My Growitup Greenhouse Grow 2010

yea no prob cruz, i have em and they suck, spider mites were my fav too lol.
cause you can just break the bud down and pull the cotton out, these little bastards
eat you bud to dust, litterally!!! man i hope my plants just finish ok. no more bugs man.
Winter will be fun. more effort to my indoor. First dwc iv done and im loving it.
so once i harvest, ill be so happy, the work is finally done!! outdoor is so much WORK

Weedoozie said:

Nice dude, screens do wonders

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Yea, there is still a few cracks but the screens will keep most the the bugs out.
I can take the screen off and replace with plastic in about 20 min when I need to seal it up.

rastadred22 said:

lol all my screens have been ripped off and blown somewhere...30ft branches snappin like twigs off my avacado tree tht narrowly missed my greenhouse but hit a couple $400 citrus trees... and the roof to my smaller of the three greenhouses was starting to peel off so been out nailin it and screwin it down all mornin! ahhh and this is just the begining

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Dam! hang on man!

gumball said:

well glad you fared the storm without too much loss rastadred!

happy everything is finally looking better cruzer! them catapillars are nuts, good thing you have a dogapillar to eat 'em up!!! need a stun gun, then just hit all the buds with a good zap!! i wonder if that would really work without hurting the plants.

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I dont know man, something to think about. being a living organism plants to produce minimal amoutns of electricity, like we do in out brains. I have heard you can use a potato as a battery but it takes four to light an led. That would be something, Say you put up a metal scrog screen, mist all the plants and charge the screen. Zap it with enough electricity to kill the mites but not harm the plant. Hum.

rastadred22 said:

haha nah we build our houses with cinderblock then plaster over that...so our houses stake it out pretty good! just crossin my fingers my power dont go out my tree is like 2weeks away from harvest...its pretty bad out and the lights have been flickering, we havent even felt the worse of the storm yet...im stocked up on weed and food for the next few days so i should be alright i mean it sux im hopin that the power stays on cuz i put like 2 bets in on todays games i did a pick 4 and pick 6 so hopin i can catch the games lol! but yea just relyin on my power right now!

if worse comes to worse and the power is out for more then 2days im harvesting!

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Well hopefully your juice stays on and your tree survives. Dam, must be something to deal with those high winds like that. I checked out your journal, thats a nice green house your grandfather built. Things huge. Funny, first thing I thought was those are strange lookin plants. Then I read they were poinsettias. Sure would be something to try a different cash crop wouldn't it.

CultivationArt said:

yea no prob cruz, i have em and they suck, spider mites were my fav too lol.
cause you can just break the bud down and pull the cotton out, these little bastards
eat you bud to dust, litterally!!! man i hope my plants just finish ok. no more bugs man.
Winter will be fun. more effort to my indoor. First dwc iv done and im loving it.
so once i harvest, ill be so happy, the work is finally done!! outdoor is so much WORK

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Ha, did it again, we are posting at the same time.
I havent tried DWC yet, always wanted to but didnt want to haul the water so I used sprayers and a small res. Now I got an R/O I can give it a shot in my cab. This being the first grow in the greenhouse I expected some problems. I got them. Now I will make a few modifications. Better screening for intake, larger A/C unit, CO2 system and if possible raise the roof a couple feet. This was a very mild summer, next year I think I will have more heat issues but I am leaning towards more of a sealed green house cooled with a/c and supplemental CO2.

Oh BTW, I caught this pic of Eightball in a post of yours.



Cool dog man.

LOL, thanks bro. Hes my little champ, haha, all 110 lbs of him.
he maxs out at 5200 lbs on the sled, and he was still pullin that with ease.
Almost lost his ass 3 years ago, we think cause of a black widow bite.
but he went down to 83 lbs man. he looks so bad, i was ready to dig a whole.
but a good vet pointed out a small ass blister looking boil in the inside of his back leg.
treated him with pennacillion for venomous spider bites, and 2-4 weeks later he was back on the sled.
now we got his weight back up as well : )

CultivationArt said:

LOL, thanks bro. Hes my little champ, haha, all 110 lbs of him.
he maxs out at 5200 lbs on the sled, and he was still pullin that with ease.
Almost lost his ass 3 years ago, we think cause of a black widow bite.
but he went down to 83 lbs man. he looks so bad, i was ready to dig a whole.
but a good vet pointed out a small ass blister looking boil in the inside of his back leg.
treated him with pennacillion for venomous spider bites, and 2-4 weeks later he was back on the sled.
now we got his weight back up as well : )

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Sounds like a close one, good to hear hes fine.

So my local hydro shop has a deal on co2 tanks. For $150 deposit they give you a full tank, when it runs out swap out for refill at $19.00 When you don't want it anymore you return it and they refund the $150.00 I'm gonna give it a shot. I haven't used it before and I don't think a 20lb tank will last very long but I think there is enough in it to blast these mites a couple times before harvest.

I have a regulator with a solenoid so I can use it with a timer but I wont know how much I am using. I bought one for an aquarium cause it was cheaper but it came with a bubble counter not a flow gauge. Any (cheap) suggestions?

Cool dude, that 12 hour CO2 blast could really do the trick, good luck!

i am pullling for you cruzer, this sure has been one hell of an adventure to watch, so i am sure it is more like Indian Jones to participate in. but in all reality, even with the loss you will have from bug damage, this 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watt Sun you have in that green house is gonna produce you some good med's for a while.

what will you do with the buds that have a lot of bugs left on them? make hash? can you water cure to still get smoke, like you'll really need it? nothing?

gumball said:

i am pullling for you cruzer, this sure has been one hell of an adventure to watch, so i am sure it is more like Indian Jones to participate in. but in all reality, even with the loss you will have from bug damage, this 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watt Sun you have in that green house is gonna produce you some good med's for a while.

what will you do with the buds that have a lot of bugs left on them? make hash? can you water cure to still get smoke, like you'll really need it? nothing?

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Yes, I'm curious about this as well, what will you do with all this bud??

here is a cheaper tester ive used to measure how many ppms my co2 is. dont know if this is what youre taking about ro measure how much youre using. if you meant a regulator with a gauge my bad but this little thing is like 15 bucks

Weedoozie said:

Cool dude, that 12 hour CO2 blast could really do the trick, good luck!

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Man, I really like the idea of gassing the things. I hope so.

gumball said:

i am pullling for you cruzer, this sure has been one hell of an adventure to watch, so i am sure it is more like Indian Jones to participate in. but in all reality, even with the loss you will have from bug damage, this 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watt Sun you have in that green house is gonna produce you some good med's for a while.

what will you do with the buds that have a lot of bugs left on them? make hash? can you water cure to still get smoke, like you'll really need it? nothing?

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Weedoozie said:

Yes, I'm curious about this as well, what will you do with all this bud??

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Ha!
Yea, this sure has been a learning experience. Guess I was lucky to get a mild summer for the first grow.
Buds with bugs? Well I have had spidermites in buds before that came out ok but this caterpillar shit will probably just get tossed. I'll keep it aside untill I'm done. I may toss it in with the trim and make hash. Shame cause it was the strain that I chose, Blueberry. I will keep whatever I get from her.
I understand she stores long term very well.

bigcheese510 said:

here is a cheaper tester ive used to measure how many ppms my co2 is. dont know if this is what youre taking about ro measure how much youre using. if you meant a regulator with a gauge my bad but this little thing is like 15 bucks View attachment 1167657

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There ya go, something simple and cheap. I just wanna know they got gassed.
Thanks, I'll see where I can find one.

Oh hell yeah about the blueberry! I had a lot of nice blueberry that I kept in an air-tight jar for 2 years and its scent seemed to get better and better, straight tasty blueberries. One of my favorite strains

hey cruzer i was wondering if you had a chance to check out my grow.

Hey Cruzer, not sure why you're asking about CO2 testing equipment - when that CO2 is released in there, you can't go anywhere near it - those levels are EXTRAORDINARILY toxic to humans and will kill you with a quickness.

What are you gonna do, go in there (opening a door and letting out the CO2 you're trying to seal), measure it, adjust it, measure again? All in a deadly environment?

Take a step back and think about that for a second.

Since you have a regulator for your tank and the dimensions of your room, some pretty simple math will get you close enough to your target PPM, no matter what it might be.

Stay alive, man.

Courtesy of wikipedia;

CO2 is toxic in higher concentrations: 1% (10,000 ppm) will make some people feel drowsy.[5] Concentrations of 7% to 10% cause dizziness, headache, visual and hearing dysfunction, and unconsciousness within a few minutes to an hour.[6]

So umm yeah he is fine to walk all round the room for as long as he can hold his breath and be none the worse for it, short of if he spent that time forcing it up his anus... Wait... is that what you thought this was about? Take a step back and think about that for a second.

Wow.........rarely do I get flamed online for trying to help.

Whereas your ability to copy and paste from Wikipedia is second to none, perhaps you should think about what you pasted.

So you're recommending that he walk into an area to test CO2 (which mind you, may be upwards of 20K PPMs, depending on the accuracy of his flow meter and his math in determining his timing) and test those levels in there.

Of course, upon opening the door to his greenhouse he'll have nullified the use for a test, but that's not even the best reason not to do it.

I'm sure like all of us smokers Cruzer's lung capacity is second to none and he can hold his breath for five minutes at a time, but let's just pretend for a minute that maybe he can't and he'll need to breathe in there for whatever reason - hell, maybe he trips, falls down and hurts himself while in there (I know, accidents have NEVER happened throughout the course of human history).

I'm not gonna insult you or further clog up Cruzer's thread by making silly references to body parts, but I will say that your attitude seems a little abrasive (and to my knowledge, for no apparent reason).

Anyways Cruzer, if you're taking votes on whether or not to knowingly go into a toxic environment, I vote "no".

Lol Bob I guess it doesn't sound quite so funny from your perspective.. And when you're not hearing it said by Louie CK

Seriously though cruzer would be safe to take the measurement. Am I advising that it's clever to open a big hole to take a measurement with a small device? No.

Damn cruz, lookin good. Iv follwed up on you grow since i met you.
and might i add, GREAT JOB. even with those little deamons and gouls eating your shit alive!
keep it up. cant wait to see the harvest, what are you looking at 4-5 weeks left, or sooner?

Thanks for the laugh guys, What I intend to do is run a 1/4" hose in there to take a sample from. Figured I could draw the air through the tube with a syringe, expel that and do it again to get the sample. My ass and the rest of me is staying out of there cause I cant hold my breath for 5 min and have had enough accidents to believe one can happen.