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Stoney's Luv Shack
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All looks well on my end! Playing around with some things so it's kinda like when my wife rearranges the spice cabinet. I know it's all still there, just have to look on another shelf or behind something else
You got me going down memory lane with the prize vault. Most of that stuff was just a shopping list I had on amazon along with a few other things here ready to ship. Seeds were illegal to send back then so the biggest request was always the set of bubble bags. pH pen was well liked and I had shit like a year sub to High Times somebody picked once. 4oz Jars of Great White were also a hit.
The thing was to keep value at around $30 for each item. It gave some good value but also low enough to deter cheaters. You start giving away shit like lights and people will cheat.
Make it very noob friendly and even tilt it toward them so prizes that help noobs are always a hit.
We also ran it way different with self entered pics and other entries. The THCFarmer model is made for sponsored growers to basically circle jerk each other into prizes and promote a sponsor and persuade the community into using that product. Self entered allowed people to pick their own entry and all you have to do is add some sort of rule like a handwritten date stamp or something. 10 post minimum to enter and let it rip. Bud porn galore.
I would also mix it up and one of my faves were the essay contests. I felt like they built good culture and promoted respect between growers.
It needs traffic though and IDK if the update will help but the site needs to come up on common google searches like "marijuana forum" "grow marijuana" etc, something like that in the header so the site is an option on the list of grow forums. Once there then the traffic comes and gets more people to enter contests.
Right now it's missing so if it was named BudBuilders Marijuana Growing it might come up there. I think you have the bots and everything to aid the searches but they just need to know to direct marijuana and cannabis searches here.
Don't mean to step on toes or anything and tell you how to raise this baby but you got me thinking about those old times.
It is uncanny how similar bubbleheads was to this site. Both spinoffs from a major forum after a falling out. Innocents catching stray bans. The people who started the spinoff hand it over to others committed to it.
Only then, Instagram was moving in on forums and taking all the eyes looking for bud porn.
Then forums were just mostly info but now info is available thru AI and people are even using AI to reply so the niche of the grow forum gets smaller and smaller and less human. The AI reliant growers on reddit concern me man.
Back then I think my biggest headaches were contest cheaters and commercial growers with fragile egos and tons of small dick energy lol. Good times though
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Yeah, this site is pretty much really low key. Like the only way to find it is if someone tells you about it from another site. From what I gather, that was the initial intention. But if that direction has changed, Bandit420 's idea wouldn't hurt. I personally liked how low key it was, but it seems to have dropped down to a whisper from a ghost. That said, I don't see myself going elsewhere anytime soon. The community and knowledge here is still a valuable asset to aid me into furthering distancing myself from being a noob(still a noob lol.)
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I'm assuming all went well! I'm at the end of my grow so I just peek in on the things I watch. U did say u thought it'd be pretty straightforward and easy! Now hurry up and start that fallponics already!! I need other shit to watch!
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All looks well on my end! Playing around with some things so it's kinda like when my wife rearranges the spice cabinet. I know it's all still there, just have to look on another shelf or behind something else
You got me going down memory lane with the prize vault. Most of that stuff was just a shopping list I had on amazon along with a few other things here ready to ship. Seeds were illegal to send back then so the biggest request was always the set of bubble bags. pH pen was well liked and I had shit like a year sub to High Times somebody picked once. 4oz Jars of Great White were also a hit.
The thing was to keep value at around $30 for each item. It gave some good value but also low enough to deter cheaters. You start giving away shit like lights and people will cheat.
Make it very noob friendly and even tilt it toward them so prizes that help noobs are always a hit.
We also ran it way different with self entered pics and other entries. The THCFarmer model is made for sponsored growers to basically circle jerk each other into prizes and promote a sponsor and persuade the community into using that product. Self entered allowed people to pick their own entry and all you have to do is add some sort of rule like a handwritten date stamp or something. 10 post minimum to enter and let it rip. Bud porn galore.
I would also mix it up and one of my faves were the essay contests. I felt like they built good culture and promoted respect between growers.
It needs traffic though and IDK if the update will help but the site needs to come up on common google searches like "marijuana forum" "grow marijuana" etc, something like that in the header so the site is an option on the list of grow forums. Once there then the traffic comes and gets more people to enter contests.
Right now it's missing so if it was named BudBuilders Marijuana Growing it might come up there. I think you have the bots and everything to aid the searches but they just need to know to direct marijuana and cannabis searches here.
Don't mean to step on toes or anything and tell you how to raise this baby but you got me thinking about those old times.
It is uncanny how similar bubbleheads was to this site. Both spinoffs from a major forum after a falling out. Innocents catching stray bans. The people who started the spinoff hand it over to others committed to it.
Only then, Instagram was moving in on forums and taking all the eyes looking for bud porn.
Then forums were just mostly info but now info is available thru AI and people are even using AI to reply so the niche of the grow forum gets smaller and smaller and less human. The AI reliant growers on reddit concern me man.
Back then I think my biggest headaches were contest cheaters and commercial growers with fragile egos and tons of small dick energy lol. Good times though
haha i don't mind when the spices get moved as long as the labels are facing out!! hahaha
i've been messing with it a lot today.. i've seen things i've never seen before!! hahahaha nah it's been cool, just fumbling around trying this and that..
i've thought about different kinds of contests and things, Steam suggests that i host them maybe every other month. but you're 100% man, it's not the participation thats down it's the amount of members.
i'm really not sure what to do just yet for contests but i guess i need to figure something out. back then we had a lot of activity and members to keep things moving faster and staff has said for a long time that we need more people not better contests. this was back when fundraisers were happening and ideas on how to keep them going when they were losing traction. the answer... more traffic!!!
it will push me into areas i never ventured before but from what i understand there is a lot i could do to get our content more visible. i know if you google stoneyluv this place shows up!!!! hahaha
i also never go to other sites to see whats working for them...
this site was built to make money. it was a model to charge money to give grow advice. it never panned out and all the gurus wanting this have left. it sucks that Moe built this place and then didn't want anything to do with it anymore. who knows where it takes us.. for now its a fun hobby!!!
as far as the exposure i think there are a few things i can simple modify and turn on to get our site map out to the world and even our selected content and our best threads. there are also forms for SEO's and
so i kinda need to learn how to deal with all this and figure out how to make us more visible. downside is with more people comes more drama i just hope a couple good ones are peppered in with the ciaos.
i could use help with some of this if anybody happens to know anything about it.
man i've been so lazy with updating the hydro thread... the table looks ugly with all the burn.. i've just been milking them out the best i can, the ppms have been so ridiculously low... anything over 400ppms sends my ph way down and then the doser sends a lot of ph up in it.. so i have just been keeping the ppms low and limping them by so it doesn't end up being a total waste..
some pics..
can't wait to get this new setup in!!!!!!!!!! i just hope it solves my issues!!!!
i'm pumped though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Towards the end of my grow, this also happened to me. I had to keep the ppms under 500. I also though, left out the bennies for a few water changes around that time, so that may have been my culprit. Didn't smoke and moe do entire grows that were like 500 and under for ppm's?
Nice!! The buckets r the 8gal ones? I dunno, I don't have any previous experience w anything else besides a dwc bucket, but I think the fallponics is a good setup. Did u use their bulkheads or grab different ones? I may have to re-plumb the return pvc pipes once I get into a house as I'm considering ditching the tent and grow in a room. If i did such, I want those buckets further apart and possibly try to grow some 6-7 foot trees
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I'd like to think I'm capable of understanding all of that, just would have to brush up on a few things and Google the shit out of it lol I'm sure u r more than capable of doing such urself as well
I went through a college program for the foundation of being an IT person like 20+ yrs ago which also included some html, vb, and other shit. I also was doing some self training w programming w the aid of my raspberry that fell to the wayside a bit. Just saying, I think I could fall down that rabbit hole and be enthusiastic about it. There's probably ppl here that r more educated in it than I. Feel free to pm me about it if the inclination arises.
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i remember reading you post about that.. i'm like wow somebody else is experiencing something that i am.. theres a first!!
part of my issue is i can't see the roots once my table is in place, the way these bucket lids are i can only lift one about two inches on one side. it sucks and i can't wait for these new lids with the split sides.
Smoke would keep his ppms at exactly what the plants used each day. he always said he was neither sterile nor live but the fact is he was live and just didn't need bennies added.
i'd really kike to try his tech some time.. after i know i issues are gone.
another thing that has been in the back of my mind is what if my jar of great white is actually bunk?? i have no way of testing that i know of.
this first new run i do i'm gionna get a brand new bottle of orca, might even buy it right from PR and not amazon shelves. my first run i had root rot and coudn't see it in the buckets at the time till harvest.. i'm almost sure i'll see it again in the middle of the twister roots. we'll all know soon enough when i harvest!!!!!!
yes sir, the eight gallon.. i was tempted to go big boys but in the back of my mind i keep thinking what if this problem is both of my water sources?? then i will be forced to spend another 3-4 hundred and have to waste water on top of it!!! wear and tear on my personal well pump and bladder tank.. to go RO is all negative sides but one so before i do that i wanna make sure with this new clean system with no funny sealants or adhesives. so if it ends up really being my water which i seriously doubt then i wanted to keep the overall volume down to a minimum. and to be honest my complaint has never been my plants are too small and need more root room.. people stuff their buckets to the shape and don't have my issue!! i'm backing everything on black man!! all my hopes are in the new clean plastic with no questionable compounds.
for almost a month now i have been topping with just plain water at zero ppms.. my rez was changed out at 380.. i have not given the top off a single nutrient and about 10-15 gallons has been sucked up... and right now my rez is at 580ppm!!! what the fuck man!!!! like how to plants put that much back into the water,, could this ppm rize really be some evil shit in my sealants or system that is poisoning the water?
i swear my top off has been zero... look i use floranova nutes and mr fulvic that stuff stains bad and my white top off barrel is squeaky clean it's had so much fresh water go into it here in the past few weeks.. maybe not a full month but very close to it..
just perplexed...
looking forward to taking the old system out, cleaning, and a fresh new install!! IF and this is a big if, but if the new system works and it was my diy this whole time i will probably have some sort of rage room action on the old system... on video of course!!!!
I'd like to think I'm capable of understanding all of that, just would have to brush up on a few things and Google the shit out of it lol I'm sure u r more than capable of doing such urself as well
hehe yep, that about where i would start.. actually i'm gonna start at forums. both the company we pay for our software and th place we buy the skins from both have a very large community on their own forums within the site. the past few weeks everything i have learned has come from there. i haven't had the need to ask a question just search others that have to find problems but i would have no problem reaching out there for help.
and yes make no mistake about this i am not trained in any way, everything i know is self taught! don't worry all our security and content and data stuff is in the hands of much more capable people than me!!!! hehe
i've always liked the saying that if i'm the smartest person in the room then i'm in the wrong room!!!!
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Good race .
He seemed slow on restarts.
He seemed slow on restarts.
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Good race .
He seemed slow on restarts.
he was slow... the fastest car did not win the race today!!! i personally don't like the 7.. i call him bubba allgayer...
hope theres some good racing and action tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'll always [refer a more low key site as well. Big forums make me feel like I need a shower. Seems like each one has a grift behind it and the forum is more or less an interactive customer support and persuasion system.
Truck race was freaking awesome!!! Something about the intermediates do make for more thrilling races and Hocevar was way better this celebration.
It is weird how if you know what you're looking for, this site shows up like a neon marquee!
I keep going back to that old site and what was done..This was a Roseman tactic and it was brilliant IMO.
A sub forum like the question forum here is created but make the title marijuana forward so instead of just questions, it questions about all things marijuana. I think ours was new marijuana grower questions.
Within the subforum he'd create threads with general titles that would be picked up in Googles searches. Titles like How to grow marijuana in hydroponics...How to grow marijuana in a tent...in a closet. etc.
He filled those threads by copy and pasting open source info from the internet about those topics. You have enough experience to know what's bullshit and what's legit and really all you need is basic fundamental type info to fill in.
However in the first paragraph of the copy and paste, he would add in a general friendly welcome with a link to intro and grow diaries and a list of staff to help if they need site help.
Those thread titles and info brought in people who were searching grow info and kinda took advantage of the bots without paying for it.
Also add marijuana or cannabis to everything you can. Like the Smoke Reports subforum..change it to marijuana or cannabis smoke reports. You'll see all over the board where maybe something was done in haste and just needs to be cleaned up or fine tuned to be cannabis-centric for general google searches to pick it up.
Rosee used it to persuade people into bubbleponics and shop at Stealth Hydro but the rest of us were using it to help people in all mediums and it worked. We would get the occasional asshat for sure and for the most part it was a lurker nation but there seemed to always be around 50-150 active and yeah that could get a good contest or grow off going with that many posters
ahhh yeah... this is when the good stuff happens!!!!!
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rootin for the 88 today!!!! go kyle larson!!!!!!
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Another draft and another year not picking any Longhorns.
FWIW we didn't put much out anyways, just a few meat and potato guys in the middle rounds. Next year though..maybe #1 and #2 overall are Longhorns. Cam Coleman could sure help your new QB. He's a freak of a WR we picked up in free agency from Auburn. Randy Moss starter kit and is NFL ready.
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I wanna say that might be from root rot, which I believe will mess w the ph and raise ppms? Once I introduced h2o2 into the system, my ph stabilized like a mofo. The 2 sites I could look into, were not white, but not dark or slimey and had a good dirt smell to em. The big mofo(Fryday,) I stopped looking at as it toppled the lid over and I strapped the tree trunk to the tent poles to keep it from falling again. It's roots have traveled over 16" into the unused site and those r as white as can b. What screams out to me about ur currwnt system, is the word sealants... that sounds alarms in my head. Does the water or plants have any contact w these areas? If so, I imagine that can't b good. Yeah, I imagine ur bucket size has nothing to do with that, but I believe the more room for roots, the happier they will b and the happier the plant will b. I imagine 8gal is pretty sufficient. And yeah, my last grow, the roots filled their buckets and were still happy, too bad they were herms cuz I didn't sterilize the fans and stuff inside the tent after I had herms the time b4... oops
Ur well water comes out at 0 ppms or did I read that wrong? If so, it can't b the water source. I am a newb btw lol
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That's an eloquent way of summing up grow sites, very nice!
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i was pretty excited for him.. i was listening to his scanner when he won. and then the pole for tomorrow... chilis is HOT!!! last time i was in a chilis was in donkey town (denver) i sat at the bar and slapped my raiders wallet up there all loud and proud.. they prolly spit in my food.. hahaha
kids on fire though, loving every minute of it!!!!! good for the sport too..
i;'ll have to go back to the celebration though, i just heard it and didn't see it..
having the pole at texas is badass.. his pit stall is gonna have him singing the baby backs song al day long!!! hahaha
man i sure wish you were budbuilders marketing strategist!!
those are all great tips and ideas.. and please don't feel like you're ever stepping at me.. i'm soaking all this up like a fuckin sponge man!!!
that one form lest me pick and choose the perfect threads and posts and even a little where they see it from and how much.. i can cherry pick the best of the best and make sure none of my fluff that i post gets put in there.. just cuz i post a lot doesn't mean i want that to show up in recent searches and most importantly the public searching!!! it's a bit of a downer though that some of our very best threads were recently deleted.. i need to talk to that guy and see if there's something we can do about a couple of them...
Another draft and another year not picking any Longhorns.
FWIW we didn't put much out anyways, just a few meat and potato guys in the middle rounds. Next year though..maybe #1 and #2 overall are Longhorns. Cam Coleman could sure help your new QB. He's a freak of a WR we picked up in free agency from Auburn. Randy Moss starter kit and is NFL ready.
ya know on top of it they drafted an a&m guy.. thats like steppin on a cleat man!!!!
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i don't rememeber his name or number at all but when does the WR that mimics james bond 007.... OOOh his name is bond!!! thats right when does he come out in the draft? raiders want him too!! hehe
I wanna say that might be from root rot, which I believe will mess w the ph and raise ppms? Once I introduced h2o2 into the system, my ph stabilized like a mofo. The 2 sites I could look into, were not white, but not dark or slimey and had a good dirt smell to em. The big mofo(Fryday,) I stopped looking at as it toppled the lid over and I strapped the tree trunk to the tent poles to keep it from falling again. It's roots have traveled over 16" into the unused site and those r as white as can b. What screams out to me about ur currwnt system, is the word sealants... that sounds alarms in my head. Does the water or plants have any contact w these areas? If so, I imagine that can't b good. Yeah, I imagine ur bucket size has nothing to do with that, but I believe the more room for roots, the happier they will b and the happier the plant will b. I imagine 8gal is pretty sufficient. And yeah, my last grow, the roots filled their buckets and were still happy, too bad they were herms cuz I didn't sterilize the fans and stuff inside the tent after I had herms the time b4... oops
Ur well water comes out at 0 ppms or did I read that wrong? If so, it can't b the water source. I am a newb btw lol
sealants,, where my list?? you're gonna lose little respect for me after reading this list.. and yes, my new setup is using the current culture bulkheads that PAhydro sells. i printed my own long handled wrench on my 3d printer.
so....
no flexseal
no ptfe teflon goop
no sunlight proof PVC that i recently found out contains titanium dioxide in it.
no clear airlines
no buna-n rubber weather stripping
no permatex black
and no uni-seals
and most of that stupid sealant was for a drain port in it that turns out i can't even use anyway so thats one less hole i need to put in!!!
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Rico is so fast!!! one of the best ever in dirt!! thats really cool i didn't even realize larson was running a dirt race in texas. he's on a roll!!
this afternoon was this...
and tonight was this...
can't wait to see what tomorrow holds!!!!!
