HST Phase II

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This is a thread that is intended mostly for beginners.

If you learn something from it, great, feel free to pass it along as if the wisdom came directly from you, 'cause dahhn we all wanna have people think we're like the way kewlest thing this side o KW Jelly.

The history of this grow is back there in the original HST thread.

Rezinator Reviewed by Rezinator on 10-09-2005. HST Phase II This is a thread that is intended mostly for beginners. If you learn something from it, great, feel free to pass it along as if the wisdom came directly from you, 'cause dahhn we all wanna have people think we're like the way kewlest thing this side o KW Jelly. The history of this grow is back there in the original HST thread. Rating: 5

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This grow is not about debating stem cell research or how to braid your armpit hair. Although I'm sure those are apt to be very evocative topics within certain circles of advanced est-ian symanticism.

No. Please keep in mind one thing. I am a beginner and am not recommending that anyone try anything that I am apt to say in this journal.

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Visuals provided courtesy of the National Foundation of Me Never Having to Exert Myself To Read Anything More Challenging Than See Jane Grow.

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Zandor, please by all means move this to the Closet Cab Grow forum if you deem fit.

The plan is to repot the clones (whew) within the next few days. Don't know how quick and I'm still not partial to the expenses of hydro at this point so a good vermiculite / perlite / soil recipe would be great. Anybody??

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Taken on Day 17 of 12/12.

Temps in grow box holding in mid-70's to low 80's.
Nights are falling to upper 60's.
Relative humidity appears to be increasing with plant vigor.
Was as low as 40 last week. Last couple of days, as high as 56rh.

Plans:

1. Install at least one 2700K 125Watt CFL.

For now, ruling out previously considered 150Watt HPS. Box ventilation will need to be upgraded first.

1b. Option to buy 2nd bulb for $25 will likely spec a dual spectrum CFL.

2. Recycle one triad fixture into individually positionable sockets.

3. Review info on humidity and mold.

4. Continue search for better circulation fans, sized under ave. 6" dia.

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Stealth was the hugest challenge on this grow.
Mate has tradition of hosting preteen grandchillen 2 weeks every summer.

Here I am figuring out how my supasofistikated scrubber will turn out when disquised as an an unreachable stack of empty currogated boxes.

For this picture I borrowed a bud from the neighbor to calculate the exact ratio of ambient odor emissions to spent pencil erasers it will take to actually get a shop drawing done.

There is a great carbon air scrubber design that uses a laundry hamper but I didnâ??t think this years exhaust blower choice would be adequate for that design. You can get the furnace filters at HD in various widths. 20â?� on one side. From 10 - 20â?� on the other length. Theyâ??re about a half buck a piece. 4 of em gives ya 3 layers. Real delicate material these filters. Will use chicken wire to shore that up on bottom and top before duct taping the hole thing together.

Whole goal here was to keep the overall grow to under the street cost of a decent lid.

It had been estimated that with current lights I could see as much as 2-3 ozâ??s from this plant. It was later speculated that with better lighting and fertilization I could double that.

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This was actually from a short time after I discovered the loose concrete on our basement wall. Eventually found the natural entrance on the side of a drumlin about 60 meters behind the house.

Kinda wish now I hadn't taken the mate and her grandkids down there to explore but with the safety issue and all, well..

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Of course one of the things about the cave was it didn't have a separate room for vegging. This 1st pic is just prior to removing debris out of the second tier. Still not sure how the humidity is going to hold in both main chambers. May have to switch things around after production begins in earnest.

Second pics are from before and after shaft from basement was finished.

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I never thought my dad would end up actually getting into this grow but ever since I turned the guy on, he'll do next to anything I ask him to. And then some.

When I took this pic he was saying he'd heard something about bat feces being somehow more sanitary than feline feces. I dunno what the fuck he was talkin about. Musta been trippin talkin about usin the shit for tea. Ahhh. He always was a crazy fuck.

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If you live a ways in off the main road and are going with HID lighting you may want to consider the advantages of running in a more efficient delivery system for your electricity.

If you do then save yourself a lot of grief and rent the copter model shown in Pic #2.

The one on the left is a lot trickier to handle in a cross breeze if you've never used one before. Guys at the rental place gave me no clue.

With the other unit I was able to lay in 7 towers in about 4 hour.