GiGaBaNE's 3rd & Final Journal - At Least Until I Change Country

[GigaGrew]

lol you can always tell when i have no weed..my sleep pattern goes to shit =((

its fukn nearly 6 am on a sunday morning and only now am i thinking of sleep...ironically i decided to stay awake to look in on my plants when the light comes on...trying to stay awake seems to make you want to sleep, lol

night you lovely people =D

 

[Smokemupm8]

Nice lil idea there with the pots Gig! I may construct something similar my next grow, by using the same container i am now, 80cm x 30cmx 30cm, and stik my bigger 100cm pot on top of that It will sit a bit higher, but i reckon if i had the extra room for roots to grow down into a dark place would be handy.. Id probably have the base pot as a sort of run off tray also, with a plumbed in tap a couple inches from the base to drain excess water when needed.. Hmm.. I Love DIY.. As ya could prob tell from my QICKSETUPSTYLE grow space.. MYLAR AND HUNDRED MILE AN HOUR TAPE!! Wont win any beauty contests but sure can grow a plant in it!! Lol.. Im stripping it fully next time, and adding an extraction fan and vent tubing to another access point. Also will be modifying the width Ive got me some BIG IDEAS
But see what tickles my fancy after i pull Cindy.. Take it easy mate, have a good one! Smokemup..

 

[kimmy]

Hello Giga, I swear that I have seen a container system similar to your latest invention. I bet it will work well for you. I am sticking with the 2Liters until I get bold enough to buy a flood table. Cheers.

 

[Fluffy Haze]

Hows our fabulous mad professor doing? We miss ya!

 

[GigaGrew]

Hi guys..sorry about that, internet went down, but bill is paid now, lol.

im mixing things up in my grow room at the moment, trying to standardise my operation cos im sick of seeing all different shape and size pots.

im going to repot all my fast bud autos into whatever bog pots i have for them (dont think i have 8 the same). i have a specific plan in mind for the indica...TBA the rest of my plants will be going into a new pot. each pot contains 1 litre of fresh water (changed every morning) and the top section will be pure perlite, pretending to be a soil grow, i will feed this exclusively on seaweed extract and as soon as im able i will be PH balancing my water and adding hydrogen peroxide. the feed i will start with is 100% strength seaweed water, enough to wet the perlite fully, but without more than a drip or 2 falling into the rez. this will be followed an hour later with PH'd water to dilute the perlite (any run off is welcome in the rez to allow the plant to snack after its meal)

i dont know how well this will go, or even if they will survive long enough for me to get a PH pen, but who dares, wins and all that =)
will post pics later, but this is the pot.

what i like about this pot is that i can pot a seed or clone directly into it and remain with the same pot for the life of the plant hopefully

^ This is a level checker. higher than the top and you risk damp stem, lower than the bottom and your risking dry roots. about 80% of that height = 1L

 

[Fluffy Haze]

Yup, definitely our Mad Professor!

I love your creations Giga, I am always intrigued to see what mundane item you have turned into something else. Very cool. I just don't have the motivation or the right kind of brain for it so I get my fix over here with you

I totally lost myself on all that technical stuff with the growing, water, medium etc. All I will say is . This is why I like my bags of soil and a couple bottles of nutes, my brain hurts when it gets complicated

Again...that's what I come here to get a fix of!

Great to see you back...and look forward to the next update.

 

[GigaGrew]

yes there will be a bit of a ramble update later. just pretty much about what i got up to while the net was down...took me a few incarnations before i came to that simplistic design.

i also ordered a PH pen today =D just got to wait for it to arrive and we in business, i already have PH down.

 

[Grand Daddy Purp]

Cool stuff GiGa!

 

[GigaGrew]

ok the rambling update

So...i have been thinking about and slowly moving towards DWC and having zero cash tends to make you look twice at everything.

The 2l hempie got me interested in DWC but is inherantly unstable due to the small footprint of the bottle, which is almost never flat anyway. Naturally this leads me to think of bigger and better so a 3 litre and hey while im at it, lets use those square ones. I didnt want to cut the top off and turn it upside down as this was another instability. can be tricky to pick the flimsy pot up without the inner pot popping up e.t.c



i recon that once the roots are well established into the jug they help it stand firm so we probably dont need a lot of tub for stubby quick grows (once i get into the flow, ill probably be allowing 15days for a clone to root and 25 days of high intensity cfl vegging and then switching to flower after taking the lower stems as clones.)

so i decided to just attatch a seedling pot to the lid and put holes in the lid for the roots




and then i silvered my bottle to block out the light, except for a strip down the back for checking on the roots, quality of water and water level, this is narrow enough to be covered by a single strip of electricians tape.

It was at this point i realised i had been collecting a few of these bottle, but the lids had been binned, so i spent some time searching around the house for something we get a LOT of in any house and was plantpot shaped, preferably with a hole in the bottom.

Of course the answer was right there....
the cardboard tube from a roll of toilet paper. this was not going to stand up to getting wet tho so it needed a barrier, easy enough, the shopping bag the loo roll came in D and finally bonded some loose weave fabric to the bottom for the roots to pass through.





The square around the neck of the bottle is a simple contraption, this prototype is only about half the size the real one would be (i reckon 12 to 15 inches sounds like a generous foot print for a plant rapid flowered). the idea is that when you line up all your bottles in neat rows, there 'shields' lock together in testudo to block out the above heat and light, this forms a sub strata layer that can have as many fans as you like blowing gusts on the resovoirs to keep them cool and almost none of this air movement would be felt by the foliage, allowing this layers temprature/co2 to be controles independantly of the sub layer.

i plan on doing it a little differently for these new 1l jug hempies, i will make a shelf at the height of the cups atop the jugs and cut docks out of it to slide the jugs in. the wood that is cut can be turned into grommits to pluge the spaces between cups making an almost perfect wooden shelf between the water and the heat of the lights.


forgive the crude art =/

and finally a quick peek at my new jugs in action!

And a sneak peek at the progress on the growroom and my plants, but just a peek, you can wait for a detailed plant report =p

 

[Grand Daddy Purp]

Nice!

 

[Curso]

Those new pots are bad ass bro

 

[Fluffy Haze]

OMG Giga, these are absolutely bloody brilliant!!

They've actually made me think about making something like that for myself, even I can manage them with not much space, opportunity or tools.

How exciting

+Reps, you're an absolute star

 

[donpaul.p]

you got some great ideas, cant wait to see these in action

 

[Alaskan1]

If I were a soil grower I'd be excited! But since I'm not I'm just happy lol
WTG dude very excellent idea....you better market that shit ASAP

 

[Smokemupm8]

Full DEADLY!!! Nice work bra!!
This is the pioneering spirit that started Hydro! Just about every grower i know, either outdoor in greenhouse or indoor, they ALL LOVE D.I.Y
For a few reasons i imagine, saving cash, can make it to your size, and also - No one else is the wiser, if you just buying a few random things.
My last 2 G/rooms have been pretty half assed setups, but they worked.. Now im fairly stable with my routine etc; and the basics list is something that isnt expensive if i had to scrap it and start again..
There s some things you just cant buy!! Once i learn how to weld properly - LOOK OUT!! Lol.. Hope these fine works of art do indeed give you some good result.. Good luck and happy harvesting.. Smokemup

 

[Fluffy Haze]

If I were a soil grower I'd be excited! But since I'm not I'm just happy lol
WTG dude very excellent idea....you better market that shit ASAP

Awwwh...Alaskan, where did the cool Wile Coyote avatar go?

 

[Fluffy Haze]

Full DEADLY!!! Nice work bra!!
This is the pioneering spirit that started Hydro! Just about every grower i know, either outdoor in greenhouse or indoor, they ALL LOVE D.I.Y
For a few reasons i imagine, saving cash, can make it to your size, and also - No one else is the wiser, if you just buying a few random things.
My last 2 G/rooms have been pretty half assed setups, but they worked.. Now im fairly stable with my routine etc; and the basics list is something that isnt expensive if i had to scrap it and start again..
There s some things you just cant buy!! Once i learn how to weld properly - LOOK OUT!! Lol.. Hope these fine works of art do indeed give you some good result.. Good luck and happy harvesting.. Smokemup

Reps to you for this Smokem. I couldn't help but smile here, I feel all inspired and proud now, that was quite a rousing speech sir! *salute*

 

[GigaGrew]

grow room is nearly reconfigured. all 8 autos have been repotted and are on the bathroom floor draining before i move them. 3 of 5 dwc jugs are done.

my 6 t8 2700ks are being moved from above to behind for some back lighting, awaiting 8 bulbs in the postwill get some more when money allowes. im now only ordering bayonet cap bulbs and phasing out any eddison screw lamps/bulbs ive scrounged together. every house fitting ive browsed for is BC as is my entire house and any other ive been in.

next auto grow im going to try and get 10 on the go at same time with 3 bulbs each and will work up from there.


still not feeling the love on cloning, so i think im going to order some reg seeds to produce a male. will pollenate 1 auto with a reg male and see what happens, lol. gonna get a male afghan kush if possible and then ill pollenate my fem afghan too.

ill be very happy if i can use those jugs to do 70 day indica grows. i could seed 10 plants a week a lot easier than i could clone 10 a week as it takes 2 weeks to just root a clone.

and to be honest i have no problem growing a few males and culling by hand, its good practice and i have the capacity to grow them till i can sex them. think maybe just 3 or 4 weeks to sex as i will be going 1 to 2 weeks of veg and 1 week as seedling, but i suppose i better get through this grow first, lol =)

 

[Grand Daddy Purp]

Good plan GiGa!

 

[Fluffy Haze]

Giga, this sounds really exciting! I can't wait til you are able to post pictures. I just love your creativity.

You know what? You aren't alone in not feeling the love for cloning. Now, admittedly I haven't done it but I just don't feel the need. I would rather encourage myself to not be scared of non feminised seeds which are cheaper to buy. Hopefully the germination rate and male to female ratio will allow it to be even a small money saver.

There are so many seeds out there, so many to try! I don't want to clone, I want to buy lots and lots of different seeds . Thank goodness I got this job, I don't think I've got it in me to do the whole "making your own seeds". I have no doubt you can and would be awesome at it!