Mikedin’s garden center, Let’s grow!

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Im loving that structure.

I know right it’s right on, look at her tonight vs the strawberry cough

there both doing awesome right now though

 

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@Mikedin the only time I saw brown/burnt tips like that was from the one time I tried to switch to RO water. Immediately went back to my toxic tap water :p

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Yeah it’s odd, not seeing anything new now just what was there before which I removed, few small blotches on the leaf set that was above it but nothing new. Just running plain tap water, the only filter I run is for chlorine and chloramine, and VOC’s. Besides that growth has been crazy on both, finally not fighting Low RH anymore, seems to be stable around 60% with the humidifier down to minimum

 

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And some current pics

 

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A couple Upleaf shots


Just about lights out and there perky as can be, just gave em some juice bumped up the power to 45% we’ll see how they look tomorrow night

 

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Girls are happy, just got home from work, still don’t need water, just growing away, looks like a bit of cal def in the strawberry cough but I’ll ride it for a bit, new growth looks great

And @Trustfall Frostette don’t give up easily on height haha, have her a topping and she’s already off to the races

 

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Package received from @MDK bunch of seeds from 2012 era, wanted to see if anyone else could bring them back to life so here we go, first surprise seeds, cement shoes! I’ll go pack by pack until something pops, then we’ll grow it out and take some clones and flip and see what we get!

A male will be kept if i get one to pollinate with. For these first seeds I did scarification and they are now soaking in a 20:1 water / 3% peroxide mix in a mini solo cup and put on a heater duct for the next 12 hours then I’ll decide on either a paper towel or 1 qt pot. I’m leaning more twords soil but may do one of each depending on what I see in the morning


Cleaned out the 4x8x sterilized and re organized new shelves etc adjustable by the inch

 

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Well we have sprout-off on both cement shoes seeds right in the cup, one moved to lucky dog and other to strawberry fields, let’s see what they like! Might start in a cloner picked up a mini Rubbermaid only need it to hold 4-6 clones at a time trying to figure out what works best so I can make nice plugs always love those awesome rooted clone pics never know how everyone does it so well lol

 

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We have a survivor! Cement shoes in strawberry fields is up! Let’s see if it will stay alive! Shell is gone just need those little leaves to spread open!

 

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Hell yeah off of work tent update

Both cement shoes are up and alive! Let’s fuckin gooooooo fingers crossed one male and one female, will the ganja gods make it so!

Frostette had roots at the bottom holes of her pot only 10 days after a transplant from a 1 PT container to a 1/2 gal pot and is drinking the pot of water down in a day and a half, for comparisons the strawberry cough is taking 4-5 days to dry out atm lol

so added a blueberry bush to the tent yesterday

 

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@Trustfall Frostette grows vertically quick lol, gunna try a little method I’ve tried before i think she’s gunna need a transplant already, might throw her right into a 5 gallon let her veg for a few weeks and make a mini screen up for her and see what she does

Cement shoes are doing great both sprouted and happy, dome still on both veg tent is at 80-82f and 60-62%RH they I’ll take the dome off tomorrow once those little leaves open up a bit

 

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Shoutout to @Zen_Seeker for his scrog net design, went out this morning and started on my own, 2x4 version that will sit in one side of the 4x4 with most likely Frostette in it, legs heights will be adjustable, they have screwed tees for the leg poles that can adjust about 3/4” to level the table on uneven floors, if I decide to (they where in my hand) almost did threaded 3/4” bushings in the bottom with 3/4” caps to add another 3/4” of leveling adjustment, top net risers can be changed out either by simply removing or I may have 4 /6 / 8 / 10 /12” risers all on hand with couplings so I can adjust as needed, legs same thing once I find proper height to be above my 5 gallon buckets I’ll cut them down and add the threaded feet probably, but so far the table costs about $45 just grabbing stuff at the local hardware store so I know it could be done at least $10 cheaper thanks again @Zen_Seeker for the idea

Here’s what I bought

40’’ of pipe (bought in 5’ lengths watch your cuts to get all pieces cut out correct before cutting I have 2x 8” pieces leftover)
8x 3/4” tees
4x 3/4”x3/4”x3/4” threaded tee
4x 3/4”x 3/4” threaded adapters
8x 3/4” elbows

Oh and $8 for 5’x30’ of netting will be here tomorrow, bought 2 for that price I can use some in the garden for the beans etc I’ll probably use zip ties for now to secure the nets I want them tight all the way around like banjo tight

Oh and can be changed to a 4x4 setup easily by just swapping out the 4 pieces of pipe on the side rails between the tees, also did not glue anything all tips will be held together by friction and netting, legs and risers aren’t going anywhere lol can barely get them apart there all in tight

 

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Yup! Same thing I use to do in the sea container grows I'd do. Very Cool!!

 

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Shoutout to @Zen_Seeker for his scrog net design, went out this morning and started on my own, 2x4 version that will sit in one side of the 4x4 with most likely Frostette in it, legs heights will be adjustable, they have screwed tees for the leg poles that can adjust about 3/4” to level the table on uneven floors, if I decide to (they where in my hand) almost did threaded 3/4” bushings in the bottom with 3/4” caps to add another 3/4” of leveling adjustment, top net risers can be changed out either by simply removing or I may have 4 /6 / 8 / 10 /12” risers all on hand with couplings so I can adjust as needed, legs same thing once I find proper height to be above my 5 gallon buckets I’ll cut them down and add the threaded feet probably, but so far the table costs about $45 just grabbing stuff at the local hardware store so I know it could be done at least $10 cheaper thanks again @Zen_Seeker for the idea

Here’s what I bought

40’’ of pipe (bought in 5’ lengths watch your cuts to get all pieces cut out correct before cutting I have 2x 8” pieces leftover)
8x 3/4” tees
4x 3/4”x3/4”x3/4” threaded tee
4x 3/4”x 3/4” threaded adapters
8x 3/4” elbows

Oh and $8 for 5’x30’ of netting will be here tomorrow, bought 2 for that price I can use some in the garden for the beans etc I’ll probably use zip ties for now to secure the nets I want them tight all the way around like banjo tight

Oh and can be changed to a 4x4 setup easily by just swapping out the 4 pieces of pipe on the side rails between the tees, also did not glue anything all tips will be held together by friction and netting, legs and risers aren’t going anywhere lol can barely get them apart there all in tight

My top net used to be the cheap plastic nylon shit. I stopped using it as it cut into stems and foliage if I did tucking and LST. I’ll use the rest of that netting on the veggies. It’s only food.

 

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My top net used to be the cheap plastic nylon shit. I stopped using it as it cut into stems and foliage if I did tucking and LST. I’ll use the rest of that netting on the veggies. It’s only food.

Hmm...I've used nylon netting forever and never had a cutting issue like that.

 

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My top net used to be the cheap plastic nylon shit. I stopped using it as it cut into stems and foliage if I did tucking and LST. I’ll use the rest of that netting on the veggies. It’s only food.

Haha yeah I’ll change stuff up here and there I want a nice full top so I’ll get her up under that first net nice and give her another topping or 2 lol, then see what she does

Should be fun might design some funky offset options with multi levels lol

 

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Yup! Same thing I use to do in the sea container grows I'd do. Very Cool!!

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Awesome setup! Where do you get those treys at the bottom I can’t find them anywhere

 

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Next project was supposed to be the cloner tub but I guess the scrog won lol, guess the cloner is next haha

 

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Well besides the scrog project I managed to get out to the garden and get some of the leaves out, open up the drainage trench, clean out between the rows, and flipped the top 4-6” of compost/soil, shovel went in like butter, perfect for a no till (yes technically I’m tilling when I flip, but I don’t dig and create a hard pan I just scoop and flip the top.) but got 2 rows done, 3 to go, and gotta get the fabric down around the outer edge to stop the weeds from creeping in again this year I’ll take some pics later, all muddy now, shower time haha

 

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Awesome setup! Where do you get those treys at the bottom I can’t find them anywhere

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Awesome thank you contemplating a drip system lol

Here’s how I’m shaping frostette for the scrog

She’s already turned up and nodes have already turned up as well, I’ll let her stretch up another 3-4” then flatten her again. Once lower nodes are even (close now) they’ll be topped as well