SeedKing's 1st Grow Northenr Lights/ W Rhino

[SeedKing72]

1. Sidelights are worthless at this stage... It didnt add anything.. It was more of a hassle than anything.. so I scrapped that idea.. (HARDDON was right)

2. T12 40 Watt bulbs suck, I should have use a T12 Full sprectrum bulb (HARDDON was right again, i added the word suck)

[SeedKing72]

I have 10 plants going 9+1 runt, I hope to get 4-5 Broads... the closet is roughly 5 feet * 2 feet so 10 Square feet So if I can get 4 plants to flower and one for a mother that I will yank out of there.. I would be happy...

[SeedKing72]

Things are still going, plants are growing... I can smell the plants real close and smell the sweet aroma of weed.. 400WATT MH is making a big difference, but the heat is hard to control.. had to open the door wide.. losing light, but the babies are still small so they are getting enough

[budman2000]

Get a fan a make it blow right in between the light and the top of the light, your heat problems will be no more.Happy growing!!!

[Marc Benson]

"had to open the door wide.. losing light"

Mand grows with no refective materials surrounding her grow area and nothing to contain the light in as small of an area as possible. Her plants kick butt. I've seen lots of pics of big grows with huge rooms with the lights just in one area and the plants are those most of us dream of growing.

I think the use of reflective material has been blown out of proportion. For one thing leaves don't have light receptors on the bottom side, so any light reflected to that area does no good, or so the experts suggest. So covering your containers with tin foil does absolutely no good for the plant. White paper to reflect it back up...no good. White rock on the top of the soil...no good. Looks cool though.

All that said it's possible that the plant does lose some light energy because of an open door, but I believe that the amount of benefit it receives from the lost energy is so small of a percentage of the total it does actually use that it would make very little if any difference to it's health.

[budman2000]

Get an A.C. unit and youll be good

[RastaKaze]

White rock on the top of the soil...no good. Looks cool though.

Simply not true. As soon as I took this advice from HD, I noticed secondary growth on a 6 day old seedling almost immeadiately. It's really quite amazing... Not trying to thrash you, as I know you are more experienced then I... but it definitely DOES make a difference.

[seedbare]

the plant looks alot better with the mh, the flourescent's must have to be vho to be of much use.

[SeedKing72]

I can see about a 1/2 inch a day.. I want to get these BITCHES to 18 inches

[Marc Benson]

"I noticed secondary growth on a 6 day old seedling almost immeadiately"

I can almost guarantee you that the growth came from the plants natural progression of growth and not from magic rocks...but if you believe that it works then that's cool.

My question would be though is why doesn't every major long time mj grower in the world use such a simple thing? They don't. I haven't seen one grow with rocks on top of the soil or any reflective material for that matter and many of these were dream grows that would blow most grows all to hell. Additionally, if it were such a great technique and really worked then it'd be laid out to do this in every 'grow bible' and grow journal published. It isn't. And I can almost guarantee you (again) that HD wasn't the first one to ever try it. Just never caught on as it never proved itself to work. And I can almost assure you that IF it worked, lots of people would be doing it. They aren't. But to each their own. I probably doesn't hurt, unless it causes the top of the soil to stay wet because not as much air is getting to it and no light and mold starts to grow. Bummer.