OK Lady and Gent. Co2 CJ, well the right way, not the ghetto way that I am subject to at this point is to run your CO2 with a controller that measures the CO2 of your room and turns it off at the appointed level. With the levels there are two schools of thought, one school says to run the CO2 at 1500 PPM adding your household PPM which is approx 300 in most house holds so that means that your controller would be set at 1200 PPM and run this in approx 3 hour intervals. The other school that seems to make more since to me is to run the PPM of your CO2 at the same PPM of your nutes and this is the reason why, the CO2 kicks your plants into optimal production and being such it demands more manufacturing of needed nutes and other growth related synthesis to flourish under the CO2 treatment and as you match the PPM's you are meeting the demand of the PPM level of the CO2 with the PPM of your nutes to keep the demand and production in balance. Some feel that having a greater CO2 puts a bigger demand on the plant that it can't handle as well. SO those are the two main schools of thought. Some controllers have light sensors that will shut off any CO2 dispersment off once the lights are out because plants only take in CO2 during photo synthesis and releases it during dark cycle while taking in O2. Also temps should be at least 85D for the CO2 to really be able to be absorbed and broken down by the plant, and they say that 95D is optimal. There is a argument about the light/photo synthesis needed from a lumen output for the plants to be able to process the CO2 and one thing I know for sure at this point is that anything under a 400w will not create the kind of photo synthesis in the plant that will allow for a efficient break down and an absorbssion of the CO2 and some will even argue that it is only 600w and greater that can really create the needed lumens for this process.
KP, on the drying process, it is really going to depend on the temps in your box on how long they should stay. For some reason you find them looking crispy don't worry too much, just place them in glass mason jars with the metal latch on the top and put the buds in there and what will happen is the moisture from the center parts of the bud will spread in a uniformed manor throughout the bud giving the whole bud a nice feel, ideally. Just watch them and know that just because the buds are dry on the outside they may still be full of moisture and that is why the jars help in the process. Once in the jars just check on them a few times a day and when you notice moisture filling the jar up some just open the top for a few until the moisture dissipates. Once you have dried and cured to your liking and there is no more moisture showing on the glass you can frees the buds if you wanted and there shouldn't be any negative affects to the THC.
Well that was a mouth full. I have been up since the we hours of the morning and you know how tired us bears get so I may have to go hibernate for a while. At this point I have been getting up at 4:00AM to turn on the heater in my grow room, but today I got a timer, hopefully this one works. The last one didn't work right and keped tripping my power strip with a 1K light on it because both the light and the heater couldn't be on at the same time.
Well Adieu Little Princess and Cali
PS. KP to find CO2 tanks and Co2 you can look in the phone book and you may have some luck, or call a local wellder and say your uncle is working on his race care, or farm equipment and you are trying to get a tank for his wellding tools and they may be able to direct you. At some places you go in and start an account and they give you a tank for about $30 and you take it back when doen and they trade you out another. SOme places require you to have good credit because the tanks can run about $300, luckly I got mine for about $40, they had two and foolesh me didn't get it.
BlueBear Reviewed by BlueBear on . the complex questions of a perplexed noob well, lets see.... i gess i should start off by saying "hi":dance: to n e 1 who drops by this thread. i beleive this will end up being quite a brute; i have a tendency to come up with the strangest ideas/questions at the most unusual time and places.:p i shall relate to everything stated as present tense, like i'm actually doing things instead of just thinking them...;) more about me later.:o ok, i saw at lowe's a 400w hps bulb. i walked around to the fixture isle, but alas! no Rating: 5