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Looks GREAT bendog420
My First Grow
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thanks man,im using wet wash cloths right now but im gonna get a humidifier tomarrow ,Hey bendog looking good! A way to get the humidity up is put some cups of water around the room. Some people use wet towels... I also read a question about which bulbs to use. I use all "blue" bulbs for vegging and then i whip out the others for flowering. Keep up the good work!
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yea water everywhere to someone who is clumsy in the first place isent a good combo lolHaving water everywhere can be a bit of a hazzard, you are bound to kick them over at some point. I always find water and electrics dont mix very well so be careful basically. You can get small humidifiers, I have one, it cost me about 40 quid and works brilliantly for veg stages when I want that humidity high.
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so with this much space what should i be using for oder control,nothing to worry about now but when it becomes a problem. they are basicly connected but i can kinda close them off from each other.any suggestions
I'm using ONA, there are a couple of slick bucket designs for dispersing it around the room, but I'm finding the just leaving the jars open with the ceiling fan going moves it around just fine.
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I rather doubt it, you may need to order it online.
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ok ill see what i can do ,thanks again man
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week 2
well good to know its not that expensive ,ill have the ONA it in a couple days,,ive got an idea for res cooling ,do you know if copper pipe would alter ph banace or plant nutes in anyway??you wouldnt think so seeing most water pumps have copper or other metals in there somewhere. what do you think???
not much in plant changes so far ,the hydro babies are starting to get a lil taller and they are all out and perky,.. finally got my humidity up from 30 to 60 with the wet towel idea. (props to everyone who gave me the idea) ive got a water hose running into the room from under the house so its easy to re-wet it when it dries . ,
well good to know its not that expensive ,ill have the ONA it in a couple days,,ive got an idea for res cooling ,do you know if copper pipe would alter ph banace or plant nutes in anyway??you wouldnt think so seeing most water pumps have copper or other metals in there somewhere. what do you think???
not much in plant changes so far ,the hydro babies are starting to get a lil taller and they are all out and perky,.. finally got my humidity up from 30 to 60 with the wet towel idea. (props to everyone who gave me the idea) ive got a water hose running into the room from under the house so its easy to re-wet it when it dries . ,
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well good to know its not that expensive ,ill have the ONA it in a couple days,,ive got an idea for res cooling ,do you know if copper pipe would alter ph banace or plant nutes in anyway??you wouldnt think so seeing most water pumps have copper or other metals in there somewhere. what do you think???
not much in plant changes so far ,the hydro babies are starting to get a lil taller and they are all out and perky,.. finally got my humidity up from 30 to 60 with the wet towel idea. (props to everyone who gave me the idea) ive got a water hose running into the room from under the house so its easy to re-wet it when it dries . ,
I understand there is a problem with putting copper pipes in your res. I don't know just what it is, just saw a reference in passing, but I don't think you want to do it. I know one way to kill tress is to drive a copper nail into the trunk. It takes a while, but the tree will die. That's an old farmers trick from back in Wisconsin.
What I'm planning to do is take a camping type cooler, take about 50' of poly tubing and place the coil into the cooler. Then fill the cooler with the ice. Take one end of the tubing and place it on your water pump, place pump in res. Take the other end of the tubing and place that in the res. The water pump will circulate your res water through the tubing in the cooler, the coil will act as a heat exchanger and cool the water. The cooled water will then be pumped right back into your res. You'll have to fool around with flow rates and such to hit a good target temp. I wonder if you could work a thermostat in to stop flow when the temp gets too low.
I'm betting you were thinking of something like this too but using a copper coil instead, but they have poly at Lowes and it's pretty cheap, much less expensive than flexible copper.
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dude we had the exact same idea basicly ,yea you probly could work in a thermostat,let me think and see what i can do,,we might be able to solve alot of problems for everyone if we get this right
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mine involved a mini fridge and bucket,drilling inflow and outflow holes through the top or sides,securing(caulking)the pipes in the top,lead the outflow to the fridge bucket(res) pump,pumps cold water through the coil and back through the inflow to the bucket,the fridge alwase stays cold or you can adjust the cold settings in the fridge,i thought of the thermo idea to but i havent came up with anything other than finding the pins in the thermo that show on the display as 65 or w/e you need your temp,sautering wires to the pins and run them to a switch that when it gets the power from the 6-5 pins it breaks the circuit to the pump,you might be able to find a right amp rate so when it goes to say 6-6 or 6-7 it would re bridge the connection----i hope you get what im getting at here,,ill have to try and mess with it when i get a chance,it you have any ideas lets hear them,,we might get this working quick
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ok i have an idea,gfci outlets have "test" and "reset" buttons,if you could find a way to amplify the power from the thermo (when it hits 64 the pins will put out a small amount if power) to just over enough to "reset" it when it hits 64 on the thermo then when the thermo goes up to say 68 it will trip the "test" function to turn it back on
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Bendog420.. What if you wire your pump dircet to the compresson motor on the fridge ? It would run the pump when the fridge kicked on.
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Bendog420.. What if you wire your pump dircet to the compresson motor on the fridge ? It would run the pump when the fridge kicked on.
ive thought of that for the fridge and yes it will work thanks man,but hey ur thinking outside the box that helps we still need to help fpf out with his easyr solution,we basicly had the same idea just his was poly tubing and mine was copper(but copper kills plants,i didnt know that)
(cause i understand not everyone is just gonna have a mini fridge they want to spare) ,ive got an old one that my aunt is using but when her fridge gets fixed ill make a thread on it.props to fpf for the poly tubing advice. so any suggestions on the res temp idea (low cost)if possible. i need a volt tester to finish that pic i have up of the thermo ,i have to keep a level temp and touch each one of those holes and see which one is getting power at that temp so i can get to soldiering.
Wow Bendog, you are really taking the ball and running with it, great job man. Dowg, we need to measure the res temp and turn the pump on and off by that temp, not the refer's temp.
You may be on to something there with the stat, keep digging in there, I think you'll come up with something great.
A couple other thoughts. Do we just lay the coil of poly line in the fridge or would placing it in a bucket of water in the fridge be more efficient. How long will the poly line be, is 50' adequate or will you need 100'.
One nice thing about the mini frdge is the cost, you can pick up a new one for $100, but I bet you could pick one up off Craig's list for $25 or $50.
You may be on to something there with the stat, keep digging in there, I think you'll come up with something great.
A couple other thoughts. Do we just lay the coil of poly line in the fridge or would placing it in a bucket of water in the fridge be more efficient. How long will the poly line be, is 50' adequate or will you need 100'.
One nice thing about the mini frdge is the cost, you can pick up a new one for $100, but I bet you could pick one up off Craig's list for $25 or $50.
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