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Bluter's Happy Home For Hilarious Hempsters
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TwelveCoffee
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Lmao I can only imagine what it would be like to chop weed or MC with a die grinder man trying to clean my MIG Nozzle is fun sometimes lmao sent one flying one day!i got one of them too if it comes to it. i love air tools
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TwelveCoffee
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We gotta get you back into it! Another fun t thing I once had to do was grind some welds down in a slot that just barely fit the slot every 5-10 mins you’d hear me swearing then bang as it hit the clamp had to the cut the wheel up cause it wouldn’t come off
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i used to be a decent hobby welder but i need to get back into it. i'm ok on structural and anyplace it doesn't need to be seen but i don't get any practice. i got a lincoln 180mig for a home welder.
TwelveCoffee
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Not bad well if you decide you want to get back into it I can send you stuff I had in college for CWB and other stuff like print reading 90% probably won’t apply to you but some good stuff on there
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TwelveCoffee
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A lot of it is more scientific and some pipe related but it goes into trouble shooting stuff like undercut and overlap for stick,mig flux and tig with stainless and aluminum as well
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i have to put a mid-section together for an exhaust on an old bmw. want it done in stainless. was contemplating trying it myself, but want it done correct so will likely farm it out.
i've got a polished stainless catback and a chrome powder coated stainless header, but the mid doesn't have to look so pretty as much as function well. will need to add in an x-pipe with o2 bung, and either a couple resonators, or better yet for the environment high-flow cats.
everything is dual pipe from the headers back.
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I haven't had pH issues because after decades of growing I know how to mix a balanced pH stable plant food regardless of the branding. They use the same minerals in different ratios.i used to premix with hot water warmed in the mic. after a while it stopped reducing the sediment so i gave it up and mix ahead. it dissolves better with time.
i'm running probably the earliest version. or maybe ruining lol...
i've noticed it will dissolve near complete if left for 12 or more hrs on it's own, and then adding calmag. it won't dissolve complete without the extra calmag, and there is usually a tiny bit of sediment left even with it.
it's something i've been meaning to ask you about actually.
shoulda been here when we had the massive MC thread going. got so big it got shut. most of the issues were recorded and solved back then.
what makes you think MC isn't stable with ph?
it's literally the only problem i've never seen on it. hempy is sensitive to ph. MC has been rock solid the entire time i've run it in that regard.
loads of folk still don't bother to ph with MC in multiple media types. i do still ph though as it's old habit from active hydro.
i've gone back to monitoring ec on it. normally i feed by weight, but my ec numbers had me concerned on this run. i'm sure the stuff is just aging.
never run across anyone on the board who has trouble with ph in MC. how long has it been a problem for you ?
mine doesn't look much like either lol
But if I were to run MC straight without having a plan on how to stabilize pH I would experience problems. I've probably used 10+ different nutrient brands throughout my years of growing. That gives me a good reference of what's acceptable in a nutrient brand regarding pH stability. If you read what I actually wrote I've sorted all the problems I experienced 5+ years ago and none of them was regarding pH instability?
Have you done any test on your own regarding pH stability? Are you able to keep your nutrient solution pH stable for 2 weeks straight in an aerated reservoir? If you dont monitor and have any standards for what's acceptable in a plant food you will never get optimal results. I will keep posting the same info since it will help a lot of people sort their problems.
I think there's no other industry with more misconceptions than the Cannabis industry? I think of all the Bro science and bullshit marketing terms that has no real application or can't be backed by science. It's still in its infant state and if you want proper legit info you have to listen and read highly educated peoples work who's already work in agriculture for decades on end.
Cheers!
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the thing is at present i don't have to. hempy is ph'd and fed so often it can't drift too far.
i've never run it in a res. i'd hazard the green leaf's 2-part hydro version is more ph stable than the old 1-part as well. i know i get upward drift, but it's something i depend on. i need the drift to take it through the range of nute availability. also the reason i ph just before feeding.
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today's feed was 10.5L RO, 11g MC, 1g BE, 6ml calmag, target EC 1.5 - 1.55, final was 1.54. after mixing i checked it at 10L RO and noted EC was a bit high, added in the extra 500ml and hit target.
everyone is still healthy up top. still pulling from a couple lowers, but not quickly, i'm letting the plant consume them for now, no other real issues.
everyone's got a decent sativa structure and are pretty open. the acapulco gold look a touch better than the gelato but there's no real difference.
the tallest among of them are just hitting 18in from the light, so i'm leaving them be until next feed before adding more head room.
i'll be targeting about the same EC next feed but using a slightly higher ratio of MC over the BE and may pull back a little on the extra calmag. no one is exhibiting a heavy claw, but the acapulco can feel all the N by the look.
everyone is still healthy up top. still pulling from a couple lowers, but not quickly, i'm letting the plant consume them for now, no other real issues.
everyone's got a decent sativa structure and are pretty open. the acapulco gold look a touch better than the gelato but there's no real difference.
the tallest among of them are just hitting 18in from the light, so i'm leaving them be until next feed before adding more head room.
i'll be targeting about the same EC next feed but using a slightly higher ratio of MC over the BE and may pull back a little on the extra calmag. no one is exhibiting a heavy claw, but the acapulco can feel all the N by the look.
You've got some serious stretch going on in the flower room! What's the expected flower time on these?
Exact same thing happened after I ground my MC. Seems it becomes even more hydrophilic than it already was. I felt like I was dropping pieces of fudge into the water when I would mix nutes! I finally tossed it because I still have 10+ lbs (with a DampRid container) in a bucket in the shed.goes by the stage name chunky MC ..
earlier in the year i used a blender to break it up.
They're looking healthy and coming along nicely Bluter!
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it feels like they are never gonna stop ...
they went to sativa time on me. i'm thinking at least 8 - 10 wks from this point forward. keeps me wondering if i can keep up the dance long enough to have them make it.
i must have at least that much left. i haven't opened the main container i keep it in but don't imagine it's gonna be loads better.
i noticed the stuff i have at the flower room is in much better shape than what i have at my place. i fed by weight in veg with no issues until just before flower, when feeding on weight the corresponding EC got scary, so i've been juggling it by EC. i'm guessing it's due to it aging and clumping up.
I'd check the main container and if it looks closer to normal I'd chuck the fudge. I never knew how to compensate for the moisture weight which is the main reason I gave up on that batch.
Or, use it for other plants. Outdoors maybe, or something less sensitive.
No sense wasting it.
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contemplating that. oddly the better looking stuff is the one running hot by weight. i almost had the opposite problem the other way .. lol
i been begging my pops to use it in the garden all the time to get rid of some lol
i built the outdoor hydro garden for my mom partly to use both the nute and run off from the indoor garden. i make sure to use it there, but i been asking him to water the ground plants with it too. we don't have a pile though.
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just remembered i snapped this pic last night of the outdoor hydro.
yup. you can tell we're the only hillbillies in the neighbourhood. at least we keep it behind a wall lol.
i been asking the folks to clear out the first two planters so we could re-plant. in a decent year we get two harvests out of them. the third is in beans and they're just flowering now. we got onions, lettuce and radishes in the first two.
i run the same soil year over year. i turn it over every year to keep it from compacting. it's a 2:1 mix of hp promix and hp garden mix, with added perlite. we add the used perlite from the indoor garden when i make the soil.
this is the third yr running the soil without changing it out. could probably be done indefinite.
feed is simply a half to 2/3 5gal bucket of runoff with tap water added. when making a bucket from scratch the recipe is 25ml MC in a 5gal bucket with tap. it's the same for both the hydro garden and the ground plants.
the hydro garden takes about 3 - 4 gallon a feed from dead dry and is tube fed from above to the lower res. the orange bucket in the pic is a feed bucket. usual feed is in the 2 - 3gal range.
feeding interval depends on heat etc. mostly it's when the spirit moves me. like a bowel movement. we let nature top water it.
yup. you can tell we're the only hillbillies in the neighbourhood. at least we keep it behind a wall lol.
i been asking the folks to clear out the first two planters so we could re-plant. in a decent year we get two harvests out of them. the third is in beans and they're just flowering now. we got onions, lettuce and radishes in the first two.
i run the same soil year over year. i turn it over every year to keep it from compacting. it's a 2:1 mix of hp promix and hp garden mix, with added perlite. we add the used perlite from the indoor garden when i make the soil.
this is the third yr running the soil without changing it out. could probably be done indefinite.
feed is simply a half to 2/3 5gal bucket of runoff with tap water added. when making a bucket from scratch the recipe is 25ml MC in a 5gal bucket with tap. it's the same for both the hydro garden and the ground plants.
the hydro garden takes about 3 - 4 gallon a feed from dead dry and is tube fed from above to the lower res. the orange bucket in the pic is a feed bucket. usual feed is in the 2 - 3gal range.
feeding interval depends on heat etc. mostly it's when the spirit moves me. like a bowel movement. we let nature top water it.
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should add i am both experimenting with this and the addition of BE on this run.
maybe not the best idea as i'll be sooo screwed if i make it all go kapow in the bad way.
on the positive, if it works i might have a better method of using the nute going forward.