Mexican airlines auto grow
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borbor
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your walls and floor are white, the foil is hurting more than helping, with a flat white wall or floor the light is reflected evenly, the foil has crinkles that reflect it randomly and concentrate a lot of light/heat in small spaces and leave other spaces with less, also, probably reflects less light than your white walls
Scubasteve27
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Took the foil out thanks for the heads up
Scubasteve27
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Day 18. Gonna start feeding it from the GH performance pack I believe I can start with the micro and gro along with the rapid start and floralicious 
Scubasteve27
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I dunno what AN is I got the general hydroponic performance pack this is my first time ha. Do u use the calmag bc of a deficiency or is it good either way? Green crack right??
Germama
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Yep and AN is what ur using advanced nutrients used cal mag because of coco no calcium in it.
Scubasteve27
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Gonna get the calmag and b52
prostheticninja
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You should put a reflector over those bulbs so you they throw the light down. It can be hard to get a reflector that does the job, but this is my set up: 
As you may or may not be able to see, there is a red wire that runs down the center of my reflector. That wire supports my lights and holds them up. How that happens is that I thread the wire through the more rectangular opening below the spiral. It hangs the CFL bulb very nicely and it is impossible (unless the glass snaps in half) for your light to fall. Using insulated, copper, wire ensures that it will never break or fray. You can also find wire that is rated for much higher temperatures than the surface of a CFL bulb so you do not have to worry about a potential fire hazard.
My reflector is just a simple aluminum wing-style reflector that I got when I bought my 400 hps. It just so happens that this reflector fits perfectly in my current grow cabinet. Anyway, this reflector has two holes on each side that are like a colon ( : ). In these holes I have tightened a zip tie to act like sort of like a tie down point.
That tie down point does two things: it allows me to attach the hook for my ratchet pulleys; and it gives me something to wrap the supportive wire around so I can zip tie it to itself after I wrap it a few times.
I can't really recommend a certain type of reflector or anything if you decide to do this, but I recommend the method of reflection whole heartedly.
As you may or may not be able to see, there is a red wire that runs down the center of my reflector. That wire supports my lights and holds them up. How that happens is that I thread the wire through the more rectangular opening below the spiral. It hangs the CFL bulb very nicely and it is impossible (unless the glass snaps in half) for your light to fall. Using insulated, copper, wire ensures that it will never break or fray. You can also find wire that is rated for much higher temperatures than the surface of a CFL bulb so you do not have to worry about a potential fire hazard.
My reflector is just a simple aluminum wing-style reflector that I got when I bought my 400 hps. It just so happens that this reflector fits perfectly in my current grow cabinet. Anyway, this reflector has two holes on each side that are like a colon ( : ). In these holes I have tightened a zip tie to act like sort of like a tie down point.
That tie down point does two things: it allows me to attach the hook for my ratchet pulleys; and it gives me something to wrap the supportive wire around so I can zip tie it to itself after I wrap it a few times.
I can't really recommend a certain type of reflector or anything if you decide to do this, but I recommend the method of reflection whole heartedly.
Scubasteve27
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Starting lst tonight germ and prosthetic when I get the time I'm gonna try and rig a reflector in there. 
prostheticninja
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My oh my, those are some nice looking leaves. I like the short style with the really broad leaves. I think you're in for a real treat, come late flower and harvest.
Scubasteve27
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Not sure what happened here I think I need mag for the spotting but I don't know how the moisture got there. 
Ximaxxx
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lmaoo
Scubasteve27
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Funny guy
Germama
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Moisture is just from leaves overlapping and sitting on top of each other I'm pretty sure. Once it gets really thick from lst I remove sum of the smaller leaves in middle to create airflow and stop overlap.
