Potolota
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I posted another thread on her labeled life cycle that has more information, but I wanted to repost to get people attention about the upgrades i made to my grow room. For those who don't know unfoprtuhnatly my babies are between 5-8 weeks old.
originally I had 2 fluorescent bulbs (ok I know...) one was 4 ft and the other 6ft. That was or would be fine for germination stage but not at we're I am now
so I went out and bought a 200 watt incandescent thinking that it was closer to what I needed because of the watts... Well it wasn't and I got shit for that too. So I almost bought a 35$ halogen bulb thinking it was a 400 watt hid light... But it's Lao crap and not a hid light so I was gettin frusterated..
not having lots of money I went and took down a light track I wasn't using and installed two more light sockets on the end of it, this allowed me to have 5 totolal lights. In those lights I placed
4 40 watt 1600 cfl bulbs and 1 100watt grow bulb with blue spectrum shield. The grow bulb is in the center of the line up and the others are 2 on each side of the grow bulb in a line.
Just having the extra lights wasn't enough so I aloso switched out the soil with fresh soil and perlite, a 60-40 mix so that the plants had a faster better drainage and I could allow for more water feeding. Transplanting the plants went increadbly well because I did it right before bed and now they look fantastic no damage or dropping at all.
i didn't have plant food, still waiting on dyna grow to come in the mail but I used an imeadiate fast acting plant food that was recomended by the local farmer market, mirical grow plant spikes.
Each plant got one spike and it should last 3 weeks but ill have the dyna grow before than.
hope everyone from the last post sees this cause I'd like to know how you feel about the changes I made
originally I had 2 fluorescent bulbs (ok I know...) one was 4 ft and the other 6ft. That was or would be fine for germination stage but not at we're I am now
so I went out and bought a 200 watt incandescent thinking that it was closer to what I needed because of the watts... Well it wasn't and I got shit for that too. So I almost bought a 35$ halogen bulb thinking it was a 400 watt hid light... But it's Lao crap and not a hid light so I was gettin frusterated..
not having lots of money I went and took down a light track I wasn't using and installed two more light sockets on the end of it, this allowed me to have 5 totolal lights. In those lights I placed
4 40 watt 1600 cfl bulbs and 1 100watt grow bulb with blue spectrum shield. The grow bulb is in the center of the line up and the others are 2 on each side of the grow bulb in a line.
Just having the extra lights wasn't enough so I aloso switched out the soil with fresh soil and perlite, a 60-40 mix so that the plants had a faster better drainage and I could allow for more water feeding. Transplanting the plants went increadbly well because I did it right before bed and now they look fantastic no damage or dropping at all.
i didn't have plant food, still waiting on dyna grow to come in the mail but I used an imeadiate fast acting plant food that was recomended by the local farmer market, mirical grow plant spikes.
Each plant got one spike and it should last 3 weeks but ill have the dyna grow before than.
hope everyone from the last post sees this cause I'd like to know how you feel about the changes I made