I built a polyethylene rooms in the back. One for flowering and one for vegetating - indoors. It's just free hanging to the floor and the damn cats have discovered they can nose under the polyethylene and get in. And there's 4 cats. Apparently, they're not as "dumb" as my wife would like to think they are. One finds a way in and first thing I know, all 4 of them have found their way in and out.

Only one cat is destructive, and I know which one it is, but my wife is a "cat person" and would have ME thrown out before her cats would go.

I initially put window screen over the pots to keep them out and cut holes over the sprouts - no litter boxes in my grow room!! But then one of then, just the other night ate all the sucker leaves off of one plant, and all of them off of one side of another. I was ready to kill, but I didn't figure my wife would buy it if one of them committed cat-o-side, by hanging.

I now have 1 plant overdue to go to the flowering room about 20 inches tall - topped three times - nice and bushy. One damaged, about 18 inches tall with some missing sucker leaves topped twice. One SEVERELY stunted about plant 7 inches tall - topped once- with no sucker leaves left at all and a fresh sprout replacing a plant that I apparently killed by over watering and/or PH issues. All but the sprout are showing nice secondary growth.

The PH issues have been resolved. I only water now when the 3 way tester I have says the soil is DRY, and I water with a cow manure tea. The soil is /was slightly basic (7.4) but the manure tea is pretty acidic (5.6) so it's balancing pretty well between the two.

Considering this is my first attempt at playing Mr.Green Jeans, and my innate ability to kill a rock garden, I'm kinda of proud of what I've accomplished so far. And ALL of my growing advice has come from Cannibals.com, except for having watched the DVD "I Grow Chronic" from which I bastardized his grow room construction.

I'm using a 400w MH for vegetating and I'll be using CFL for flowering. (HSP doesn't fit the budget right now). A friend's mother passed away that had a nursery and he gave me a 4' roll of Mylar with about 200 feet left on it (nice!).



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GrowingInGeorgia Reviewed by GrowingInGeorgia on . DAMN CATS!!! This morning I discovered all of the sucker leaves gone from my shortest bushy plant, and all of the sucker leaves stripped from one side of another plant. :wtf: Now, where i had a plant, I have this stick with secondary small but active growth on the sides and a couple of leaves at the top at the top - sorta resembling a 6 inch palm tree, and a mildly damaged but surely stunted bigger sister. Well.... That and four cats looking around with that , "Huh? Whad'daya talking about? Is it Rating: 5