hi all i decided it was time for a new forum home and signed up tother day and been reading lots of threads and diaries and seems a chilled vibe which is what i like!
so basics are im a old fart who grows weed but cant have tents or anything obvious in the house so for the last 10 plus years i have been growing as stealthy as possible using small converted wardrobes smallish lighting and great care given to use carbon filtration and neutradol ensuring no great stink in the house and a happy missus!
i grow partly for myself for smoking even though im not meant to due to copd but i been a pothead since age of 16 and am nearly 60 now so not going to quit now,dont drink or use any other recreational drugs anymore.
i am also growing for making oil for my missus tina who is disabled and suffers great pain and the oil helps somewhat and reduces her need for opiates.
at the moment i have 3 converted drobes one is a small veg cab used mostly for clones and germing seeds and has diy wetroom and diy 6 bulb cfl lamp and 100mm extraction and carbon filter.
the second drobe is bigger at 1mtr x 0.75 mtr has diy climate control and choice of hps/mh or quantum led all lights are 250w it has 150mm rvk and flower garden cf.
it has diy built glassfibre run to waste tray and draws fresh air directly from outdoor via a filter.
the 3rd drobe is smaller but has the most stable climate for some reason i have yet to fathom and has been in use 8 years unchanged other than filters so is sort of the old faithful! she is painted inside with thick coat of quality yacht varnish then lined with fire retardant boiler insulation.
uses 250w mh/hps has 125mm rvk and rhino pro cf and has a simple run to waste into res hidden from sight.
all my plants are run only ever in coco no added stuff just good quality buffered coco coir.
i use 9 uk ltr airpots and all are run to waste or rtw for simplicity and run off is used to feed my vegetables and fruit trees,
most of the strains i grow are barneys farm because i was sponsored by them and have been growing out 20 odd strains 2 at a time for quite a while and heres some pics finally!
i cant seem to find how to multiquote replies? anyhow dog walk done and boy is it hot out there at the moment!
as per continued first post heres a couple pics of the current scrogish half trained run of barneys tangerine dream a test run and pheno hunt,see i had an old faithful motherplant for over 8 yrs and due to poor labeling i found the last clone not to be tangerine dream at all! so upset i dug through the seed stash in me fridge and found the original seed packet still with 3 seeds left and 2 out of 3 germed so i kept the best one and cloned it and am flowering the motherplant she is about 13 months old and spent time both in the drobes and in the torture chamber in my garden.
she is just over 4 weeks true flower and first smell is promising though i realise the chances of the same phenotype are narrow one can hope for the best! these are from day 10
i have grown to love the drobes and ease of microclimate control is great!
how do i multiquote and post youtube vids?
cheers all for looking,mon the drobes!!!
im not able yet to easily photo my drobes as room is full of crap as im decorating,hate it and am the worlds 2nd messiest painter!my partially sighted bro who is here trys to help but my god he gets paint in the most bizzare places,just had new bathroom toilet etc and had to spend 10 minutes scrubbing dried gloss from the bog!
anyhow that be finished in a few days and i shall update then,thanks for making me welcome,duke
hi all well today i managed to clear up a little of the decorating crap from in the way of the drobe room doors so took a few pics of the current grow some from the veg cab showing the barneys shiskaberry clones training for scrog, and some from my smaller drobe currently flowering out a barneys farm tangerine dream.
untrained for speed and entirely in search of a particular phenotype i had for many years and sadly lost due to stupid stoner labeling and reuse of label,had tangie one side and og kush the other! anyhow its a month or so in true flower so far and just starting to kick out some stink,smells promising so far!
things will get more exciting as soon as i can get these shiskaberry into the scrog…still cant seem to multiquote replies but can post tunes so thanks for visiting,peace all.
been listening to a lot of these lately even bought 2 cds of theres
hi all well yesterday was a another hot day here in the uk and so i deemed it time to fire up the led again for the first time this year(has been a job to wrestle it back of my tina she stole it for her cacti) so to this end i moved the 2 barneys farm shiskaberry clones into the bigger drobe and have it on 18hr on 6 off light and fed dutch pro grow nutrient at 1.2 ec ph varied daily.
these 2 will need maybe 10 days training before flip to 12-12 as there healthy vigorous clones and very eager it seems both have had small amount of bending and scropping and have masses of budsites just as i like at this point,hoping they yield a little better than last run as there in better climate now.(last run got cold nights)
i shall get a couple of pics up tonight,
wardrobe grows with LEDs are going to become very popular soon