Humboldt's Growing Adventures! Up & Away!
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Humboldt
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Thanks guys for all the Love, it makes ones heart Warm & Fuzzy
Party thanks for that link, I saved the pdf file, that will definitely come handy, also feel free to post some updates to your grow, in fact I wish everybody would share their grows with me, journal links, images etc.
Dr High thanks for the words, you did very well on your grow, I can only hope that mine turns out half as good as yours, Nice work, keep on growing!
Stay Tuned .. More Updates On The Way!
Party thanks for that link, I saved the pdf file, that will definitely come handy, also feel free to post some updates to your grow, in fact I wish everybody would share their grows with me, journal links, images etc.
Dr High thanks for the words, you did very well on your grow, I can only hope that mine turns out half as good as yours, Nice work, keep on growing!
Stay Tuned .. More Updates On The Way!
Actually you can get Daylight bulbs at walmart. They are in a blue pack and its says right on the front Daylight 6500k. Thats what you want to use for veg...those that you have there are either 2700k or 3100k cant remember. Those are used for flowering. I dont know that you could have done much better, but using the blue lights for vegging would have done better. Also, how is that little male that you covered with soil doing?
Humboldt
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Damn party I can't believe how well your plants are growing, freakin hps (I gotta get one) it seems just yesterday they were lil bitty things in buckets and now you cant really see the buckets, good shit dude you are doing awesome, keep up the great work!
Thanks for the tip fatal, I suppose I should go grab a handful of them for my veg room, right now I'm using 8 - 20w softwhites, you think I should mix them up? like 4 daylights and 4 softwhites.
HOOAH!! I found another girl today, she's barely showing, just starting puberty, I started with 18 sprouts, currently have 7 girls, euthanized 8 boys and left with 3 unknowns, I'm thinking there is at least 1 more girl out of the 3 unknown, I've already exceeded my expectations of ending up wiht 6, I'm very pleased!
Here she is, I had trouble shooting her, so I circled the pubic hairs,
Here are some more pics of the bushy bitch, had to remove her today to install a vanity strip to help light the bottoms of the plants, so I decided to take a few more shots of her.
I'm thinking about taking a shot of her every couple days or so to show her progress step by step, see the branches fill out more and more, I've been seeing progress everyday now, it's soo exciting!
She's a jungle in there
When harvest is said and done, I'm thinking about collecting all the pics of the girls that I take throughout flowering and putting them in a flash to view the plants from beginning to end in an instant, I think that would be cool and if I decide to do so I will be sure to post it.
Check out the vanity strip I installed, as I was taking shots of all the empty space on the floor, I thought why not put lighting down there.
I have 2 more strips with 4 sockets and 1 with 5 sockets, I'm thinking about installing 1 on each side of the plants but I'm afraid to over load the circuit, for now I think I will keep the 1 there and rotate the plants every watering, like 2 -3 days or would it be wiser to rotate every other day (possibly every day)
What do you all think? I'd like to see your thoughts!
Thanks for the tip fatal, I suppose I should go grab a handful of them for my veg room, right now I'm using 8 - 20w softwhites, you think I should mix them up? like 4 daylights and 4 softwhites.
HOOAH!! I found another girl today, she's barely showing, just starting puberty, I started with 18 sprouts, currently have 7 girls, euthanized 8 boys and left with 3 unknowns, I'm thinking there is at least 1 more girl out of the 3 unknown, I've already exceeded my expectations of ending up wiht 6, I'm very pleased!
Here she is, I had trouble shooting her, so I circled the pubic hairs,
Here are some more pics of the bushy bitch, had to remove her today to install a vanity strip to help light the bottoms of the plants, so I decided to take a few more shots of her.
I'm thinking about taking a shot of her every couple days or so to show her progress step by step, see the branches fill out more and more, I've been seeing progress everyday now, it's soo exciting!
She's a jungle in there
When harvest is said and done, I'm thinking about collecting all the pics of the girls that I take throughout flowering and putting them in a flash to view the plants from beginning to end in an instant, I think that would be cool and if I decide to do so I will be sure to post it.
Check out the vanity strip I installed, as I was taking shots of all the empty space on the floor, I thought why not put lighting down there.
I have 2 more strips with 4 sockets and 1 with 5 sockets, I'm thinking about installing 1 on each side of the plants but I'm afraid to over load the circuit, for now I think I will keep the 1 there and rotate the plants every watering, like 2 -3 days or would it be wiser to rotate every other day (possibly every day)
What do you all think? I'd like to see your thoughts!
DumpsterKeeper
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I like the idea of lighting them with that vanity strip as well. It's also good to see another chick in the bunch.
DumpsterKeeper
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They do, but if nothing else this might shine some more light on the leaves that are covered up by the taller leaves.
Micheal Kelso
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Looks nice Humboldt - I can't wait to see the video 
You are right at my favorite time of growing, the little buttons turn into nugs and they just get bigger and bigger so fast - you can see the difference from day to day.
One thing though, the lights on the floor might not be the best, if you could put them on the sides and give it some vertical light it would probably give better results. Also risk of electrocution when watering and what not. I don't know though for sure, maybe you know something I don't
can't wait to see more pics.
You are right at my favorite time of growing, the little buttons turn into nugs and they just get bigger and bigger so fast - you can see the difference from day to day.
One thing though, the lights on the floor might not be the best, if you could put them on the sides and give it some vertical light it would probably give better results. Also risk of electrocution when watering and what not. I don't know though for sure, maybe you know something I don't
can't wait to see more pics.
Humboldt
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Thanks guys for the input and I'm thinking you guys are right about the lights being at the bottom, I believe now it is no good.
Good deal Dr High, I'm thinking you were right on the button, Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by Kelso, I thought about the electricity and water but as I take my plants out to water them, I felt if I were to be careful that it should be ok, that's why I put the towel under just in case, but it's turning out to be a bad idea.
When the lights come on today, I'm going to remove the strip and just continue as planned, I would ad the lighting to the top but I really have no room, so we will see what the plants will do with what I've got.
I have plans for another flowering/veg room, the plan is to build one big giant box in my closet, dividing it into two sections, one for mothers and the other to flowering, the flowering room will be slightly larger than the veg room, the veg room only needs to be able to hold three girls and a small mothers, If I were to do this I could be growing six plants at a time at different stages, eventually I will find the right rotation that will work for me and always be harvesting something, the plan is to always have good smoke and not running out.
How does that sound? if you have any ideas on the creation of the box, please share them, I plan to use cheapest thinnest plywood, wood screws, not nails, I would like to be able to easily dismantle it if and when needed also I'm going to paint one side of plywood white, any ideas concerning ventilation lighting etc would be greatly appreciated!
Here is what I have to work with so far, the closet dimensions are approx. 6ft in lengh, 5ft high and 4ft wide.
These are the computer fans I plan to use for ventilation/exhaust
Are they too small and will I need more, if so how many fans should I get, how big, how many and where do you think would be a good place to cut holes for them? I plan on powering these fans via an old computer power supply.
These are the shop lights I started out with and don't really know what to do with them, so I was thinking one on each side of veg room?
Any advise, suggestions on this box, please do share. Thanks!
Oh shit lights just came up gotta run.
Very good point, I read something just last night about side lighting etc. it stated "that it is a waste of time and money to put side lights", it goes on to say "that it takes away from the overall grow, they recommended adding more wattage/lumens above for overall growth, this includes the side branches, I wish now I would have saved the link, I'm going to start saving freakin everything.
Good deal Dr High, I'm thinking you were right on the button, Thanks!
You are right at my favorite time of growing, the little buttons turn into nugs and they just get bigger and bigger so fast - you can see the difference from day to day.
One thing though, the lights on the floor might not be the best, if you could put them on the sides and give it some vertical light it would probably give better results. Also risk of electrocution when watering and what not. I don't know though for sure, maybe you know something I don't
can't wait to see more pics.
Thanks for stopping by Kelso, I thought about the electricity and water but as I take my plants out to water them, I felt if I were to be careful that it should be ok, that's why I put the towel under just in case, but it's turning out to be a bad idea.
When the lights come on today, I'm going to remove the strip and just continue as planned, I would ad the lighting to the top but I really have no room, so we will see what the plants will do with what I've got.
I have plans for another flowering/veg room, the plan is to build one big giant box in my closet, dividing it into two sections, one for mothers and the other to flowering, the flowering room will be slightly larger than the veg room, the veg room only needs to be able to hold three girls and a small mothers, If I were to do this I could be growing six plants at a time at different stages, eventually I will find the right rotation that will work for me and always be harvesting something, the plan is to always have good smoke and not running out.
How does that sound? if you have any ideas on the creation of the box, please share them, I plan to use cheapest thinnest plywood, wood screws, not nails, I would like to be able to easily dismantle it if and when needed also I'm going to paint one side of plywood white, any ideas concerning ventilation lighting etc would be greatly appreciated!
Here is what I have to work with so far, the closet dimensions are approx. 6ft in lengh, 5ft high and 4ft wide.
These are the computer fans I plan to use for ventilation/exhaust
Are they too small and will I need more, if so how many fans should I get, how big, how many and where do you think would be a good place to cut holes for them? I plan on powering these fans via an old computer power supply.
These are the shop lights I started out with and don't really know what to do with them, so I was thinking one on each side of veg room?
Any advise, suggestions on this box, please do share. Thanks!
Oh shit lights just came up gotta run.
Ribbet29
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Lookin good brother, But I wouldn't use the PC power supply to run the fans IMO it's a waste of power, most PC power supplies are around 400w's. Depending on what type of fans you have (most are 12v dc) you can get some old cellphone chargers or something similar that converts AC to DC and just wire them up black to black red to red. Heres a few pic's I stole from AL B FUCT
Each fan sees 1/2 of the plugpak output voltage. If a 12V plugpak is used, it can drive two 6 volt fans to full speed or two 12V fans at half speed.
Both fans see the full output voltage of the plugpak. The yellow wire is for tachometry- only a computer needs it. Snip it off.
Just do a search on how to wire them up, If you can't find anything just let me know I'll provide a link
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Each fan sees 1/2 of the plugpak output voltage. If a 12V plugpak is used, it can drive two 6 volt fans to full speed or two 12V fans at half speed.
Both fans see the full output voltage of the plugpak. The yellow wire is for tachometry- only a computer needs it. Snip it off.
Just do a search on how to wire them up, If you can't find anything just let me know I'll provide a link
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Humboldt
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Thanks for the info Ribbet, you just saved me from using unwanted watts, do you think an old answering machine adapter will work? I would like to know before I go destroying it as the answering machine still works but would be willing to trash it if the cord will work.
If I'm able to use that cord, how many fans you think I could hook up to it? also any ideas on how many fans I would need, and where would be good places to cut the holes? for instance left bottom side and right top side, maybye a fan or two directly on top, naturally I will have a small osculating fan to circulate the air inside, any ideas on this would be helpful.
Hi there majim, I will be doing something with them real soon, as soon as I figure out if that cord will work, I will post updates on this so you and others can get some ideas.
Again thanks for the information Ribbet!
H A P P Y ~ H A L L O W E E N !
If I'm able to use that cord, how many fans you think I could hook up to it? also any ideas on how many fans I would need, and where would be good places to cut the holes? for instance left bottom side and right top side, maybye a fan or two directly on top, naturally I will have a small osculating fan to circulate the air inside, any ideas on this would be helpful.
Hi there majim, I will be doing something with them real soon, as soon as I figure out if that cord will work, I will post updates on this so you and others can get some ideas.
Again thanks for the information Ribbet!
H A P P Y ~ H A L L O W E E N !
Humboldt
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Ok I found an ac/dc adapter that I have know idea as to what its from but I hooked it up to the fans and they worked .. all of them, however the adapter I used is a low 250 mA (what ever that may be) so I'm thinking the higher the mA the faster it will turn the fan blades, tomorrow I'm going to test it by using the answering machine adapter witch is a 800mA, I'm betting it will spin them puppys much faster.
I think I will purchase a few larger fans to mix with the smaller ones, a power supply cord/power strip, go to a thrift store and find some cheap electronics that use ac/dc adapters, I'm thinking a handful of them connected to the fans and plugged into the power strip would be ok since the power strips have build in breakers, I could probably run at least two fans per plug.
Some pics of the fans and small adapter,
I tried to capture a shot while they are spinning but couldn't get a get one, all the shots appear stand still,
The small adapter and its information, I think this lil guy might be enough for one fan.
What do you guys think, sound like a plan?
I think I will purchase a few larger fans to mix with the smaller ones, a power supply cord/power strip, go to a thrift store and find some cheap electronics that use ac/dc adapters, I'm thinking a handful of them connected to the fans and plugged into the power strip would be ok since the power strips have build in breakers, I could probably run at least two fans per plug.
Some pics of the fans and small adapter,
I tried to capture a shot while they are spinning but couldn't get a get one, all the shots appear stand still,
The small adapter and its information, I think this lil guy might be enough for one fan.
What do you guys think, sound like a plan?
DumpsterKeeper
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Looks all good to go.
majim420
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damm bro thats real nice, you just solve one of my problems with ventilation, did you hook them up all inline like ribbets diagram?
i was looking on ebay some 5" case fans that are 100+ cfm , i think those will work nice, and they are like 8 bucks each plus s/h, i think im gonna give them a try.
i was looking on ebay some 5" case fans that are 100+ cfm , i think those will work nice, and they are like 8 bucks each plus s/h, i think im gonna give them a try.
Humboldt
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Right on seems to work great, I just spliced the ac/dc adapter and hooked it to a fan and one of them connecters, after that I plugged them all together but the more you plug into one adapter the less the fan blades spin, if you only use one or two fans they spin a lot faster, I'm planning on using several adapters with one or two fans per adapter, depending on the adapters outputs.
I can't wait to get started on this box, growing marijuana is the best! I wish I had this change like .. when I was born, even if for some reason I stopped smoking I would still want to continue to grow.
I can't wait to get started on this box, growing marijuana is the best! I wish I had this change like .. when I was born, even if for some reason I stopped smoking I would still want to continue to grow.