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Good news...sort of. This morning at about 11am (approximately 1hr after lights are scheduled to turn back on), the temperature was 80. Better. :pimp:
The next two weeks are supposed to be shitty and wet... which means the temps will be about 10 degrees cooler outside. Supposed to be between 59 and 83. That's gonna give me a few days to get this shit straight.
Dude, you just made me chuckle - my bro is an engineer, and I can see that dude sayin' somethin' just like that! Flippin' hilarious! Looks like your setup is gettin' sweeter - lookin' forward to more beautiful bean footage!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smurph
Update... got some pics from outside the fridge this time
Moved the babies to a lower shelf about a foot off the bottom of the box. the intake is fully below the shelf, it's just a 7" hole, you can see it from the outside in pic 4. You can also see how tight of a space we got back there. I noticed today that this place isn't in the way of any good circulating air... Will that be a problem with refreshing CO2?
Pic 3 shows the fan taped to the ceiling, and the cardboard door taped on for a seal. Without this, ventilation basically didn't do shit.
Pic 2 is the current setup. Got a couple reflectors on there.... Not much else...
Pic1 is the babies. The biggest in the previous pics is the one not doing so hot at the top of the pic... Kinda a not good situation there. Hopefully it'll pull through. The other two are obviously loving the extra light I've put in there for em. They look like they're gonna be the next stars....
Head, I did have two plants in that middle pot, but no longer. Just one.
The temp did get down to 80 tonight. That's more progress. I read on here somewhere that I want to keep the temps between 65 and 85, or in the mid 70s for optimum, so that's kinda where I'm shooting for.
I feel that the biggest issue right now is the fact that my room is 5ft tall... The day that I decided to start growing in the fridge, I didn't know about the SOG/LST/SCROG techniques for smaller spaces.
Since I have to worry about noise so much, and can't ventilate it how I'd like (we have a huge electric powered turbine that really moves some damn air. This would have us GOLDEN, but we can't be loud...), I'm reconsidering the box.... I'm about to go look through other grow setups and see what I can do...
Good news. Tempa are pretty steady at about 82. I'll be ok with that for now. Better news: everyonr's doing just fine. Nine plants now. Some have just broke ground, though.
I set the light cycle to 20/4 because we don't have our larger buckets yet, still using the beer pong cups, and I don't need any more root development just right now, but I do want temperature help.
growth is great. Everyone looks healthy, the big one from before did get some yellowed leaves, like I said, I had to do some cutting. Lets see how that turns out.
Just finished making all the reflectors. I took the "wings" off all the others. Just the two in the pic shown still have the wings on em, it helps round it all out.
Count is 4 mids plants and 5 dank plants, the dank plants and 1 mids plant are lagging by a few weeks, and have been mostly in great conditions (unlike the other 3 mids plants that had to deal with 2 CFLs, no ventilation, and probably some pretty high temps for a little bit, but they are troopers!!!)
The temps are hovering around 78 now. Way better... The plants all look good, two dank. Seedlings popped through one cup so I put one in its own container, I think it died. Oh well....
This is no longer (at least not for today) a Refrigerator grow. They have all been moved to a closet because the termite guy is supposed to come today. He won't be spraying inside at all, though (the fridge is in the unfinished garage). The temps were in the 70s doing a lot better. We're thinking about building a new box, or getting plywood and cutting a door. That way we can use weather stripping or something to seal it off with.
Question: I found some "Carbon filters" at wal mart for about $10 each, They are just the screen part, so you can make your own filter (perfect), but are they the same carbon filter that I'll need to filter out smell later on?
If it's a carbon filter, it should work...I'm sure there is some way of rigging it up in your grow to work just fine
Those little massey Fans from wal-mart are the shit. i am current using them. dunno if this helps but i broke off the stand with the 3 rubber cushings and bent the prongs when the pins went and screwed it and using it as my outake fan, my other ones on the inside but they will help with temps. also investing in a few more will help with vent and heat issues. Keep that green thumb green!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smurph
I actually just got a bigger massey fan. Same maker, just bigger. i think it's a 9" fan. It'll be my exhaust fan (or my other exhaust fan. Haven't decided if I want just that one, or two) That fan is now blowing up over the lights, it basically makes the lights heat go up rather than toward the plants.Quote:
Originally Posted by camoxnhx