any advice on how to make the video take up the whole frame? I tried holding my phone vertically and horizontally but it didn't change how the screen was.
I like doing the video updates instead of trying to take all unblurry pics. It makes it a lot easier and goes a lot faster. I will try to do them everyday and upload them. I will also try to take pics of the buds, since I cant zoom in on them to show them off. So those will be the only pics I will be taking on video upload days.
I also wanted to start toying around with the video since I am expecting my rotating garden in a couple weeks. I want to take video of that thing and show it in action once I get it and get it set up and running. That system will not be using LED lights. It uses ballasts and bulbs. I ordered the 300 plant unit, which has a spot for 2 bulbs and you put your ballasts on the wall or just away from the unit itself. The only thing that goes onto the unit itself are the lights. I plan on using 2 1000w bulbs during each stage connected to 2 1000w ballasts that can use both MH and HPS bulbs. During veg I will use MH and during flower I will use HPS. Or atleast that's the plan. With this unit, it does not go inside a grow tent, its too damn big unless you had a giant grow tent. So general bugs may become a problem during grows later on since it wont be in a sealed up tent but just in a second room.
I have no idea what to expect from that machine, it was a big investment and if I can get my money back on the first time using it, than I will be a very happy man. Which brings me to my next dilemma, what to grow inside the rotating garden? I have some seeds I have bred, but then again I also have a bookfull of autoflower seeds I should probably use up. I have around 260 auto flower seeds that I have collected over the last year or so either as freebies with seed orders, or I ordered a 10 pack and only tried to grow 1 seed and left the rest. I have a few different strains, both indica, hybrid and sativa that I can grow. The issue that I am having is what will work best in that growing unit. Do I use my other regular photo seeds in the rotating garden or should I stick to small structured plants and go with autos to grow in the rotating garden? That is the question.
Sorry for discussing this now, even without the machine being here, but I need a plan of attack before it even arrives. I am actually leaning more toward using autoflowers in the rotating garden since I need to keep the size of the plants down. That pretty much knocks photos out of the question since they will grow too big.
Heres another pic of what it looks like so you can see the height from the plant buckets to the light so you guys can get a better idea of the height I have to work with. Its dimensions are 68" D x 62" W x 64" H.
This is the 120 plant model picture, but its the same distances from lights to plants in all models.
I am thinking of growing 200 auto flower strains, I have about 20 different strains or more that I can use. I just need to go through them and find out which ones grow shorter than the rest.
Does any of this sound like a good idea, or should I just use it to grow out clones for my commercial grow? I figured either way it would save me money and space. I could just keep really small mothers and continuously clone them and grow the clones till the root in the rotating garden. That way I will have a constant supply of plants, and mothers always ready to have clones taken. But I would really like to use this for a grow from seed to harvest to see what yield I could get off it.
Think about it 200 small auto flower plants growing under 2000w+ of MH and HPS lighting. All done hydroponically, ebb and flow system. with an average dry weight of each plant being optimistically 30 grams. This shouldn't be hard to achieve even under 1000w much less 2000w. So 200 plants x 30 grams per plant, 6000 grams, or a 13.22LBS harvest. Now obviously that's just a estimate, but autoflowers shouldn't be too hard to grow and get a decent yield off of them in the rotating garden. I do forsee that it will take some adjustment time to get use to and dial in but I truly think I can pull off some insane harvests with the garden if I can dial it all in correctly. I will also be using the exhale bags in the room the garden is going in. I'm thinking 4 bags should do it to increase the CO2 in the entire room, if 1 bag efficiently provides enough CO2 for a 4ft x4ft grow tent.
Again sorry for the ramble, any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated on the subject. trying to get a master plan together. I will upload another video tonight for a update, I am thinking of changing all the water out tonight instead of tomorrow. I will let everyone know later tonight what I end up doing. KEEP IT GREEN
lol IMO there are much easier ways of managing a network and monitoring it as well, and yes I am talking about windows.
