Experiments with 3% hydrogen peroxide shows it doesn’t even have the power to kill acariform mites in the water. If you want, you can review the videos where I subject tiny creatures you can’t even see to 10% bleach, as well as 3% peroxide.
It’s highly entertaining!
My internet is restricted where I’m currently at lol I can’t watch videos so I will have to wait until I get home, but I will check it out for sure!
Pretty crazy stuff. They looked like they didn’t like the peroxide. It would have to be a lot in your bucket I would imagine
naw I drew up some hypodermics of bleach and peroxide 1/2CC each. Then I scraped a bit of the gunk off the pelagonium, cause I know they live in there. Once I had spotted some good acariforms I just started squirting them. umm… anyone want to see what that shit does to your roots? I’ve got a study in mind…
So don’t use none of that? Ive thought about it. I’ve had a little bit of white mold trying to grow on my roots last grow. It never got bad but it did make me concerned. I would just fill the water up past it. Flooding it. It always came back but never got bad.
I did not make it to my test. I woke up hours before my alarm was set to go off. My test was scheduled for 1:00pm. This morning, I reviewed everything I had to do pre-test. I made sure to do, or not do, them all - including NO Rocket Fuel 
. It was then that I reviewed some paperwork I only received a day or two ago - all of this, examination and then appointment, was done in quick order. A notation said I had to be there at 11:00am for some reason or other, even though my test would be at 1:00pm. I read that notation at 10:50am. IF I had left at the moment, without showering (something I would never do - I won’t subject others to my unprepared, unhygienic body! 
) I would never had made it on time (I’m about a 1/2 hour drive away). I called to inform them of my error, apologizing profusely. I have not heard back from them.
I did receive the Vivosun 102W Air Pump and 6 Vivosun Airstones. 
I happened to plug it in right when the GoHydro (Ebiz-Global) Controller kicked on. I wasn’t sure what the noise was that I was hearing. It turned out to be the air pump. It’s A LOT less noisy than I expected to hear, from all I’ve read! I confused it for the controller operating. It took a second for my brain to recognize where the noise was coming from, even thought “I” had just plugged it in! .
I’m getting a very late start. I did have other things to attend to today, besides my failed appointment.
I dug out 3 more (14 footers, from ONE that I measured previously) 2x4s from the unlit hoop-house before dark. I discovered another stick of 2x4 but the way it was stacked (lack of stacking) it is badly bent. I’m pretty sure given its use I can force it into compliance as I did with 2 of the ones I’ve already installed.
While there, I also discovered at least 2 2x6’s of unknown length. Maybe some 1x’s. I did not study the other items. There was also what looked like a OSB cutoff. I’ll get a better look at things in there tomorrow.
I didn’t see the other things because it was all pretty covered up by a couch. The couch was laying on top of the bent 2x4.
I missed picture day!
Edit Add: I’m draggin’ ass. And hurting.
Gonna get at it!
Back to work!
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WHAB
That is some pump. I have to ask what is it for the air stone or somethin else. I have to be honest, I am not into hydro (except my bubble cloner) and was drawn to the remodel/construction stuff. And of course your plants 
And your remodel/construction is AWESOME!
Heyyy now you’re talkin’, I’m already getting ideas on how to rig up something like that. Gimme some time to whip up a protocol and I’ll do some disinfectant runs against algae. I’m curious about it’s survival as well.
Hello @G-paS! 
For the airstones in the bottom of each Ebb&Flow bucket.
Cloners are AMAZING!
Thank you for the kind words, friend!
I’m glad to know you’re getting something out of it!
My Garbage Girls appreciate it, too!
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WHAB
I am curious as to what you derive at! No rush, though…H202 has been keeping them alive and growing this long!
I’m prepared to use bleach or pool shock, IF I have to! 
Thanks, man!
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WHAB
That is what I thought how many can that monster run?
12, friend.
I only have 6 5 gallon buckets setup to run now but I have another 6 5 gallon buckets in reserve that I could run. I just have to process them out for the 3/4 inch Fill/Drain Bulkhead Fittings.
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WHAB
This just got a ‘little’ more difficult. I’ve been having to work with what is there. Forced compliance is in effect! . Pulling here, pulling there, prying over here, clamping there (multiple clamps at once in multiple directions!)…etc.
I just discovered the 4x4 I am building around is not attached at the bottom. I just attached the what I thought was miss-measured stud (but turned out not to be) in place and clamping it on the bottom, besides it being twisted, it moved You can see in the picture showing the floor the screw I put in to the blocking so I could grab it with my claw hammer and twist in to place - the 4x4 moved.
I still haven’t figured out why the 4x4s are where they are, except that I was told recently that full stairs to the loft were planned and those stairs were supposed to go in between those 4x4s and the wall - which makes a little bit of sense.
I have been contemplating moving the 4x4s to the wall and clear the floor space for a while now. I haven’t done that because I don’t know if there is proper support for that under the floor. I suspect there is not. And, I had to get this modification done now. Moving those ‘can’ wait. Moving them or building new supports and cut those out. I suspect that is the route that will be required.
But, it’s forcing me to build around everything.
I’ve been doing this work around to work around.
Now, I’m very near to the end of the wall. You can see that the last “stud” as it was originally installed only goes to the top of the floor joists and side-nailed to the ledger. I can’t take a stud to the ceiling without removing that partial stud first. Or, I can cut a stud to fit under the ledger first, then remove that stud and carry it up to the header. I suspect I’ll have to stop and start that stud like I had to do for the others :frown:
It might have been easier just to tear it all down and start fresh!
Oh, those 2x4s running horizontally in the last pictures is what my Niece’s daughter used to climb up to the loft where her bed was. Being that she was rather young and healthy it was probably not a problem for her and seemed adventurous to any young mind - the “rungs” are spaced way too far apart than they needed to be and spacing them just a little closer would have made her ascent at least a little easier. They were quite a step for me, spaced too far apart. It was even a step for this high-stepper!
Now I have to puzzle this work around.
Good morning!
Make it a great day!
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WHAB
After puzzling over it for a bit, I concluded that last partial stud was ONLY there to nail the far too spaced apart rungs going up to the kid’s fort! (a la Deran! (Deran a great MPG member!))
It doesn’t make sense for it to have been anything else. It’s not supporting the weight of the loft floor joists, the support beams attached to the 4x4s and the ledger on the wall is providing all the support those joists needed.
I ripped it out. It presents some other problems, though. Problems as in, I can’t put a stud directly under the ledger as there is original 1924 base trim down there. And, above there is electrical conduit installed.
I think I’ll run a full length stud from the floor to the header and add blocking (shims) in a few spots along its length and tapcon through it all and into the lath&stucco (cement) wall, going around the base trim and the conduit. I see a few tapcons in the ledger now but I don’t think there are nearly enough but, as mentioned, it’s not supporting any weight, the 4x4s and its double beams are.
I would have liked to have been done by now but that is just not how this is working out.
I could barely move when I got done last night.
I’ll be happy to be done with this up and down crap! Climbing up, climbing down, kneeling down, standing up…that shit is for the birds!
Getting that header up there by myself should prove to be a lot of fun! I’ve already been gaming it out - starting with some scrap screwed to the opposite side of the studs to catch the header and at least it won’t fall off the other side while I’m trying to lift it into place - and I think I can get it done! 
That is all, for now.
Make it a great day!
Time for a 
!
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WHAB
Wow!
I was just up in the grow space in the loft to feed the Wee Ones and it’s getting CRAZY in there! The one tall Garbage Girl has scorched leafs where it got too close to the light. I just raised the light. Once I get the cage in place I’ll lower it back down again.
I couldn’t even see the Wee Ones. I did feed them but it wasn’t easy. I had to pretty much assume where they were! I did see the edge of the one in the Perlite as the White stood out!
These girls are MONSTROUS!
No pictures because even I know MH pictures are just plain ugly!
But, WOW!
I am going to ‘have to’ tied them down once I get them in their new homes!
Good morning!,
WHAB
I’m sure they are beautiful.
Yeah the pump is not THAT loud lol. Compared to the Active Aqua it is. My tent is in my bedroom. Where I spend all of my time. So you can see how the noise would bother me. I’m going to run air lines from my closet to my tent. I should be able to deal with a little hum from the closet. Dose your pump come with 8 or 12 ports for the air lines.
I really like those airstone tho. They are nice for the price.
Good morning @LilJonB!
My external transfer pump on my Res is about 10 feet from where I bed down. It used to wake me up. But, it seems I’ve adjusted to the sound. And it’s loud, relatively.
One of the first times it came on I was at my desk and was sort of napping (I can’t sleep sitting up, just closing my eyes - I was wiped out) and I jumped up out of my office chair and ran to the Reservoir thinking something had gone wrong! Nothing was wrong, just shockingly noisy
This pump has a 12 port manifold.
Yeah, they are nice airstones. How do you clean yours, Lil Jon?
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WHAB
Lights Out pictures…Family Photos.
It looks like it’s Veg Day 43 (is that possible? :loony:)
They’re too big to get individual pictures.
Saggy Sally is still Saggy and the 2 other taller plants are a ‘little’ saggy.
Then ugly MH picture right before Lights Out - just because. Just a reminder of how ugly MH pictures are! .
And, I moved the remote sensor when I was in there just to see what the temps are right in front of the A/C (where I plan to put the Controller and possibly the Reservoir) and for some reason it’s not communicating with the hub - Yellow tab on left (it’s like traffic lights, Green, Yellow, Red). 
.
I just reset the hub while I was sitting here and it’s communicating again!
Gonna get back at it!
I wish I had a little bit of a taller space
Make it a great day!
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WHAB
They are very Very big! Oh my! What are you going to do when you flip? Your taking a lot of clones I’m sure.
