Recent content by Chrysolite

I had thought that CFLs would be fine.....but everybody here has kept telling me "more light", and I finally just gave up and picked up the biggest, brightest ones I could find at the local hardware store. For plants that size how many CFLs would you recommend? The heat is about 33 by the time...

The lights I'm using now burn pretty hot.....I would guess they're about 15-20cm from the tops of the plants, maybe even a little further. I think the stretching was caused by earlier bad lighting setups. I didn't know that a fan would help to induce bushing.....will it help me to run that...

Hi, I've taken repeated advice and changed my lights--I've stopped with the CFLs and have changed to two 500 watt bulbs.....I've been really surprised by the heat--I don't have to run my heater at night anymore (I grow in my bedroom, as it's the only room in the house that can be closed off)...

One. One Wal-Mart. By decree. They'll have to argue with other cities to get permission to build. But yes, I LOLed myself when it first showed up on my phone's newsfeed....

This has been a recurring theme in lots of replies I've had....I'm currently using two CFLs, each putting out 1370lm in a growspace measuring 40x70 cm (about 1ftx2ft.....my phone/calculator isn't handy right now). Is that not enough? How many bulbs should I be using? And should I leave some...

There's a Wal-Mart in Tokyo, and they recently finished building a Costco outside of Sapporo (I live pretty close to there). But big-box stores don't do well in Japan....our houses are too small to put all that stuff somewhere! I had no idea tinfoil was bad for the plants, though--they seem to...

I'm really nervous about cloning, this being my very first grow (and more of an experiment than anything else), but I will read the FAQ and see what I can do. I know it's not hemp, since I'm using bagseed--I just doubt it's any kind of designer strain. I wish I trusted the Post Office not to...

My plants certainly aren't well-bred. I imagine that they're essentially derived from the plants that grow wild here in Hokkaido. Since I'll only be able to raise the lights another meter tops, I guess it's time to take the plunge and start the flowering. I will look up supercropping/other...

I posted about two weeks ago after a falling lighting incident. I've since switched to a CFL setup (no way for those to fall out of their fixtures!), and am, looking back at the pictures I posted before, shocked at the incredible growth over the last twelve days! Even though I love my plants...

About two weeks ago, I transplanted from Jiffy Pots into large (for my space) 9 liter pots with a nice soil mix. Up until last night I was very pleased with growth--I was running the lights (two 58cm flourescents) on a 18 on/6 off schedule, and everything seemed to be going well, aside from my...

I just read in the news today that the dollar nosedived against the yen (but that's what I get paid in), and our imports come from Russia, North Korea, Thailand, or domestically-controlled mafia-run grow-houses. Usual prices run about 8000-10000 yen a gram.....that would be eighty to a hundred...

Any advice on getting less air in them? I'm a little confused (as you can probably tell)....

By room do you mean in the pots? I was planning on transplanting them soon--what size would you recommend for a space maybe two feet by two feet? As for light, I was planning on adding something vertical as the plants got a little larger--should I go ahead and incorporate something like that...

If it makes you feel any better, I almost said about a quarter of a tatami mat, but caught myself. Sorry, I left the "Standard" System back in Texas years ago.....I have a hard time thinking in it now.....

Not at all, thank you! Better to know now than when those pods burst open....I guess I was premature with my gendering! Fortunately the final two pictures are of the same plant--I wanted to get it from two angles to make sure if those were early buds or pollen sacks. Now I know better about...