Sorry, forgot to post an update. I harvested successfully and got a little bit less than an ounce or so - I don't have a scale. It was some really good stuff :) My closet size was 2x2x6 ft. I've moved and am starting a small greenhouse outdoor grow next. The HIDs worked like magic though! I...
Just under 5 weeks into flowering. The buds are getting bigger and the plant is still looking great
Last week, I found a few of what looked like the beginning of male flowers forming, they looked like little seeds/pods attached to the stems? I've removed them and haven't seen any since. I guess...
First bud starting to form! About 10 days into the flowering cycle and the plant grew another 8 inches. I realized that the humidity in this closet hovers around 20% so I'm sure that impacted the growth during the veg cycle.
Feb 8th
Hey, I checked and the plastic is not melting and is not very hot. Once I'm done with this one, I will mount the lights like you did with some PVC pipe.
The plant is 21.5" tall today, I have switched the lights to a 12/12 cycle. Fingers crossed haha, will post updates in a week or so
Took some better pics today. The plant has grown even more since I moved it to this pot. It is about 16 inches tall now.
I also took a picture of the actual lights in case anyone is interested. I kind of put it together really quickly so it looks ghetto but it works great. I will make something...
I wanted to see if it would work so I planted one seed at the end of November. Two 35W 3000k HIDs lights wired up to a computer power supply and a 36W 6500k T5 Fish tank light I had laying around. I didn't take any pictures of the seedling so the first one was just around 4 weeks in. Around that...
Also, apparently this does work well because people are stealing car HID lights for growing in Amsterdam:
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/02/thieves-stealing-porsche-headlamps-for-marijuana-grow-lights/
Can you post some pics of how you have the fans cooling the ballasts? I just quickly put together a similar setup using 6000k and 3000k HIDs from DDM tuning and I noticed the ballasts get quite hot. Have you thought about using some sort of a reflector to focus the light?