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DenseBuds

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I tried to get something like this going with a friend using Access. Ended up way over our heads in data. I don't see any reason to promote a single plant to more than one phase at any time.
I agree. I think the only time would be to address Clones/Seeds. But in that case, my thought was that you would be talking about more than 1 plant at that point since even a seed is considered a "Plant" by the program. So you just create a new PlantID and reference the original Mother's ID.

I suppose someone might harvest most of a plant and put the rest of it back in veg. I'm not sure how that would be cataloged.
I think we have this covered. It would just log multiple Harvest/Vegging into the Plant's Events. The Info-tab UI might only show the latest Harvest data for example, but you could see there had been prior in the Events.
 

DenseBuds

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maybe you could treat it like a family tree hierarchy?
When selecting a new plant have a radio button where you could select mother/father.
From there it would be locked down until you decide to promote it to flower.
When you select a mother plant maybe have an option that says how many children does your mother have?
When you enter that number it populates the cloning section with all the info from the mother.
At which point it would be promoted to clones and than they can carry on their life like the software acts now?
Also possibly have it so it tracks just how many generations your mother has created?
I'm not sure just thinking out loud here.
Than from there; the home screen status would also show the specific plants instead of just the
general: XX days since XXXX has started to flower
This is pretty interesting. So if I understand this right... you would NOT promote to Seeds or Clones like you do now. Rather, you'd click the drop-down for that phase, click New and there would be a button or whatever to identify the Seeds Mother/Father or the Clones/Mother. If you bought the Seed/Clone, you leave it alone. If you were breeding or cutting, you set it?

I'm a bit lit right now, but it seems really clean and makes a lot of sense to me. Also like the ideas of passing along Strain info.
 

cymbaline

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This is pretty interesting. So if I understand this right... you would NOT promote to Seeds or Clones like you do now. Rather, you'd click the drop-down for that phase, click New and there would be a button or whatever to identify the Seeds Mother/Father or the Clones/Mother. If you bought the Seed/Clone, you leave it alone. If you were breeding or cutting, you set it?

I'm a bit lit right now, but it seems really clean and makes a lot of sense to me. Also like the ideas of passing along Strain info.
haha same here and I was afraid that wouldn't make any sense at all because of it.

Let me try and expand on what I mean a little because it was just sort of a flash..
When you create something new for example, you have your current options of seed, clone,veg, etc.
So either you could select "veg" and than in veg specify if it's a mother. Which would automatically promote it to a class in itself.
Or you could create a new class "mother/father" which would have the same fields for entering data like all the other options.
But from there it's "locked" it doesn't get calculated/promoted with other plants. Unless you override it..
When you get into that (mother) option there would be a field where you can create "offspring/clones" which which you can "export/promote" to the "cloning" class and that "generation" begins.

Now if that makes any sense,, going back to the mother and creating the clones from it. You could possibly have a field where you enter in the amount of clones taken from the mother. From there you can "export" it to the cloning section and have ID's generated for each clone or allow the user to specify the id.
Then there is no reason to enter a new clone for each one since the software will do it for you. Also in the "parent" class you could keep track on how old the mother is, how many total cuttings have been taken from her or whatever information someone might want to track on their mom.
If you bought something like clones, than you just create a new clone like you can already.

say I have a mom I want to enter into the system.
I go to the seeds/plants tab. Select "mother" from the drop down list.
Enter in all the info and hit save. Now you have a "mother"
when you want to take cuttings, go to the mother, enter in the amount of cuttings
you take. Click export and the software creates x amount of clones for you.
All the relevant info is filled in from the mother and each clone has a unique ID but still associated with the "parents".
 

Seaghost

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Hey there new to to the site and came across this guide, great program!! I have noticed though that the installer won't work in Windows 7 even with Net 4.0 installed, it's still not seeing the correct association on the file type. But no biggie the exe version worked great and is going to make my new grow room complete bongsmilie Thanks for the hard work and keep the updates coming :mrgreen:
 

LuciferX

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Hey there new to to the site and came across this guide, great program!! I have noticed though that the installer won't work in Windows 7 even with Net 4.0 installed, it's still not seeing the correct association on the file type. But no biggie the exe version worked great and is going to make my new grow room complete bongsmilie Thanks for the hard work and keep the updates coming :mrgreen:
I've heard a couple people say that now, I'm thinking of taking that present auto installer down and replacing it with something better today.
 

LuciferX

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I just tried it on my fresh install of windows 7 32 bit and it gave me an error after it downloaded the framework. I tried to download it a second time and it installed correctly so I'm building a new package right now that installs right the first time.
 

LadyKimi

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This might sound simplistic but being forgetful I actually keep a hand written log of when I water, give nutes, LST, pretty much anything I do, even rotate. Will the calendar feature allow this to be entered when complete?

Kimi
 

DenseBuds

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This might sound simplistic but being forgetful I actually keep a hand written log of when I water, give nutes, LST, pretty much anything I do, even rotate. Will the calendar feature allow this to be entered when complete?

Kimi
Yep, add these as Events. Use common event names to track recurring items. Let me know if you would like some additional details here and I'll write up a quick guide. We need to begin working on our documentation anyway :).
 

NBKA

Active Member
I installed it this morning, so far so good, but I need a "mother plant" option.
I like it.
 

LadyKimi

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I fugured out why i am crashing at start up.. I put a shortcut on my desktop. When I open it from the SC it crashes and wont stay open. When I open it from its folder all is well...

Kimi
 

LuciferX

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I fugured out why i am crashing at start up.. I put a shortcut on my desktop. When I open it from the SC it crashes and wont stay open. When I open it from its folder all is well...

Kimi
Good deal! I'm almost done with our new installer that will take care of any problems that people might be having now and give you the option to create a desktop or program group icon. We'll post the source code to the installer as well :peace:
 

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LuciferX

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I'll have the new installer ready either late tonight or tomorrow, any windows users willing to test it out for us?
 

LuciferX

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I'll give it a whirl. What you coding this thing in? Does it need sql behind it? If not have you considered it?

EDIT:
nm i see it's c#
Thanks whiteflour I'll PM you when I have it ready. Yes we have considered it and plan to make it an option in the near future as it wouldn't be that difficult to implement since both can use Linq as the datasource. We didn't want to make it the only option because people with only 1 computer might not want to install a database server locally.

Lx
 

LadyKimi

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I have windows 7 on one pc and linux (unbutu) on the other, can test out on windows but have to get a larger flash drive before I can run it thru the linux pc. I will be stuck at home all day tomorrow so I can play away LoL

Just let me know..

Kimi
 

DenseBuds

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I've committed my most recent changes to SourceForge. Anyone who knows how to grab the code via trunk SVN and locate the Debug/Release .exe is welcome to test. I am especially interested in reports from people who can run it with their existing Ver .1 data file. Please be sure to back up your data prior to loading it in this new version. Not responsible for data loss due to bug :).

Change Notes:
- Changed Event Name to combobox to allow for auto-complete
- Changed Event Type to combobox to allow for auto-complete
- Added default Event Names and Types support on Options tab.
- Changed Breeder into combobox.
- Fixed auto-events event handler to Click instead of Checked.
- Fixed event sorting by date. Was treating dates as strings and therefore sorting alphabetically. Ex: 5/31/2010 was showing before 5/4/2010 when sorting in ascending order.
- Added Type for Event. Allows you to group common events. Such as "Watering", "Watering-Flush", "Water-Nutrient", "Water-1/2Nutrient" can all be labeled Type = "Watering/Feeding"

- Used try/catch blocks when referencing x.Element("Type").Value.ToString() to avoid exceptions. Should work with older data files missing <Type> inside Events
 

Tenru

Member
Great app + rep dude.
I think you should add a spot on there where it says the last time you fed your plants. Just a thought, keep up the good work man!
 

LuciferX

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Great app + rep dude.
I think you should add a spot on there where it says the last time you fed your plants. Just a thought, keep up the good work man!
Thanks! We appreciate all the feedback it helps a lot! You can kind of track the last feed with events right now but we're making it easier/more straight forward in the next release. We're also working on making it "graphable" so you can use the data to generate graphs, not sure if that will be in the next release or not though.

Lx
 

LuciferX

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Also the source to the installer is on our SVN trunk on sourceforge if you want to check it out :peace:
 
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