Mcloadie's Second Grow Journal

wildbill38 said:
I am a diy type person so anything to save a buck. I want to build a few of these.
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You go bro! That looks like it will kick ass, you guys amaze me with the stuff you come up with!
 
I get the 100w equivalent @hd of both 6500 & 2700. 4 pack is 10$ in my state atleast. I also use two 125 actual watt cfls aswell. And assume those are 100w equivalent. 23w actual watt cfls.

Please correct my if im wrong on that cause I would love to find 100w actual watt cfls that size....

But make sure you usea rubber groment Or whatever its called around the plug wire and refelector mine rubbed through the cords when I had one at the beginning of my grow..
 
yea I bought the 150w (not 125w like I said earlier) dual spectrum lotus bulb, and to be honest if I had to do it again id rather just bought 6 23w bulbs with more sockets in my homemade reflector instead. If they didnt screw my order up and ended up giving me one 2700k and one dual spectrum. Bulb for almost the price of 1 I woulda over paid. Not to mention they are huge...

But I was about to be excited if those were 100w and small size.
 
Morning Mc, good 4 u and the new babies!:high-five:
 
mornin Mc, nice job on the successful aero .Just read ya journal from page one and finally got caught up lol...Great journal, lovely garden, tons of great info. Thanks for posting. I just bought an LED, wish i had come across this journal a day sooner... i may have just went with that exact light. +reps on the great job. oh & happy belated born day. Congrats on the nomination also.:thumb:
 
CaneyeBus said:
mornin Mc, nice job on the successful aero .Just read ya journal from page one and finally got caught up lol...Great journal, lovely garden, tons of great info. Thanks for posting. I just bought an LED, wish i had come across this journal a day sooner... i may have just went with that exact light. +reps on the great job. oh & happy belated born day. Congrats on the nomination also.:thumb:
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Thanks caneye, and welcome to my journal, it's a perpetual effort, so it runs on and on LOL!, I have some exciting demonstrations coming soon, at least I hope to stir up some imaginations and creativity. The subjects are always relevant, probly long winded, but hopefully thorough and accurate....again welcome, feel free to ask anything, make suggestions, and share exeriences!:welcome:
 
Okay, I procured the materials for the air layering and grafting demos. I will be posting my thoughts as I proceed, I like to hear the thought processes that occur on how folks come to conclusions, it has been very helpful in my education and reeducation, which you all have played a huge part of...thank-you. Here we go......My first demonstration will be the technique of air layering. This technique was developed to start a plant, from a previously established, healthy plant, the process consist of a cultivar, being altered or manipulted in such a way that a portion of the plant is induced to create its own root system, severed from the cultivar, then introduced into a suitable medium to begin it's life as a new plant, genetically identical to the cultivar. I have succesfully accomplished this technuque on ornamental varieties, however, never on an annual plant, which is what the cannabis is in my region. The materials I'll use are slightly different than same I was trained with, but, as long as the fundamentals are adhered to, we'll be fine. Ok, that's the introduction to the air layering technique, I'll go into more detail at times, and less at others, but WE WILL learn something. Even if slight.....more to come soon, I'm very busy for the next 4 days, but I will be on in the evenings for a time.....every day! Welcome!
 
mcloadie said:
Mornin kids! Upon inspection this am.........WE HAVE ROOTS! The cuts in the aerocloner are showing nice white roots! They are about a quarter of an inch long...not bumps....Roots!:high-five: That's 7 days, the same amount of time it takes me in soil, the difference is; no half dead cuts to look at for a week, no cloning compounds, and NO DIRT!
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I waited till they were over a inch before i planted but you could pop them in containers now if you wanted, i just wanted some fat roots before i stuck them in cups. Loving the cloner filled it up as soon as i emptied haha
 
wildbill38 said:
I am a diy type person so anything to save a buck. I want to build a few of these.
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This would ROCK with EFDL bulbs!!
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This would basicly make a 14k watt equiv induction hood...... this is sick ass hell idea and im going to line my ceilings with these and just fill my room with tree under them : 0...... drooling just thinking of how bright my room will be!

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^mini hoods that i built
 
A weed pirate breaks into a growroom at night during the dark cycle, as he's peering around with his muted flashlight he hears a voice coming from a dark corner say; " jesus is watching you", he almost shits himself and says; " who is there?", as he turns with the light the voice answers and says; "moses", he looks and in the dark corner is a parrot in a cage. The bandit scratches his head and says; " what kinda idiot would name his parrot moses?", the parrot replies; " the same kind that named his pitbull jesus".
 
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mcloadie said:
A weed pirate breaks into a growroom at night during the dark cycle, as he's peering around with his muted flashlight he hears a voice coming from a dark corner say; " jesus is watching you", he almost shits himself and says; " who is there?", as he turns with the light the voice answers and says; "moses", he looks and in the dark corner is a parrot in a cage. Tha bandit scratches his head and says; " what kinda idiot would name his parrot moses?", the parrot replies; " the same kind that named his pitbull jesus".
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::clap::clap::clap:
 
mcloadie said:
LOL, went on a bike ride, got the needy loaded, seen the kid, LOL........I spend alotta time on here fishy, I go to the latest post of any particular journal I'm sub to ( which is many ), go to the bottom and start workin my way up. Ya bro, allota time!
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Wow McLoadie, your journal moves fast. I do the same method as you. Go to control panel and work my way up from the bottom. I think your thread is so active, it kept bumping to the top. All caught up on your thread now. :) Not so much on that list in the CP though. :winkyface:
I used to try and make that list empty, but it's become impossible. I try to go through half the list each day now, and that still takes more time than I should probably spend on here.

fish cake said:
I have been reading a lot about water curing. supposedly after the WC and drying your stash is cured and ready for storage. now if that's true that would cut a week or so off a good regular cure
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How would it make it faster overall? After the water cure, you still have to dry it, and wouldn't it now be even wetter?
I did read some of the threads about WC. My take on it was it can really help if you had bud rot or some other problem, but otherwise I'm not sure I see the advantages. It removes much of the aromatics. This would be a bad thing if your buds are headed to market.

mcloadie said:
it's that shitty induction light
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Ya. Those things suck. I gotta get me 3 or 4 of them. :winkyface: :rofl:

Do you veg with an induction lamp as well? On their site, they suggest you need to use the light through the entire life cycle for maximum benefit.

I'm pretty sold on moving to these rather than LEDs. I will test LEDs too down the road, but it will be far more economical to go to EDFL. This should help me get the second room up and running sooner. I really like that the PAR 420 is equivalent to a 750W HPS since that's what I'm using now. I'll be able to conduct some real apples to apples comparisons! It will be a year probably before I can setup flowering room #2 though. Hopefully EDFL's will get even better by then!

I think I asked this already, but if you're responding to the above, hopefully you won't mind answering again. How large an area do you think a PAR420 covers well? It's very likely I'll be using a mover, but I'd like to know how large the footprint, of good usable light, is at around 18-24". I'm trying to figure out how many I will need. I'll most likely have them end to end on the movers, so can you give the dimensions along each side? I'n sure it throws light much better along it's long side than from the ends. The second flower room is ~10'x12' I think. the mover will move along the 12' axis. So to cover a 10' area, I'm thinking I'll need 3 of these? Hmmm the first flowering room is ~6'x12', so maybe I should get 2 for that room, and put my 3 HPS into the larger room. Assuming I need one of these for veg too, I'll need 3 of them. That's $2400. That might happen within 6 months or so(3rd harvest). LOL I think I just figured out a plan. :biglaugh: Thanks for the help there McLoadie :rofl:

mcloadie said:
A weed pirate breaks into a growroom at night during the dark cycle, as he's peering around with his muted flashlight he hears a voice coming from a dark corner say; " jesus is watching you", he almost shits himself and says; " who is there?", as he turns with the light the voice answers and says; "moses", he looks and in the dark corner is a parrot in a cage. The bandit scratches his head and says; " what kinda idiot would name his parrot moses?", the parrot replies; " the same kind that named his pitbull jesus".
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:rofl: :biglaugh: :rofl: :biglaugh: :rofl: :biglaugh: :rofl: :biglaugh:
That was a good one. I might have heard it without the weed association, but it certainly helped make it relevant. Made me laugh for sure.
 
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