Indoor Sweet Skunk Auto & Tangelo Rapido Auto - Kush's Low Budget Grow

[bad dragon bzzz]

very nice job on the light panel.looks the part to.flat white paint is meant to be better at reflecting light than tinfoil,another low cost upgrade if you have a tin knocking around allready.
maybe such thing as a zipper in velcro nowadays.
doing great,keep it up.

 

[Kush]

Thanks for the rep, Archie. I may cover the tin foil with white paper for better light reflection.

 

[Kush]

I will not be seeing my girls for 3 days, so today I gave each plant 750ml of plain water in order to secure that there will be moisture in the soil.

The Tangelo Rapido is definitely flowering now - I counted 12 or more future colas. It is a slow motherfucker - today is day 65 from seed and it is just about starting to flower. Should have been almost ready for harvest by now, but the bitch decided to turn to a photoperiod plant, so there will be at least two more months until it's done.

The Sweet Skunk is totally triched out and is getting frostier with each day. The buds are rather small, though. I hope they will bulk up towards the end of its life.
I figure it will be ready at 90 days from seed, which is around New Year's Eve, i.e. - there's one more month to go.
Don't trust the breeder's promises, folks.


Tangelo Rapido:

And two close up shots of frosty Sweet Skunk buds:

 

[Kush]

Today I decided to build myself a homemade DIY carbon filter. The smell of skunk is just out of control and, like I have mentioned before, two of my neighbors in my apartment building are fucking cops. Not good!
So, being the cheap fuck that I am, I was researching ghetto and low budget carbon filter designs. Finally, I came up with this:

I started by measuring the outside frame of my grow box fan. I am using a PC fan that sits in a square frame and the frame measures 12x12 centimeters.

Then I got myself some cardboard and using a hot glue gun created this box.
It is the body/container of my filter. I made sure that the opening of the box is exactly 12x12 centimeters, so it would fit to my PC fan's frame.

Then I wrapped the cardboard box with duct tape to make it air-tight.

Then I stretched and attached a piece of pantyhose to the bottom of the box using gaffer tape. I also further reinforced the box by completely wrapping it in gaffer tape.

Then I went to the pet store and bought 450 grams of Activated Carbon pellets for fish tanks. I rinsed the coal pellets thoroughly with water to get rid of most of the dust in them. Then I took an old tray and baked the wet pellets in the oven for about 20 minutes to dry them out.

After the pellets were dry and cool to the touch, I poured them in the card box. The pantyhose is now holding them in on the bottom of the box.

I then used gaffer tape to crate a cross hair kind of thing on the bottom of the box - it prevents the pantyhose from forming a "belly" under the weight of the carbon pellets.

After that I installed the filter by sliding it over the PC fan, which is situated on the ceiling of my grow box.

It fit like a glove - very snugly and tight, there was no need of special attachments, the filter stayed attached just by the tight fit. However, I will most probably be securing it with screws, really gotta think of ways to attach it more firmly. Here it is attached:

That is it!
I have no idea whether this thing will work or not, but even if it manages to reduce the smell down to 50%, that still would be something.

--------------------------EDIT-------------------------
I can now confirm that this filter WORKS!
It not only reduces the smell of weed dramatically, but I think it also purifies the air in my room. Lol, not too bad for a $2 project.




And a few shots of my bitches from today:

Tangelo Rapido

Sweet Skunk:

Mandatory Sweet Skunk closeup Frost shot:

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[Dudeski]

Today I decided to build myself a homemade DIY carbon filter. The smell of skunk is just out of control and, like I have mentioned before, two of my neighbors in my apartment building are fucking cops. Not good!
So, being the cheap fuck that I am, I was researching ghetto and low budget carbon filter designs. Finally, I came up with this:

I started by measuring the outside frame of my grow box fan. I am using a PC fan that sits in a square frame and the frame measures 12x12 centimeters.

Then I got myself some cardboard and using a hot glue gun created this box.
It is the body/container of my filter. I made sure that the opening of the box is exactly 12x12 centimeters, so it would fit to my PC fan's frame.
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Then I wrapped the cardboard box with duct tape to make it air-tight.
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Then I stretched and attached a piece of pantyhose to the bottom of the box using gaffer tape. I also further reinforced the box by completely wrapping it in gaffer tape.
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Then I went to the pet store and bought 450 grams of Activated Carbon pellets for fish tanks. I rinsed the coal pellets thoroughly with water to get rid of most of the dust in them. Then I took an old tray and baked the wet pellets in the oven for about 20 minutes to dry them out.

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After the pellets were dry and cool to the touch, I poured them in the card box. The pantyhose is now holding them in on the bottom of the box.
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I then used gaffer tape to crate a cross hair kind of thing on the bottom of the box - it prevents the pantyhose from forming a "belly" under the weight of the carbon pellets.
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After that I installed the filter by sliding it over the PC fan, which is situated on the ceiling of my grow box.
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It fit like a glove - very snugly and tight, there was no need of special attachments, the filter stayed attached just by the tight fit. However, I will most probably be securing it with screws, really gotta think of ways to attach it more firmly. Here it is attached:
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That is it!
I have no idea whether this thing will work or not, but even if it manages to reduce the smell down to 50%, that still would be something.

--------------------------DISCLAIMER-------------------------
Like I said, I don't guarantee if this ghetto filter will work or not, so wait for me to test it first for several days and to post some feedback.





And a few shots of my bitches from today:

Tangelo Rapido
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Sweet Skunk:
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Mandatory Sweet Skunk closeup Frost shot:
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Nike skills! I hope it knocks down the smell for you bud.

 

[Tommy boy]

Man You are all about the diy. I love it

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

nice lil project.fingers crossed.
nice close ups to.
keep er lit.

 

[Kush]

Alright folks, I can now confirm that my DIY Ghetto carbon filter works.
It not only reduces the smell of weed dramatically, but I think it also purifies the air in my room. Lol, not too bad for a $2 project (I only paid $2 for the carbon pellets - all the other materials were for free).

 

[Dudeski]

badass!

 

[Autoflower420]

Both these strains sound fantastic!

Sure ones barneys tangarine dream auto thats my all time favourite smoke tang is so juicy

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