first grow diy stealth bubbleponics 400w hps

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Mar 24, 2009

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so i saw the growcabs in homegrown hydro website and they were too expensive so i just built it myself i useds a metal storage cabinet 400w hps, inline fan carbon air scrubber trimeter and cutting edge solutions and bubbleponics dwc grow method. this is my first serious grow so im going to need some pointers i dont have much grow room cuz i needed it small and stealth. so opinions and pointers are very welcome as long as constructive. im waiting on afgahn goo seeds to sprout my air temp is 80 or 76 when fan runs water temp 68 tds is 0 til my plants are rooted then ill put nutes at 1/4 strenght? thanks for checking it out

 

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Young Macdonald

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Mar 24, 2009

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wow great carpentry work mate. Also is that strain your planting a mostly Indica strain? Its good to see you put in some ventilation for that 400 watt beast! You should look at the cooltubes for hps light or the diy ones, my setup is going to b exactly the same but a bit bigger and im purchasing a cooltube and 2 4" duct fans to move the air afap. looks good man ill be keeping an eye out keep us updated!

also whats your email adress :>

 

Elove11

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Mar 25, 2009

• #3

yeah man ur ladies mite be alil to crispy for that lil cab...

a 400 is gunna kick some major ass in there if u can vent it good enough...a 250 would have been prime

 

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Mar 26, 2009

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Elove11 said:

yeah man ur ladies mite be alil to crispy for that lil cab...

a 400 is gunna kick some major ass in there if u can vent it good enough...a 250 would have been prime

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ya i have it running now the temp seems to stay at 79 i have a good inline plus im going to put a small fan inside. but i was concerned about that so ive been running it for the past two days i have the fan on for 45 of for 15 and the cab stays at 79 and the water temp is 69 is that alright.

 

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Mar 29, 2009

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i just hooked up my tridip meter but it measures in ec can anyone help me right now it say ec 59 how do i convert that to ppm. it also says to multiply by 10 so is that 590 ec? i tried a conversion table but it converted to 4xxx,xxx that cant be right

 

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Mar 29, 2009

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i just hooked up my tridip meter but it measures in ec can anyone help me right now it say ec 59 how do i convert that to ppm. it also says to multiply by 10 so is that 590 ec? i tried a conversion table but it converted to 4xxx,xxx that cant be right

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here are some pics

 

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Apr 2, 2009

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so here is the one week update the pic is weird the balast makes my camera do that i have better pics but i broke my usb drive on my cpu so this is the best i can do the big one is a og kush clone my buddy gave me the seedlings are growing good but there is some wierd shape and curl to the leaves im not sure why could it be not enough airstones they are really green though

 

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Apr 6, 2009

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they are growing fast when i get better pics im gonna need some experienced ppl to tell me if they are looking good

 

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Apr 8, 2009

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here are some good pics of everything

 

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Apr 8, 2009

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here it is i suck at this stuff

 

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Apr 19, 2009

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they are looking good the og clone took off ive had to trim some of the indica leaves they were so big they were longer the plant was tall and super wide fingers im getting excited about them i started flowering today i want to see which ones will be female

 

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cosmofraek

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Jun 9, 2009

• #12

arent they gonna be female if they are clones?

 

djxl2001

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Aug 30, 2009

• #13

Looks good, I'm going to be starting up my own virgin grow pretty soon with similar dimensions. Good Luck on your first grow.

 

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henleyhaze

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Aug 31, 2009

• #14

hey man I got a box just taller than yours. I suggest you research and implement a screen of green. that will get you the max harvest out of that small space if not then they will easily out grow the box. also stop trimming your leaves your gonna hurt your harvest doing that. I assume you have figured out the rest. its all cake from here on out. regular res. changes and add food and water. need help or ideas for a screen of green no problem.

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Mr.Bob Saget

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Sep 2, 2009

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Hey man, I don't know if you ever got your question answered about your EC trying to convert to PPM. I would say don't waste your time. There are a couple different conversions to PPM from EC. EC is the most accurate measurement, and the one you would want to use if your meter reads it.