vote headshake king of cardboard!

[MerryPrankstr]

LOL,

Great design and excellent execution, Headshake.
What can I say, 'cept...
"I thought I was the cardbox king,
but I just handed my ductape crown to him." (with apologies to The Who)

Good luck dude.
I be watching...

MP

MerryPrankstr Reviewed by MerryPrankstr on 05-23-2009. vote headshake king of cardboard! what's good everyone? i've been slacking in my duties of keeping my grow logs going. as some of you know, i have constructed a new "frank", although that's not the new ones name. a name actually hasn't been given yet. anyhow, here is what's going down at the moment. there are six various dank seeds that have taken up residence in the new box. they are all ~21 (give or take, not including the pot). the reside in 3 gallon pots. they stretched for some reason during veg. i guess i Rating: 5

[headshake]

thanks mp! you don't have to hand over the crown. i wasn't aware anyone else wanted it. i don't have a problem with being the prince!

thanks for the kind words. maybe next i'll start messing with LEDs.


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[killa12345]

LOL,

Great design and excellent execution, Headshake.
What can I say, 'cept...
"I thought I was the cardbox king,
but I just handed my ductape crown to him." (with apologies to The Who)

Good luck dude.
I be watching...

MP

Thats what i thought....i figured i was the king of cardboard until i saw this......man headshake you took it to a whole other level.....i definetly say your the king brotha.....people laugh when i tell them i crop 7 oz in a 18inx24inx24in cardboard box....but a lb.....damn i need to step my cardboard game up....see ya soon!

[headshake]

thanks killa! it's funny how this little experiment turned my life upside down! everytime i see something, i automatically think, how can i use that? lol.

damn, you can pull 7 oz. out of that size a box. that's awesome! can i get some specifics of what you lighting/grow medium/nutes were/are?

thanks for stopping by killa.


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[killa12345]

thanks killa! it's funny how this little experiment turned my life upside down! everytime i see something, i automatically think, how can i use that? lol.

damn, you can pull 7 oz. out of that size a box. that's awesome! can i get some specifics of what you lighting/grow medium/nutes were/are?

thanks for stopping by killa.


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i run 9 plants.....lots of LSTing....6 cfl's ( mixture 2/1 with 2700/6500k all 27w) hempy buckets in cut down 32 oz gatorade bottles with 4 pts perlite/1 pt vermiculite using all FF nutes Grow big hydro, tiger bloom, big bloom, open seseme, bestie bloomz, cha ching....usually run them just around 900-1000 ppms hanna meter, 5.8-5.9 ph


hope that helps! usually its around 5 oz but with the CH9 green bud i pulled 7 oz. see ya soon shake....stay safe

[headshake]

well i just walked into the room, checked the ladies and found the light casually resting on top of the plants. awesomeness.

so i ran to the $.99 store and picked up some zip ties. i hope this holds. the only major damage done was to one of the plants. it broke the top inch or so. not that big of a deal. there was some burnt leaves on a few others. oh well, live and learn i guess.

killa, i guess i should be looking into hydro. that's pretty awesome! i appreciate you letting me know your trade secrets.

i currently am using the FF lineup with the solubles. guess i need to make some of those hempy buckets. guess i'll be doing some research here in a bit.

thanks again! you rock!


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[killa12345]

well i just walked into the room, checked the ladies and found the light casually resting on top of the plants. awesomeness.

so i ran to the $.99 store and picked up some zip ties. i hope this holds. the only major damage done was to one of the plants. it broke the top inch or so. not that big of a deal. there was some burnt leaves on a few others. oh well, live and learn i guess.

killa, i guess i should be looking into hydro. that's pretty awesome! i appreciate you letting me know your trade secrets.

i currently am using the FF lineup with the solubles. guess i need to make some of those hempy buckets. guess i'll be doing some research here in a bit.

thanks again! you rock!


-shake

I thought that could be a problem one day with cardboard but i have made my fixtures kinda more sturdy.......my fixtures are bolted on using large washers on the cardboard surfure to make it more rigid.....this was the third cardboard box i build to grow in.....I used a nice box bought from Office Max....its like double thick....sorta like wood...i even filled all the gaps with cardboard and hot glue....hot glued all the seems....and painted flat white.....I know i should have just built one out of wood but at the time the money was low....i figured it cost me $50 with the 2 computer fans i had to buy.....im about to build a new veg box and retire the cardboard box maybe this week...

One more thing...i see you changed your signature.....bro pulling a lb from a cardboard box make you the undisputed King of Cardboard!

[headshake]

i never thought about using washers and bolts. i think i might have to revamp the reflector/fixture. it was the rope that was holding the fixture up that pulled through. i had a zip tie there but i guess it was too small. the fixture itself is pretty rigid though.

this is one of those moving wardrobe boxes. it's double wall corrugated (it's not cardboard actually, lol). it has a metal bar across the top of the box.

next time it's wood for sure. and a real light! hopefully sooner than later.

i look forward to seeing the new box killa. you gonna do another log?


and i'm not sure where the 1lb thing came from, i've never pulled a pound. i hope that i didn't write that somewhere. if i did it was purley by accident and i apologize!

so there, yo usee, i'm still prince. or one of you can be king, the other prince and i'll be the earl. i'm fine with that too!

be easy.

oh, yeah is that a droid from star wars in your avatar



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[BeFree]

I think that's a 'done up rubbermaid stealth box' for a star-wars memorabilia room.

ROFL~!

Run the 'skywalker' strain in it.

besafe shake:jointsmile:

and don't forget the pod racer go-cart in the backyard.

ALSO! htgsupply.com has some sweet deals on 150-400hps sets.
plantlightinghydroponics.com also has EVERYTHING you need to do aero, hydro, dwc, or the hempy buckets that killa is running.

hempy is just as simple as soil, just quicker reactions to everything. Just water like normal. Once everyday for a set amount then once every other day is what he told me and McToker a couple weeks back. Electronic ppm/tds/ph meter will be the best bet. considering he said something about running 5.6-5.8 ph.

I'm switching to hempy when I get the 400watt hps hung in the closet.

fucking wake 'n' bake. I'm all kinds of wound up. :stoned:

[lunarose]

Shake, You are the king! I remember your first little box I was impressed then and this one is a hundred times better. I was considering making a styrofoam box for the winter but I think I'm going to have to give cardboard a chance.