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 MrSleep
P. Cubensis
Registered: 04/05/03
Posts: 804
Last seen: 19 years, 5 months
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 Re: Poor mans Pod  [Re: Bigcaps]
#1840064 - 08/22/03 09:34 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Did you just honestly ask what the dome was for? Wow. "Hey check out my new car, yeah, not sure what these big round rubber things on the bottom are, but pretty fucking cool eh? Let's take it for a spin".
Anyways, awesome pod, you got that dome in Wal-Mart eh? Plant section? I've seen similar ones in "decor" sections of department stores-so fill me in please. You said Wally World Pod so I'm verifying. Also, are those two pictures results of your hydroponic dabbling? lol.
-Mr.Sleep
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Anonymous
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 Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: MrSleep]
#1840159 - 08/22/03 10:05 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
MrSleep said:
Did you just honestly ask what the dome was for? Wow.
i think he meant where did he get the dome from.
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Kidnasty2001
Newbie
Registered: 01/29/03
Posts: 11
Loc: Oregon
Last seen: 16 years, 5 months
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: ]
#1840483 - 08/22/03 11:39 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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You can make the dome from flour and water, all available at wal-mart, just mix and mold!
or
got to www.charleysgreenhouse.com they,re about $8 a piece, now the rest truly is from ol' sam.
Edited by Kidnasty2001 (08/22/03 11:41 AM)
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jqpindahouse
Stranger
Registered: 03/14/03
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Has anyone actually tried to use lava rocks?? If lava rocks can be used in place of geo-lite/expanded clay, then why would ANYONE pay the big bucks for the clay, since lava rocks are dirt cheap.
$40 for 45 litres of Hydroton as compared to only a few bucks for the equivalent in lava rocks.
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yukibeing
virus with shoes
Registered: 08/09/03
Posts: 91
Loc: Milky Way Galaxy
Last seen: 20 years, 7 months
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I'm using half hydroton and half lava rocks (couldn't afford more hydroton) right now and its going great. The only thing that hydroton has over lava rocks is it's shape. Hydroton is spherical and each particle (pebble) falls into place better when piled up, leaving minimal voids between them. This makes it possible to get more of a wider dispersion of tiny bubbles around the cakes, rather than larger bubbles popping in fewer places out of larger gaps. Larger bubbles also tend to splash when they pop and splashing is bad around cakes. Also, the hydroton (or geolite) levels out more easily for level cakes. Of course, this is just MY observation. Magash or some other more experienced person may have a better answer.
But, like I said, I'm using lava rocks and they're working fine so far. 
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BatFly
captain obvious
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 375
Last seen: 7 years, 3 months
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i'd like to know more on this as well!!!
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 LiL_KuSsH
Lost In The Trip
Registered: 05/07/03
Posts: 3,001
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#1846508 - 08/24/03 08:01 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Magash
Da Bud Guru
Registered: 07/25/02
Posts: 5,876
Loc: Near Hilo
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: LiL_KuSsH]
#1846580 - 08/24/03 08:25 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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From what I've seen lava rocks seem to work as well as the geolite as far as performance goes. Geolite and Hydroton only have shape (explaned above) and weight. They are at least 4 times as heavy and tend to dust up a little more.
So to sum it up lava rock is just fine for using in the pod. Hell it may be a decent alternative to perlite in some of the other setups around here.
Remember broken up bricks work to.........
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Bigcaps
I am not notusing drugs.
Registered: 08/09/03
Posts: 175
Loc: Let me die in my hole
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: Magash]
#1846961 - 08/24/03 10:51 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I found that broken up ceramic plates work good too
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shroomstruck
member
Registered: 08/06/03
Posts: 185
Last seen: 20 years, 22 days
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: Bigcaps]
#1847060 - 08/24/03 11:28 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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After searching in vein all weekend for geolite or hydrotron it's good to hear there are some cheaper alternatives.
Are lava rocks used for aquariums?
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DanKnugget
Mysterious Traveller
Registered: 07/15/03
Posts: 1,074
Loc: On a boat
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^^^cheaper alternative^^^
break some ceramic plates.
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2. Jobs are for losers.
3. Reading is for people with nothing better to do.
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Ped
Interested In Your Brain
Registered: 08/30/99
Posts: 5,494
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
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Good to hear of some alternatives. Perlite is the most messy, clogging, sloshing, splashing, all around annoying bullshit I've ever had to graple with. I'd rather root a cactus with my bare hands.
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Anonymous
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: BatFly]
#1847831 - 08/25/03 09:09 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
BatFly said:
i'd like to know more on this as well!!!
hydroton is lava rocks coated in clay
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BatFly
captain obvious
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 375
Last seen: 7 years, 3 months
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: ]
#1848139 - 08/25/03 11:38 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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i wrote that ^^^^ ,what you quoted, as yukibeing was writing his reply which he posted 2 min eairlier. i didn't see it cause i just hit the index link rihgt after i posted it. so it was to be above any of those replies. right below jqpindahouse first question about it.
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Anonymous
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: BatFly]
#1858922 - 08/28/03 12:36 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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sorry mate, i made a few fuckups with the quote thingy and just realized i had to make sure the Quote:
thingy was last before replying.
i think i did it to a few more people.....sorry to those too.
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Anonymous
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: ]
#1916218 - 09/14/03 06:11 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Has anyone used "Aquatic plant soil" as an alt to Perlite in the Poor mans pod tek.
It's a mineral fire kilned to a ceramic. Looks like a small brown gravel. I ask because i am having a hell of a time finding Perlite. (did not have this problem last year)
The Perlite i am finding is enriched with Miracle Gro.
Don't Know if this would be good or bad.
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DanKnugget
Mysterious Traveller
Registered: 07/15/03
Posts: 1,074
Loc: On a boat
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Re: Poor mans Pod [Re: ]
#1916361 - 09/14/03 07:10 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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don't double post! 
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1. School is for people who don't know stuff.
2. Jobs are for losers.
3. Reading is for people with nothing better to do.
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MolokoVelocet
thought criminal
Registered: 03/08/03
Posts: 17
Last seen: 13 years, 10 months
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Hi. Patents are published by the US Patent Office and are available online. Patents are not trade secrets. Everyone gets to see your patent. One of the requirements of a patent is that it must teach any person versed in the art how to make the device being patented. So. the Hydrapod? folks know you know how to make a damned Hydropod? and don't care.
They do have the right to sue someone if they start manufacturing and selling their patented device. You're not doing that if you reverse-engineer a Hydropod?, and you're not doing that if you make one for yourself.
If you had signed some kind of licensing agreement or contract with Hydrapod? not to reverse engineer their product or reveal trade secrets/details of it's manufacture, you might be sued for breach of contract. However, once trade secrets are discovered by the general public, a company has no claim on them as "secrets" any more. Even nondisclosure agreements only apply to stuff not yet known to the public and not known to competitors.
Presumably selling a product allows anyone to see how it's made, so there can be no possible trade secret claim to a bucket full of clay balls with a dome over it once someone has sold one.
You guys are safe. Go build shroom incubators or something.
-MolokoVelocet
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Kttail
DragonDreamer
Registered: 09/15/03
Posts: 114
Loc: S. Oregon Coast , USA
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Wow!!! Talk about a wealth of knowledge.
I would definitely suggest that a person would gain a lot from reading this thread from beginning to end!!
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In the affairs of Dragons.
For thou art crunchy,
and tasty with catsup."
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TRS
The SneakyMastermind
Registered: 10/13/03
Posts: 378
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Re: Poor mans pod. [Re: Kttail]
#2006993 - 10/13/03 11:26 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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i just read this from start to finish. im at the stage where im going to make a terranium and ive decided to make one of these because if i can just leave it to do its thing and not have to keep checking up on it itd make life a whole lot easier. i have two questions though. the first is how loud is this setup, i have people over all the time and this is one of those things you dont want people to know about. the second isnt really about the pod. i was going to set a 18w cool white CF above the pod on a timer to turn on for an hour every four hours as soon as the cakes go into the pod. when should i stop the lighting, after mushrooms start to grow or do i just leave it to turn on/off all the time?
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