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Uncle Squibby
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TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept
#14699569 - 06/30/11 11:06 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Okay, well... I came up with a cheap homemade TEK that is based on the mono-tub TEK... using a 3 liter bottle as a micro terrarium for 2 stacked cakes... I've done a bit of measuring for a closet grow and found that I could fit about 8 3 liter bottles on a single closet shelf, so 16 cakes... My theory is that this method would keep contam well contained to individual cakes, with there being little chance that a contam could infect a neighboring terrarium... I'm up for any input or discussion, I think its a worthy concept, but it very well might not be..
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Uncle Squibby
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Uncle Squibby]
#14699597 - 06/30/11 11:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Simply cut bottles in half and add a few inches of perlite and a couple small holes to the bottom and add a couple of filtered holes in the top half for the ebb & flow FAE and just add the cakes and tape around the middle and fruit...
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Doc_T
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Uncle Squibby]
#14699613 - 06/30/11 11:14 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you build a correct shotgun FC, put in colonized uncontaminated cakes, and treat it per the tek, contams aren't an issue.
Those old teks are full of contams because they didn't understand FAE.
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Doc_T]
#14699641 - 06/30/11 11:20 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: Those old teks are full of contams because they didn't understand FAE.
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Uncle Squibby
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Doc_T]
#14699654 - 06/30/11 11:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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actually, these would all really be just bunch of miniature shotguns... With my schedule I'm usually trying to minimize involvement as much as I can... at times I've used a hospital O2 tank with a nasal canula set on 1 LT per hr... but I dont have access to those things anymore
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Doc_T]
#14700079 - 07/01/11 02:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: If you build a correct shotgun FC, put in colonized uncontaminated cakes, and treat it per the tek, contams aren't an issue.
Those old teks are full of contams because they didn't understand FAE.
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Doc_T]
#14700102 - 07/01/11 02:15 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: If you build a correct shotgun FC, put in colonized uncontaminated cakes, and treat it per the tek, contams aren't an issue.
Those old teks are full of contams because they didn't understand FAE.
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Uncle Squibby
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: ISOfantastic]
#14703910 - 07/01/11 08:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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you know, what you guys keep insisting on quoting isn't really what I'm going for here... I'm not looking for " do it the only good way noob " I was kinda just looking for technical input on the theory itself... all I seem to get is " what's the point if its not the 'right' way "... what I want to know is: If it's going to fail, then why? would the hypothesis about contam spreading be held up? but no, I get " If you weren't a noob you wouldn't have to worry about contams. " really... thanks..... oh, and I do know and often use the "proper" way... so any more of that quote is just redundant...
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Uncle Squibby]
#14703958 - 07/01/11 08:57 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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It sounds simple enough to run a test. Why not give it a shot and then post back with results? Wouldn't really be a lot of time wasted, because at the very least, you will have satisfied your own curiosity.
I am not very experienced myself, so as to the quality of concept, I cannot say for sure.
As a side note, I have noticed that on these forums, if you have proof of results (success or failure) using whatever method/improvisation you came up with, you get a better response.
Go for it man.
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Uncle Squibby]
#14704014 - 07/01/11 09:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Uncle Squibby said: you know, what you guys keep insisting on quoting isn't really what I'm going for here... I'm not looking for " do it the only good way noob " I was kinda just looking for technical input on the theory itself... all I seem to get is " what's the point if its not the 'right' way "... what I want to know is: If it's going to fail, then why? would the hypothesis about contam spreading be held up? but no, I get " If you weren't a noob you wouldn't have to worry about contams. " really... thanks..... oh, and I do know and often use the "proper" way... so any more of that quote is just redundant...
I understand what you mean, I have used pop bottles as FC they do rather well, I simply just cut the bottle right about the Label line and trim the top of the bottle down just a little bit so it fits snug into the bottom. Don't drill holes just loosen then cap some. Add enough Perlite to reach the bottom of the label mist/fan a few times a day and your set.
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Druid]
#14704022 - 07/01/11 09:10 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Also 100% colonized cakes are pretty contam resistant, so need to worry about that. But that would be true, having many FC's would help keep down Trich and it spreading. Good luck bro Should work great for you, good vibes!
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anonjon
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Uncle Squibby]
#14704067 - 07/01/11 09:21 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Uncle Squibby said: I was kinda just looking for technical input on the theory itself...
Cakes stacked on top of each other don't do well, cuz typically the bottom sucks the moisture out of the top and you don't get as much pinning as you would have seen from the cakes fruited individually.
I'm not theorizing, I'm just offering you my observations over the length of my 10 years of experience. At one point I tried making a christmas tree of sorts out of cakes, but the pinning is just sub-par when the cakes are melded together vertically in any way.
Apart from that, tho you are grandizing yourself a bit suggesting that this is a tek or even a tek in the making. A tek is written after you have actually tried it out and worked the kinks out. It's a semantic thing. Just sayin.
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anonjon
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: anonjon]
#14704086 - 07/01/11 09:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Food for thought. Why bother with perlite?
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Edited by anonjon (07/01/11 09:28 PM)
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Uncle Squibby
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: anonjon]
#14704136 - 07/01/11 09:41 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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there's a bit behind all that actually..... I've been in about a 2 year spell of being unemployed and flat broke... and have been looking forward to my next grow and have had lots of time to think about things to do while not being able to actually try them... and adding more minds to the equation helps... In a few months I go back to school and will be able to actually try and document this...
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anonjon
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Re: TEK I came up with, wondering about the concept [Re: Uncle Squibby]
#14704181 - 07/01/11 09:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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In that case man why not apply your enthusiasm towards something with more potential for yield. Learn to make spawn. It's the natural next step. Cakes are so silly when you look at yield versus prep time.
With spawn u can do just bout nething. You put it in something and mushrooms come out of it.
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Edited by anonjon (07/01/11 09:48 PM)
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