Stoney's Luv Shack

[Bandit420]

well there ya have it folks... looks like chicago wins out narrowly three to two!!!

personally i'm not much of a thick crust or pan pizza fan, all looks like pizza hut to me!! i prefer a new jersey style thin crust, light on the dough and sauce and cheese all the way up to the edge. if i want a three inch thick dry crust i'll order bread sticks!

no matter how many different types my family has had we always prefer the homemade ones right here at the shack!!! i make what i call an extras pizza... extra cheese, extra sauce, extra toppings.. you get the idea... thing weighs eight pounds when i'm done!! hahaha

that ciabatta crust sounds good though.. i know i really like that bread on sandwiches a lot. especially when it's still warm from the oven!!!

i'm curious Bandit, what made you tip to chicago side on the sauce?

this is the part where i'm a bit blind, i've never had true chicago style sauce. I like mine on the bolder side. i don't like sweet sauce at all, if it has sugar in it ruins it all for me. i'll eat candy or fruit if i'm in the mood for sweet not pizza, and for the love of god don't put fruit on the pizza!!!

but i like a black pepper forward gravy or red sauce as some call it, it needs to be a little chunky in onions and peppers and tomatoes but not too big sized, i don't wanna chew a big piece of tomato. but i don't want it all pureed down to soup.

gotta be heavy on garlic as well, and a fair amount of oregano.

man am i hungry for pizza now!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet sauce is absolutely horrible! Really I wouldn't mind no salt or sugar in a good sauce. Doesn't need it!
Chicago just tasted like a sauce that had been on the stove for 8 hours and a little hint of wine in there which I love.
But yeah Chicago sauce is so good one of the apps I ordered was just sauce and baked goat cheese with a side of bread



Deep dish and thick crust is always hit and miss. If they're taking shortcuts and using a preformed frozen crust that looks like a hubcap it's gonna be a miss. Most places do that and it's just terrible.
Detroit style uses a very thick crust with cheese up to the edge and baked to well done. That gives the cheese a charred crust and is really good.

Conan's here does a fresh made white and wheat thick crust. Wheat is really good and compliments the thick layers of toppings well but it's that fresh made and fresh baked flavor that makes it so good. The key though is baking it to well done. It's gotta be black around the edge



Chicago deep dish reminds me more of a graham cracker pie crust for something like key lime pie or cheesecake. Not a thick crust at all and not cooked to well done and doesn't add much to the pie like a NYC style crust can make or break the pie. Chicago deep dish crust is just there and muted.
Chicago also does a thin crust that's like a cracker and is actually more popular than deep dish in that city. It's very thin and crispy and they cut the pie in squares

The ciabatta is next level. Sourdough crust is very popular lately but it's nothing special to me. I think it's just a fad, right there with cauliflower crust which I refuse to consider but ciabatta is wow man!!! I love that bread with my panini and now I need to read up how to make it into a pizza crust

Another Larson guy good for you Stoney!
I saw a TV documentary on this guy and the author stated this guy had the best Pizza in the world.

Pizzeria Bianc​

In Pheonix AZ

Yep it's not just NYC, Chicago, and New Haven anymore.
I've heard that about Phoenix as well as Portland, Oregon, Denver, and Bozeman, Montana are cranking out pies that are worthy of being top dogs in the country.

wood fire places win out every time with me. we have few around here and they're definitely my favorite shops!!!

years ago i bought all the stuff to make my own pizza oven with the exercise ball and shrink wrap covered in cement... well i used the cement years ago on a few posts and the plastic wrap i'm still using and will probably have enough for a pizza oven if the time comes, and the exercise ball is still in the box!!! haha one day maybe but probably not. it's not building it, it's the using it. you gotta build the fire hours before cooking the pizza... nah i got dial on my oven that takes minutes!!! hahaha

hell yeah man, go 5 go~~~

Hell yeah man!



I'm firing up the beast this weekend but doing my rustic green and red chile chicken enchiladas

 

[Anthem275]

Sweet sauce is absolutely horrible! Really I wouldn't mind no salt or sugar in a good sauce. Doesn't need it!
Chicago just tasted like a sauce that had been on the stove for 8 hours and a little hint of wine in there which I love.
But yeah Chicago sauce is so good one of the apps I ordered was just sauce and baked goat cheese with a side of bread

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Deep dish and thick crust is always hit and miss. If they're taking shortcuts and using a preformed frozen crust that looks like a hubcap it's gonna be a miss. Most places do that and it's just terrible.
Detroit style uses a very thick crust with cheese up to the edge and baked to well done. That gives the cheese a charred crust and is really good.

Conan's here does a fresh made white and wheat thick crust. Wheat is really good and compliments the thick layers of toppings well but it's that fresh made and fresh baked flavor that makes it so good. The key though is baking it to well done. It's gotta be black around the edge

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Chicago deep dish reminds me more of a graham cracker pie crust for something like key lime pie or cheesecake. Not a thick crust at all and not cooked to well done and doesn't add much to the pie like a NYC style crust can make or break the pie. Chicago deep dish crust is just there and muted.
Chicago also does a thin crust that's like a cracker and is actually more popular than deep dish in that city. It's very thin and crispy and they cut the pie in squares

The ciabatta is next level. Sourdough crust is very popular lately but it's nothing special to me. I think it's just a fad, right there with cauliflower crust which I refuse to consider but ciabatta is wow man!!! I love that bread with my panini and now I need to read up how to make it into a pizza crust




Yep it's not just NYC, Chicago, and New Haven anymore.
I've heard that about Phoenix as well as Portland, Oregon, Denver, and Bozeman, Montana are cranking out pies that are worthy of being top dogs in the country.


Hell yeah man!

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I'm firing up the beast this weekend but doing my rustic green and red chile chicken enchiladas

Bandit are you going to go back to the Chicago RR next year?

 

[Bandit420]

Bandit are you going to go back to the Chicago RR next year?

Most likely no unless something changes.
Looking ahead, my wife wants to see Martha's Vineyard, me Washington DC, so I'm looking at flying to Boston, seeing MV, and taking a driving foodie tour down I95 to DC for our 2024 Summer trip

 

[Stoneyluv]

ya know i never did get any pizza... still hungry for it too!!!!!

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Shine time!!!!!!!!

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had to run it in the doorway of my garden shed because of the rain storms but it worked out good, because i had some wild raspberries just ready for pickin right next to the still!!!!! ran two batches and got a little over a gallon and a half total!!!!





my plants were doing great then i thought they needed some nitrogen and now i have them all fucked up... i'll get some picks up then but one of them looks bad. i should have just left them alone!!

the one zangria loved it and so did one o the topanga cookies and then the other TC absolutely hated the nutes and looks horrible and the other three are so so...

i'll get some photos then....

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on the good news side of the grow i got a couple upgrades..

got a new fan, without using the turntable i needed an oscillating fan i got this one here...



printed out a shelf and screwed it in. seems to get good movement for my plants...


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i picked up some of this....



and i got my new containers.... they were said to be used but i swear some of these were brand new!!!! they gave me a stack as big as would fit in my truck!!! i'm set for a long long time!!! some were damaged but most of them are new, they even had the little pieces of plastic in them from the holes...



had a snapper up here at the luv shack.... been years since i saw one up here... he was headed in the direction of my pond so turned his ass around and he walked right back down the hill!!!

he looks so high!!!!



have a great hump day everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stoneyluv]

torched!!!!!!!



this poor girl has had it rough, a few weeks ago i split her branch and wired her back on....



i keep flushing her out the best i can and dumping the runoff... it won't be long till they need an upcan and go into flower soo she's gonna have to snap out of it soon!!!

the rest aren't terrible but still need a little healing....





in high hopes of having large buds this round i picked up a bunch of these yoyo hangers....



and also got these drip trays for the new containers but i'm not sold on me using them yet, got a few other things in works that might pan out at the last second so we will see..



and for down the road one day, i just scored a pack of alien punch for $30 delivered!!

 

[Bandit420]

Maybe it's the porn, maybe it's the pot, but I'm feeling like dented head guy after these updates

 

[Bandit420]

Quick tip on the yoyos if you haven't already....
Up in the rafters of your cab, run fishing line or durable strings across the ceiling kinda like power lines. Maybe 2-3 is all that's needed.
Then hook the yoyos on and slide them in position when needed.
It's kinda hard to predict exactly where they should be placed before the grow so having them already up there in a couple rows and able to slide around makes it all ez.
Mine simply stay up there all the time. I have about a dozen or so and when needed just pull a cord down and hold up a cola. But they do come in super handy especially with hybrid strains that have thin branches and heavy buds at the end.

Plants are looking good even with the torching man. They'll grow out of that ez. Structure looks good. How you liking those pruning results?

And that snapper. Man those are some mean motor scooters there! There's one living in the creek by my work and when I sneak off for a toke I stand on a bridge looking at him as he hunts bluegill. Big fucker too. Sometimes I feed it bagles left over the breakfast spread. Snappers love some bagels hahaha!

 

[Stoneyluv]

Quick tip on the yoyos if you haven't already....
Up in the rafters of your cab, run fishing line or durable strings across the ceiling kinda like power lines. Maybe 2-3 is all that's needed.
Then hook the yoyos on and slide them in position when needed.
It's kinda hard to predict exactly where they should be placed before the grow so having them already up there in a couple rows and able to slide around makes it all ez.
Mine simply stay up there all the time. I have about a dozen or so and when needed just pull a cord down and hold up a cola. But they do come in super handy especially with hybrid strains that have thin branches and heavy buds at the end.

Plants are looking good even with the torching man. They'll grow out of that ez. Structure looks good. How you liking those pruning results?

And that snapper. Man those are some mean motor scooters there! There's one living in the creek by my work and when I sneak off for a toke I stand on a bridge looking at him as he hunts bluegill. Big fucker too. Sometimes I feed it bagles left over the breakfast spread. Snappers love some bagels hahaha!

thats a great idea man! i was looking at your photos last week and noticed you used them, looked like you had them just going at whatever angle you needed and as many as you needed. then in another pic they looked to all be hung at the same spot... had me a bit confused but yeah strings make perfect sense.

i think i have 22 of them so i'll hang a string on each side of the lights and one right down the middle between them. so i can put six on each side and ten down the middle.

my cages provided great support but we're letting em all hang out this time!!!

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so i really like the structure and the way the branches are forming and did not even really need LST, but might have been better if i did. full disclosure, i went to try some lst with some fancy clips i printed out and i ended up making it extremely high stress training and not low at all.

with the fancy clip i wasn't thinking right and thats when i ended up splitting that branch, so i said you idiot and didn't even want to try anymore lst at that moment and never picked it back up.. so i'm glad she healed from that. as for the torching, i think i'm gonna upcan them this weekend and just give them a new home, i'm ready for flower anyway and i think the better proportioned soil would really help them all. so yeah i hope to flip the switch this weekend. i'm in week eight right now... the zangria's in the middle are week seven.. i just want to make a quick drip tray because i decided i want to protect my turntable better than just saucers underneath. i have a plan and all the materials, hopefully i can get it done tomorrow night after dinner.

but yes, bro i really like the structure but there was something you said and i failed to do... you said to: "Continue removing sucker growth from inside the canopy and lower regions."
and i didn't do this... can i still do it now right before flowering? some are pretty thick and could really use a trimming.

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man those snappers are some crazy tough creatures. when i was young my family would eat them. i remember my dad would cut off the head and steam the body for three hours to help loosen the shell. once you rip the shell off the fuckin heart is still beating after three hours of cooking!!!!

the next day you could put a stick in the head that was cut off and the head bites down on the stick... a day later!!!!!!!!!!

they're normally down in the bog areas and not up here on the mountain. i think with all the heavy rain we've had he just got lost.. plus he was very young and probably didn't know where he was going!!! ha

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man i haven't looked at any nascar stuff this weekend.... i know one thing it will make me hungry for lobster!!!!! i hope larson learns how to drive again and finishes the race!! haha ...he really screwed the pooch last week!!! usually whenever he fucks up like that he knuckles down and tries to make up for it the next week.

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glad to hear you got your printer back in action.. i picked up a couple things on sale on prime day>> couple rolls of petg, of coarse both black!!
a roll of really cool shade of green in pla+ and i also picked up a new flexi bed cover for the magnet. sometimes i mess those up or they look bad after a while so for $6 i just get a brand new one!!!

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i'm gonna have to make a few more posts man cuz dented head guy is weirding me out man!!!!

i hope you have a great weekend and enjoy your short time of vacation that you have left!!!!

 

[steamroller]

I use yo-yos also.
Really wanted to attach a metal fence with 4x4 holes to ceiling before this grow.
Still may be easy enough before everything gets big.
And yea, WTF is the dented head guy doing here?
Hopefully we can get past him...

 

[Stoneyluv]

I use yo-yos also.
Really wanted to attach a metal fence with 4x4 holes to ceiling before this grow.
Still may be easy enough before everything gets big.
And yea, WTF is the dented head guy doing here?
Hopefully we can get past him...

those cattle fence sections make for great tomato cages so i'm sure they would work great to suspend flat. you just need to support the middle because they get a little flimsy.

imagine that hooked to a set of winches!!!

 

[Stoneyluv]

i got some work done on the grow area today. it took me longer than it did in my head so i'll have to get to the upcanning tomorrow. so i put a thin piece of plywood down on top of the turntable...



and also made a redneck drip tray to protect it. with my cabinet being 45" inside i will never be able to use a store bought tray so i used some plastic sheeting left over from my poly tunnel. If i continue to grow this style i might put a custom made tray in there but just for now we have this...



also hung up all the yoyo stringers i bought. when my lights are at flowering height they should be right around the correct level. i ended up buying two different brands because i wasn't sure of the quality so i alternated them in case one kind breaks. and I wasn't sure how important it was for the strings to be kinda level so i put in the extra work to make the middle stringer straight...



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got my Alien Punch today!!!!! got the lucky seven once again!!!



then earlier tonight i scored this killer deal, then used a coupon on top of it....



Thats all for now.... i hope to get those plants upcanned and flip the switch tomorrow... monday will start week nine for them.

go #5!!!!

 

[Bandit420]

No love for dented head guy?
Sheesh! Tough crowd hahaha!!!

Yeah I keep plucking sucker growth. Spend maybe one day a week at the start of flower all the way up to close to harvest tryig to get as much as I can out of there. Hard to get it all but I try to get what I can reach and see.

I forgot all about filament on Prime Day until you posted about it. I was so focused on shit for my grow and odd things like a soldering station and cooling pillows I forgot filament. Don't really need much since I'm well stocked but did go ahead and get Army green for some camo project ideas.

Yeah that's about exactly how I have my yoyos strung up. I'm not sure which is type or color is better but I do like the type where you can press that button in the middle and it works as a stopper so you can hold buds with or without tension on the line. Most are the same just different colors and some have a double hook but other than that either cheap or spendy the quality is the same. Sometimes the spooling messes up and they don't retract but that's why we buy them by the dozen.
I use them for other things too. Outdoor garden and really anything that needs to be held up.
I even have one on my printer's gantry to hold up the hot end wire since I didn't use zip ties on it. Works well keeping the wire harness out of the way so it don't snag on prints or drag across the hot plate.



Today I'm gonna assess my tray situation too and I'm not liking it already. Like my only really good tray is the big one and a 2'x2'. They're nice and sturdy. The 3'x3' and other odd size trays I have kinda suck. Very flimsy and have holes from other projects. I'm kicking around something similar to what you did with the plastic lined custom wood tray, maybe saucers for 3 plants, or maybe even a kiddie pool.
If only we could 3D print trays.

Really nice score on those beans man. I finally dropped an order into Growers Choice this morning. I'm looking for haze or sativas and GC was the only one I looked where it was ez to sort thru and find sativas. And since you had good luck with GC I made the order for 5 feminzied Ghost Train Haze beans to fit into this next grow. Pricing was about twice as much as what I'm used to with Greenpoint even with an $11 off coupon but I got my haze!

Yeah man it's race day!!!
Once again the 14 is the best looking out there with a black and gold wrap today. Larson will be in a red Valvoline ride today. He was in a nasty wreck mid-week dirt racing sprints at Eldora

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"> A horrendous “ball of chaos” brings the Eldora Million to a grinding halt! All drivers are okay! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EldoraMillion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#EldoraMillion</a> // <a href="https://twitter.com/EldoraSpeedway?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@EldoraSpeedway</a><br><br> <a href="https://t.co/zV5FcucOFx">https://t.co/zV5FcucOFx</a> <a href="https://t.co/5FOtsNabsz">pic.twitter.com/5FOtsNabsz</a></p>&mdash; FloRacing (@FloRacing) <a href="

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679704692182360064

">July 14, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



And yeah I forgot this is the lobster race!!! Man that does sound good! I think after walking the dogs I'm gonna head to the store and see what I can find. Lobster rolls and hot crisp fries would be awesome for a race meal today. Also wanna smoke some wings and drop some of that THC hot sauce on them and get high off chicken wings

Have fun and good luck to #5 today but it's Fords day today! Maybe? IDK, but I sure hope so! #14 is looking badass and I got Harvick in the pool so let's go SHR!!!

 

[Stoneyluv]

No love for dented head guy?
Sheesh! Tough crowd hahaha!!!

Yeah I keep plucking sucker growth. Spend maybe one day a week at the start of flower all the way up to close to harvest tryig to get as much as I can out of there. Hard to get it all but I try to get what I can reach and see.

I forgot all about filament on Prime Day until you posted about it. I was so focused on shit for my grow and odd things like a soldering station and cooling pillows I forgot filament. Don't really need much since I'm well stocked but did go ahead and get Army green for some camo project ideas.

Yeah that's about exactly how I have my yoyos strung up. I'm not sure which is type or color is better but I do like the type where you can press that button in the middle and it works as a stopper so you can hold buds with or without tension on the line. Most are the same just different colors and some have a double hook but other than that either cheap or spendy the quality is the same. Sometimes the spooling messes up and they don't retract but that's why we buy them by the dozen.
I use them for other things too. Outdoor garden and really anything that needs to be held up.
I even have one on my printer's gantry to hold up the hot end wire since I didn't use zip ties on it. Works well keeping the wire harness out of the way so it don't snag on prints or drag across the hot plate.

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Today I'm gonna assess my tray situation too and I'm not liking it already. Like my only really good tray is the big one and a 2'x2'. They're nice and sturdy. The 3'x3' and other odd size trays I have kinda suck. Very flimsy and have holes from other projects. I'm kicking around something similar to what you did with the plastic lined custom wood tray, maybe saucers for 3 plants, or maybe even a kiddie pool.
If only we could 3D print trays.

Really nice score on those beans man. I finally dropped an order into Growers Choice this morning. I'm looking for haze or sativas and GC was the only one I looked where it was ez to sort thru and find sativas. And since you had good luck with GC I made the order for 5 feminzied Ghost Train Haze beans to fit into this next grow. Pricing was about twice as much as what I'm used to with Greenpoint even with an $11 off coupon but I got my haze!

Yeah man it's race day!!!
Once again the 14 is the best looking out there with a black and gold wrap today. Larson will be in a red Valvoline ride today. He was in a nasty wreck mid-week dirt racing sprints at Eldora

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"> A horrendous “ball of chaos” brings the Eldora Million to a grinding halt! All drivers are okay! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EldoraMillion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#EldoraMillion</a> // <a href="https://twitter.com/EldoraSpeedway?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@EldoraSpeedway</a><br><br> <a href="https://t.co/zV5FcucOFx">https://t.co/zV5FcucOFx</a> <a href="https://t.co/5FOtsNabsz">pic.twitter.com/5FOtsNabsz</a></p>&mdash; FloRacing (@FloRacing) <a href="

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679704692182360064

">July 14, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



And yeah I forgot this is the lobster race!!! Man that does sound good! I think after walking the dogs I'm gonna head to the store and see what I can find. Lobster rolls and hot crisp fries would be awesome for a race meal today. Also wanna smoke some wings and drop some of that THC hot sauce on them and get high off chicken wings

Have fun and good luck to #5 today but it's Fords day today! Maybe? IDK, but I sure hope so! #14 is looking badass and I got Harvick in the pool so let's go SHR!!!

rain rain rain!!! man i can't remember a year when the races were so affected by rain delays... i already changed my schedule around so i won't miss it.

i like that red 5 valvoline car!! next time he wins i'm gonna get that tshirt. that was a hell of a tumble, he always says sprint car wrecks are far more violent than stock cars... i wonder if he was wearing his digital mouthpiece? he wears one in cup that measures the force from hits but i don't know if he wears it in other races.

but bro that lobster looks so good, could you imagine getting one that big? i don't even think i have a steamer pot big enough!!! i never had a lobster so big that i couldn't finish it in one sitting but i bet i'd have leftovers with that beast!!!! and ya know most things taste better when they're younger but not lobsters, it's the opposite the big old ones are the best tasting!!!

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what kind of soldering station did ya get man? i upgraded mine a year or so ago now and i love it! does yours have an auto sleep function? if so, tell me if you can figure out how that voodoo works!!! mine has no button, no electric contact, no hidden lever... but yet it knows right when i pick it up... how???? i feel i'm a fairly smart dude but that one baffles me!!!

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ya know i'm so glad i put down that plastic because today when i was watering my plants i spilled it!!!

if i like this style and want a better tray i think i'll just buy a sheet of plastic and weld the sides on, i already own a plastic welder and lots of welding rod so it would only cost me $40 or so for a sheet of material and the rest is just my time. i'll make up my mind before this grow is finished. because if i'm being honest, i really don't like the plastic sheet. i ended up doubling it up but it gets wrinkles and thats where bad stuff breeds!! i bet i could make one of these fit... https://www.walmart.com/ip/Intex-Mi...ble-Kiddie-Pools-Square/34335821?from=/search

but i don't think it's much better than what i have now.
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getting the plants in and out the past couple days hasn't been terrible so i'm not missing the turntable much at all. and now that they're in there i shouldn't have to move them again until harvest.

the yoyos i got have that same kind of button to lock or spring. the first ones i got people were saying some never retracted properly and i knew the ones i bought weren't going to be enough of them anyway so i bought ones that had better reviews. i'll find out for myself. i could see them failing if you're rough with them. they seem a little delicate and maybe they just need to be gentle with. i know one thing about them, i'll be needing my old man reaching grab tool to grab the ones in the back!!!!!!

so i got all the soil mixed up and upcanned all the plants... i added in bumper crop, crab meal, fish bone meal, lobster compost, perlite, alfalfa meal, stonington mix, and a few slow release minerals and goodies like biozome and stuff..

i used the last of my great white watering them in so picked this up last week because great whites price went up again....



two got great white and the other four got the new myco+

just starting week nine and i have them all in their big girl panties and i will veg for a few more days and see how they like their new home before if lip the switch, the roots weren't crazy looking so i have some time.. i'll post em up again later in the week and see how they look....

scout snacks on the left, topanga cookies on the right, and zangria up the gut...




i also pulled a YOLO and bought new circulation fans, you really had me thinking about it yesterday when you said about not getting any rot and bro i get rot two or three times every year. so i'm gonna throw a little more money at the cabinet and see if we can't make it a little better and not have some of the waste that i get now and then.

so i bought one of the ones you did the cloudray s6. then i bought one from vivosun areowave e6 which to me looks very similar... i will try em both out and which ever one i like better i will buy a second to match and put the oddball one in the veg cabinet because that also needs a major fan upgrade as well. and the cheap little desk fan i just bought is going upstairs for something we were gonna buy another one for anyway so that would have been another $27 that i saved by spending $90 on two grow fans!!!!! you like my logic?!?! hahaha

go 5 go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bandit420]

rain rain rain!!! man i can't remember a year when the races were so affected by rain delays... i already changed my schedule around so i won't miss it.

i like that red 5 valvoline car!! next time he wins i'm gonna get that tshirt. that was a hell of a tumble, he always says sprint car wrecks are far more violent than stock cars... i wonder if he was wearing his digital mouthpiece? he wears one in cup that measures the force from hits but i don't know if he wears it in other races.

but bro that lobster looks so good, could you imagine getting one that big? i don't even think i have a steamer pot big enough!!! i never had a lobster so big that i couldn't finish it in one sitting but i bet i'd have leftovers with that beast!!!! and ya know most things taste better when they're younger but not lobsters, it's the opposite the big old ones are the best tasting!!!

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what kind of soldering station did ya get man? i upgraded mine a year or so ago now and i love it! does yours have an auto sleep function? if so, tell me if you can figure out how that voodoo works!!! mine has no button, no electric contact, no hidden lever... but yet it knows right when i pick it up... how???? i feel i'm a fairly smart dude but that one baffles me!!!

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ya know i'm so glad i put down that plastic because today when i was watering my plants i spilled it!!!

if i like this style and want a better tray i think i'll just buy a sheet of plastic and weld the sides on, i already own a plastic welder and lots of welding rod so it would only cost me $40 or so for a sheet of material and the rest is just my time. i'll make up my mind before this grow is finished. because if i'm being honest, i really don't like the plastic sheet. i ended up doubling it up but it gets wrinkles and thats where bad stuff breeds!! i bet i could make one of these fit... https://www.walmart.com/ip/Intex-Mi...ble-Kiddie-Pools-Square/34335821?from=/search

but i don't think it's much better than what i have now.
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getting the plants in and out the past couple days hasn't been terrible so i'm not missing the turntable much at all. and now that they're in there i shouldn't have to move them again until harvest.

the yoyos i got have that same kind of button to lock or spring. the first ones i got people were saying some never retracted properly and i knew the ones i bought weren't going to be enough of them anyway so i bought ones that had better reviews. i'll find out for myself. i could see them failing if you're rough with them. they seem a little delicate and maybe they just need to be gentle with. i know one thing about them, i'll be needing my old man reaching grab tool to grab the ones in the back!!!!!!

so i got all the soil mixed up and upcanned all the plants... i added in bumper crop, crab meal, fish bone meal, lobster compost, perlite, alfalfa meal, stonington mix, and a few slow release minerals and goodies like biozome and stuff..

i used the last of my great white watering them in so picked this up last week because great whites price went up again....

View attachment 13713

two got great white and the other four got the new myco+

just starting week nine and i have them all in their big girl panties and i will veg for a few more days and see how they like their new home before if lip the switch, the roots weren't crazy looking so i have some time.. i'll post em up again later in the week and see how they look....

scout snacks on the left, topanga cookies on the right, and zangria up the gut...

View attachment 13712


i also pulled a YOLO and bought new circulation fans, you really had me thinking about it yesterday when you said about not getting any rot and bro i get rot two or three times every year. so i'm gonna throw a little more money at the cabinet and see if we can't make it a little better and not have some of the waste that i get now and then.

so i bought one of the ones you did the cloudray s6. then i bought one from vivosun areowave e6 which to me looks very similar... i will try em both out and which ever one i like better i will buy a second to match and put the oddball one in the veg cabinet because that also needs a major fan upgrade as well. and the cheap little desk fan i just bought is going upstairs for something we were gonna buy another one for anyway so that would have been another $27 that i saved by spending $90 on two grow fans!!!!! you like my logic?!?! hahaha

go 5 go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That sounds like my kind of math right there!
Good race today! I got all fucked up on an elixir I mixed with some iced tea. Now I'm in a marathon high.
Brisky ran super good to come all the way back and get a top 10.
4 Helped me in the pool but the other two in front of me had 23 and 6 so I gained a little ground on the leaders!

That's the same microherd stuff I've been buying since GW prices went so high up. Good stuff man and I think it is GW just in a different jar.

I didn't get anything too fancy on solder. I bought what I needed separately but maybe the biggest bell and whistle on the iron is a digital display hahaha!





I figured if I'm gonna make some UIS splitters I should do it right and not just twist ends and duct tape it up.
Plus there's a few other projects bouncing around I need to do right. I'm most excited about the little helping hands station!

Yeah I don't play when it comes to bud rot. Got it a few times in my old cab, once last year on a grow I halfassed and have been hell bent on prevention since. Almsot every grow I find something where air circulation coulda been better and I lucked out. This past grow my fans were shitting out on me and I was lucky they held up to the end.
I like the features and size profiles of these ACI and you know I'll put these fuckers to the test! I consider instructions to be mere suggestions as to how I'll actually use them

Plants are looking good man! Looks like they might get a little rowdy on ya with that structure!

 

[Bandit420]

rain rain rain!!! man i can't remember a year when the races were so affected by rain delays... i already changed my schedule around so i won't miss it.

i like that red 5 valvoline car!! next time he wins i'm gonna get that tshirt. that was a hell of a tumble, he always says sprint car wrecks are far more violent than stock cars... i wonder if he was wearing his digital mouthpiece? he wears one in cup that measures the force from hits but i don't know if he wears it in other races.

but bro that lobster looks so good, could you imagine getting one that big? i don't even think i have a steamer pot big enough!!! i never had a lobster so big that i couldn't finish it in one sitting but i bet i'd have leftovers with that beast!!!! and ya know most things taste better when they're younger but not lobsters, it's the opposite the big old ones are the best tasting!!!

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what kind of soldering station did ya get man? i upgraded mine a year or so ago now and i love it! does yours have an auto sleep function? if so, tell me if you can figure out how that voodoo works!!! mine has no button, no electric contact, no hidden lever... but yet it knows right when i pick it up... how???? i feel i'm a fairly smart dude but that one baffles me!!!

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ya know i'm so glad i put down that plastic because today when i was watering my plants i spilled it!!!

if i like this style and want a better tray i think i'll just buy a sheet of plastic and weld the sides on, i already own a plastic welder and lots of welding rod so it would only cost me $40 or so for a sheet of material and the rest is just my time. i'll make up my mind before this grow is finished. because if i'm being honest, i really don't like the plastic sheet. i ended up doubling it up but it gets wrinkles and thats where bad stuff breeds!! i bet i could make one of these fit... https://www.walmart.com/ip/Intex-Mi...ble-Kiddie-Pools-Square/34335821?from=/search

but i don't think it's much better than what i have now.
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getting the plants in and out the past couple days hasn't been terrible so i'm not missing the turntable much at all. and now that they're in there i shouldn't have to move them again until harvest.

the yoyos i got have that same kind of button to lock or spring. the first ones i got people were saying some never retracted properly and i knew the ones i bought weren't going to be enough of them anyway so i bought ones that had better reviews. i'll find out for myself. i could see them failing if you're rough with them. they seem a little delicate and maybe they just need to be gentle with. i know one thing about them, i'll be needing my old man reaching grab tool to grab the ones in the back!!!!!!

so i got all the soil mixed up and upcanned all the plants... i added in bumper crop, crab meal, fish bone meal, lobster compost, perlite, alfalfa meal, stonington mix, and a few slow release minerals and goodies like biozome and stuff..

i used the last of my great white watering them in so picked this up last week because great whites price went up again....

View attachment 13713

two got great white and the other four got the new myco+

just starting week nine and i have them all in their big girl panties and i will veg for a few more days and see how they like their new home before if lip the switch, the roots weren't crazy looking so i have some time.. i'll post em up again later in the week and see how they look....

scout snacks on the left, topanga cookies on the right, and zangria up the gut...

View attachment 13712


i also pulled a YOLO and bought new circulation fans, you really had me thinking about it yesterday when you said about not getting any rot and bro i get rot two or three times every year. so i'm gonna throw a little more money at the cabinet and see if we can't make it a little better and not have some of the waste that i get now and then.

so i bought one of the ones you did the cloudray s6. then i bought one from vivosun areowave e6 which to me looks very similar... i will try em both out and which ever one i like better i will buy a second to match and put the oddball one in the veg cabinet because that also needs a major fan upgrade as well. and the cheap little desk fan i just bought is going upstairs for something we were gonna buy another one for anyway so that would have been another $27 that i saved by spending $90 on two grow fans!!!!! you like my logic?!?! hahaha

go 5 go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW thanks for mentioning the vivosum fans.
Starting to feel like I coulda got two more of the ACI on prime day but yeah the aerowave looks like the same thing. I got the black 2 pack for $70 and change. Coupon was only for 12%, not 15 like sign up the teaser said but the 2 pack is prediscounted if that's a word. I'd bet these will work fine with the aci controller too.

 

[Rootsruler]

rain rain rain!!! man i can't remember a year when the races were so affected by rain delays... i already changed my schedule around so i won't miss it.

i like that red 5 valvoline car!! next time he wins i'm gonna get that tshirt. that was a hell of a tumble, he always says sprint car wrecks are far more violent than stock cars... i wonder if he was wearing his digital mouthpiece? he wears one in cup that measures the force from hits but i don't know if he wears it in other races.

but bro that lobster looks so good, could you imagine getting one that big? i don't even think i have a steamer pot big enough!!! i never had a lobster so big that i couldn't finish it in one sitting but i bet i'd have leftovers with that beast!!!! and ya know most things taste better when they're younger but not lobsters, it's the opposite the big old ones are the best tasting!!!

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.

what kind of soldering station did ya get man? i upgraded mine a year or so ago now and i love it! does yours have an auto sleep function? if so, tell me if you can figure out how that voodoo works!!! mine has no button, no electric contact, no hidden lever... but yet it knows right when i pick it up... how???? i feel i'm a fairly smart dude but that one baffles me!!!

.
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ya know i'm so glad i put down that plastic because today when i was watering my plants i spilled it!!!

if i like this style and want a better tray i think i'll just buy a sheet of plastic and weld the sides on, i already own a plastic welder and lots of welding rod so it would only cost me $40 or so for a sheet of material and the rest is just my time. i'll make up my mind before this grow is finished. because if i'm being honest, i really don't like the plastic sheet. i ended up doubling it up but it gets wrinkles and thats where bad stuff breeds!! i bet i could make one of these fit... https://www.walmart.com/ip/Intex-Mi...ble-Kiddie-Pools-Square/34335821?from=/search

but i don't think it's much better than what i have now.
.
.
getting the plants in and out the past couple days hasn't been terrible so i'm not missing the turntable much at all. and now that they're in there i shouldn't have to move them again until harvest.

the yoyos i got have that same kind of button to lock or spring. the first ones i got people were saying some never retracted properly and i knew the ones i bought weren't going to be enough of them anyway so i bought ones that had better reviews. i'll find out for myself. i could see them failing if you're rough with them. they seem a little delicate and maybe they just need to be gentle with. i know one thing about them, i'll be needing my old man reaching grab tool to grab the ones in the back!!!!!!

so i got all the soil mixed up and upcanned all the plants... i added in bumper crop, crab meal, fish bone meal, lobster compost, perlite, alfalfa meal, stonington mix, and a few slow release minerals and goodies like biozome and stuff..

i used the last of my great white watering them in so picked this up last week because great whites price went up again....

View attachment 13713

two got great white and the other four got the new myco+

just starting week nine and i have them all in their big girl panties and i will veg for a few more days and see how they like their new home before if lip the switch, the roots weren't crazy looking so i have some time.. i'll post em up again later in the week and see how they look....

scout snacks on the left, topanga cookies on the right, and zangria up the gut...

View attachment 13712


i also pulled a YOLO and bought new circulation fans, you really had me thinking about it yesterday when you said about not getting any rot and bro i get rot two or three times every year. so i'm gonna throw a little more money at the cabinet and see if we can't make it a little better and not have some of the waste that i get now and then.

so i bought one of the ones you did the cloudray s6. then i bought one from vivosun areowave e6 which to me looks very similar... i will try em both out and which ever one i like better i will buy a second to match and put the oddball one in the veg cabinet because that also needs a major fan upgrade as well. and the cheap little desk fan i just bought is going upstairs for something we were gonna buy another one for anyway so that would have been another $27 that i saved by spending $90 on two grow fans!!!!! you like my logic?!?! hahaha

go 5 go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Small form factor fan with big performance.

Amazon.com

 

[Stoneyluv]

That sounds like my kind of math right there!
Good race today! I got all fucked up on an elixir I mixed with some iced tea. Now I'm in a marathon high.
Brisky ran super good to come all the way back and get a top 10.
4 Helped me in the pool but the other two in front of me had 23 and 6 so I gained a little ground on the leaders!

That's the same microherd stuff I've been buying since GW prices went so high up. Good stuff man and I think it is GW just in a different jar.

I didn't get anything too fancy on solder. I bought what I needed separately but maybe the biggest bell and whistle on the iron is a digital display hahaha!

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I figured if I'm gonna make some UIS splitters I should do it right and not just twist ends and duct tape it up.
Plus there's a few other projects bouncing around I need to do right. I'm most excited about the little helping hands station!

Yeah I don't play when it comes to bud rot. Got it a few times in my old cab, once last year on a grow I halfassed and have been hell bent on prevention since. Almsot every grow I find something where air circulation coulda been better and I lucked out. This past grow my fans were shitting out on me and I was lucky they held up to the end.
I like the features and size profiles of these ACI and you know I'll put these fuckers to the test! I consider instructions to be mere suggestions as to how I'll actually use them

Plants are looking good man! Looks like they might get a little rowdy on ya with that structure!

yeah it was a good race... great to see the 8 cash out early!!! i had the bacon car in the pool so he was out shortly after.. but yeah man, briscoe is definitely headed in the right direction!! it should be a big momentum shift going into this week!! long pond this weekend!!! who needs a fourth turn!!! hehe

hahaha ya know i got some of that stuff too!!!!...



and yeah man, please don't use duct tape for elect. connections anymore!!! hahaha no PINOC connections!!!
this is the station i most recently picked up.. it pretty much has everything on it for a benchtop style.



i'm glad to hear you liked the mycos, i thought i remember you mentioning it but i couldn't remember if what you said was good or bad.. i gave them a little water today but they are pretty much ready for flower and i plan to flip in a couple days.

they looked great today though, best they've looked in weeks now!!! and bro does it ever smell like a seafood market in there... i opened the door and was ready to order a couple crab cakes and a pound of scallops!!! haha

i didn't really give em much water today, the drip drays had a tiny bit of runoff from last night so i gave them each just a quart of water because the soil felt fairly moist. this new soil is much lighter and fluffier than mine and clearly has better drainage. it's been so long since i've used new soil i forget what it's like... maybe this needs to be my sign. i mean there is nothing wrong with reusing soil but i feel i took it way too far. so maybe if i start to notice the density getting heavier i should change out.

i don't know jury is out and we'll make more decisions when it's harvest time and if i need to buy more jars or bags then maybe i'll be sold on all these changes so far!! hehe kinda like you with your new lights... being new doesn't make it great! (that should be a slogan!!! (certainly not for pinoc!!)) hahaha

BTW thanks for mentioning the vivosum fans.
Starting to feel like I coulda got two more of the ACI on prime day but yeah the aerowave looks like the same thing. I got the black 2 pack for $70 and change. Coupon was only for 12%, not 15 like sign up the teaser said but the 2 pack is prediscounted if that's a word. I'd bet these will work fine with the aci controller too.

i was a little torn on ordering one of each kind because what if i want a programmer down the road and now i have different brands. so that's awesome that you'll know. that would be very cool if they were compatible!!!!!

does your new controller have battery backup like CLW? i only ask because i have a feeling that both of these fans will shut down after losing power with the digital controls. if the controller doesn't lose clock time or program when losing power then i'll probably buy one. i really have grown to love the clw controllers with my frequent outages... i haven't had to reset a timer since!!!!

i should have the infinity on wednesday and the vivosun on saturday.

Small form factor fan with big performance.

Amazon.com

i have one of them now, but i need an oscillator. those are good if you're trying to provide air to a plant in one spot at a cheap price. They also have a digital button so if power is dropped they will not turn themselves back on. this feature is fine for most people in the city but not country folk.

 

[Bandit420]

yeah it was a good race... great to see the 8 cash out early!!! i had the bacon car in the pool so he was out shortly after.. but yeah man, briscoe is definitely headed in the right direction!! it should be a big momentum shift going into this week!! long pond this weekend!!! who needs a fourth turn!!! hehe

hahaha ya know i got some of that stuff too!!!!...

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and yeah man, please don't use duct tape for elect. connections anymore!!! hahaha no PINOC connections!!!
this is the station i most recently picked up.. it pretty much has everything on it for a benchtop style.

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i'm glad to hear you liked the mycos, i thought i remember you mentioning it but i couldn't remember if what you said was good or bad.. i gave them a little water today but they are pretty much ready for flower and i plan to flip in a couple days.

they looked great today though, best they've looked in weeks now!!! and bro does it ever smell like a seafood market in there... i opened the door and was ready to order a couple crab cakes and a pound of scallops!!! haha

i didn't really give em much water today, the drip drays had a tiny bit of runoff from last night so i gave them each just a quart of water because the soil felt fairly moist. this new soil is much lighter and fluffier than mine and clearly has better drainage. it's been so long since i've used new soil i forget what it's like... maybe this needs to be my sign. i mean there is nothing wrong with reusing soil but i feel i took it way too far. so maybe if i start to notice the density getting heavier i should change out.

i don't know jury is out and we'll make more decisions when it's harvest time and if i need to buy more jars or bags then maybe i'll be sold on all these changes so far!! hehe kinda like you with your new lights... being new doesn't make it great! (that should be a slogan!!! (certainly not for pinoc!!)) hahaha



i was a little torn on ordering one of each kind because what if i want a programmer down the road and now i have different brands. so that's awesome that you'll know. that would be very cool if they were compatible!!!!!

does your new controller have battery backup like CLW? i only ask because i have a feeling that both of these fans will shut down after losing power with the digital controls. if the controller doesn't lose clock time or program when losing power then i'll probably buy one. i really have grown to love the clw controllers with my frequent outages... i haven't had to reset a timer since!!!!

i should have the infinity on wednesday and the vivosun on saturday.



i have one of them now, but i need an oscillator. those are good if you're trying to provide air to a plant in one spot at a cheap price. They also have a digital button so if power is dropped they will not turn themselves back on. this feature is fine for most people in the city but not country folk.

Ahh, see I got your starter solder kit before you upgraded!
I was going back and forth on getting something baddass like that or just enough to get me thru the job. I'm gonna start making the first splitter in a few so I hope I made the right choice!

You'll be glad to know I just simulated a power outage by cutting power at the breaker and all fans came back on and picked up where they left off.

On the controller or off the controller, they all came back on so even if you don't use a controller your fans will come back on automatically after the power goes out.
Only thing that didn't are a pair of LED worklights in the room but the fans came back on just the same as an analog switch fans and the CLW controllers.
I don't think these controllers or the fans have battery back up, they just don't blank out when the power goes out. Or maybe they do have battery back up but don't mention it in product info?

The controller is actually a bit on the weird side compared to all other environmental controller devices I've used. Most controllers I've used are in steel or thick plastic housings with bold readouts. This one feels almost fragile compared to that.
It's digital but works like analog. Like it doesn't plug in and draw it's own power. Power is provided by a device like a fan or light and when you hook up the UIS cable from the device to the controller, then the controller powers up. But say you want the controller just for info display, it won't work for that. It has to have a device to power it up.
It's great if there's going to be fans you cannot reach to adjust or want some to turn on and off using various triggers. And of course it's kinda neat and fun to control several fan's speed with your phone and the wifi lets you control the room while out of town but it's not needed.
The one major let down is you cannot control oscillation with the controller. That kinda bummed me out when I was setting up.
It also looks like the Vivosun controller is almost the same in features and function but also looks better. The ACI is very Death Star style. Vivosun looks more Grow room style.
There are other features to the controller that let you chart conditions and tells you info like temp, RH, and VPD then I guess you can adjust devices when ever what's charted is out of bounds but TBH, I'm not sure about all that. Like it's trying to reinvent the wheel but all it's done is change the tire in regards to grow room control IMO. The basic fundamentals of growing a Summer annual photosensitive plant still apply. 82 and Sunny, light breeze from the Southwest. This thing is just trying to put that into numbers then you play with the devices to match the numbers. That doesn't jive too much with me. I just look at the plants and they say what to do, not numbers on a device for guidance lol.
But if you wanna control a platoon of fans with a phone, hard to beat it.

 

[Stoneyluv]

Ahh, see I got your starter solder kit before you upgraded!
I was going back and forth on getting something baddass like that or just enough to get me thru the job. I'm gonna start making the first splitter in a few so I hope I made the right choice!

You'll be glad to know I just simulated a power outage by cutting power at the breaker and all fans came back on and picked up where they left off.

On the controller or off the controller, they all came back on so even if you don't use a controller your fans will come back on automatically after the power goes out.
Only thing that didn't are a pair of LED worklights in the room but the fans came back on just the same as an analog switch fans and the CLW controllers.
I don't think these controllers or the fans have battery back up, they just don't blank out when the power goes out. Or maybe they do have battery back up but don't mention it in product info?

The controller is actually a bit on the weird side compared to all other environmental controller devices I've used. Most controllers I've used are in steel or thick plastic housings with bold readouts. This one feels almost fragile compared to that.
It's digital but works like analog. Like it doesn't plug in and draw it's own power. Power is provided by a device like a fan or light and when you hook up the UIS cable from the device to the controller, then the controller powers up. But say you want the controller just for info display, it won't work for that. It has to have a device to power it up.
It's great if there's going to be fans you cannot reach to adjust or want some to turn on and off using various triggers. And of course it's kinda neat and fun to control several fan's speed with your phone and the wifi lets you control the room while out of town but it's not needed.
The one major let down is you cannot control oscillation with the controller. That kinda bummed me out when I was setting up.
It also looks like the Vivosun controller is almost the same in features and function but also looks better. The ACI is very Death Star style. Vivosun looks more Grow room style.
There are other features to the controller that let you chart conditions and tells you info like temp, RH, and VPD then I guess you can adjust devices when ever what's charted is out of bounds but TBH, I'm not sure about all that. Like it's trying to reinvent the wheel but all it's done is change the tire in regards to grow room control IMO. The basic fundamentals of growing a Summer annual photosensitive plant still apply. 82 and Sunny, light breeze from the Southwest. This thing is just trying to put that into numbers then you play with the devices to match the numbers. That doesn't jive too much with me. I just look at the plants and they say what to do, not numbers on a device for guidance lol.
But if you wanna control a platoon of fans with a phone, hard to beat it.

so much great information bro!!! after what you have to say and checking it out i'm pretty sure i'll never need a controller. mine will be ez to reach and i'm not really planning on turning them off at all. so other than cool factor i don't think the controller would benefit me.

it turning itself back on after a power outage sells me right there, and it's low enough power my generator will have no issues at all when needed.

i'm printing out a set of brackets to hold a couple stripper poles... no more dancing cages so now i need stripper poles!!! total pimp idea so i gotta copy that one. i'll make em long enough for seedling to full grown. one pole facing south and one facing west!!!

hey i saw you got new strippers too!!!!! i used to be a stripper... a wire stripper!!! hahahaha

not sure if you noticed but the covers come off for ez cleaning!!



i have this new problem, i can't stop buying seeds!!!! these came today and last night i bought a pack of GG4!!!



my plants are really diggin their new soil... even crispy cream turned out ok....







so with that said..... week 1 day 1



see man, who needs blue anyway... barely on!!

a week earlier than last round and the plants are much bigger this time and there're six of them this time, in fact it's the first time i've flowered more than five at a time in years!!! .... improvement!!!

it's so weird growing with these pots... reminds me of the milk crate days!!!
still smells like a seafood market in there though!!!! hehe

ya know i've been SIP so long i don't deal with runoff... the runoff from these is kinda yellow and foams a little, is that normal?

thanks again for all the fan info... i should get the vivosun fan on saturday. then it will be like OKC in my cabinet... ya know really sucking and blowing at the same time!!!!! hehe >> i just painted my stripper poles... and no, not black, i was gonna then i thought in the spirit of strippers i went with chrome!!

 

[Bandit420]

so much great information bro!!! after what you have to say and checking it out i'm pretty sure i'll never need a controller. mine will be ez to reach and i'm not really planning on turning them off at all. so other than cool factor i don't think the controller would benefit me.

it turning itself back on after a power outage sells me right there, and it's low enough power my generator will have no issues at all when needed.

i'm printing out a set of brackets to hold a couple stripper poles... no more dancing cages so now i need stripper poles!!! total pimp idea so i gotta copy that one. i'll make em long enough for seedling to full grown. one pole facing south and one facing west!!!

hey i saw you got new strippers too!!!!! i used to be a stripper... a wire stripper!!! hahahaha

not sure if you noticed but the covers come off for ez cleaning!!

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i have this new problem, i can't stop buying seeds!!!! these came today and last night i bought a pack of GG4!!!

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my plants are really diggin their new soil... even crispy cream turned out ok....

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so with that said..... week 1 day 1

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see man, who needs blue anyway... barely on!!

a week earlier than last round and the plants are much bigger this time and there're six of them this time, in fact it's the first time i've flowered more than five at a time in years!!! .... improvement!!!

it's so weird growing with these pots... reminds me of the milk crate days!!!
still smells like a seafood market in there though!!!! hehe

ya know i've been SIP so long i don't deal with runoff... the runoff from these is kinda yellow and foams a little, is that normal?

thanks again for all the fan info... i should get the vivosun fan on saturday. then it will be like OKC in my cabinet... ya know really sucking and blowing at the same time!!!!! hehe >> i just painted my stripper poles... and no, not black, i was gonna then i thought in the spirit of strippers i went with chrome!!

What if I told you I have two files to print out pole dancer models that attach to the stripper poles? Because I have two files to print pole dancers that attach to the stripper poles.
I had a moment of brilliance setting up my pole system. After the horizontal pole and vertical oscillator worked out I realized the horizontal poles can have dual purpose and be the framework to attach a net trellis.
I'm using the earthbox trellis system poles with the T's and realized with the 3D printed mounts can pretty much build an endoskeleton of poles combining the wide open spaces of cab & room growing with the structure of a large tent grow and use that skeleton for all sorts things like the fans and plant support. Now I can stick fans in spots I never could and don't have to rely on the poles that attach to my big tray for the trellis.

Yep first thing I did was take a fan apart and see how it can be cleaned haha! Thought about printing a filter for it's backside but not a lot of space back there for something like that.
But yeah I'm running my fans upside down so I took off the grills and flipped them to make it look like the fans are right side up

IDK about the runoff. Never seen or heard of that but if there's foam that would tell me microbial digestion is occurring for some reason. Not really a bad thing but yeah keep and eye on it, keep smelling it and hope it stays earthy and not like a sewer. Maybe back off a little on how much is watered in. Hard to say exactly but that's what I'd be doing.

Man you are scoring a lot of beans! I've been tempted but have spending a lot lately on vaycay so trying to cut back a little and not splurge so much after burning thru most of what I saved for this Summer. But it's been a blast and I got to trick out my g/room so it's all good.
Looks like my Vivosuns will be here Monday. Took 'em a few days to ship but at least their en route now.

Take it ez brother and have a great weekend! Trying to stay cool here in this heat so we're gonna get high AF off some of these dabs, sneak a couple drinkables in the theater, and go check out that Oppenheimer movie today while it's about 455*F outside. Kinda cool timing on this since we went to the Atomic Testing museum in Vegas a few weeks ago so now we'll see the Hollywood version of all that.

 

[ninjadip]

Sweet sauce is absolutely horrible! Really I wouldn't mind no salt or sugar in a good sauce. Doesn't need it!
Chicago just tasted like a sauce that had been on the stove for 8 hours and a little hint of wine in there which I love.
But yeah Chicago sauce is so good one of the apps I ordered was just sauce and baked goat cheese with a side of bread

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Deep dish and thick crust is always hit and miss. If they're taking shortcuts and using a preformed frozen crust that looks like a hubcap it's gonna be a miss. Most places do that and it's just terrible.
Detroit style uses a very thick crust with cheese up to the edge and baked to well done. That gives the cheese a charred crust and is really good.

Conan's here does a fresh made white and wheat thick crust. Wheat is really good and compliments the thick layers of toppings well but it's that fresh made and fresh baked flavor that makes it so good. The key though is baking it to well done. It's gotta be black around the edge

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Chicago deep dish reminds me more of a graham cracker pie crust for something like key lime pie or cheesecake. Not a thick crust at all and not cooked to well done and doesn't add much to the pie like a NYC style crust can make or break the pie. Chicago deep dish crust is just there and muted.
Chicago also does a thin crust that's like a cracker and is actually more popular than deep dish in that city. It's very thin and crispy and they cut the pie in squares

The ciabatta is next level. Sourdough crust is very popular lately but it's nothing special to me. I think it's just a fad, right there with cauliflower crust which I refuse to consider but ciabatta is wow man!!! I love that bread with my panini and now I need to read up how to make it into a pizza crust




Yep it's not just NYC, Chicago, and New Haven anymore.
I've heard that about Phoenix as well as Portland, Oregon, Denver, and Bozeman, Montana are cranking out pies that are worthy of being top dogs in the country.


Hell yeah man!

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I'm firing up the beast this weekend but doing my rustic green and red chile chicken enchiladas

Goddamn pizza connoisseur!!!

 

[Rootsruler]

What if I told you I have two files to print out pole dancer models that attach to the stripper poles? Because I have two files to print pole dancers that attach to the stripper poles.
I had a moment of brilliance setting up my pole system. After the horizontal pole and vertical oscillator worked out I realized the horizontal poles can have dual purpose and be the framework to attach a net trellis.
I'm using the earthbox trellis system poles with the T's and realized with the 3D printed mounts can pretty much build an endoskeleton of poles combining the wide open spaces of cab & room growing with the structure of a large tent grow and use that skeleton for all sorts things like the fans and plant support. Now I can stick fans in spots I never could and don't have to rely on the poles that attach to my big tray for the trellis.

Yep first thing I did was take a fan apart and see how it can be cleaned haha! Thought about printing a filter for it's backside but not a lot of space back there for something like that.
But yeah I'm running my fans upside down so I took off the grills and flipped them to make it look like the fans are right side up

IDK about the runoff. Never seen or heard of that but if there's foam that would tell me microbial digestion is occurring for some reason. Not really a bad thing but yeah keep and eye on it, keep smelling it and hope it stays earthy and not like a sewer. Maybe back off a little on how much is watered in. Hard to say exactly but that's what I'd be doing.

Man you are scoring a lot of beans! I've been tempted but have spending a lot lately on vaycay so trying to cut back a little and not splurge so much after burning thru most of what I saved for this Summer. But it's been a blast and I got to trick out my g/room so it's all good.
Looks like my Vivosuns will be here Monday. Took 'em a few days to ship but at least their en route now.

Take it ez brother and have a great weekend! Trying to stay cool here in this heat so we're gonna get high AF off some of these dabs, sneak a couple drinkables in the theater, and go check out that Oppenheimer movie today while it's about 455*F outside. Kinda cool timing on this since we went to the Atomic Testing museum in Vegas a few weeks ago so now we'll see the Hollywood version of all that.

Any way you can print up a pole clip but with a stripper/pole dancer as part of the clasp? I'll even hang a mirrored ball so that it's a party!! Hoping the plants feel like they've made it to the VIP..........

 

[Stoneyluv]

What if I told you I have two files to print out pole dancer models that attach to the stripper poles? Because I have two files to print pole dancers that attach to the stripper poles.
I had a moment of brilliance setting up my pole system. After the horizontal pole and vertical oscillator worked out I realized the horizontal poles can have dual purpose and be the framework to attach a net trellis.
I'm using the earthbox trellis system poles with the T's and realized with the 3D printed mounts can pretty much build an endoskeleton of poles combining the wide open spaces of cab & room growing with the structure of a large tent grow and use that skeleton for all sorts things like the fans and plant support. Now I can stick fans in spots I never could and don't have to rely on the poles that attach to my big tray for the trellis.

Yep first thing I did was take a fan apart and see how it can be cleaned haha! Thought about printing a filter for it's backside but not a lot of space back there for something like that.
But yeah I'm running my fans upside down so I took off the grills and flipped them to make it look like the fans are right side up

IDK about the runoff. Never seen or heard of that but if there's foam that would tell me microbial digestion is occurring for some reason. Not really a bad thing but yeah keep and eye on it, keep smelling it and hope it stays earthy and not like a sewer. Maybe back off a little on how much is watered in. Hard to say exactly but that's what I'd be doing.

Man you are scoring a lot of beans! I've been tempted but have spending a lot lately on vaycay so trying to cut back a little and not splurge so much after burning thru most of what I saved for this Summer. But it's been a blast and I got to trick out my g/room so it's all good.
Looks like my Vivosuns will be here Monday. Took 'em a few days to ship but at least their en route now.

Take it ez brother and have a great weekend! Trying to stay cool here in this heat so we're gonna get high AF off some of these dabs, sneak a couple drinkables in the theater, and go check out that Oppenheimer movie today while it's about 455*F outside. Kinda cool timing on this since we went to the Atomic Testing museum in Vegas a few weeks ago so now we'll see the Hollywood version of all that.

man i never even thought of the printer used for grow room art!!!! my brain is always fixed on functional design i often forget the art.

that's really cool you were able to improve your trellis setup, i know you were just talking about debating how you were gonna use what trays because your trellis mounted to it,,, sounds like you now have freedom from that!!!

but yeah man, great minds think alike on the upside down fan, you can tilt further that way, and yep, turned my grill around too!!!



looks like i will get my vivosun fan on sunday now, there was a delay in shipment. i don't wanna get to excited yet but from what i read online i'm going to like the vivosun better. i'm interested in what the natural wind mode is like.

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bro this bean buying sickness i have is something else... at least they're reverse auction and not breaking the bank!! but yeah, i need to slow down a little, but i just got another 10% off coupon expiring at the end of the month!! i got more than i can use right now... you'll be getting some of these!!!!!



so my runoff isn't nasty at all... i mean i wouldn't drink it but it doesn't stink at all... the soil itself has a bit of stench though, like manure... been a long time since i had new stuff so i might just be sensitive to it. but the runoff itself is alright to deal with i just need to get my amounts of watering tightened up. but man the one thing that is driving me nuts and needs to get changed asap is my ghetto tray... it's gotta go, i already paid for the sheet of material and i'm picking it up tomorrow. i wanted hdpe but settled for polypro because thats what they had in stock and i didn't want to wait ten days... the only reason i wanted the hdpe is i already own welding rod for that material. i had to buy the poly welding rod so that added an extra $10 but all said and done the materials will cost me only $45+tax out the door... and it will be custom size and i hope to slant it just a tad and add a drain fitting so i can rinse it and clean it in place if needed. if not i thought maybe i could just keep my little shop vac there for quick clean up. either way i hope to be done with this thin plastic by the end of weekend.

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movies are a great idea when it's super hot out.... they always have it chillin inside!!! we were thinking of checking out the new indi movie..

hey something i noticed... i still have the old dixie container and the old ones were only 90mg... even to this day that was the best edible experience i ever had.

Goddamn pizza connoisseur!!!

i've seen countless pizzas come out of his wood oven now over the years and they all look better than anything you can buy!!!!!

Any way you can print up a pole clip but with a stripper/pole dancer as part of the clasp? I'll even hang a mirrored ball so that it's a party!! Hoping the plants feel like they've made it to the VIP..........

can you believe this guy, making strippers for the poles!!!! man the best idea i had was just a boring cable clip for the poles... not bandit, he got actual strippers!!!

 

[SiamSam]

i got some work done on the grow area today. it took me longer than it did in my head so i'll have to get to the upcanning tomorrow. so i put a thin piece of plywood down on top of the turntable...

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and also made a redneck drip tray to protect it. with my cabinet being 45" inside i will never be able to use a store bought tray so i used some plastic sheeting left over from my poly tunnel. If i continue to grow this style i might put a custom made tray in there but just for now we have this...

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also hung up all the yoyo stringers i bought. when my lights are at flowering height they should be right around the correct level. i ended up buying two different brands because i wasn't sure of the quality so i alternated them in case one kind breaks. and I wasn't sure how important it was for the strings to be kinda level so i put in the extra work to make the middle stringer straight...

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got my Alien Punch today!!!!! got the lucky seven once again!!!

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then earlier tonight i scored this killer deal, then used a coupon on top of it....

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Thats all for now.... i hope to get those plants upcanned and flip the switch tomorrow... monday will start week nine for them.

go #5!!!!

Well I was following along OK ....but now I'm confused....didn't you already have purple alien seeds in your bag of trix? And now you are adding alien punch? Don't you know that they will be probing you soon enough on the operating table. Aliens are real and you're smoking up all their reefer? This weed growing and buying new stuff just kind of goes hand in hand.....Man I'm so far into the second Silo book (awesome)....

 

[Stoneyluv]

Well I was following along OK ....but now I'm confused....didn't you already have purple alien seeds in your bag of trix? And now you are adding alien punch? Don't you know that they will be probing you soon enough on the operating table. Aliens are real and you're smoking up all their reefer? This weed growing and buying new stuff just kind of goes hand in hand.....Man I'm so far into the second Silo book (awesome)....

haha don't leave out the alien rock candy and martian candy!!!!! hehe yeah i'm a sucker for anything with alien in the name for some reason

i'll tell ya man i haven't picked up a book in probably twenty years but you are making it real hard for me not to download that book!!! i also belong to a piracy site so i'll have to see if they have it.

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I was just looking in my grow and i didn't see any strippers or aliens, but there was a sighting......

 

[SiamSam]

haha don't leave out the alien rock candy and martian candy!!!!! hehe yeah i'm a sucker for anything with alien in the name for some reason

i'll tell ya man i haven't picked up a book in probably twenty years but you are making it real hard for me not to download that book!!! i also belong to a piracy site so i'll have to see if they have it.

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I was just looking in my grow and i didn't see any strippers or aliens, but there was a sighting......

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[SiamSam]

The difference between a gorilla and an ape? Only ape means imitate, while gorilla doesn't monkey around. Sheesh the book is really good.

 

[Bandit420]

There's a theme here....



And just wait until you see what's being printed right now hahaha!

Dude these 2023 drinkables are far more potent than the 2015s.
I had a 1/4 bottle of a red white & blueberry before driving to the movies and then a full bottle of Loud during previews. The nano emulsification hits harder and faster than normal edibles so in 10 minutes I'm tripping.
Along with a few puffs on a distillate cart before walking in I was tripping hard during opening scenes. Midway thru I thought I might need to get up and walk around it was hitting so hard. Double vision, tracers, melting in my seat, tripping on scenery, the works.
3 hour movie I thought all would be good by the end. Nope. I was tripping hard for the next 9 hours dude. Then I slept for another 9 and had the best rest ever.
I haven't tried the Dixies yet but holy shit balls dude do not drink these if you have shit to do. It's shroom or sid protocols...cancel the day and trip.

 

[Bandit420]

Put your hands together and make it rain for Mahindra!

 

[Stoneyluv]

The difference between a gorilla and an ape? Only ape means imitate, while gorilla doesn't monkey around. Sheesh the book is really good.

no monkeying around!! my buddy says that all the time!!! haha

so is the tv show made from the first book and then the other books continue the story past what the tv show went?

There's a theme here....

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And just wait until you see what's being printed right now hahaha!

Dude these 2023 drinkables are far more potent than the 2015s.
I had a 1/4 bottle of a red white & blueberry before driving to the movies and then a full bottle of Loud during previews. The nano emulsification hits harder and faster than normal edibles so in 10 minutes I'm tripping.
Along with a few puffs on a distillate cart before walking in I was tripping hard during opening scenes. Midway thru I thought I might need to get up and walk around it was hitting so hard. Double vision, tracers, melting in my seat, tripping on scenery, the works.
3 hour movie I thought all would be good by the end. Nope. I was tripping hard for the next 9 hours dude. Then I slept for another 9 and had the best rest ever.
I haven't tried the Dixies yet but holy shit balls dude do not drink these if you have shit to do. It's shroom or sid protocols...cancel the day and trip.

haha he's even in the same pose!!!! a neighbor just down the road has one in their yard... always gets double takes going by!!!

man i was really wondering how much i should try... the bottle directions seem so weak. i know i won't be drinking a 1/4 bottle of the freedom and a whole bottle of loud after hearing that!!!!! hahahaha

i'll heave warning though, total lsd rules... no power tools, no motorized vehicles, and no firearms!! got it!!! hehehe

i think i'm gonna drink some tomorrow for the race... i ain't got shit to do! i hope it stretches into bedtime like it did you, i love a good deep sleep from edibles!!!

Put your hands together and make it rain for Mahindra!

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ah snap, she's in 3d!!!! way better than what i had in my head!!!!!

love the chi town artwork brother!!!!

i got my vivosun fan today, i haven't opened it up yet... i still gotta run out and get that sheet of plastic for my drip tray, they're open late on a saturday so i'm not rushed!!

if everything works out as planned i should get two trays from the one sheet. they'll be 44" x 44" and have a 2" tall sides. i measured my stuff and the containers are about 40" end to end so they should fit good.

just wish i had an extra 4 square feet in there.. we'll see what happen after this grow.i always have the option of tearing down the divider wall between my cabinets and opening up a 44 x 88 inch space that would fit eight plants nice.. before i get ahead of myself i want to see how the six i have now do. i feel i'm stuffing the six in there right now and maybe should have only four.

all in due time!!!