Max's First Grow - Soil - LED - Painkiller XL

MaxHeadroom said:
Cheers guys,

I decanted my hemp protein powder out of a huge container, cut the top off, drilled some holes and re-potted with fresh soil. I think I managed to keep most of the roots intact.

You may have saved her!

Here she is in possibly the most appropriate DIY pot ever
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Let's see if she copes with the shock and the fresh soil in her new home.
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+ Reps Max.
 
Good morning Max,

Dang you have been a busy beaver. 1st off I am glad everyone was able to convince you not to throw in the towel on XL#1. Everyone makes mistakes, and I do mean everyone. If they tell you they don't they are full of BS.

I am glad to see that you were given such solid advice to be creative and make your own pot. If you look around it is really amazing how creative people can be, when they just think outside the box. I saw one guy use weed barrier cloth and a laundry basket to grow weed in, and it did great. I would have never thought of that but wow what a great way to make a 20+ gallon cloth pot cheap.

Until our lady is dead there is always hope that you can resolve the problems and still get a decent harvest. Sure some will say that your harvest will suffer because of that screw up but when you factor in all the time and effort you have invested in her already, it still pencils out to complete the harvest as opposed to giving up and starting over. I have 4 plants in my flower tent right now that I could have easily said screw it I am starting over. They made your plant look like the poster child for perfect health. The very best description I can give you and not lie is my plants looked like shit, just terrible. But because of the time invested and how much electrical I have already paid to get them to this point, I am going to salvage them. Granted on my last grow I got a little over 4 oz per plant, and this grow I will be happy if I get a little over 2 per plant, but 2 is more then zero.

Guess what I am trying to say is do not be so hard on yourself, when you run into issues, do not forget to think outside the box every now and then and if you can not figure out what to do next, ask for advise. You will do fine, besides from what I have read in your journal you have a lot of people here that are giving you good advice when your getting stuck. Keep the faith, they will be beauties:thumb:
 
I know you don't want to water, and perhaps that is the right thing to do (or not do) but I am pretty sure that you "ALWAYS" want to water after replanting to be certain the soils merge and there are no roots left exposed to air. I know there are other issues going on too so I don't know the answer but I'd like to see someone with more experience weight in on it. Maybe OlderGrower will swing back around, or you might PM him. (Oh, and don't wait til tomorrow :-)
 
BeaverIslander said:
I know you don't want to water, and perhaps that is the right thing to do (or not do) but I am pretty sure that you "ALWAYS" want to water after replanting to be certain the soils merge and there are no roots left exposed to air. I know there are other issues going on too so I don't know the answer but I'd like to see someone with more experience weight in on it. Maybe OlderGrower will swing back around, or you might PM him. (Oh, and don't wait til tomorrow :-)
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Agreed but if it's only 1 gallon pot not much water is needed. .5L maybe.
 
What can I say guys? You've been great and I'm hopeful Beav has saved the day with his brilliant idea of utilising something, anything, as a pot for my drowning girl.

As you can see she is in perhaps the world's most appropriate DIY container :-)

OG, you're spot on about the help available and not throwing the towel in at this stage, I just had a bad pain day, which makes me a little more prone to despair.

Beav & Krypt; I have watered the transplanted XL#1 and took the advice of keeping it around 0.5l She looks happier already.

Thanks for talking me off the ledge with encouragement and excellent advice. Beav was speaking to Emilya, who has put up some excellent watering advice . I think there's something in that article for everyone, but even more so us early growers.

The tent now has a fan. I bought 2 but one was DOA. The girls are gently swaying in the breeze.

Best wishes one and all
 
What a great read this thread was, having not read it since last night. Truly inspirational

Big congrats to all involved.

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arteekay said:
What a great read this thread was, having not read it since last night. Truly inspirational

Big congrats to all involved.

:thumb::circle-of-love:
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Thanks for travelling the rocky road that is my first grow journal RTK. Inspirational is the perfect word to describe all the help and encouragement people have freely offered. The comments, help and constructive criticism are all welcome. I take all comments in the spirit they are intended and I'm grateful for every single utterance.

Today the girls rewarded me with a very funky smell when I opened the room. The tent was even more delicious. I've put the extractor on now in case other people aren't as appreciative of my girls' lovely fragrance. The cleaner comes today and I don't want to raise her eyebrows. Alas my fan is hardly stealth but I'll put some music on as I potter about in my home office soldering up a long lead on the DHT22 temperature and humidity probe. My device from China has arrived, however the external probe only does temps. To get RH I'd have to put the device itself in the tent. I feel Velcro is required to mount it in there. It also seems to be way off with it's readings.

I'm starting to think I should invest in a CO2 fire extinguisher with all those electrical devices in a small heated tent.

I'll give the girls until the end of the weekend to perk up some more, then I'll treat you to some pictures.

I can't wait to try out the Painkiller XL, today's pain levels are registering [........../] on the pain-o-meter, but as the happy-o-meter has a similar reading all is well in my world. I hope all is green and joyful in your worlds too.
 
Day 19 - Tent Electronics

A bit back I showed off a prototype temperature and RH monitor, with the eventual aim of connecting up some relays to switch things on and off. Obviously I couldn't put a breadboard in the tent with jumper wires all over the place, so today I made it for real and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Zero at £5 could have been used just as easily.

Here's the Pi and finished circuit. The prototype breadboard snuck into the picture too
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Here's the actual probe that will sit in the tent once I have a longer wire
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I have some relays capable of switching mains voltage and will write an interface to allow me to check the temperature & RH of the tent on my phone. It will also allow me to switch fans on and off remotely. I'll release more details once complete and open source it with a parts list so anyone can make their own. A knowledge of mains voltage & electronics would be required to make it safely though.
 
Bravo Max. Can I tell you that when I read your posts I imagine a disembodied head in a TV set stuttering and bobbing around with a crazy look on its face? Man I used to love that show.
 
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MaxHeadroom said:
Day 19 - Tent Electronics

A bit back I showed off a prototype temperature and RH monitor, with the eventual aim of connecting up some relays to switch things on and off. Obviously I couldn't put a breadboard in the tent with jumper wires all over the place, so today I made it for real and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Zero at £5 could have been used just as easily.

Here's the Pi and finished circuit. The prototype breadboard snuck into the picture too
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Here's the actual probe that will sit in the tent once I have a longer wire
IMG_40649.JPG


I have some relays capable of switching mains voltage and will write an interface to allow me to check the temperature & RH of the tent on my phone. It will also allow me to switch fans on and off remotely. I'll release more details once complete and open source it with a parts list so anyone can make their own. A knowledge of mains voltage & electronics would be required to make it safely though.
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Rifleman said:
Don't forget a smoke detector for inside the tent too.
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I've just ordered a combined smoke and gas detector module for the Pi. The gas bit is useless but the best smoke detector modules come with them built in. An extra £1.30 to add to the environmental control build :-) I'd love a huge grow room so I could build something that also controls CO2 monitoring and release.
 
Here's a gratuitous test of the new macro lens. On reflection I should have taken her out of the tent away from the grow lights and fan.

What you see is the FIM site putting out 4 new branches.
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XL#1 looking happier. She's overhanging the 8" diameter pot
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And here's a group shot showing the new oil filled radiator. It isn't as good as the fan heater so far though. The black electrical bodge job is to hide the rather bright red switch light on the heater
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On the subject of science, I calculated the volume of an 8" diameter 7" long cylinder to get the volume of the tub. It's roughly 1.5 gallons.
 
transplant girl is looking great Max!
 
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