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The Happy Cola Company's Official Ground Up Medical Cannabis Grow Op
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Hey guys...Im happy you’re happy. I have been loving the whole start up build with barriers and solutions. Congratulations.
Greenthumbs42019
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Great write up, very cool stuff you guys are doing. Living the dream! Only took me a couple days to find the time to read through it all but well worth it. Love the ingenuity! Too bad on the bugs but live and learn I guess right.
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The Happy One
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Even though I haven't posted doesn't mean we aren't making progress.
Sir Dank is just about to finish up on the floor tile, and wow is about all I can say.
Part of our new protocalls involves a shower, so the bathroom is getting completed.
I'm amazed at how well The Dank One was able to cut out the tiles out around the shower enclosure
We also reinforced the ceiling area on the south side of the flower room that needs to support hanging the 300 plus pint per hour dehumidifier
Sir Dank is just about to finish up on the floor tile, and wow is about all I can say.
Part of our new protocalls involves a shower, so the bathroom is getting completed.
I'm amazed at how well The Dank One was able to cut out the tiles out around the shower enclosure
We also reinforced the ceiling area on the south side of the flower room that needs to support hanging the 300 plus pint per hour dehumidifier
Good ebb and flow with flush...
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The Happy One
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Hmmm....lol
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The Happy One
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Today is one of those days I've been dreading for several days. We need to get the rather large Anden dehumidifier installed overhead on the south end of the grow room. With the rolling tables, there isn't much room to work with.
We barely had enough room to get the scaffolding in place.
This also involved some pretty serious beefing up of the upstairs floor joists. We also needed to run another 220 volt outlet. Glad the flooring isn't up on the upstairs yet.
All that's left is to plumb in the condensate line!
Boom!
We barely had enough room to get the scaffolding in place.
This also involved some pretty serious beefing up of the upstairs floor joists. We also needed to run another 220 volt outlet. Glad the flooring isn't up on the upstairs yet.
All that's left is to plumb in the condensate line!
Boom!
Gosh, I hate to notice things, but your lights are a bit crooked. 
Seriously though, looks like y’all got it done. One hurdle down and on to the next.
Seriously though, looks like y’all got it done. One hurdle down and on to the next.
Congrats on your first sale, especially after the challenges on the way! It’s all downhill from here!
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Sorry guys, I'm super behind but I'm here now.
We are discussing your application and I'll be watching
We are discussing your application and I'll be watching
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The Happy One
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With bud curing and sales picking up we have our first smile and accomplished a milestone of the magnitude many simply couldn't understand.
For the first time ever, The Happy Cola paid the mortgage and very high electric bill with proceeds generated from the sale of medicine! Woohoo!
This means, we live another month...
For the first time ever, The Happy Cola paid the mortgage and very high electric bill with proceeds generated from the sale of medicine! Woohoo!
This means, we live another month...
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The Happy One
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While checking on the ladies in veg, I entered the area of sadness where there is no getting around doing what must be done...
Yes indeed friends, we have a male actually, not one, but three.
They are from a non feminized seed, but the good news is we have plenty that are female, so unfortunately, the boys gotta get out of the ladies room...
This new strain is called "Gorilla Cookies", and should be a potent set of genetics. Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies crossed with Gorilla Glue #4 (which stands well on it's own merit I might add). With love, should be an easy 20+% THC profile.
Anyway, time to start taking more clones to gear up for the crop after next!
Yes indeed friends, we have a male actually, not one, but three.
They are from a non feminized seed, but the good news is we have plenty that are female, so unfortunately, the boys gotta get out of the ladies room...
This new strain is called "Gorilla Cookies", and should be a potent set of genetics. Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies crossed with Gorilla Glue #4 (which stands well on it's own merit I might add). With love, should be an easy 20+% THC profile.
Anyway, time to start taking more clones to gear up for the crop after next!
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The Happy One
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The last few days have been spent prepping the flower room for the next grow. One thing we had to do was update all the 1.5" return drains on the rolling tables and upgrade to 2". We had to fight with feed volume adjustment the entire last grow.
This cures that from never happening again.
It's hard to appreciate the size of the room when full of flowering ladies.
This cures that from never happening again.
It's hard to appreciate the size of the room when full of flowering ladies.
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The Happy One
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One row in...
We have Fast Jack (proven high thc producer we now have dialed in)
And we introduced a new lady into the fold. We are proud to Introduce 9 Pound Hammer...
Three rows to go...
We have Fast Jack (proven high thc producer we now have dialed in)
And we introduced a new lady into the fold. We are proud to Introduce 9 Pound Hammer...
Three rows to go...
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The Happy One
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I don't think I brought it up, but I need to. I haven't chimed in on our lighting.
Both my partner and I have been long time proponents of HPS lighting. We also were around and tried a series of what I call "blurple" lights, with less than acceptable results, so trying any LED lighting for flowering was a hard pill to swallow myself... much less convince my partner LED's can compete with HPS lighting.
Even bought a PAR meter to compare performance.
What I CAN now officially say while putting my head on a pillow and sleeping like a baby is yes, 288 Samsung LM301'S driven at 500 watts at the plug can not only replace a 1000 watt HPS light, they excell where HPS left off. So much so, the PAR reading over the canopy far exceeded what was required EVEN using Co2 in a sealed room environment.
Further, bud development well below the canopy actually netted some very worthwhile buds.
Best of all, we improved over HPS and did it at about half the operational costs of 1000 watt HPS.
My hat is off to the boys at Atreum Lighting for hooking us up with a solution that offered us no regrets.
Stay Tuned!
Both my partner and I have been long time proponents of HPS lighting. We also were around and tried a series of what I call "blurple" lights, with less than acceptable results, so trying any LED lighting for flowering was a hard pill to swallow myself... much less convince my partner LED's can compete with HPS lighting.
Even bought a PAR meter to compare performance.
What I CAN now officially say while putting my head on a pillow and sleeping like a baby is yes, 288 Samsung LM301'S driven at 500 watts at the plug can not only replace a 1000 watt HPS light, they excell where HPS left off. So much so, the PAR reading over the canopy far exceeded what was required EVEN using Co2 in a sealed room environment.
Further, bud development well below the canopy actually netted some very worthwhile buds.
Best of all, we improved over HPS and did it at about half the operational costs of 1000 watt HPS.
My hat is off to the boys at Atreum Lighting for hooking us up with a solution that offered us no regrets.
Stay Tuned!
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The Happy One
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Long before the shower went in, way, way back my son got us a small hot water heater to power the shower.
Since then, I snickered about the size and whether it could heat anything other than a cup of coffee.
I sort of tested it, however, it had just dawned on me we never put a water pressure regulator on the main feed in the building.
I guess we are lucky, because the water pressure before I put the regulator in was a tad over 120 psig!
Doesn't sound THAT high until you realize that most whole house pressure regulators are preset @ 45 psig.
This alone transformed the little hot water heater. 120 psi water was flowing about 3 times faster than it should, and not having enough time to heat up in the heat exchanger
This will provide a constant hot water supply.
Also, I'm betting we didn't help the R.O. membrane, much less water faucet valves by forcing too much pressure.through them.
Anyway, we have a shower now. Looking for some lockers for the dressing room and something for sitting a spell...
Since then, I snickered about the size and whether it could heat anything other than a cup of coffee.
I sort of tested it, however, it had just dawned on me we never put a water pressure regulator on the main feed in the building.
I guess we are lucky, because the water pressure before I put the regulator in was a tad over 120 psig!
Doesn't sound THAT high until you realize that most whole house pressure regulators are preset @ 45 psig.
This alone transformed the little hot water heater. 120 psi water was flowing about 3 times faster than it should, and not having enough time to heat up in the heat exchanger
This will provide a constant hot water supply.
Also, I'm betting we didn't help the R.O. membrane, much less water faucet valves by forcing too much pressure.through them.
Anyway, we have a shower now. Looking for some lockers for the dressing room and something for sitting a spell...
Were you getting a "water hammer" effect when you had water running and then turned it off? Or do you have an expansion tank installed?
Yeah, 120 PSI is considered to be way too high. I've heard that above 80 PSI is a code violation most places, but I haven't verified that. But it should never be above that, regardless (industrial situations probably differ, but that's just a guess). Some plumbers will tell you 40 to 60 is considered to be normal, some will use 70 or even 75 PSI as the upper limit (or used to years ago - water conservation strategies include running a lower maximum pressure, so 50 PSI might be considered to be a good upper limit to shoot for in a residential setting).
Your reverse osmosis device and tankless water heater should have a pressure rating in their specifications. You are right to be concerned. The RO one for sure; even a small tear in the membrane will allow unfiltered water through. You undoubtedly know this, lol, just making sure that future readers of your thread will, too.
Your setup keeps improving. It's nice to see a professional grow operation that actually looks like it was put together... by professionals.
Yeah, 120 PSI is considered to be way too high. I've heard that above 80 PSI is a code violation most places, but I haven't verified that. But it should never be above that, regardless (industrial situations probably differ, but that's just a guess). Some plumbers will tell you 40 to 60 is considered to be normal, some will use 70 or even 75 PSI as the upper limit (or used to years ago - water conservation strategies include running a lower maximum pressure, so 50 PSI might be considered to be a good upper limit to shoot for in a residential setting).
Your reverse osmosis device and tankless water heater should have a pressure rating in their specifications. You are right to be concerned. The RO one for sure; even a small tear in the membrane will allow unfiltered water through. You undoubtedly know this, lol, just making sure that future readers of your thread will, too.
Your setup keeps improving. It's nice to see a professional grow operation that actually looks like it was put together... by professionals.
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The Happy One
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I never got a hammer effect, but I have an expansion tank. Wait. No I don't. The expansion tank only keeps the RO lines throughout the building under 45 psi constant pressure. There is nothing on the primary water feed. Well, now there's a pressure regulator. I took it from 45 psi to 60 psi. 60 psi is still in the green on the RO system.
I just know everything has had 120 psi in it for nearly a year.
And your RO device's output still tests out as being nearly pure? That's... a pretty doggone good RO machine, lol.
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The Happy One
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Well, the term "nearly pure" is kind of a misnomer. It isnt 0 ppm, that's for sure. We did just replace the two element Hydrologic prefilter and replaced it with a Bigboy, plus the RO has a gauge and an entry ball valve. I kinda tapered flow to the RO system for a good year.. but it wasn't like a pressure regulator for sure.