Rifleman's Roost Open 24/7: Perpetually Perplexed

TorturedSoul said:
For anything, IMHO. It's all in the DO levels.

Get a 25- or 30-gallon lidded tote, bury it up to its top, add mad aeration devices, stick a plant through the lid, add a way to monitor the solution level, and take full advantage of that sun by growing world record sized auto-flower. (Or a sativa, FBR.)

I know, I know, AFs don't need that much root space. But I'm guessing outdoor DWCs in NO do. If you decide to go with a photoperiodic plant, instead, it probably wouldn't hurt to go even larger on the reservoir size.
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Can't bury it... gotta maintain portability in outdoor plants. They need to hide on occasion.
Still tho... you could mount an airpump to the side of the bucket and run a cord to it. Pretty damn portable.
The ideas will tumble on low for a bit in my brain. I suspect I may have to test a setup under the lights.
I kinda worry about running bubbles thru the perlite. Seems like it would jiggle the mix and cause the osmo to settle to the bottom. On the other hand... I did some vibration testing in an attempt to separate the osmo and perl.... it sure didn't move around at all when vibrated... hmmm.....
 
I didn't mean bury it like the average corpse, lol ("First you dig a hole six feet deep. Then, make sure the corpse is actually a corpse. Then you can put down the shovel ;) ."). Just set it in the ground so that the top of the reservoir is level with the surface. Or, if you want to be able to grab it on the run, leave it sticking up an inch or two so you can grasp the handles/edges quicker.

It's not technically necessary. I was just thinking that it'd help slow the evaporation and keep the reservoir temperature a tiny bit cooler. It'd also aid in stability (which might not be necessary, depending on its size).

If you go DWC, lose the perlite. Those expanded clay balls (Geodon - whoops, that's the head med. Geo... something or other is one brand name, they're like largish marbles) would be fine and not scatter to the four corners (which is out West :rolleyes: ).

I wouldn't try using Osmocote Plus in a DWC setup.

Err... Oh, you're still thinking "hempy," aren't you? (I'm confused.)
 
It's a damn shame the author of this journal isn't around as much as he should be. It seems he is three days into a possible ten day stretch of sunshine and the outside garden chores are time consuming. :laugh:

I told ya mx7 was a beast. Just finished jarring and weighing... 227g ! I think I might have enough to keep me medicated until 2020 now. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Time for my slow fade into 420 obscurity until my next season starts. I'll see a few of you face to face this Summer. For those I don't it's my loss I am sure. :confused: Stay centered on what matters, and hug the ones you love. Peace Out Y'all. :peace:
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Luke
 
It's well into Spring and (IIRC) you have "two wheels." I just figured you were enjoying it/them. Priorities, and all that.
 
I look forward to a visit. :hugs:
 
I guess the humidity is generally (always?) high there? Is there much wind throughout an average day? Lots of sunlight? Do you expect the plants to grow large? Transpire a lot of moisture? If so, will your hempy supply enough of it? That's one advantage of a large DWC outdoors.

But if the humidity is high and the air movement low... I'd be looking for miserly solutions, I suppose, hoping to lower the possibility of mold. Also be doing 100% non-"organic" (and hoping for near sterility, other than the cannabis :rolleyes:). The most DO I could get into the solution and to the root zone, of course (as per always ;) ). Trying to keep whatever kind of reservoirs the plants are in as cool as possible. The usual. Maybe rigging up a H₂O₂-injection pump/timer for regular boosts.
 
TorturedSoul said:
I guess the humidity is generally (always?) high there? Is there much wind throughout an average day? Lots of sunlight? Do you expect the plants to grow large? Transpire a lot of moisture? If so, will your hempy supply enough of it? That's one advantage of a large DWC outdoors.

But if the humidity is high and the air movement low... I'd be looking for miserly solutions, I suppose, hoping to lower the possibility of mold. Also be doing 100% non-"organic" (and hoping for near sterility, other than the cannabis :rolleyes:). The most DO I could get into the solution and to the root zone, of course (as per always ;) ). Trying to keep whatever kind of reservoirs the plants are in as cool as possible. The usual. Maybe rigging up a H₂O₂-injection pump/timer for regular boosts.
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Side note.... don't you love that they added strike-thru to the font menu? Tead's been jonesing for it.

Humidity usually stays well above 60% at all times during the summers. Often I see the daily low only fall to the 80% zone.
You touch on the magic of hempy.... avoiding the root rot issues by regular flushings. I've been doing daily watering/flushing outside as the temps rise. Another technique is the use of white pots... white reflecting more energy.... tho I'm considering wrapping the outdoor tubes in Reflectix double bubble. Hell.... even the pot tops with the white perlite reflect energy.
I wonder if the water retaining nature of coco will give me grief. We'll see.
 
good evening mr.R, my apologies as I can't recall if I've introduced myself. I was over on the Malawi Cob thread and seeing the DDa's being used as well as over by SweetSue and she mentioned you made the seeds I believe. So I made note to have a look at your journal but I find to my delight that I was only bout 7 pages back, so good on ya. I'm interested in trying reversing but will need to go back and check things up a bit...I find I get quiet lost sometimes keeping track of whose thread I'm following sometimes...

Well nice to see ya....:high-five:
 
:ciao::ciao: Hey y'all, iffin' anyones looking for me I'm hiding in the root celler. Ain't Summer yet but I can't tell. Half a dozen days over 90deg so far and humidity never below 60%. o_O Promising to be a hot wet one and I'm way too Scandinavian for this.

I hope everyone else is well and having success I start my yearly travels in about two weeks, and I don't have a clue where I'll be, but if you see a long haired old man on a dirty motorcycle, holler out "hey Luke". If he turns around offer to burn one with him, it just might be me. :cool:

Peace. :peace:
 
Rifleman said:
I'm hiding in the root celler. Ain't Summer yet but I can't tell.
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<NODS> <SHUDDERS>

Rifleman said:
Promising to be a hot wet one and I'm way too Scandinavian for this.
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I am, effectively, a "Heinz 57 mutt" - but that doesn't include lizard genes, lol, so you're preaching to the choir here.

Rifleman said:
I start my yearly travels in about two weeks, and I don't have a clue where I'll be
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Wishing you safe travels and wide-open horizons (or mountains, I suppose).

Rifleman said:
if you see a long haired old man on a dirty motorcycle, holler out "hey Luke". If he turns around offer to burn one with him, it just might be me. :cool:
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Makes me wish mine was legal. Or running correctly. Or... running. (Fully-assembled would be a start :rolleyes: .) OtOH, lol, it's not a Harley - so, other than a coating of dust, it's pretty clean as the oil is all INSIDE ;) .
 
Tead said:
I've tripped over the triple digits already... but it was a nice dry heat.
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I've been told that much the same could be said for the interior of an operating blast furnace, lol. I try to stay out of those. . . .
 
TorturedSoul said:
I've been told that much the same could be said for the interior of an operating blast furnace, lol. I try to stay out of those. . . .
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Oh baby... when the humidity bumps up past 90 and stays there day/night... dats when you know you livin in the swamps baby!

A funny weather fact of life for us. Cotton fills the south with fields of fluffy fun. Harvest seasons turn into something resembling a winter snow.
Anyway, this ends about 30 miles north of us. Any cotton grown down here rots out well before harvest... just too much humidity. Sugar cane on the other hand......
 
Another failed SSDC grow. Sorry to be so rude to the visiting genetics. I was trying a 2ft hempy pot.... don't bother.

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Honestly.... I swear.... on my mother's grave dammit..... I'll get another good one off some day.
 
Tead said:
Another failed SSDC grow. Sorry to be so rude to the visiting genetics. I was trying a 2ft hempy pot.... don't bother.
Honestly.... I swear.... on my mother's grave dammit..... I'll get another good one off some day.
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I had zero success with the office wastebasket, and limited results with the 1.5qts. There's a nice compromise to be found somewhere in between, but I'm not looking for it very hard. ;) The buckets are where I make up my needs, the hempys are just for fun. Maybe later this year I'll try a soil grow too. :rofl:
 
For the strangest of reasons I'm simply unable to find, I can't crack seeds in the summer time. You'd be shocked by the different techniques I've tried and the equal number of failures. Still tryin.... still failin.
That's my way of saying it will have to wait until the cooler temps descend.
The things I've done to the SSDCs seems somewhat insulting. Some good girls are needed to correct that situation... well... and get me high to boot!
 
Tead said:
I wish to eat those words.... I just found a working seed cracking spot. Gotta pop a few more before I trust it to the precious SSDC or DDA... but it's looking gooooooooood.
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It's been mid 90s here for the last few weeks. So glad I'm not growing. Can't keep the house below 80 during the day with the a/c running non-stop. Add lights and I'd have to get a motel room to sleep. :laugh:

Speaking of SSDC, now you've got me wanting to grow some more of them to prove the genetics again. I've heard that they are giving people a fit trying to grow nice ones. :hmmmm:
 
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