These seeds are not very good . . . . took a while to germinate and I had to crack two to them to get them to pop. I'm not impressed however this is my second time using Greenhouse seeds. Maybe its just this strain. Very poor seed viability has been reported recently with Greenhouse however. This Arjan's Haze #1 was nice though. I ordered some White Widow from nirvana, I have always had great success with their product. I just feel like every time I want to grow something "new" I wind up trashing it and going back to the same old strains. White Widow, Northern Lights, Skunk, ect.
Yeah I just have grown those strains so much I wanted to try something different. Since this is a personal grow, I did order trainwreck seeds too not K-train. Oh well enough ranting I have trusty nirvana seeds on the way can't go wrong with them.
I don't know I've never used it. I just flush the old fashion way . . . let me know if you find anything else about it though. I'm cheap so my operations run with minimal additives, I have yet to find an additive that is worth the additional cost for a commercial grow, besides H202.
You are smoking too much man. The large spaces between hydroton will not support a small seedling. You need a media to start your seeds if you don't want to use rockwool look into rapid rooter plugs.
Algae can be solved my covering your media with something lightproof. Root rot can be avoided by properly aerating your nutrient solution., maintaining a sterile solution i.e using H202, and not over saturating absorbent media (rockwool).
When roots begin to grow out of the rockwool.
Enough to fill them to the top
Simple math 1kw=1,000watts. A 250watt X 18hrs X 60 days = 270,000watts or 270 kilowatts. If you want to know the cost of electricity just look up your electric companies price per kw hr, it may change in "off peak" times. But lets assume you kilowatt per hour cost was $.05. The 270 kwhr X $.05= $13.50 total cost to run that light for 60 days on an 18 hour schedule.
I'll be using the supercloset deluxe to get started I'm not sure if your familiar with the system or not, but it's on supercloset.com. I've got the bread to burn cuz I just got out the navy so I'm blowin it, before I venture out and start building my own like the rest of you mad scientist out there! lol so in the meantime, I'm just reading up and doing my homework. Once the seedlings hatch out of the rockwool and outgrow it how do I transport it to a bigger cube? do I cut a hole and drop her in? or is there another way?
Hey NG, I'm also new to the grow game I just ordered some top 44 from Nirvana today so wish me luck!!
). so i'm guessing that once they go into 4'' or 6'' cubes (whichever ones come with it) I won't have to change them out anymore? they just added a new feature as well which is the CO2 Injection. I'll be doing it in the garage of my house so I'm thinking about copping that as well. (not to fond of opening the doors all the time.) thanks for the input and advice. anything else that I need to know please don't hesitate to add input. I've been reading through a lot of everything, but your thread is helping me out alot. thnx
Check out non-organic nutes for hydro you will get better results, hydro and organic don't mix very well.
Yes you can add it to other lights. LED's are quite expensive and from what I have seen don't add any more bud density than flouros. You will likely be disappointed.
That light kit is pretty expensive for flouros but if you have it go for it. It is nice to remove the ballast from the grow area. With that heat should not be an issue, the ballasts on flouros gets hotter than the bulbs.
I would highly recommend HID lighting if at all possible, I really think you will be disappointed in bud density with LED's and Flouros.
I am have been trying to follow and LED/HID combo thread, I think the guys user name is Multan. Try a search on it.
Yes its is possible to combine LED's with other lighting systems, good luck keep us posted.To summarize, Is it possible/worth it to add any other type of light to an LED setup (While keeping in mind a stealth setup)
Thanks!!!!
Go for it it's your first grow and if you have the passion for growing you will want better lights. And bud you grow yourself is ALWAYS better.
Try both to get both the red and blue spectrum.There are different types of bulbs for my ballast setup, which bulb type do you think would be the best (you can follow the earlier link, and it allows you to choose a few different bulb types) I'm guessing either the 10,000 or a full spectrum type?
