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    Shipping container grow rooms

    well when you bury a container feel free to do it how you want, to build a reg floor vs what ive done is like $300 difference, to add only wall support as you suggest would be much much harder as youd need to fix it to the actual container and the corten steel is an absolute b*tch to weld...
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    Shipping container grow rooms

    while Ive seen the containers get flipped for stregnth it just seems stupid as you have to build a floor where the roof was and have crossmembers to help keep the sides out. I used 75mm x 50mm x 5mm steel and framed it like a house wall with 550mm stud spacings and 100mm x 50mm x 5mm steel...
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    Shipping container grow rooms

    southern hemisphere, ive got mates with above ground container grows and they have to shut down half through summer due to heat even in reefer containers. im confident being underground will allow me to run fully all year round. Another attraction to using a container is theyre cheap and...
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    Shipping container grow rooms

    I originaly wanted to do an underground concrete block room but it was way beyond my abilities to make it structually sound, I didnt want to build my own coffin. I only lost 7" legnth and width internally, i used 2"x 3" steel inside to build a subframe to stop the walls and roof buckling, its...
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    Shipping container grow rooms

    :-( I must be the only one silly enough and crazy enough to give this a go. thought there wouldve been a few out there that have done similar?
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    Shipping container grow rooms

    hi folks Would like from others who have ACTUALLY done this. whats your layout? pros and cons? above/below ground? and if you done it again what would you do different? Of course any other info about your setup would be interesting. to kick it off breifly I recently converted a container...
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    Help asap please

    The grow I ripped up was severly stunted and stressed and major hermie just 3wks into 12/12 so they got ripped. cupping/curling starts at tops and new growth but slowly spread to bottoms. theyre pineapple express and in soil. broadmites do look highly likely going off what ive found on the...
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    Help asap please

    thoroughly inspected rootballs of plants I ripped and cant see any signs of insects (what I could tell from google search anyway) was a few brownish roots but otherwise rest were nice white healthy roots
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    Help asap please

    how do I check for root aphid? Light for the clone in pic is just an 18w twin tube flouro about a foot above them. my veg room has worse curling and is under a 315w lec 1.5-2 foot above canopy. bloom room they improved but stress and damage has already been done, think ill cut my loses with...
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    Help asap please

    hi there, My rooms been ticking along Nicely for 2 years but this round something is up and leaves are curling badly (upper) mate suggests temp/humidity problem but its all normal and now my Clones for next run have just started doing it please help before they go to s**t :-( photo attached is...
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    the girls are coming along nicely just starting to swell, about 14-20 days to go.
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    In need of exhaust fan and controller for new build, is there temperature sensitive units?

    stc 1000 temp controller. cheap as off ebay and can be set to heat and cool. set mine up for under $25
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    hey just a quick update day 25 of 12/12 and the room is starting to get a very very fruity aroma and nice little buds starting to take shape. had a good prune up 12 days ago and took a heap of clones, also I finally got my temp controller in no more noisy fan all night long!!
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    Anyone Else use Aspirin to Feminize their plants

    just use gibb. it cant be that harmfull its used extensivly in agriculture and horticulture some fruit and veges have had the crap sprayed outa them with gibb. a mate tried asprin with no luck, cs works well but spray every day is a nuisance.
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    will post an update and photos next day or 2 been pretty busy.
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    I a kiwi aswell down south. we get shafted with stuff here ay. hyalite has plasma now and cost an arm and leg. I just got the hipar those papillons are $1k each!!
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    just canadian xpress nutes going to Canna or h&g next run tho. also a bit of pk13 14 weeks 3 to 5 and use rhizotonic most waterings.
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    hi par 315w lec kit with bulb is 800 + shipping here. got 3 of them. not sure what prices you northern hemisphere guys pay but we seem to get shafted for any technology thats "new".(we usually a couple years behind, plasma has only just came in aswell but at 2k per light I wont even bother)
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    with 3 lecs running the room is 2°c cooler then a 600w hps. ive just got a 5" centrifugal fan set to low and runs 24/7.
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    3x 315w lec stadium

    @platt yea I hear ya with the bulb alignment im planning on double stacked bulbs next round but those things are xpensive as f**k here (only became available a few months ago) and didnt wana drop another $2.5k on them so for this run im just gunna rotate top to bottom every 2nd or 3rd day, not...
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