my 1st grow CFL

redredwine

redredwine

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by " dc to light bulb connectors" you mean direct connect to light bulb right? i was at menards and home depot today and just looked at lowes website and couldnt find anything like that, as far as y adapters the only thing that comes up is for garden hoses? unless you have to hook up some wiring through the hose adapters?
 
redredwine

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and i actually have seen your thread before, i believe thats the one that made me wana do the surge protector idea, very nice grow
 
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tactownryder

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i used a white cardboard box to make a reflector. i cut it so its 3 feet long 1 foot wide with 4 inch walls around it. cut holes the size of my cfl sockets taped them in there and it works great. it looks like this pretty much
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|_____________| from top view.......x = cfl socket

its basicaly a long narow box with short walls, and no top, n turned upsidedown with cfls taped into holes cut in it. b careful if you do this bcuz the cardboard can catch on fire if you dont do it right
but its a really cheap easy way to hang them, and you can raise them all at once
 
stinkbudd1

stinkbudd1

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hey no problem here are all the things you need to get er done lol..and they are not all on the web pages but they are there i promise you...for 40 bucks you have a great lil set up and if you do go hps later you still keep this for vegging and some full spec flowering thats what i do now...ppp
 

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stinkbudd1

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tactownryder said:
i used a white cardboard box to make a reflector. i cut it so its 3 feet long 1 foot wide with 4 inch walls around it. cut holes the size of my cfl sockets taped them in there and it works great. it looks like this pretty much
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|--x----x----x----x--|
|--x----x----x----x--|
|--x----x----x----x--|
|_____________| from top view.......x = cfl socket

its basicaly a long narow box with short walls, and no top, n turned upsidedown with cfls taped into holes cut in it. b careful if you do this bcuz the cardboard can catch on fire if you dont do it right
but its a really cheap easy way to hang them, and you can raise them all at once
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yeah i did that to mine as well but i completely rapped it with mylar for the safety reasons but its a great reflector..your right and how cheap is that...
 
redredwine

redredwine

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yea thanks, i found them finally, after i went to the store ofcourse, haha. but yea an their only like 2 bucks each too. im def guna go and get more as soon as i can, thanks alot guys. noob grower, noob mistakes.
 
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tactownryder

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lol yea all it cost me was a trip to the basement to get a box and duct tape lol but im getting mylar tomorrow when i get paid,redredwine i deffinatly recamend using myalr or something like that if you end up using cardboard
 
stinkbudd1

stinkbudd1

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not a mistake bro we all been there and thats why we are here for you peeps if it wasnt for this sight id be screwed...there are a lot of ways to do this and even more ways to f**k it up lmao just thinking of my blunders....peace pot prosperity
 
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tactownryder

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oh yea bro your doin good for you first grow, most people dont make it to flowering there first time lol just learn from mistakes and your weed will jus get better and better =)
 
redredwine

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thanks alot guys, and yea i just put up the comp paper for right now bc my setup b4 was just wasting light in every direction haha. now i know using foil is a bad idea correct? but since i have that wall portion thats white already should i just leave that alone and put mylar on the wooden parts only? and as a top ofcourse since its just open space
 
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tactownryder

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foil can b okay if you have it COMPLETLY flat, one wrinkle can burn the shit out of your plants. and i wud deffinatly put it on the wooden parts, and it would help to put it on the white wall but the white paint will work pretty good if u dont feel like messing with it lol all i have is the white paint on my walls and white cardboard reflector and my plants are getting enought light. i have 6x 23 watt 5600k bulbs 1x 42 watt 2700k and 2x 23 watt 3100k bulbs
 
redredwine

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nice, do you have a grow journal or anything? here are some pics of the foil i put up, i figure, even though many are against it, im only using it for the top which i figure is better than having nothing there.
 

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redredwine

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now i know their far from it, im guessing four weeks atleast, but doesnt it look like the lil one is progressing faster than the bigger one?
 
stinkbudd1

stinkbudd1

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not to worry some just dont grow at the same pace as the other in my grow i have now had two BM one grew to 26" in first week of flower the other was around 16"...
 
redredwine

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yea i just dont know what strain they are so i thought that since one is taking less time to flower that it might be proof that its a diff strain from the other
 
stinkbudd1

stinkbudd1

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could be right there also indica faster flowering strain shorter stockier plants big leaves sativas are long flowering lanky thin leave plants..
 
redredwine

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yea this was a ba grow from the get go. using one 23 w 5600k cfl for the both of them, thus now i have midget plants, ahha. but hopefully i can salvage something
 
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