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Dr Mengle's perpeptual grow for the handicapped
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Posted 02 February 2012 - 09:36 PM
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 12:08 AM
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural"
- Bill Hicks
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 06:54 PM
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 10:30 PM
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 09:39 PM
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 03:59 PM
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 09:30 PM
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 04:19 AM
keep those updates rolling man... do you have a macro lens for up close bud shots???
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural"
- Bill Hicks
MEGA CHEAP grow products
TIHSPEEDS Journal
Cookin with Speed and Honey
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 01:07 PM
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 01:16 PM
thanks Tihspeed. Like i said long ago this posting is new to me. i don't know what a "return ''is. I start off good then my wrists get tired and next thing i'm using pidgin english and misspelling everything. I don't have a macro lens as far as i know. i bought this camera on QVC in 1996 and this is the most i've ever used it. I am enjoying writing this for y'all. When everything is designed well and running smoothly....it gets a little boring so writing this is a big boost for me. I will work on plnt close ups ,ending sentances with a period and starting new ones with a capital
the macro really isn't needed, i just wondered... most smart phones now have macro that starts automatically when you get mega close to a object it focuses better...
the return key is also the enter key on your keyboard... it creates a second paragraph.. it just breaks up the reading material so it does not look like a wall-o-text... but im keeping up... so like previously mentioned... keep up the hard work and the updates... your grow is super interesting... i like to read alot but only really post when i get to a computer
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural"
- Bill Hicks
MEGA CHEAP grow products
TIHSPEEDS Journal
Cookin with Speed and Honey
#11
Posted 07 February 2012 - 05:33 PM
I change nutes every sun. during football season and on mon. during off season.During the week i add 1-3 liters daily on the big plant and 1 liter every other day for Susan.Big girl always gets ionized wtr from the wtr store and so do the dirt .
The idea with the ionized wtr for dirt is you're trying to grow the plant but really you're feeding the microzai in the dirt building it making it strong. I don't use specialized dirt nutes i use regular hydro nutes but at 6.3 ph and really , really diluted with ionized water. Less is more .To that end i use a 1 liter watering can that gives me more control when i water
When i change nutes i have to shift 30gals...240lbs !!Thats a lot of weight for a guy that can't lift over 45lbs...can't get on hands and knees. It just takes planning. I didn't just wake up one morning and 'OH NO!' i'm disabled " it was a very gradual thing over 10 year period so i changed my grow style as my RA advanced and bought gadgets that could help me.
I'll give you an example. I used to do co2 and carry a tank up 28 steps to the grow back in the 90's by 2005 i had lost the ability to do stairs carrying a co2 tank and i had to stop.I use co2 at 1.5 lpm so a 20lb. content lasts me a real long time because i only use it during development i don't flwr with it. One day i saw on CL a co2 tank with a 7lb content ! I didn't know they made a tank that size. I rushed over and paid i think $50.The tank was brand new and matches my cab. The dwn side is that i have to drive to the plnt to get it filled and even though it will hold 7lbs they only give me 5lbs because the machine that fills it only meters it out in 5lb increments. I lose 2lbs and i pay the same price as a $20 tank at yer hydo store but at least i can handle it phyically and i'm used to paying $20 anyway so its all relative.
Ok lets get to pics: We got the PPE's in hydro doing walkabout while their tank is being cleaned and nutes being mixed
PPE"s root system after 12 days in development tank.Everyody with good root devlopment except G4 Big Band
DWC ready to be drained
DWC drained
Valves on intake and drains closed-open
Using fluid transfer pump to drain res tank
Counter top water filter to buket
DWC / fresh filtered water
Mixing nutes assisted by bubbler
Krankenhaus where plnts are born and go to die
G4 in Krankenhaus after 24 hrs
PPE 24hrs after changing nutes in development chmbr
Big Girl 24hrs after changing nutes
Dirt PPE' 24hrs after nutes
Various close ups
So basically this is how i do it. I use a two gal buket any time i shift water.For the development chmbr:
PLNTS go walkabout in a KB buket , I check the ph and ppm on old solution, open valves and drain into clear resvr buket, drain resvr buket with fluid transfer wand,close all valves,wipe out DWC tank, fill with filtered water from counter top, add bubbler,add nutes,ph and ppm, open valve to resvr tank,put modular plnt tray back....and BOB"S YER UNCLE!
Flowering chmbr is even easier.Plnt doesn't get moved.Using trnsfr wand pump some into cup and check ppm ph then connect 20 ft hse to trnsfr wand and pump directly to shwr drain both DWC.i use a 5gal buket to mix in and have my water in a 5gal jug with a handle.I pump the mix with my wand into the DWC and i'm done. Takes a leisurely hr that the girls and myself enjoy
I set up the Krankenhaus for the G4 and mixed a old school nute for her very lite and no Hydrogen peroxide.She don't like the Lucas Formula cause she was raised on a two part.Her sisters were stellar and you can't get BIG BAND anymore and if they are available (the seeds) they ain't going to be cheap. I'm going to end here hope i didn't ramble too much.Next time lets talk about problems you can have in working in your cabs
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 05:39 PM
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 03:00 AM
Hydro systems scare me. Too much micro-management for me. I'm just too cheap, and unwilling I guess.
I am thinking the same way, as far as knowing that with my ailments and limitations.
I will eventually have to downsize sooner or later.
I am even talking about moving to a 55 or older trailer park one day. I will never be able to maintain such a large house(5,300 sq. ft.) on 8 1/2 acres. It's tough at 51 as it is.
This is also my first forum activity. Am fortunate to have such interest among the young folks.
I love to teach and don't socialize often. Years of growing has institutionalized me, kinda like a happy prison where you can come and go.
So this is just recreation with purpose.
I'll check in again soon. Thanks for the invite.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 06:16 PM
Same thing going on in the dirt devel chmbr . 3 in there just popping and i had to raise the lite .End of March is when those 3 go outside at a remote site where they will be caretaken .They'll be repotted at least twice before they leave here and i really only need one. You could say its a "HIGHLANDER" situation there can be only one.
Meanwhile G4 Big Band in Krankenhaus is showing signs of perking up now that she doesn't have to share light and is off the Lucas Formula nutes. Back to House and Garden A&B....the dirts get the same stuff but diluted with a different ph and they are responding really well.
Heres your basic problem why people are afraid of hydro in cabs. Your plnts can respond so fast you're not ready for it. In my situation i'm using seeds i got from a pro commercial grower for free. I knew they were sativia but i didn't know they were SATIVIA.These are going to be on the big side and i'm going to have to step my game up big time
I'm only going to be able to do a max of two in the flwr chmbr to acheive the max yeild.Now my normal proceedure is to start the flwrg with a 250 MH and after a week or two kick in the 400w and leds and finish with that.The 250 ballast only gets used for that short period.The two ballasts hang next to each other with that vent above them so the heat has somewhere to go. My pwer strips are connected directly to the wall outlet and i can SCRAM the entire cab by just flipping 2 switches.
After seeing LoveMyBudz cab with the cool tube i've been thinking about it. Now he does 400 wts in his cab.In one of my designs I did a250wt and then up to 400wt to finish. I used a vented hood sitting on top the cab and if you go back in the thread you see a pic of how that didn't work out. Got too hot and the plnt stretched right up to the lite so i gave up on that design,boarded up the holes and moved on to what i have now.
Cool tubes hadn't been invented yet or the early ones were absurdly expensive.Now seeing his cab has made me start thinking. I have everything in there allready. I don't even have to make holes all i need is the cool tube itself. Check the pics.
I checked prices online and $93 is doable. I'm going to check at my hydro store this weekend and see if they'll match the price. Todays pics are what i've been talking about
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 06:47 PM
#16
Posted 08 February 2012 - 07:21 PM
Hey Dr. Well organized little grow for sure. I'll check in often. Peace
completely agree
very well organized
cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door
organics=life
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Posted 11 February 2012 - 03:50 PM
I've got a couple of potential problems with the garden right now. I'm not happy with the growth rate in the flwr chmbr.The plnt is healthy enough but i'm not feeling what i think i should at this point and so i've decided to end the LUCAS FORMULA and go back to my House and Garden nute chart .My reasoning is this is a GEN 3 plnt and all that came before it were on H&G and did well. GEN 4 was on LF and didn't like it all and now that its in Krankenhaus on H&G its perking up. Maybe the "code" is in its makeup for H&G
The PPE's love the LF but they are from seed and know nothing else and are sucking it up and getting kinda big.Its time for me to start doing some bending and maybe a little topping.
I've started the process of adding a cool tube to my hydo chmbr.I have all the flanges,fans,ducting,in spares/parts box allready. All i need is the tube itself that i've shopped out online for around $94 plus shipping. You've already seen my rant about the hydro stores ripping us off at the counter and of course they had to try it with me.
Now i'm proud to say i am one cheap frugal MOFO'..I don't get sticker shock !! I go OFF! 1st they're out of the free samples of Silica Shield so i have to spend $14 and buy a quart now that my plnts are strung out on it.The price of bubblers has risen 50 cents and i have to have them. I ask the guy about the cool tube and he says its $135 and i just dtetonated ! I AM NOT PAYING THAT ! Now they have to match online prices if you can find it cheaper than their price . Funny how their computer can find the site but not the item " i'm just not seeing it " .At any rate i paid my $43 for my stuff and got out of there but not before doing my "I spent less than $50 " touchdwn dance ala the Asian dude in the Southwest airlines ad. Excessive celebration of savings !
Tomorrow is big resv chng and i'll probally order the cooltube online. I'll have pics of all tomorrow.
#18
Posted 11 February 2012 - 05:45 PM
Good luck with the meds thing, sounds terrible
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural"
- Bill Hicks
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TIHSPEEDS Journal
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 04:32 AM
High everyone i'm afraid i've been rather remiss in writing this the last couple of days because i've been battling my Medi-Cal iinsurance for my arthritis meds. This battle has gone on for four months and i've been without my meds for that time. Pain level was at a manageable 4 on a scale of 1-10 when i started i'm now at a strong 9. Finally got my RX paperwork thru the system and theres nothing more for me to do. I have been bent, spindled, and mutilated....but i think i succeeded.
I've got a couple of potential problems with the garden right now. I'm not happy with the growth rate in the flwr chmbr.The plnt is healthy enough but i'm not feeling what i think i should at this point and so i've decided to end the LUCAS FORMULA and go back to my House and Garden nute chart .My reasoning is this is a GEN 3 plnt and all that came before it were on H&G and did well. GEN 4 was on LF and didn't like it all and now that its in Krankenhaus on H&G its perking up. Maybe the "code" is in its makeup for H&G
The PPE's love the LF but they are from seed and know nothing else and are sucking it up and getting kinda big.Its time for me to start doing some bending and maybe a little topping.
I've started the process of adding a cool tube to my hydo chmbr.I have all the flanges,fans,ducting,in spares/parts box allready. All i need is the tube itself that i've shopped out online for around $94 plus shipping. You've already seen my rant about the hydro stores ripping us off at the counter and of course they had to try it with me.
Now i'm proud to say i am one cheap frugal MOFO'..I don't get sticker shock !! I go OFF! 1st they're out of the free samples of Silica Shield so i have to spend $14 and buy a quart now that my plnts are strung out on it.The price of bubblers has risen 50 cents and i have to have them. I ask the guy about the cool tube and he says its $135 and i just dtetonated ! I AM NOT PAYING THAT ! Now they have to match online prices if you can find it cheaper than their price . Funny how their computer can find the site but not the item " i'm just not seeing it " .At any rate i paid my $43 for my stuff and got out of there but not before doing my "I spent less than $50 " touchdwn dance ala the Asian dude in the Southwest airlines ad. Excessive celebration of savings !
Tomorrow is big resv chng and i'll probally order the cooltube online. I'll have pics of all tomorrow.
Love your grow man. Im learning a lot. Sorry to hear about the insurance problems and a pain level of 9...damn..that sounds so brutal. I just had a kidney stone and I dont know if Id say it was a 9. Glad to hear youre gettin that sorted out. Cant wait to see the pics.
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 06:31 PM
My cabs are built and work well the real problem is timing . I wasn't expecting these PPE to be so prolific and grow this fast so its a little problem that can be a big problem fast. I need to find out soonest who is a JACK and who's a JILL in both development chmbrs.
To this end i'm going to 12/12 on both chmbrs. I've bent the PPE's in hydro to the ht.of the smallest plnt and went back to H&G nutes. Nutes being drained were at 6.5 ph 1015ppm.New nutes 6.3ph. 1250 ppm
Flwring chmbr was Big Band 7.2 ph out 900ppm out. "Susan" 7.2 ph out 1200ppm out. Mixed new nutes for both at 1500ppm and 6.3
Dirt got nutes at 300ppm 5.8 ph real lite water..maybe 1 liter all 3 plnts and they are just rocking their airpots.
Krankenhaus G4 is running at 1200ppm 5.5 ph.
I thought the ph a little low so i raised it to 6.2 by adding a liitle up and fresh water to the mix. I'll know by tomorrow if i was right about changing nutes. I just wasn't feeling the snap i usually get. I'm not saying the LUCAS FORMULA doesn't work its just that i'm not feelin it. I was attracted to it because its cheaper and its in HT. I gave it a month and i'm done with the experiment and pulling out with no damage and wiser about info overkill
The pics are this weeks growth in all chambers, before and after bending. Those are adjustable curtain rods that i use for bending. I put the rod to the ht i want and bend the plnt under it. Done.
I'll buy a blkout curtain for the dirt chmbr tomorrow for around $12 and start the 12/12 for them tomorrow.
The timing is 8week flwring for hydro PPE's
4weeks more for flwrng Big Band (2) then PPE's go in
12 weeks flwering to go outside at end of mar for early summer harvest for the dirts
Pretty tricky scheduling but thats the fun
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