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I originally logged on here just before the server transition, which lost my account :confused:
I D.I. Y. almost everything (in life) and will re-upload my pictures of my contactor/timer box, V-SCRoG, aero cloner and the like along with some of my grow logs/pictures.

Mainly working indoors from clones, but have some seed plants going (which I just cloned to "early-sex"). Haven't grown in decades; working with all of the new tech and old school solutions out there (and now, web research-able).
Other hobbies include D.I.Y. high end audio/video, computers, craft brewing etc.
 
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Overview 2w
 
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I was a casualty of the sites server transition, also. Looks like you got your shit going on. Hope to learn from you.

Warm regards.
 
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Yo mr fix it, how do you like the aero bags, I use the same , just switched last fall, love the results!... curious as ot the strains you are running, looks like a hybrid mix and a heavy leaning sativa?? anywho, welcome bak..
 
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HEy pleased to make your acquaintance! I definitely like the V-SCRoG you've got going on there. Care to post a few more pics of it?
 
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Kriya said:
Yo mr fix it, how do you like the aero bags, I use the same , just switched last fall, love the results!... curious as ot the strains you are running, looks like a hybrid mix and a heavy leaning sativa?? anywho, welcome bak..
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I like 'em - using Smart Pots (2g and 5g) but have been looking at some other "brands" as well. The root balls form particularly well with this style pot. The upper pix are 6 Bubba Kush clones and the lower shot are 4 SubCool Deep Purple (Urkle BX) a random seed from a Blue Dream on the right and a "mystery hybrid" seed that I wasn't smart enough to label at the time of its discovery!
 
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ttystikk said:
HEy pleased to make your acquaintance! I definitely like the V-SCRoG you've got going on there. Care to post a few more pics of it?
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Sure - it's an adjustable V made from 3/4" PVC, nice and light. v2 may be slightly different - I'm thinking about making more of a "base" with two frames and some width on the bottom and then putting it on a piece of board w/wheels, so I could easily switch the veg SCRoG to the bloom room.
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Here is my DIY bubble cloner with a pump, DIY manifold and airstones.
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DIY 240v lighting contactor with built in reset timers to protect bulbs.
Contactor4w
Contactor2w
 
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Working on sharing carbon filtration between the two grow spaces.
Charcoal Filter 1w
Charcoal Filter 2w
Venting 2w
 
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ttystikk said:
Nice to meet a fellow DIY'er! I have a few floating around, too:
It's Time For McGuyver! CFL Light Arrays

Built my own light rotator- wanna see?

DIY 'Under Current' RDWC style hydro; low cost, high output!

And if you dig around, you'll likely find threads where I'm discussing my DIY chiller control and distribution system; one chiller to cool them all, and in the lightness keep them...
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I've followed many of your threads! I'm dealing with cooling issues right now myself; I have several long term solutions like induction lighting but I'm doing this all after extended unemployment, so the up front costs are out of reach for now. Cooling bare vertical lighting using soft pots/soil-less, on a severe budget is providing quite the challenge...
 
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I bet it is. No way to seal it up, so you blow as much air as you can, and seriously consider swamp coolers. ASAP, before it gets hot.
 
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ttystikk said:
I bet it is. No way to seal it up, so you blow as much air as you can, and seriously consider swamp coolers. ASAP, before it gets hot.
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Do you have any good thread/links on swamps and related alternate cooling? Most of what I've seen relates to cooling the solutions within the hydro tubs/reservoirs etc. (which doesn't apply in my grow style), but not much on room cooling per se. Being a D.I.Y. er and working with home brewing I understand some of the concept, and I can source small fridges/freezers, copper/stainless tubing etc. The room is "good" in many ways (basement 3/4 below ground, one outer wall with a "hidden" window for venting, natively cooler -and- warmer dependent on the season).
BUT need projects currently within the realm of no/minimum budget/DIY!!

Having just started a bloom cycle, If I want to run both the 1k HPS and the 400w MH (high - above canopy) I'm having to leave the door open to keep things at ~82 (still warmer than I'd like).
With the MH off, I can close the door and stay around 78-79. I have 4 fans tied into duct work via a carbon scrubber in a push-pull setup (due to add-on need versus good planning/money for a serious cyclone-esque option) as well as a modest fan (8") pulling air in through the basement side of the wall with the obligatory couple "breeze" fans stirring things up...
 
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82 degrees in a bloom phase is fine, it's even acceptable for veg stage. Don't get worked up about things until they hit about 87, at which point it's a good diea to get ready to shut things down should temps get into the 90s. Outdoors, the plants can handle it better since they've been hardened off to htat kind of climate.

A swamp cooler is a very simple concept; you blow air through a wetted medium. Even a damp beach towel will have some effect. I got all my swampers at thrift stores, I never paid more than $25 for any of them! You can get everything you need to DIY at Home DePot- batting, a fan and a small waterpump to lift the water to the top of the batting material. The hose from the waterpump should go up to the top of the batting, and across it, with regularly spaced holes to drip water evenly across it. As the water runs down the batting, it gets evaporated by the flow of air the fan blows through it. As it does so, it's cooled by the 'latent heat of evaporation' effect, and you get a bump in humidity as a bonus.

This does NOT need an outside air source- you can put the whole box in a sealed room and it will proved supplementary cooling and humdification without needing to be ventilated like an AC unit.

This would not be a tough DIY project at all, but I still suggest scrounging the thrift stores first- lots of people get rid of theirs and the thrifties don't know what they're really worth!

My favorite brand of swamp cooler is Essick Air Products: http://www.essickair.com/
 
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ttystikk said:
82 degrees in a bloom phase is fine, it's even acceptable for veg stage. Don't get worked up about things until they hit about 87, at which point it's a good diea to get ready to shut things down should temps get into the 90s. Outdoors, the plants can handle it better since they've been hardened off to htat kind of climate.

A swamp cooler is a very simple concept; you blow air through a wetted medium. Even a damp beach towel will have some effect. I got all my swampers at thrift stores, I never paid more than $25 for any of them! You can get everything you need to DIY at Home DePot- batting, a fan and a small waterpump to lift the water to the top of the batting material. The hose from the waterpump should go up to the top of the batting, and across it, with regularly spaced holes to drip water evenly across it. As the water runs down the batting, it gets evaporated by the flow of air the fan blows through it. As it does so, it's cooled by the 'latent heat of evaporation' effect, and you get a bump in humidity as a bonus.

This does NOT need an outside air source- you can put the whole box in a sealed room and it will proved supplementary cooling and humdification without needing to be ventilated like an AC unit.

This would not be a tough DIY project at all, but I still suggest scrounging the thrift stores first- lots of people get rid of theirs and the thrifties don't know what they're really worth!

My favorite brand of swamp cooler is Essick Air Products: http://www.essickair.com/
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I did some more research after posting; so basically it's similar to a humidifier but scaled up? I have a near equiv. of the small Essick humidifier (a Beamis that goes through about 1 1/2 g a day) right now that barely hits 40% humidity (with the doors closed). What does one do when in my area, as humidity swings very high in the late hot summer?
I looked at small mini-splits like the Ideal 12k unit which would likely meet my needs/size, but besides not having a grand, that money spent on induction lighting would be likely cooler and more energy efficient overall just using fans.
Thanks for the reinforcement on temperatures; despite running warm, everything seems very healthy, but I know warm/humid can increase some odds relative to PM, insect invasion etc. so I'm keeping a watchful eye...
 
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mrfixit said:
I did some more research after posting; so basically it's similar to a humidifier but scaled up? I have a near equiv. of the small Essick humidifier (a Beamis that goes through about 1 1/2 g a day) right now that barely hits 40% humidity (with the doors closed). What does one do when in my area, as humidity swings very high in the late hot summer?
I looked at small mini-splits like the Ideal 12k unit which would likely meet my needs/size, but besides not having a grand, that money spent on induction lighting would be likely cooler and more energy efficient overall just using fans.
Thanks for the reinforcement on temperatures; despite running warm, everything seems very healthy, but I know warm/humid can increase some odds relative to PM, insect invasion etc. so I'm keeping a watchful eye...
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Yes swampers are basically big humidifiers, but with an important distiction; all swampers humidify, but not all humdifiers work like a swamp cooler does. Some mist, or fog or otherwise actively spray water droplets into the air, to be evaporated on the fly. This is bad, because everything IN that water is now airborne too, from pathogens to calcium. And it has to land somewhere...

You also correct that as humidity climbs, a swamper's effectiveness declines. If you put a humdifier in your room and closed the door, and the humdity still didn't climb past 40% then either you haven't run it long enough- stuff in the room will absorb water until it saturates- or you have a lot of air leaks in the room. A swamper just accelerates the process.

I'm not the guy to ask about mini-splits; that's for Cannabis John in his AC answers thread. I have a 2 ton chiller- not the same as a swamper at all- and I am very happy with how it works.

All conditions can be conducive to one kind of pest or another. Powdery mildew does just fine in Colorado, even with single digit humidity! Other fungal pathogens prefer it more humid. Spider mites much prefer dry air, while their predators prefer more humidity as well. You sound experienced and observant- these are the best tools, no matter what your climate.
 
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