nah you will be alright ae86, on this run my timer broke while she was in 12/12 and ended up getting 20 hours of light and it didn't affect her at all.
have to say the smell is awesome when you walk in the shed i`m growing in, and its changed up a notch in the last week, i mean its always had a hint of weed but these days wow it reallu hits you when i open up...........
its a haze of some variety, meant to be silver we shall see.... there at week 4 i think, i re vegged after cropping for a week so stalled a little there, have i think another 4 to 6 weeks on them... plus dry and cure..
well lads new irish grower here havent started yet in the process of gettin all the kit together any tips welcome what lights fans i need etc.great ta c irish growers comin together deadly thread keep it goin
fill me in on what you are going to do like soil or hydro and how big of an area you need. not will give me and the rest a better way to advise you on what you need.
oh two then you could order a tent that has everything or buy the tent and get everything else as needed. me personally I would go with a digital conversion ballast that can handle 400w HID's i.e. MH bulb (Metal Halide) and HPS bulb (high pressure sodium). Now you can can do an entire grow from start to finish with either but most use the MH for veg (produces more of red spectrum and will keep your plants shorter) and HPS for flower (produces more of a blue spectrum which will make your plants stretch to the light more). You will want shielded hood for the bulb and some aluminum tubing like a clothes dryer uses, and a fan that will will blow in cool air in and the warm out from the bulb. by the way hydro is very easy imo and cheaper since you don't need to buy soil. anyway you will want to buy a few small fans for good circulation and a good carbon filter for the oder and take it a step further and get you a nice ozone generated that will kill all oder but the carbon filter should do just fine. You want a yo yo system so you can raise and lower your bulbs as the plant starts to grow. I good timer to turn you lights on and off with out you having to manually do it. Usually when in veg I go 18/6 or 20/4 meaning 18 hours of light and 6 hours of dark and so on for the 20/4, plants produce hormones when they are in the dark, aka sleeping.
some pics of what i'm talking about:
first is the tubing, second light hood, third light hangers, fourth yo yo's fifth tent and sixth digital conversion ballast for lights and seventh a timer this is the one I have and works like a champ. Im not sure about soil but for hydro you need a ph meter and a ppm meter. The pic of that tent is way expensive because it comes with a filter and what not Im talking around $1100 which is just crazy for a tent.
if you have any other questions just ask oh and for nutes use the lucas method its cheap and works awesome
sound great info i wont b givin 1100 for a tent though i think i can get one in dublin for 200.im thinkin bout buyin a 600 light kit with reflector i can get a second hand kit fo 70e it has no glass though
200 for a tent for 2 plants? A tent the size you need for 2 plants shouldnt cost that much. If the light at 70 quid is in good condition take his hand off.
a meter square 2meter high secret jardin tent i was lookin at want ta get a decent one so i can grow 3or4plants the nex time.the 600w lights are on done deal actually for 65e.the only thing is there magnetic ballast not digital.anyone know whats the difference between magnetic an digital ballast
my short term memory is not what it once was hahahahaha... got home again after lights out so didn`t even bother going out to see mine, will do tomorrow just to make sure the lights aren`t touching the tops..
smell and look great, will get pic`s soon as i get a day off... so pray for rain hahahaaha never tought i`d say that..