Perpetual harvest cabinet - 2x 150w hps and cfls - Grapefruit Hash & Pineapple Chunk

Pullin' weeds

Pullin' weeds

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Not the best pics... I had picked it up on ebay a few years ago. It looked like a little flying saucer, with lights and everything (most of the "extras" have been removed). Inside it has a little glass tube wrapped in screen and emits the tell-tale blue glow. you can instantly smell the ozone.
As to prove its effectiveness, the ozone it generated corroded the components beyond repair within a year. So I picked up another, but painted most of the innards with laquer. It seems to have delayed it's destruction. A few months back I searched but could not find another one...
Next pic is the utility area for my cab. you can see the ozone gen hanging from the top. Ballasts are installed in the vented coffee cans. I make sure to run a full visual inspection every 6 months or so, just to make sure I don't have anything loose or shorting out...

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gumball

gumball

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thats cool. you know for the amount of stuff you have in there, you have it very well organized. +rep for the organized chaos :twisted:
 
brownbearclan

brownbearclan

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Wow that's quite the rig job on those ballast/can thingies, nice!

I'm literally in the middle of building an aluminum ballast box for my 250W HPS guts I took out of my old ballast. (Upgraded to a 400W.)
 
Pullin' weeds

Pullin' weeds

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I'm glad I started Pineapple chunk in flower early. Had I waited any longer she def would have outgrew my space. As it is, she's stretched taller than anything I've grown so far - I've had to raise my lights and fan. She's been in 12:12 now for 3 weeks. Stretching should be mostly done and just starting to bud out nicely now.
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reggaerican

reggaerican

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hey long time man how you doing these days? btw that sounds like a great expieriment i would love to see
 
Pullin' weeds

Pullin' weeds

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So, Pineapple chunk was just stretching too much, 5 colas were already a good 8-10 inches above it's own canopy, and that is 6in above any other plant. She was causing me to move my light too high above the others.
To reduce the major height difference, I took all the really stretchy branches and bent them over hard - they all stared growing sideways within a day. ... I'll post pictures soon.

Hey reggaerican - Yeah I been gone a while, but hanging in there. experiment is going - she's starting to stretch. I don't expect to be able to see a real diff till a few weeks in, if at all
 
Pullin' weeds

Pullin' weeds

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So here's a shot of the bent over colas. They started turning up in a day and are growing nicely -seems perfectly happy about it.
She's starting to pack on the buds - colas are building nicely!
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Arthor

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I had to do that with a lavender/blueberry sativa that would not stop growing during flowering. It was growing an inch a day for awile there. Worked just fine for us.
 
Pullin' weeds

Pullin' weeds

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Arthor said:
I had to do that with a lavender/blueberry sativa that would not stop growing during flowering. It was growing an inch a day for awile there. Worked just fine for us.
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Yeah - I'm glad the stretch seems to be over. Definately more sativa here than advertised...
On the plus side - buds are building, and if they build anything like on my other plants - whoa - I'm gonna be a happy dude in a another 6 weeks or so...
 
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