hasberry were to start

[mark78214]

i just ordered my hashberry i cant wait so what do all think is better soil or hydro? or cfl or hid ? is there a certin amount of cfl's to make the same amount light. that:weedpoke: a 250 w hps light would make?:greenthumb::joint1::baggy: sorry for all the questions i just wanna yield alot but yet still have them small thanks evry one http://youtube.com/watch?v=GfpvasZoZwE

[zoomatl]

LOL...ok ill say it.....READ....READ....READ...then go back and re read everything....then your questions will be answered....i was in you shoes once....but i spent about 2 months solid reading on the internet...and now when i ask questions they are very specific...and they are usually about information that is scarce if existent at all on the internet...and i get replys from fellow growers...but your questions are sooooo basic if you read for 20 minutes on this forum alone ...all those questions you just asked could be answered and tailored to your specific grow environment...and you will answer them yourself.

[the image reaper]

Mandala Seeds has an excellent website ... Mike goes into much detail about the best way to grow his plants, check it out ... :smokin:

[curious101]

Mandala Seeds (http://www.mandalaseeds.com)

[mark78214]

thanks for the info ive reading this site for a while and i think im going with cfl's. like 3 or 4
27 watt with a spectrum of 2700 k be cause i want 2 flower early and the space i have is about 3 1/5 feet deep 2 1/2:smokin: ft. long 1 3/4 ft. so what do u all think of this so far

[romdog11]

use as much light as possible. if there is one thing you shouldnt go skimpy on is light. your plants and your yields will thank you.

[ProGroWannabe]

use as much light as possible. if there is one thing you shouldnt go skimpy on is light. your plants and your yields will thank you.

If there ever was "growing gospel"--that was it! Pure gospel!

I do have one little idea to add... if it's cfl's your gonna use, trap all the light you can, forcing it back on the plant. The biggest reason I see, for people having less yield than they could have, is treating cfl's like HID's. You cannot put three cfl's that are less than 150 watts each in a closet grow, and have the light freely spreading throughout the closet. You have very little light intensity with cfl's anyway, so you have to maximize it.

My first closet grow was with cfl's. But what I found was that I had to trap all the light I could so the plants could bathe in the lower intensity I was providing. I built a HUGE upside down u-shaped reflector, with the lights at the top of the "inverted u". The reflector completely enshrouded all my plants. I had 16 forty-two watt cfl's on four plants. Once I built the reflector, all the stretching stopped!

If this is all a little hard to follow....you can always refer to the excellent advice posted by those above this. Reading is always a good thing!

Good Luck

[mark78214]

thanks for the info progrow do you have pics or tell me how you made one. my cabinet is enclosed it is small. but my plan was to put at least 2 hashberry since they are small. how many cfl's you think i should i put in my closet :pimp:

[ProGroWannabe]

Well, first thing your gonna wanna do is paint the inside of that cabinet flat white. It may take a few coats, ya know, since it's black now. I don't have any good pics of the reflector. I have pics of the plants around here somewhere try this:

http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-growing/126327-heres-some-pics-my-ppp-grow.html

For the number of cfl's, I'd use no less than four 42 watters for each plant. Twenty per plant would be better---lol. But just cram as many as possible in there without getting into heat issues.

You may have been "put off" by the above posts on reading, but you really do have a lot to do before your first run in this new cabinet. So, go gain yourself as much knowledge as possible before you run into problems in the beginning stages of your grow.

[romdog11]

i have no idea if this would fit in your cab but i used a 250 watt mh without a hitch. it works with indica strains really well. i had one sativa and that shot up so i switched to a 400 watt mh but for a strain like hashberry which is very similar to sadhu which i am now growing i think a 250 watt mh would do wonders. it doesnt produce that much heat either. at least from my exp. whatare the measurements of that cab?

[BigWeed]

thanks for the info progrow do you have pics or tell me how you made one. my cabinet is enclosed it is small. but my plan was to put at least 2 hashberry since they are small. how many cfl's you think i should i put in my closet :pimp:

I know people that use only cfls but I always say you have to use a lot of them to get a good yeild. If I had that cab i would go with a 400w electronic ballast it saves on energy and you can use both MH and HPS bulbs without changeing anything. Then use a cool tube to cool the bulb then that way you can control the heat better. A 200 cfm fan for ventalation with a scrubber I know its over kill for that cab but I always say you cant have enough ventalation and you can cool your cab down faster so you wont have any heat issues. Thats what I would use. Man this blunt is kickin in right now so I have go lay down. Hopes this helps.:rasta::rastasmoke::pimp:

[mark78214]

thanks for the info every one. i just got my beans and planted 3 im starting a new cabinet grow loghttp://boards.cannabis.com/closet-cabinet-growing/136335-hashberry-my-first-cabinet-w-cfls.html the first plant came was a bagseed but it's just the start :thumbsup::weedpoke::greenthumb::gunfighter2:

[mark78214]

http://boards.cannabis.com/closet-cabinet-growing/136335-hashberry-my-first-cabinet-w-cfls.html:thumbsup:

[romdog11]

hey check out icmag.com/ic and go all the way down to the mandala section. there are tons of people growing hashberry with hashberry journels. check it out.

[mark78214]

THANKS:thumbsup: