A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

[stonemason]

I never seem to have a real loud overpowering smell, it stays pretty chill until I chop and I quit running filters. I think it has to do with my temp though as I rarely get above 78F. I had it mid 80s a couple times and that is when it would smell for me. Also the time my pole fans accidentally got turned off, I guess heat started to build up a bit to cause the smell. Anytime I've smelled my plants like that when it got too warm in the tent the finished product was always less tasty than on runs it didn't do that. I've heard people say when you smell it, that you are smelling the terps cooking off...I guess that may be true? Also heard that terps are produced constantly by the plant so my thought on that is a mid flower heat spike isn't the end of the world if you can get the temps back in check and they got a while to produce more terpenes since some cooked off?

Sometimes the stuff is so good it doesn't matter...I've also pulled really tasty bud from outdoor that went thru heatwaves....but outside with the sun, and the fact they were growing amazing and weren't deficient everything was probably right for those plants to keep pounding out the terps....that and it cooled the last couple weeks.

This is just my interpretation, curious to hear others... I've only been at the growing since the 2000s

Ya I have noticed that too if the tent gets to hot too late in flower terps sufer in end flower

 

[Beachwalker]

The light failed again so tomorrow I'm going to hook up my 1000watt ballast & a new 1000watt hps bulb I have in storage, and run it at 600w for the time being

I found a 600watt ballast online for under 50 bucks including shipping so I'm going to order it instead of the one on Amazon at twice the price.

 

[Beachwalker]

I guess no smell is the wrong way of saying it, it has a smell for sure but mostly comes from handling it or being right up in the general space. I also smoke cigs so I could be smell blind. I do think I know what ya mean though, some of my plants smell as a clone. My stepson says his clothes smell like weed I just try to blame it on the crazy amount my wife smokes so it ain't my fault or the grows fault. I may have some ignorance to the smell idk. Amazon crack head showed up at my door saying damn it smells good in there....right after harvest....I said yea it did but I smoked it...hoping she'd take the bait it was just what I was burning recently

Tried to germ an outdoor plant I grew...was supposed to be purple kush it came from...heavy indica I know that and it smelled all the way out to my mailbox but I just attributed that to being outdoor in the heat...hmmph

Maybe it's time?
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It's salt 30 bros I'm going for a schnozzerdeuschens

I don't worry about smell anyway, I don't have neighbors anymore, I bought the filter because I didn't want to be smelling raw cannabis all day, but like I mentioned there's nothing coming off these plants I bring in wildflowers from the hayfield that smell stronger than these plants

 

[Beachwalker]

So I found the good 100 watt ballast unfortunately I couldn't find a new 1000 watt bulb

I thought I had one but the best I have is a bulb with a year and a half on it

I'm more inclined to use it than to trust the 600W that's in there now because 1) it's not firing, and 2) I don't trust ballasts when they start misbehaving

I found a couple of dead ballasts but there are no use, I don't know why I packed them

On a brighter note I finally found those 6-in Square pots that I've had since my hydro years back in the '80s, I knew I packed them!

 

[Beachwalker]

So I found the good 1000watt ballast unfortunately I couldn't find a new 1000 watt bulb

I thought I had one but the best I have is a bulb with a year and a half on it

I'm more inclined to use it than to trust the 600W that's in there now because 1) it's not firing, and 2) I don't trust ballasts when they start misbehaving

I found a couple of dead ones but they are no use, I don't know why I packed them

Estimated delivery of the new ballast is the 27th

On a brighter note I did find those 6-in Square pots that I've had since my hydro years back in the '80s I knew I packed them!

 

[steamroller]

I believe @Pipecarver had issues with his digital ballast and found some resolution.
He was an electrical guy.
Maybe, we'll see.

 

[Pipecarver]

I believe @Pipecarver had issues with his digital ballast and found some resolution.
He was an electrical guy.
Maybe, we'll see.

Yes I ran hps for years and my last issue was from a burned out lamp I though was good and I couldn't get a ballast to fire it up. I was thinking ballast the whole time, replaced parts then put in a new lamp and wtf it was a lamp all along. I've had lamps burn out and they looked burned out. Not that EYE Hort, it still looked good but wouldn't fire up. I had swapped it out with the wrong lamp.

 

[Pipecarver]

So I found the good 1000watt ballast unfortunately I couldn't find a new 1000 watt bulb

I thought I had one but the best I have is a bulb with a year and a half on it

I'm more inclined to use it than to trust the 600W that's in there now because 1) it's not firing, and 2) I don't trust ballasts when they start misbehaving

I found a couple of dead ones but they are no use, I don't know why I packed them

Estimated delivery of the new ballast is the 27th

On a brighter note I did find those 6-in Square pots that I've had since my hydro years back in the '80s I knew I packed them!

I used 1 mechanical hps 1000w ballast for 10+ year before it needed parts and 5 more years before the core went. So I went with digital, burned out 2 digital in 5 years and went back to a mechanical. Noisy, hot and heavy but they fking last for a long time and up north here I can use the heat 9 months of the year. If it hadn't been for Spiderfarmer giving me led lights I'd most likely still be with HPS