Northern Lights X BB auto & Speed Devil auto

Here ya go. 2nd pic of with tape on(2" hole), 3rd pic is with tape off(original 4" hole).

Also I think it may be a bit hotter in my bedroom than in the living room. I took the acu-rite out and put it on top of the bin. Gonna leave it there for 1 hour for lights off and then 1 hour for lights on. It was telling me it's 81F inside the bin with the lights off.

I'd say leave the tape off...you can always experiment and check the acu-rite with it on for a while and then with it off, but my guess would be that it's most effective without the tape.

As far the the positioning of the fans, it shouldn't make that much of a difference that I stacked them as opposed to having the side by side right? Do you have pics of your bin with your 2 exhaust fans? Linking the page would do if you dont have the pics. It helps to use RIU's picture manager because it saves the pictures to the server.

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As far the the positioning of the fans, it shouldn't make that much of a difference that I stacked them as opposed to having the side by side right? Do you have pics of your bin with your 2 exhaust fans? Linking the page would do if you dont have the pics. It helps to use RIU's picture manager because it saves the pictures to the server.

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I don' believe it makes a difference and my box makes do with only one exhaust fan...



(would have linked to thread page but I'm too lazy to go thru the pages of my grow)

Ambient temp is 79-80, temp inside the bin is 84 with 2 42w CFLs and 2 26w. A little higher than I'd like, but 4 degrees higher than ambient isn't bad.

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Ambient temp is 79-80, temp inside the bin is 84 with 2 42w CFLs and 2 26w. A little higher than I'd like, but 4 degrees higher than ambient isn't bad.

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Nope, and to be honest, cannabis does just fine in this environment. Doesn't need to be the perfect temp for it to yield something fierce . I just saw this guy's grow recently where his temps stayed around 92ish and his plants looked awesome, 2 ounces off one plant. Not bad!

Found my charger ^_^ Picture time

The larger plant is the NL, it's also the one with more light burns. The plant keep growing into the lights. The BM has no new light burns, though I did catch it just about to get one when I was taking pictures. Not going to mess with the leaves any. I give light tugs on the burns leaves to make sure they are still attached. Much easier to adjust the height of the lights with tape. I have the CFLs about 1 1/2 inches from the plants, but I suppose 2-3 inches away won't hurt that much since the plant isn't that big yet. I'll prolly start LSTing in about a week or so. Waiting for it to get tall enough to where I can have the tip of the plant touch the edge of the pot.

I tried taking off the reflectors and unless I'm doing it wrong, I can't. It doesn't look exactly like your's Lady. No real need to take em off now so I'm not in too much of a rush to do so. I may add another 42w to the reflector above the BM.

Excuse the spot that lacks any reflective material, I noticed that yesterday. I'll fix it when it's lights off today. I have plenty of windshield reflector leftover.

The new NL is outside and it JUST popped it's first true leaf, yes leaf as in just 1.

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Found my charger ^_^ Picture time

The larger plant is the NL, it's also the one with more light burns. The plant keep growing into the lights. The BM has no new light burns, though I did catch it just about to get one when I was taking pictures. Not going to mess with the leaves any. I give light tugs on the burns leaves to make sure they are still attached. Much easier to adjust the height of the lights with tape. I have the CFLs about 1 1/2 inches from the plants, but I suppose 2-3 inches away won't hurt that much since the plant isn't that big yet. I'll prolly start LSTing in about a week or so. Waiting for it to get tall enough to where I can have the tip of the plant touch the edge of the pot.

I tried taking off the reflectors and unless I'm doing it wrong, I can't. It doesn't look exactly like your's Lady. No real need to take em off now so I'm not in too much of a rush to do so. I may add another 42w to the reflector above the BM.

Excuse the spot that lacks any reflective material, I noticed that yesterday. I'll fix it when it's lights off today. I have plenty of windshield reflector leftover.

The new NL is outside and it JUST popped it's first true leaf, yes leaf as in just 1.

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3-4 inches is more ideal...burning your plants stresses them a lot. Many people over emphasize how close CFLs need to be, 1.5 inches is def too close! It is better to have your plants a little bit stretchy than to have them burned, the damaged leaves will never recover. Did you trying to screw the reflectors off? I wasn't able to take mine straight off. I had to twist them counter clockwise. I am glad they are growing though, they are def getting bigger.

Yea I tried, the reflector is divided into a top part where i screw the light bulb in, the reflector in the middle and the base of the socket. The top part is too big to take out through the hole in the reflector and the male part of the cord is too large to fit through the base of the socket's hole. I raised the lights to 3 or so inches and switched out a 26w 2700k for a 42w 6500k. Also fixed the gap in the bin that didn't have any reflective material. You can't tell by the pic, but the lights are maybe an inch below the fans. Not really concerned with temps anymore, but I imagine the closer the fans are to the lights the cooler the temp gets.

I think I'm at day 26 or so so a lot smaller than I'd like to be, but flowering and the stretch should be starting pretty soon. Gonna try to do my best not to fuck with the girls except for watering and raising the lights.

Great job. Your set up is really inspiring to those looking to start out. Also like the way you have structured your journal as alot of journal's are'nt as well updated as yours.

I also started same NL strain as you 10 days ago, along with 3 other strains. NL is by far looking the best, i did damage the roots a little during transplant to 11ltr tubs this morning, but hoping it wont set it back too much.This is also my first grow and looking at progress so far wish i had started alot sooner.

Your plants look great to me, maybe 2 weeks ahead of me which is great for me to keep an eye on your journal incase i encounter any problems with the NL.

My other strains are Top69, auto Russian, auto Kush (1 of each) i smoked the russian before and that was ace, top69 is fairly new and dont know anything about it really. Looking forward to northern lights the mostest.

Good luck with your grow and look forward to seeing how your babies do.

Thank's Blade, it's posts like yours and Lady's that keep me doin this. Otherwise I'm sure I would of just stopped weeks ago. Since that was your first post I'm guessing you haven't made a journal yet. It's never too late to start and you're still in the seedling stage so you aren't that far into your grow. That's the one thing I don't like about autos, any damage you to do them can't be recovered like photoperiod plants by vegging them longer since they're on a time schedule.

Yea the NLxBB are very hardy, surprised it's taken all my abuse and still had a decent growth rate.

You mind posting pics? I'm interesting in seeing a new NL that hasn't been burned by heat, light and nutes.

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It's really hard to smell the plants, when you sleep in your room. My roommate came in and told me my room smelled like straight weed lol. Curious to see how "bad" it gets when the girls start flowering. Humidity has been 55(high) to 49(low) and temps have been 84(high) to 78(low). I've got like 2 ounces left of that yeast, I noticed a benefit of the extra co2 when I was in the closet, but how much will it help if I'm in a cab? I'm guessing with all the air I'm adding in and venting out it won't really do anything.

Oh I noticed that the 3 holes on the top where I feed the lights in through are actually sucking in air. I held a lighter to them to check. Even though it's hotter air that's being vented in I think more ventilation is good.

Like I said before stealth isn't that much of an issue, but is there anyway I could get maybe something scented in front of the exhaust fans? Can't do a candle and while I do have this awesome scented spray they use on airplanes(yes it's that "new airplane smell") I'd prefer something that requires less management. So basically something that doesn't have to be lit, but I don't have to keep spraying it, because if I'm gone I obviously can't spray it. Just in case you were thinking of plug ins the outlet is closest to my bed while the exhaust is facing away. Also the outlet is about 4 inches below the bottom exhaust. Although...I could get an extension cord and hang it off the bin I can't figure out a way it wouldn't hit the fans.

Oh not really an update for y'all, more so for me: I'm going to water the plants today during lights off. I kind of want them to go a day more, so I know what a dry pot feels like, but it's been 2-3 days already.

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It's really hard to smell the plants, when you sleep in your room. My roommate came in and told me my room smelled like straight weed lol. Curious to see how "bad" it gets when the girls start flowering. Humidity has been 55(high) to 49(low) and temps have been 84(high) to 78(low). I've got like 2 ounces left of that yeast, I noticed a benefit of the extra co2 when I was in the closet, but how much will it help if I'm in a cab? I'm guessing with all the air I'm adding in and venting out it won't really do anything.

Oh I noticed that the 3 holes on the top where I feed the lights in through are actually sucking in air. I held a lighter to them to check. Even though it's hotter air that's being vented in I think more ventilation is good.

Like I said before stealth isn't that much of an issue, but is there anyway I could get maybe something scented in front of the exhaust fans? Can't do a candle and while I do have this awesome scented spray they use on airplanes(yes it's that "new airplane smell") I'd prefer something that requires less management. So basically something that doesn't have to be lit, but I don't have to keep spraying it, because if I'm gone I obviously can't spray it. Just in case you were thinking of plug ins the outlet is closest to my bed while the exhaust is facing away. Also the outlet is about 4 inches below the bottom exhaust. Although...I could get an extension cord and hang it off the bin I can't figure out a way it wouldn't hit the fans.

Oh not really an update for y'all, more so for me: I'm going to water the plants today during lights off. I kind of want them to go a day more, so I know what a dry pot feels like, but it's been 2-3 days already.

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You could get some ona gel, it supposedly pretty good at covering up odor. Or try hanging a car air freshener in front of the exhaust, get some glade plug-ins going around your room. And lightly spray febreeze on top of your blanket every morning.

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Thank's Blade, it's posts like yours and Lady's that keep me doin this. Otherwise I'm sure I would of just stopped weeks ago. Since that was your first post I'm guessing you haven't made a journal yet. It's never too late to start and you're still in the seedling stage so you aren't that far into your grow. That's the one thing I don't like about autos, any damage you to do them can't be recovered like photoperiod plants by vegging them longer since they're on a time schedule.

Yea the NLxBB are very hardy, surprised it's taken all my abuse and still had a decent growth rate.

You mind posting pics? I'm interesting in seeing a new NL that hasn't been burned by heat, light and nutes.

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I'm glad you didn't quit! I like hearing about your plants, and learn by reading about how you're managing your grow. Don't mind giving you support

Ah right ona gel I forgot about that stuff. I've seen it online, but any idea what type of store sells it so I could possibly just pick it up? Car fresheners is a good idea too, light weight and still strong smelling.

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Ah right ona gel I forgot about that stuff. I've seen it online, but any idea what type of store sells it so I could possibly just pick it up? Car fresheners is a good idea too, light weight and still strong smelling.

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I saw some at a hydro shop that I just discovered is in my town. Not sure where else is a good place to get some.

So I bought a 3 pack of New Car scented car fresheners for $2.50. I put 2 in front of the fan. 20 minutes later the entire room strongly smells of "new car" lol. Maybe I'll just use 1, I like the smell though and supposedly they last a long time. I wish I had a hydro store in my city. Closest one is an hour away.

Called Feit today and they're going to send me another 42w bulb. I should get it in 2-3 weeks they said. I think I may switch out a 26w 2700k for a 42w. I want to follow the 100w per plant rule, but since I only have room for 2 reflectors unless I get another y splitter the max I see me doing is 84 per. That being said the area about 2 feet long(i roughly measure 22") and the pots are 2-3 inches apart so maybe some light from the 42w on the other plant's reflector is hitting the plant. Right now I'm running 2 6500k 42w, 1 26w 2700k and a 42w 2700k. The plants are starting to stink and I'm in week 4 so I'm guessing this is pre-flowering. I probably need to switch to more 2700k, but the other's are 26w. Should I go ahead and do that or just stay with the higher wattage bulbs? I have an extension cord that can hold 1 bulb and I have a light stand clamp that can hold one as well, but I don't see where I can put the light clamp; the extension cord can be held using the reflector's light clamp if I reattach it(and find out where I put it).

What else...Temps are fine, humidity is fine, BM is starting to grow and the NL is starting to develop its side branches. Going to start the LST probably on Monday. It looks like the tip of the plant can just barely touch the edge of the pot so by Monday it should be able to easily. BM looks like another week or so until it's ready for training. I really wish I could top it, but there's really no time for it to recover.

Nothing new, tried some idea at getting this light clamp to work in the bin. I managed to get it on the bottom facing upwards, but the reflector makes most of the light just go directly up. Which is great...except the plants are to the sides. Figured while I had the bin open I'd take some pictures. I want to find a way to get some light on the bottom of the plants so I can get both the top and bottom nodes some light. I have some light socket to outlet plugs I can use and I do have an extra surge protector in addition to the extension cord. Can't see the surge protector+26w light bulb reaching to the tip of the pot from the bottom of the bin though. I might be forced to buy 2 y splitters just to add 2 lights.

Obviously the larger one is the Northern Lights while the smaller one is the Blue Mammoth. Not bad for 28 days(NL) and 25 days(BM) considering all the problems I think.

P.S. C'mon other people! As much as I love Lady I'd like to hear from you too! Opinions, suggestions, pics of your grows if you've started fairly close to mine, etc.

100% unrelated. I caved and scooped up all the kief I had from my grinders. I usually do that inbetween purchases so it only made about 1/2 a bowl. Still though, 1/2 a bowl of kief is at least a regular bowl ^_^ Well...I made it 31 days at least lol

really glad to see an autoflower grow. im growing 5 big bang,1 critical auto, and a white widow. im at 4 days now. keep up the post and any advise would be greatly appreciated