New Grower donkeykong's grow cabinet

yes, sort of... I just used regular pots but they are sat on top of some display turntables that I got online. Three of the plants are one their own turntables and 2 are sharing one table using a base I made to locate the two pots on.
seems to be doing a fair job of what I wanted so far since the plants look like they are developing equally well all round :)
 
yes, sort of... I just used regular pots but they are sat on top of some display turntables that I got online. Three of the plants are one their own turntables and 2 are sharing one table using a base I made to locate the two pots on.
seems to be doing a fair job of what I wanted so far since the plants look like they are developing equally well all round :)

Cool idea mate ive a set of Technics I dont use you got me thinking :D
 
also, at 45rpm you wont need to train the branches to spread em wide :)
 
steady progress, they are looking more lush by the day :)

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:thread: :five: those photo updates = next level! :booya:

loving the improvements and the DJ turntables! :dance: :dig:

keep it up DK :slap: :smokebuds:
 
thanks !!!!

you know I almost felt bad since everyone is having to apologise for their pics not being as "worked on". but it doesn't take so long if you know where you're going and I've done a fair amount of stuff in my days from DTP to site design, cms systems, software engineering... stuff is at hand so its easy. I had half a mind to make either a little guide or youtube vid to show how to do it similar with simple, common, or free software. haven't had any more time to consider if its useful or worth doing, but I thought it would more helpful rather than just "showing off" :)

i'll make another update tmrw on the progress.
also in the background I've started researching the electronics behind measuring EC, pH, CO2 and started up a project designing a PCB to actively control my V2 cabinet. Im thinking DWC, that opens up a whole lot of fun and I think I got some neat ideas.... will create a new thread for it soon maybe !
 
Is the Afghan Mass still the front runner of the batch? And the ladies are looking real healthy good work bro
 
Afghan mass is looking like it getting back in there.

When I checked it on the 20th , it was looking like this , not so bad.
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But by 22nd, it was looking pretty miserable with things ;
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I noticed the other plant most affected was also the second largest, 60 day wonder. It was starting to get yellowy too, but not limp like AAM. The other three smaller plants were pretty much fine yet, so I figured my keeping it lean on nutrients was backfiring.
Im using water pH'd at 6.0

After this I changed from the canna start at EC of 1.1mS to canna vega part a & b, and EC stepped up to 1.4 then 1.6. Immediately gave AAM and 60DW a really good soak though with this stronger solution, and been keeping them well watered. I guesse with the limited pot size of 32oz, feeding probably best needs to be done little and often.
Removed the yellowest leaves from the bottom of the plants also, the ones that look beyond repair.

On 23rd, AAM had pepped up a bit, not as limp but still looking under the weather;
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24th
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25th
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26th
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sometimes when you look so often you do question yourself if its really looking better or worse , so just assembling that sequence it looks like its back on the road to recovery.

The whole crew now look like this, AAM and 60DW id like to recover to nice green hopefully within a few days. Right now they are on a mix of canna vega and canna flora, 60/40 ish and EC up to 1.6mS , I thought I would start changing over soon to the flowering stuff.

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made myself a little test EC probe, using some gold plated pins. these are normally used in electronics manufacturing test or production fixtures, quite expensive but I had some lying around for many years. should have a good weight of gold on them since they are made for repetitive use. little tub of 40 or so cost like £140 or something of that order some years ago !

trying the "common" 555 timer based circuit first, I like it since it keeps the components involved less, and has less trimmers to adjust but converting the conductivity to freq and then measuring it with a microprocessor. not working perfectly well yet, I have some drifting in the reading over time, need to investigate more.

probably will get one of the EC kits from Atlas Scientific so I have a lab grade probe and calibration kit to compare to. that will be very useful to make sure my probes are working well.

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I'm glad they bounced back bro seems like everything going on the right track again. What kinda gadget are you going to come up with next lol keepem coming you have some good ideas :smokebuds:
 
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