VictorVIcious
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I'll be making a box soon too,A new word, I like it. what about your stealth-icity? You can maximize your stealth-icicty by.. I really like it. Props dude. VV
first journal, lst, cfl's
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granitestate
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makin new words is the shit. There will be more to come. Linguistics are fun to mess with haha
tahoe58
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I do believe that normal daytime sunlight is 10,000 lumens per sq ft as measured at solar noon. I am working with 4000 and it seems to be working reasonaqbly well so far....but yea...artifically, 10,000 is a lot of light....and electricity....
tahoe58
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cool...no not that much wattage so that's good......I have 9 x 42W (2600 lumens each) - and so far things look good.
tahoe58
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I have been thinking that I will just continue with what I have they are all 2700K lights....so from that perspective they are ok. I only will have max. 4 plants...depending on the outcome of male/female...there are quite a few CFL grows going here....and people seem to have pretty decent results - I know - the "real" growers will say they have to use MH/HPS....but in my space I would be very limited by the heat generated, and do not have the option for venting in any way....so I guess it comes down to compromising....as I said at the beginning of my grow journal, I am not in this to get the tallest or the fattest or the whateverest....I just want to have a reasonably successful crop that gives me some nice smoke.....nuthin too grandiose. The argument is always there that the same effort goes into each way of growing....and I suppose that's true - but for each of us its a decision we make and there are limitations and benefits from our own individual perspective each way - one thing I did not avoid...whatever you do it does seem to make a real difference to get good genetics....or start with good seed. For me this is a first time indoor grow....and I'll learn along the way, and hopefully get some help from those that know more as I go.
ozone
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I do remember reading that some where. At yeah its a huge amount. I mean, a 400w HPS gives out around 40,000 lumens so that would mean you have to have it in a 4sqf cabinet to mimic the suns output.I do believe that normal daytime sunlight is 10,000 lumens per sq ft as measured at solar noon. I am working with 4000 and it seems to be working reasonaqbly well so far....but yea...artifically, 10,000 is a lot of light....and electricity....
Of course that 10,000 lumen measurement is on a cloudless day and we dont get many of those where I'm from.
ozone
tahoe58
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yea thats totally true...and all one has to dfo is cruise the grow journals and see what people have been able to accomplish with quite a wide variety of setups... its all about individual choice....
wooowwwooo....my 500th post!
wooowwwooo....my 500th post!
I do remember reading that some where. At yeah its a huge amount. I mean, a 400w HPS gives out around 40,000 lumens so that would mean you have to have it in a 4sqf cabinet to mimic the suns output.
Of course that 10,000 lumen measurement is on a cloudless day and we dont get many of those where I'm from.
ozone
granitestate
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congrats on number 500 tahoe haha, im glad i could be a part of it.
Jomal206 - Ive been using warm whites from the begining. I substituted a couple cool whites for a week, but they were shitty bulbs an broke after a week. So i went back to my warm whites. I havent regretted it one bit. If the vegetation (leaves) on my plant look sparse, its because i trim them that way so light gets down to the bottom.
And as for the amount of light. Like i stated earlier, i dont think there can ever be too much light for a plant, just too much heat caused by too much light too close. A light breeze from a fan will cure any overheating issues. Ill take a pic of my overall setup tomorrow morning.
Back to Tahoe. I feel you on the space compromise. I can only grow the one plant right now, as it would look suspicious to my girlfriend (whom i love to death, but couldnt tell her it was the jane. I went with japanese maple, i feel like a douche, but the purpose of life is to live life purposely, and this i feel is a major purpose for me) The point of this grow for me, is more experimental. Ive had a succesful "accidental" outdoor grow and i wanted to keep it going through the winter season. This grow is to see if a type of "care free" approach can be taken. I feed nutes pretty sparingly, tie down with lst so it can fit in my flowering chamber, and it just grows. Thats waht plants do. I know its not going to be crazy knock my dick in the dirt smoke, but then again who wants a dirty dick?
Song of the moment - Superfly by Mr. Mayfield. i love smokin out to this song i dunno why, im only 19 haha. makes me feel like the shit tho haha. Random i know.
And to appease VV; This grow shows its stealth-icity by being obviously blunt. The dank-ocity of the buds will not be too import-tastical but any good smoke will cause rejoice-ation in the deep cavities of the bellowing lungs while at the same time enticing an Indian-tsunami sized joytacularness of thought. Chew on that shit
Jomal206 - Ive been using warm whites from the begining. I substituted a couple cool whites for a week, but they were shitty bulbs an broke after a week. So i went back to my warm whites. I havent regretted it one bit. If the vegetation (leaves) on my plant look sparse, its because i trim them that way so light gets down to the bottom.
And as for the amount of light. Like i stated earlier, i dont think there can ever be too much light for a plant, just too much heat caused by too much light too close. A light breeze from a fan will cure any overheating issues. Ill take a pic of my overall setup tomorrow morning.
Back to Tahoe. I feel you on the space compromise. I can only grow the one plant right now, as it would look suspicious to my girlfriend (whom i love to death, but couldnt tell her it was the jane. I went with japanese maple, i feel like a douche, but the purpose of life is to live life purposely, and this i feel is a major purpose for me) The point of this grow for me, is more experimental. Ive had a succesful "accidental" outdoor grow and i wanted to keep it going through the winter season. This grow is to see if a type of "care free" approach can be taken. I feed nutes pretty sparingly, tie down with lst so it can fit in my flowering chamber, and it just grows. Thats waht plants do. I know its not going to be crazy knock my dick in the dirt smoke, but then again who wants a dirty dick?
Song of the moment - Superfly by Mr. Mayfield. i love smokin out to this song i dunno why, im only 19 haha. makes me feel like the shit tho haha. Random i know.
And to appease VV; This grow shows its stealth-icity by being obviously blunt. The dank-ocity of the buds will not be too import-tastical but any good smoke will cause rejoice-ation in the deep cavities of the bellowing lungs while at the same time enticing an Indian-tsunami sized joytacularness of thought. Chew on that shit
granitestate
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but then again (again) who wants to chew on shit??
tahoe58
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hahahaha....well done well done....got my first morning chuckle with that ...that abomination of the english language!
good luck with the gf and the jap-maple!
Im' totally there with you on the let the plant do its thing.....the limitations will be welll..limitations to the overall yeild - generally people have said potnetcy is not changed. so it is yeild and time to yeild. these are the more "commercial" aspects of inducing faster more prolific(icious)growth.
cheers!
good luck with the gf and the jap-maple!
Im' totally there with you on the let the plant do its thing.....the limitations will be welll..limitations to the overall yeild - generally people have said potnetcy is not changed. so it is yeild and time to yeild. these are the more "commercial" aspects of inducing faster more prolific(icious)growth.
cheers!
granitestate
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born and raised, but then moved to florida. quite the switch, but nh is where my heart is. im going back for christmas, winter wouldnt be right without atleast a foot of snow haha. 6-0-3 till i D-I-E. good stuff
granitestate
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pics of overall setup, pistils, twirliness of limbs and twirliness of main stalk/stock(whichever fuckin one it is). jus hit it with some blooming an rooting this morning. Everytime i pull the plant out of the flowering chamber in the morning, there are a couple leaves that i can tell are new growth because the color difference. They're more of a light green, while the old growth is a sexy dark green. Growth is constant, excitement is intolerable, anticipation will see no soon disipation. I think i may jus stick with this one plant, as i want to make sure it gets enough light. More light = more trich's (so ive read in many a thread) and more trichs make stoners happy.
Anyone have any suggestions on organic ferts for flowering?
Anyone have any suggestions on organic ferts for flowering?
granitestate
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woops. forgot the most important part.
