New Grow room

[oldjarhead100]

so I got the defole done and supercropped it all ,the pics are kinda in order .the last picture is looking down on the canopy after laying them down what a tangled mess that is .

Personally Fir being in partial bloom for 8 weeks its not bad I am going to suffer some yield loss because of the problems I've had ,It should still be a good yield.

I also got the ac in room with dehumidifier turned it on and blew the ckt breaker so I had to move where the ac plugged in to its own ckt. I installed 20 amp wiring and outlets but cheeped out and used a 15 amp ckt breaker cause it was on the breaker panel .I will definitely have to redo locations for stuff once this grow is done

Yes I know there is a unhappy plant in front with curled leafs I've flushed it out run off is under 1000 ppm and ph is 5.7 kinda low but in range not much else to do

[oldjarhead100]

I got 2/3 of the defole done only bent the really tall ones until I finish the defole , I got my pump for the feeding line in I now have 90% of the stuff I need for the drain and supply lines for the challenge
What do people use for a res tank I have a white 55 gallon barrel I can use ,I will have to move some stuff around to elevate it but it can be done

I also planted the seeds that had tails on them trying something new I got some of those cloth bags that weedfarmer uses I put a heat pad under them and I left them under the t5 for seedlings instead of upstairs in back room I'm not in the house very much during the summer so I'm more likely to remember them down cellar lol

[oldjarhead100]

I love deals like that I have a nephew who is supposed to move to NH this summer and he deals in solar panels HMMm lol

[Redwasp]

My brother in law is a contractor. And he has some kind of contract with a company to do solar installs. So I always get them through him. Ill ask him where he gets them from and how he gets them at his much discounted prices. The biggest bonus is that I never have to pay for any labor on any work to my house. He comes over with his crew, i make some real bbq smoked all day while they work. We first get happy, then they sit back drink a few beers and eat bbq.

[oldjarhead100]

Redwasp where do you get your solar panels? the game plan for today is to defoil then super crop all the girls ,take some pictures so I can keep seeing they are in bloom lol, I didn't move ac yesterday but I will .its going to be a bitch watering once I put it in the room no extra room in there thats for sure . I was thinking that I might just make a few holes in the exhaust to see if thats enough to get down to 45 % RH while still venting most of the heat out of the room .IDK we shall see

[stoneotter]

That sounds good. Also, turning down the exhaust to outside fan a little helped me I think by not sucking in so much moist air from the nooks and crannies. I was really moving air out.

[hycheese]

That's why I have 3 of those meters, so I could track power usage for my small solar array, had one on my cheap grid-tied inverter to monitor how much power I was feeding back into my house.

I also have a "Current Cost" meter tied into my main panel with amp clamps that wirelessly sends all wattage and calculated costs to a remote on my desk.

I have a smart meter installed on the house and my power company gives some nice graphed daily data on their website. mine even overlays it with the outside temperature for the day.

[Redwasp]

I really need to get one of those meters. Gonna add more solar panels and need to know how many panels and battery backups I will need. The panels are cheap, the battery backup for over 1000 watts gets very expensive. If you are gonna add solar do it before the end of the year. Right now you get 25% tax break. It has been removed for next year.

[hycheese]

That sounds like a good idea,
My room is 12'x10' with only 2 plants in veg and 700 watts of total heat dissipation (including Dehumidifier).

I have a Kill-A-Watt meter on both the AC & DH, the AC has used 11,000 watts in the last 6 weeks costing only $11 at my rate of $0.10/kWh, I lost the data on the DH but it was only running half that of the AC. We have been in the high 90's with 70% humidity since I started this grow, keeping the room at 77F @ 45% rh.

If you're gonna buy a Kill-A-Watt meter make sure it is the model that retains the memory during a power outage #P4460 about $25 at walmart, the cheaper #P4400 works well but will not retain memory when unplugged.

[oldjarhead100]

ok so new idea I'm going to move ac into bloom room and take the exhaust from the Dehumidifier off use the hole for the ac exhaust set temp at say 75 and dehumidifier at 45% .Hopefully they wont run forever

[D.A.A.S.69]

Looking nice OJH,,

[oldjarhead100]

I was trying to get a picture of the pollen sac not the bee lol

[oldjarhead100]

OH HAPPY DAYS OH HAPPY DAYS they might be hard to see but they are white ya baby, oh and the last pic is of a very busy little bee look at that pollen sac on its leg

[Potted]

Hay OJH I’ve seen a salt hay layer applied to lawn seed to use less water and germinate faster

[oldjarhead100]

I got my alien vs toofless auto seeds in yesterday and will drop them this morning ,

I saw white pistils yesterday for sure unfortunately they were on a white widow in the woods lol

If these tuts dont go into bloom by next week then they are going outside bet that would look crazy stems up to 3 feet then a crazy canopy thats twisted and flat then the colas sticking up