If you buy a book like this, keep in mind, a lot of it is outdated.Red, The best recommendation you will get here is to buy a book. The book recommendation I have is "Marijuana Horticulture" by Jorge Cervantes to start; there are others. Greg Green's "The Cannabis Grow Bible" is another.
There are knowledgeable, well meaning people here but yahoos too. Why trust random people's opinion on the internet?
Otherwise "Google" your questions. Read the published literature. Try "Youtube" for visuals...FWIW...Good luck
Red, Epsom to cure Cal problem??? What exactly were you growing in your successful nursery biz?I know when using coco for other organics I had calcium issues, but Epsom salt is to fix this, but many researches show the coco sucks the Epsom in but doesn't push it back out, any info on this?
althor, I agree...Perfecting technique is why I am here and I have been growing for a while...Having basic knowledge is the precursor to working on technique...At least for me...I enjoy reading but I first learned to read...FWIWIf you buy a book like this, keep in mind, a lot of it is outdated.
Books are good for some research but that is about it.
No amount of reading can replace growing yourself.
There has been more research and testing and experimenting done in the past 5 years than there has been in the past several hundred years on cannibas.
Red, Are you asking how to install the fan, filter and duct through the hood? If so there are a number of vids on "Youtube"...Easier to watch than explain...I don't have the time now to do the search for you and it may do you well to look at the various hookups there yourself...Chill, this is going to be a fun ride...FWIWIf you can attach a link to the post ill just go ahead and order it so I have it.
Red, The link to your grow package provides a window that shows an interior pic of the tent with lighting, carbon filter and fan set up...Go with the flow...Try it out...Do not get attached to problems that may or may not arise...Your mind can be a dangerous neighborhood...You will adjust to issues that arise over a sixteen week grow period; depending on the strain and your grow process. Nothing bad happens over a short time period IF you follow THE definitive guide to growing found in whatever book it is I hope you ordered...My advice is not to do anything you read on this web site...Make your own mistakes...The future is littered with opportunity not wreckage...You will make mistakes...I did not learn much from what I did right...You will not become the ganja god on your first grow...Don't strive for perfection...It will kill you & the plant and no one here really cares anyway...Your first grow Will provide you with experience, knowledge and a good buz If you follow the definitive growing guide in whatever book you bought...Then you can come back here brag, post pics and hopefully help someone else along...No one on this site is growing your strain under your conditions with your equipment in the house you live in...I'm asking the best method to cool the lights I feel I may have temp issues, the plants will do better with less temp
Dude you need to more reading. A lot more reading. When the Wal Mart clerk in the garden section knows but you don't?I'm not aware of what coco is, please explain that, thanks
As is said in Spanish - "Con cuidado, hombre". Read up on RICO and CCE and think again about using that house.To answer your questions, I do not smoke bud; this will be my retirement fun. Something new, doing something new and learning will give my brain something new to do.
I also intend to do this as a business, grow 8-10 plants, soon upgrade to 2 tents and 1 hydro tent so I will have a harvest monthly. But first I need experience.. I have a friend that I use to golf with at the club in West Palm Beach who use to own 2 full grow houses with over 250-350 plants per house that was raided in 03 because he let the wrong person in his inner circle.
So now he's out of the business but I am sure I could pick his brain but at the same time I don't want anyone getting the idea I have a grow room which will break my security.
Right now I have a 4 BR home with 16 cameras, cameras I have up were from two years ago. I'm currently removing two in the hall way of the grow room just for my safety.
But again you can see, I like to over do anything i do.
How much heat does it remove from the light if I do it that way? I just arrived in Long Island now, I'm heading to my hotel room so ill look on YouTube in a little
Red, Red, Red, What it is that you need to fear most is exactly what it is that you don't know followed by what you think it is you know that is wrong...You are throwing money away...You are my age otherwise I would never have spent this time here thinking you to be a fukked up kid with a credit card...The size operation you are thinking of does not require tents...It requires the entire rooms of the entire house...There is a saying I use in business...Never argue with an ignoramus. An ignoramus will defend to the death the right to remain ignorant...Why do you bother to ask questions when the answer doesn't matter?I'm ordering the lights now and the 400,600 and 800 watt light doesn't have a huge difference in price ... So tell me; is it worth having the 1k if growing 6-8 plants in my tent? I mean I hear and read were people say 1000 per plant but that's a lot when your growing in a tent, I personally have no experience but if the whole idea is to mimic the sun, nothing will really work as the sun unless using a HMI, a 1.2k HMI is the truest form of true sun replication. My earlier years i worked as a film editor for many many many years, worked on a lot of Hollywood film sets, this will be my 2nd time retiring
But I want to make decent amount of money. If my concerns are hear, and security from choppers then going to a 1k is just putting a bullet in my head... If heat was a concern, then I'd have really made a poor mistake...
Or I can use the 400, grow for my first 3 months, if I have susscess I can upgrade to a 1k or not or buy another 400 and just have 2 tents... Just a thought
So what I need is a inline fan to connect to my light. Thinking of buying a 4" TD series inline fan 100 CFM