I got all the holes marked and drilled to mount the drivers and controllers. Note to self, you need to drill three more holes for the power to the Sonoff switches. I still need more hardware too.
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That looks like it took time to measure it all out precisely.
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Productive day today. I got all of the trim painted and up except the cabinet trim. The doors now look complete.
The then I started up with the baseboard. Finished the lung room.
When I was working on the flower room I put a few brads in this wall, but it still wouldn’t stick. I forgot it was concrete. Had to glue it instead.
Finally, I got the baseboard in the veg room and started on mounting the drivers. I’m going to need to get some longer screws for the Sonoff controllers.
I’ll still need to put up the cabinet trim,caulk any gaps in the trim, and touch up the paint. After that, ill make the fabric beds and start building my soil.
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Nice job on the painting on the doors and the trim work, I hate fixing the baseboard I always end up missing the studs with the nail gun. I always put a bead of silicone along the top of the baseboard to fill any gaps now as well as the corner joints, makes it look a lot neater.
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Last night, I got some longer screws for the Sonoff controllers and got the rest of the drivers mounted.
Everything fired up nicely, but I still have to wire up the PWM controls for the dimming of the 2700K and 5000K strips.
I ordered up some self adhesive zip ties to manage the rat’s nest of wiring. Right now I have trouble with the door not being able to close, partly because the wood is warped and partly because of the wiring and mounting hardware.
I took a mental health day tomorrow. I hope to get the trim on the cabinets. Then I’ll run a bead of silicone on the baseboard and trim, and touch up any paint. After that, all I have to do is get the beds made and soil built. Hopefully, by Sunday I’ll have dirt and soak some seeds.
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Yeah things are really coming together in there now! Definitely hear the mental health day, gotta take a break from that stuff every so often or you go crazy. Either with exhaustion or stress.
Least you’re in the home stretch!
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Is that an official work sanctioned thing? Or just what you call taking a day off to work on home projects? Id be ok if I had vacation, sick, floating holidays, and then mental health days added onto my PTO!
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yeah I wish… Just part of my PTO.
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Took care of the garden last night. Starting at the top of the rack, the Ghost Toof x Sugar Black Rose (Ghost Rose) are looking pretty good. The one on the left is starting to form some bud sites. I raised the light a bit to get some more vertical growth on them.
Now for the bad news, remember that Juanita la Lagrimosa mother I re-planted? Well she didn’t make it. Too much stress for her I suppose. I have two small cuts of her that have been in RR cubes for about a week. Do you think they will make it? Shall I pray to Shiva? I do have another seed from the original three, but one was 1:1 CBD to THC and the other was all THC. I also have some Juanita la Lagrimosa x Lowryder2 that I planned to work some more. So, we will see what fate has in store for my Juanita Auto project.
The rest of the clones are all happy and healthy.
The next rack down I have a couple of Jabba’s Stash rooted clones. These are in 10 oz. paper cups of recycled soil.
Finally on the bottom rack are my mother plants. I don’t know what to say… I came to the realization that I have been feeding these a salt based fertilizer (Mega Crop) for about nine months now without ever having flushed. On top of that, I was taking clones and sticking them back in the same 16 oz. pot. So, I did something I rarely do, and flushed my plants. After the first gallon of RO, the PPM was 800 (500 scale) and the pH was 7.0. Not bad, but not great either. After about three gallons of RO water, they were at 400 PPM and still pH 7.0. I put them on some cloth towels so they would dry out faster. Perhaps another prayer to Shiva is in order? So the lesson here is, no-till doesn’t work in 16 oz. pots with Mega Crop. The Green Crack (front right) looks pretty sad, but new growth looks like she may live. The ICookies (front middle) looks like it wants to live, but has a lot of crinkly leaves even on the new growth. Everything else I have cuttings or rooted clones of.
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#prayforjuanita 
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I took a mental health day yesterday. It was quite needed, I hadn’t taken a day off since my birthday in July. I slept late and started the day with a breakfast burrito. After a couple of dabs, I got the trim up on the cabinet.
After that, I got all the tools I had borrowed from my dad and ran over there to return them. Then I went and got the last of what I needed to finish building my soil. So, that should be happening this weekend. By the time I got home with dinner, I vegged in front of the TV and watched “The Boys” on Prime Video.
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Got everything measured out for the soil. 15 gallons of EWC, 3 gallons of mineral mix, and couple gallons of ammendments. I need to grind the barley in the bag, but will do that right before mixing the soil up.
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I’m the same way 8-10 hours a day 7 days a week most of the time. Hard workers, then we come home and play hard too! 
hope you feel better from that day off!
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Decided that the Ghost Rose plants on the top shelf need more than the 27 or so Watts than they currently have. So, I went digging around in my spare parts box and had everything I needed to build a light.
First I started off with four SolStrips and a 120 Watt MeanWell driver. Then I grabbed a Sonoff POW and a potentiometer for dimming.
Next i grabbed some aluminum angle from my old lights in the workbench. I used the existing holes to mount the strips, I just had to cut them shorter. I also cut two pieces mount the driver.
Then I screwed the heatsinks to the aluminum angle and riveted the driver to the other two pieces. Those were a little too thick to rivet together, so i used some nuts and bolts.
Finally I wired the strips, the sonoff POW, the potentiometer, and the plug. I reused the old hanging hardware and it was ready to fire up.
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I present to you the Veg Rack 2.0! I removed the two strips on the top where my autos were and moved them down to the bottom where my mothers are. That will give my mothers more light and a better spread as well. Then I installed the new light, turned down to about 28W
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Looks like a lot of work for just 1W gain 
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Confucius say - the wise grower slowly increases the light level, esp with leds 
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Right?
Been there, done that! Since the spectrum is also different, in don’t want to shock them completely. Expecially with autos that are already praying.
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We have walked the same path, several thousand miles apart 
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