DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow

i like that ballast idea. im about to drop all 8 of mine under the homestead. bravo. thats better than the attic in my opion, just cause i already had heat issues up there, and im concerned im sucking too much cold air up under my house, so the ballast will help with any see ur breath affect in the winter....*under the house* .

i know u took issue with my hoods DG wen i first set up the bigger room. i found with the 1kers i could keep them that far away, and during the flip they would stretch, but not a bad stretch, and after that period ,they were almost in an acceptable range away from lamps like 18 in. my yields havent really changed all that much that i can tell from the lights being higher. but i do lower them and raise them and try to keep them between 18 and 28 inches from canopy. my veg room MH lights 2k is slammed right over the canopy usually like 8-12 inches ... but then they move

So you don't hang your buds and go straight to the paper sacks? How long does your drying process take? I am curious about this one, am thinking of using the baskets this time. You dfinatly have a lot going on man. The set-up is awesome, I am trying to get my head wrapped around the whole set-up, it is intailed for sure.

Looks good man. A lot to learn from this journal.

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So you don't hang your buds and go straight to the paper sacks? How long does your drying process take? I am curious about this one, am thinking of using the baskets this time.

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I try to maintain temps (in the drying room) at 74-80 degrees and humidity below 50% ... with a fan stirring the air up. A paper bag dry (on a rack) takes about 7 days under these conditions. At 90-100g per bag you never need to toss the buds. At 120g or more, with some large budded indicas, you may need to stir up the buds every couple days. I break the colas down so i don't have to do that ... and keep indica dominant phenotypes below 100g wet weight so there aren't any mold issues.
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DaGambler said:

you asshat, ur show'in me up in my own thread !! nah, just kidding bro. Once again, ur light height scares me ... but its obviously working if ur getting a useable footprint like that. Makes me want to switch to some XXXL Magnum reflectors.
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I just mounted mine a couple of days ago over a 4x4 Botanicare tray and it's unreal the coverage it provides - FULL coverage from 6" above the plants for the entire tray.

Upgrades look awesome, and I like the failsafe of the dripper added to the E&F.

This may be a silly question, but what happens to all your equipment below the house if it rains a lot?

Bob Smith said:

Upgrades look awesome, and I like the failsafe of the dripper added to the E&F.

This may be a silly question, but what happens to all your equipment below the house if it rains a lot?

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The ground around here shifts a lot as it is ... but it stays pretty dry below the house. Doesn't hurt (being over dirt) that all the used perlite has been going down there as insulation. The rez. benefits from being in contact with the ground ... keeps it cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. The ballasts are on a rubber horse-stall mat on top of a coffee table down there (cement blocks and a board).
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5 of the larger buds i couldn't see breaking up any further off the last Mr. Nice (G13 x Hash Plant) that was harvested. There were nine of those total - they all yeilded at least 2 oz. and at least a couple yeilded just over 4 oz. each. This girl ended up yeilding 436 wet manicured ... so she'll come out to about 109 grams dry. (5 grams shy of 4 oz.) 'Fraid my camera isn't real keen on close-ups.


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looks like a marijuana sock puppet.

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Looks good

that shit looks crazy!

bud envy

fantastic!

Let this be a warning to all of you ...

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"... Inability to coordinate movement ..." and
"... Uncontrollable hillarity without reason..."
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^ oh the humanity !

lol.....who did they make watch that shit anyway, and wtf were they scared of uncontrolled hillarity for? Its is a sign of how out of control things really are... Our goverment creates branches that are put in place to keep us safe and really there just there to ensure the poisioning continues.

1.MSG-excitotoxin in more then 4500 foods that can make a turd taste great and last for a really long time but sometimes can cause pormanent brain damage. Plus humans are 20x more sensitive to msg then the next closest animal so the tests are very skewed.

2.Aspertame, asufame potassium, and all the other non calorie sweetners. Aspertame used to be a chemical weapon before bush was vice president before it was a sweetner....They all kill the brain or cause cancer and lots of other awful things.

3.Squaleen- This is a dirty secret the vaccine companies dont want people to focus on. Its an oil used to create more shots from the same base stock. Once your body gets it it kicks the imune sysetem into overdrive and your body litterally fights itself to death. Make sure you dont get it becase its a painful death sentence...there no doubt about what it does.

Our goverment spends millions and millions keeping the things above legal and even more keeping weed illeagal and miking dumbass videos like that one above.

Anyway about the grow...hows the lava rocks working....It looked nice last I saw.

slipperyP said:

2.Aspertame, asufame potassium, and all the other non calorie sweetners. Aspertame used to be a chemical weapon before bush was vice president before it was a sweetner....They all kill the brain or cause cancer and lots of other awful things.

3.Squaleen- This is a dirty secret the vaccine companies dont want people to focus on. Its an oil used to create more shots from the same base stock. Once your body gets it it kicks the imune sysetem into overdrive and your body litterally fights itself to death. Make sure you dont get it becase its a painful death sentence...there no doubt about what it does.

Our goverment spends millions and millions keeping the things above legal and even more keeping weed illeagal and miking dumbass videos like that one above.

Anyway about the grow...hows the lava rocks working....It looked nice last I saw.

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"The adjuvant is an oil called squalene, which causes incurable autoimmune disease in animals. Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it."

Wow. Yeah, i'da skipped letting my kids get that crap vaccine injected into them, especially with no long term trials and the rate of death seen from the disease itself being so low.

Man, i know i'm not crazy when it comes to Aspartame now It took me a while to figure it out (I've got plenty of triggers) but -EVERY- single artificial sweetner i've tried will cause me to get a migraine headache. I KNOW sugar isn't as bad as -that- crap for my body.

Ya, the government makes billions of dollars off cigarettes and alcohol each year knowing that millions of people die from them. And yet marijunana -doesn't- cause cancer and is illegal. It's not even a 'conspiracy' when its so blatant.

The lava is working mint ... thanks for asking. I'll continue to cut the tops down to cage height until the 2nd week into flowering is over. (Just finished the first week into 12/12.)
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yes all very true statements about the government and fda. so many secrets and dont tells, it makes me sick. scare tactics of 1937 and a phoney tax stamp MJ law emerged. and prohibition since. how many cultivators have done hard time next to violent offenders/sex offenders over the last 60years? on the taxpayers dime. Yet George Washington was one of the first recorded men to cultivate hemp, while journaling the fact he had started to cull the males from the females, (the first sinsimilla being found out).....

right now just after i branched out city zoning and regulation is headed right my way. do residential uses apply to home agricultural uses. can u bag and weight meds and sell them out of a residence? Does ur scale have to be certified? will they nail u for lableing MJ as organic when ur not certfied? the war is still very much out there. man wen i think about it i beome really negitive. deep breath . sigh. moving right along...exhale...ohh much better now..

DG. Did you check out them air pots. Just wanted to know what you thought about them

southern homegrower said:

DG. Did you check out them air pots. Just wanted to know what you thought about them

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i've seen a link for them in two different places now ... but neither page would load or the link was dead or something.

what i just looked up is talking about a 'conical' construction, roots don't spiral but air-prune themselves, etc. ... but it looks like they are specificially for use with soil.

I know, if you can afford it, that large uncoated ceramic pots are better for soil grows than plastic containers or bag grows, etc. The ceramic allows the soil to go through wet / dry cycles faster and is more breathable.


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that container looks crazy...

Some 'mums' visible in pics - still trying to coax some trichomes from these delayed 5 plants from the last crop.



1 wk into 12/12 - still trimming plants to cage height, tucking branches back into the cage or wacking them off, till the end of the 2nd week into 12/12.



Cracked lids on the clone domes at 7 days in ... will look at removing the lids w/in the next 2-3 days.


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