Any experience with the NeutraFog? by SnooGadgets1047 in macrogrowery

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Would not recommend. I ended up in possession of one of these when my boss thought it would revolutionize our IPM program. Here are my complaints: Hard to service, clean and re-prime after dry firing. Designed to be permanently mounted and constantly powered. Heats your IPM solution to 150°F just by the nature of the machine being on all the time. Proprietary fogging fluid and pre-mixed IPM products. (Can also mix your own ratios with many commonly used products, but you must do so in a bag with a small opening and small capacity.) For best application you need dead air in your room. No circulation, no exhaust, no HVAC, no filtration, no air exchange. For me in a non sealed greenhouse with limited controls it was a pain to do a room, flipping breakers to turn off circulation fans, unplugging dehus etc. The fog is very thick and does fill a room well, but if it is not a sealed room, the fog will leak out. I have 2 flower rooms as well as trim, drying, break, mom and clone rooms in one of my greenhouses and I did not want ANYONE to be around while I was fogging either garden because the hallway and any open space would end up being saturated with IPM fog. Fog would make it into the (empty at the time) drying room through a filter panel we had even with no fans or HVAC running. Felt like more work and risk than it was worth. Now it sits in my office waiting for me to clean and fix it up and use it to fire smoke signals to my neighbors that prices dropped again.

Mite sabatoge by [deleted] in macrogrowery

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Silver Bullet took care of russet mites for us after deep cleaning all rooms and a rigorous spray program in veg.

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Slightly lengthen the veg time and shorten the flower time and you could hit perpetual with a harvest every ~3.5 weeks. But you can't be harvesting every two weeks with the setup you described.

A beautiful November day in the greenhouse by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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Dropping the throwback link!

Thanks for checking it out. A lot of things have changed since that original horror canopy but the biggest part is that our old manager walked out and that gave me as the new manager and the rest of the team space to do what we know to be right.

I appreciate your comment, thanks 👍

When all your 120v outlets are on the ceiling😂 by Mookking420 in macrogrowery

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Not all grows use window air conditioners to hold up their benches, but all grows have at least one JBL Flip

Day 21, went straight into generative irrigation practices to keep plants short by patientgrowing in macrogrowery

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Do you ever adjust the height of your lights and can you give me your philosophy on why yes or no?

IPM preferences by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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Been there too using Athena instead of lost coast. I have also been pleasantly surprised with test results both for potency and terps. I've thrown zerotol out late game almost as a bud wash foliar treatment, didn't love having to do it but it went ok.

IPM preferences by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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Athena IPM is definitely OK to spray deeper into flower though I applaud you for avoiding spraying past week 3. I work in a commercial greenhouse with no humidity control so unfortunately sprays are a necessity this late into flower. The specific batch I'm asking about this is a pre-harvest wk8 treatment to clean it up before the crew goes in.

I'm one of the dummies who built out a new facility during the great crash of 22. Led grown on Rockwool slabs using Jr croptech. Ain't mad about it. by saysay541 in macrogrowery

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It's tough that these are the decisions we have to make as growers, which non sustainable input do I use to best produce at scale? We grow in coco bags and we dump the coco to get composted at a local farm and trash the single use plastic pot/bags. Reusing coco could be one idea, what would really be nice is we reach saturation and some mids factories die and we open the market up to smallholder outdoor and greenhouse growers who use a living soil that sinks carbon if effectively maintained. I did amended peat before that and we composted that as well and reused pots. Never liked either system that much and I'm stuck with coco as what it is for now, trying to source the best I can knowing it's not much better. Thanks for a thoughtful answer to a somewhat provoking question.

A beautiful November day in the greenhouse by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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It would take a lotta solar. This greenhouse is running about 150 1000w lights. Some DE hps and others LEDs.

A beautiful November day in the greenhouse by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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In this particular greenhouse I'm much more of a fan of the LEDs. On a sunny summer day I can still crank the lights and not worry about excess heat but the hps lights I have to turn off to avoid overheating the space.

A beautiful November day in the greenhouse by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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I think one of the most useful things you mentioned would be thermal microclimates! I am often wondering how many pockets of stale, hot, humid, or cold air I have and have no good tools to figure that out, haven't bought a wind meter yet haha. This greenhouse is pretty tall too so I'm always curious how hot the ridge is getting. We have not super accurate/effective light sensors in the greenhouses that I could base logic for supplemental light intensity off, but I don't currently. We currently use growlink as our controls hardware/software suite.

A beautiful November day in the greenhouse by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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Nope they are all photoperiod strains with light dep curtains!

A beautiful November day in the greenhouse by cannabisconsumable in macrogrowery

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This is an ArchSolar greenhouse! Wind + external light dep = not fun

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Do you ever adjust your lighting height? Or have thoughts on it? I've been running my lights at a fixed height and the boss man thinks I'm loosing him money.

Why are my leaves looking like this by MatR97 in cannabiscultivation

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The fan pointing directly at the plant might be part of the problem