ViparSpectra KS3000 - 5x5 Solo Cup run #2

[Observer]

I put it into a 1.5ish gallon pot like 4 days ago and cut the top 10 inches off to keep it same height as the rest. View attachment 20088

Are you watering one a day or

 

[Zen_seeker]

Hazard?

Is this stupid?

Unsafe?

Depends how you use it. I’ve been like this for over a year.


Don’t overload or put in wet areas and you’re fine. If it’s going to stay there you might want to tape to floor or baseboard.

 

[Observer]

I like the 100% vermiculite too.

But I may just start using rockwool.
Idk yet

Lots of cool shit to do/try

 

[Observer]

Want to bring out the 3gal dwc bucket again too
and grow a monster.

First time went so well, grew to the light in tent, was not around to flower her though.

A little too well.

That was maybe a month of growth not super dialed or anything and just learning it but man dwc can take off

 

[Observer]

100% verm.

 

[GoodShit97]

Are you watering one a day or

I was watering the 1 gal once a day but i havent watered it since transplant

 

[Observer]

These fuckers didn't even show up.

And then want to talk about money.

HA

 

[tobh]

you'll likely find the short term limit for h2o2 up around 10ml/gallon. 6-7ml may show negative impacts over a longer exposure period. i tend to run between 2-5ml/gal for maintenance (keeps things nice and clean).

as for the chaining of the surge strips, that's highly unadvised for a variety of reasons. my bigger concern, though, is them being on the floor with a tike running around. there's enough juice in one of them plugs to kill a grown man. try to get that thing mounted up on the wall if you can.

 

[Observer]

you'll likely find the short term limit for h2o2 up around 10ml/gallon. 6-7ml may show negative impacts over a longer exposure period. i tend to run between 2-5ml/gal for maintenance (keeps things nice and clean).

as for the chaining of the surge strips, that's highly unadvised for a variety of reasons. my bigger concern, though, is them being on the floor with a tike running around. there's enough juice in one of them plugs to kill a grown man. try to get that thing mounted up on the wall if you can.

Ok thanks tobh, I was skeptical about it.

but yeah I don't know, have not had an experience with faulty electrical work yet, don't plan on it.

I would be devastated if something happened to her cause of my negligence for growing fucking plants.

I'll get a proper longer heavy duty cord to actually run into there and keep timer and other stuff seperate?

Damn thing wasn't long enough and then I needed lights on timer and fans and hume.

Not really the best set up for a grow space here unless I can put a tent up I suppose, she doesn't want it taking the space up

I mean I'll compromise and get a 3x3- 4x4 or so, not like the space is being occupied anyways.


I could maybe mount to walls, just didn't want to fuck with possible damage and fixing upon move.

Thanks man.

 

[Observer]

So far she's not even messed with it but that don't mean she won't or trip on it some day and possible electrocution so we can go ahead and avoid all that shit

 

[tobh]

Ok thanks tobh, I was skeptical about it.

but yeah I don't know, have not had an experience with faulty electrical work yet, don't plan on it.

I would be devastated if something happened to her cause of my negligence for growing fucking plants.

I'll get a proper longer heavy duty cord to actually run into there and keep timer and other stuff seperate?

Damn thing wasn't long enough and then I needed lights on timer and fans and hume.

Not really the best set up for a grow space here unless I can put a tent up I suppose, she doesn't want it taking the space up

I mean I'll compromise and get a 3x3- 4x4 or so, not like the space is being occupied anyways.


I could maybe mount to walls, just didn't want to fuck with possible damage and fixing upon move.

Thanks man.

yeah, even chaining an extension cord to a surge strip will make some cringe. do most of us do it? yeah. do most of us keep on without problems? yeah. do fires sometimes start because of it? yeah.

my bigger concern is either her fucking with your timer or messing with the cord in some way leading to a hospital trip or worse. she's at that age where right now she may not be interested but you'll be doing something and suddenly she's super interested in exploring that part of her world. she's getting up to that point now where the real game of keep-the-toddler-from-unaliving-themselves kicks off.

for example, my son completely fucked up an outlet at the old house by shoving crayons in it. he was about 2, maybe 2.5 years old then. somewhere about that age my daughter belly flopped off the coffee table right to the hardwood floor and split her chin open. they just start throwing these curve balls at you like "wtf dude, you didn't give a shit about that at all for like your entire life. now it's a thing?"

even if you just get some of those 3M sticky hook things so you don't have to put holes in the walls, anything to get it just out of reach for now will be a huge stress relief for you now that it's on your mind that she has a new hazard.

 

[Observer]

Thanks for all the knowledge man

 

[Observer]

yeah, even chaining an extension cord to a surge strip will make some cringe. do most of us do it? yeah. do most of us keep on without problems? yeah. do fires sometimes start because of it? yeah.

my bigger concern is either her fucking with your timer or messing with the cord in some way leading to a hospital trip or worse. she's at that age where right now she may not be interested but you'll be doing something and suddenly she's super interested in exploring that part of her world. she's getting up to that point now where the real game of keep-the-toddler-from-unaliving-themselves kicks off.

for example, my son completely fucked up an outlet at the old house by shoving crayons in it. he was about 2, maybe 2.5 years old then. somewhere about that age my daughter belly flopped off the coffee table right to the hardwood floor and split her chin open. they just start throwing these curve balls at you like "wtf dude, you didn't give a shit about that at all for like your entire life. now it's a thing?"

even if you just get some of those 3M sticky hook things so you don't have to put holes in the walls, anything to get it just out of reach for now will be a huge stress relief for you now that it's on your mind that she has a new hazard.

Ok really appreciate you dude.


I'll fix it.

Thanks for the heads up and things to be more aware of as she's entering "that age" she's already displaying intelligence for her age too.

 

[Observer]

So what's the proper way? Risk-free ish?

Seperate outlets?

I've yet the need to dive ino electrical education, as I'm not really doing any "big boy stuff" yet

suppose it's not too far behind now to start learning a thing or two about.

Run two power strips

One for timer and lights and then another for whatever the fuck else?

Is a timer plugged into wall and a power strip ran off that timer with lights into the power strip safe?

@tobh

 

[Observer]

Yea she definitely fucked with my veg timer

I'm actually surprised she's not messed with the hallway one yet.

 

[Observer]

Terrible place for it

Working with what I got ish

 

[Observer]

I was watering the 1 gal once a day but i havent watered it since transplant

Ah

These half gallons needs Atleast 2 waterings a nigh and the solos in flower, the more the better lol.

 

[GoodShit97]

This
Used to sit on the floor in my bedroom.
Until my 3 year old found one of my small model screw drivers and stiffed it in one of the sockets....
He no joke shit himself and tripped the breaker for the back half of my house....
For real do whatever you need to do to get them up out of her reach cause you're gonna be buying a wig soon just so you can pull hair out

 

[Observer]

ThisView attachment 20182
Used to sit on the floor in my bedroom.
Until my 3 year old found one of my small model screw drivers and stiffed it in one of the sockets....
He no joke shit himself and tripped the breaker for the back half of my house....
For real do whatever you need to do to get them up out of her reach cause you're gonna be buying a wig soon just so you can pull hair out

Well at least I'm not doing that fuckin shit

Lmao

 

[Observer]

I'll get it hanged up and rewired

Thanks y'all.

 

[Observer]

ThisView attachment 20182
Used to sit on the floor in my bedroom.
Until my 3 year old found one of my small model screw drivers and stiffed it in one of the sockets....
He no joke shit himself and tripped the breaker for the back half of my house....
For real do whatever you need to do to get them up out of her reach cause you're gonna be buying a wig soon just so you can pull hair out

Haha a wig

 

[tobh]

So what's the proper way? Risk-free ish?

Seperate outlets?

I've yet the need to dive ino electrical education, as I'm not really doing any "big boy stuff" yet

suppose it's not too far behind now to start learning a thing or two about.

Run two power strips

One for timer and lights and then another for whatever the fuck else?

Is a timer plugged into wall and a power strip ran off that timer with lights into the power strip safe?

@tobh

So, ideally you'd want to run the loads on different circuits. So, ventilation on one, lights on another, pumps/water things on another (preferably GFCI protected). That's in an ideal world.

Some of the resident sparkies can speak more intelligently about this than I can.

What i would do is see about getting a hold some of those surge strips that have super long cords. You want at least 12 AWG just to be sure the load doesn't burn up the extension cord itself. Then, you can run one off a timer for your lights. Run your other equipment off the other one, but have that second one on a different circuit. So, like, your lights are on the living room circuit (outlet behind a couch or whatever) and the other is ran from a bathroom outlet. That'll distribute the load more even across your panel and reduce risk of overloading an outlet or breaker quite a bit.

Hanging the cords will be another challenge in of itself, and you'll have to get creative in whatever ways you can. It's also a great opportunity to start teaching her about the dangers of certain things. So, like with our kids, we'd point at a dangerous object and say "OWWWW no touch." So like, stoves, pans, knives, electrical things (lights, plugs, heaters), etc all got the "OWWWW no touch" treatment. It helped avoid a lot of the more potentially serious injuries, but they'll still get curious at some point about some things.

 

[Observer]

Gonna strip the left tote a little tonight and should be good to go for a few.

 

[tobh]

ThisView attachment 20182
Used to sit on the floor in my bedroom.
Until my 3 year old found one of my small model screw drivers and stiffed it in one of the sockets....
He no joke shit himself and tripped the breaker for the back half of my house....
For real do whatever you need to do to get them up out of her reach cause you're gonna be buying a wig soon just so you can pull hair out

Yeah.... that's a fuckin fire hazard if i've ever seen one lol luckily those are all low amperage wall warts but goddamn i wish they'd outlaw those two wire expansion blocks. You pull enough current through those and they'll get hot enough to melt the insulator to your flesh. Don't ask how I know

 

[Observer]

So, ideally you'd want to run the loads on different circuits. So, ventilation on one, lights on another, pumps/water things on another (preferably GFCI protected). That's in an ideal world.

Some of the resident sparkies can speak more intelligently about this than I can.

What i would do is see about getting a hold some of those surge strips that have super long cords. You want at least 12 AWG just to be sure the load doesn't burn up the extension cord itself. Then, you can run one off a timer for your lights. Run your other equipment off the other one, but have that second one on a different circuit. So, like, your lights are on the living room circuit (outlet behind a couch or whatever) and the other is ran from a bathroom outlet. That'll distribute the load more even across your panel and reduce risk of overloading an outlet or breaker quite a bit.

Hanging the cords will be another challenge in of itself, and you'll have to get creative in whatever ways you can. It's also a great opportunity to start teaching her about the dangers of certain things. So, like with our kids, we'd point at a dangerous object and say "OWWWW no touch." So like, stoves, pans, knives, electrical things (lights, plugs, heaters), etc all got the "OWWWW no touch" treatment. It helped avoid a lot of the more potentially serious injuries, but they'll still get curious at some point about some things.

Ok thanks man, that's about all I knew, - the GFCI and seperate circuit bits.

And good idea I started to do some similar behaviors with things, like with the knifes. And she grabs my trimmers.

 

[tobh]

Ok thanks man, that's about all I knew, - the GFCI and seperate circuit bits.

And good idea I started to do some similar behaviors with things, like with the knifes. And she grabs my trimmers.

sounds like you got some help! put her in trim jail, she'll never touch your trimmers again after about three minutes

 

[Observer]

Yeah.... that's a fuckin fire hazard if i've ever seen one lol luckily those are all low amperage wall warts but goddamn i wish they'd outlaw those two wire expansion blocks. You pull enough current through those and they'll get hot enough to melt the insulator to your flesh. Don't ask how I know

Yeah no shit I actually had just a phone charger in one kft hose shitry brown extension cords with the dumb little double sided box outlet on end lol.

Started to overheat and smell in last apartment, trashed that t shit.

 

[Observer]

sounds like you got some help! put her in trim jail, she'll never touch your trimmers again after about three minutes

Haha she gonna be the little plant elf.

I'll sit Infront of tent and shell come sit in my lap and stare at em with me

 

[GoodShit97]

Yeah.... that's a fuckin fire hazard if i've ever seen one lol luckily those are all low amperage wall warts but goddamn i wish they'd outlaw those two wire expansion blocks. You pull enough current through those and they'll get hot enough to melt the insulator to your flesh. Don't ask how I know

Agree 100% man.
I dont have any of them anymore. Its now a 6 outlet power strip mounted on the wall and the unused outlets have the safety plugs in them.

Everywhere else i used one now has been rewired to have physical outlets.
That was only temporary but he made me fix it sooner than planned lmao.

 

[tobh]

Agree 100% man.
I dont have any of them anymore. Its now a 6 outlet power strip mounted on the wall and the unused outlets have the safety plugs in them.

Everywhere else i used one now has been rewired to have physical outlets.
That was only temporary but he made me fix it sooner than planned lmao.

it's irritating but convenient how the little shits do that to us. like, "that was good enough until you touched it, you little shit!"

 

[Observer]

I never wanted kids but I'm so happy she's here now.

I wouldn't trade for space travel tech, well shit that's kinda a hard one.

I wouldn't trade for a Trillion, lol.

 

[tobh]

and of course, they uncover ALL the crap you never considered to be a hazard before. like, oh you're gonna eat faux wood blinds because you're a fucking weirdo? ok. guess you get cloth curtains from now on. apparently built in closet shelves are scalable so the comet can't live where it lived for 25 fucking years of my life anymore. oh, and that random finishing nail that had lived under the base board since the apartment was built? yeah, give me that too.

whoever didn't force us to deal with this age group of children as teenagers failed, because you know what i would've done? been better about wearing a rain coat or getting that pull out game fail proof

 

[Observer]

and of course, they uncover ALL the crap you never considered to be a hazard before. like, oh you're gonna eat faux wood blinds because you're a fucking weirdo? ok. guess you get cloth curtains from now on. apparently built in closet shelves are scalable so the comet can't live where it lived for 25 fucking years of my life anymore. oh, and that random finishing nail that had lived under the base board since the apartment was built? yeah, give me that too.

whoever didn't force us to deal with this age group of children as teenagers failed, because you know what i would've done? been better about wearing a rain coat or getting that pull out game fail proof

We weren't prepared for this shit at all.

No one teaches you this shit

How to be a dad a husband or a parent.

I was living out of my car, doing fine dining serving, met someone on a fling and we here now lol.

Hotels cocaine liquor and weed.

 

[Observer]

I'm noticing fucking gnats here, hmm, fuckin coco.

I'm either gonna do rock wool and or dwc as my primaries next few runs perhaps


While I fuck around with an aeroponic and a fogponic system.

I've been wanting to do high pressure aero

 

[Observer]

Appreciate making me think more about it and possible hazards as she gets older

 

[tobh]

We weren't prepared for this shit at all.

No one teaches you this shit

How to be a dad a husband or a parent.

I was living out of my car, doing fine dining serving, met someone on a fling and we here now lol.

Hotels cocaine liquor and weed.

My shrink used to tell me parenting is harder than medical school, as if that was some sort of consolation. Even if the kid is unplanned (my daughter came pre-owned, tequila is responsible for my son), they do something to you man.

Drugs and booze are fun, but the love of a child is unparalleled. Just hope you and your lady can stay close through all the shit. Once a kid, or multiple, is involved maintaining a relationship tends to fall on the back burner.

 

[SiamSam]

No matter how hard you try to make things safe and focus on safety the little rug rats will make you scream. It is a funny race where your tires are flat your gas light is flashing and they keep moving the finish line. I wouldn't let my 16-year-old drive because of the numbers and I didn't trust him to not be stoned. This is also a good argument for living with grandma and grandpa around (unless they're also dope fiends) to keep the little ones on the straight and narrow. Lots of books on parenting, can read/underline or highlight things that make sense to you and ignore the rest. My girlfriend gave me some kind of ring and put it on my finger. But it was a size too small, whoops. My dad saw me trying to get the thing off and whisked me to the ER where they cut it off. The Dr said another 10 minutes of that and I would have been 4 fingered....Dads are important.

 

[Observer]

Thanks y'all trying to be a good dad and a better person here.

 

[smoke]

We've all had a different ride and got a different story that's what makes us unique Dad.

 

[tobh]

Thanks y'all trying to be a good dad and a better person here.

i think that's why miscreants like us end up with trophies for our "good" work. real men face the challenge and work to be better.