Hm, a couple days absence turned into a couple weeks ...
Oops.
There hasn't been much going on in Graytail's garden lately, with only Rio left to finish. I didn't get pictures of her because I didn't have the energy to clean her up properly. She has a bunch of unattractive leaves and some branches are sagging and need to be propped up.
But I like the 15 gallon tote. Or I should say, I like the size and the idea - the shape isn't going to work well for me. It'd be much better if it were square. The outside dimensions are 17.5 x 25.5 x 12. I have 55 x 45 inches to work with so I could fit 5 of them into the space, but not easily. Those suckers are really heavy when they're wet, and the size and location of my door would require me to lift one of them out before I could make room to roll or slide the others out. Oof. So ...
... I recently discovered that those cheesy closet organizer grid panels are 14 inches square. A 14 inch cube is 12 gallons.
Get 5 of those and wire 'em together, stuff a ten gallon bag in there ...
... nice size, easy to move around ...
Anyway, I've been enjoying the reduced responsibility and planning for the next journal. I'm going to run half of the room in 3 gallon pots with minimal veg, and I'm going to set up my MH tent for veg. It's 1x1x1.5 meters, 59 inches tall and 39 inches square for 10.7 sqft. I can either move my 200 watt Par-Force panel in there with a Twilight 280 watt, or I may pull the trigger on some DIY COBS for the bloom room and move those MHs to the veg tent. I also have an old 400W CMH that I've been itching to try.
The main thing is upgrading the bloom room. I just sorta whipped it together in the beginning and it's time to build a proper growing space. I'm going to put up 1.5" of insulation against the concrete walls with washable white paneling, and seal the whole thing up nice and tight. I can do the same thing with the tent. Once everything is sealed I can add humidity in the winter, and I can keep bugs from freely moving around the house.
Rio will be done in two weeks.
Yesterday was a gorgeous sparkling sunny day and I've been getting into some old jars lately, so I decided to take some nug pictures in the sunlight.
CarnivalA - chopped 4-20-16
Y Griega 2-28-16
Destroyer x Buddha Haze 10-1-15
DrGrinspoon 12-12-15
Tikal 1-30-16
White Panther 3-12-14
Grapefruit 7-13-14
Super Lemon Haze 5-25-14
Nexus x Buddha Haze 9-10-15
Orange Hill Special 8-17-15
Panama 3-22-14