T-12 grow. Old school

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Michaelhul

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I’m 58 years old, this is my second grow. I grew once back in 1992 using t-12 fluorescent fixtures.
It worked well back then, so I’m gonna try it again now. I will be posting my last three months of work. Enjoy!
 

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Michaelhul

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3 weeks in.
To big for “under my table” setup.
I build a small 4 x 6 room in my basement , added tinfoil. The tinfoil reflects the heat and keeps the room at 72 off the lights! They were on the 24 seven schedule, I’ve trimmed them once and they’ve been transplanted on these pictures were taken.
 

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Michaelhul

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Build a second grow room Beside the first room,
This one’s 6‘ x 6‘. I built planters, and I also tinfoil the walls again! I plan on using the other room now for clones and tomatoes.The in veg State, and I trim them again and transplanted them a final time.
 

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Michaelhul

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Put a heater in the second room.
Started the clones, and I had some success, and this was my first time so I was basically surprised and happy! Who wouldn’t be? Genetic copies and free! Still on the 24 seven, this is the end of the third month and I have shaped these plants daily! They’re about 2 feet wide and 2 feet high. And these are still all cool blues 6500 K which keeps him short
 

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Michaelhul

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Week one of a flip! 12/12.
I also replaced half the lights with 3000 K fluorescent . Pictures I talk show you the difference! Basically it’s a glorified LED with either run to the spectrum.
 

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Michaelhul

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So now you can see what I can do with these fluorescence. I got them hung sideways down low bud sites everywhere. I added some 2700 KLED/compact fluorescent to the sides and front and top. This is where I’m at right now, this is the end of week three. Tomorrow I start the 0-50-10
 

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The Leprechaun's Pot O Gold

Hello and welcome to my grow journal, here you will find that everything I do is very different than what you normally read in forum grow journals. In no way am I saying that my way is better, it is just different and I also do not say that others should try any of it as it requires a different...
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They say that today's weed is not your Fathers weed, well it's not your Grandpa's either. As an old Hippie that came of age in the early 70's (and who is now a Grandpa) I smoked your Grandpa's weed and it is what I breed and grow. Complex euphoric highs that have no ceiling and last a good while...
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You ever see these threads.
It is the most extreme fluorescent bulb grow i have seen on here.
 
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Michaelhul

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Boatguy said:

The Leprechaun's Pot O Gold

Hello and welcome to my grow journal, here you will find that everything I do is very different than what you normally read in forum grow journals. In no way am I saying that my way is better, it is just different and I also do not say that others should try any of it as it requires a different...
www.rollitup.org

Your Grandpa's Weed or is UV supplementation really needed?

They say that today's weed is not your Fathers weed, well it's not your Grandpa's either. As an old Hippie that came of age in the early 70's (and who is now a Grandpa) I smoked your Grandpa's weed and it is what I breed and grow. Complex euphoric highs that have no ceiling and last a good while...
www.rollitup.org

You ever see these threads.
It is the most extreme fluorescent bulb grow i have seen on here.
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Very impressive!!

I have looked at all the newer /tech … but, because it’s newer, I lean away ..( trust issues!)
It’s amazing to see, and read about all the major advances in the feild!
I can’t believe the THC increases!!!
I smoked in the 80’s-early 90’s brick weed, Columbia gold/ Panama red, Thai weed..
it was extremely potent to me, so much so, that I myself swore it off back in 1995.
I voted to make it legal because I never agreed with the law that would condemn a man for one thing-
And not the other thing….booze/ etc.

so I say ,” to each their own”
 
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Michaelhul said:
Very impressive!!

I have looked at all the newer /tech … but, because it’s newer, I lean away ..( trust issues!)
It’s amazing to see, and read about all the major advances in the feild!
I can’t believe the THC increases!!!
I smoked in the 80’s-early 90’s brick weed, Columbia gold/ Panama red, Thai weed..
it was extremely potent to me, so much so, that I myself swore it off back in 1995.
I voted to make it legal because I never agreed with the law that would condemn a man for one thing-
And not the other thing….booze/ etc.

so I say ,” to each their own”
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RM3 did his own thing, and had good results with it.
We are all here with the same end goal.. Growing successfully, is all that really matters
 
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tstick

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Nice! I kinda did the same thing this last run....except I used my OLD HID ballast and fixture. I found two things:

1. The HID lights did not produce as big a yield as did LEDs...(in my experience)

2. HID grown plants did seem to be more fragrant and the trichomes were consistently more milky.

I have grown under fluorescent shop lights, too. Again, the plants were not as large, but the flavors were on point.

Nice to see some more old schoolers! (I'm 63)
 
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Michaelhul

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tstick said:
Nice! I kinda did the same thing this last run....except I used my OLD HID ballast and fixture. I found two things:

1. The HID lights did not produce as big a yield as did LEDs did...(in my experience)

2. HID grown plants did seem to be more fragrant and the trichomes were consistently more milky.

I have grown under fluorescent shop lights, too. Again, the plants were not as large, but the flavors were on point.

Nice to see some more old schoolers! (I'm 63)
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Michaelhul

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so I was going to throw a set of hid lights on it, for the end of flower.. to get a harder red spec, and to add some more heat.. but I opted for some 2700 LED drop lights, which I modified, by removing the covers, and drilling some holes in the base to cool it down some more so I can get longer life out of these LED bulbs-
I tell ya, I bought a bunch of LED ‘s to light up my house, and basically that’s all they sell now for home lighting.. my Electrician friend said they last forever, but within a year and a half one of them started blinking, not consistently, but Enough to piss me off as I’m making coffee in the morning etc… so I replaced it with an old school light fixture I had and within a month , another one of these led light fixtures started the same b.s….
So I went online……
Stumbled across some Russian kid, who explained in great detail why they fail, and how to fix them!
Voila!
im a born again LED guy.. it is CRIMINAL, how these light companies swear that LED’s have a longer life , then sabotage them by design, to fail- well below the “ “unlimited life “ time they promised at the get go!
The old bait and switch.. at my expense is OVER!
Thus… I’m sticking to my mercury infused , forever running fluorescents… they stopped making them I heard… but I’m a frugal man, and I’m gifted with the ability to deny others my hard earned pennies!
 
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TruckerKevin

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I bought a few of those shop lights from Walmart for $9 a piece. Put sticky tape on them and popped them under where an old bathtub used to be in a spare remote bedroom in our house. I also have some of those colored cheaply grow lights from Amazon mingled in amongst them to give some color. Wether correct or not, I have grown and am still growing countless shit under them. I have no more than $50 invested in them. Just recently harvested 3 white widows that I grew under them, and man that weed was dank everyone I let sample it was blitzed
 

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