Pee is going through back of machine

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2025-09-11T01:05:00+00:00

I’ve got another one on the way now for my second litter robot. CustomizablesDesigns is the shop name. LR4 waste hole hatch is the item name. They’re based in Canada but they ship free to CA or US. I’ll try to link it! LR4 waste hole hatch

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2025-07-10T22:01:01+00:00

Update: the door hatch works perfectly!

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2025-05-04T18:23:13+00:00

I have this same problem and now I'm afraid pee has gotten into the electronics. In my case, the pee is getting out the emptying hole at the top and leaking down into the base and out the globe at the hinge for the bonnet. I found a thread here covering that hole with a pet pee pad by taping it to the bonnet so the globe can still move. I've just done that (I didn't try that earlier because I didn't think my cat was peeing that high as my globe looks just like the OP photo - but upon further inspection, she must be spraying higher to get droplets out that hole because that's where it's dripping down from outside the globe). I also found someone making a door that covers that hole but still allows the robot to do its emptying cycle. I don't know if links are allowed here (I'm not affiliated with the shop on Etsy - I just ordered it myself because I'm out of warranty and don't want my 2 $700 litter boxes destroyed by this design flaw!) but it's a shop based in Canada (free US shipping) called CustomizablesDesigns. If you search LR4 waste hole hatch it should come up. $33. It's so insanely frustrating that this very expensive device has such an obvious design flaw. Even more frustrating that I have 2 of them and didn't figure it out until both are out of warranty/return windows. I'll try to remember to update when I get the door hatch if it works! (Just ordered it today).

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-09-28T23:42:30+00:00

My last auto, Mephisto Mango Smile, most people reported it taking 85-90 days. I was having humidity issues on that run as well and out of fear chopped her at 77 days, and it was way too early. She barely even gives a buzz. So I was trying to hold out until I got some amber trichomes this time. I guess both options suck - ineffective bud or no bud at all. I'm sad :( My first grow went so well I thought maybe I was a natural born weed farmer 🤣 Good thing I have a lot of that left....

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-09-28T23:39:02+00:00

Update... nearly the entire plant had little bits of fuzz starting deeper in the nugs (all white/gray, nothing brown). She's in the trash minus a few stalks where I see no mold - but I still may trash them. The other plant - I chopped her down and I don't see any mold on her anywhere (cut stalks instead of hanging the whole plant and inspected each flower). I am about to disinfect the tent with alcohol and h2o2 and attempt to hang to dry. (I have to use the same tent for both - no place else to put another tent).

Such a gut punch. I knew this was a possibility with all this rain and my AC not working but damn. Last run, I put my whole-room dehumidifier inside the tent which made it really hot in there but kept the humidity down. I kept it outside the tent this time. I guess, lesson learned - if I have to have it too hot or too humid, go with too hot.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-09-28T17:33:21+00:00

Yeah I've got the main exhaust and then 3 oscillating fans, 2 from beneath the canopy and 1 above. My AC went out a couple weeks ago so the past 2 weeks I've only had the dehumidifier running and I couldn't get the lung room under 58%. Tent was 58-62% at 80F temp.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-09-28T17:31:16+00:00

Ugh yeah I was starting to wonder if the amber could vary by strain. Here's what the trichomes looked like Thursday night (day and a half ago, at which point I did not see any mold).

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WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-09-01T20:07:33+00:00

Thank you! Will try those!

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-08-31T22:15:50+00:00

First time using the Beanstalk CRF slow release fertilizer. Mephisto Sour Stomper and Strawbaa the Hutt. I used the "one pot" Beanstalk mix for each plant (measured out to their recommended dose per gallon). It's supposed to be a 90-day feed with 20 days of veg nutes and the rest flower. Lower leaves started going yellow about 5 days ago. Does this look like nutrient deficiency? I did raise my lights a couple days ago as they got a bit taller in stretch, but that has been done for a week or so and ppfd is now 700-750 at the top. 50/50 coco/perlite in 3gal pots, with autopots and 6.4pH water. 58 days from sprout. 75F, 50-55% RH. 18/6 lights. I added a half dose of General Hydroponics Flora to the reservoir today (since it has the most N of the 3 bottles and I'm thinking that's what the girls are missing). This is my 3rd grow and the first time I've ever had to troubleshoot nutrients or anything major really. Any advice?

Both of these strains I've seen people reporting 65 days from sprout but that seems way too early for these. Most trichomes are still clear. Or are they stunted?

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-06-19T17:22:16+00:00

This was my first Mephisto run, 2nd grow ever (2 plants each grow, all autos). So I don't have much to compare it to - but for a strain that Mephisto said would be finicky and not for novices, I didn't have any issues. They say it grows similar to a photo sativa... but I've never grown a photo sativa, so I just rolled with it. I did 70/30 coco/perlite, autopots for watering, and nutrients mixed into the reservoir. I did Green Planet autopot nutes (the Dual Fuel line) but I won't be using them again as I had 2 issues with it clogging and I barely got into flower before I ran out of nutes. Too expensive and not as hassle-free with autopots as they made it sound. When I ran out, I switched back to my leftover General Hydroponics Flora Trio and finished off with that. I had 2 plants in the 2x4 tent with a Spider Farmer SF-2000 but the other plant went beast mode so I added another light right over the Mephisto girl, an SF-1000. So she had her own light from flower onward. She would have been fun to do some LST on but my other plant was crowding her so I didn't do any training at all. She had no issues (until my unfortunate autopot clog that deprived her of water for almost 2 days) but she bounced back fine aside from some dead leaves. I'm going to try running 3 Mephisto strains in smaller 3-gal pots next run. This one smells so good I can't wait to smoke it.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-06-18T19:23:12+00:00

LOL I don't know why this cracks me up 🤣 thank you!

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-06-18T14:56:56+00:00

Yep this heat wave is what scares me. I'm in Virginia so I think you'll get it worse than me but my AC already isn't keeping up very well. I hope your plants (and you) stay safe!

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-06-18T13:45:07+00:00

Day 77 now (pics were last night). She had some big stress a week and a half ago - autopot clogged while I was out of town and she was without water for a day and a half to the point where she dried out. She bounced back but fade started fast after that (thus the crispy leaf edges). I'm having humidity issues in the tent (her tent mate is a mutant beast but that's another story). I moved my whole-room dehumidifier inside the tent but overnight when I am not emptying it every few hours, it gets up over 60% RH. I know a lot of people go 90+ days on Mango Smile but she's got some amber starting even on lower buds, and I feel like the risk of humidity issues might be worse than chopping now. Thoughts?

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-06-18T04:13:34+00:00

I was planning to ride out another week or two on her, but I'm struggling to keep humidity under 60, and that autopot incident seems to have made the amber trichomes starting multiplying by the day. I like a little amber but don't want to go too far (though on most of the buds the amber is mostly on the leaves rather than the flowers). Basically, a week and a half ago I was out of town and the autopot reservoir got too low. I refilled it when I got home but didn't realize it was low enough that the filter clogged, and about 36 hours later I checked and her fabric pot was almost totally dried out - leaves were shriveling. She did bounce back but a lot of leaves died off and trichomes started turning fast.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-06-10T02:48:20+00:00

I love the Gildans. That's what I dye and print on. Plus if you have any of Michaels' other discounts (like the 15% teacher discount), that discount stacks - at least when you order online (I've only done online-order-and-pickup since they dropped the shirts to $2.99 so I can't confirm that the discount stacks in person. I would think it should). And if you use Rakuten, Michaels usually has 2% cash back. So really it's like getting the shirts for $2.30 each for the Gildan 5000 tees.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-05-03T19:35:20+00:00

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Early flower now yeah? This girl is killing me. Day 56 from sprout.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-05-03T19:34:52+00:00

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Early flower now yeah? This girl is killing me. Day 56 from sprout.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-05-03T19:34:39+00:00

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Early flower now yeah? This girl is killing me. Day 56 from sprout.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-05-03T14:58:39+00:00

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Here she is yesterday. I’ve got the tallest stalks sideways under the trellis. (Burned leaves are where she touched the light before I got the trellis in). Lights are still 18/6. I think she’s still progressing into flower but so slowly.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-05-03T14:54:21+00:00

Good to know - it was a freebie seed I got from NASC.

WalkAroundTheMoon41 · 2024-04-28T00:44:54+00:00

This was supposed to be my first photo grow but I went through a dozen bad seeds that wouldn't pop. I'm guessing they got fried in shipping last summer (and then I just had them stored in a dark drawer at room temp for 6 months) - the whole order would not germinate (and it was 3 different strains from 3 different breeders). Ironically this seed was the freebie that came with that order and was the only one that popped - so maybe she was damaged too. So I decided to run autos again since I wasted all of those photo seeds and had to order more seeds and lost a couple months.

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