The DeVille's White Widow & Bubbleicious - 8 Plants Under 2x Mars Pro II 320

I am one that has been described by my peers as an over thinker. I am forever in search of ways to optimize everything imaginable. It just sucks for me with poor financing, but based on the gear you have, and where you're headed, I strongly suggest considering getting into micro controllers to manage your various devices and sensors. I've been on this quest for 3 solid years hoping to one day build a cheap, but highly precise full grow hydroponics controller and I am almost finished. I still of course need more money and time to work out every kink, but ultimately I WILL reach my goal and be able to control all devices and monitor sensors from anywhere with internet access. A few other growers have also began their build, and one of them is an expert coder of many years which will translate to highly efficient code.

How this relates to you, well when reading your thoughts about adding in CO2 and working out the best way to optimize CO2 exposure in a ventilated environment, bells started ringing in my head. Assuming the room is fairly well sealed and the CO2 supply is accounted for, a micro controller could handle everything else with minimal added investment. The way I see it, you could put dampers in your vents to your rooms and control which of them are open and which are closed. The micro can also open and close the CO2 supply valve and correlate the 2 to work together to maintain a steady range of CO2 WHILE also maintaining temp and humidity in the room. Granted this still involves wasting some CO2, but the micro could literally gas the grow while temps/RH stay below your desired levels, and once either is breached, stop the gas and pop open a duct damper to allow the air to flow. Micros can handle things in the millisecond range, but growers only need a few seconds of accuracy or even minutes on a lot of things. Using micros to manage all your devices will enable you to always maintain ideal conditions assuming your gear can work that well to begin with.

I just wanted to share my POV.
 
now that would be something allright! I have plans to build a perfect grow-space eventually and collect all my grows in the same room. Then I will want to be able to control the temp/humidity settings in the entire room as well as each independent tent. I also want to build a lab in the room next to the grow-room. When that time comes I will want to go that direction so I can control everything with a computer. That is a little bit into the future though. Will try to invest smart though so every investment also saves me energy and pay for itself that way. I want my final setup to be a very eco friendly thing that leaves an as small footprint as possible on this planet.

I like the way you think!

Skybound said:
I am one that has been described by my peers as an over thinker. I am forever in search of ways to optimize everything imaginable. It just sucks for me with poor financing, but based on the gear you have, and where you're headed, I strongly suggest considering getting into micro controllers to manage your various devices and sensors. I've been on this quest for 3 solid years hoping to one day build a cheap, but highly precise full grow hydroponics controller and I am almost finished. I still of course need more money and time to work out every kink, but ultimately I WILL reach my goal and be able to control all devices and monitor sensors from anywhere with internet access. A few other growers have also began their build, and one of them is an expert coder of many years which will translate to highly efficient code.

How this relates to you, well when reading your thoughts about adding in CO2 and working out the best way to optimize CO2 exposure in a ventilated environment, bells started ringing in my head. Assuming the room is fairly well sealed and the CO2 supply is accounted for, a micro controller could handle everything else with minimal added investment. The way I see it, you could put dampers in your vents to your rooms and control which of them are open and which are closed. The micro can also open and close the CO2 supply valve and correlate the 2 to work together to maintain a steady range of CO2 WHILE also maintaining temp and humidity in the room. Granted this still involves wasting some CO2, but the micro could literally gas the grow while temps/RH stay below your desired levels, and once either is breached, stop the gas and pop open a duct damper to allow the air to flow. Micros can handle things in the millisecond range, but growers only need a few seconds of accuracy or even minutes on a lot of things. Using micros to manage all your devices will enable you to always maintain ideal conditions assuming your gear can work that well to begin with.

I just wanted to share my POV.
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Vegg nutes? Upps! Been feeding them bloom nutes now for some weeks :) I don't know much about auto's - do I?

ohioboy said:
Bro those pore autos lol it ain't to late. Keep em on full strength veg nutes for looks like 3-4 more weeks you want them in full flower BEFORE you change the nutes and it's not to late those girls could really surprise you. And if I use a window ac unit you think that pushes in some cO2
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In regards of energy saving and increasing yield at the same time. I have done some research. This is just a little piece of a long article explaining how the system works. I have marked the relevant text. They say another place in the article that the more lamps the better. So I'm thinking 8-10 very small lamps in a tent. Only 4-5 are on at once and you alternate it every two hours. You use almost a chessboard pattern on the lights. This has been tested in reality and it works. You get away with using 50% less energy and you even get increased yields as a result of it (grams per actual watt used). I can't afford the 10 small lamps though with my limited funding. Makes me wish I had 12 80's instead of 3 320's

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Here the missing text from the previous photo

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DeVille said:
Cloning in soil with beneficial bacteria. Day 8

The dome has been off more than 24 hours. They are still standing strong. You can see on the bottom leaves they have clearly worked hard on rooting that week they lived under a dome. This experiment was extremely successful. New personal record for me and the preferred method of cloning. Want to try to simplify it even more in the future. Considering to use 0.5L airpot mods instead. Less stem to work with, but still two times more than if I were to use rockwool or other commercial cloning stuff out there. Much more space for roots to grow from. I am certain that matters somehow. What do you think folks?

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Wow Deville. Looking great.
 
Trying to elegantly overcome some restrictions set by 420 in regards of mentioning or linking to their competition. So here we go:

I am subscribing to this huge magazine that is released monthly. After reading this article from the July 2017 issue, I am considering to cancel my subscription. It's official folks - We in this forum know much much more about growing cannabis than this mag will ever do. Look at these ridiculus claims - No one uses soil indoors in 2017 - no one! Seriously? Did you really not notice the "living soil" "high brix" and all those things starting to become more and more used? I used to grow indoors in Hydro, but I changed to soil for simplicity. Almost every grower I am in contact with is in fact using soil inside in 2017.

Anyway - This article pissed me off!

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I seriously was expecting a good read here. Where they actually explains the benefits of soil vs hydro. Not an article full of false claims about indoor/outdoor growing and very outdated info.
 
Hey guys. I started a Durban poison and amnesia in coco. Then decided to plant them in soil that I got from a friend that grows organically!!!
What a fuck up!!! I nearly lost them due to shock of the soil. After 3 weeks battling i put amnesia back in coco. Left the dp because it came right much faster than amnesia.
I think it would have been better if i started the grow in soil. So am not put off trying again. Less maintenance i think.
 
ohioboy said:
Ok help me understand how scrog helps yield I don't get it?
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By spreading the canopy apart to allow more light penetration and better airflow.
 
Noticing 2 of 5 White Widow plants are showing deficiencies. Thinking it looks like it needs more bloom nutes, so I filled 100 liters of water. Fed 300ml of Canna Flores A and 300ml of Canna Flores B. Just to make sure it's not a nitrogen deficiency I also added around 30ml of Canna Vega A and B.


Hoping it's fixed that easily. I can't afford more nutes right now
 
Very shitty. Hope everything comes around for ya
 
I think they want more phosphorus. I've been feeding them half the recommended nutes lately. I read somewhere that White Widow is a heavy feeder when it comes to nutes, so I went up to full strength this time. That is something I never actually did before. I left room for 100 liters of water in case the plants react bad to it. Then I can water it down to 1/2 of the recommended strength again.
 
DeVille said:
I think they want more phosphorus. I've been feeding them half the recommended nutes lately. I read somewhere that White Widow is a heavy feeder when it comes to nutes, so I went up to full strength this time. That is something I never actually did before. I left room for 100 liters of water in case the plants react bad to it. Then I can water it down to 1/2 of the recommended strength again.
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I had what sounds like same problem with my ww. Only feeding half strength they got problems feed full strength or alittle over and everything came around.
 
Ohioboy Deville tell me u the man. Can u give me a few pointers on autos pls. Got 6 on the go from a friend who planted way to many. How do they use nuts? Same as regular feminized plants? I would be appropriate it. Can dm me to if you prefer.
Thanks
 
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