SeedKing's 1st Grow Northenr Lights/ W Rhino

Day Three: Sept 24th 2005

My babies needed me, I knew something was wrong...

Okay here is what did, HARDDON would be proud, hopefully because I did this without his advice, but grasshopper had to make a move and grasshopper jumped:

1. The Flourescent I had in there, was out of my kitchen fixture when I changed the fixture.. so it may have been a old.. I dont know much about lights, but I got to wondering if wasnt putting out the right amount of light because the bulb was older.. so I got fresh cool white bulbs for the fixture.. just to make sure..

2. HARDDON, had suggested I put another fixture there.. so I hung another fixture under the SHOGUNS advice... so now there are 4 40Watt bulbs of cool white.. all brand new bulbs all same brand...

3. I transplanted all those BITCHES into 6 inch pot all the same size..to strengthen them up.. they were stretching..... Please pray for my girl, to whatever god you pray for.. Watered with super thrive water..

4. I TOTALLY RE-arranged my Closet.. see pics..

Man, this is work but, too all you noobs, I can tell you this NOW, this is a daily activity of changing, re-arranging, checking things... I bet I will have to re-arrange some things again... but that is life.. This is all a learning experience.. and my next grow will be better.. I feel bad that I had to practice on these PUTAS but that is life.. Practice makes perfect.. if you don't have patience, don't do this, if you cant take CONSTRUCTIVE criticism dont do this, if you dont know how to google or search a thread or read aboutit, keep smoking that sack shit... This is work, a work of love..

ALSO addendumm....

I will try to add some more white board on the sides, to keep in the light..

Try to get those bitches closer to the light..

also I went to 2/3 soil 1/3 perlite.. Half and half is super loose and very hard to transplant even when wet, I am sure this will be a problem when I go to the 5 gallom buckets..

Okay, Gots these BROAD-ITAS closer to the light, if they stretch.. Well what else can I do.. thats about 1.25 inches roughly.. Im taking a break, these WHORES will have to take care of themselves.. I'm going to the bar.. :)

Hi Seedking

ur set up is looking cool, and lowering the light is the right thing to do

Finally you got the light close enuff.

The half life on the shop light bulbs you are using is 45 days.

Translation: THOSE LIGHTS SUCK DICK :D

Plan on going to fullspectrumsloutions.com for your next tubular CFLS :)

The lights you are using will work for the plants til they get to be about 8" tall....

You made the right move in the transplant.

Looking good now, but please get some new lights huh edith will ya huh?

1. Damn those bulbs are $6.75 each, I would need 10 for all the fixtures I have now.. so 67.50 + 40 for fixtures, at that point I could just buy another $119.00 HPS sodium or MH? I do have a 400 Watt MH/HPS now.. we will hit them with that when they are big enough.. Do you still think I need those lights.. I think after this grow I will add another 400 Watt HPS/MH for a total of 800Watts.. That has to be enough.. What do you think?

2. I gotta find a way to get the temp down, it said 87 when I came home and opened the closet, sure will be worse when I get the HPS going.. Damn another thing, good thing it is getting cool here.. went down to 82 once the door was open.. I think I will buy another fan to blow the air out the top... ANOTHER SETBACK.. I want to get it to 72-76.. DAMN.. WHAT TO DO WHAT TO DO???????

3. All the girls are still looking good, I dont think I killed any just yet..

I'd do the best you can for this grow with the fixtures you have. If you have new bulbs in them and keep them close they'll be ok. Not perfect but ok. Then when they get old/large enough throw the MH in there and watch out! They'll go nuts. And dependent on your square footage, the 400 MH and 400 HPS will work perfect. But heat's another issue. One reason why I'm only using CFL's although it can get warm in there too as they for sure put out some heat. I was thinking of an HPS for these but I'd have to do some major venting of heat. And where this is happening, it doesn't really lend itself to that. So I just have three fans (sometimes four) blowing in there (one blowing cool air in from the bottom, one circulating the air in the room and one up top blowing the warm air out. My only problem is that the warm air blowing out gets pushed back in and eventually just gets too warm in there. Thus the other fan to circulate the air in the room with fresh air from either outside or in the house if the air's on.

And you thought this was gonna be easy! ha ha

So how much is your temp in the room? I have some options..

1. Deal with it, because the weather is getting cooler and the house will get cooler.. hopefully..

2. Behind my closet is access to a duct, I could somehow extend the duct to the closet, which would involve some cutting, which I really dont want to do... :mad:

3 open window in the room, which I dont want to do, because its in the basement and some idiot cool kick in the screen.. I have a burgular alarm, but I dont want that going off and and the police coming to check it out and finding my grow.. I will open it when I am home.. :mad:

3. Add more fans, which I need to do any way, because I want to BLOW some serious air on that 400WATT BALLAST.. I am going to suck air out the top and suck cool air in from the bottom more money to spend.. DAMN DAMN DAMN

4. Check the accuracy of the cheap-o thermometer.. thats a good idea.. check it againt the thermometer of the house... :(

you can also go to lowes and get a 150 watt hps for using in conjunction with the lights you already have. It is actually a poll light but with a little thinking you can figure out how to mount it in your grow area. I think mine set me back about 40 dollars after tax. It easy to assemble and only uses like 1 or 2 amps. If you go that route remember to pick up a replacement cord over near the extension cords for plugging it in.. I think the cord I got was 9 feet and was 14 guage 15 amp rated. the light is also 6500k and i think has 28000 lumens. One more thing if you do go with the poll light you can take the plastic part of the globe reflector off and just use the metal part of the reflector. Doing this will alow light to shine over a more broad area while keeping the light concentrated to a small area. If your on a budget this is the way you should go.

HPS Sodium from Lowes? Is the sprectrum right? That is an option! If the sprectum is right