desertsquirrel
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DS... I was reading posts and came across your car accident..YIKES. I had two plates and 13 screws inserted for a spiral fracture of my Tib/Fib June 30th, 2011. I recently came down with an internal infection and after taking penicillian for a week plus the infection didn't clear and they had to put me in emergency surgery and remove the plates and screws. I've got to tell you, removing these damn plates and screws was one of the best things that has ever happened. IF they are bothering you at all, find out an activity or two that these plates inhibit you from doing and tell your doctor, that's the easiest way to get them out. When I went for my yearly I told the doc I wanted them out and he told me unless there was a reason he couldn't do it...Insurance I guess? Anyway I have my leg back. Hopefully the metal isn't causing any problems. Question. I read your section on Pruning, perhaps I missed something but it's hard to know with the 100's of people replying to your posts. I wish this site would allow me to cut everyone out but your posts....anyway...it seems you don't prune much at all. That bucket looked nearly empty for all the plants you have. We literally tear the plant to shreds and leave only the big stalks....it's get SO BUSHY in UC and we thought that doing that would help alleviate all the BS fluff, however admittedly we're rookies. Would you say you only take off say less than 10% in normal circumstances? We're taking off 30-50%, is that just dead wrong?
EDIT: I meant 2010... i had them inserted... taking out 11-11-11, went under at 11:11, weird...but true.
How much of the leaks do you attribute to operator error (assembly)?
In the interest of keeping one's company from suffering a huge financial loss it might be a good idea to charge a negligible amount to the effected parties to help reduce the amount of their loss.
CC was looking to charge $10 a replacement for buckets that were manufactured during that time, not necessarily even leaking yet. That sounds proactive me. Personally, I don't think a $10 replacement cost on buckets is really a big deal...that puts you out a whooping 60$ (isn't that the cost of an 1/8th in Cali?), which if you are running 3 UC systems even reasonably well, shouldn't be too hard to come up with.
i dont understand. If your buckets leaked why didn't you do anything about it before you lost your crops?
when something of ours breaks daniel has us the replacement the next day.
Seems like your looking to blame someone else for your loss.
Also, why is this crap in my thread?
How about my huge financial loss??
So you called them Friday night and they sent it out priority courier ASAP? And you are complaining?
I guess the folks at CC have a better understanding of how to run a business properly. Notice how they have not had to hijack someone else's thread to whine about taking a financial hit.
This is a noob problem because if it you weren't a noob you would not have lost a crop you would have gone to home depot of Friday and bought a 7$ plastic tub, drilled 2, 3" holes in it and put in your uniseals and used it as a temp fix while you waited for your buckets or removed the faulty bucket and capped off the ends of your pvc and made a temporary stand-alone bucket, or used a 5 gallon bucket with bulkheads, or made a wooden flood table out of 2x10" and OSB for $50 that will hold 12 x 8" netpots., or etc., etc.
Sorry DS, this is too good a thread to fill up with whine. I'm done. Merry Christmas!
How about my huge financial loss??
So you called them Friday night and they sent it out priority courier ASAP? And you are complaining?
I guess the folks at CC have a better understanding of how to run a business properly. Notice how they have not had to hijack someone else's thread to whine about taking a financial hit.
This is a noob problem because if it you weren't a noob you would not have lost a crop you would have gone to home depot of Friday and bought a 7$ plastic tub, drilled 2, 3" holes in it and put in your uniseals and used it as a temp fix while you waited for your buckets or removed the faulty bucket and capped off the ends of your pvc and made a temporary stand-alone bucket, or used a 5 gallon bucket with bulkheads, or made a wooden flood table out of 2x10" and OSB for $50 that will hold 12 x 8" netpots., or etc., etc.
Sorry DS, this is too good a thread to fill up with whine. I'm done. Merry Christmas!
PhuP are you defending CC's defective mods?
After spending 10 years growing and KNOWING What I am doing, I must direct you to this link>
Right where CC admits fault to their problem. Why is it my fault that CC had a MANUFACTURER DEFECT???
That's like telling the guy that owns a Toyota that had a faulty gas pedal not to step on the pedal so hard.
I have another system purchased prior to Feb and it is still kicking just fine, only the 2 I bought in Feb of 11 have I had numerous issues with and couldn't figure out what the problem was. Why were my buckets CRACKING and not just that full on cracking?
Now that the issue has been addressed I will continue to make myself successful. Sorry for the HiJack, I am done, if anyone else would like to complain to me PM me.
Happy HOlidays.
That's like telling the guy that owns a Toyota that had a faulty gas pedal not to step on the pedal so hard.
:sign0023: Get this guy outta here.
DS I love what you do man! Very nice work on the veg. info. Thanks for all your insight I will continue to read your post's for a long long time.
Have you experienced a transplant into DWC where the clones just stalled and did nothing?
:sign0023: Get this guy outta here.
DS I love what you do man! Very nice work on the veg. info. Thanks for all your insight I will continue to read your post's for a long long time.
Have you experienced a transplant into DWC where the clones just stalled and did nothing?
thanks a lot, and yes i have. We had to let out rooted clones sit for about 6 weeks before we used them one time. It was just too long. They never did a thing.
BTW phup is the man.
Hey DS - thanks for taking the time to share your wealth of knowledge. I am preparing my first UC grow and have been studying like a mad man prior to lift off.
In reading your rooting thread, I couldn't help but notice that you were using a medium that looked a lot like Sure To Grow.
I had researched this product quite a bit and was impressed by what I had read. Then when talking to Several peeps including cch2o, I was told that that it wasn't a good idea to use the product as it often had algae and mildew issues in a ucdwc environment. I called STG and was told that their product works great in a UC and that the issue was nutrient level management.
Can you or anyone else with STG product experience help me out with this? I would really love to use this product but am hesitant to pull the trigger.
Cheers!
-ZTH
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