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  1. desertrat

    Light controller or timer to restart lights after brown out

    an analog timer will always turn your lights back on after an outage. or a digital timer with a battery back up, which it sounds like yours does not have.
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    my new room what do you think

    looks pretty good. why didn't you place mylar further down? lighting electricity cost per month = ((watts per light x number of lights)/1000) x 24* x 30 x price per kilowatt hour. price per kilowatt hour varies from 12 cents to 50 cents in cali depending on your overall electricity usage...
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    New Grower Needing Advice

    read through the info in the links in my signature below and you'll be a long way to knowing what you need to grow indoors.
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    3 days old--overwatering, stretching?

    stretched from too little/too far lighting
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    continuous harevest

    probably shocked for the first week, but they will grow
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    I'm looking for a way to calculate the CFM my fan is??

    go to http://www.clipsal.com.au/consumer/__data/page/81/A0000046.pdf, PAGE 100, find your fan or the closest equivalent, and convert cubic meters per hour to cfm with: 1 M3 / hr = 0.58857 CFM
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    Watering System

    i'll admit i don't understand how it works, but it does. the green spike is screwed onto the 2 liter bottle, then the spike goes into the ceramic sleeve, then the whole thing into the ground. gravity probably creates a seal but i don't know how the water seeps out.
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    just upgraded, have some questions. +rep

    the plants under the 150 watt light will grow slower. so you can either do two separate grows with the 150 side finishing later or continually rotate your plants between the two lights. l don't grow small autoflowers so can't help you there. and no, your posts aren't being ignored, they...
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    Watering System

    simple and cheap - http://www.amazon.com/Ceramic-Watering-Spike/dp/B001RV2CXE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1270241803&sr=8-3 - water spikes that screw into two liter soda pop bottles. i've left my plants for five days with no problems. kinda funny as this is one of three threads on...
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    Need info plz!!! 1st time grower

    1. within two weeks 2. no 3. look at seed banks on this site. most if not all ship stealthy to US
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    Auto Watering and Soil ??? How ??

    not to be mistaken for aqua globe, kinda ghetto, but go here http://www.amazon.com/Ceramic-Watering-Spike/dp/B001RV2CXE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1270241803&sr=8-3 and buy watering stakes that attach to 2 liter soda bottles. i've left my plants under a 600 watt light for 5 days and...
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    leaving flowering plants for 5 days?

    while aqua globes are worthless because they don't hold enough water, you can buy watering stakes that use 2 liter soda bottles here http://www.amazon.com/Ceramic-Watering-Spike/dp/B001RV2CXE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1270241803&sr=8-3 . i've left my plants under a 600 watt light...
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    infa-red helicopters.

    definitely not enough light. you need about 400 watts of fluorescent lights or a 250 watt hps. like Hazmat said. also, if you follow the links in my signature below you'll find lots of useful growing info on this site.
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    enough light?

    you need more light. if you take 3,000 lumens per square foot as the target light for vegging, and squeeze three fully vegged plants per square foot, then you need a total of 30,000 lumens. you have about 11,000 lumens now. that equals thirteen more 23 watt cfl's or thirteen more 2 foot...
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    infa-red helicopters.

    infrared sensors have no way to tell the difference between a 1000 watt light and a 1000 watt space heater. you're at absolutely no risk with a couple of hundred watts of light and i seriously question whether anyone has been caught by infrared with less than a couple of thousand watts.
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    can someone tell me how im doing

    sorry, took a little while to get back to you: 1. absolutely 2. the built in ballast gets pretty hot but the bulb is a lot cooler than other lights. use your hand as a heat sensor at the edge of the plants and bring the light in as close as you can without overheating your hand. you...
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    First Grow-CFL- PC Grow-W/pics

    i was thinking more like four 23 watt lights.
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    Need advice with my setup

    1. you want to keep a 400 watt light about 2 feet above seedlings for the first two weeks. after that, you can lower the light as far as you can without burning (use your hand to check temp) 2. looked up your bulb on net and it is a metal halide bulb, not hps. so the whole system is probably...
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    Noob here what STRAIN will PRODUCE the the FASTEST ???

    you can find everything you want to know from the threads at https://www.rollitup.org/seed-strain-reviews/
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    Need advice with my setup

    welcome to rui and growing. kinda fun isn't it? let's see if i can get you started on the right foot: - think about stealth, even in a legal state you have to worry about thieves. you will need something to handle the smell and some way of making your grow space inaccessible for anyone else. -...
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