Felix

So I have decided to start with 2x85w 6400k cfl. I'll add more if I see its needed. Stage 1 of my DIY light reflector

IMO, I would focus my light on top of the canopy. That is where your buds develop. Generally you clean the under growth so all the energy of the plant is focused on growing buds and not small side growth.

Thanks Toby. I jus got all these lights and not enough weed for the lights. Will remedy that on my next grow. So which bulbs and how many should I add to the 2 300w led panels

Thanks for the advice. Any idea what the effects to my grow would be if I put four of the warm white cfls under my scrog canopy. I run two 300w full spectrum led panels in a 1.2x0.75x2m at the moment

Hey. So I have managed to score 9 large cfl bulbs. I have a veg/clone cabinet I'm building. It is 0.6x0.8x1.8m. I have never used cfl before and need to know how many of each I should stick in there. I have 3x 85w 6500k bulbs 5x65w 4500k bulbs and one 105w 6500k. What should I put in the cabinet. It will be only veg and cloning to supply my tent? Thanks

Two days after flushing, this is what I have. Is this normal?

Pic.....?

Looking good!

 

I have the same problem with runoff, as the tent fills up you can cause damage hauling them in and out.

 

I saw plastics for africa sells heavy duty plastic trays that are 70cm x 130cm. 2 of them side by side will fill your tent really well. I want to get 2 and then just put something under the far edge to raise them a little so all the run off will run to one side where it can be scooped out.... only one small problem... they cost about R850 each.... kinda heavy to fork out R1700 on plastic trays..

Hey aj. Just go to your local hardware and get a geyser tray. They come in several sizes. I just bought a 1.2x0.6 tray already has a good hole to conect a runoff pipe for R160. Fits my tent perfectly 1.2x0.75

This is my first grow with led. Actually it's my first indoor grow. Only experience I have is with planted aquariums and led has great penetration through water. I'm currently on the third week of growing under 2x300w pannels. I considered one 600w but I get a better foot print with 2x300w. My tent is 1.2x0.75x2.0h I think I have monsters in the making but again it's my first indoor babies. Amnesia haze three weeks from sprout and one with the lights off for better colour. Hope this helps a bit. I'll be starting a grow log soon if you want to see the results and as soon as my led grow strips arrive I plan to put them below my scrog net facing up into the canopy....They may still take another month thanks to SA post

Any tips would be great. Don't know what a good distance under the net to place the strips would be. Maybe someone here knows? I already made the mistake of putting my lights to close. 

Cheers

Good to see you take pride in your work it shows. Sweet job

Hey Frogman

 

While I don't know much about the led lights you're rocking there, I would advise you to figure a way to consolidate and focus those cfl's. From instrumented measurements, I have seen that cfl's don't "throw" very far at all, while the LEDs might throw further, and thus, adjusting your height to suit the LEDs will negate the effects of the cfl's in your current configuration.

 

I might go so far as to say, forget about the cfl's if you cannot fabricate a suitable reflector.

 

Peace out

Hey coco

I didn't even think about how much light I was losing because of no reflectors until you mentioned it. Thanks for the advice. I'm waiting for a mate to fabricate a concave reflector from aluminium sheet fo me. Until then I used aluminium takeaway containers and just that has increased my light saturation by almost 50%. Any more suggestions to throw my way?

Hi all. I'm still very new to all of this so I would like to post some pics of my veg room from the beginning so maybe I can avoid some mistakes....so here goes

I have just finished painting the inside of the cupboard with enamel white. I'm putting a layer of 50mm high density rubber on the bottom for insulation. I would really like some advice on air intake and outlet before I start cutting. I'm planning to use a passive intake whole 50mm and a 4" gamer fan for extractor. I would like to permanently have two mother plants and a small shelf at the height of the pots for 12 clones max.

I just finished my lights today and would like to know opinions on that. I have 4x 12watt led grow lights 2x 25watt cool white cfl and 2x 25watt warm white cfl. Is this enough light for veg/clone cupboard

Thanks for the use of your experience....

Again thanks for the advice. I have discovered since I posted that my idea was not such a great one...well I shouldn't be complaining I have five magic plants on the way

Autos will flower under 24 hrs of light. They have a sort growth cycle and go straight to flowering regardless of your light cycle.

Fems will produce female plants 99% of the time but may or ma not have auto flowering characteristics.

So they are different.

You can flower them together but the fems will probably out grow the auto and compete for light.

I wouldn't mind if either of these strains turned male. It should make for an intersting hybrid both amnesia and mazar are fantastic strains and all seeds come from dutch passion seeds. Wouldn't mind a handful of seeds from that hybrid....you are giving me ideas about forcing one of amnesia to go hermie. I'll get more haze seeds from the hermie plant and a cross may turn out incredibly....got some time to think about it

Cool thanks for the advice. I have only got four plant in a 1.2x0.7m tent so the auto will have its own space and I am going to scrog the four amnesia. There should be an uncrowded section to stick the auto mazar where she will get enough light

I need some help here. My mate just had to close down his grow. He gave me an auto flowering mazar. It's just started sprouting. The question is this. I have four amnesia haze 19 days into veg can I just pop this in with the other seedlings as the auto flower has a 3-4 week shorter cycle than the fem amnesia or are there growing differences between auto flower and fem plants. Thanks

@Toby excellent article and site in general looks like it could become a favourite @Green Leaf Organics thanks for the advice. Below is a pic at two weeks when should I turn the second one back on

Hi bud

I am a bit confused here... are u running 600w for seedlings?

Yes. Is it to much. The lights are 40cm above the girls

Wow. That seems excessive? Watch for the light burn, easy to do with LED. Or grow yourself "hash tips"

Why do you say it's excessive? The end goal is to be growing 6-8 plants in the tent. There is no heat from the lights on the plant because of the glass cover and two fans in each unit for cooling so how does light burn happen...still new to this so please tell me if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks

@Toby No. I'm in the East Cape. It makes no difference where in the country you are. If it gets intercepted it happens at customs. Just take out the insurance and stealth packaging option. They will keep sending until it arrives.

My attitude order just arrived. Paid for two 5pks. One holy grail kush and one pk white lady og. Received 10 strains in total. Including a three pk of reserva privada tangie. Didn't get 16 strains as originally thought but that's what happens when I try maths when I am baked. It has taken a long time. Since March. Eventually it is here....

Just double checked my invoice. I paid for two 3pks one holy grail kush the other white lady og. They sent me two 5pk.....sweeeeet

My attitude order just arrived. Paid for two 5pks. One holy grail kush and one pk white lady og. Received 10 strains in total. Including a three pk of reserva privada tangie. Didn't get 16 strains as originally thought but that's what happens when I try maths when I am baked. It has taken a long time. Since March. Eventually it is here....

I have 2 x 300w panels in a tent that size and I am 2 weeks into my first grow with them. 4 Amnesia Haze. Pics of two of them below.

Bean for bean there is little difference but I buy 6 beans from attitude and I get 16 free by using their promos

I did think about this in the beginning. I did not want to risk purchasing with a credit card over the net, buying seeds from overseas. I figured that was the riskier of the two. GSR has supplied a lot of people, I can't see them knocking on everyone's door. Oh well, if they do, they do.  Besides, I bought some stuff a while ago that was so full of seeds, not good quality, but I now have hundreds of seeds. I am growing some to see what the quality is like if cared for.

I refuse to give personal details to my seedbank. Attitude purchasing is encouraged in bitcoin by an automatic gift pack of really cool beans if pay bitcoin. My order from the end of march has finally left customs yesterday and will be in my hand by Tuesday. GSR is also really expensive. If they set up anonymous purchasing  (bitcoin ) I might consider it.

Ok here are some pics without the pink. In the normal light they look much better in colour. What say you?

Hi bud and welcome to the forums.

I am organic so can't really help on the nutes and things sorry

Haha the seedlings look a little pink to me... any chance of a pic under proper lighting?

Cheers

Reaf

 

 

Yeah looking at my pics again I see what you mean, I will shoot a few this afternoon under the normal lights. Didn't even enter my head that the pink might not help seeing the light colour...until later:poke