Dizzy's Cabinet grow log

[invision]

hey dizzy

i believe the ballast and ignitor can be up to 10 feet from the socket so i wouldnt worry much if its going to be rather close by.

i have never used a PH tester with my grows all though i do have one i find it a unnessasary item unless you do hydro, i just know exactly how much PH up i need when i add nutes plus i go out of my way and by distilled water and add Cal-Mag Plus to it, add my nutes, 7 drops of PH up BAM 6.5

if i was to use tap water i would break out the PH testing.

[atsar]

did you say somewhere you were using miracle grow soil or moisture control or something??i had 2 plants in mg soil once,they were both fine for first 2 weeks then i gave one nutes,straight away it got majorly nute burned,the other one did nicely though,i never gave that plant any nutes at all until after 1st week flowering,and then started a dilute flower nute mix and worked it up

anyway i guess what i'm saying is,if i were you,i wouldn't give the plants in mg soil any nutes until after you start flower or chances are they will burn

[Dizzy1]

Thanks Invision. 10' is more than enough to mount. My cab have purpose built overhangs on the top/back and bottom of the right side of the cab. I did this to mount anything I don't want inside the cab. I'm going to drill out vent holes in that enclosure (after I work the wiring) and mount a small fan inside to exhaust it.
I thought I read somewhere that you can make tap water more usable by letting it sit out for awhile? Wives tale?

Atsar, you did read that I was using Moisture control MG soil... but only the top 1/2 to 1" which is on top of the Black Gold potting soil. I have read about MG burning up plants and also helping plants. To stay on the safe side I was gointo mix it up with the Black Gold and Perlite when I transplant... which will most likely be tonite as I got some pots at lunch. No square pots in a 2-3 gallon size can be found locally, so I had to settle for the roundies.

Thanks for the replies guy, all the help is what I need.

[atsar]

pots,i use 3 gallon buckets with the rims cut off the top,they become real flexible when you cut the tops off and can be squashed into squares and long rectangles,handy in limited space,might have a pic,i'll look and see

[atsar]

yeah,kinda like this

[Dizzy1]

Yeah, I like that.
I might hit Walmart on the way home. If anything I can find something else that's square.
Thanks!

[atsar]

heh,just remember,the buckets in the pic are round,they're just squeezed into that shape

[Bree1978]

I use wastebaskets from the dollar store. strong, space saving, cheap

:jointsmile: Bree


I'spose they'd have cheap ones at walmart too. Look in the housewares section.

[Dizzy1]

Cheap is goooood.
Up in AK we have the dollar 99 store.

[invision]

I use wastebaskets from the dollar store. strong, space saving, cheap

:jointsmile: Bree


I'spose they'd have cheap ones at walmart too. Look in the housewares section.

aww man never thought of that.....i love you now :hippy: