Places to dry your harvest...

BloodShotI'z

I think it was a little over $200. Not sure...She did all the pricing for it.

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Mogie

Anyone else's buds dry too fast when they hang them?

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BloodShotI'z

Mine did...But it was my fault because I had a fan blowing diretly on the buds instead of just circulating the air in the closet.

My fault.

But a good enough excuse to convince my ole' lady that I need a new drying area.

So bad of me....

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tokecrazy

I do mind in cardbroad boxes.cut flaps in the ends and lace strings a cross the top of the box to hang the bud on.Then close the top flaps and a peace of tape to hold close.Mogie you would have to get a refrigerator box.You can screw and glue strips of wood to the sides as racks and make some frames with sreen stapled to the frames and put bud on and slide them in.Plastic door with velcro,vent it and your done.I like that drying tent bloodshotiz how big of a one you going to get.ISO you should put the plans up for us to see.I'am like shaman,pixs please. PEACE

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Mogie

That tent is nice!!!!

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ISO2BWELL

I'll try to get this project finished tomorrow. Had a "slight mishap" in the grow room today.

Seems duing a particularly powerful gust of wind during a storm today (guessing 55mph) we also had an apparent power surge. I never even saw the lights flicker, but the ballast passed through a damn high spike to the socket/lamp.

All I heard was what sounded like a transformer going, and the lamp inside the air-cooled and SAFETY glass covered fixture was throwing sparks like a welder! Holy Shit!!

Unplug EVEYTHING, and the lamp base was glowing like a piece of molten metal. I let it cool 15 min. and just for kicks tried to re-fire the lamp...no go, but the ballast was making "unhappy" noises.

I disconnected the ballast, and called the retailer I bought it from. He said to bring it in and he will replace it, along with the lamp. Well, I go to take the lamp out, and it will NOT budge...in fact it broke in my "hands", that being the cardboard square tube that it came in as I didn't want to grab that lamp with bare fingers. Thank God, cause it (glass) went everywhere. I disconnect the fixture, unwired it, and took it to the floor where I ultimately had to use 2 pair of pliers to break loose the remaining metal base of the lamp, and rotate the base to remove. Once I did I was shocked to see that the lamp base had actually WELDED itself into the socket housing!

Housing and ballast went with me on the 120 mile round trip to the hydro store. They tested the ballast and it was operating at near 100% capacity (this is good), and we determined that once the lamp base welded itself to the socket it created a direct short. Fortunately, due to it being a quality ballast (Euro-Systems) the front end of it could handle that return voltage, and no damage was done beyond the lamp and fixture.

The retailer handed me a brand new fixture (boxed), and told me to pick out a replacement lamp (I had paid $119.00 for the Sunmaster MH), BUT, this time instead of going MH I chatted with them a bit and decided (in light of recent discussions here) to go with a 1000W EYE-Hortilux Enhanced HPS. Same price, and Damn does that puppy put out some lumens!

Lamp blew at 1:30, so the plants went to bed 1 1/2 hrs. early tonight, and they were woke up right on time. (finished hanging the new light at 7:02, lights fire normally at 7:03).

I'm excited about this HPS and looking forward to any improved vegging results due to it.

ISO

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BloodShotI'z

That was an episode, ISO. Happy to hear you got it sorted out. That could have gone really badly. The quality ballast helped more than you probably think.

Anyway....Get things settled....And maybe you'll remember to post your drybox build with details.

Man....I just thought about those lovely plants you have....They almost bit the dust.

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ClosetDWC

i dry in a closet on a wire rack then into glass jars
and iso that lamp / bulb you got is my favorite bulb for growing excellent choice!

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ISO2BWELL

You are using the 1000W enhanced HPS for your vegging lamp, too?

They did have an expensive ($175?) lamp that caught my eye, but I didn't feel like experimenting with it. It was THIS ONE from Eye Hortilux


Anyone using that lamp? Looks cool, but don't know how it would perform.

BLOOD: Gonna finish the cabinet today given the time (providing I don't my business stays quiet). I didn't take pics from the start, but can explain everything in the design, and do have a lot of pics of it in the finishing stages.

ISO

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ClosetDWC

no i got rid of the 1000w about 8 months ago and now my 400w is broken so im trying to manage with cfls and a 150 untill after the holidays

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