Slow death

[Marc Benson]

Well your grow suggests not AJ. All I went by was the directions on the back and cut it down from there. They suggest 28 drops (1/2 tsp) per gallon of water if you use it every time you water. I don't. But this time I cranked it up a little because I wanted to hammer this thing and either kill it or do some good. The reaction it had so far was that it was a good thing to do. But if you're saying you only used 1.25 - 2 drops per gallon that's like nothing. But again, the size of your buds suggests that you're doing something right!

[HARDDON]

28/gallon

DOH!

Thats a lot of fucking SuperThrive my friend

Why am I an ass?

Cuz my SOG situation

I don't like learning curves

[Marc Benson]

"Thats a lot of fucking SuperThrive my friend"

Schutlz Cactus...not Superthrive.

Not happy with your SOG? Just think with clones you could have 20 of these little jewels growing. 1.5 feet tall. How nice would it be to open the door to the ol' grow room and see 20 of those sitting in there stinking up the house??!!

[HARDDON]

Ahhh you love to torment me dont you MB???

Just pure torment.

I am doing an LST just so I can get the mothers. I shall picketh clones to my hearts delight from this point on.

I got good strains and one under my belt now

I am happy with my SOG just dissapointed as well.

[Rezinator]

Can't believe you guys...

Call it a newbster thing but I can't see how I could water my 5 gal pail veggin madame more than once every ten days (figure a gallon and a half of nuted distilled. Bang. Then let her wait for next "feeding".

I have 3/4" holes drilled into the pail with a good 3" of lava rock. She's lookin' good.

But which wise sage so long ago somewhere, farfar away, wait, not that far, hadst typed, "that (s)he who waiteth untilist plant says "I need water", dost the right thing."

But no kiddin around now, in plastic that could be a long time if that plant isn't robustly using more water than it wants (under CFLs anyway).

MB. relate just fine on the wusssin' out there.

So, related to roots and rooting - there's the flexibility of a plastic container as well. Pail won't evaporate off a lot of internal moisture unused by Madame, and what does manage to dry on the outside of the ball passes dangerously dry are directly to the most ambitious of roots. Can't be good. And so on and so on... occured to me, thot I'd mention it.

[Rezinator]

Say. MB.

Help me out with a little odor elimination wisdom.

Somebody had a thread showing the basic charcoal filter made with Bounty Clothes Dryer cloths and duct tape.

My plant smells distinctly skunky (bagseed - lucky maybe) and I don't know what to expect. Am going with the above design since Zandor's or somebody's filter was a little too ambitious this grow.

What are you working with for a carbon filter if addressing that. Can't recall.

[Marc Benson]

Sorry Rez. I don't use any filter system. My situation is such that I can contain the smell but was thinking that if I had to do something it would more apt to be a cover up than trying to eliminate the smell. Sounds like the dryer sheets incorporates that into the filter system. Sorry I can't be of assistance!

[HARDDON]

If you have a nice strongfan that has a high static pressure level, you can buy at The Home Depot, the carbon air filters that you can stack....they are like thin folded sheet of carbon filter...you can vent your exhaust right thru the screens of the carbon filter.

You can find the pckage of carbon filter in the AC/HEATER flter sections...Isle 9.

[Marc Benson]

I do a lot of hunting and there are suits you can buy that are supposed to reduce human scent. But according to the manufacturers and articles I've read on carbon it requires a person to 're-activate' the carbon granules after they've been saturated with whatever scent molecules it's being subjected to. Re-activation is accomplished by heating the garments/carbon. This process 'burns off' the scent molecules by the heating of the carbon. They suggest using a clothes dryer to do so, but carbon, to be cleansed of scent molecules, requires far greater heat than a home clothes dryer can attain. Anyway, that said, it would seem that carbon filters used in the reduction of the smell of mj would also need to be 're-activated' or replaced often. More often than would be financially feasible as within a few minutes the carbon will have absorbed as much/many scent molecules as it can hold and not be able to control the smell of a flowering plant. Carbon is like a sponge. It doesn't destroy scent, but holds it. So I wonder how it's working for the time span that most use them? Sometimes for months. I've never used one though so I'm just offering this info for...who knows why.

[Rezinator]

Mmm.

tks Marc, tks Hard,

Was at HD this morning -- coulda been aisle 9 actually -- and did see an interesting package of carbon something or other filtration material folded up into plastic wrapping - about the size of a beach towel.

Box is built - pics soon - was shopping for ductwork. Got a pint size jar of Carbon last week.

Extensive Data as you mentioned above M, explains why that filter Z or somebody had posted was so elaborate. Layered packets of carbon inside a 4 to 8 inch length of 4" ductwork.

Wonder if anybody has any figures on how often say a packet or a pints worth or a litre's worth of granules might last before activation.