Photo Grow Journal - "The Producer" Grow Cabinet - Start To Finish

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Originally Posted by Garden Knowm

HEY GROWER!!

thanks for the pictures.. this looks like it will be fun...

is there anything stopping the plants from growing into the lights...?

is there a glass barrier or something...?

how does the producer deal with HEAT?

thats a lot of watts for such a small area

THANKS again!!

iloveyou

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Hi Garden Knowm,

Thanks for the kind words. Their is a glass barrier on both lights that effectively seperates the lights and ballast from the grow chamber area. Those lights and ballast are then cooled by two fans one blowing in and one blowing out.

Also the grow chamber area is also cooled by two fans. One blowing in and one blowing out. You can see them in the overview photos. Although they are relatively small fans they keep the grow chamber at about 85-90 degrees fahrenheit. Althought this is just a guess as I don't have a thermometer. My ambient temp arround my city is 75-85 most of the year.

I am pretty happy with how well it is handling heat considering the whole unit is just sitting inside a non ventilated garage. I think I could probably keep it about 5 degrees cooler if I were to add some fans to my garage that blow air out a small vent on the bottom of the wall.

Thanks,

GrowerXLT

Day 22 - 06-19-2006 - 8 Days Into Flowering

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Left
Pic 3 - Right

Day 22 - 06-19-2006 - 8 Days Into Flowering - PROBLEM PHOTOS

At this point thinking the problem was nute burn I cut back the nutes to 225 PPM. However in these photos the plants had only been at 225 PPM for 1 day.

Pic 1 - Yellowing
Pic 2 - Yellowing
Pic 3 - Yellowing
Pic 4 - Yellowing
Pic 5 - Yellowing

Day 24 - 06-21-2006 - 10 Days Into Flowering

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Left
Pic 3 - Right
Pic 4 - Super Sexy Close Up

FINALLY somebody has a review of the producer, i want to buy one but dont kno how they produce.

Day 25 - 06-22-2006 - 11 Days Into Flowering

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Left
Pic 3 - Right
Pic 4 - Close Up 1
Pic 5 - Close Up 2

im very interested in this grow, it looks great so far, keep up the good work

Day 26 - 06-23-2006 - 12 Days Into Flowering - PROBLEM PHOTOS 1

Here are the best photos yet showing the yellowing tips, yellow spots, red stems, browning, curling, etc. At this point the plants have been at 225 PPM for 5 days. I cut them back from 450 PPM after thinking my problem was nute burn.

Pic 1 - Yellow Spots On Leaf
Pic 2 - Two Toned Leaf
Pic 3 - Red Stem On Leaf (Is This A Problem?)
Pic 4 - Red Stem On Leaf 2 (Is This A Problem?)
Pic 5 - Curling Leaf

Day 26 - 06-23-2006 - 12 Days Into Flowering - PROBLEM PHOTOS 2

Here are the best photos yet showing the yellowing tips, yellow spots, red stems, browning, curling, etc. At this point the plants have been at 225 PPM for 5 days. I cut them back from 450 PPM after thinking my problem was nute burn.

Pic 1 - Brown Tips
Pic 2 - Two Tones Leaves
Pic 3 - Brown Tips 2
Pic 4 - Tips Curling Up Now
Pic 5 - Yellowing & Curling Up

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Originally Posted by Garden Knowm

HEy grower,

Your plants are showing signs of nut burn,
This seems very odd to me considering your PPM is very very low and some of leaves are showing NUT deficiency...

HOW is your PH?

You should consider flushing for 12-24 hours and refilling your reservoir from scratch..

iloveyou

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Garden Knowm,

I keep my pH at 5.5-6.0 and check it every other day. I calibrate my Hanna pH tester about every two weeks and always use Hanna storage solution.

I always change my nutes on Sunday so I guess I will do a flush and add only 3 PPM water at 5.6 pH for 24 hours & then I will go back to 450 PPM nute/water solution.

I thought I was being conservative by using 450 PPM. So I too am surprised that it is showing sign of nute burn.

This is my fisrt shot at growing so I truly appreciate your help. I also start the CO2 injection tomorrow so I am very excited about that.

Thanks,

GrowerXLT