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Growing disasters.

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Wassup GR420

We have all had em, breaks, leaks, falls. lets hear yours.

Ive had my fair share of disasters, its no secret i like dropping lights on my plants, i reckon there is a secret bet on the forum to see if i get through this grow without a para destroying my grow :lol:

One experience really took the biscuit though...

In my early days i was in soil and doing ok, i was friendly with a rdwc grower, the guy grew absolute monsters, i was in awe. his system was very simple to. i plucked up the courage to ask this guy to take me under his wing, and he said yes :dance: . Armed with a shopping list for kit i was like a kid at xmas, i was gonna be a rdwc king :lol:. Day by day my kit started turning up, boxes after boxes and i began building my system, happy was not the word. Everything started well, i had clones with roots, life was good, gone were my days of a few oz a plant, i was gonna grow fecking trees mun 8-) ...........

One day i walked into my bedroom with my new tree growing swag, so excited about the pics i was gonna take i didnt notice the 60 liters of water on my bedroom floor, in fact i didnt notice the water at all, what i did notice was an electric current running up my left leg, so much so i left the floor and ended up on the bed, scrambling for the plug socket in absolute panic. In shock i sat there for a min trying to work out wtf had happened, i popped my head over the bed to survey the damage. My entire bedroom was flooded, like a inch of water. Enter the missus....At a time like this you dont need someone screaming at you calling you every name under the sun, it doesnt calm things but there i was like a lemon trying to appease this angry 5 foot woman by soaking up the water with towels, of course i was getting shouted at for using clean towels to :lol:

The story should end her, but its a keeno disaster, of course not. I get as much of the water up (she is still shouting), time to work out what the fuck just happened. i work out that something has blocked a return pipe and its overflowed from that bucket, the shock must have been from a extension lead on the floor. A cup of tea is needed and clean clothes as im soaked, then im gonna get this fixed and get back to growing them trees 8-) . I find the issue, fix it, time to refill the system. I have one of them gorilla buckets, 30l i use to get water from the bathroom to fill the system. I get my bucket, fill it up, a smile on my face despite the last half hour of my life, that tree growing swag back in my step....

I walk with my bucket filled to the brim, when i see a ginger flash, i dont have time to react, my dog has come out of my kids room at so fast she has taken my leg (mid swag step) from under me, 30 liter buck up in the air :barmy:. I sit there in my second set of wet clothes in a hour, second room flooded, leg still tingling for my electrocution wondering what i have done for god to punish me in such a manner :lol: return the missus....


My rdwc days were over, the system and the plants were launched into the garden, clay pebbles all over the shop shortly followed by a ginger dog. Went back to soil a week later :lol:
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hands down one of the funniest strories I've ever read, you need a tv series
Keeno wrote:Wassup GR420

We have all had em, breaks, leaks, falls. lets hear yours.

Ive had my fair share of disasters, its no secret i like dropping lights on my plants, i reckon there is a secret bet on the forum to see if i get through this grow without a para destroying my grow

One experience really took the biscuit though...

In my early days i was in soil and doing ok, i was friendly with a rdwc grower, the guy grew absolute monsters, i was in awe. his system was very simple to. i plucked up the courage to ask this guy to take me under his wing, and he said yes :dance: . Armed with a shopping list for kit i was like a kid at xmas, i was gonna be a rdwc king . Day by day my kit started turning up, boxes after boxes and i began building my system, happy was not the word. Everything started well, i had clones with roots, life was good, gone were my days of a few oz a plant, i was gonna grow fecking trees mun 8-) ...........

One day i walked into my bedroom with my new tree growing swag, so excited about the pics i was gonna take i didnt notice the 60 liters of water on my bedroom floor, in fact i didnt notice the water at all, what i did notice was an electric current running up my left leg, so much so i left the floor and ended up on the bed, scrambling for the plug socket in absolute panic. In shock i sat there for a min trying to work out wtf had happened, i popped my head over the bed to survey the damage. My entire bedroom was flooded, like a inch of water. Enter the missus....At a time like this you dont need someone screaming at you calling you every name under the sun, it doesnt calm things but there i was like a lemon trying to appease this angry 5 foot woman by soaking up the water with towels, of course i was getting shouted at for using clean towels to

The story should end her, but its a keeno disaster, of course not. I get as much of the water up (she is still shouting), time to work out what the fuck just happened. i work out that something has blocked a return pipe and its overflowed from that bucket, the shock must have been from a extension lead on the floor. A cup of tea is needed and clean clothes as im soaked, then im gonna get this fixed and get back to growing them trees 8-) . I find the issue, fix it, time to refill the system. I have one of them gorilla buckets, 30l i use to get water from the bathroom to fill the system. I get my bucket, fill it up, a smile on my face despite the last half hour of my life, that tree growing swag back in my step....

I walk with my bucket filled to the brim, when i see a ginger flash, i dont have time to react, my dog has come out of my kids room at so fast she has taken my leg (mid swag step) from under me, 30 liter buck up in the air :barmy:. I sit there in my second set of wet clothes in a hour, second room flooded, leg still tingling for my electrocution wondering what i have done for god to punish me in such a manner return the missus....


My rdwc days were over, the system and the plants were launched into the garden, clay pebbles all over the shop shortly followed by a ginger dog. Went back to soil a week later
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Spilt pk up over the groom floor saturday night. Hastily cleaned it up and carried on.
I was wearing shorts and kneeling on the towel i had just mopped the pk up with.

I have no skin on my knees now and have ruined a pair of stone chinos in work todah with the bloody seeping through.
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oooh good topic, ive got feckin loads, let me think.

RDWC systems have a habit of appearing in these topics. ANyway a long long time ago, i decided to make a custom rdwc for my big tent, 2.4 by 2.4.
On the basis that more is better i had i think, 8 big 84 litre really usefull box buckets in there. so far, yep looking good. so all the holes for the returns were drilled, all the pipework solvent welded, all left 24 hrs to set and into the tent we go. the res was outside the tent and i hadnt decided exactly where it was gonna go till i got all the return pipes in place, so it was just pipe tails.

screwed all the connections up inside the tent, went round it all checking it was nice and tight, dont want any leaks do i?
then i gazed in wonder at my vision, finally come true, oh this was gonna be good. A celebration bifter later, thought id better fill her see if there were any leaks.
so off to the bathroom with a bit 40 litre laundry basket thingy, full to brim of warter..into the tent and filled the first bucket, yep looking good, so another 40 litres later, in yep, not as high a level as i thought it would be. by the time i got the 3rd 40 litre through i could feel the squelch under foot, oh bother i didnt connect the tails up to the res i said, or something like that, i also noticed the tent floor was full of water. oh gosh, thats inconvenience i never said at any time.

so fixed it all up, connected pipework to res and filled again, more leaks
checked all the tank connectors, ahah its this one, so replaced it, filled again, aha, its the one i just replaced, so replaced it again, and still leaking this time from both connectors for that box. Now replacing them isnt a 5 minute job, the whole lot has to come out. ANyway another 3 or 4 repairs later and i gave up, why the fuks it not sealing????
SO i thought id take the whole lot down, and i was putting the buckets back in the shed when i saw a ray of light, through the casting mark in the centre of the fuking really useless box. it had been leaking and running under the box and coming out beside the tank connectors. id replaced about a dozen connectors for nothing...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh



Ohhhh how i laughed......about 3 years later......

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oooh good topic, ive got feckin loads, let me think.

RDWC systems have a habit of appearing in these topics. ANyway a long long time ago, i decided to make a custom rdwc for my big tent, 2.4 by 2.4.
On the basis that more is better i had i think, 8 big 84 litre really usefull box buckets in there. so far, yep looking good. so all the holes for the returns were drilled, all the pipework solvent welded, all left 24 hrs to set and into the tent we go. the res was outside the tent and i hadnt decided exactly where it was gonna go till i got all the return pipes in place, so it was just pipe tails.

screwed all the connections up inside the tent, went round it all checking it was nice and tight, dont want any leaks do i?
then i gazed in wonder at my vision, finally come true, oh this was gonna be good. A celebration bifter later, thought id better fill her see if there were any leaks.
so off to the bathroom with a bit 40 litre laundry basket thingy, full to brim of warter..into the tent and filled the first bucket, yep looking good, so another 40 litres later, in yep, not as high a level as i thought it would be. by the time i got the 3rd 40 litre through i could feel the squelch under foot, oh bother i didnt connect the tails up to the res i said, or something like that, i also noticed the tent floor was full of water. oh gosh, thats inconvenience i never said at any time.

so fixed it all up, connected pipework to res and filled again, more leaks
checked all the tank connectors, ahah its this one, so replaced it, filled again, aha, its the one i just replaced, so replaced it again, and still leaking this time from both connectors for that box. Now replacing them isnt a 5 minute job, the whole lot has to come out. ANyway another 3 or 4 repairs later and i gave up, why the fuks it not sealing????
SO i thought id take the whole lot down, and i was putting the buckets back in the shed when i saw a ray of light, through the casting mark in the centre of the fuking really useless box. it had been leaking and running under the box and coming out beside the tank connectors. id replaced about a dozen connectors for nothing...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh



Ohhhh how i laughed......about 3 years later......
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Had an 8 pot Wilma. Overvegged all the plants so they were huge and unruly but not knowing better I just let them do their thing while trying some real limp-wristed LST.

Come into the groom one morning and a 5.5 ft Amnesia Haze had toppled over, split straight down the main stem and also toppled the Wilma pot over. 2 droppers per pot = about 25L of reservoir contents on the floor.

To this day, the only time I've properly lost my shit during a grow. Almost packed it in I had such a fat strop. Breathe, spliff, mop and bucket and off we went again
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ive got a black belt in bailing out tents. there was another time when i started rdwc and used a 3000 litre hr water pump, outside the tent, in the res. this pump was attached to a hose, which fed spray bars in the buckets


thats right IT HAD a hose......you can guess the rest, full system almost emptied all over carpet, ceiling, walls etc.

those fountain pumps are really good........................

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biggest growing dissaster of them all tho.
i had a knock on the door. one night.........

3 years of court 3 charges, 2 convictions and 20 grand for proceeds of crime later.............


Fuckem, fuckem alllllll
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bigbadbillybob wrote:ive got a black belt in bailing out tents. there was another time when i started rdwc and used a 3000 litre hr water pump, outside the tent, in the res. this pump was attached to a hose, which fed spray bars in the buckets


thats right IT HAD a hose......you can guess the rest, full system almost emptied all over carpet, ceiling, walls etc.

those fountain pumps are really good........................
Christ, I think you win! Haha
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bigbadbillybob wrote:biggest growing dissaster of them all tho.
i had a knock on the door. one night.........

3 years of court 3 charges, 2 convictions and 20 grand for proceeds of crime later.............


Fuckem, fuckem alllllll
Yeah, you deffo win. Fk that for a bad joke!
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