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wow ! i really have to say those buds have come along really nicely. Do you think you could sent me the design for your superstealth box as i might make one for scrog.
Also may i ask what lights you are using ? (lumens/xxxxkelvin/watts)
Good luck with the harvest mate :thumbsup:
I sure do hope your ubds don't swell up more than your screen has space for. :/ Beautiful grow man. I once tried to do te same thing but couldn
t resolve my heat problem for my Rubbermaid. I was determined to have at least 8 42 Watt CFL's in there and I just couldn't keep that kind of heat down. :( But the problem is resolved now ;)
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Good luck HomeBoy.
how'd u get the temps down? :rastasmoke:Quote:
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Well here's todays update. nothin special really, buds are a little bigger, it's day 40 in flower for these ladies.Just germinated my new seeds,gonna put them in pots tommorow and find me some females !! well i hope they all grow female really.
oh you lucky lucky man its like you just won the jackpot:thumbsup:
Wow man, that looks great. I saw some rubbermaids at my work that look like that and I was thinking of doing the same thing. I just finished with 2 nice girls in my closet that turned out pretty nice. One gave me .5 oz and the second 1 oz, which I don't think bad for my first grow. But my problem is the closet I use has huge gaps in it and some light gets out, and possibly even in when they are in dark time. So I was thinking to do just what you did, with the expectation of having 2 fair sized females in it. It looks like you have like 30 in yours man. I'm to high to read everything in this thread, but good job man and I'll definitely be trying it out.
Hey thanx, well i only actually have 3 plants in there, the trick to it all is "training" i have used l.s.t. on these ladies....look it up, look back on this thread even.I just used 3 pots cause thats all i could fit.I have also used my whole closet before, and if you have light leaks you gotta get those fixed, i used to put up 2 black sheets with tacks to keep the light out or in .......you know what i mean.Try out the rubbermaid though....it's sweet.
Hey Love2Chief thanx, So i saw you have a little set-up going yourself......If you cover the whole inside with 2 layers of that emergency blanket material it will stop that much light from getting out and when in flowering later on, light from getting in.And you also wanna find a way to not let light get in the vents in the fan you have, but that is down the road.
Ello, Pokherking.. I don't know if you stumbled upon some pics of my improvised rubbermaid set up, but thanks to you it's going quite well. I am going to double back and light proof it a little more by adding another layer of mylar or such. Light is leaking a lot through the fan and a little through the passive intake. Any suggestions?
Ello jackforest, glad to hear i have influenced you.It seems i have messed up a bit, i thought the thread i was looking at was love2chief's thread but it was actually yours.....oops.. sorry, So it was your rubbermaid i was looking at, so love2chief disregard that last post by me.So jack... you gotta make some sort of shroud for that exhaust fan, i used thick black cardboard paper and made a little shroud for my fan so the air will direct out but not let the light in, have the airflow pointed towards the ground.Keep in mind i keep mine in the closet where it is already fairly dark.As for the passive intake tube, i use dryer vent hose, and if you use the white kind like i did, you can put a heavy dark sock with the toes cut off over the intake tube to prevent light getting in. Anything else i can help with let me know, good luck
im actually done with my grow .timed them so i can smoke on 420 YEY YEY!
Hi , is it possible to use a 250W HPS in this setup ?
*%#@ !!!!!!! Well i messed up a bit you could say, i noticed my bud leafs were turning brown on the tips, i eventually diagnosed the problem as overwatering, and i was sure right......So i had to do emergency surgery on these ladies and cut them outta their screen.So i cut all the screen off (carefully),and noticed that the pots were very heavy, too heavy, so i am sure that is my problem, if their is an expert that could confirm this for me that would be great, have a look at the pics.So i guess that is the design flaw i was worried about.......not being able to take the pots out every now and then to prune and flush and be sure they are'nt getting over watered !! So as of yesterday i have stopped all watering to try and reduce the amount of moisture in the pots and hopefully they will recover somewhat, i know i have put the hurt on them already and the damage is done already but......
I guess in my next grow in this cab i will have to figure a way i can get at the pots better, oh well, you grow and you learn i guess.Here's some pics,pic five is some of the damage thats been done. Day 48 in flower by the way
Koosdoos........you could try to put a 250 in there but i imagine it would be way to hot, i'm not positive though, i haven't tried myself, but if i were you, get it setup and turned on like that and see what you get for temps before getting seeds started or clones ready or whatever ur gonna do.Good luck
I've been thinkin on doing that, but will see how it turns out. I recon instead of using a rubbermaid container maybe using a large black plastic garbage bin. This might sort some of my heat related problems due to the height restriction of the rubbermaids. Sofar I'm just planning my growbox out.
Did do a outdoor harvest yesterday of Durban poison, had quite a good yield from my 4 ladies.
Good luck with your girls ! Will keep you up to date on whats happening.
Get your problem to the problem section to get some experts advice!!! I'm no expert, nor is my word fact, but the plants look a little nute burned and heat stressed.
Over watered plants usually look similar to under watered plants and droop.
Well, here's today's update, day 50 in flower.Well like i said earlier, the damage has been done on these ladies and it's way too late in flower for them to recover but i think i caught it in time.Balkey i think u were right,heat stress, i didn't notice how hot it was getting in there, apparently my pots were covering my intake tubes, i didn't have the pots placed in there properly.So i removed one of the plants and put her into another cab and left just 2 plants in the rubbermaid to open up space and reduce the heat issue.Couple more weeks to go i think.My new strain i started is doing ok, i got some seedlings growing and am hoping for females, i plan on growing a momma in a seperate cab and cutting clones off of her when needed.Anyways take care everyone and good luck !!
woow man that thing is like a box o nugz, how much longer do you reckon it will be? i defenetly have to do a scrog setup .:rastasmoke:
Well here's today's news........So the plant i took out of the rubbermaid wasn't doing so well so i did an experiment on her and chopped off all the top buds, then i placed her back into the temporary cab with the new seedlings to see if she will grow the little buds on her a little bigger.As for the rubbermaid, the 2 plants in there are almost done i beleive,It's day 58 in flower today.I did some trimming on these plants as well to let these last few days get some light on the little buds that have been covered by the canopy the whole time.So it's gonna be a few more days for the ones in the rubbermaid, and i guess that makes it about 2 1/2 months from crappy clone to finished flowering.I am gonna start a new thread for the new strain i have going, they seem to be doing well, lets hope for females !!! here's some pics
here's the chopped down one in the spare cab with the new seedlings
looking very nice indeed how many do u think u can fit in that runbbermaid contraption u hav there!!!:thumbsup:
:chainsaw::chainsaw: Chop down time !!!!! I will also let you all know the dry weight once it's dried and cured, but as for right now it looks like i'm gonna get just over 2 ounces from the rubbermaid, in a 2 1/2 month time period from clone, and the clones were crappy too.I'm impressed anyway, i plan to do some minor modifications and continue on this process, with some troubleshooting here and there i shall be able to pull off much larger yields, Well here's some pics for the road, good luck all and thanx for all the support and comments.
Pic 5 is what these came from,poorly cut clones off a plant a few weeks into flower, they were basically buds, but they all rooted succesfully.
You can see in pic1 the plant on the far left has a bit more growth than the others, this is the one that had the top buds cut off of it the other day.
Tokalot.....I was able to just barely sqeeze those 3 pots in there so i dunno ?? i might go with a larger rubbermaid ? homemade oblong pot ? be creative
very nice buds... i like your setup man i may make something similar ive always been interested in a scrog and this looks like one of the easiest ways to do it... the whole thing about not being able to reach the pots does have lots of potential for probelms though.. any ideas on how to solve that?
maybe if you make a removeble panel on of the sides so you can fit you hand through there,then keep it up with sticky velcro?
If you are using PVC or any white piping, you ought to spray the bends black-- light reflects around relflective bends. As your piping is on the intake, there must be some sort of black, non-toxic solution you could put in there-- stay away from noxious spray paint for those bottom bends. Dryer ducting (that bends) reduces your throughput by a siginifigant extent using a stealth fan. You can buy black pvc. Look into it. Good luck, and it's good to see cfls proliferate. I ain't (I'm stealth too) got bucks for HPS and MH, much less ballast and etc. I found real 40w output cfls at Home Depot in the specialty light section. Three Kelvin values: 2200 (no thanks) 3700 for flower and 6500 veg. Combo for flower, actually. I dig your ingenuity. Peace, d
hey man how did you stack them like that, did you cut out a big hole in the bottom of the container thats on the top, i have a simple veg setup made out of one rubbermaid container and want to do the ol stack manover so there able to flower in there also?
right now i have got a 18gal rubbermaid lined the whole thing with mylar and have a light fixture ziptied to the lid that holds 5 x 26 watt cfl 6500k bulb at the moment and an intake and outtake, how shold i go about flowering with the same setup, stack one on top?
my question is how many lights did you bud them on?
I'm with FCC on this one. What kind of DIY CFL chandelier did you make? I'm thinking about using a 2:1 combo of GE Lighting Compact Fluorescent Mini Spiral Bulb, Fle45 Hlx/2/5w, 45w/150w, Model 24688 (usahardware.com) and 27 Watt CFL - 100 W Equal - Full Spectrum Daylight 6500K - Spring Lamp - TCP 28027-65 Light Bulb
What are your running temps with your current system?
Thanks a bunch,
SMG
from the looks of his light set-up picture...it was roughly 103W's
UNREAL! CFL'S FTW! :thumbsup:
this dude did it pro
how are them lights being held
i love the way it looks i bet it was really good smoke and high
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