My Growitup Greenhouse Grow 2010

[gumball]

Thanks Doc, Ha! never seen that smiley before. Pretty cool.

Yea they really are. What I have found is in a regular pot a plant will max out at about three times the height of the pot. These plants in the smart pots were 8 to10 times the height of the pot. That air pruning is the key. I want to keep a small mother plant in my cab. Im gonna take a small regular pot drill a bunch of holes, cover the inside with screen before filling with soil. Then the regular pot works like a smart pot and will be easier to re-use. The roots get in the fabric of the smartpots and are time consuming to remove, with this I can just toss the screen and replace it. I will do this to any pot I use from now on.

The only thing I didnt like was when you water, if you pour a lot on the top it will leak out the sides at the top.
I water under the top soil so that didnt happen until I tried to flush a plant.
With solid sides down the first four or five inches of the pot that wouldn't happen as much.

OK, gonna go test the hydro, if it dont leak, the girls are going in.

i grow in smaller pots, so I am going to take a 6 inch net pot and line it with that coco stuff you see lining the hanging and outside pots at the hardware store and line the inside of the net pot, and then fill with soil. figure i will get the same effect. maybe something you could try if that stuff is pretty cheap. my wife bought a bunch of it and cut it up, so I took the large chunks she was gonna trash, so free to me.

 

[WWShadow]

cruzer,
Have you looked at the superoots airpruning pots? http://www.superoots.com/air_intro.htm
They have some that are pretty small. kind of pricey but I have reading good things about them

 

[cruzer101]

i grow in smaller pots, so I am going to take a 6 inch net pot and line it with that coco stuff you see lining the hanging and outside pots at the hardware store and line the inside of the net pot, and then fill with soil. figure i will get the same effect. maybe something you could try if that stuff is pretty cheap. my wife bought a bunch of it and cut it up, so I took the large chunks she was gonna trash, so free to me.

sounds like it will work great.

cruzer,
Have you looked at the superoots airpruning pots? http://www.superoots.com/air_intro.htm
They have some that are pretty small. kind of pricey but I have reading good things about them

Thanks.
No I haven't seen those. Cool vid too, those roots looked like mine did.

 

[cruzer101]

Well, It leaked. I didn't put a large enough bead on the end cap.
So I did it again with more and gotta wait 24 hrs again.

In the mean time I went and picked up a shelf and got the skunk out there.

Got them all in 3 gallon smart pots and hooked up to the watering system.
They looked good going out there, we will see how in goes.

I moved the hydro to the center and hung some shade cloth for the first couple days. The suns on more of an angle so this will work.

Got the res at 500ppm. pH 5.9 68°
I got a low pressure float valve I'm gonna install and set up a second res so it will top off itself.

Tomorrow we will have two rows in here.

I got a small space heater in there just to take the edge off, try to keep it above 50° at night.


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[gumball]

i remember when you first started the greenhouse, you said something to the effect that you werent a builder of sorts. well my friend you should do this shit for a living. you continuously amaze most of us with the stuff you have done in the greenhouse and your cabinets. very clean, tidy, and professional, even with a couple leaks great job, great job.

 

[rastadred22]

looks great man!

 

[cruzer101]

i remember when you first started the greenhouse, you said something to the effect that you werent a builder of sorts. well my friend you should do this shit for a living. you continuously amaze most of us with the stuff you have done in the greenhouse and your cabinets. very clean, tidy, and professional, even with a couple leaks great job, great job.

I love doing this, its my hobby. You mean I could be getting paid too? LOL

yea your right, I'm a salesman. I waggle my tongue for a living and build stuff for fun.
Its not to hard, really in this age of the internet if you dont know how to do something or got questions you can search and bam, Theres your answer. Just take things one step at a time. you can do anything.

Look at you, your about to harvest some bud grown in a PC case!
LOL I would have never believed it a few years ago.

looks great man!

Thanks man. Should have her filled tomorrow.

 

[gumball]

Run your lights on the PVC fence post tonight and until it warms tomorrow, the low overnight temps may be screwing with the curing time. Most sealant requires above 62 to setup best. Better to be safe than sorry.

Great point on the Internet, you still make it look easy. I am a builder type by nature, so I try to figure it out myself first, then normally resort to the internet last. I'm a IT worker by trade, and sometimes I wonder why, then I get my paycheck and remember I'm a slave to corporate ameriCa

Yeah, the pc I would have never thought it, until I followed v128;4, he supplied his own herb for 2 years from a PC until he had a bad run of seeds. Have a good night!

 

[cruzer101]

No kidding, I didn't know that. That may have been the problem all along.
See! the internet Rocks! I just went and turned them on. That stuff will be cured tomorrow for sure.

 

[WWShadow]

so that rope light is just a egular led rope light like from wally world?

 

[cruzer101]

Yea, heres a link. rope light

 

[cruzer101]

OK we got no leaks!

Girls last shot in there vegging home,

Good thing too.

Made a hook out of a coat hanger to pull the roots through. Worked great

When I got these clones the skunk in soil was about twice the size of the headband that's been in hydro.
That's two week veg in soil compared to two week veg in hydro.

The plants in soil had 400 watt HID and the hydro had 100 watts T-5 and 100 watts CFL.

So the gangs all here!
Five head band in hydro and five Hindo Kush Skunk in soil with a Blue Dream on the side.

Heres a shot of the first girl out here, Blue Dream.
Been about a month now.

She could have used a bigger pot... think its to late to transplant her?

 

[HotPhyre]

i have transplanted up to 5 weeks into flower before, just need to be extra careful!!

 

[gumball]

Dude, Awesome!! You already need a bigger fence post to fit those roots!!

Any sign of mites, or has the weather sent them packing?

 

[cruzer101]

i have transplanted up to 5 weeks into flower before, just need to be extra careful!!

Cool, Then I will re pot her in a better pot.

Dude, Awesome!! You already need a bigger fence post to fit those roots!!

Any sign of mites, or has the weather sent them packing?

Yea, I dont mind saying I was a little concerned about the root size but flowering now will slow that down. In regards to the mites it's been cool at night so they are not around but when it warms up I'm sure they will be back. Gonna take some precautions but I doubt if I will be able to stop them from coming in. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[gumball]

Could treating your yard and shrubbery outside of the greenhouse help prevent them? Just a thought that if you can stop them before they get to your greenhouse then the battle in the greenhouse may not be as tough.

 

[rastadred22]

lookin good man! cant wait for this round!

 

[whodatnation]

Lookin good cruz

 

[cruzer101]

Could treating your yard and shrubbery outside of the greenhouse help prevent them? Just a thought that if you can stop them before they get to your greenhouse then the battle in the greenhouse may not be as tough.

You got it man, I'm gonna nuke my whole fuckin yard and go organic in the green house.
That and build that screen we were talkin about for the upper vent. For the large lower vent I saw some furnace screens 2 in a pack for like $15 I will get. The back wall is closed off.

lookin good man! cant wait for this round!

No more waiting bud, Here we grow!

Lookin good cruz

Yea, I'm jazzed.

Now I'm looking at the lower stuff and have picked out my cuttings to grow indoors. Get those cabs rolling with some skunk while I veg the silver jack mother. Flower the skunk in the big cab and the silver Jack in the green house. I'll need to build a second hydro to do it but that wont be for a couple weeks.​

 

[gumball]

You got it man, I'm gonna nuke my whole fuckin yard and go organic in the green house.
That and build that screen we were talkin about for the upper vent. For the large lower vent I saw some furnace screens 2 in a pack for like $15 I will get. The back wall is closed off.

just dont get to carried away, you cant nuke the whole neighborhood! it would be nice, but costly, and the neighbors may dislike that more than the smell.