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HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
Well...wifey and I went up to the Grow Haus Sunday morning. Leaving at 6 am, I was full of coffee and excitement, with just a touch of apprehension since I had yet to see the full Phase One show in action.
I was confident I had everything right. I took my time on this build and it should be flawless. Three hours of driving and finally pulled into the driveway. The house wasn't a pile of ashes...so far so good.
Entering the grow room I glanced over at the one ventilation opening in the tent. A chill went through me...no lights on, and right now they should be blazing. I unzipped the tent and there everybody was, seemingly just fine. But I had an eerie sense something was wrong. The lights should have been on until noon and it was only 9 am. The plants looked fine except I noticed the centers of every one were considerably lighter green than the dark green hues everywhere else. I figured the PH probably drifted pretty high in five days and ascribed it probably to something like that.
I had to figure out what happened so I went into the main control room and looked at the timers. They both seemed fine, they looked the same as when I left them a week ago. Then it hit me...they WERE the same. The exact same. The power switch for the power strip was not on! Shit!!
So my plants have gone 6 days in total darkness. Brifly putting aside the feeling of abject stupidity, I quickly examined the plants. Other than all the little centers being a lot lighter green, the plants look amazingly great. Obviously nature might produce such a phenomenon occasionally, maybe a five or six-day storm system or something but it is surprising how apparently well they took it. I reset the timers and balanced the reservoir. Maybe it will all be all right.
At least my ebb-and-flow system is fully operational...it filled and drained 27 times by my count and not a drop of leakage anywhere! In fact, other than the smallest possible oversight (leaving lights off for a freaking week) I felt extremely pleased that my build is so good. This system is sound and we are off to the races, albeit a week later than we planned. Hey. what's a week anyway?
Things can always be a lot worse...if such a thing had happened during flowering it would have cost me a month and probably a lot of yield...this time it was simply a hiccup I hope. If they all regain their dark color in a few days and get growing again we'll be fine. Hell, stupidity is often unaffordable, so this time the small price of a week's growth is probably a bargain. I sat burning a J of Blueberry from two crops ago and chuckling at myself. Some big-time grower I am...I can't even remember to turn on the lights!
I can't even share a picture because I left my phone on the table up there. I'm returning tomorrow morning to begin the build on Phase Two. And probably return a lot of calls...
Peace, Hyena
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
Well...wifey and I went up to the Grow Haus Sunday morning. Leaving at 6 am, I was full of coffee and excitement, with just a touch of apprehension since I had yet to see the full Phase One show in action.
I was confident I had everything right. I took my time on this build and it should be flawless. Three hours of driving and finally pulled into the driveway. The house wasn't a pile of ashes...so far so good.
Entering the grow room I glanced over at the one ventilation opening in the tent. A chill went through me...no lights on, and right now they should be blazing. I unzipped the tent and there everybody was, seemingly just fine. But I had an eerie sense something was wrong. The lights should have been on until noon and it was only 9 am. The plants looked fine except I noticed the centers of every one were considerably lighter green than the dark green hues everywhere else. I figured the PH probably drifted pretty high in five days and ascribed it probably to something like that.
I had to figure out what happened so I went into the main control room and looked at the timers. They both seemed fine, they looked the same as when I left them a week ago. Then it hit me...they WERE the same. The exact same. The power switch for the power strip was not on! Shit!!
So my plants have gone 6 days in total darkness. Brifly putting aside the feeling of abject stupidity, I quickly examined the plants. Other than all the little centers being a lot lighter green, the plants look amazingly great. Obviously nature might produce such a phenomenon occasionally, maybe a five or six-day storm system or something but it is surprising how apparently well they took it. I reset the timers and balanced the reservoir. Maybe it will all be all right.
At least my ebb-and-flow system is fully operational...it filled and drained 27 times by my count and not a drop of leakage anywhere! In fact, other than the smallest possible oversight (leaving lights off for a freaking week) I felt extremely pleased that my build is so good. This system is sound and we are off to the races, albeit a week later than we planned. Hey. what's a week anyway?
Things can always be a lot worse...if such a thing had happened during flowering it would have cost me a month and probably a lot of yield...this time it was simply a hiccup I hope. If they all regain their dark color in a few days and get growing again we'll be fine. Hell, stupidity is often unaffordable, so this time the small price of a week's growth is probably a bargain. I sat burning a J of Blueberry from two crops ago and chuckling at myself. Some big-time grower I am...I can't even remember to turn on the lights!
I can't even share a picture because I left my phone on the table up there. I'm returning tomorrow morning to begin the build on Phase Two. And probably return a lot of calls...
Peace, Hyena
. Probably not cause you know, nature ever gets up in the 90s or higher! Someone's journal...hell could have been you, I can't keep them straight anymore....was hitting temps in veg of 110. Not something I would recommend...but they had minimal negative effects from that high of temps. 
