The ultimate fuckup

So I had a pretty shitty morning, gotta vent. I keep my garden at a different place than where I live, I have a daughter and don't mix the two up. I go to my place every other day, I run ebb and flow so the ph and everything is good for a few days at a time. I go over this morning and had a pipe burst upstairs and I've got 5 inches of standing water on every floor of my house. Killed all the power and it's been minus 10 every night.I've got an ice rink where my 6 week flowering plants used to be. They may be at least save able for hash. My mother plants had frost on the roots, not looking good. All my ballasts are fried as they are sitting in a lake right now. My walls are falling off. I couldn't even manage taking pics with my phone yet because it's royally fucked up. I got a few cuttings off my moms and am praying for a fresh start. House hunting begins. I took every measure I thought I could take, I had heaters in every room. I had a heater in the room where it burst. I leave my water on a drip. I will now be checking my grow every day. You don't want this to happen.

awe man that really sucks!

FUCK! I don't even know dude; nothing to say....that just fucking sucks.

Ya my buddy and I were speechless, still are. Just got all brand new bulbs, shit was looking fresh. Had a shitload of premixed soil that had been cooking for 4 weeks go down too. I've got them at one of my patients houses now, or as I call it, ICU. I dont even know where to start with the cleanup, I'm pretty sure that house is totaled. I'll take pics when I can muster up the energy to go back.

Well, it was not a fire, that's good, and your not it jail, also good. Other than that I would have to agree, holy shit, fucked up!

That is one of the reasons I check on my plants twice a day. I am always worried about a fire or some other disaster.

everything happens for a reason though so try ot keep your head in the positive it sucks, but have a good laugh about it,

I hope the house wasn't a keeper. Hope it was just something cheap to grow in. Shit 5 inches of water!

Haha def not a keeper, I think it was like 9000$ I had a few laughs as I was standing there. But yes, I'm not in jail and it could be worse. At least maybe I'll be pulling something instead of nothing. Just got an attitude order today too. That put a smile on my face seeing that package after I got home. The u.p. is great until it's in the negatives for weeks at a time.

Wow bro, that really sucks! That could happen to any of us, whether you grow at home or at another house.

I had a similar issue last spring when we got a shitload of rain and the cities sewer system backed up, and apparently my sump-pump sucked too, because I woke up to several inches of standing water in my basement. Fortunately I had my ballasts up off the floor on stands, so other than the inconvenience of cleaning up the mess, I lost no equipment in the process. I probably don't need to tell you this after what you went through, but keep that expensive equipment up off the floor sitting on something.

Best of luck on getting up and running again!

man thats a bitch... sorry bro. mount my ballasts on the wall. water in my basement is a common occurrence.

Yea totally, off the floor totally, not just a little. I had them sitting on a raised piece of concrete but it was only up 4 inches, 2 of my four were on the wall under a big old air vent so they got shielded from the shit storm but the 2 on the floor had water pouring out when i picked them up. Good thing for homies that will babysit for you, praying for perky ladies when the light comes on. I have a smaller and temporary place for the time being and am thinking real hard about getting land and throwing up a greenhouse. In the meantime I'm ordering chineese delivery and smoking a fatty of some deadhead og, the little one is at grams, ladies at work, daddy needs some alone time.

mammothgrower said:

Yea totally, off the floor totally, not just a little. I had them sitting on a raised piece of concrete but it was only up 4 inches, 2 of my four were on the wall under a big old air vent so they got shielded from the shit storm but the 2 on the floor had water pouring out when i picked them up. Good thing for homies that will babysit for you, praying for perky ladies when the light comes on. I have a smaller and temporary place for the time being and am thinking real hard about getting land and throwing up a greenhouse. In the meantime I'm ordering chineese delivery and smoking a fatty of some deadhead og, the little one is at grams, ladies at work, daddy needs some alone time.

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hope all works out for your girls. enjoy the much needed alone time

mammothgrower said:

the 2 on the floor had water pouring out when i picked them up.

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I would find an old bulb to test your ballasts with before throwing them out. Might have missed where you said if they were digi or magnetic, but I have seen both kind of ballasts work after submersion, also have seen them work after being exposed to high temps in a fire.

I have always heard stories about grandmas who slip and fall in the kitchen when a pipe bursts, then they end up frozen to the floor. Now if that had happened, that would have been a mucho more fuckup.

Good luck with your new beginnings.

That sucks ass bro. Growing is stressful.
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What a mess. If you're not at your spot every day in the winter, leave water running somewhere so your pipes don't burst from the water freezing in them.

Rare D MI said:

What a mess. If you're not at your spot every day in the winter, leave water running somewhere so your pipes don't burst from the water freezing in them.

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Yeah was just thinking this. Did you not run the water ever? was the furnace not on?

Dont tell me you were trying to grow in some vacant house.

I'm sorry to hear that. Man you must be way up north with those temps. How far up if you don't mind me asking. Is it impossible to insulate enough to keep your room warm with the lights. Those trics are probably already falling off at that temp. Since your venting I will too. I had a fucking helicopter checking out my house about 3 times in the last week. I had to get all my shit in NC and load it up in a uhaul. I didn't make it past toledo before my girls were icicles. I was running coco too, which was a frozen block. I don't even want to waste my time with any hermies so fuck it I guess I'll have to start from seed again. I could have avoided this if I would have got up here when I was wanting to, but at least I'm free.

You guys must have missed where I said I had the water on a drip and had space heaters in every room. I guess leaving the water on a drip when its minus 15 is a futile effort. I've got an icicle from my drain to my faucet where I had it running.
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