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    Cheapo DIY Chinese LED grow. 200w

    I've been posting this in my other thread so here's a quick catch up. These are 100w arrays (1wx100) ordered from ebay direct from China. 100w LED drivers from the same company. Heatsyncs from heatsync USA. According to my multimeter the cool white is pulling 87w at the array and the warm...
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    Malware again?

    I've been getting warnings again over and over for the past 3 days. Today both my browser, Google, and my virus protection went off... This is getting ridiculously repetitive.
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    "My rollitup" button not working?

    Last two days the "My Rollitup" button just directs me to this - (firefox browser)
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    FREE lighting CAD program. Attention all nerds!

    DIALux is a free industry standard lighting program. Ton and tons of options regarding light calculations, reports, objects, ... Most all large lighting manufactures have importable cast patterns for all of their lamps so you can generally find something similar to your own. Link is here -...
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    Jobs/volunteer work in the Sacramento area?

    Moving with my wife to the Sacramento area and am looking for employment/volunteer work. I have a natural resources a degree as well as a great resume, looking for work particularly in the small farm industry/green building and design disciplines. Pretty open to anything so if you happen to...
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    Borax vs spider mites?

    Getting rid of the cats fleas organically and I'm reading over and over about borax and how well it works. Seems it works against ants, bed bugs, and a variety of other mites as well. Has anyone experimented with borax and spider mites?
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    Actinic linear flourescents.

    I'm all about spectrum and PAR but I'm having a really hard time justifying these to myself. It reasons that if you have a small limited space then the actinics could yield more per area than standard 6500K/2700K but the numbers just don't add up when it comes to yielding better $/gram. I...
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    The Great Aluminum Foil Myth

    I personally am not keen on posting this information as this silly myth is so wise spread and rampant on this site that I'll probably just receive a bunch of flack from people who have never seriously looked into the issue. Unfortunately for me I have been pressured to post this so here it is...
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    War on Drugs - comparison between current president and candidate

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKYmWVDyM5c
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    Federal financial incentives for busting marijuana users

    This been posted yet? Personally the local police here don't seem to care too much about pot charges but food for thought in other places. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VsseaDzNf8
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    CFL orientation and distance charts

    I found these on an aquarium forum and thought that they were just so well done and so applicable in demonstrating proper CFL usage and what factors are at play. Props to i4x4nMore @plantedtank.net . . . . . .
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    $20 Cool Tube

    $13 vase from walmart. That's 6" ducting. Glass cutter was $5. I made a rig to hold the cutter and vase so I got a nice even etch. I then slowly poured boiling water over the line to warm the glass and then switched to cool water to cause a stress fracture at which point the bottom...
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    Great deal on TDS meter/ Water filter

    Just saw a commercial for this product and thought it might be useful to a few of us. Basically a brita filter that claims to strip ALL particulates versus just some of them. $40 for a larger one and it comes with a TDS meter so you know the water is 000 after filtering. Not a bad deal for...
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    Grow Room Tycoon

    Any programmers out there? I want a grow game :) Start with initial investment money for room rent/buy, equiptment purchases... Have yield based on lumen utilization, strain info, nutes... Rotating market for sales prices... Seems fairly simple if someone could reverse engineer one of the...
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    1000w CFL > 1000w HID lumens per ft

    Been interested in constructing a large scale CFL/T5 grow for a while but everyone keeps convincing me its a joke. Finally was brought to see a 10lb T5 room and now I want to make my own but better. What I saw were several 4x6 ebb tables with fairly standard t5 banks above. Plants were...
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    Cheap Ballasts

    Just thought I should rep this site: http://www.urbansunshine.com/ Purchased a 600w dimmable lumatek from them for $180 yesterday and received an e-mail from them today reading: "The comments for your order are: Thank you for your order with www.urbansunshine.com. Unfortunately, there...
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    smart pots question.

    Will be using smart pots or the generic equivalent my next grow and have a question. Is it recommended to start small and step up bag size or start big and stay big? It just seems to me that letting a small plant go in a large container will cause the plants tap root to hit the bottom before...
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    Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

    Starting up again but keeping it small and classy. I'm going with just two feminized chocolope seeds from DNA Genetics. Never grown this strain before but have really enjoyed the end product. I just recently grabbed two General Electric 8 pannel fluorescent X-ray lamps for free from my local...
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    How is yield calculated?

    When people talk about their gram per watt ratio are they talk about gram per kW hour or simply gram per watt of equiptment? My first CFL grow yielded me 5.4 oz which is roughly 150 grams running 388w. .4g/w (150/388 ) Is this correct? It doesn't factor in length of veg/flower period... My...
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    Gastanker's 1000w Veggie Tent

    Hello everyone, I've previously posted a couple grow journals. The first being an immensely successful CFL grow followed by a second successful CFL grow and then an incomplete 2kw tent grow. I must report that the tent grow went quite poorly as I was not afforded the time necessary to take...
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