Pipecarvers Pipes & things

[Observer]

They came from the same mom. Its just play, They'll stay together and will be at least a month older than their flip buddies. I won't be starting seeds until Feb some time so these will be vegging another 2 months, needless to say they will be topped more than once and tied down at some point

I've flowered 2 plants in the same solo cup (specifically the 210 grow)

You know if I had 3 5x5 tents I could do 1260 solo cups?

I can't wait to do that for my self and to show yall lol

I'd need some commercial dehumidification though, lol.


Have you seen these newer "blue" leaning spectrum leds over office building parking lots?

I can take a pic later, I kinda like the spectrum.....hehe...if only I could climb the pole and take it off....hehe

 

[Pipecarver]

Those 2 colas in front of the side bar-light look great. Decent spacing between nodes.

I wanna see what those buds develop into within the next 4 weeks.

I think that's a Zamal Dreams and that's a Green 550nm booster bar in the pic I have 3 Zam Dreams and 3 Strawberry Purps, 2 Straw purps up front have yellowed but until they show more traits I won't know for sure. I kinda hope its a Strawberry with the 2 up front looking fked at 4 weeks.

 

[Zen_seeker]

My cloning is rather basic, I just cut, scrape & plant with some rooting gel in Promix. I must have fked up only getting 2 to survive, its been a while, when I was counting on them for my next crop I'd get 9/10 growing. I thought I was good enough to get all 4 I'd cut up and growing well...lol.....I guess not.....lol...its all just play with them I want to get some of the Capt Red Beards stuff I just received going next run. I have some Lemon Lava Lime (LLL) I'd like to get going along with a Bubba Mac N Cheese so the clones will just have to fit in somewhere.

If I don’t use the coffee cloner I do it the same as you then flood the cup and let it drip for a bit before putting in a red cup. Sometimes I’ll use the gel and then powder.

 

[Observer]

I've flowered 2 plants in the same solo cup (specifically the 210 grow)

You know if I had 3 5x5 tents I could do 1260 solo cups?

I can't wait to do that for my self and to show yall lol

I'd need some commercial dehumidification though, lol.


Have you seen these newer "blue" leaning spectrum leds over office building parking lots?

I can take a pic later, I kinda like the spectrum.....hehe...if only I could climb the pole and take it off....hehe

...I like the spectrum.

 

[Pipecarver]

...I like the spectrum.

We don't see them up here, just in rich countries like yours I guess. We too poor to go fancy let alone even have street lighting in some areas. I like the color though maybe if we can get a few tariffs taken off we could get lights installed. Talk to the big guy would ya, see what you can do for us poor folks up North.....lol

 

[Pipecarver]

Jan 13
Another week ( week 4) and my plants are looking better, I've started with Cal/mag at week 3 and the Green is coming back to my 2 yellowed plants. I normally start cal/mag week 3 but these 2 Strawberry Purps obviously needed it earlier.
My feed now is 5/4/4/8/5/4/ ....Cal/mag/..Micro/ Grow/Bloom/KoolBloom/Diamond Nectar. I stopped adding Hyclean to see if it was causing particles in my res water. It is the only non GH product I've used. If the particles. come back I'll use it again.

My 2 clones are doing well, still short but that's good for me, They are 1 month old today from the day I cut them. it'll be another 2 weeks before I start my next crop I should be transplanting them into my 3.9g Autopot at that time. They look to be super cropping with a lot of branches growing off the stems

I have my blue lights on with the rest through the day and I just started 15 min at lights out with far reds. I'm hoping the stretching is over. In another week I'm going to run 12.5/11.5 then 1 more week I'll go 13/11 as I dim my lights to 85ish%. I'd like to see if I can accelerate flowering time.

 

[Pipecarver]

Jan 20 other than a 12.5 hr power failure alls good with my plants, Humidity is up so Dehue comes on again today week 5.5 in flower. The green color has almost all come back with the added Ca, I'm surprised I thought they were too far gone. Week 5 I fed 5/3/3/8/5/4/ ...Calmag/Micro/Grow/Bloom/KoolBloom/Diamond Nectar. I've stopped adding Hyclean. my res is clean it seems there may have been a poor interaction with it and my nutes or water because my res is still clean after stopping its use.

Today is drop day for my new seeds Captain Redbeards seeds. Not sure what 2 strains I'll grow. I've been wanting another shot at Rainbow Sluricane & Bubba Mac n Cheese but I'll have to compare what I have to what will grow best together. I'll have a large Strawberry Purp to go so I have 5 spots open decisions decisions.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Plants look great Pipe. Not all squished together like my 3x3. Looks like we’ll be harvesting around the same time.

How’s the dryer issue going? The new dehumidifier is doing the job, just takes longer. I’ll look into getting the motor fixed or replaced when it’s warmer. It’s not a priority ATM.

The GGB#4 im growing is from Captain Red Beards. Ones bulked up while the other at the tent door has really frosted up but has less bulk. Looking forward to trying it.

I hope your power issues are over for the winter but the first good day you get you might want to prime the generator, JIC.

 

[Pipecarver]

Plants look great Pipe. Not all squished together like my 3x3. Looks like we’ll be harvesting around the same time.

How’s the dryer issue going? The new dehumidifier is doing the job, just takes longer. I’ll look into getting the motor fixed or replaced when it’s warmer. It’s not a priority ATM.

The GGB#4 im growing is from Captain Red Beards. Ones bulked up while the other at the tent door has really frosted up but has less bulk. Looking forward to trying it.

I hope your power issues are over for the winter but the first good day you get you might want to prime the generator, JIC.

Hey Gday, I replaced the dryer receptacle yesterday then ran the dryer for 20 min. Fuse held but I'm still not sure that was the problem. The old receptacle looks fine, no indication it has issues. There's no heat smell off it, or soot marks, it test good but I'll have to give the dryer another load and run it longer, lets hope that was the problem.

I dropped 5 more seeds last night, 3 Blue Dream and 2 Bubba Mac n Cheese, along with my Strawberry Purp clones that makes my 6 pots...if all beans pop. I was going to go with some Lemon Lava Lime ( LLL) but from Granny & a bit of research they maybe a taller strain that won't fit as well together as the other 2 I chose for this run. Anyways they are soaking now I'll paper towel them when I get down there......Its always fun starting new strains.

Ya dehues! I have to have mine on again, sigh....winter is usually dry enough not to need them but It was at 60% yesterday in there so on they go.

I've been keeping my clones fairly cool, around 74f so they don't grow too fast and stretch me out of space but I'll have to bump it up now that I'll be planting some new seeds. I have they tied down too but I can see them getting restless and wanting to grow me out of my tent. In the past with clones between cutting them and keeping them between grows I ran out of space, plants got jammed together and out grew their holding cells giving me unhealthy monsters to deal with. If I can keep them short and cool it looks like that maybe the ticket to keep clones again

 

[Zen_seeker]

Glad the dryer is working, if only for the first test. We’ve been hit indirectly by lightning about 5 times since living here. A half dozen SS silos across the street from us attracts it.

You know it only takes a little flaw for electricity to act unexpectedly. Here’s hoping that it was something in the receptacle and you’re good to go.

I’m just chopping the tops off the clones as they touch the light. I forget about them once in a while and they dry out but otherwise they look pretty good. The heat May keeps them happy on these nasty cold days.

We’ve had some crappy snow days but over all it’s not been a bad winter. You and Oldcro have it worse. My daughter in Quebec deals with more than all of us.

If we’re lucky things will shift in early March, here’s hoping.

 

[Pipecarver]

Glad the dryer is working, if only for the first test. We’ve been hit indirectly by lightning about 5 times since living here. A half dozen SS silos across the street from us attracts it.

You know it only takes a little flaw for electricity to act unexpectedly. Here’s hoping that it was something in the receptacle and you’re good to go.

I’m just chopping the tops off the clones as they touch the light. I forget about them once in a while and they dry out but otherwise they look pretty good. The heat May keeps them happy on these nasty cold days.

We’ve had some crappy snow days but over all it’s not been a bad winter. You and Oldcro have it worse. My daughter in Quebec deals with more than all of us.

If we’re lucky things will shift in early March, here’s hoping.

Hey, so I came down this am and a flood n my tent, WTF now, 1 tray over flowed, I wet vac'd it out and checked the rest 2 trays were dry???? wtf plugged lines again. I cleaned them up but wtf why this grow am I getting line plugs. I have what I thought was a good filter between res and trays,I lost a couple gallons of feed in the tent so humidity was in the 70's again this am with 1 dehue running on turbo full time non stop.

Ya lets hope it was the receptacle and I can put the vent cap back on. I was in the laundry room last night and cold air was blowing through the vent, dryer and - 10 c air was blowing in.I jammed a towel in there for now but this has been going on too long now. November the dryer went down and I've been fking with it since. Now our plumbing is fked, Kitchen sink won't drain again. its always something but winter and frozen ground is no time for plumbing problems too,

 

[Zen_seeker]

Roof, appliances, utilities over charging and having to fight to get corrected. I share your pain bud. I really hope the receptacle is the last purchase.

Frozen pipes are no joke either. Keep an eye on that. When I started reading about your flood I thought burst pipes not clogged tubing.

Yesterday was a warmer day but today we’re back to -12* -22*wc. If you’re not there today you probably will be tomorrow. Keep warm my friend.

 

[Pipecarver]

Yes indeed, keeping warm this weekend will be a chore for a lot of folks. We've a big blast coming, looks like 3 -4 days of snow & cold with -17C coming Sat night.....We're in it now, Fk winter is going to be a bitch this weekend.

 

[OLDCRO]

Its been minus 20 to minus 30 here since december and if it warms up it snows gonna be a long winter this year. It can go anytime !!

 

[Pipecarver]

Its been minus 20 to minus 30 here since december and if it warms up it snows gonna be a long winter this year. It can go anytime !!

Yes, we have the ocean to warm us up, We only get those temps for a week or 2. We do get the bay freezing over and then wind off the bay feels pretty fking cold through to March - April. One year they had to get an ice breaker in to bust it up for the lobster boats. We got to do a Costco run today then hunker down for the snow. I get to check my new beans today to see if they grew tails to start my next crop. Lets hope there's no power failures, fresh seeds need warmth, so do my kitties.

Hows your crop doing, any pics? Auto's again?

 

[OLDCRO]

Yes, we have the ocean to warm us up, We only get those temps for a week or 2. We do get the bay freezing over and then wind off the bay feels pretty fking cold through to March - April. One year they had to get an ice breaker in to bust it up for the lobster boats. We got to do a Costco run today then hunker down for the snow. I get to check my new beans today to see if they grew tails to start my next crop. Lets hope there's no power failures, fresh seeds need warmth, so do my kitties.

Hows your crop doing, any pics? Auto's again?

Just harvested 8 plants . Chopped 4 about 9 days ago jarred them and chopped the other 4 on tuesday they are in cannatrol now and moved 8 plants into flowering tent. Ready to seed another 8 pots havent figured out what seeds yet and yes all autos. Insert seed in final pot one and done.

 

[OLDCRO]

8 plants i just moved into flower tent and bud in cannatrol.

 

[Pipecarver]

Just harvested 8 plants . Chopped 4 about 9 days ago jarred them and chopped the other 4 on tuesday they are in cannatrol now and moved 8 plants into flowering tent. Ready to seed another 8 pots havent figured out what seeds yet and yes all autos. Insert seed in final pot one and done.

I've not had much luck with auto's. I probably swore off them too soon. With a crop 2 back my 25 day photo's were very successful, sorta like auto's. Do you run 18hrs of light on them? Electric bill $$$$??

I had another small flood this am, another tray over filled. I pulled the valve cleaned it and stuck it back in, I've gotten pretty good at that, takes 2-3 min and its done but why this run I've no idea. It just bumps my humidity up, today in the 60's this am

 

[Pipecarver]

8 plants i just moved into flower tent and bud in cannatrol.View attachment 123753View attachment 123756

Nice, are those Ion beam side lights UV? I'm thinking on 1 more set of side lights, still not going UV but more side lighting is my next lighting purchase. I have 1- 12" bar on each side 2 at the back, I want to double that up about 1 ft above the others.
I've looked at the Canatrol but $4 grand delivered is just too much to invest in. I recently got a water transfer pump to circulate water through my chiller & the coils in my dry box without the pump heating the water. I still need 2-8ft sheets of insulation to cover my box then I should have a cooler box, no Canatrol but better than 70f drying. I also dried a large bud in my new little fridge last grow and it was the first bud I was able to smoke. It dried very well and became smokeable in about 5 days around 42f@42%

 

[OLDCRO]

I've not had much luck with auto's. I probably swore off them too soon. With a crop 2 back my 25 day photo's were very successful, sorta like auto's. Do you run 18hrs of light on them? Electric bill $$$$??

I had another small flood this am, another tray over filled. I pulled the valve cleaned it and stuck it back in, I've gotten pretty good at that, takes 2-3 min and its done but why this run I've no idea. It just bumps my humidity up, today in the 60's this am

Electric bill this month was 172.00 dollars but thats with plugging two vechiles block heaters in so they start month before 136.00. Hydro rate 12 cents kilowatt hour. I run light 18-6 but run the 600 watt light at 330 watts for the whole run i dont play with light its about 6 inches from top of tent and stays there. Costs are higher in summer running central air and two dehumidifers. Just side lighting no UV.

 

[Pipecarver]

Electric bill this month was 172.00 dollars but thats with plugging two vechiles block heaters in so they start month before 136.00. Hydro rate 12 cents kilowatt hour. I run light 18-6 but run the 600 watt light at 330 watts for the whole run i dont play with light its about 6 inches from top of tent and stays there. Costs are higher in summer running central air and two dehumidifers. Just side lighting no UV.

That's a nice elect rate.I think we are around 0.19 kw + 14% + base rate charge, we're around $250/month + $3-400 oil....its expensive to be poor in this country.

 

[OLDCRO]

Well its warmed up to minus 25 so far today saying minus 39 for tonight. Time to get out my genuine

Saskatchewan seal skin under wear !!!​

 

[OLDCRO]

This global warming better start pretty soon or there will be alot of scientists working at Mcdonalds !!!

 

[steamroller]

8 plants i just moved into flower tent and bud in cannatrol.View attachment 123753View attachment 123756

Nice looking buds there.
Have you ever tried changing the cannatrol from the original settings?
I haven't seen a reason but some people really get into it I guess.

 

[OLDCRO]

Nice looking buds there.
Have you ever tried changing the cannatrol from the original settings?
I haven't seen a reason but some people really get into it I guess.

No just let run on factory settings happy with outcome

 

[Pipecarver]

Hey, A winter weather report that has some nice pics of our buildings and what it looks like up here.

 

[Pipecarver]

Jan 29
Week 7 flower and all looking good, The color has come back to the Strawberry Purps and it smells like Strawberries. I'm not that good at describing smells and tastes but this is easy. Nice fat sweet smelling buds, I may have to rethink my magic 11 weeks though, these aren't going to make it that long. I over cooked my Grape Skunk last grow I won't make that mistake this time. Zamelda Dreams doesn't have as large a bud as the strawberry but very frosty so early.

I have 4 sprouted and 1 more cracked along with my clone I should have my next grow started. I'm a bit behind where I like to be I had been thinking 11 weeks flower but these aren't going to go that long so I'm a couple weeks behind.

We were woke up this morning to a cold cat, he kept getting on top of me and his fur was cold. I was thinking a window or something was open. I got up 6 am to see what was going on . It was 58f and the furnace wasn't running...wtf now. checked the tank and we were good. I then came down to my grow room and a furnace pipe had fallen off the furnace. A screw was missing so I reattached the pipe & fiddled with the control box and on it came in full force,,,whew...-11C this am. Too fking cold to have no heat.

It looks like swapping out the dryer receptacle was the trick, we've had 2 successful drys since. Now I have a perfectly good dryer sitting in parts on my deck, I have nowhere to put it

 

[ninjadip]

Jan 29
Week 7 flower and all looking good, The color has come back to the Strawberry Purps and it smells like Strawberries. I'm not that good at describing smells and tastes but this is easy. Nice fat sweet smelling buds, I may have to rethink my magic 11 weeks though, these aren't going to make it that long. I over cooked my Grape Skunk last grow I won't make that mistake this time. Zamelda Dreams doesn't have as large a bud as the strawberry but very frosty so early.

I have 4 sprouted and 1 more cracked along with my clone I should have my next grow started. I'm a bit behind where I like to be I had been thinking 11 weeks flower but these aren't going to go that long so I'm a couple weeks behind.

We were woke up this morning to a cold cat, he kept getting on top of me and his fur was cold. I was thinking a window or something was open. I got up 6 am to see what was going on . It was 58f and the furnace wasn't running...wtf now. checked the tank and we were good. I then came down to my grow room and a furnace pipe had fallen off the furnace. A screw was missing so I reattached the pipe & fiddled with the control box and on it came in full force,,,whew...-11C this am. Too fking cold to have no heat.

It looks like swapping out the dryer receptacle was the trick, we've had 2 successful drys since. Now I have a perfectly good dryer sitting in parts on my deck, I have nowhere to put itView attachment 124188View attachment 124189View attachment 124190View attachment 124191View attachment 124192View attachment 124193

That last one is my favorite, sexy!

 

[Zen_seeker]

That last one is my favorite, sexy!

I love the purple black plants.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Hey PC. Plants are looking great. That last one is perdy.

Glad you got the dryer, or rather receptacle, issue figured out. Sucks you now have a back deck full of spare parts. I’d offer to buy it since we need one but the shipping would be horrendous.

Hope your doing well with all the cold and snow. Until I can check and hopefully fix the car I’m staying indoors. On the bright side it gave me a good excuse to cancel my dentist appointment.

 

[Pipecarver]

That last one is my favorite, sexy!

Hey thanks, Zamelda Dreams from DFG. Its my second run with them, Very nice smoke too. No sweetness to it more old school taste and a nice buzz. That back left corner of my tent has a habit of producing the nicest buds, not sure whats up with that but that's where all the sparkle comes from.

 

[Pipecarver]

It looks like we have more snow on the way our favorite weather forecaster doesn't get it wrong very often

 

[Zen_seeker]

It looks like we have more snow on the way our favorite weather forecaster doesn't get it wrong very often

That guy makes me laugh every time. Hope he makes bad news a little better.

Sounds like you got a hot and humid summer coming if he’s that good.

 

[Pipecarver]

That guy makes me laugh every time. Hope he makes bad news a little better.

Sounds like you got a hot and humid summer coming if he’s that good.

Hey Gmorning, Yes Franky gets excited about weather events, he made the news about 10 years ago and has kept it up ever since. He gets a lot of positive comments and everyone seems to like the guy. His enthusiasm for bad weather is fun to watch.

 

[Pipecarver]

Feb 9
My girls are at 8.5 weeks. 1 Strawberry purps leaves have yellowed up again. I'll be pulling her soon. The rest are close. I need to get my feed down this week and chop them by next weekend.

My clone is doing great but I've been having trouble getting sprouts up and growing. I have another seed in paper towels, should be ready to plant tomorrow. I had 2 deform and 1 looks like it was pinched or damping off, if another seedling does this I'll have to make up another batch of soil, something is off.

 

[Pipecarver]

Feb 14,
I pulled my Strawberry Purps today. I have all 3 in my dry box. I tried to use my chiller & radiator to cool the res but it created a problem of heating the water with a pump running 24/7 in the res to circulate the water. I got this brainy idea to get a small water transfer pump to tun outside the tank so it doesn't heat the water. I never thought of the speed and or noise this small pump makes and it blasts the water through my chiller....Fail. so Cold water is all I really need so skip the chiller and use cold water in the reservoir and I can change it daily. It seems to be working my room is 69f inside the box its 63f. I can now shut my dehues off and let the humidity rise a bit. I've had it low for flowering and its 42% atm. I also put 3 large bud branches in my Mini Fridge. It dried a bud in my last crop perfectly and it was the fastest way to sample the smoke.

 

[steamroller]

Submersible DC pumps don't generate heat since the power switcher is outside tank.
Most AC submersible pumps raise water temp 4-6 degrees f above room temp when run 24/7.

 

[Pipecarver]

Submersible DC pumps don't generate heat since the power switcher is outside tank.
Most AC submersible pumps raise water temp 4-6 degrees f above room temp when run 24/7.

"Submersible DC pumps don't generate heat since the power switcher is outside tank."

Ah, I didn't think of that, fk, I have a few pumps I don't need already now...lol whats 1 more. My res is staying pretty cool as is, I may not need to run my chiller through it this time of year anyways. I insulated the reservoir I didn't change water today but I will tomorrow AM. .

So you are saying something like this pump would not put out heat?

 

[steamroller]

"Submersible DC pumps don't generate heat since the power switcher is outside tank."

Ah, I didn't think of that, fk, I have a few pumps I don't need already now...lol whats 1 more. My res is staying pretty cool as is, I may not need to run my chiller through it this time of year anyways. I insulated the reservoir I didn't change water today but I will tomorrow AM. .

So you are saying something like this pump would not put out heat?
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As long as the transformer/power switcher is not in the water the heat is not in the pump.
That pump probably has the transformer on the plug right at the wall. That is where the heat will be.

 

[Pipecarver]

As long as the transformer/power switcher is not in the water the heat is not in the pump.
That pump probably has the transformer on the plug right at the wall. That is where the heat will be.

Ya as soon as I read above I had a ahha moment, I hadn't thought of keeping the power out of the water. The fking sound on the one I bought, screaming loud. I could muffle it some with bumpers but still. No way I could use it for long, just loo loud and too much speed. I don't need water moving through my system and into the tank at warp speeds. I had a fking geyser blowing water everywhere.....sure funny where you sit but I got soaked in just a test run before I got the hose under control.