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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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It sounds incredible out there man. So cool how many different trees all on one property! It's hard pressed to find 4 out here in 100 mile radius (not including the orchards). It kind of sounds like Narnia lol :) sucks about the pool pump man, you only did what you thought would help, no worries man that's nothing that can't be fixed. You'll see your little one soon too I think you mentioned coming back to the states soon, never get down about it just be happy the days between the visit gets shorter bud :)

jigfresh said:
I don't have much food stuffs around here. But I do have butter and garlic. :)

There are quite a few bugs around, but there are even more birds, so the bugs are kinda sorta kept at bay. I guess. There was a giant bettle flying around in the house. I coudn't sleep because it was so loud flying around. It was like a june bug, but a bit bigger, and all black/ shiny blue-ish. Crazy looking thing. Lots of differnt kinds of bees, but I guess that's to be expected on a farm. There are at least 20 kinds of trees on the property, so it attracts all sorts. I've counted 4 different kinds of bees, or whatever one calls them. Flying things with yellow and black, that are sorta fuzzy.

I've also counted 3 or 4 different kinds of ants. No flying ants that i've seen thankfully. Only seen a few kinds of spiders, mostly small. There are lizards living in the spaces outside the windows, they chill on the window frames all day. And chase each other. It's fun to watch. I've held 3 types of birds so far. They either hit the big windows, or get trapped in the enclosed porch. One guy hung out on my hand for 10 minutes while he shook off his concussion. Another guy the other day I had to convince to let me help him out the room. It was funny. Wild looking birds. Wish I could get pics of them, but it's not very easy, especially when the camera is in the house. :P

I'm sure there's been more fun... oh there were trippy bugs that lived in the murky water of the pool before it was drained, cleaned, and filled back up. Like paddle bugs I would call them. And I guess I fucked up the water pump that goes to the pool yesterday. Thought I was doing good, only to be yelled at in spanish for 15 minutes. That was fucking fun.

Easter was awesome. Got to spend time with friends here, they have two kids, a boy and a girl. The girl fell asleep on my lap, while the boy cuddled in my arms playing a video game on my ipad. It was very nice. I miss my kid so much. :(
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a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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Damn,

I just caught up on the last thirty pages, this thread moves fast!

I like you all, nice group here...

I've officially got my 2x gavita 6/750's now I just need to build a room for them.

I'm thinking a 12x12, with my 4x8x8 gorilla grow tent on one side and approx 5x10 space for the gavitas. I would veg in the tent with CMH and flower on the other side of the room with the gavitas.

That's the tentative plan, still coming together in my mind. Would love feedback from you lot.

I have:

4x8x8 gorilla tent
2x 315w CMH with batwing reflectors
2x gavita 6/750 flex
8in 863cfm blower
Can50 carbon filter
A couple of other things but those are the main items.

Input welcome.

I'm building a completely new space, from the ground up literally.
 
moondance

moondance

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Good Morning 600 club, How the hell is everyone this fine Monday morning. I guess between the long weekend and the Widow Killer I was toking on I fell out about 9pm, out cold lol. I hope everyone had great times visiting with family for the holiday, we had a great time visiting with my brother in law and his family. He's got a buddy that upgraded my airplane seats for me for the Colorado trip, bonus more room and free drinks.
With the wifes help I got the last of the clones up potted into 5's and 3's of different shapes and heights, I'll be working with the Fireballs this time and were going to the ceiling this time LOL, The tent should reek this next run, I can't wait to see, smell and taste what the Fireballs & Skunked Widow do, I will get pics up when I can make it downstairs. The PK and ED run right now smell's so sweet like fruity sugary but clean and fresh., I was in there feeding last night and just brushed a PK bud and stuck to it mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tasty.

I did catch up on some of the information from yesterday and I gotta say thank you for keeping us in the know!

Peace, Be Safe MD.
 
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oldman60

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Good morning folks, I hope everyone had a good weekend.
My girls are half way through flowering now the "patients" thing comes into play.
The last 4 weeks are always harder than the first 8.
The girls are getting loud as can be I'm running my lg. canister filter full time now.
Watered yesterday and my son on the second floor was complaining about the odor,
I told him thank you.
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a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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moondance said:
Hey senialfungus, if your planning batwings why not just loose them and go vertical bare bulb, give them all they can get. Blower sounds good. filter good. What are your vent plans for all the heat. Thats all I got senile I cant remember what you grow in.
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My last run was vert barebulb, but this time around I'll be vegging horizontally under the CMH and transitioning them to the gavitas.

The 2x CMH will be in a 4x8 tent that is inside of a 12x12 room. The tent will be a veg area, the room will be my flower.

I do have a light mover. I may mount the CMH's to a board and mount that to light mover so it's moving both CMH horizontally in the veg tent. That'll eliminate shadows and increase my penetration, and the light mover won't be sitting unused.

Venting. The room is being built in an old barn stall. The whole building is approx 90x30. Its an old dusty barn used for storage and equipment. I'm going to build an intake box, with slots in it that I can fit a couple of furnace filters in there. So air will be filtered coming in, and exhausted straight out. I'm planning on exhausting straight into the barn and pulling air from the same space. I know that sounds bad, but the barn gets lots of air movement.

Eventually I will knock out a wall and install a door (I'm thinking hidden hinges, bookcase door) and then I'll be able to pull air from my living space into the room and out and into the barn.

Either way, I believe if I'm moving around 550cfm constantly that I'll be able to combat the heat from the gavitas. My blower is adjustable, from 450 to 650 to 860ish.




I can't think of much else right now...


I would love to go vert again, and I will in the future, but for now simplicity wise I'd rather just begin producing then get fancy later.

Eventually I'd like to do side by sides. 1000w vert vs 1000w horizontal. Or compare my organic soils to other feed regimens.

This next run around I'm purchasing maxsea 16-16-16 and running a few plants as a control against my custom built soil. I want to compare my custom soil to something, I feel that they grow too slowly in that soil mix. I've got some experimenting to do...

But as far as the room setup is concerned, does anyone think I'm missing anything? I like to plan things in excruciating detail, and I hope that attention to detail shows in my results.


Thank you all for your time.
 
moondance

moondance

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I went to breakfast this morning with some old timers up the road, had a blast. Slowly trotted with my cane back to the house, got 2 blocks of walking in. We will call that a win for today. A senile fungus I totally forgot you were doing the barn grow, got a bit busy. I will look over your post again when I get on the laptop. Looks like you got it well covered, I recently switched to the max sea 5-20-20 the plants are going nuts on it I likey.
 
moondance

moondance

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Yeah I can't see much you missed out on except cooling/humidity but you know how much air and what temp it is better than we do so I think your all good. I would recommend you look into the cleanable filters, i use one in my furnace and rinse it clean like 3 times a year. Save you some money on replacing filters, you could have a washable cover that the air pull through and just toss it in the washer.
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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oldman60 said:
a senile fungus, what about humidity control in a barn are you going to get too
dry/humid?
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Probably.

;-)



To be honest, I haven't had any humidity control in any of my grows.

I'm imagining that the humidity will be whatever environmental humidity is. I'm hoping my airflow will take care of it, but I don't know tbh.

I won't know what the numbers are until I build the space.


Any ideas of how I could regulate such a thing?
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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moondance said:
Yeah I can't see much you missed out on except cooling/humidity but you know how much air and what temp it is better than we do so I think your all good. I would recommend you look into the cleanable filters, i use one in my furnace and rinse it clean like 3 times a year. Save you some money on replacing filters, you could have a washable cover that the air pull through and just toss it in the washer.
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I shouldn't need cooling. The old barn is under lots of trees, so the roof is shaded from the sun. The aisle way in the barn is cool concrete.

I'm currently in the process of digging a 12x12x1ft hole. I'm going to level it off and build my floor, and walls on top of that. I think with the recessed floor, and the cool building, that cooling won't be a concern.

Humidity is something that I haven't considered yet. Now that I think about it the old barn doesn't have any gutters so it can get damp in there sometimes... I'm not sure what I can do about that though
 
moondance

moondance

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For what your doing you could build a cheap swamp cooler to control heat but if your air flow is good just make sure you can evacuate the space to well above it or with a barn set up you probably already have a good draft vent from top to bottom, but double check if you got enough space for the heat to move out and call it good. Hell I leave a small bowl of water in my tent to add humidity, and I just think it makes me feel better is all LOL.
 
moondance

moondance

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a senile fungus said:
I shouldn't need cooling. The old barn is under lots of trees, so the roof is shaded from the sun. The aisle way in the barn is cool concrete.

I'm currently in the process of digging a 12x12x1ft hole. I'm going to level it off and build my floor, and walls on top of that. I think with the recessed floor, and the cool building, that cooling won't be a concern.

Humidity is something that I haven't considered yet. Now that I think about it the old barn doesn't have any gutters so it can get damp in there sometimes... I'm not sure what I can do about that though
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Yeah you should be set man your doing like a basement grow as far as temps go, for veg higher humidity is a good thing but you dont want bud rot or mildews or Fungus lol, it seems to me your just trying to overthink a bit like I tend to do, I think you got a damn solid plan though.
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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moondance said:
For what your doing you could build a cheap swamp cooler to control heat but if your air flow is good just make sure you can evacuate the space to well above it or with a barn set up you probably already have a good draft vent from top to bottom, but double check if you got enough space for the heat to move out and call it good. Hell I leave a small bowl of water in my tent to add humidity, and I just think it makes me feel better is all LOL.
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The other day I was thinking of making a bubbler type deal for the intakes. Think of a water bong, air coming in through where the pipe sits, its gets humidified and sent into the room.

I work in a hospital and we have little water containers that we can force the medical air through to humidify it for the patients. It got me thinking I could make a giant bubbler to humidify the room.

But I don't even know what the humidity runs currently, so that's just a pipe dream.
 
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