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    fan/filter and hps cooling advice

    Hi all, I'm in the planning stages of gutting a cabinet, its about 3' wide, maybe 2' deep, and maybe 7-8' tall (cabinet goes from floor to flush with ceiling). I was looking at a quantum 400w dimmable digital ballast (has 75% option or 100% option, figured I could start at 75% and check temps)...
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    want to bud the rest of the plant

    My current flower chamber setup is a Digilux 600W HPS and I have it centered over most of the plants, however, 2 at the end were not really getting a lot of light so I added 3 dual bulb 2' T5 ballasts and have the red spectralux HO bulbs in them. I also added a 4th dual bulb ballast at the other...
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    Help finding new 4 arm perc downstem

    I purchased a new ash catcher while on vacation in Canada and after getting back to the states I tested it out and loved it. It's a beaker style ash catcher with a 4 arm diffusion down stem. I was cleaning it out after first use and while rinsing it and cleaning it I broke off 2 of the 4 arms :(...
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    Digilux 600w hps

    Ive ran my 600w Digilux hps bulb for 3 harvests now, should I change out to a new bulb or how long is it good for? I'm running it vertically in a 4' wide closet with my girls about 2 fist lengths away to about 2.5' away. I thought the manufacturer said it was good for a year but is that...
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    carbon filters and odor help

    I was wondering if I could get some help with carbon filters and odor control. I run a 600w in a cool tube that exhausts out the roof through an attic vent and I have a carbon filter that I connect onto the intake before the cooltube after about week 4. I've only had the filter connected for...
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    curing and hygrometers

    Hello all, just got all my buds from a plant into jars. We were at petco earlier in the day and I saw a little humidity gauge in the reptile section and remembered reading about the optimal cure zone here .After being in the jar for maybe an hour the gauge is reading 80%, before the bud went...
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    how are these looking?

    How are these looking? I started 36 hours of darkness on 9/18 and then the 12/12 lighting started on 9/20. The 2 huge ones have been growing since the end of April and came from the same bag of seeds but one of them has orange hairs and one of them doesn't have any white hairs (not sure of the...
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    just started to flower these biguns

    Well I grew the 2 big ones from seed since about april 25th and I finally started flowering them 2 days ago after about 36 hours of darkness. I have a 600w digital hps bulb hanging vertically in a cool tube and then i switched my t5 bulbs over to 3000k bulbs and then everything into the timer...
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    Help diagnosing a few girls please

    Hi all, I am having problems with a few different plants, have tried some things but I really should ask for your guys opinions. I grow in soil indoors under t5's and every day i lift it up by the pot to see how much water it has and decided wether to water or not, ive been using Foxfarm big...
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    any idea how much longer for these?

    First time growing, and I think she is nearing harvest, it was placed under the 600w hps flowering lamp on June 7 (taken out of veg on that day and placed under the hps). I'm just starting to see a couple orange hairs all the rest look white. I also replaced the water in my res with clean plain...
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    Watering help

    For watering the 4 i have in flower, I am using 2 GPH flag drippers. I have them start at light on for 30 minutes and then shut off for 60 and then back on 30, off 60 until light out 12 hours later. Is this the best way? I received the girls in rockwool cubes and then placed them in the large...
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    Vent and Fan Help Please

    I would please like to get some help from the riu community. I have started to construct my grow area in my closet which has the following dimensions: height 7.6' x length 7' x depth 2' My plan is to divide the space roughly in half and have the veg on the right side using a 400w MH on...
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    Good Space for a Grow? Sketchup/Writeup with Questions

    I would like to present an idea for a grow closet that I sketched up using photoshop. The inner dimensions of the closet are 82" wide by 92" from the floor to the very top of the ceiling. What I would like to do is divide this space into a clone and veg area and then a flowering area. I would...
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    Veg Box for Seedlings

    I wanted to make a little veg box for 2 seedlings and I saw in another post someone used 4 4ft t5 bulbs so I went to homedepot and got a 2' fixture with 2 t5 bulbs. It says on the box the bulbs are f14t5 ( http://www.bulbtown.com/F14T5_841K_14_WATT_T5_FLUORESCENT_BULB_G5_BASE_p/105420.htm On...
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    outdoor, just for fun and see what happens

    I got some seeds and cookies from my dispensary on 4/20 so I thought I would throw a couple seeds in some dirt and eventually move them outside and just see what happens. Put them each in a cup of potting soil dirt on saturday 4/23. I had them outside at first in the shade but then the next...
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    help with constructing first setup

    Hey all, been lurking a while, will now have my card and want to get my space constructed.. I drew a quick sketch of my space http://i56.tinypic.com/fu75o5.jpg The plan is to divide the space in half, so 2 spaces about 40-41" wide with a divider in the middle. I will create a raised floor so...
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    Help With Making Butter

    Hi, hopefully I didnt ruin my butter, I had like 1.5 grams of shake so I decided to try making a little butter, I ground it up in a coffee grinder and then brought the butter to a boil in a pot of water, added my shake and boiled it for about 50 minutes. Then I let it cool down and poured the...
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    help with used gear

    Hi, I purchased a bunch of used equipment with the hopes that some of it is usuable and that I got a good deal, I got 3 1000w hps bulbs, a ghetto looking 1000w ballast, a multi port air pump/stone with all the tubs, 2 light timers, a huge roll of mylar, tds tester, ph/temp tester, a bunch of...
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    single plant apartment setup

    Hi, I was wondering if there is any info out there for a single plant setup that would work well in a closet in an apartment?
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