Recent content by pistoria2001

I've read this entire thing over the last couple days. Everything looks great, it's interesting watching it all come together with the pictures. Plus it's obvious that you've been envisioning this for a while and it's cool to see someone creating something that was previously just an idea...

Thats perfect! Oh wait, your cfls aren't going to reach down anywhere near that far. 26 inches isn't even necessary.

Or you could just bump it down a notch and go with a 250. You have options, but the 400 in that space isn't one of them.

Unannounced Inspection. See, thats the problem. According to your lease I would assume it says this isn't allowed. But again, I've lived in a number of apartments and only one building would have worried me in all that time. A nice big company with many buildings is only coming in on rare...

I think the thing that is the deciding factor in this is the inspections by your landlord or building manager. Are you always going to have notice before they enter? Never mind that legally you're supposed to have notice, I'm saying have you lived there long enough to know if thats the case or...

I was also thinking the unlit lamps would be affected by the lit one if all were wired to the reflector at the same time. I don't know the reason why, but it seems like it would be a problem. It seems fairly obvious to me how to wire the switch which would control which ballast received power...

Can you explain what you did to connect the ballasts? My question I guess is do you have to do anything besides flip a switch and change the bulb? I'm most curious if you also have to exchange the power cords running to the base? I would like to be able to switch between two different...

You will find that the largest CFL's available get too hot. You will be better off with the 23watts as someone mentioned. A piece of glass will help with heat, and definitely oversize the fan.

If you attach a carbon scrubber to that fan the static pressure should be high enough to basically make the fan NOT work. Your CFM will drop way down (at least half) if it can even blow through the filter that is. You can get cheap and just use carbon filter in sheet form but that isn't a...

Not a stable strain, not a true autoflower. Some of the phenos will autoflower while others will not. A true autoflower would not be clonable and would not revert back into veg, which short rider can. Some of the phenos are autoflower and some of them, regardless of auto or not, are just...

I think its great that everyone came to this guys defense back on page 4. Its nice to see that being positive is important to this community. I think you deserve a congrats on even attempting this Waldo and I also think you need to hit the books at night. :) There is a TON to be learned and...

Oh, and I never have had to use an incubator. Ive heard many people make fun of them though. Incubating is such overkill for something that is really all about moisture content and how even it is throughout the medium.

And I see that you've been paying attention to the moisture content. I would consider switching when you can to another method. The pf tek is just throwing cakes in to grow right? Buy a rubbermaid tote, cut four holes on two sides opposite each other. The bigger sides. The holes should be...

I had to edit this post as I was confused by what I had read. Anyways... What about the tops of your jars? You need to have gas exchange, not air exchange. If you show no growth of any kind then you may have the jars either too wet or too dry. It takes practice to get them in the right...

The nutrient content in MG perlite is next to nothing anyways. It would be like using only Big Bloom for your entire grow. Also very low nutrient content. I find using a lower strength of Tiger Bloom and continued use of Grow Big in the initial weeks of flowering to be really helpful...