Shiggity Goes Mad Scientist: Paving The Yellowbrix Road With DIY Adventures!

[ShiggityFlip]

Garden update sunset Flip +20.

A few days to Cat drench. The Scrog gals look better every day. I think it has been a combination of lack of oxygen from overly wet soil, and the high intensity lights pushing them too their limit. I have tucked them for the last time and letting them go vertical now.

They are still a bit light green and yellow so I will probably skip Cat on these. Strangely enough they have more pistil growth than the bamboo girls. Let's hope for a major comeback.

Current solution is only to water from above. And to let go until almost dry. Basically like a normal pot. In the future I am going to add more perlite and 4 vertical 1" pvc pipes with holes all over, then wrapped in landscape cloth. These will add the extra oxygen the roots are wanting. All SIPs will go on casters for easy moving and draining. That way I can fully drain each week a day or two before rewatering again. I also may add air stones to the bottom resevoir.
Scrog girls huck kush/sour bubble up front. Pineapple fields roadkill in back

I am convinced these SIPs will be amazing once fully adjusted. The two plants I have been really careful about overwatering are the sour bubble and Gorilladosha in the bamboo scrogs. And they have been explosive the whole way.

Gorilladosha

Before supercrop

After supercrop

Sour bubble

Megafauna
She's light green but is pushing the buds.

Here are the three non string scrog gals. You can see how much better the outside girls look that are getting better water management. So I think the minor adjustments I am planning on with the SIPs will make all the girls lush.

Sour bubble front, mega middle, Gorilladosha in back.

 

[Buckshot317]

Be real easy to add air stones to each sip, I thought about doing it to my reg pots

 

[Pennywise]

Great job on the supercropping, looks like an entirely different plant.

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Be real easy to add air stones to each sip, I thought about doing it to my reg pots

I was thinking I could easily drop an airstone down one of the vertical tubes.

 

[Buckshot317]

Easy access

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Ok peeps I don't have the cash to throw down on a Co2 monitor just yet. I actually want to save and get a wireless accessible light, temp, and Co2 controller. That's about a grand but will send me texts when the environment goes haywire and allow me to turn things off from my phone or check on the girls from far away. Can even attach a security camera and have it for access and time lapse of the grow. But that's later.

What's my solution now? I found a Co2 data logger for right at 100 bucks and am going to use a cycle timer. The logger will eventually be to measure Co2 in various areas. But for now it will let me adjust the cycle timer for optimum Co2.

The cycle timer is a super cool new cheap timer I have found that will do regular timer stuff also. It has several cool functions.
-countdown and turn on
-countdown and turn off
-cycle time either in hour and minutes or in minutes and seconds. So yes it is possible to do 15 seconds on and 1 min 45 seconds off!

I found this versatile timer in a Brazilian rain forest and was basically able to trade two Wendy's baconators for it. (This will make sense if you think about it)

So at a cost much less than a regular cycle timer with the dials I can much more precisely cycle time down to the second! Could be useful for the EZ cloner. Or a hydro set up.

And the coolest thing besides price is that the instructions are printed on the timer itself!!!! No more losing instructions and forgetting how to program. I'm getting more of these for sure.

 

[Pennywise]

Nice find, minute and seconds mode is sweet.

 

[Amy Gardner]

Garden update sunset Flip +20.

A few days to Cat drench. The Scrog gals look better every day. I think it has been a combination of lack of oxygen from overly wet soil, and the high intensity lights pushing them too their limit. I have tucked them for the last time and letting them go vertical now.

They are still a bit light green and yellow so I will probably skip Cat on these. Strangely enough they have more pistil growth than the bamboo girls. Let's hope for a major comeback.

Current solution is only to water from above. And to let go until almost dry. Basically like a normal pot. In the future I am going to add more perlite and 4 vertical 1" pvc pipes with holes all over, then wrapped in landscape cloth. These will add the extra oxygen the roots are wanting. All SIPs will go on casters for easy moving and draining. That way I can fully drain each week a day or two before rewatering again. I also may add air stones to the bottom resevoir.
Scrog girls huck kush/sour bubble up front. Pineapple fields roadkill in back

I am convinced these SIPs will be amazing once fully adjusted. The two plants I have been really careful about overwatering are the sour bubble and Gorilladosha in the bamboo scrogs. And they have been explosive the whole way.

Gorilladosha

Before supercrop

After supercrop

Sour bubble

Megafauna
She's light green but is pushing the buds.

Here are the three non string scrog gals. You can see how much better the outside girls look that are getting better water management. So I think the minor adjustments I am planning on with the SIPs will make all the girls lush.

Sour bubble front, mega middle, Gorilladosha in back.

Oh wow there's some beautiful sights there ...

I've been following this adventure for a while (you had me at 'mad scientist'), not sure I've said hello yet. Couldn't resist responding to these pics! I'm in awe. Can't imagine being able to do this kind of thing indoors. Hoping for some outdoor goodness... but not quite like these!

Really beautiful grow space and wonderful looking plants! Thanks for sharing them with our eyes
.

Can I ask, have you had them on SIPs the whole time?

.

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Amy welcome! I have had these plants in SIPs after transplanting from 1 gallon fabric pots. I am still redesigning these SIPs as I go along but feel that the final changes I make before next grow will really make them epic!

 

[Gazoo]

Ok peeps I don't have the cash to throw down on a Co2 monitor just yet. I actually want to save and get a wireless accessible light, temp, and Co2 controller. That's about a grand but will send me texts when the environment goes haywire and allow me to turn things off from my phone or check on the girls from far away. Can even attach a security camera and have it for access and time lapse of the grow. But that's later.

What's my solution now? I found a Co2 data logger for right at 100 bucks and am going to use a cycle timer. The logger will eventually be to measure Co2 in various areas. But for now it will let me adjust the cycle timer for optimum Co2.

The cycle timer is a super cool new cheap timer I have found that will do regular timer stuff also. It has several cool functions.
-countdown and turn on
-countdown and turn off
-cycle time either in hour and minutes or in minutes and seconds. So yes it is possible to do 15 seconds on and 1 min 45 seconds off!

I found this versatile timer in a Brazilian rain forest and was basically able to trade two Wendy's baconators for it. (This will make sense if you think about it)

So at a cost much less than a regular cycle timer with the dials I can much more precisely cycle time down to the second! Could be useful for the EZ cloner. Or a hydro set up.

And the coolest thing besides price is that the instructions are printed on the timer itself!!!! No more losing instructions and forgetting how to program. I'm getting more of these for sure.

Thanks, Just picked one up ebay 16.00 shipping included. Maybe could of found one cheaper
but just grabbed the cheapest one listed at the time

 

[ShiggityFlip]

In my mind that's a small price to pay. As long as they last lol. But it has good reviews on the rainforest site

 

[Gazoo]

In my mind that's a small price to pay. As long as they last lol. But it has good reviews on the rainforest site

I like It Paid more for less

I like the options, nothing in mind for it at the time, but it goes in
my MacGyver box for later

 

[Pennywise]

For that price you could keep a few of them in your tool box

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Yeah I think a timer like this could have sooooo many uses. Gonna get a few of them and do exactly that PW

 

[dr.h00k]

...Thanks, Just picked one up ebay 16.00 shipping included. Maybe could of found one cheaper
but just grabbed the cheapest one listed at the time

Digital Timer Switch Outlet Programmable Multifunctional Plugin Socket 15A/1800W | eBay

tu hablas español amigo!?......cheerz...h00k...

 

[Pennywise]

I think i'll grab 2-3 myself

 

[Gazoo]

I think i'll grab 2-3 myself

Everyone better buy them as soon as you can,
Ebay sellers are going to thing they have Gold

EDIT: That is, if that's were everyone is getting them ?

 

[Pennywise]

I'll look on amazon probably

 

[ShiggityFlip]

I got mine on the 'zon with prime shipping.

 

[Pennywise]

Thats the ticket then