Fuck!!!! Management told me to take out window ac!!

Thread starter timmychan
Start date Oct 28, 2010

timmychan

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#161

I got a question... In these DWC buckets when tha roots of tha plant are still in tha rockwool, I still gotta top water em right?? cuz I been doin it 3 times a day. Is that too much??

PakChild

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#162

Its just a matter of making sure your rockwool is still moist and not bone dry, ya prob. really only have to water them once in the morning and once at night as long as your temperatures aren't blistering hot, so your prob. fine anyways since your running CFLS, they don't even get hot. I'm subbing to this, can't wait to see what ya got 3 months from now! Being patient sucks, I too can't wait for Feb/March. Check my journal out https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/371410-1000w-master-kush-swiss-cheese.html

ill Padrino

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#163

timmychan said:
I got a question... In these DWC buckets when tha roots of tha plant are still in tha rockwool, I still gotta top water em right?? cuz I been doin it 3 times a day. Is that too much??

Not much at all. Rockwool will complete dry up in a few hours if not watered. Rise the water level so 1/4 of the wool is touching water till roots are long enough to touch water.

Check out Sunleaves Super Starter Plugs. Stay moist for days.

http://www.sunleaves.com/detail.asp?sku=SSSP306

FootClan

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#164

purplehazin said:
95F isnt too hot as long as you have a ton of air circulation going on. Assuming the 95F is being read at the canopy of the plants, you should have fans blowing over the top of the canopy and getting rid of all that heat along with cooltubes. Make sure your soil is always hydrated and that you have fans blowing up into the foliage from below to feed CO2 to the under foliage.

Higher temps bring around pests, so take precautions against spider mites, etc.

95F isnt too hot?? lol come on bro thats crazy talk even with CO2 95 is too hot are you serious??

FootClan

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#165

timmychan said:
I got a question... In these DWC buckets when tha roots of tha plant are still in tha rockwool, I still gotta top water em right?? cuz I been doin it 3 times a day. Is that too much??

That guy is right you need to get a Portable indoor airconditioner and exhaust the hot air from the aircontioner out the window our into our attic.....set up some bambo blinds so the air can pass through the blinds but poeple on the outside wont see the ducting...i made a wooden box the same size as the window frame and then slid the shallow box into the window frame on the inside of the box i panited it and put blinds on the inside and then hooked my exhast up to the the back of the box so now it all gets exhausted into the box then out the winow but from the outsie all you see is blinds works great not only do you only see blinds but its light proof so no mater what im doing on the inside on the outside it just looks like the lights are off and the blinds are down.....

timmychan

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#166

FootClan said:
That guy is right you need to get a Portable indoor airconditioner and exhaust the hot air from the aircontioner out the window our into our attic.....set up some bambo blinds so the air can pass through the blinds but poeple on the outside wont see the ducting...i made a wooden box the same size as the window frame and then slid the shallow box into the window frame on the inside of the box i panited it and put blinds on the inside and then hooked my exhast up to the the back of the box so now it all gets exhausted into the box then out the winow but from the outsie all you see is blinds works great not only do you only see blinds but its light proof so no mater what im doing on the inside on the outside it just looks like the lights are off and the blinds are down.....

Damn bro,, I was thinkin of doin somithin exactly like that..

You got any pics of how u got it setup?? I would love to see how it actually looks

timmychan

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#167

PakChild said:
Its just a matter of making sure your rockwool is still moist and not bone dry, ya prob. really only have to water them once in the morning and once at night as long as your temperatures aren't blistering hot, so your prob. fine anyways since your running CFLS, they don't even get hot. I'm subbing to this, can't wait to see what ya got 3 months from now! Being patient sucks, I too can't wait for Feb/March. Check my journal out https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/371410-1000w-master-kush-swiss-cheese.html

Thanks bro, I figured I needed to top water more while they were stil babies. And I know man,, patience is a bitch. Im just not gonna think about it too much, focus on my studies and my job. and dedicate at least 2-3 hrs a day to tha plants.

Ill def check ur grow out too bro,, i wanna see wat tha difference is between 2 600s and 1 1000.

timmychan

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#168

FootClan said:
That guy is right you need to get a Portable indoor airconditioner and exhaust the hot air from the aircontioner out the window our into our attic.....set up some bambo blinds so the air can pass through the blinds but poeple on the outside wont see the ducting...i made a wooden box the same size as the window frame and then slid the shallow box into the window frame on the inside of the box i panited it and put blinds on the inside and then hooked my exhast up to the the back of the box so now it all gets exhausted into the box then out the winow but from the outsie all you see is blinds works great not only do you only see blinds but its light proof so no mater what im doing on the inside on the outside it just looks like the lights are off and the blinds are down.....

Im waitin on tha money to come in for all that bro,, once I get enough im gettin a $300 dual hose 6000btu portable AC. Should be perfect.

timmychan

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#169

Ill post updates when tha new seedlings get a lil bigger. right now they're just pokin out with their starter leaves.

I threw away 2 of tha old LSD and 1 SLH because they were permanately stunted. So as of now I got 2 buckets and 7 plants. 4 seeds in 1 bucket, 3 in tha other.

Will proly have an update within tha next few daayz

Hit me up
Deucez
~Timmy

FootClan

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#170

timmychan said:
Damn bro,, I was thinkin of doin somithin exactly like that..

You got any pics of how u got it setup?? I would love to see how it actually looks

Na got no pics its acutally in use right now its all coverd up with sound damping material......but if you have any question i can give ya more details on how i made it...was prettty easy really just got some 1" by 3" boards cut them to length.....then i got a thin sheet of partical wood for the backing. I used the 1"by3" boards for the sides....Its a real shallow box only 3" deep because the board is 1" thick and 3"'s wide ....make sense? basicaly it just looks like a big square tray with 3 inch side walls all round it . then i cut a 6" hole on the back sheet of partical board the attached a duct flange to the backside and hooked my exhaust to that...Main thing is you have to make the box just small enough to fit and slide INSIDE the window frame....if its too big it wont fit at all if its too small it wont be snug and fall out or have leaks........I also got some weather stripping and put that around the sides of the 1"by3" boards so its dosent scrape the the paint inside of the window frame also the weather striping creates a better seal too......so when doing the measuring you have to account for the the weather stripping aswell becasue if you make it jus big enough to fit in the window frame then later add with the weather striping it would make it to big to fit inside the frame, so you have to make it big enough to fit plus whatever you use to seal it like the stripping....then i painted the inside of the box so it didnt look like wood......I then got some blinds and attached them to the inside of the box hanging from top to bottom just like they would be normally the end result is from the outside just looks like a room with blinds down and light off..... Took me over a month of frustration to figure this out on my own....

Str8Dank

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#171

portable AC's are garbage build a box on the back of your window AC and put your window AC as high in the room as you can. run a piece of 6" duct from the box to a board that fits in your window. make the board like 8" so it just looks like the window is cracked and cover the board in speaker cloth or some other cloth that wont make it obvious that there is the 6" duct. it will look a little odd maybe but it wont be noticeable if you are on a higher floor.

other option is to build a box around the entire window and paint it black and pipe the duct to that box. then you can have the window just cracked and nothing would be in the window and from the outside it will just look like the lights are off in that room.

trust me portable AC's suck they are not efficient AND they leak smell. i had one and ditched it quickly.

Str8Dank

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#172

build the box out of foam board. there are tutorials on the net and i know there is a good one on ic for sure i used it to build mine.

timmychan

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#173

FootClan said:
Na got no pics its acutally in use right now its all coverd up with sound damping material......but if you have any question i can give ya more details on how i made it...was prettty easy really just got some 1" by 3" boards cut them to length.....then i got a thin sheet of partical wood for the backing. I used the 1"by3" boards for the sides....Its a real shallow box only 3" deep because the board is 1" thick and 3"'s wide ....make sense? basicaly it just looks like a big square tray with 3 inch side walls all round it . then i cut a 6" hole on the back sheet of partical board the attached a duct flange to the backside and hooked my exhaust to that...Main thing is you have to make the box just small enough to fit and slide INSIDE the window frame....if its too big it wont fit at all if its too small it wont be snug and fall out or have leaks........I also got some weather stripping and put that around the sides of the 1"by3" boards so its dosent scrape the the paint inside of the window frame also the weather striping creates a better seal too......so when doing the measuring you have to account for the the weather stripping aswell becasue if you make it jus big enough to fit in the window frame then later add with the weather striping it would make it to big to fit inside the frame, so you have to make it big enough to fit plus whatever you use to seal it like the stripping....then i painted the inside of the box so it didnt look like wood......I then got some blinds and attached them to the inside of the box hanging from top to bottom just like they would be normally the end result is from the outside just looks like a room with blinds down and light off..... Took me over a month of frustration to figure this out on my own....

yea I get it bro,, genius idea,, perfect STEALTH exhaust from a window.

When I get my cash I will def invest in that set up. +rep

timmychan

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#174

Str8Dank said:
build the box out of foam board. there are tutorials on the net and i know there is a good one on ic for sure i used it to build mine.

you think you could find that link or explain it to me??, cuz foam board does sound better than plywood,, less heat

timmychan

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#175

Str8Dank said:
portable AC's are garbage build a box on the back of your window AC and put your window AC as high in the room as you can. run a piece of 6" duct from the box to a board that fits in your window. make the board like 8" so it just looks like the window is cracked and cover the board in speaker cloth or some other cloth that wont make it obvious that there is the 6" duct. it will look a little odd maybe but it wont be noticeable if you are on a higher floor.

other option is to build a box around the entire window and paint it black and pipe the duct to that box. then you can have the window just cracked and nothing would be in the window and from the outside it will just look like the lights are off in that room.

trust me portable AC's suck they are not efficient AND they leak smell. i had one and ditched it quickly.

what kind of portable AC you had??

FootClan

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#176

timmychan said:
you think you could find that link or explain it to me??, cuz foam board does sound better than plywood,, less heat

Well heats not really and issue with the box why would heat be an issue not sure what you mean?? but i do think the foam would sure be easyer to instal and take down my box was pretty big and heavy and ocward...but it dosent get hot in any way really

FootClan

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#177

timmychan said:
what kind of portable AC you had??

I Would agree that any kinda portable product is never going to be as good as a perminate placed producted but i doubt they are as bad has hes saying i know people that use them and they work good for them.....also buying a NICE one over a crap one might have somting to do with is aswell....gotta use a lil commen sense alot of people like to over exaggerate things on here.....just take everyones addvice into conceteration and make your own mind dont listen to one person including me........I would say getting a portable air conditioner thats good quality is a better idea then turning a window air condintioner into a portable airconditioner using wood and shit thats not vary practical for someone that is living in an aprtment kinda defeats the purpsoe of the word PORTABLE lol......that IMO anyways

timmychan

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#178

FootClan said:
Well heats not really and issue with the box why would heat be an issue not sure what you mean?? but i do think the foam would sure be easyer to instal and take down my box was pretty big and heavy and ocward...but it dosent get hot in any way really

Lol bro,, I tried to exaust tha heat with a whole bunch of foil tape and gorrila tape, and tha tape got hot and I thought I could ehaust into tha exhaust for tha cooltubes, which is a 530cfm fan, with a "T" connector, and it ended up blowin tha hot air back into tha AC and makin more hot air i tha grow tent, I ended up just blowin tha exhaust from tha ac into tha closet to see if it would cool down and it did.

nd What I was tlkin bout tha heat was that tha tape was gettin hot as hell even tho tha vents was suckin cool air,, so I was thinkin Styrofoam would absorb heat better than tape or plywood. ya dig

So yea im spaced out roght now,, if u dont get me tell me and ill try to explain better

So what I ne

timmychan

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#179

FootClan said:
I Would agree that any kinda portable product is never going to be as good as a perminate placed producted but i doubt they are as bad has hes saying i know people that use them and they work good for them.....also buying a NICE one over a crap one might have somting to do with is aswell....gotta use a lil commen sense alot of people like to over exaggerate things on here.....just take everyones addvice into conceteration and make your own mind dont listen to one person including me........I would say getting a portable air conditioner thats good quality is a better idea then turning a window air condintioner into a portable airconditioner using wood and shit thats not vary practical for someone that is living in an aprtment kinda defeats the purpsoe of the word PORTABLE lol......that IMO anyways

I feel you bro, its hard to exhaust in this hoe

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