Copperrein's 2021 Hubby Medicine With NextLight: Snowcaine & Trainwreck Indoor Soil, Oh Dear

Squiggle said:
Congratulations on the new babies mate and the new set up..
I bet your daughter's pissed.. you've turned her pad into a grow room:rofl:
But yeah! Medicine is more important:cheesygrinsmiley:
Looking forward to the next update !!!!
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I've done all I can. She wants to be on her own. There's bedrooms available minus the privacy a loft flat would have given her.
 
copperrein said:
I've done all I can. She wants to be on her own. There's bedrooms available minus the privacy a loft flat would have given her.
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I hear you. I've got similar issues with my errrmm? Kid. They are a queer bunch these days.
Oh!! John's medicine. Out of all the strains yous have tried and grown.. do any help at all with his tremors?
 
Squiggle said:
I hear you. I've got similar issues with my errrmm? Kid. They are a queer bunch these days.
Oh!! John's medicine. Out of all the strains yous have tried and grown.. do any help at all with his tremors?
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Can you blame the kids? She was born 3 days after September 11th. It's been a totally different world here since then. I grew up in the vapid 80's...the future looked awesome, no one had really noticed the climate change, no internet. She's been born into a bit of a shitshow.

In regards to John, actually the Sweet Island seems to be helping. I don't think he's noticed yet but the last two days he's been Mary Poppins...happy and helping with work around here. He's even working on a short sword as I type this. He hasn't felt creative in a long time. Seeing him bouncing about makes my mood much better.

Edit: plus the music sucks today.
 
copperrein said:
Can you blame the kids? She was born 3 days after September 11th. It's been a totally different world here since then. I grew up in the vapid 80's...the future looked awesome, no one had really noticed the climate change, no internet. She's been born into a bit of a shitshow.

In regards to John, actually the Sweet Island seems to be helping. I don't think he's noticed yet but the last two days he's been Mary Poppins...happy and helping with work around here. He's even working on a short sword as I type this. He hasn't felt creative in a long time. Seeing him bouncing about makes my mood much better.

Edit: plus the music sucks today.
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This is what I believe about low mood, not that you asked... lolllll

If I leave my brain unfulfilled ie low mood, which makes me unmotivated, I withdraw, I think more unproductively because I am doing less, my brain then kicks in to “oh you want food for your low mood, I got HEAPS for you girl! Remember that time you *insert every bad decision every failure, every loss, every bad memory here*“

Depression feeds depression. I know me. I know my behaviours, when I am feeling low I force myself to exercise. You mentally can’t self loathe and boost your cardio. Before you know it you are back living looking at flowers, listening to birds, thinking about your plans for the day, when I want to withdraw I force myself to engage with people, then before I know it I’m enjoying the conversation, when I’m being unproductive I force myself to garden, to sort, to clean, so I feel that sense of pride once finished. I’m not saying it’s easy. I’m not saying it’s not a daily struggle, but it helps me. Sometimes when my sadness gets too much because I have ignored all my triggers and not tried to fight it I will allow myself one day and succumb to my inner sadness. But I only allow one day. After that I’m back to forcing myself.

I‘m so glad he is feeling better which in turn makes you feel better.
 
BIG UPDATE!

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NextLight is officially the sponsor for this grow. They sent me two Plus Pro lights AND a really cool controller that'll let me program when the lights are on, dusk and dawn periods, as well as a 'oh crap the plants are too hot' shutdown.

From their website:

NextLight Plus Pro - 320W LED Grow Light​

600W HPS Replacement - Top Light​


  • 2.6 PPF/W (μmol/J)
  • DLC Hort Listed
  • UL 8800
  • IP65 Wet Rated
  • 5 Year Full Warranty - All Components - Down to the Diode
  • Designed for supplemental greenhouse and various indoor applications
  • External Dimming
  • NextLight’s Full Spectrum is recommended from seed to harvest
  • Passively Cooled
The NextLight Plus Pro is a high efficiency - bright white LED grow light designed for supplemental greenhouse use. The thin profile design minimizes shadows in the greenhouse and can also be used in various indoor applications.

At a lower operating cost than traditional technology, NextLight Plus Pro ensures vigorous production throughout the entire year, without bulb changes and maintenance.

@Justin Goody is there some way I can add them to the journal title? Thank you in advance!
 
copperrein said:
BIG UPDATE!

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NextLight is officially the sponsor for this grow. They sent me two Plus Pro lights AND a really cool controller that'll let me program when the lights are on, dusk and dawn periods, as well as a 'oh crap the plants are too hot' shutdown.

From their website:

NextLight Plus Pro - 320W LED Grow Light​

600W HPS Replacement - Top Light​


  • 2.6 PPF/W (μmol/J)
  • DLC Hort Listed
  • UL 8800
  • IP65 Wet Rated
  • 5 Year Full Warranty - All Components - Down to the Diode
  • Designed for supplemental greenhouse and various indoor applications
  • External Dimming
  • NextLight’s Full Spectrum is recommended from seed to harvest
  • Passively Cooled
The NextLight Plus Pro is a high efficiency - bright white LED grow light designed for supplemental greenhouse use. The thin profile design minimizes shadows in the greenhouse and can also be used in various indoor applications.

At a lower operating cost than traditional technology, NextLight Plus Pro ensures vigorous production throughout the entire year, without bulb changes and maintenance.

@Justin Goody is there some way I can add them to the journal title? Thank you in advance!
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Damn Copperrein. You’ve got TWO sponsored lights going on now? Right the eff on girlfriend! :high-five:
 
@BooWho2 Yep! It's going to be a very merry Christmas with all the harvests. Or I'll still be trimming well past New Years :D

Haa haa ha heh guh

First off: the bad news

I killed a Snowcaine. I thought I had my little Rapid Rooter plugs dry enough but no. Dampened off the little bugger. RIP.

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Her replacement is in the works:

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I smoked a little green Dream Queen (Green Crack) and yeah...I'm up at 10:30pm being all productive n'shit. Normally I'm passed out on the couch at 8 and wake up at 5. I made some soil tonight. I wash my coco and peat because I've read a lot of (possibly hyperbole) comments online about the evils of not washing your inerts. I figure it can't hurt and doesn't seem to have done harm last grow. I use a little zippered undies washing bag just for washing my stuff

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I added in alfalfa pellets and compost to the coco in an eyeballed 1:blushsmile:1 ratio. I then tossed in some handfuls of worm poop, bloodmeal, DL, and gypsum. A dash or two of azo and mycos and enough perlite to give me the texture I like and boom...soil.

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SO THIS NEXTLIGHT...is freaking so far above my hobo grow skills. This is some fancy gear. Guys...the controller...I love it. I'm waiting on light to driver extension cables so I can mount the drivers on the wall outside the tent, I'll install the second light once those arrive. For now I've only got the one light up and it's so cool running. At 50% I could hold on to it all day. Same with the driver. The heatsink material isn't the standard milled aluminum..it's got a texture which is prolly helping passively dissipate heat. Setup was super easy, controller included. I didn't even need the directions.

I smiled when I opened the box and the row of trees greeted me. Nice touch, @NextLight !

Everything was packed well and I didn't have to fight with getting the cables or hardware out of the boxes. Extra bonus.

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LOOK AT THE CONTROLLER:

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I decided to turn the light down to 25% since it's pretty powerful. I'll fiddle with all the other settings on the controller tomorrow.

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A good omen? An ichneumon wasp visited the new tent. She can stay as long as she wants since her kind tends to parasitize all manner of agricultural terrorists by laying their eggs in or near their larva.

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Update: I put the replacement Snowcaine seed in wet paper towel this morning and should see a tap root by tomorrow morning. The other Snowcaine and the two Trainwrecks are thus far loving life.

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Tent decoration has begun

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For pest control I'm using fly tape and these cool clear window traps. Right now I have one over the LEDs but might have to relocate it elsewhere when I start cranking the light.

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Also: scored a desktop weather station made out of sweet bakelite! And some really nice-in-the-hand shears. The steel is really nice and there's the slightest hollow grind on the insides of the blades. Unf.

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I'll try doing some trim with them... See if I can't really give my carpal tunnel a workout :D

Aaaaaand my little corner in the grow room. It's spooky. I like.

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It's a very nasty year for bugs and humidity. I installed a dehumidifier in the grow room in the hopes to keep at least the tents mold-free. If anything I have a free supply of distilled water so there's that.

The replacement Snowcaine has popped and I have a peat plug soaking. The larger tent with multiple doors should help me get in there and train and trim comes but holy shit, vivosun...the window? You put it at 5'. I'm 5'2". It's useless to me. I don't want to tippy toe and hop up and down to look at my plants without opening up the tent. Yes yes, I know...vivosun is the Kirkland of grow supplies but c'mon...5'?

Anyhoo...photos.

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Great set up Ladybird :)

But chic, that creepy corner. It looks like something you would see in the Bates Motel. Would it kill you to add some light and some colour? Maybe flowers or a plant on the desk and some pretty nick nacks (Not fucking skulls either). A throw rug over your chair?

And those clippers look like they have come straight from Buffalo Bills dungeon.

Can’t wait to see what you do under lights. You are a grow powerhouse girlfriend and that makes my heart sing with pride.

#GirlPower
 
Trala said:
Great set up Ladybird :)

But chic, that creepy corner. It looks like something you would see in the Bates Motel. Would it kill you to add some light and some colour? Maybe flowers or a plant on the desk and some pretty nick nacks (Not fucking skulls either). A throw rug over your chair?

And those clippers look like they have come straight from Buffalo Bills dungeon.

Can’t wait to see what you do under lights. You are a grow powerhouse girlfriend and that makes my heart sing with pride.

#GirlPower
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Ugh, I want to squish your face you're such a grounded positive person. You always give me a 'well shucks' moment and I often need that.

I can't promise no skulls but yes, eventually I'll make it a cozy fun space. In a weird way the skulls remind me I'm not immortal and that I should fucking relax and enjoy the now. Like in 30-40 years I'll be gone and yes while I have mattered to some people I haven't mattered to the universe and I'm pissing away my brief existence that I've been impossibly lucky to get. There's this small scene in Terminator that had a profound influence on my little kid brain. Sarah Connor doesn't know about the future and she just slugging away as a waitress at a shitty Big Boy (Nandos for you, I think?) diner. She's having the Monday of all Mondays when some shitty little kid slips a scoop of icecream into her apron pocket. It's about to push her over the edge when her totally cool 80's friend is walking by and says 'Look at it this way, in 100 years who's going to remember'. I guess I'd never really looked at my life 100 years ahead and realized I would not exist. It wasn't depressing, it just helped me deal with the bad shit better.

That paragraph was deeper than a whales vajoo. Apologies.

The clippers are fucking sex in the hand. They're so perfectly balanced and once I get the blades all tight imma rock some trim, girl.

I dunno about a grow powerhouse. I think I'm really addicted to collecting strains. I'm not even sure if I'm looking for anything specific. I've gone through other types of plants the same way: hostas and pothos, stupid fucking tillansia when that shit got popular here. I fucking want to grow peyote but not for personal use....just because the weird varieties and phenotypes out there (I super suck at succulents so that should never happen just cause I'd kill every single one).

The lights! @NextLight spoiled me. I keep wandering upstairs to poke my head in the tent to caress and stare at the lights. They just...feel right....solid but not clunky. I also like the idea of the bar light because 1.) more airflow above the lights and 2.) adding more light doesn't mean buying a new bigger flat LED panel light....I can just get one more NextLight bar and hang it with the others.

I do need to ask @NextLight where the near red and IR light comes from. My other lights you can see the red chips. On these I can't so I assume they've got some ninja tech stuff going on.
 
The dehumidifier is working. Last night the grow room was 90f with a humidity of 50%. I'll take it considering outside the room was 100f with 65%.

The soil was dry so I gave them some water this morning. The one Trainwreck has a little yellowing on the tips of her first leaves which I'll keep an eye on.

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copperrein said:
Ugh, I want to squish your face you're such a grounded positive person. You always give me a 'well shucks' moment and I often need that.

I can't promise no skulls but yes, eventually I'll make it a cozy fun space. In a weird way the skulls remind me I'm not immortal and that I should fucking relax and enjoy the now. Like in 30-40 years I'll be gone and yes while I have mattered to some people I haven't mattered to the universe and I'm pissing away my brief existence that I've been impossibly lucky to get. There's this small scene in Terminator that had a profound influence on my little kid brain. Sarah Connor doesn't know about the future and she just slugging away as a waitress at a shitty Big Boy (Nandos for you, I think?) diner. She's having the Monday of all Mondays when some shitty little kid slips a scoop of icecream into her apron pocket. It's about to push her over the edge when her totally cool 80's friend is walking by and says 'Look at it this way, in 100 years who's going to remember'. I guess I'd never really looked at my life 100 years ahead and realized I would not exist. It wasn't depressing, it just helped me deal with the bad shit better.

That paragraph was deeper than a whales vajoo. Apologies.

The clippers are fucking sex in the hand. They're so perfectly balanced and once I get the blades all tight imma rock some trim, girl.

I dunno about a grow powerhouse. I think I'm really addicted to collecting strains. I'm not even sure if I'm looking for anything specific. I've gone through other types of plants the same way: hostas and pothos, stupid fucking tillansia when that shit got popular here. I fucking want to grow peyote but not for personal use....just because the weird varieties and phenotypes out there (I super suck at succulents so that should never happen just cause I'd kill every single one).

The lights! @NextLight spoiled me. I keep wandering upstairs to poke my head in the tent to caress and stare at the lights. They just...feel right....solid but not clunky. I also like the idea of the bar light because 1.) more airflow above the lights and 2.) adding more light doesn't mean buying a new bigger flat LED panel light....I can just get one more NextLight bar and hang it with the others.

I do need to ask @NextLight where the near red and IR light comes from. My other lights you can see the red chips. On these I can't so I assume they've got some ninja tech stuff going on.
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I love the way we attract the exact people we need. Copper I just know I’d like you. You have all the qualities that attract me to a person. You are smart, you have insight, and reading the word cunt doesnt make you clutch your pearls and swoon in horror. You’re one of my kind.

While I’m grounded, I’m defs not well know for being positive, funny as fuck yes. Positive no. I can however fake positive well, I mean really well.

We live, we die. I do try hard to make my today sing for me. I prolly have a 70% strike rate.

I want to see you make that room your own. Your own tiny bit of peacefulness. An area that is just for you, no one else. If skulls make your heart smile, then load it with skulls. Can you at least hang a ribbon on your torture sex in hand scissors? Honestly I go into my grow area and fluff around daily. I love it in there. Did you see my chalkboard paint? So handy for notes.

I love watching your grow babe. I also love the way this forum seems to align you with the exact people you didn’t even know you needed.

For you —> :kiss:
 
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I love the way we attract the exact people we need. Copper I just know I’d like you. You have all the qualities that attract me to a person. You are smart, you have insight, and reading the word cunt doesnt make you clutch your pearls and swoon in horror. You’re one of my kind.

While I’m grounded, I’m defs not well know for being positive, funny as fuck yes. Positive no. I can however fake positive well, I mean really well.

We live, we die. I do try hard to make my today sing for me. I prolly have a 70% strike rate.

I want to see you make that room your own. Your own tiny bit of peacefulness. An area that is just for you, no one else. If skulls make your heart smile, then load it with skulls. Can you at least hang a ribbon on your torture sex in hand scissors? Honestly I go into my grow area and fluff around daily. I love it in there. Did you see my chalkboard paint? So handy for notes.

I love watching your grow babe. I also love the way this forum seems to align you with the exact people you didn’t even know you needed.

For you —> :kiss:
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I don't think it's possible to be positive all the time nor do I think I'd want it. Keeping one foot on shore and one in the water allows me to know the difference in temperature between the two....not just that the sand is hot or the water cool. It's the over-riding emotional connection to either that I think fucks me up and that which I can do without.

I'm pretty damn atheist but at times it does feel like the universe is set up to place me in the experiences I need or near the people who are going to teach me the most. Aaand I just sniffled while drinking coffee and sent hot coffee up into the back of my nasal cavity so maybe the universe just said 'bitch plz'.

I wish I could fake positive. I have an epic resting bitch face and have been told on several occasions I look mean when I drive. I can't even fake not angry :D

For the grow room I need to settle on if I want to expand it into the next area that's roughed in as two rooms, which was the intent (a living space and a small kitchen), OR...pull down the wall between and just have one big room. Once that's sorted I can start really moving in. I have framed art from friends and travels that will be up there, plus bunches of crap I've collected in mexico over the years that I love dearly. It'll be mine...I just can't ghetto it like I normally do and not tape the drywall or finish the floor. Adulting is lame but I'd like to be somewhat adulty in regards to the plants. PLUS sponsor stuff is still coming in and I'll need to shuffle tents a little.

I do need a fucking chalkboard. Or dry erase board. And a full year wall calendar. I like blocking out veg and flower schedules and having a big simple picture to glance at tp get an idea where all the babies are at in growth.

How the hell did we make friends before the internet? Just fucking talk to the locals? Ewww. I've met so many beyond epic humans on the web, you being one of them. We just need transporters now or I need at least a month of free time because I am not sitting on a plane for 20 hours just to spend a week in Oz. I've got very good friends outside sydney who have visited me twice. I need to go visit them at some point...just....

20. fucking. hours. on. a. plane. Makes me fidget just thinking about it.
 
Teddy Edwards said:
Teddy is omnipresent. :meditate:

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Oh shit, sorry I tagged the wrong mod! You and Justin are kind of the same entity in my brain because 'Goody' and Teddy' are similar. Thank you all powerful tech person!
 
The color on my seedlings just isn't right. Pretty sure I may have added far too much bloodmeal so I flushed until almost clear with distilled water. I'll prolly go back in a bit and do a second round. You can see my bucket of dehumidifier water after I flushed the three solo cups into it. Pretty dark. The paper towel I put down is to draw out the hot stuff remaining in the perched water table.

Great start to this journal :D

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Edit: @Bill284 and @NuttyProfessor can you chime in? Low key worried.
 
Morning Copperrein! :ciao: Deep breath. Those babies should be okay. I’m so happy for the way good things have been happening for you. You deserve it!:high-five:
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I do need a fucking chalkboard. Or dry erase board. And a full year wall calendar. I like blocking out veg and flower schedules and having a big simple picture to glance at tp get an idea where all the babies are at in growth.
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I have a chalkboard in my Playhouse (aka the “Den of Weed”) and it’s really helpful to glance at when trying to figure birth dates, flowering dates, and other milestones with the plants. I use the calendar on my phone but your thought of an old fashioned hang on the wall is something I think would be helpful for me, so thanks!
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For the grow room I need to settle on if I want to expand it into the next area that's roughed in as two rooms, which was the intent (a living space and a small kitchen), OR...pull down the wall between and just have one big room. Once that's sorted I can start really moving in. I have framed art from friends and travels that will be up there, plus bunches of crap I've collected in mexico over the years that I love dearly. It'll be mine...I
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If I had a bigger space I would definitely make a separate flower and veg space just to keep things separate and hopefully free from any bug or temperature problems. Based on everything I’ve seen you do here, I’m sure it will be EPIC - whatever you decide to do! :p
 
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Morning Copperrein! :ciao: Deep breath. Those babies should be okay. I’m so happy for the way good things have been happening for you. You deserve it!:high-five:

I have a chalkboard in my Playhouse (aka the “Den of Weed”) and it’s really helpful to glance at when trying to figure birth dates, flowering dates, and other milestones with the plants. I use the calendar on my phone but your thought of an old fashioned hang on the wall is something I think would be helpful for me, so thanks!

If I had a bigger space I would definitely make a separate flower and veg space just to keep things separate and hopefully free from any bug or temperature problems. Based on everything I’ve seen you do here, I’m sure it will be EPIC - whatever you decide to do! :p
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Thank you, lady! <3 I'm having a blast. Oh...colder temps in the flower room....good idea. That settles it: two rooms. One thing I do like about soil is being able to move plants.

Do you think a flush was the right way to go? I'll get a reading on the runoff in a bit...the man's still asleep and my meters are in the bedroom tent.
 
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