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This is my second grow. My first was a simple closet grow with soil last summer. Now Ive been working on this cab since then. Im using a 250watt high pressure sodium light. And my budget and space dosent allow anything else. I plan on veging these things for a week or two then putting them straight into flower and getting a SOG from seeds the best as possible. I built the ballest to save money cause im so poor lol. Heres some pics. Tell me what you think. :jointsmile:
Forgot to mention the back 5 in a line and front center 4 are Nirvana Papaya. Rest were just good looking bag seeds.
Sure, why not. Looks good so far. To what extent are you using the computer?
Thats a old pc case I dont use it at all basicly trash.
Heres a little update.
Looking good:) Just try er' out and tweek as needed, for personal use a 250 watt is fine and can easily handel a small SOG. My only suggestions:
1/ Tall skinny pots for your plants
2/ Keep the light 8-10" above the canopy
3/ Label and clone your plants, if one of them turns out to be a monster bud producer 6 weeks into flower it will be too late to clone and having a high yielding mother plant is a big part of successful cultivation
So far you have done good you have a coolable light with good ventalation and the plants look good and healthy. You are fine just keep up the good work.:rasta::rastasmoke::pimp:Quote:
Originally Posted by steme
Hey thanks for the responses. Tall skinny pots is what ive been thinking all along too. I had watched a dude start seeds and flower them from the start in coke bottles with a very high success rate. Thats were Ive got my ideas from. Im scared of the root space in a 1 liter bottle so im using this grow as an experiment to see witch pot and length of veg gives me the best results. I understand the clone and mother concept but I just got no were to put a mother. Wish I could but I thinking im gonna be playing with seeds for a bit.
It really doesn't take much space to keep a bonsai mother under a flourescent light, and you will be so happy if you did so. It saves so much work and time.
Its sounds so tempting lol. Ill def keep it in mind.
It never ceases to amaze me how fast these things can grow. :rasta:
i dont really have any advice to give other then keep it nice and cool in there (mid 70's is perfect) canna loves cool weather, i just aminly wanted to wish you the best of luck, more people need to start growing if we are ever to over gorw the gov
peace out TjM
Thanks for the kind words joint meister overgrowing the world 1 plant at a time. :rastasmoke:
Today I finally built myself a carbon scrubber. I couldent beleave these tiny plants would reek so quickly. My first grow only had 4 plants lol. Heres some pics of the grow and the carbon scrubber in the process and then just about completed. :thumbsup:
Also you might notice the center plant to the right got some tiny yellow burns. Think I had a little to much superthrive in the water the other day. But im not to worried about it.
nice job :thumbsup:looks great does it get real hot
The whole cab all seems to stay at room temp. If u place the thermometer in direct light Ive seen it reach 89.
Got any links on how to build that scrubber? Or is that all from your head?
http://boards.cannabis.com/growroom-...on-filter.html
All my ideas came from this thread. I used my own household crap like usual to make it though lol. I took a 4" wide coffee can sawed it in half for the a end cap to form a 4" diameter circle of heavy duty chicken wire. Twisty tied it together then inserting this 4" drainage adapter into it.
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Then I rapped another piece of chicken wire 5" in diameter around the drainage adapter attaching it to it. I then filled the outside layer with activated carbon then plugged it with a 5" endcap. Hope that helps knowing I wrote this all drunk lol.
I killed two males today. Heres a little update.
Looking nice and healthy still. At least you've got some good females left. Keep it up. I have one suggestion; you should consider getting a couple blue wavelength cfls to put in there when vegging.
Your right, Ive had this bright blue CFL right here on my desk and it makes me think of it everyday. I changed my stance on cloning lol I took some cuttings from the best growers and hope to make one of the better cuttings a mother. Ive never tried cloning before so im hoping for the best. I also have a 150 Watt MH sitting around that id love to incorporate into the cab but that sounds like lots of work :jointsmile:.
Seeing how I never take any pics without the light off I thought id show off the greenery. :stoned:
I don't think it would be too much work. You could have seperate veg and bloom sections to harvest twice as often. That light could do without a cool tube. You could have 2 small, or 1 bigger one blowing up from the bottom, aimed directly at the light. You would have to get that hot air out somehow, so at the top of the veg compartment could be a relatively small inline fan blowing the air out, maybe through another run of duct to where ever your other duct exhausts to.
Heres a little update. Also I have a question can I fert these things with bloom and big bud at the same time? Or do I do bloom fert and add on fert on separate days? :jointsmile:
I believe you overlap these feedings, so some will be done at the same time. Just check your PPM and make sure it doesn't go too high.
This might help, maybe not: