Lighting choices!

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

A 400 or 600 watt HID light and good ventilation in a spare closet or utility room...+ good genetics = you growing, the world's best weed...:thumbsup:...enjoy.

(it don't matter if your in Holland or East Bumblefuck)...:stoned:

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HAHA whats up Dutch!!!

I'm having fun with it and enjoying the grow and not having to worry about going to pick up a bag of who knows what from who ever swam across the border with it.

I now have a 440 cfm fan, 4' x 2' x 60" modified cabinet, a tube reflector (I think thats what its called) Referred to as a Miliwaukee beast? Adding a large can filter to those in tha cab and putting the seedlings under the cfls, while I flower the bagseed under the HPS. Plan to build another cab for vegging with another HPS to add to the flowering cab.

Hope you're doing well and wish you the best.

G

what's up PM? glad to see that you are acquiring the parts you need. sounds like you've got some good ideas.

as far as your yield question it all depends. are the flowering under CFLs or the HPS now? if CFLs how many, lumen output? what nutes are you using? what are you temps looking like?

i'm definitely down for some coffee or you can have a beer and i'll have some water or something. i don't drink anymore......or very very very rarely.

i'll hit you up.


-shake

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Originally Posted by headshake

what's up PM? glad to see that you are acquiring the parts you need. sounds like you've got some good ideas.

as far as your yield question it all depends. are the flowering under CFLs or the HPS now? if CFLs how many, lumen output? what nutes are you using? what are you temps looking like?

i'm definitely down for some coffee or you can have a beer and i'll have some water or something. i don't drink anymore......or very very very rarely.

i'll hit you up.


-shake

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Hey Shake,

The vegging is being done under CFL's at the moment, flowering is going to be under the 600 HPS. The temps are looking like mid to high 70's at the moment, using cannasoil(?) So far I've used Brer Rabbit Molasses (1 tsp per gallon) every three days.

I'm not certain of the total luems of the cfl's but there's ten of the 26 watt 6500 ones in there with a large fan to keep temps down.

Recommend some nutes that you might think would be worthwhile. I'm all ears.

I'm going to build a seperate cab (smaller) for vegging and use either a 250 or 400 MH light with another fan. Priced a portable ac to add to this contraption to make sure that come summer the little beauties don't take a steam bath down here in H town.

My goal is to create a perpetual grow system that can yield up to several lbs per month or every other month, fits in my garage and upon first glance just looks like a series of storage cabinets. That's where the stealth and covertness come in. That way if anyone was to walk in they wouldn't know right off whats going on or if I raise the garage door it wouldn't be a complete knock off to any passers by through light, odor or visual.

I know I might be optimistic on the yield however quality is my first concern then quantity. Both brother in laws are from Amsterdam and these guys are hard to impress since they've been smoking out since crawling out of the womb. They have offered alot of advice but almost all of their experience is outdoors growing as well like mine is. They've ponied up half the costs of what I'm doing and their going to be sharing in the harvest.

We decided to keep this thing at my place since they've got kids and we don't want to local neighbors and their kids finding out about this. Also, I don't look anything like someone who would enjoy this hobby and growing of medicine (when you see my pic you'll see what I mean...) so that also gives me a leg up on being a little stealthier.

I have no kids so having this around is not a big deal (as a firearms enthusiast I have lots of handguns all over the house as well; I shoot alot at the range and believe in self defense as a fundemental right. (I had stopped a rape in progress back in 01, creep had just been released 12 days earlier after serving half of a murder sentence and tested positive for meth...I should have shot his sorry ass...)

Sorry for all the info in one post!! Anyway, I sent you an im and look forward to chatting with you soon.

All the best!
G

PS: Coffee is on me!!

well i think the coffee thing might be a little hard my friend. i live in the big D, not H town. lol. do you ever get up this way?

if you put the six bagseed under the 600W to finish you will have a nice harvest. you should be able to at least yield a 1/2 a pound.....more than likely more.

as far as nutes, i personally started going organic. i am using biobizz currently. i have seen what it can do first hand, and again, it's organic. i've used fox farms, but wasn't thrilled with their stuff. don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, just really harsh on the plants (i'm sure some of this was me!).

hope all is well.


-shake

I go up to DFW all the time. Will be there in a couple of weeks to visit some friends. If you ever come down to stinkytown you can always hang out.... Plenty of room and I usually duct tape the wife up in the closet at night to keep her from nagging....

I'll try the biobizz, anything specific or all of their products in general? Any set or certain schedule you follow?

We'll have to meet up in D and have that coffee. Seriously, I'm up there at least once a month for several days at a time and would love to bend your ear about growing, cabinet designs, and so forth, share some of God's gift.

Best to ya!
G

cool. that will work out nicely then, you coming up here. we can definitely get together. and if i do make it that way i will definitely hit you up. i might have to steal the duct tape trick though!

as far as the biobizz goes.....they have a soil called all-mix that has something called pre-mix in it. the pre-mix is a nutrient blend. so if you use the all-mix soil you will only need the biogrow, biobloom and top max. if you can't find the all-mix soil you can use something called bioterra made by biocanna. my plants seem to love it. any organic soil will suffice. i've been recommended everything from a sunshine mix (either LC1 or the #4 mix. also fox farms ocean forest. i know that's a lot to take in, but hopefully you've gotten some info from it all.

as far as the feeding schedulde i follow the biobizz one. keep in mind the amounts it tells you to add are per quart. i usually round it off, e.g. if it calls for 8mL i will go to 10mL and so on and so forth.

also, the bottles are now an opaque white as opposed to the translucent clear plastic. so the bottles you get might be a little different.

your brothers-in-law should be happy because it's made in holland!

hope this all helps out. i hope you got my email. hit me up anytime.

double post!

-shake