mcguyver filter

Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by elfishio, Nov 26, 2006.

  1. #1 elfishio, Nov 26, 2006
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  2. A. possibly. people have made similar adaptations with differing success. Try it. You'd probably be better off buying a Kilo of activated carbon refil and rigging up something with that, though.

    And B...

    Well, dude, cannabis is a pretty resiliant plant, but it has limits. The warmth is good, so long as it doesn't get above 80-85 degrees. The smoke is not good. This will make your plant hold its nose (well, stomata, google it) and stunt its growth, basically meaning smaller plant, and smaller buds, if you get that far. It will also coat the plant with tar, which also makes it hard for the plant to breathe. The bulk of a plant's "matter" comes from the air (carbon).

    As a rule, you should never smoke anywhere near your plants (for the above reasons), nor touch them after smoking, unless you have scrubbed your hands (especially if smoking bought weed or tobacco - for virii).

    For flowering cannabis (making buds), you need 12 hours of total darkness every day. Is that going to be possible there? (with "electronics all around") Maybe you need to build a small cabinet to house this project, do some studying. The more you can learn about the special needs of this plant, the greater will be your reward at harvest time.

    Like I say, it's a resiliant plant, and will do its best no matter what conditions you give it, within reason, but to really get a worthwhile end product, you're going to have to invest some time, effort, and most likely; cash.

    If you are looking to do it on the cheap (as I suspect), you can do a whole grow with fluoros, but you need a few. HID light is better, but more expensive to get setup. You can get all sorts of organic (soil) feed for free or near-free, if you research that. I like pot grown in good organic earth, and the more organic you get, the cheaper it is.

    Have fun!

    -mu
     
  3. the active charcoal in those brita filters is the same shit you can buy by the truckload from almost any petshop that has fish

    a neat little trick to avoid paying for those filters is to like the inkjet carts or toner drums pop the top dump the coal and refill it with fresh active charcoal

    a rubberbanded coffee filter over the now loose top (snipping the basket on top all around close as possible) works well enough

    sure it's ghetto but if you're a filtered water junkie it works... you could also create your own in line filter by simply making a large chamber with 2 threaded ends that reduce to a smaller fitting (say a garden faucet)fitted with mesh/screen on both ends with your coal tied up in cheese cloth cotton or at worst a new sock within this chamber
     
  4. #4 elfishio, Nov 27, 2006
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