

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Shit man looks fine enough looks like a decent haul at least if not pretty

Weed in the room beats weed from a store anyday :)

Id rather smoke my beasters then buy other stuff lol if i mess up nowadays it goes to the
Alcohol for concentrates
 

drgreentm

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@drgreentm

How does your set up work

Is it like a capns flood and drain? Or just a gaint top feed dtw
It’s a top feed recirculating 8 troughs each housing 4-7gallon pots using chunky perlite #4 for grow medium. each pot has a 12” feed ring with 6 small holes around it to saturate evenly. The whole room can run 32 plants, 150 gallon vertical res, running two 1/4 hp 1400 gph pumps one for feed and one for return. All the troughs are tilted to the center of the room to collect the runoff each trough has a 2” shower drain in the low side that runs to a control bucket with float switches, when float goes up it kicks on the return pump back to the res. The brains of it all is a hunter x-core sprinkler timer and two solenoid valves that splits my room in two zones so one waters then the other immediately after to alleviate the pumps duty.

Here is a crappy video lol kinda long but shows how it water and all that.


One of my chems rolling into five weeks veg.
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jonsnow399

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It’s a top feed recirculating 8 troughs each housing 4-7gallon pots using chunky perlite #4 for grow medium. each pot has a 12” feed ring with 6 small holes around it to saturate evenly. The whole room can run 32 plants, 150 gallon vertical res, running two 1/4 hp 1400 gph pumps one for feed and one for return. All the troughs are tilted to the center of the room to collect the runoff each trough has a 2” shower drain in the low side that runs to a control bucket with float switches, when float goes up it kicks on the return pump back to the res. The brains of it all is a hunter x-core sprinkler timer and two solenoid valves that splits my room in two zones so one waters then the other immediately after to alleviate the pumps duty.

Here is a crappy video lol kinda long but shows how it water and all that.


One of my chems rolling into five weeks veg.
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stems are too spindly.
 

Cold$moke

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It’s a top feed recirculating 8 troughs each housing 4-7gallon pots using chunky perlite #4 for grow medium. each pot has a 12” feed ring with 6 small holes around it to saturate evenly. The whole room can run 32 plants, 150 gallon vertical res, running two 1/4 hp 1400 gph pumps one for feed and one for return. All the troughs are tilted to the center of the room to collect the runoff each trough has a 2” shower drain in the low side that runs to a control bucket with float switches, when float goes up it kicks on the return pump back to the res. The brains of it all is a hunter x-core sprinkler timer and two solenoid valves that splits my room in two zones so one waters then the other immediately after to alleviate the pumps duty.

Here is a crappy video lol kinda long but shows how it water and all that.


One of my chems rolling into five weeks veg.
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Nice
 

jonsnow399

Well-Known Member
It’s a top feed recirculating 8 troughs each housing 4-7gallon pots using chunky perlite #4 for grow medium. each pot has a 12” feed ring with 6 small holes around it to saturate evenly. The whole room can run 32 plants, 150 gallon vertical res, running two 1/4 hp 1400 gph pumps one for feed and one for return. All the troughs are tilted to the center of the room to collect the runoff each trough has a 2” shower drain in the low side that runs to a control bucket with float switches, when float goes up it kicks on the return pump back to the res. The brains of it all is a hunter x-core sprinkler timer and two solenoid valves that splits my room in two zones so one waters then the other immediately after to alleviate the pumps duty.

Here is a crappy video lol kinda long but shows how it water and all that.


One of my chems rolling into five weeks veg.
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I can get perlite for 10 bucks a bag but not the chunky stuff (sigh)
 
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