Irish man's first grow.

:bigjoint: You never pm back yet cloudy. Hows it going everyone? im stoked. xoi breakfast, than im going to basically fool around all day today.

changing my avatar and profile pics to some pics from my last grow. i cant seem to post from this phone but i can do that much
 
crap man, i'll get onto you properly tonight or tomorrow. currently hectic craziness as i'm moving house! getting my stuff there (inc the plants) has been a spot of bother to say the least! the upshot of all this is i'll be very busy with my plants, as it's my grandmother's house (she lives in England) and i'll be able to dedicate an entire room to my grow hobby. hell i might even try some outdoor growing seeing as i have a well hidden acre of land behind the house!
 
Heh cheers Bilbo! I gotta lotta work ahead of me! The grow room is 3m X 4m. It needs a lot of cleaning! I've also got a smaller 1m X 1m space for cloning. I'll have plenty of CFLs for the mother plant. Because I, now, have a 600w hps! Which will all be set up and ready to go after I clean up and work out the air ventilation/circulation/filtration... Needless to say, I'm gonna be a busy bastard!! I'll get pics up as soon as everything is good to go!
 
If you are only growing with 1 hps, you hardly need to ventilate a space that size.no need for a air cooled reflector for just that. lol you just need to bring in either fresh air or add co2.

if its a magnetic cap and core, take it somewhere and get a switch installed to turn the ingitor on and off. then you have a switchable ballast.

and invest in quality bulb. im dumping all my cheap hps bulbs. i already use awesome 1000w skinny mh. but i have been guilty on skimping on bulbs. i dont know why... its not like i cant afford good bulbs. i always thought it was bullshit eye hortilux bulbs are 80-100 per lamp. and it so happens there are a few really awesome bulbs for 600w systems. hortilux blue(you need no switch for those i hear, they are conversions) and a few 600w only bulbs.

mylar your room. in my oppinion that light is a little small for that kind of space without it.

Hope your grow rooms coming along well.
 
kushhound187 said:
If you are only growing with 1 hps, you hardly need to ventilate a space that size.no need for a air cooled reflector for just that. lol you just need to bring in either fresh air or add co2.

if its a magnetic cap and core, take it somewhere and get a switch installed to turn the ingitor on and off. then you have a switchable ballast.

and invest in quality bulb. im dumping all my cheap hps bulbs. i already use awesome 1000w skinny mh. but i have been guilty on skimping on bulbs. i dont know why... its not like i cant afford good bulbs. i always thought it was bullshit eye hortilux bulbs are 80-100 per lamp. and it so happens there are a few really awesome bulbs for 600w systems. hortilux blue(you need no switch for those i hear, they are conversions) and a few 600w only bulbs.

mylar your room. in my oppinion that light is a little small for that kind of space without it.

Hope your grow rooms coming along well.
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unfortunately i still have no money for any of that still! lol! but yeah i know the room is a little big so i'm planning on surrounding the plants with large plywood slabs and covering them in mylar. so much happier now i have too much space rather than my recent dire space issue! i can easily get fresh air in. i'll throw in a proper fan too. see if the temperatures are ok. damn heat wave!
 
Yeah Cloudy the heat man, who would have thought it, W are having a wee mini heat wave over the water here as well and despite me buying a 4 inch RVK fan with the filter and all its back to leaving my grow closet half open to keep temps down, and even at that, last night temps were around 85 degrees in the closet. Wish I had a bigger room as well.
 
Imagine the challenges some of us face. Ive never been near this stupid, but i was once brought into a comercial that had maybe 3500 plants. in flower. buddy had 6 massiv acs on the outside of the house. it was the most heatscore operation i ever seen. this fuckers power bill was 2k a month. he told me one time half his breaker blew and lost ac power and lights ran the fucking place up to 130f, killed everything...

always be glad for small spaces. At times even mine is a pain in the ass. and i dont have close to what that genius did. his basement was 4500 square feet. he was really dumb, he was a amatureive been at this for years and i wouldnt want to attempt that shit... maybe with a team of a few guys
 
tomorrow i will be back home! (long weekend with stepsons creche sports day/ birthday/ moving everything from old place/ being generally murdered by this scorching sun!) and i will set everything up! i'm still waiting on my hps. wont have it for a few days unfrotunately. got so much work yet to do!! 8D update pics tomorrow i promise! it's been to long!!
 
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tomorrow i will be back home! (long weekend with stepsons creche sports day/ birthday/ moving everything from old place/ being generally murdered by this scorching sun!) and i will set everything up! i'm still waiting on my hps. wont have it for a few days unfrotunately. got so much work yet to do!! 8D update pics tomorrow i promise! it's been to long!!
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Grumpy fistshake!!! hurry up young grasshopper. you are making me impatient... just kidding. shoot me that pm whenevers good for ya.

enjoying a raging campfire. so nice. its boring out here, but fires always good company
 
If you dont really care about pics, thats all good too. plus you can watch my journal once i get this internet shit sorted. I am running new strains tho, and wont be publicly displaying last crops pics.

anyone on here interested can pm me a email adress. im more than happy to share thepictures with friends
 
well after far to long i finally have some pics for you!

My Clone! looking very happy and growing great.
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My three seedlings! (Royal Dwarf) got another three next to them that have yet to break soil if they do at all. this is the last pic i'll be mentioning them on this thread.
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My autos!
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My most favourite pic of the best auto!
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My lil top dawg!
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So yeah! they're all still kicking allong nicely! my new place is great and i'll finally be able to get to work tomorrow!

I cannot wait to get my hands on that hps... but for now since the heatwave is still raging. i'll be putting them out to enjoy the sun tomorrow!
 

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SO MUCH for putting them out in the sun! for Ireland has returned to its usual summer activities and is now pissing it down with the rain! SiGh!i!i!
 
Looking great Cloudy! Ya it's pouring buckets here in the Mitten of America right now too. I'm not complaining though, sure beats the over 90F temps I put up with in early June last year. The autos look to be frosting up nicely mate, looking forward to watching them finish.
 
finaly got my hands on the beauty that is HPS!!! omnomnomnomnomnom! and it came with a reflector and (kush will appreciate this!) a magnetic ballast! nice and quiet. AND BLOOODY HEAVY.. lol! and the cherry on the cake? i was given another reflector and a 200w duaL spectrum cfl as well!! i'm swimming in light!
 
here is my temporary setup! it's obviously unfinished but for now it is functional! hps on the left! 200w dual spectrum cfl on the right! it's hanging sideways for a reason.. it's not at all ideal..


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