Mattys first ever Glog "Into the fire" 2019 season

PtMD989 · Mar 4, 2019

I used to have a Northern Pike cassette many years ago. One of the coolest names for a band, eh.

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DWB · Mar 4, 2019

Devv said:
I walked right by tending the BBQ pit.

This is one of the reasons diamondbacks are known as gentleman snakes. They let you get away with a lot if you're innocent.

I walked right by this fairly large one that was laying under a live oak in front of the garage. Never saw it. I backed the Kubota out to do some work and shut it off right beside this snake. As I got off the wrong side of the mow, I saw him. Too late then because I was on the ground. He did nothing but peacefully allow me to put him into a nice garbage can.

Another year,on the first day of spring, I walked through a board gate in a board fence into our front yard and on out to a front pasture to check on the horse watering valve. A nice spring morning and suitable attire was short pants with low work boots. On the way back, while I was still 20 yards from the gate, I saw him. A medium diamondback laying just inside the gate and tucked up nice cozy to the boottom fence board, all curled up and comfy. On my way though the gate, I swung my bare leg within inches of this snake and he never moved a muscle.

But they're not always so generous. One Saturday afternoon our elderly Golden Retriever Christy was lying just inside of that same gate, watching for her mommy to come driving in from shopping. A large diamondback came under the fence and arbitrarily tagged her. I was in my office working and she was about 8' from my window. I heard her scream.That was a $3000 bite and I barely got her to the vet in time.

I later learned why this happened. One of our horses got after this snake and was bitten. The snake was scared and running away. It came out of the west horse pasture, crossed a lane, and ran though our side yard and under the gate. Purely shitass luck for the dog. The horse was okay without treatment but it was many hours later before I discovered his bite.

The snake didn't fare so well. I sentenced him to life imprisonment in a Central Florida venom lab where the bastard lived in a crate, ate hot dogs and was milked for every drop of his highly neurotoxic venom until the day he died.

PtMD989 · Mar 5, 2019

PtMD989 said:
Don’t forget to turn on some Loverboy, Triumph, and some Rush. [emoji41]

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I damn near forgot the most bestest Canadian song ever, Take Off by Bob and Doug Mackenzie with Geddy Lee. [emoji16]

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Walchit · Mar 5, 2019

When I was a kid, my dad had a friend that had found a rattlesnake when it was like 6 inches long. He raised it to be at least 3 feet, then the city found out he had it and made him get it out of the city limits...

So my dad brings home this snake in a rickety wood and glass aquarium with a plywood lid.

He would put the box that the mice came in, down in with the snake, and the snake would curl up in the box to sleep. My dad would take a fireplace poker and slide the opening up against the glass, then use a fireplace shovel to scoop its poop.

One day it got out of the box and was striking up out of the aquarium, I was probably 10. My brother and I ran to the bedroom and got up on the top bunk. I remember looking at the crack on the bottom of the door, thinking it was gonna come for us lol.

After that my dad built this slick ass cage with a trap door for putting mice in. And a more sturdy box to contain him while cleaning. We ended up giving it back to the guy after a few years. It was cool watching it hit mice, but I didn't really miss it.

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

My wife showed me this last night..I will just put the imgur link instead of adding every picture juuuuuust incase some people treat it with distaste.

'Brenda's Beaver Needs A Barber'

https://imgur.com/gallery/u6UtGBN

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

PtMD989 said:
I damn near forgot the most bestest Canadian song ever, Take Off by Bob and Doug Mackenzie with Geddy Lee. [emoji16]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4LoOaAWI

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

Walchit said:
When I was a kid, my dad had a friend that had found a rattlesnake when it was like 6 inches long. He raised it to be at least 3 feet, then the city found out he had it and made him get it out of the city limits...

So my dad brings home this snake in a rickety wood and glass aquarium with a plywood lid.

He would put the box that the mice came in, down in with the snake, and the snake would curl up in the box to sleep. My dad would take a fireplace poker and slide the opening up against the glass, then use a fireplace shovel to scoop its poop.

One day it got out of the box and was striking up out of the aquarium, I was probably 10. My brother and I ran to the bedroom and got up on the top bunk. I remember looking at the crack on the bottom of the door, thinking it was gonna come for us lol.

After that my dad built this slick ass cage with a trap door for putting mice in. And a more sturdy box to contain him while cleaning. We ended up giving it back to the guy after a few years. It was cool watching it hit mice, but I didn't really miss it.

I had a good friend who had a few different snakes...one was a pretty chill smaller type python...he named him Monty and it would just lay around on ya I didn't mind that one...Then he got a couple bigger tree pythons...and they were mean as hell....Not snakes you could bring out and handle but every timewe watched a few episodes of 'The Crocodile Hunter' after some :high:

he would think he was Steve and try to bring these things out AND they would bite him so damn hard.

My dad had all sorts of critters and such when I wsa growing up...had a caiman which he got when it was only aboot 6-7 inches long...by the time he had to get rid of it the damn thing was nearly 4ft or so...had a huge tank he would keep it in and he and his friends would get drunk and play with it...I would wake up to go to school and all my winter mitts were all ripped up from the dumb asses trying to pick it up.

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

Couple quick update shots.......

Here is a small bunch from the top shelf which is all the newer smaller stuff I have on the go atm....couple casualties from getting the too dry treatment. Seems I am going to solve this over crowding problem without actually doing cuts :crazy:

An example of some of the plants I topped a couple weeks ago now......

And just a general idea of how some of the first to germ plants are doing...this bad boy is a Bahemian Goat...seems to have a nice thick stem on it already as well.

Things took abit of a turn the past week or so with me being sick and it has taken some time to get things back in order....Some plants look better then others that is for sure but to this point I think things are going better then I expected considering the early start, I certainly anticipated more issues then I have had.

PaulG · Mar 5, 2019

Great to see you back in the saddle, Matty!

Plants look great. Don't worry aboot losing
a plant. I had several fail to make it through
the start-up season. I always figure on a
small amount of attrition.

Good luck holding the course, eh?

Walchit · Mar 5, 2019

You actually killed some from underwatering? Nice work! I was sick as fuck and let my back up growdown plants sit all day wilted up. Then I noticed some other plants needed watered so I got my ass up and splashed fish juice on them. I ended up just watering everything to gain me a couple days.

And I think our dads would have gotten along really good lol

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

Walchit said:
You actually killed some from underwatering? Nice work! I was sick as f**k and let my back up growdown plants sit all day wilted up. Then I noticed some other plants needed watered so I got my ass up and splashed fish juice on them. I ended up just watering everything to gain me a couple days.

And I think our dads would have gotten along really good lol

I saw you were sick man and I totally feel for ya. Its literally the same thing I had or still have for that matter cept its jsut a stupid cold now that won't seem to go away. Hope you guys all get better dude esp your kid/kids, I hate seeing little ones like that and its harder to medicate them like an adult can.

Yeah things are drying much faster with the extra fans on right now as well some of that stuff is alittle too heavy on the peat moss since I ran outta vermiculate when I was potting those up. I was def over watering as well so trying to get that all figured out and finding that middle ground will take abit.

And dude.....thats why I said months ago we are gonna get along real good...I swear you take the words outta my mouth some days...lol /high five

Ghost Pepper Revolution · Mar 5, 2019

CDNmatt said:
Couple quick update shots.......

Here is a small bunch from the top shelf which is all the newer smaller stuff I have on the go atm....couple casualties from getting the too dry treatment. Seems I am going to solve this over crowding problem without actually doing cuts

An example of some of the plants I topped a couple weeks ago now......

And just a general idea of how some of the first to germ plants are doing...this bad boy is a Bahemian Goat...seems to have a nice thick stem on it already as well.

Things took abit of a turn the past week or so with me being sick and it has taken some time to get things back in order....Some plants look better then others that is for sure but to this point I think things are going better then I expected considering the early start, I certainly anticipated more issues then I have had.

Beautiful plants, so compact and full

:cheers:

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

Thanks Bobo!!

The lights have really worked out....The biggest down side is not being able to raise them up and down with being strips of course, but they seem to give a nice even light through the entire shelf which I believe is making a big difference in nothing being wasted. If I was able to close it off would be sweet but is way too much heat and not enough space as it is for that.

Hows your stuff coming along btw?? Not sure if I have missed your updates or not?

Walchit · Mar 5, 2019

How many drivers do you have running those lights? Sorry if I missed that. I'm curious aboot how much wiring you have too. From here it seems like a ton of strips lol.

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

It works out to aboot 10 full 5m rolls per shelf on the top lighting and maybe 4-5 on the sides at most but most of them are the smaller 3528s which don't really use a ton of wattage or amps.

I have 5 ATX power supplies running the lot wired via series I think it is?? I am no electrician and no I probably could of done things differently but my main aim was to make sure it was safe...not burning down the house was priority #1 you could say then the plants came next.

So its 1 500w...1 400w 2xs 300ws and 1x 250w...now each of those is a combined load including the 5v..3v and the 12v so its actually much smaller..I also wanted to make sure they were not overloaded so I used more then I needed and just hoped the PSUs would only use the power they needed not the entire capacity of the unit its self. Think an issue was how many amps each PSU could put up with as well....Next year I am going to buy a couple real 12v transformers similar to what Jaunitos has running his strips.

Walchit · Mar 5, 2019

You are probably in parallel, all your reds go to red and your blacks go to black? I think thats recommended for a constant voltage driver like we have. I'm not an electrition either, but I've messed with 12v car stereos quite a bit.

I think when you get a constant current driver you figure out how many amps you want to run your strips at, then get the appropriate driver.

Ive been wanting to build a light with some Samsung strips on heatsinks, like the lm561c or 301b is the new one I think. Or the bridgelux strips have good reviews too.

I want to build one that uses about 100 watts and nicely covers a 3'x5' area. But I'm having a hard time pulling the trigger.

CDNmatt · Mar 5, 2019

Yeah your right it would be a parallel rig then.

In the past year there has been a big step in SMDs and your seeing more and more companys jumping on board with new lighting boards and real good quality stuff.

Like even the 7020 and 8520s ect on ebay and Ali express are leaps and bounds better then the strups I haave for instance since they are all korean import smds. This year was more of a trial thing for me, and now that I have seen it work I would and will upgrade to better strips. But for $40 CDN give or take per shelf it was certainly worth doing, mind you I did not have to buy anything to power them either.

Ghost Pepper Revolution · Mar 5, 2019

CDNmatt said:
Thanks Bobo!!

The lights have really worked out....The biggest down side is not being able to raise them up and down with being strips of course, but they seem to give a nice even light through the entire shelf which I believe is making a big difference in nothing being wasted. If I was able to close it off would be sweet but is way too much heat and not enough space as it is for that.

Hows your stuff coming along btw?? Not sure if I have missed your updates or not?

Its coming along, need to update my glog not just the grow down one
Your running a lot of lights on your setup, I could probably learn a thing or two

PtMD989 · Mar 6, 2019

Matty,plants are looking great [emoji106]
Andy, is your car stereo experience installing or quick removal,eh. [emoji16]

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Walchit · Mar 6, 2019

You gotta hook em up in your own car after the quick removal!