Need Quick Advice "Lighting"

[blondie68]

hey wildchick,
if the pics are on your computor when u reply to a thread just go to the manage attachments button in the additional options and upload them.
hope this helps
blondie

[BlueBear]

When you go to the manage attachments section it will walk you threw the steps. It will ask you if it is a JPG, AS-- or what ever and then it will ask you if the picks are on a websight which you can enter the URL, or ask if they are on your computer. You would then brows your folders untill you find the pictures and click attach and presto. You can up load up to 5 at a time. That should get you on your way.
Adieu

[Inspector420]

Let me take it a step further

When you post or reply to a message at the bottom there is a button called "manage attachments" ... click that. Then chose "browse" which means on your computer. Point it to the location of the pic, and click "open". I think thats it...

just trying to help

[PlantBoxer]

Well I'll throw in my $.02.
I love my 400 mh, but I usually wait a bit to use it. I use floros to start off with, when they emerge, and keep them on floros till the first up potting, a week to 10 days. I plan on 3 upots to flower. If I'm in a hurry, after the uppotting, I get out the 400, about 18" or so away, as someone else stated using the back of your hand as a comfort buffer, if it burns you it will burn them.
Watering/feeding, I water/feed once form the top down, once just filling the saucers letting it wick up, at flower I do a whole pot dunk in a bucket of water/food.
I try to catch them before they wilt, but usually judging the need for water/food, by the weight of the pot. Hold it dry and remember it's weight...water/feed it, hold it agin and remember it's wet weight. As it gets lighter, see where they wilt a touch, and that gives you some parameters when to wet when to not. IMHO, less wet is better.
Feeding, some feed every time they water, I use PBP, @ 3/4 strength and feed at every watering. I also think plant strain will be different, but so far the 18 strains I've grown, show you real fast if they like to gorge, or prefer lite feedings, just watch her leaf.
If you leaf tips get a burnt look, your to hot, back off a touch. If she is paled out some and not over watered, touch up on the Nitrogen.
Sometimes in the path of a fan, will make leaves look leathery, so will over feeding, point your fans at a wall or straight up, and see if it helps the way the leaf looks.
Last point for a new grower, dont love them to death... it's a weed, she'll grow almost any damn place and under many conditions, but what I see most is new folk watering every 15 minutes, spraying, adding this suppliments or that one. It's all personal preference but for my gardens, simplisity rules.
Good luck, and feel free to ask anything, if I know I will say so, if I dont ...I dont!

[wildchick]

Well just to get us started we planted 12 bag seeds in 12 rockwool cubes after a 24 hr peroid of leaving cubes in ph balanced water. Several days later we now have 9 up and growing strong.
We are using a 400 watt m/h light right now for Veg. stage and will go to 400 watt h.p.s. for bloom stage. We will be using the G.H. 3 part nutrient food for feeding and will soon place the plants in our home-made hyro tubs. We got a very good p/h meter and have ph down and using baking soda for p.h. up and it seems to work great.
My one question is how long should we wait till we place them in hydro tubs for growing as the roots are not out of cubes yet???
It also seems that the air pump and stones we got does not seem to shoot up the water to the net pots and was wondering what we could do , to fix that problem as the roots are not yet breaking through the cubes?? We got a 30 gallon pump and using in 10 gallon tub???
We are also in progress today of mounting our light better as time ran out and we had to get it lit for the grow.
Here are some pic's of grow so far and hope we can get advice if you all seem we need it and when to we start to feed them???

Peace...

Jamie & Stacy

[latewood]

when the roots start to grow out of the rockwool cubes...place them in netpots backfilled with hydroton, and you will be set.

Also, before you post attachments edit the size to 1mb or smaller...I like 640x640 to 640x480. they load faster and fit the window perfectly...If you load to big of a pik...It will take forever to load, especially if you have dial-up. peace

[wildchick]

Thanks alot "Latewood" we hope to get alot of help from you all on this grow and we will keep this log going for others to use and read when they need help in getting started. Tomorrow or Tuesday we will take pic's of all supplies and set up for any advice or any other help u all can throw our way.

Stacy & Jamie

[sdhall36]

wtf is "potassium acid"????? you/they mean KNO3 - that's potassium nitrate - that vid on the light selling page is .... hmmmm, dodgy.

Sorry if I'm out of order Inspector420 - I use CFLs anyway.

Latewood will always be my first choice for advice.

H

[Inspector420]

I wouldnt even think of useing the HID for awhile. Use some floros from walmart, shoplights for awhile.

The pump and the res size are not really related, 30 GPH (gallons per hour). It is a water pump you are talking about chick?

looking good.

[wildchick]

Well we finally got the plants placed in tubs and got light fixed from ceiling and got everything running we hope. In these pic's the plants are about 1 1/2 weeks old and roots was starting to pierce the bottom of rockwool and we decided to place them in tubs NOW.. Do you all think light is far enough away from them????
If you see anything we can do different or any problems u see PLEASE tell us as this is our FIRST grow and wanna do it right..for two girls at least??? LOL.

Stacy