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You could hang blankets on all the walls and then cover with your reflective material.
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Cool thanks for the advice guys, will weigh my options. I am approaching yet another important decision here. I have to leave town on the 18th of Dec for 9 days. I was planning to start flowering right prior to leave as the plants generally require less attention right when they start blooming than later on. Well, my clones are about 8-9 inches tall already, and I feel like I want to start flowering this Sunday (the 10th) I would then be leaving 8 days later, but will have a friend who can come by to do waterings etc. Would I be better off just waiting the additional week so I don't have to worry about the work he is doing quite as much? Is the second week of flowering much more crucial than the first? Any advice is appreciated

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Originally Posted by razzapiggy

While I am very impressed with the advice given by a few members of this forum and will benefit from it greatly, I do hope some can learn from my simple mistakes and questions.

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Yes, man, the best way to learn something is to fuck it up. Having problems and figuring out how to correct them will teach you more than having a perfect grow out of luck your first time. But very nice job so far man. Looks like lots of us noobs are doing pretty good our first time around :) You can definitely tell who did their homework before starting :thumbsup:

Got the glass in on both lamps, the closed circuit ventilation is all set up now so the light that is responsible for vegging the 40 clones is now at 20 inches above the plants - about ten inches closer than it ever has been. I bet they are going to shoot up. Already about 9-10 inches tall, only had em a week. Now, I need to get a carbon filter, and get some ventilation for the room (what do we call this?) Do you guys vent the air from the room the same place as the hoods? I have an attic above me, and a bathroom to my right... will post pictures soon guys!

I don't have a thermometer that stands up in soil, but I placed my digital therm. right around the canopy and left it there for a while... reads 71 degrees. Does this mean I should lower the lamp a bit? I believe 18 is the lowest most people go right? Also, anyone care to comment on the decision of when to flower? Thanks gang.

Try to lower it down to at least 12 inches, and 8 to 10 inches if possible, but 10 is a good rule of thumb for me because at 8 inches you can lose some of the light coverage to the plants on the edge of the light foot print.
Flipping to 12-12 really kind of depends on how much head room you have, remember if you let them get any taller than 18 inches you can end up with some 5 or 6FT plants and that with the pots will make them pretty tall. Also, I like to keep the plants under 5 at around 3 or 4 that way the light can get to all of the plant and not just the upper half.
Well, good luck, and PS. vent up if you can.
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Holy shit!!! These ladies are growing so freaking fast with the light lower! I swear they grew over an inch in the last twelve hours since lowering it. I will upload pictures later today Knowm.
Blue - yeah I don't want em much bigger than five feet at all to be honest. I want to start flowering them real soon, I am just concerned about being gone for those nine days. I can either flower them right before I leave, or flower them a week prior to leaving. I am just trying to figure out if that extra week of flowering makes it so that the person who is watching the plants will have to do alot more than they would if they *just* went into 12.12 - care to comment? Yes, I am venting up, into the attic. Now I need carbon filter, and I need to vent the room. I will put up pictures later today, I know Knowm is growing more curious by the minute! =))

OK, if you wait 9 days they can grow another 6 to 10 inches depending on the feno type so you could get back and find your self with 20 inch plants before 12-12 and that will be a problem in the long run if you want to keep them under 5FT. If you flip them before you leav they will go into the flowering stretch about 4 days after the flip and who ever is watching them will just have to make sure that they are checking the light hight every day incase they need to raise the lights. As far as feeding them, you could keep them on their veg nutes for the first 7 to 10 days of 12-12 because they take that long to actually be able to process the flowering nutes for different reasons.
In a nut shell, I would probably flip before you leav.
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I would like my plants to be between 3.5 - 4 feet tall. Guess I should start to flower when they are about about 15 inches tall? Shorter? I am down to start flowering as soon as possible, just like I said I don't want to leave town at a crucial time. I know the first week of flowering isn't completely crucial (at least I was told that) not positive about the second.