is it goen be ok?

bubbastickyfingers

bubbastickyfingers

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ok so something happened in my grow box this morning and two of my lights either like exploded or broke some how and now there is lots of tiny little peices of glass in my soil and i cant get it out. please someone tell me if this will fuck shit up or not. my plants are 17 days into flower and looking great so i dont want them to die
 
Supgee3

Supgee3

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If they were CFL bulbs, get the fuck outta your grow area asap.... and ventilate that shit OUTSIDE!
CFL bulbs contain Hg(Mercury) which is very harmful to ALL living things.
 
crow499

crow499

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bubbastickyfingers said:
ok so something happened in my grow box this morning and two of my lights either like exploded or broke some how and now there is lots of tiny little peices of glass in my soil and i cant get it out. please someone tell me if this will fuck shit up or not. my plants are 17 days into flower and looking great so i dont want them to die
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not for sure but i had something like that hapen and two out of my 5 died
 
bubbastickyfingers

bubbastickyfingers

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shit. they were both 27 watt cfl. so i should move the plants somewhere ventilated and clean out my grow box? what should i do about the glass in the pots? any suggestions on how to get it out...
 
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passerbye

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it isnt the glass you need to worry about. It's the mercury. I believe if merc was blown into your soil, the plants will abosrb that.

I hate to say this dude, but your life and health aint worth a couple hundred bucks worth of pot. As hard as it would be, I would not smoke that shit. Mercury poisening is pretty serious. you might be ok, but is it even worth taking a risk?

If you are really evil, grow it out, then sell it to someone you dont like and monitor their health. (kidding)
 
bubbastickyfingers

bubbastickyfingers

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passerbye said:
it isnt the glass you need to worry about. It's the mercury. I believe if merc was blown into your soil, the plants will abosrb that.

I hate to say this dude, but your life and health aint worth a couple hundred bucks worth of pot. As hard as it would be, I would not smoke that shit. Mercury poisening is pretty serious. you might be ok, but is it even worth taking a risk?

If you are really evil, grow it out, then sell it to someone you dont like and monitor their health. (kidding)
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OMG depressing. i think you may be right about the plant absorbing the murcury.... question now being. will the plants die before it absorbs enough to harm someone if smoked? or if they live do you think it would be all good to smoke up?
 
DrGreenFinger

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bubbastickyfingers said:
already did. should i be worried about all the tiny shards of glass in the pots my plants are in? or is it just the gas inside the light i need to worry about?
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I would attempt to scrape the top layer to rid soil of mercury and glass. Then replace with fresh soil. I wouldn't try and flush that merc through with water.

When I began growing a couple years ago, I was using a Phototron (with u-shaped fluorescents), and burst a few trying to install them. One burst and the mercury powder landed all over my head (no telling how much I inhaled). It is very dangerous, but I obviously didn't get enough to cause immediate danger. Hopefully symptoms will not appear in the years to come.
 
bubbastickyfingers

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thnks for the speedy help people.... so i think i'll just make a run to home depot and get some soil a couple new lightsand possibly some thin plexy glass to put between my plants and the lights..... maybe its time to switch to hps today.
 
crow499

crow499

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DrGreenFinger said:
I would attempt to scrape the top layer to rid soil of mercury and glass. Then replace with fresh soil. I wouldn't try and flush that merc through with water.[/QUOTE
i would give that a shot but it is late in to flowering so how much will be lift in the plant hard call
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guitarabuser

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Alot has been said elsewhere about harmful exposure to mercury when a CFL pops.

This might calm some nerves:

"The researchers point out that there is a distinction between the kind of mercury that you are exposed to from broken CFLs—elemental mercury—and the mercury emitted from power plant smokestacks after it finds it’s way into waterways and oceans, where it becomes methyl mercury. Methyl mercury accumulates all up the food chain, so that large fish like tuna can contain a lot of it. Methyl mercury crosses the blood-brain barrier and passes through a pregnant woman’s placenta to her fetus. Methyl mercury is responsible for developmental problems, while elemental mercury, which is inhaled, appears to be more of a hazard for adults and children, and only then in the case of severe or prolonged exposures. In most mild cases, when the elemental mercury exposure ends, the bad effects diminish and go away. This is unfortunately not true for the developmental problems caused by methyl mercury.
The startling conclusion of the paper is that in a worse case scenario—you break a CFL in a closed, unventilated room; you vacuum the carpet, throwing mercury into the air; you set the vacuum in a corner; and then sit in the room breathing for eight hours—the amount of mercury exposure is about equivalent to the exposure you’d get from eating a can of Albacore tuna."

From:
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2009/06/12/how-toxic-is-a-busted-compact-florescent-bulb/
 
bubbastickyfingers

bubbastickyfingers

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guitarabuser said:
Alot has been said elsewhere about harmful exposure to mercury when a CFL pops.

This might calm some nerves:

"The researchers point out that there is a distinction between the kind of mercury that you are exposed to from broken CFLs—elemental mercury—and the mercury emitted from power plant smokestacks after it finds it’s way into waterways and oceans, where it becomes methyl mercury. Methyl mercury accumulates all up the food chain, so that large fish like tuna can contain a lot of it. Methyl mercury crosses the blood-brain barrier and passes through a pregnant woman’s placenta to her fetus. Methyl mercury is responsible for developmental problems, while elemental mercury, which is inhaled, appears to be more of a hazard for adults and children, and only then in the case of severe or prolonged exposures. In most mild cases, when the elemental mercury exposure ends, the bad effects diminish and go away. This is unfortunately not true for the developmental problems caused by methyl mercury.
The startling conclusion of the paper is that in a worse case scenario—you break a CFL in a closed, unventilated room; you vacuum the carpet, throwing mercury into the air; you set the vacuum in a corner; and then sit in the room breathing for eight hours—the amount of mercury exposure is about equivalent to the exposure you’d get from eating a can of Albacore tuna."

From:
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2009/06/12/how-toxic-is-a-busted-compact-florescent-bulb/
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so what your saying is that they don't even put enough mercury into one of those lights to really do any harm? and any mercury in the lights would probly be in a next to harmless form?
 
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