Just another DIY COB build

Looking lush in there!

i dont know what it is but the plants are looking amazing lately! they are praying up to the light and looking super healthy and perky. a few things have changed in there, i now have an overhead fan blowing straight down, and i started adding mammoth p to the mix. i dialed my nutes nack down to the jacks 321 mix ratio but i have been adding liquid karma and now the mammoth p. dont know whats doing it but im loving it and so are they!

see what im saying? happiness all around in there

shits about to go down! i pick my metal up tomorrow but now im waiting on my heatsinks and drivers. good times

Making it happen...

I've still got 32 more in the mail as well as 16 hlg185s and some other misc stuff. Gonna be a busy week

ROUGH LAYOUT. have to leave for work so i wont get much done today i upgraded to 1.5" instead of 1" accidentally because i couldnt remember what size i got last time. it was a bit more expensive(.25c/ft) which upped my cost by $40 but since the arrays are ~41x~41 instead of 2x4 i feel good about the extra sturdiness.

chinese new year is fucking up my heat sink supply!!!! all the factories and such are on a 2 week break and everyone is out of stock! im in need of my heatsinks lol. they are still like 2 weeks out so im gonna have to get started under HID for the first few weeks until they arrive. im gonna be pissed if they are a different size and my bars dont line up lol.

top array is the flowering array size. making 4 of them. bottom is for the veg tent and will be a 3-2-3 layout with the citi 1212's that are currently in the 2x4 array.

Haha, nice stuff cannot w8 to get mine COBs ready. Bravo on the girls, they all seem to enjoy the lightbath

Everything but the heatsinks will be here Monday. Gonna build the frames today so they will be ready and waiting.

this is their home for now under the HID until all my parts show up. looking happy as hell the SOGlings are looking happy too. just got into their new cubes two nights ago. learned my lesson about over vegging last time. wont happen again. id rather under veg and have solid nug then over veg and have more fluff. these are unknown strains so i dont wanna overdo the veg. these moms may be oversized but i have lots of head room this time since im not in a damn tent.

Subbed I'm running a similar space and am.imtwrested what will happen. Our ordered 4 cxb 3590 3500k and I think I should've gotten 4 more.....lol

These girls are Looking phenomenal! They are hitting week 4 I believe. I will get pics up tomorrow, now that the site is back up. I swapped the 1k for the LED array pushing 800w and my temps dropped 8 degrees! The SOGlings will get spread out over half the table and the other table will get the new genetics and start their flowering journey. Lots of cool pictures coming tomorrow. I finished the Cxm22 array and the two citi 1212 arrays. Just need to do one more cxm22 800w array and then swap the veg array onto the new frame so the layout covers the 4x4 better. The new genetics are looking superb in veg. Once the strainhunt is over I will be switching up my grow style a bit. Gonna switch over to PPKs I think

just got back from out of town. taking cuts and transplanting tonight. here are the ladies as of a couple days ago. looking great so far.

the veg plants are way over watered and waterlogged right now. i had been bottom feeding the big ass containers they were sitting in and they were just too soaked all the time. gonna give them a week or two to recover and then put into the flowering room as soon as they are ready. took all my cuts tonight so i have 3 of each plant. now i will have moms for everything and soon enough i will know whats worth keeping and what needs to go. i guess i should get another round of Chem D Cookies in the works because i have had a few people tell me its some of the best shit they have ever had. my catalog is expanding rapidly. the CDC has that nasty funk to it, the blackfire smells of pinesol and the future smells like melons and yogurt. things are moving right along and i couldnt be happier. lots of good stuff to come.

some random pics of the lights being built.....the cxm22 array pulls about 800w and the citi 1212 arrays pull just over 600W. both run cool to the touch and just by swapping out my 1k hps with 800w of cxm22 my room temp dropped 8 degrees!! thats INSANE

Awesome setup @DesertHydro. I see you have a nice amount of cobs. I was wondering why the fixture is that high off the canopy? I run bare cob as well. Seeing as your beautiful plants look like theyre done stretching, wouldn't lowering it get more photons to the plant? I'm asking because I use only 8 cobs and have to use every thing I can squeeze out.

MediheaLed said:

Awesome setup @DesertHydro. I see you have a nice amount of cobs. I was wondering why the fixture is that high off the canopy? I run bare cob as well. Seeing as your beautiful plants look like theyre done stretching, wouldn't lowering it get more photons to the plant? I'm asking because I use only 8 cobs and have to use every thing I can squeeze out.

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I left it high for the first theee nights after switching from hps so it wouldn't shock them. Got it at about 20-24" right now. I think that's about right but I'm just winging it lol

well god damn! all of the exotic genetix plants are hermies lol!! im not happy but im not all that pissed either. life goes on. i hope they arent too virile lol. i just poured myself a glass of tequila on the rocks to drown my sorrows

i had started pulling them when i was hoping it was just the one plant but when i realized it was 70% of the crop i said FUCK IT and let it ride haha. BEANS FOR EVERYONE

if a hermie pollinates another plant does that mean they will most likely show hermie traits themselves?

so far it looks like the exotic freebie is clean, but we shall see. all of the ethos collective gear seamed fine, but im super paranoid now lol. i pulled all the exotic moms and cleared some space in the veg tent which was an unforeseen bonus. all is well. i still expect this shit to be fire when its done. no more exotic genetix for me...

enough with the tequila rant. here are the pictures of the new setup rocking it

ive got so many new strains and phenos on the way i dont give two shits about the exotic genetix plants. ethos collective harambe, quattro kush, citral flo and mykoteks dog cage in the works. all but the dog cage will hit flower in the next two weeks. the dog cage still need to show sex. i took clones of everything and my clone tray sits on top of my cobs. makes a nice little warmer since they are barely warm in the veg tent at 37 w and a fan right on them.

That sucks! In the past when ever one of my new strains hermied, they'd all get the chop. All of them. Mother and babies. Way too many good genetics out there to waste months of my precious time for junk. It does sound like you have quite a selection.
Flowering hermies go in the hash pile.