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With your flor,Cfl sounds like it should work. I might have just bought the box of romax since your almost remodeling.
Helped an airplane engineer, put together a geodome, did it all out of his in town garage. Almost a bubble. Bitch(I truly don't mean that) Some say I'm getting funnier as I get more sleep.
Ranger, what is romax? Funny, but lack of sleep does that to me, but take it too far & it just makes me bitchy! (Or I can blame it on that anyway! LOL!)
-- Geodomes are cool. Take it a few steps further, make it larger, a few adaptations & turn it into a bio-sphere! That would have to make you feel like god, having total control over the enviornment, keeping it late spring all year round. Of course you'd have lengthen day light through the summer, but you could also use HID's to bring the short day length up to 14 hrs through the winter. That would be my fantasy world! Just imagine it filled with ferns, orchids & cannabis! Ok. Back to reality. I just cleaned the litter pan & this camper still smells like cat piss. Two toms & somebody's going where they shouldn't be & I can't find it! ( probably down the unused heat ducts). Between that & me chain smoking, guess no one will ever be able to smell my grow! Just kidding. I have some bio-cat piss stuff & a black light & I'll have that gone before tonight! :) :) :)
Romax is wirring wire. I bet there is a thousand feet in your tore up house. In fact you might already have the dome
Hey! Yeah, that's a thought! I'll be eligible for major grants & reverse mortgage in two yrs. Raising roof to make upstairs master bedroom suite & hidden grow room + re- wireing entire house. I like re-purposing stuff. I'm a cheap date! In the mean time, I'm getting these tiny once a year grants to do a few little things at a time. Mainly just sealing it up against more water damage untill the big grants start coming through. I'm re- purposing & re-glazing the broken windows & making a lean to greenhouse attached to the south side of the house too. If my plans don't get screwed, I'll have several greenhouses. The lean-to, turn both front & back porch roofs into balconies with sm lean-to on each, & one larger free standing. That should take care my winter blues & keep me happy! Now. If I could actually get that soggy basement water proffed, I could make a hidden grow room down there too! :) :) :)
Had a friend do the hid lite thing in her add on, told me this was her retreat, place to read(says it messed with her eyes). But I've heard of other things that'll make you go blind.
Cats, last week since my release from ICCU at hospital, my tux Tom cat, has taken to lieing on my chest and purring when I feel anxious. It's so calming.
Cat I can help you with the picture thing more if u want. Not sure if u have camera or want to take picture anyhow. I've been reading your posts, sounds like u got a lotta good old school ganja farmer in you. Which is why I wanna check out your buds as there growing.
If it helps: when you click quick reply( to type something in to here) you will have the box you can type in. There are a bunch of little icons on the upper left of the box u type in. One of those is square and has a tree on it. If u click that one it will give u upload options.
Good growing!
Well, no tree, but a pic of a photograph. Tells me to pull pic from my comuter. So back to my original plan of hitting up my friends kids to helpme out from their computer. I'll use my Nikon & cell ph to see which is the easiest to work from. If we can get a deal going, I'll be posting pics sporadically, but hopefully a lot of them! Last career I had was photographer, AA degree. I have a few degrees floating around in my subjects of intrest. Nikon has awesome optics, but I'll go which ever way is easiest for the kids. Haven't had my hands on a computer fror 6-7 yrs, but I guess just popping camera card into computer is still as easy as it used to be! LOL! (Kids just won't let anybody else touch their computer).
-- Ranger, cats are awesome in so many ways. I've always been into shamanism & I believe in the psychic connection between us & the animals who love us & I strongly believe cats have awesome psychic healing abilities. Cats are the best anti depressants. Tigger tried to be my foot warmer last night, but all he did, (at 38 lbs) is put my legs to sleep! Sam shares my pillow & keeps a paw on my face. If I snore, he sticks it in my mouth! Sam likes to play catch. Literally! He likes newspaper balls, & will stand on his hind legs & catch them between his paws. He's so cute & smart!
-- Got my lights yesterday, but then was too sick to finish cabinet & hang them. For some reason, couldn't stop tossing my cookies. Rained all day, so I couldn't go out & cut the rest of the lumber, but I did find out yesterday that somebody stole most of it. Out of 30 boards, I have 6. They took all the good ones & left the knotty split ones. I didn't buy groceries & went without food to buy this shit. Some day I'll end up in jail for killing me a thief. I think there should be a reward system. Shoot a thief, get a $100.00 gift card!
-- My babies are looking so pretty, but Ranger, if I had 1" of growth per day, that would give me 14 sets of leaves at two wks old, because I keep the internodes less than 1/2" apart. Try to keep them under 2 1/2' at finish. I keep veg growth short & stocky & let them have their way & do their stretching in flower. I'll be topping them twice before 12/12, putting them in flower as soon as the second set of leaves come on the second pinch. Then one last full strength nitrogen feeding, pull the lights up a bit (untill this point, they're REALLY close to prevent long nodes, like 1-2"), & let 'em go crazy. This keeps stems strong & fat, lots of foliage for photosynthesis, & letting them stretch later when budding keeps the buds above the heavier foliage to get the light better. That's something I picked up in commercial greenhouses with flowering bedding plants. Works well with roses. Keep the plants short & bushy, but then let the flower stems stretch for cut flowers. Just a little cross-over from back in those days. After my buds stretch a little, I lower the light a tad untill they plump & then switch out to warm lighting to boost trichromes & ripen. Keeping lighting cool for a while keeps buds from being light & fluffy under fluorescents. Ahhh, can't wait for an outdoor grow. Once a year I do like to grow those big assed monsters! :) :) :)
Was sick the day my lights came, just barely got them inside. Not tossing my cookies anymore, but so cold & weak I don't want to move. 75º in here & I'm freezing! Go figure. Hope to get cabinet finished & lights hung tomorrow, but I said that yesterday......
-- Babies are so damned pretty! Saw a new one I want to try. Pink Bud by secret garden seeds. Anybody try this yet? Very curious. :) :) :)
Hope your better and can take advantage of warmer weather.
Think your right on plant size, keep thinking all grow the same, but each to his or her own. From seed it does seem to take a while to really get going, and from my clones it takes 2 weeks before their potted and ready to take off. So about a month of veg.
Boys trying to help me out, tent was month into bloom and looking good. They where moving in a new lightfor me, heater got unplugged, next day new low showed 22. Froze whole room. Hoping for some thing to recover, would like to have tried some. Did save sample clone from each female, but now sampling is a ways of. Stuff happens to all of us.
But taking my time, move kinda slow lately. Later
Been trying to keep growth slower than they want to go. The last two days they've taken off like crazy! Root restriction & minimal nitrogen isn't working as well for me as it has in the past. These guys are little plumpers! But god they're so pretty! They will get topped twice, & have about 18"-20" before they outgrow their space, but I really wanted them in the new cabinet a day or two after the second pinch, you know, out from under the old T8's & under the new T5's. Cabinet still not finished, everything is out of the back room piled in the kitchen & living room untill it is so I'm STUCK that way for about another week. Yeah... I have the damned FLU! Thought denying it would make it go away but it just didn't work. 74º in here, my temp 101º & I feel like I'm freezing to death. We're having snow, then snow mix, then sleet & back to snow. Not trying to electrocute myself, but as soon as I feel better, I'll have to go outside & cut the rest of my lumber for this cabinet to keep this grow on schedule & the long term weather forecast isn't working with me on that. The way these babies have grown in the last two days, well they're not working with me either!
-- Ranger, I'm so sorry about the freeze! All the way to flower. What shitty timing! I'd have had me a little hissy fit, then I would have had to apologize to everybody for telling them how stupid they were for not double checking everything before the closed up for the night. They were only trying to help & accidents happen. Hope you handled it better than I would have. I'm not very patient with people in those circumstances. Hope you have enough left from last harvest to tide you over to the next one. At least having some clones will speed it up a little for you.
-- I just found a new hybrid I want to try. Its SO pretty! Its called pink salad (pink bud x fruit salad). Suposed to be a dwarf plant with a couch lock high, indica. But you like those big girls, don't you? So have you seen anything new you want to try out? :) :) :)