Hi there, new, showing off my plant

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I apologize. Let's talk about positioning. I've got a full kitchen space but I've got a plant enclosed by square light and various other things.

I'll pop it in the corner furthest away to gain maximum total kitchen exposure while most of it will be blocked by the square lights. You can see how I built that thing.

It will destroy everything floating around and the ozone byproduct will do some oxidation but it's very minor compared to the actual machines that generate it.

I want to create a general environment dampening of anything floating around. I'll occasionally blast the hell out of it with the ozone directly, but then I will do a quick clear.

Which is how I maintained my mushroom grow rooms.

Thiswill not harm active mycelium growth. Once established that mycelium will keep going even with ozone exposure. You got to get that shit directly with UVC which I won't be doing unless I actually see it.

I accept I will have to be doing constant inspection and can't just trust whatever external environmental things I do. But I'm going to try to stay from chemicals if I can.

 

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most uvc lamps are low power soo your gonna have to get closer to hit the mitochondria breaking point

I got quartz hospital supply ones. They're supposed to be able to sterilize a 20x20 space, but I don't trust that and I'm not going for actual sterilization. Just let that UVC hit the DNA of whatever it passes through.

 

[amneziaHaze]

I got quartz hospital supply ones. They're supposed to be able to sterilize a 20x20 space, but I don't trust that and I'm not going for actual sterilization. Just let that UVC hit the DNA of whatever it passes through.

o yea and uvc degrades plastic like crazy soo yea dont make the mistake like me XD

 

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Yeah, I've been following the development of various sources of UVC for about 20 years. When they started constructing the LED uvcs they would just self-destruct them burn the insides out of the all the electronics and plastic and anything nearby. Sure, they were great for about 5 minutes.




I suggest following big clives. He's awesome and he's done a lot of UVC explanatories And rip aparts.

 

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Interesting. I thought I included. I suggest you follow this guy from the previous post but I don't see it on the scroll by. I'll let it go and get back to what I'm doing. I suggest you follow him.

 

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Swapped the leaking water filter, it was time. Anyway. That would have been a disaster but hey it just started squirting me in the face at one moment.

Here's the gathering of the random crap I throw in. Why? Just because. I also throw in a whole bunch of sugar and molasses and maple syrup, both Walmart and the expensive stuff. Plus a lot of corn syrup.

 

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Turns out the corners of the dishwasher door were catching on the counter inserts. I was in a wheelchair when the contractor put it in and I wasn't paying attention. And then for years Airbnb users were were opening and closing and and bending it and one of them mentioned it to me once.

Yeah, my wife said, it's been doing that for years. WTF?

I love angle grinders.

A year ago I was scared shitless of them. I decided to learn how to weld and that meant fabrication and that meant picking up an angle grinder.

I didn't turn my welding gear on until after I had a couple of classes. They were teaching me mig but I want it stick. Sure, I'll be happy to do Mig but I want stick. So I bought a stick machine and waited to turn it on until my first welding class.

It was a promise I made to my wife. I waited. I had that machine in the closet for months.

The first several classes were no welding, they were cutting and shaping and smoothing. Lots of angle grinder work.

Good. Hey instructor, how am I doing here? Should I hold it like this or that? Wait a second? Am I supposed to press this while get to that..

So after a couple classes of that I love my angle grinders. Plural.

And flap discs are awesome. I never knew about those until that class.

If you do woodwork and you sand anything or you attempt to shape anything and you don't use an angle grinder, you should take a look at using an angle grinder with a flap disc. It can shape metal. It can shape wood a lot easier. I've never seen a woodworker use an angle grinder. Go get one if you don't have one.

So anyway, 10 seconds with cut off wheel and 10 seconds with flap disc and I have usable dishwasher and this is the first time I've turned it on in a year. My upstairs dishwasher just broke so this is incredible timing. I planned on replacing the upstairs one in about 2 months as part of the kitchen rebuild, but I didn't want to replace it now. Good timing.

I'm a step closer to getting that kitchen back. I had turned off the electricity to the oven and I had turned off the water to the sink so I didn't accidentally knock something on while working in there. They're back on.

To anyone who has any thoughts about the electrical supply in there. There is what is considered legally the standard kitchen from the start when you have to build one in the last 3 years, everything by done by electrician and inspected of course. But then I told him to add two additional Hi amp 110 lines. I planned on growing in there. Make it safe. And it was all inspected and approved.

So he put in whatever was the high touchy feely easy to trip outlets which are ridiculous if you want to put a coffee maker in it but those lights love them.

I use less than half the capacity of any line I ever plug into. I always use UL listed gear. You'll see lots of ugly cables hanging around and I'm always throwing something somewhere else and then going through a organize cycle and then I get to recover a whole bunch of stuff and then do it again. Just like the good old days of building and ripping apart computer rooms.

 

[TestTime]

Been on this site for awhile. No one makes fun of other people’s plants, no matter how tiny they are. If you don’t agree, right on. Don’t give someone shit because he’s not doing what you do.

Don't worry about it. I initially present as a random asshole. I always want to draw out the attackers. It's for a bunch of different reasons, but if there is an expert who sees this and wants to give me advice, even strident advice, I'll take it. I want the eyeballs. I want people to show up so someone who might have come across this might say yeah I did this and then that happened.

My ego isn't embedded in this and I've been battling shills on the internet since the bulletin board system days and the internet didn't exist.

I got the smoke that I smoke and the proof and the pictures. Some people's egos or financial lives are so embedded on how everything currently works they will not accept the hint of a possibility of alternative. That's fine, they're fun to watch.

 

[TestTime]

o yea and uvc degrades plastic like crazy soo yea dont make the mistake like me XD

I just want to acknowledge you. We started off a bit iffy. Yes I present as a random asshole. And you make good observations and you have good knowledge and experience. So you were like what the fuck motherfucker.

So we engaged a bit and I explained my thought processes including that sounded insulting etc. And you responded well I don't know man and then we got a little bit closer in agreement of how we see the world.

We both use UVC and have experience with ozone and that shit's, dangerous and damaging. You may not have taken the time to read any of my random holy shit. This is how safe I am and this is my level of gas mask etc etc. That's okay. I ramble a lot. It's data. Some people turn it into information. I see where that goes.

Okay with that Babel out of the way.

I will often toss off really short what I consider concise responses when I'm doing a quick response and I'm trying not to be distracted from whatever the current focus is.

You might read into that tight little response a lack of knowledge. That's okay. I would hope you judge it in the middle, ie, maybe that guy knows something but maybe he doesn't and maybe this is how he should think about it because that's what worked for me.

Because that's how I try to see pretty much every post out there. Even from the assholes. Even assholes know stuff I don't know.

 

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Okay, I got a ruler up there. Let's spend a few days without moving the plant and working on these branches and see what happens.

You'll know as I do.

 

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Moving along. About 4 hours later.

 

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Just an ooh pretty shot

I love the glowing trichones. This is UVB and red. The red really screws up the camera focus but this one seems to have gotten okay.

And a nice half and half.

 

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Air flow is perfect.

By putting two box fans drawing up it sucks everything through all the holes between the lights into it. I put an additional single fan on the side pushing down to ensure the bottom of the pool area starts the swirl up while being pulled along with everything sucking in through the sides.

When I stand next to it I can feel the wind at my back no matter what side I'm at.

Open window next to it has high velocity air King pushing in. Room next to it has high velocity warehouse industrial fan pushing out a window.

When you stand outside the house, you can actually feel the full swirl from one window down about 20 ft to the next. It's always flowing in a constant direction due to wind from the sea.

I will never aim a fan into a plant or at a light again.

 

[MileHiGhost]

Oh my

 

[Florida_Mike]

Air flow is perfect.

By putting two box fans drawing up it sucks everything through all the holes between the lights into it. I put an additional single fan on the side pushing down to ensure the bottom of the pool area starts the swirl up while being pulled along with everything sucking in through the sides.

When I stand next to it I can feel the wind at my back no matter what side I'm at.

Open window next to it has high velocity air King pushing in. Room next to it has high velocity warehouse industrial fan pushing out a window.

When you stand outside the house, you can actually feel the full swirl from one window down about 20 ft to the next. It's always flowing in a constant direction due to wind from the sea.

I will never aim a fan into a plant or at a light again.

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Dude. That looks ridiculous for one plant, especially being that it's probably all on 1 circuit (guessing). How many amps are you pulling? Do you have any electrical experience? Or hopefully an electrician friend advising you? You're playing with fire bro; literally

You've talked before about building grow rooms for other people, If they look anything like yours, I'll take a hard pass. I have built several professional, gorilla grow rooms, with a 100-200amp sub panels, powering up to 20,000 watts of light and 10 ton+ air handlers, in the rooms. I can assure you that they look nothing like anything I've seen you post.

One pro tip I'll offer, is to mount sheets of 9/16-5/8" plywood to the ceiling (painted flat white). This way you can put hooks wherever you need them, without worrying about hitting studs, or poking a bunch of "fishing" holes in your ceilings.

Good luck bro. Please don't burn your house down...

 

[KG1]

Dude. That looks ridiculous for one plant, especially being that it's probably all on 1 circuit (guessing). How many amps are you pulling? Do you have any electrical experience? Or hopefully an electrician friend advising you? You're playing with fire bro; literally

You've talked before about building grow rooms for other people, If they look anything like yours, I'll take a hard pass. I have built several professional, gorilla grow rooms, with a 100-200amp sub panels, powering up to 20,000 watts of light and 10 ton+ air handlers, in the rooms. I can assure you that they look nothing like anything I've seen you post.

One pro tip I'll offer, is to mount sheets of 9/16-5/8" plywood to the ceiling (painted flat white). This way you can put hooks wherever you need them, without worrying about hitting studs, or poking a bunch of "fishing" holes in your ceilings.

Good luck bro. Please don't burn your house down...

Apparently your not allowed to criticise this grow or grow room and the guy is doing important scientific work that needs documenting for the cannabis community....

This is also not a fire hazard and no one has ever produced bud and plant like this before seeing the boundaries of growing pushed back again .

I for one am now a believer, I've moved my lights supe close and increased wind flow to that of a pro wind tunnel as I too want this superior brown bud.

Guys a genius if you ask me!

 

[TestTime]

Dude. That looks ridiculous for one plant, especially being that it's probably all on 1 circuit (guessing). How many amps are you pulling? Do you have any electrical experience? Or hopefully an electrician friend advising you? You're playing with fire bro; literally

You've talked before about building grow rooms for other people, If they look anything like yours, I'll take a hard pass. I have built several professional, gorilla grow rooms, with a 100-200amp sub panels, powering up to 20,000 watts of light and 10 ton+ air handlers, in the rooms. I can assure you that they look nothing like anything I've seen you post.

One pro tip I'll offer, is to mount sheets of 9/16-5/8" plywood to the ceiling (painted flat white). This way you can put hooks wherever you need them, without worrying about hitting studs, or poking a bunch of "fishing" holes in your ceilings.

Good luck bro. Please don't burn your house down...

Love you dude. Won't be burning anything down. Yes I know there's no way you could have possibly read the rambles. Kitchen was rebuilt brand new 4 years ago and inspected with everything a kitchen circuit could have and then I added two high amp circuits, easy to trip, for growing. The electrician knew what he was doing and everything was inspected.

And then the air flow is actually being run on to other circuits.

When I bought this house I put about 50k in as far as electrical work. I never wanted to trip a circuit again. There's about 120 amps going into my main kitchen. Including a spare 220. Of course the main panel is only 200. That doesn't matter. I want wide paths available at all times. I didn't like that oven but I love that circuit. Of course I'll never use it all, but the point is I can plug anything I want anywhere and not worry about tripping anything.

Okay, that was off the cuff so I don't drive you insane with the long ramble.

Take care

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

That looks ridiculous for one plant

Yes. It does. I wonder how much total power is being used. That room probably is on a 15-amp, 1,800-watt circuit. Those lights might be okay, but the OP needs to consider the power used by every device on a circuit.

Oh my

Indeed. I wonder why people think they need such powerful lights. The cost of electricity will be increasing soon.

 

[MileHiGhost]

Yes. It does. I wonder how much total power is being used. That room probably is on a 15-amp, 1,800-watt circuit. Those lights might be okay, but the OP needs to consider the power used by every device on a circuit.


Indeed. I wonder why people think they need such powerful lights. The cost of electricity will be increasing soon.

Heck, there is no limit on how much the power will cost. Thank goodness fer unlimited overtime

 

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An 18 lb cat chasing a 6 lb cat leaves a trail of destruction. And boy they love hanging up there.

Cool.

I'll build shelves and steps and ramps all around the whole thing to the window. I'll put a second level on top so they never land on the fans by default.

They're going to have such a blast.

Yes, they might land on the plant. Don't care.

In a couple of months that whole area will be a mixed non-cannabis grow zone/playground for the cats.

I'll leave all that wood crap up and throw more on. Lots of carpet, electric stapled.

I dropped various mylar reflectors that I created that I used to hang around stuff down into the pool. Any light bouncing down will bounce right back up.

I added another 240 white/uvb/insfrared over above. I have another I'm thinking of putting in for a random angle. Depends on plug availability.hehe.

I've got three more far. Red/uvb bars that still need to be situated. I'll get to it.

I hot glued a couple of power supplies on to the structure. There will never be wiggle again. I'll do it to the rest of them. I love hot glue. I'll hot glue some shields around them so the cats can't knock into them.