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I enjoy training unruly bitches...I do the exact same thing..but then I weave them into my gill net. and push their fat fan leaves underneath leaving a beautiful green canopy of sticky dankness on top. that is done after the beheading of the pontiff's prissy princess.
I'm hoping to really be able to train all the girls into nice round plants that my fertilizer guru refers to as "BOGbushes" from all those old pics of the breeder's own plants that used to be on overgrow... finishing as basically a big ball about 4-5 feet in diameter... good number of bud sites...
My goal is to have 6-10 mothers of different strains to work with and take clones off one per week so that each one has ~8 weeks to recover from her prune, and I harvest one big-assed BUSH of a different strain every week.
So obviously my 'keeper' strains should take well to pruning and have good side development.
that sounds good.. i have been building a new light system ..that would be fun to try with that...I am pretty comfortable with electricity..i upgraded my home to a 200 hundred amp service..just had a buddy who is certified pull the permit and get the power shut off...anyway this is a description of what i am building... I borrowed a conduit bender and and built a tree of conduit...3' tall. every 4 inches up the conduit. there is a {branch} built of conduit with a double outdoor water resistant socket. so every four inches you have 4 bulbs two on each side...my plan is to stake a clone to this conduit tree and have the plant grow the same shape as the tree of bulbs..i am going to use this only for flower with additional top lighting.. i was thinking about using hps 50-100 wt bulbs on my light tree... so one plant will recieve up to 200wts of hps on every bud site. i built a model but i already have some new ideas..but it is 3' tall and has 6 conduit branches now on each side. any thoughts...
Wow that sounds really neat... a great idea! I'd like to see it in action.
Questions... Can you turn off individual sockets so that a small plant gets top light and only the lowest side lights, or are they all wired together? One thing I'm thinking is that the power surge from your entire tree lighting up at once might be a bear... put different levels on different circuits and then time them to come on a little staggered?
I hope you will start a log of your new light tree.
yes each branch is on it's own 20 amp breaker. they can be turned on one at a time..actually to at a time because each branch is a double socket..this contraption is all wired up and has leads coming off it to go right into the box i built a disconect off the main pannel...so it would be mobile... i will put a pic up when it is in action
Holy crap.
Well don't you just think of everything, lol! :D
I demand pics of this light tree. Sounds cool as shit yeag.Quote:
Originally Posted by the yeag
Hi, Stinky, Nice training on that MTF. Nice. You need a better camera, though. :p
I'm updating my thread soon (today) with harvest pics. :) Don't forget to peek. :) How were your holidays? How was Festivus? ;)
Yeag, that is a cool design. I had pondered something similar to that. My idea was similar to one of those scalp massage things. It would look like that (the scalp massager (see pic below), but with different lengths of extentions that are adjustable, and lights on each point, including the middle top.
That way, it would cover an entire plant, all the way around and could be adjusted as the plant grew, but could stay close to the plant at all times on all sides.
Looking forward to those pics of the light tree.
The Fog :rastasmoke:
f[R]og that looks like a virus. creepy!!!
Festivus was most awesomestest party ever. I think I covered it back in the log but not sure.. lots of food, lots of cheap wine, lots of Shrek, lots of people, and a BIG FUCKING MESS in my kitchen after. I call the day seized!:D
i also am working on the planning stage of an led grow....your spider has inspired me fog... basically use the light banks they sell..but also use small clusters of LED's like legs on your spider......could you imagine millions of fiber optic lines running from the roof down to the grow room harnessing the free light of the sun ..i wonder if that has any possibilities.