Cruzer, yea, I have one right down the street too. I found it with all of the ducting and metal stuff used for ventilation etc. Right next to the ducting converters to get from 4" to 6" etc. I honestly don't know what it is made out of. I would assume aluminum though
Purp, I am a bit concerned, but it does not seem to have spread anywhere. I am checking ph, temps, lighting, and ppm everyday and nothing seems to be far out of the ordinary. It has been a little hot in there lately because I am in the transition stage of Fall for the house. This means no more AC, but not exactly 75* outside either so it's harder to regulate at this point. Nothing crazy though, the temps are still within a very moderate range at all times. It was foolish to wait this long, but I finally started recording my ppm, ph, and water level of the two tanks every day. Hopefully I can get enough data soon to make some good decisions as far as getting nute dosages perfect etc.
Day 31
Okay kids, I have a fun fact for you. I have read around allll over and obviously, especially with CFLs (since heat doesn't become much of a problem), that the more lights the better. Now, that being said, I found a post by ROSEMAN that I found very very interesting. He said something along the lines of this:
"I don't know how many lights I am going to use later, or even now. I have about 12 spares sitting around. My goal is to teach, and show that you can get a good crop from 3 lights, and you can get a good crop from 10."
This statement got me wondering a little about some stuff. Now, a few pages back, you will see that...I believe it's BloatedCraig, but I could be wrong, suggested lining the corners of my grow box with fluorescents of various spectrums. I liked this idea, but I don't have the money or time to spend getting that all together. I didn't do anything about it for a while, but the other day I looked at the mother and noticed that she is beautiful. The top is growing, the leaves are green and happy, but there is some sag and sadness to the lower levels. Noticing this, I grabbed a single socket that I have wired up to a long extension chord. In this I put one bulb splitter, and in each of those, I inserted another bulb splitter. I then put in the 4 bulbs. I have 2 800 lumen 3500k bulbs, and 2 650 lumen 3000k bulbs. I put one of each kind on each side. Now, obviously 360* lighting would be optimum, but I have been rotating her daily to change air flow, and try to get a strong stem and branches all around because the fan is only on one side. So, with this I built a rig that hangs down behind the bucket and gives excellent top to bottom light coverage covering almost exactly half of the plant.
Here is the kicker. Anyone who can spare another 30$ for their grow, that doesn't have surrounding lighting, needs to do it.
I just checked on her and spun her around. In less than 24 hours, the difference in growth and happiness of those lower levels is almost shocking. I happily spun her around a few minutes ago and I am hoping to get the same growth on that side.
I took pictures of the extra lighted side, and the non extra lighted side to show you guys. Sadly, my camera is currently charging, but as soon as it is done I will upload them.
I really urge all cfl growers to do this because in 1 day I saw very visible, tangible growth and health progression.
Pics soon!
Oh, I am also thinking that my bagseeds are 2 sativas and an indica. The one that I thought was the runt, I am starting to think is just an indica-esque kinda plant. The other two are starting to get long and branchy so I am excited to have both spectrums going.
