Orangeblood's Grow Room-Yumbolt 47, White Widow, Air Pots, LED+HPS, SOG, & R2D2

Hi Jay! You know I was thinking about this the other day while snuggling up to the new Grav Lab glass.
I've decided that optimal yield is dependant upon the growers goals and needs.
I give this example. A group of people set out to grow a crop of corn for the towns annual corn festival. The group grows a crop that gives them all the corn they need for all of their recipes and such and they even have enough left over to dry and give to the wild birds in the bird feeders.
Even though the corn may not have been grown to the speed, size , and efficiency of say a Nebraska commercial corn farmer the crop is still deemed a success because it filled the needs of the group growing the corn.
I'm taking a similar approach to cannabis cultivation. I prefer to smoke my herb after it has cured for about 60 days. I smoke about 1.5oz per 30 days. As long as I can maintain 3-4oz in my curing jars while I'm harvesting 3-4oz every 30 days thru SOG I can be assured that I will always be growing more than I can smoke and thus I can consider my garden an optimum producer whether it comes out to 1g per watt or not.
I also think that this type of subject is open to so many variables when accounting numbers. It's very easy to manipulate those numbers to suit individual needs especially for the seed banks
 
orangeblood said:
Hi Jay! You know I was thinking about this the other day while snuggling up to the new Grav Lab glass.
I've decided that optimal yield is dependant upon the growers goals and needs.
I give this example. A group of people set out to grow a crop of corn for the towns annual corn festival. The group grows a crop that gives them all the corn they need for all of their recipes and such and they even have enough left over to dry and give to the wild birds in the bird feeders.
Even though the corn may not have been grown to the speed, size , and efficiency of say a Nebraska commercial corn farmer the crop is still deemed a success because it filled the needs of the group growing the corn.
I'm taking a similar approach to cannabis cultivation. I prefer to smoke my herb after it has cured for about 60 days. I smoke about 1.5oz per 30 days. As long as I can maintain 3-4oz in my curing jars while I'm harvesting 3-4oz every 30 days thru SOG I can be assured that I will always be growing more than I can smoke and thus I can consider my garden an optimum producer whether it comes out to 1g per watt or not.
I also think that this type of subject is open to so many variables when accounting numbers. It's very easy to manipulate those numbers to suit individual needs especially for the seed banks
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AMEN BROTHER!!RoorRipRoorRip
 
Week 3 pictorial update!

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3 week old Yumbolt 47. These two youngins' will be transplanted into 2 gallon Air Pots in the next 24 hrs

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Shown above are the six WW clones from R2D2 in veg with the two Yumbolts in the center of the party.
All the ladies in the house are in great health. A new WW mother has been identified and the rest are only days away from going to flower.

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Shown here in the bloom hut is one big Mama. Her top has been tied down to keep her under the lights. She is the biggest plant I've ever grown indoors measuring in at 60" tall & 35" diameter. If she was'nt tied down she would easily be over 70" tall.

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2 more WW plants in the bloom hut. The fourth plant in the bloom hut will make her debut in the POM thread for May in about another week.

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Some more modifications have been made to the room.
A water line has been installed in the grow room so now I dont have to carry five gallon buckets to my reservoir from the bathtub any longer! :slide::cheertwo:

I'm also kicking around some ideas on remodeling my bloom hut.
I'm thinking about building one to custom fit the space with a 2"x4" frame and rafters wrapped with panda film.
Then I could mount light rails to the rafters and have LED lamps move back and forth while the 430 stays stationary in the center.
 
Nice. Yumboldt is one of my alltime favorites. Never tried the 47 cross tho. My next major purchase will be Thunderboldt. (Alaskan thunderfuck x Yumboldt.)

I'm watching man. I agree with you 100% about the 1g per watt thing. really, unless your a major grower, who cares. I cant have more than 4 oz at a time, so with 1 plant every 2 weeks finishing I'm maxed out as it is. lol ...and like you I give some away to medical patients that I know. Just got a bunch of Purple Nepal x G13 seeds from a friend, so I'm gonna go work on planting. Just thought I'd stop by and say WAAAS UP! your girls are looking better than ever!
 
Good idea on the water line...5g of water isn't light, especially multiple trips. I like those fat indica leaves, got me itching to start another grow already lol. Also I think you are completely right in terms of what constitutes a successful yield but as you said it really depends on the application/situation. Personal growers and commercial growers have slightly different interests in mine but both want a great tasting, hard-hitting product.

LED's on light rails...interesting...go for it! I'm seriously considering scrapping my cabinet next grow and building a frame to hang some panda film over like you mentioned. That's gonna depend on money more than anything though.

Tried to rep you but I couldn't...+rep
 
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What up Brothers from other Mothers!
Little tastey taste of what coming up this week. Say hello to my plant of the month candidate for May. Should have her entered by tommorow.

Big happenings going on right now. Well big at least for me and the ladies I run with!.
I've got the go ahead for an overhaul of the bloom space. I dont know exactly how it will go yet but I'm looking to only increase the floor space to either 4'x5' or 4'x6'. I nkow it's not a huge increase over what I have now but it will be better for the mix of large and small plants.
I've got a line on two used light rails for $125 for both. I have to make a 140 mile round trip to go get them so the total investment to move some lighting will be $150 which is still a great deal. They are only two years old.
I'm still figuring out how I'll light it. I have a solid arsenal of lights to choose from with 2 430 hps, multiple leds, and a T5HO fixture. I'm really leaning toward rockin' the 2 430s daisy chained together for heat and just using my leds as supplementals like I do now.
Having two light rails really opens up the options for movement. Something where they start out together in the middle and then move apart would be pimp.
I need to get my questions together and maybe start a thread for suggestions in the faqs or get the advice from Hogdady or Pit Viper on how they move & cool their lamps. That's if PV is done stompin' Tokyo!

Also doing so revamping of the cool air injection to prepare for the rebuild.
I've replaced the 30 gallon trash bin reservoir for a low profile 20 gallon bin which i wrapped with insulation. I've also aquired another Ice Box so now I have the 465 blower outfitted with double barrel Ice Box action. This will not only cool the fresh air injection for the plants but it will also push cooled air into the HPS lighting duct work. I'll upgrade the lighting exaust from 125cfm to 250 cfm if it's needed. Hopefully when it's all done I'll be running 860 watts of cool to the touch HPS lighting

pics will be coming soon :rollit:
 
orangeblood said:
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Dude, that pic almost looks like I'm on cid. Almost 3-d effect.

orangeblood said:
What up Brothers from other Mothers!
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:rofl:

orangeblood said:
I have to make a 140 mile round trip to go get them so the total investment to move some lighting will be $150 which is still a great deal. They are only two years old.
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You can pedal that far?

Guess you'll have a little time to listen to #5 on OB's awesome playlist.

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orangeblood said:
I need to get my questions together and maybe start a thread for suggestions in the faqs or get the advice from Hogdady or Pit Viper on how they move & cool their lamps. That's if PV is done stompin' Tokyo!
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Tokyo is now on "Vacation". ROFL

Your setup plans sound killer OB. I'm sure after you get the mods made and implemented the ladies are going to show you some major lovin! If only they could provide hand-jobs... :rofl:

Anxiously awaiting your next set of pics man! Awesome stuff.

Sf.
 
Scored the new toys today! one is an '08 and one is an '03. I haggled them down to $110 for the pair. Both are 5.5 watt 6 rpm motors. Included in the deal was 18' of track in two 6' sections and two 3' sections that can attach to each other. Let the brainstorming begin!

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Lil Neutrino said:
Is that a separate strain from Jedi?
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I have no idea Brother. I've seen a few Skywalker and Jedi strains from only a few seed banks. I have no idea if they're related to each other and I think some of the Skywalkers are only available as clones.
I see 420 sponsor Zen Healing which is a SoCal collective is home to the Skywalker OG.
I believe the Skywalkers are heavy on the Sativa side so unfortunately that pretty much eliminates them from being grown in my indoor garden. I really prefer the easy to grow Indicas with 19-25% THC contents for my indoor space.
 
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