bladezilla
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Hey guys and dolls. My plants have been growing great under my CFLs with bottom wick watering but I have TWO problems as a result. They grew TOO WELL.
#1. I let my plants veg for 6 weeks before turning back the lights to 12/12. I was thinking I'd get some males to cull out to make more lumens available to the girls. Well as it turns out I planted a sorority. There are NO MALES in the bunch!!!
#2. I've got ELEVEN girls crowding my newly moved room. The sativa doms are growing tall and I clipped the tops, for the SECOND TIME, yesterday and started some clones rooting and trimmed some 2 ft long branches that I didn't have room to clone.
Heres the TRASHY part and it's working out nicely so far.
I'm going 12/12 on these clones so they won't bush out and take up so much space. I don't have room for more ladies and I'm not building another room so I did this.
I took a 35 gallon galvanized metal trash can. A nice shiny new one. I the bottom I put a square tupperware container. I took my snipped my clones and put them in 48 oz plastic jars. In the bottom of the jars I put some clay rock hydro medium and two holes about 3/4 inch in the very bottom then ran about a foot long piece of 1/2 inch nylon rope throught the holes and pulled it up above the medium as a water wick.
This WICK has been the BEST!!!. I have all of my other girls on wick watering and I have NEVER had a watering related problem. They are all in rubbermade containers, 3 3 gallon pots to a container. I just pour water and nutes in and the wick takes the solution up into the soil very slowly. Just enough and not too much. My plants have done VERY WELL with it and I HIGHLY recommend it.
Anyway, back to the trash can. The container in the bottom holds these 5 48 oz plastic jar wick waterers. I cut some small access and vent holes in the can lid and hung a fuxture with 2 42 watt 2700K cfls inside. The shiny walls of the can reflect ALL the light to the plants.
I'll let you know how it works out but it seems perfect. It's cheap, small, incogneto, reflective and is just deep enough to allow 12/12 flowering growth.
I think I'm going to make some vent holes toward the bottom so the convection heat rising out of the can will draw in fresh cool air.
5 plants might be a bit much when these grow but I'm sure 3 small plants would cohabitate nicely basking in the concentrated light reflecting from all sides. If they get to smelling up the garage I'll add power venting and a charcoal filter but these are garbage cans in the garage. I have the lights come on in the early evening when nobody comes around and they go off in the very early morn.
Nessesity truely IS the mother of invention. I think the garbage can idea is great!!
#1. I let my plants veg for 6 weeks before turning back the lights to 12/12. I was thinking I'd get some males to cull out to make more lumens available to the girls. Well as it turns out I planted a sorority. There are NO MALES in the bunch!!!
#2. I've got ELEVEN girls crowding my newly moved room. The sativa doms are growing tall and I clipped the tops, for the SECOND TIME, yesterday and started some clones rooting and trimmed some 2 ft long branches that I didn't have room to clone.
Heres the TRASHY part and it's working out nicely so far.
I'm going 12/12 on these clones so they won't bush out and take up so much space. I don't have room for more ladies and I'm not building another room so I did this.
I took a 35 gallon galvanized metal trash can. A nice shiny new one. I the bottom I put a square tupperware container. I took my snipped my clones and put them in 48 oz plastic jars. In the bottom of the jars I put some clay rock hydro medium and two holes about 3/4 inch in the very bottom then ran about a foot long piece of 1/2 inch nylon rope throught the holes and pulled it up above the medium as a water wick.
This WICK has been the BEST!!!. I have all of my other girls on wick watering and I have NEVER had a watering related problem. They are all in rubbermade containers, 3 3 gallon pots to a container. I just pour water and nutes in and the wick takes the solution up into the soil very slowly. Just enough and not too much. My plants have done VERY WELL with it and I HIGHLY recommend it.
Anyway, back to the trash can. The container in the bottom holds these 5 48 oz plastic jar wick waterers. I cut some small access and vent holes in the can lid and hung a fuxture with 2 42 watt 2700K cfls inside. The shiny walls of the can reflect ALL the light to the plants.
I'll let you know how it works out but it seems perfect. It's cheap, small, incogneto, reflective and is just deep enough to allow 12/12 flowering growth.
I think I'm going to make some vent holes toward the bottom so the convection heat rising out of the can will draw in fresh cool air.
5 plants might be a bit much when these grow but I'm sure 3 small plants would cohabitate nicely basking in the concentrated light reflecting from all sides. If they get to smelling up the garage I'll add power venting and a charcoal filter but these are garbage cans in the garage. I have the lights come on in the early evening when nobody comes around and they go off in the very early morn.
Nessesity truely IS the mother of invention. I think the garbage can idea is great!!