My First Grow, super noob, could use some help!
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bijna
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Well, this is my first grow, so I haven't gotten to the point where they would smell yet. I made it myself, the air comes into one internal chamber and then is forced thru some of the crystal cat litter which eliminates odor on the way out. I also have an Ionic Bulb in my box which is supposed to produce negative ions that eliminate odors.
We'll seeeee
We'll seeeee
got a pic of that set up?
bijna
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yepp
Here are a few pictures for ya
1. outside of set up
2. inside, with ionic bulb in the middle
3. the crystals
4. building the scrubber
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bijna
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Welp, I decided that I guess it was time to transplant since there were roots popping out the side of the peat pots. So I removed the peat pots carefully with some scissors and transplanted them into some 2 liters I'd been saving. Unfortunately I ran out of potting soil half way through, so 3 of them are still in the peat pots until I can get some more soil.
I had quite a shock when I came home this evening. I opened my box to check on my babies and I found that the temperature was 100 degrees! Turns out my girlfriend's shirt had gotten sucked into the passive intake and was blocking fresh airflow.
I got the shirt out, and I put in a little fan I got at target to move some more air around in the box.
So anyways, here are some pictures:
1 bright ass box
2 the favorite
3 plantttt
4 the guys who missed out
5 the whole picture, with the new circulation fan
I had quite a shock when I came home this evening. I opened my box to check on my babies and I found that the temperature was 100 degrees! Turns out my girlfriend's shirt had gotten sucked into the passive intake and was blocking fresh airflow.
I got the shirt out, and I put in a little fan I got at target to move some more air around in the box.
So anyways, here are some pictures:
1 bright ass box
2 the favorite
3 plantttt
4 the guys who missed out
5 the whole picture, with the new circulation fan
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bijna
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Went to borders and raided their home gardening section.
Clockwise from top left:
The Cannabible 2 - Jason King
The Cannabible 3 - Jason King
Marijuana Success Indoors: Garden Tours and Tips - Ed Rosenthal
Easy Marijuana Gardening - Ed Rosenthal
Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible - Jorge Cervantes
Cannabis Cultivation: A Complete Grower's Guide 2nd Edition - Mel Thomas
Marijuana New School: Indoor Cultivation - Jeff Mowta
So far, Marijuana New School is my favorite, because its got a lot of diagrams and whatnot. I've heard good things about Jorge Cervantes, but his book is really cluttered, confusing and full of advertisements! The Cannabibles are really interesting, but not too helpful for growers.
Clockwise from top left:
The Cannabible 2 - Jason King
The Cannabible 3 - Jason King
Marijuana Success Indoors: Garden Tours and Tips - Ed Rosenthal
Easy Marijuana Gardening - Ed Rosenthal
Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible - Jorge Cervantes
Cannabis Cultivation: A Complete Grower's Guide 2nd Edition - Mel Thomas
Marijuana New School: Indoor Cultivation - Jeff Mowta
So far, Marijuana New School is my favorite, because its got a lot of diagrams and whatnot. I've heard good things about Jorge Cervantes, but his book is really cluttered, confusing and full of advertisements! The Cannabibles are really interesting, but not too helpful for growers.
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bijna
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Welp, I got another thermometer after mine tweaked out and I'm glad I did! Something was not going right with my ventilation after I installed an inline duct fan I got at the grow shop. My temperature was between 99 and 101! Really dangerous, so I let my babies sleep for awhile until I could come up with a solution.
First thing I did was move the whole box out of my living room closet and into my bedrooms, since nobody goes in there besides me and my girlfriend. I figured the hot air was getting pumped back out and into the closet and pulled back in. Well moving it into the bedroom only brought it down a few degrees. So I taped up every hole I could find to make sure I was only getting air from my passive intake. Still no luck. So I made the passive intake bigger, no luck. I grabbed the little fan I had inside pushing air around and put it outside pointing into the box. Voila! Problem solved and my temps are now between 79 and 84 on either end of the box. I'm freezing a big jug of water, and I'm going to put it in the box right in front of the fan to try and bring the temp down even some more.
I finished of all my two liters of soda today so I transplanted the last two of my plants into the 2 liters. The ones I transplanted the day before last are fucking booming! I've started using some FoxFarm nutes today as well, haven't seen any noticeable improvements or anything. We shall see.
I'm also referring to my plants now by the 2 liters that they're in. There's Squirt, Crush, Schweppes, Fresca, DC (diet coke), and A&W!
But anyways, here are the pics:
1: Box out in the open with fan pointing inwards
2: all the girls
3: Squirt and A&W
4: current temps, the top is by the intake and the bottom is by the exhaust
5: clean clean box
6: view through the intake at Fresca and DC
First thing I did was move the whole box out of my living room closet and into my bedrooms, since nobody goes in there besides me and my girlfriend. I figured the hot air was getting pumped back out and into the closet and pulled back in. Well moving it into the bedroom only brought it down a few degrees. So I taped up every hole I could find to make sure I was only getting air from my passive intake. Still no luck. So I made the passive intake bigger, no luck. I grabbed the little fan I had inside pushing air around and put it outside pointing into the box. Voila! Problem solved and my temps are now between 79 and 84 on either end of the box. I'm freezing a big jug of water, and I'm going to put it in the box right in front of the fan to try and bring the temp down even some more.
I finished of all my two liters of soda today so I transplanted the last two of my plants into the 2 liters. The ones I transplanted the day before last are fucking booming! I've started using some FoxFarm nutes today as well, haven't seen any noticeable improvements or anything. We shall see.
I'm also referring to my plants now by the 2 liters that they're in. There's Squirt, Crush, Schweppes, Fresca, DC (diet coke), and A&W!
But anyways, here are the pics:
1: Box out in the open with fan pointing inwards
2: all the girls
3: Squirt and A&W
4: current temps, the top is by the intake and the bottom is by the exhaust
5: clean clean box
6: view through the intake at Fresca and DC
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Did you wire the lighting yourself? if so, could you elaborate?
cheetah2007
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preaty nice collection you got.you are the man
bijna
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I guess you can call it "wiring" but its not too complicated. I just bought a 3 socket bathroom light fixture that was mirrored. Normally its supposed to me mounted to a wall and hardwired in, so it has three wires coming out the back; a positive, a negative, and a ground. So what I did was just buy what they call an appliance power cord replacement, which is basically just an extension cord cut in half to expose the wiring. So then I wired the positive to the positive, the negative to the negative and so on. Voila! Plug it in and there are your sockets. I used little light bulb splitters so I could use more bulbs. And when I need even more light I'll put two light bulb splitters in th light bulb splitters, effectively giving me room for four per original socket thus 12 bulbs from that little fixture. The fixture was only like $10 and the appliance power cord replacement was like $3
Heres a picture of the original light set-up, I no longer have that giant incandescent bulb in the middle, its been replaced with two CFLs.
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Just what I needed to know, thanks man. Peace
Nebuchadnezzar
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Oh, also, that big "plant light" is an incandescent bulb I believe, either way, its not going to help your plants(unless their cold 
) I made the exact same mistake on my first grow.
) I made the exact same mistake on my first grow.
bijna
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Oh, also, that big "plant light" is an incandescent bulb I believe, either way, its not going to help your plants(unless their cold
Yeah I know now, Its no longer in there, I threw it down the garbage shoot for a fun noise.
jordann9e
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bijna
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Its already lined with mylar..
bijna
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Wellls, things have been going well. I've got all my girls in their 2 liters still. Anyone know if I'll need to transplant again or if these 2 liters will do?
The extra 2 liter you see in there are three 2 liters with frozen water that I cycle through when they dethaw to bring the temps down even more. It works really well. Been using the Fox Farm and it seems to be booming. They're not getting very tall, just really bushy, which is good because I want to keep them short. I also started LSTing them yesterday.
When do y'all think I can start looking for pre-flowers?
Pics:
1: top view
2: A&W, the favorite
3: the plantsssss
4: temps
The extra 2 liter you see in there are three 2 liters with frozen water that I cycle through when they dethaw to bring the temps down even more. It works really well. Been using the Fox Farm and it seems to be booming. They're not getting very tall, just really bushy, which is good because I want to keep them short. I also started LSTing them yesterday.
When do y'all think I can start looking for pre-flowers?
Pics:
1: top view
2: A&W, the favorite
3: the plantsssss
4: temps
