Ok, heres some Pictures of my setup, just got a camera today..
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Ok, heres some Pictures of my setup, just got a camera today..
So what does anyone think?
Temperature stays around 106 when the door is closed, but I open it everyday for awhile to allow new air in and just to let the space air out..
The light is set on a timer, considering the small space, It's set to stay on for 23 hours and be off an hour, to allow the space to cool down a little bit.
Im not worried about a fire, because it has been on for 4 days straight before with no problems.
The light comes on at 1:00AM and off at 5-6PM, then back on.
Stays like that all the time.. A small fan helps cool the area, facing the plants and the bulb.
Looks pretty nice :) I have my light on a timer as well, it goes off from like 1am to 7am. There on 18 hours right now. What kind are you growing?
Dont know.. just some good smoke I had collected over time.. plan to get some big bud for next strain though, after this one Im going to Hydro..
Ok, these are some pictures of my tallest plant right now..
Its only the sixth day since I put them under the soil.
So how does it look right now?
Also whats the deal with watering.. I water at least twice a day, but I never give them much at all.. just enough to sink in a little bit, THERE SMALL, lol, I dont want them to drown.. the soil is always completely dry even an inch or so down, Ill wait a couple hours then give them some more water... keep in mind, its not very much water at all.. so is it ok to water frequently at this stage with so little water?
106 is pretty hot if it gets to humid and your growing sativa it might cause problems if your growing indica its just too hot i would try and find out what type of bud your growing before it gets old. Other wise if you got the right lighting your good to go 6 days great. Just watch the heat.
Yeah, it might be the thermometer, because it doesnt feel like 106 in there... also the fan is right next to a small hole where my wiring is coming through, and my room is always well ventilated.. the cool air is cooling the heat a little bit right.. I plan to do a lot more with this once I get the money, but Im just really hoping that I can have a nice crop grown with the situation Im in now.
Once that light is off the temperature drops majorly. The vent you can see in one of my pictures has cool air coming through it.. but very little, just enough to barley feel when you place your hand over it. and I do open the door a lot, every time Im here.. the door is open, so it might be open for hours a day, just when Im asleep or at work.
The light is a 400 watt HPS with chrome reflector
Fuck man, I keep forgeting shit.. lol
I want to ask, it wont hurt mixing fluros with Hid will it?
Nothing serious, just something simple.. maybe a four foot.. cool tube fluro.. well a couple, I just wanted to put them along the sides of my plants... or underneith.. so the bottom keeps growing without losing any potential?
Make sense.. ?
C'mon give me some info.. I want this thread to keep going, lol
Everything I have read and heard from growers says that mixing the two types of lighting is probably the best. I also believe that having lights below the canopy will help growth. But for the floro you might try a Compact Flourescent light like this one, http://www.wormsway.com/detail.asp?sku=CFSD110 I have this particular model, and it is great lots of light, and almost no heat. The bulb I have in mine is good for 14,500 lumens. I keep it like 8cm (3.5") from the tops of plants (even seedlings).
I don't see why not??? I'm am doing that as well, untill i can get ahold of a good 400 hps lamp. Untill then i'm using the flouro in the bathroom and a little flouro along side so as to get the light in between. Its doing great in my bathroom and i make sure it doesn't get to much humidity too! Just watch that it isn't to hot for the plant. I have 2 but one is almost ready for the hps lamp...yikes need to get my lamp soon!!!..lol :)
better to use a metal halide in veg and a hps in flower,maybe a 250 watt would have been better in your space if the 400watts causin temps of 106f.
just my thoughts m8,good luck with the grow ;)
Thanks for the information guys, Im just gonig to have to keep the light on 18/6, until I can get more cash and get me a decent set up sometime later..
Thanks again
-Ill Keep posts..
Ive used about a gallon of water in 8 days for these three small plants.. reason being because they were dry as hell everytime I watered.. must been the light... but do you think that was too much?
have they sprouted yet? doesn't look so from your pics. in that case you might want to leave the light off until then, its not good for seedlings to go through stress like that from the light.