Artisin's New Grow Room - Ww & Bb

[Artisin530x]

-Addition of blue light. I'd hang a couple T12 flourescent shop lights in there with 'cool white' tubes ($10 per fixture) to help minimize stretch. They will add negligible heat, but the blue spectrum is important for young plants. In fact, since you are only vegging, you could just use the flouros instead of the more expensive HPS, which brings me to my next hint!

-That seedling you show is a little stretched and part of that is the red HPS light. You can bury it up to the round cotyledons, no deeper.

lol, yeah i thought they might have stretched a bit much. Could this be because i started them outside for their first few weeks during the room build? I was considering buying the T-5's for side-lighting, would this be sufficient? Im kind of building my room backwards. This will ultimately be just a flowering room, and to the left of it will be the veg room w/ a MH.

-Starting in smaller pots lets you cram lots of young plants in a smaller space or under a light that is cheaper to run (=even flouros!).

i kind of realized this after it was done, oops!

-You don't need a layer of pumice. Just your nice light soil mix is fine for drainage.

Sounds good, less weight and less materials!

-Always check your pH meter in the buffer solutions before use, and every once in a while check its accuracy against a liquid test kit. Hanna meters are prone to early failure, and with your peat-based mix, you will very likely have to adjust your pH up after about the second month. Just an early heads up on that.

Wow, this explains a lot of my frustration. I don't have time to go into it right now, on my way out of town, but I may have a few questions regarding dolomite lime. I'll take my laptop w/ me so I'll msg when I reach my destination - Santa Rosa here i come!


Thanks Stinky & Smokey!