Aussie Growers Thread

Mofo83

Mofo83

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yummy fur said:
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Please cut and paste where I tried to 'prove you wrong',

If the wise man does not approve; bad. If the simpleton applauds; worse.

Grow is coming along nicely, some aggressive LST and strategic defoliation has a pretty even canopy. Strangely I'm at day 32 and no sign of flowers yet on the OG Kush Automatic.

Little White Widow seems to have recovered. Just sitting in a pot with Osmocote Professional seedling and cutting mix. My plan is to mainline it to produce 8 colas or maybe 16, keep it in a small pot and make a type of ornamental bonsai type of thing. Because I'm only doing Autos now due to the fantastic convenience of not having to fuck around with the 12 hours of darkness. Plus they are more fun.

Peace, cunse.
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I don't have to cut and paste ...I can tell u.... The day after all was finished with that animal discussion ..u start with my comment and said wot about salmon.. that's trying to prove me wrong in my books
 
Venus55

Venus55

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Lucky Luke said:
I don't know Coco either but then....If you give it don't complain when it comes back.
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Really luke? That’s your rationale? Tit for tat “you said it to me so nah nah I’m gonna say it back”...?
Pretty sure Ruby called u on it too,,, and regardless, we were both having a playful dig.
 
yummy fur

yummy fur

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Lucky Luke said:
don't need to look. it will be shit. if your in soil then you wont need a PH meter anyway. If you ae not then spend the money and get a decent one
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Yes well this is the point I want to make. I bought this pH meter quite some time ago. But I was getting confusing readings with my liquid drops and the meter. I used the buffer powders it came with to calibrate it but I used tap water, doh!

Anyhow I bought some proper pH7 lab grade buffer solution and recalibrated the meter. Then yesterday I finally got my packet of new calibration powers pH 6.86 and pH 4.01, I learned a little bit more and found out that the bulbs need to be stored submerged in the pH7 buffer to keep them in good order. The used buffer is good enough.

Then I went down to Coles and bought some of that Purea water that is distilled, which is what I was supposed to use in the first place. Right so I mixed up the correct dilution of the pH 6.8 and pH 4.01 powders. I then calibrated the meter to the pH7 buffer, it was almost spot on anyway. then I dipped it into the pH 6.86 powder and it read 6.9 and I was very pleased. OK it's a cheap meter and only has one calibration point.

In this case it's recommended to use the one that closest to what you want because it can't to a slope. That was naturally the pH 6.9. Now I'm thinking to myself but is it going to be accurate to read 5.9. Well I thought may as well put it in the 4.01 and see what it reads, that's 1000. times more acidic so I wasn't expecting much from a 7.50 meter with free shipping.

It read exactly pH 4.0 in the pH 4.01 buffer solution after calibrating to the lab standard 7 and then reading 6.9 in the 6.86 buffer.

In other words this cheap meter was fucking spot on.

The kicker is I was at the local hydro shop yesterday and they had the same fucking meter with the little brass screw in the back, for... wait for it... $65

So the point of what I'm saying is... well you know what I'm saying.
 
yummy fur

yummy fur

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True story, when I was living in Bondi a million years ago, I was in the local fruit shop and they had some peaches out the front of the shop, for a price, and inside the shop in a different spot was more peaches that were more expensive. I went back out the front and had a closer look then I went back inside and I could not tell the difference. I asked the owner what the difference between these two lots and he said. "nothing, they're the same peaches" and I said why are they different prices and he said to me and it's one of those things you never forget, he said..."because some people prefer to pay more"
 
reza92

reza92

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yummy fur said:
What I actually said was I will give a proper answer tomorrow, meaning today because I wasn't allowed to post links, but I just found out today that I now have to fucking wait till tomorrow. So if you'd have just fucking been patient you'd have found out what I wanted to say. Which you will tomorrow.

For the record, I don't know who it was because I don't keep a tally sheet in my head of who are the arseholes, I just play each post as it arrives. So I don't know who it was but while I said you'll get my full opinion when I can post links, someone else basically said the viparspectra is a complete piece of shit.

I will add at this point that I am only talking about the viparspectra par 700W which is a completely redesigned and reengineered unit compared to their earlier attempt which were very ordinary.

I was speaking to them yesterday and told them that if they remove 6 of the blue LEDs and replace them with 6 380nm LEDs then they'd have the best budget LED of anyone's anywhere. In fact at this stage I only know of one company that caters to the 380nm band and they are hand made in the USA, and if I wanted to go better than what I'm using now, I'd use theirs, but at 5 times the price, I'm in no hurry. Link coming tomorrow.

They said they would pass on the information I gave them to the engineers and I believe them, you can tell by the way they have reengineered their latest PAR series compared to the earlier V series which are still for sale, that they really think about what they build, they listen and are always trying to improve.
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They still use Epileds diodes which are knockoff epistar diodes and underdrive them. lol do some research. epistar diodes are already considered stupidly inefficient.

want to do some research jump on the led section here or over at ledgardener.com. 2 of the best sources of information in regards to leds as grow lights. rollitup is mentioned as much on led gardener as mush as we reference led gardener.
 
reza92

reza92

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yummy fur said:
I can't post links yet but put this number into ebay and give me an opinion on whether this is worth getting, what do you think, it's an $7.50 pH meter, including free postage!

273258813295
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reactive drops or litmus strips will always be better than one of those cheap metres. mine ended up in the bin in a week.
 
reza92

reza92

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yummy fur said:
Yes well this is the point I want to make. I bought this pH meter quite some time ago. But I was getting confusing readings with my liquid drops and the meter. I used the buffer powders it came with to calibrate it but I used tap water, doh!

Anyhow I bought some proper pH7 lab grade buffer solution and recalibrated the meter. Then yesterday I finally got my packet of new calibration powers pH 6.86 and pH 4.01, I learned a little bit more and found out that the bulbs need to be stored submerged in the pH7 buffer to keep them in good order. The used buffer is good enough.

Then I went down to Coles and bought some of that Purea water that is distilled, which is what I was supposed to use in the first place. Right so I mixed up the correct dilution of the pH 6.8 and pH 4.01 powders. I then calibrated the meter to the pH7 buffer, it was almost spot on anyway. then I dipped it into the pH 6.86 powder and it read 6.9 and I was very pleased. OK it's a cheap meter and only has one calibration point.

In this case it's recommended to use the one that closest to what you want because it can't to a slope. That was naturally the pH 6.9. Now I'm thinking to myself but is it going to be accurate to read 5.9. Well I thought may as well put it in the 4.01 and see what it reads, that's 1000. times more acidic so I wasn't expecting much from a 7.50 meter with free shipping.

It read exactly pH 4.0 in the pH 4.01 buffer solution after calibrating to the lab standard 7 and then reading 6.9 in the 6.86 buffer.

In other words this cheap meter was fucking spot on.

The kicker is I was at the local hydro shop yesterday and they had the same fucking meter with the little brass screw in the back, for... wait for it... $65

So the point of what I'm saying is... well you know what I'm saying.
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see if its still calibrated tomorrow. also its common knowledge hydro shops mark up ebay stock to stupid amounts. some people like to pay cash and they take advantage of that
 
reza92

reza92

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Rowdybuds said:
https://www.digikey.com/products/en?mpart=SI-B8U261560WW&v=1510
cheers dude
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ok straight up front. i have not looked into the f series before this so id recommend jumping on the led section and asking those guys before you pull the trigger.

but if i was building it and ordering tonight id use the hlg-480h-24A
https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=HLG-480H-24A

id use the A series because youll need to keed the current under 18A (id max it at 16 more than 18 can blow the strips) and the voltage at 24v.

also consider checking out http://ledgardener.com/diy-led-strip-build-designs-samsung-bridgelux/#

or the hlg-320h-24A
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/mean-well-usa-inc/HLG-320H-24B/1866-2475-ND/7704033

which you can max out and still be under driving the strips no issues for 320Wish at the wall

also consider checking out http://ledgardener.com/diy-led-strip-build-designs-samsung-bridgelux/#
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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yummy fur said:
Yes well this is the point I want to make. I bought this pH meter quite some time ago. But I was getting confusing readings with my liquid drops and the meter. I used the buffer powders it came with to calibrate it but I used tap water, doh!

Anyhow I bought some proper pH7 lab grade buffer solution and recalibrated the meter. Then yesterday I finally got my packet of new calibration powers pH 6.86 and pH 4.01, I learned a little bit more and found out that the bulbs need to be stored submerged in the pH7 buffer to keep them in good order. The used buffer is good enough.

Then I went down to Coles and bought some of that Purea water that is distilled, which is what I was supposed to use in the first place. Right so I mixed up the correct dilution of the pH 6.8 and pH 4.01 powders. I then calibrated the meter to the pH7 buffer, it was almost spot on anyway. then I dipped it into the pH 6.86 powder and it read 6.9 and I was very pleased. OK it's a cheap meter and only has one calibration point.

In this case it's recommended to use the one that closest to what you want because it can't to a slope. That was naturally the pH 6.9. Now I'm thinking to myself but is it going to be accurate to read 5.9. Well I thought may as well put it in the 4.01 and see what it reads, that's 1000. times more acidic so I wasn't expecting much from a 7.50 meter with free shipping.

It read exactly pH 4.0 in the pH 4.01 buffer solution after calibrating to the lab standard 7 and then reading 6.9 in the 6.86 buffer.

In other words this cheap meter was fucking spot on.

The kicker is I was at the local hydro shop yesterday and they had the same fucking meter with the little brass screw in the back, for... wait for it... $65

So the point of what I'm saying is... well you know what I'm saying.
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Your a dickhead for spending so much time and money mucking about with powders and water?
 
Papasmurf99

Papasmurf99

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yummy fur said:
Yes well this is the point I want to make. I bought this pH meter quite some time ago. But I was getting confusing readings with my liquid drops and the meter. I used the buffer powders it came with to calibrate it but I used tap water, doh!

Anyhow I bought some proper pH7 lab grade buffer solution and recalibrated the meter. Then yesterday I finally got my packet of new calibration powers pH 6.86 and pH 4.01, I learned a little bit more and found out that the bulbs need to be stored submerged in the pH7 buffer to keep them in good order. The used buffer is good enough.

Then I went down to Coles and bought some of that Purea water that is distilled, which is what I was supposed to use in the first place. Right so I mixed up the correct dilution of the pH 6.8 and pH 4.01 powders. I then calibrated the meter to the pH7 buffer, it was almost spot on anyway. then I dipped it into the pH 6.86 powder and it read 6.9 and I was very pleased. OK it's a cheap meter and only has one calibration point.

In this case it's recommended to use the one that closest to what you want because it can't to a slope. That was naturally the pH 6.9. Now I'm thinking to myself but is it going to be accurate to read 5.9. Well I thought may as well put it in the 4.01 and see what it reads, that's 1000. times more acidic so I wasn't expecting much from a 7.50 meter with free shipping.

It read exactly pH 4.0 in the pH 4.01 buffer solution after calibrating to the lab standard 7 and then reading 6.9 in the 6.86 buffer.

In other words this cheap meter was fucking spot on.

The kicker is I was at the local hydro shop yesterday and they had the same fucking meter with the little brass screw in the back, for... wait for it... $65

So the point of what I'm saying is... well you know what I'm saying.
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Get a spare, they don't last long i went through 3 before I sucked it up and got a decent one.
 
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