DabLab Reloaded-- back to vertville

[Ichabod Crane]

No I do two times a minute in three 280 CF rooms. But my RH out side is probably around 45%-50%. And I might be at about a elevation of 500 feet. Let's face it I am in a better growing local.

How tall are those ppk trees in the photos?

 

[DabOnDabs]

No I do two times a minute in three 280 CF rooms. But my RH out side is probably around 45%-50%. And I might be at about a elevation of 500 feet. Let's face it I am in a better growing local.

How tall are those ppk trees in the photos?

The 8 Citrix are about 3' tall... ~4' off the floor

The big HB is about 6 feet tall, ~7' off the floor, and the smaller one is about 5 feet tall.

The nets didnt even get close to filled. Looking at about 50%+/- empty space.

 

[mr. gt]

looking good dabs. I fucking hate that honey boo boo bitch on tv tho.... smoke her for me wont ya. (that might've come out a bit weird)


~mr. gt

 

[Ichabod Crane]

How much height do you have?

How long did they veg?

 

[bobblehead]

Ime most growers don't humidify. Most others I've talked to try to keep humidity as low as possible throughout the grow. That's something DHF taught me for real... long before the bullshit. Even on the forums most aren't concerned with increasing humidity. Later in flower my plants generate enough humidity on their own transpiring... but the first 4-5 weeks it's crucial to have foggers running, especially in higher wattage grows, imo. Yield is dramatically effected.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

What do you recommend for the first 4-5 weeks?

 

[bobblehead]

What do you recommend for the first 4-5 weeks?

Increasing humidity with pond foggers... you being so close to the lake it might not be necessary. I didn't have foggers at my lake house and I got by... but getting humidity 10% under the temperature F produces the best veg growth ime.

 

[DabOnDabs]

Ime most growers don't humidify. Most others I've talked to try to keep humidity as low as possible throughout the grow. That's something DHF taught me for real... long before the bullshit. Even on the forums most aren't concerned with increasing humidity. Later in flower my plants generate enough humidity on their own transpiring... but the first 4-5 weeks it's crucial to have foggers running, especially in higher wattage grows, imo. Yield is dramatically effected.

Im almost 100% convinced that running barebulbs only makes this more necessary. Sure you may be able to get away without foggers when you're using hoods... Alot of the heat is sucked away from the bulb, and out of the grow, and the bulb is shielded from the environment by a huge piece of glass...

In my rooms, my humidity gets fucking nuked by 12k of barebulb. My first grow in this room, I thought if there was enough foliage, I would be able to keep the RH up. WRONG. I used 3 5 head foggers, and hourly spraying water on the floor and walls to keep my RH up last year. It still wasnt enough. I noticed significantly better yields when running perpetual in my big room. The Buds from half the room were enough to keep the other half above 50% through stretch...

But still, we need 70%, not 50%...

More foggers are on the way.. I will be running 30 ultrasonic fogger heads as soon as they arrive. Hopefully that will be enough (and stretch will be about over by that point)

 

[Miraculous Meds]

What do you recommend for the first 4-5 weeks?

70% rh, till the buds swell and there is a greater chance of bud rot, then down to 50% for safeties sake. But my environment usually runs closer to 70% almost all the way through. At least it spikes to that level, and I never get bud rot. But ive got air exchange galore.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

70% rh, till the buds swell and there is a greater chance of bud rot, then down to 50% for safeties sake. But my environment usually runs closer to 70% almost all the way through. At least it spikes to that level, and I never get bud rot. But ive got air exchange galore.

Yeh that is the same as me. About 60-80% and little to no bud rot. Maybe it is the amount of plant mass in my set up. 5-6 six foot tall plants in 280 cubic foot at the start of flower.

 

[doctor.dank]

Yo dabs my recommendation to you is skip the pond foggers all together. Get a hydro fogger from hydrofogger.com. get the full size (not the mini) and you won't regret it. Much more reliable and efficient. They use 50 watts to put out 1.2 gallons per hour. A pond fogger uses 300 watts to do that. They also make a self cleaning model but it's a bit steep.

 

[DabOnDabs]

Thats pretty much what i got man, the foggers butt rape the commercial humidifiers all day long

 

[doctor.dank]

I beg to differ. These use centrifugal force via a motorized fan instead of vibrations created with the heads on a pond fogger. So far every pond fogger I have owned has decreased in output substantially after only a few weeks of use. Maybe I've just gotten unlucky with pond foggers but I've owned over a dozen different ones ranging from 3 heads up to 12 heads and they all get real hot, use a lot of power, decrease in output or break all together. Just my experience. If you are having good luck with them than that's great (where do you source them? Maybe ill try them) but I just purchased 3 of the hydrofoggers (1 mini fogger) and they have been working great so far and use way less power, like 250 watts less, which is a huge plus when you are running one or more per room.

 

[bobblehead]

Life of the discs varies... any sediment in the reservoir will ruin them. Non-stop use will cause the discs to get hot and crack. If the fogger is big enough to not have to run constantly the discs will last a while. I used to keep replacement discs on hand. Thanks for reminding me to order some!

I bet the hydrofoggers are a nice unit, just a higher upfront cost.

 

[DabOnDabs]

I beg to differ. These use centrifugal force via a motorized fan instead of vibrations created with the heads on a pond fogger. So far every pond fogger I have owned has decreased in output substantially after only a few weeks of use. Maybe I've just gotten unlucky with pond foggers but I've owned over a dozen different ones ranging from 3 heads up to 12 heads and they all get real hot, use a lot of power, decrease in output or break all together. Just my experience. If you are having good luck with them than that's great (where do you source them? Maybe ill try them) but I just purchased 3 of the hydrofoggers (1 mini fogger) and they have been working great so far and use way less power, like 250 watts less, which is a huge plus when you are running one or more per room.

Any way youd be willing to post a video or a picture of the thing in action? Granted, i got the .4 gallon per hour ones from sunlight supply, not the hydrofogger.. but even if the one i got worked three times as well, i might say it would work about as well as my best fogger box. Would love to see a video tho

 

[DabOnDabs]

Daylight savings really fucked with me this am.

 

[mojave green]

my fogger sits in my ro rez.

 

[DabOnDabs]

What fogger is that?

 

[mojave green]

a 6 disc one...

a 6 disc one...

 

[DabOnDabs]

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Looks good to me...

I have pretty much the same thing going on...