And so it begins!!!

toolage said:

what sense does this make. I turn my HPS off and am now vegging with CFL's til I get my inline. But now my temps are back up to 82.9 and isn't going up and isn't going down. I have the reader literally a centimeter away from the plant and it's reading that. Yet I have 4 cfls 3 inch away and a fan blowing right over the plant and the cfls. It doesn't quite make much sense!!

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No that dosent, other than cfls ballast are fucking hot. Ive always hated cfls more than fluro tubes just because of that reason.

Is the ac tube still directed over that a way?

I need to get myself one of those fancy thermometers that have the reader and display seperate like you gots....

I have no other suggestions @ the minute other than only leaving one of the cfls there on while you are gone. I would leave it about 4-5 inches away as well, it may stretch but @ least it wont grow into the light and burn itself to death....

kochab said:

No that dosent, other than cfls ballast are fucking hot. Ive always hated cfls more than fluro tubes just because of that reason.

Is the ac tube still directed over that a way?

I need to get myself one of those fancy thermometers that have the reader and display seperate like you gots....

I have no other suggestions @ the minute other than only leaving one of the cfls there on while you are gone. I would leave it about 4-5 inches away as well, it may stretch but @ least it wont grow into the light and burn itself to death....

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nah the cfls aren't even hot i can grab onto the whole bulb. No I took it down as it was getting in the way but it's not hot in the room. It's reading 82.4 right next to the plant though. I wonder if my Therm reader is broken. Imma leave it 4 inches away and imma leave 4 cfl's runnin. I will be back early sunday, hopefully it won't grow that tall in that short of a period.

toolage said:

nah the cfls aren't even hot i can grab onto the whole bulb. No I took it down as it was getting in the way but it's not hot in the room. It's reading 82.4 right next to the plant though. I wonder if my Therm reader is broken. Imma leave it 4 inches away and imma leave 4 cfl's runnin. I will be back early sunday, hopefully it won't grow that tall in that short of a period.

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sounds like it should be okay, cfls arent hot to the touch but their ballast put off ambient temps that are pretty hot.

Im gonna get off here though wifey just got my new 2 month old ferret. Ive named him Tobias and Im gonna go play wif his lil mean ass for a bit.

kochab said:

sounds like it should be okay, cfls arent hot to the touch but their ballast put off ambient temps that are pretty hot.

Im gonna get off here though wifey just got my new 2 month old ferret. Ive named him Tobias and Im gonna go play wif his lil mean ass for a bit.

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hell yeah bro thats awesome as hell. you now have a lil growing buddy! take care man!

thegigglepimp said:

Yeah i bought a HPS to flower with but due to heat issues i had to go to CFL. I think i will grow primarily with HPS if i can then have some CFL's for side lighting for my next grow. Its a while off yet anyway lol thanks again for the link!

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I was using 460 watts of CFLs (2 125w Envirolites and 2 105w cool blues). I have now switched to a 400w HPS which is hung 2 ft. or so above Audrey.

The HPS bulb definitely gets a lot hotter than a CFL. However, there is only one bulb heating the air, not four - and the ballast doesn't give off any more heat than the CFL ballasts, possibly less. I'm ventilating my Secret Jardin with a 250cfm 6" inline fan (the $40 model from HTGSupply) and I've seen no temperature issues so far.

You can get nice dense buds with CFL but it takes a lot of wattage and you have to keep them REALLY close to the plant. You can get equally good results with a smaller HID light. Not to mention that you can get a 150 or 250w complete HID setup for not much more than one Envirolite bulb.

Dude sorry i'm late. I just caught up awesome, nicesetup, NICE looking plant!! Hope it all turns out well all over again my friend!!

Just built myself a larger cloner this evening.

w0bi said:

Dude sorry i'm late. I just caught up awesome, nicesetup, NICE looking plant!! Hope it all turns out well all over again my friend!!

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Hell yea bro glad you could stop by. How's your bullshit going?

kochab said:

Just built myself a larger cloner this evening.

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hell yeah bro, I"m back from the wedding! plants not going to hot. i'll update real quick

Quick Update


Unfortunantly I will not have my camera for the next week, I gave it to my brother so he could use it for his honeymoon.


PH/PPM
5.4/200pm

Plant
I will have to wait on the nutes until the plant gets to a sufficient size since it didn't grow any from the overwatering. Showing extreme signs of overwatering! It didn't even grow while I was out of town. It's extremely stressed out right now and the catylones are almost completley yellow already!! I will not be watering again until the rockwool is decently dried out and I am shortening the watering schedule.

Apologize again for no pictures, but she's so small I can't get a good picture on my phone.

toolage said:

Quick Update


Unfortunantly I will not have my camera for the next week, I gave it to my brother so he could use it for his honeymoon.


PH/PPM
5.4/200pm

Plant
I will have to wait on the nutes until the plant gets to a sufficient size since it didn't grow any from the overwatering. Showing extreme signs of overwatering! It didn't even grow while I was out of town. It's extremely stressed out right now and the catylones are almost completley yellow already!! I will not be watering again until the rockwool is decently dried out and I am shortening the watering schedule.

Apologize again for no pictures, but she's so small I can't get a good picture on my phone.

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Sorry to hear of the troubles man. I hope that things start going better from you.
I suggest that you figure your timer settings out or start feeding by hand until that baby recovers from the overwatering.

kochab said:

Sorry to hear of the troubles man. I hope that things start going better from you.
I suggest that you figure your timer settings out or start feeding by hand until that baby recovers from the overwatering.

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yeah I've shut off water supply to the plant and am going to be keeping a VERY sturn eye on the plant. I've already setup a chair and a laptop stand and will be basically sleeping here LMFAO! not really but I do spend majority of my day watching it. Now that I have all of my ducks in a row I can now focus on my beauties! I was quite suprised that when I checked the ph of the water it was still 5.4!! I'm ordering my equipment tomorrow when I get off of work. I'll keep it updated and hopefully some growth will come soon enough so I can get some decent pictures up from my phone.

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yeah I've shut off water supply to the plant and am going to be keeping a VERY sturn eye on the plant. I've already setup a chair and a laptop stand and will be basically sleeping here LMFAO! not really but I do spend majority of my day watching it. Now that I have all of my ducks in a row I can now focus on my beauties! I was quite suprised that when I checked the ph of the water it was still 5.4!! I'm ordering my equipment tomorrow when I get off of work. I'll keep it updated and hopefully some growth will come soon enough so I can get some decent pictures up from my phone.

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Ill be paying attention and keeping up with it as it goes on man

ello ppl whasup...puff puff pass>>>>

cheetah2007 said:

ello ppl whasup...puff puff pass>>>>

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Wassup cheetah? *takes bong from cheetah, hits and passes it on* .
Anybody know somewhere other than limewire to get horror movies from to put on dvd? They aint got shit for shit on limewire.
and does anybody know why they allow you to download limewire pro (the paid version) by using the free version? I mean allowing your own shit to get pirated by the free version is kinda like cutting off your own hand.

can i say it here or i should pm u (Cheetah2007 whispering: i'm talkin about torrents )

cheetah2007 said:

can i say it here or i should pm u (Cheetah2007 whispering: i'm talkin about torrents )

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You should be able to say it in here. They aint said nothing to me before about them and someone gave me a copy of photoshop on open board..
but then again they have been getting pissy over a bunch of crap recently, so its your choice man.

Im off to bed for this evening but Ill check it oit in the morning And thanks as well

well u can try Torrents Search Engine ....u can search in google too man...just type the name of the movie and type torrent and u should be good. sorry for jackin tool!

Sorry about the over watering problems man im sure it will sort itself out! Your definitely in for an excellent grow this time around! No worries about the camera, im looking forward to seeing some pics! Although it may be when I get back from holiday

thegigglepimp said:

Sorry about the over watering problems man im sure it will sort itself out! Your definitely in for an excellent grow this time around! No worries about the camera, im looking forward to seeing some pics! Although it may be when I get back from holiday

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Yeah I'm just glad I wasn't out of town too long and was able to fix the problem before it got out of hand. No worries though bro, life can get hectic and it definently sucks being out of RIU for awhile!

Cheetah, you can post w/e you want in here this is like a convo/journal!

toolage said:

Cheetah, you can post w/e you want in here this is like a convo/journal!

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haha..okay man! cheers!!!