Toolage 87's Indoor Grow Garden

Toolage 87

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----- July 30th, 2011 Update 2 -----

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Hey all. So today I saw my light was finally starting to slide down so I changed the area. I still have to get a inline fan and tubing then I can deff hook up my cool tube.
 

kingdevin

Active Member
u should buy a used ballast on craigslist... magnetic one they are very easy to rebuild ask anyone they last years... i just got a digital one, but still... why invest 100+ dollars which u said u did earlier in the thread, when u could have got 400watt ATLEAST with that... 200$ a NEW 1000watt on craigslist/ebay, new in box w/ warranty ... w/e INVEST

BUUUT for what u have.. u got a nice lil setup add 2 42watt cfl's when flowering and u can pull something decent around harvest if u reflect the light well... good white paint > aluminum
 

Toolage 87

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u should buy a used ballast on craigslist... magnetic one they are very easy to rebuild ask anyone they last years... i just got a digital one, but still... why invest 100+ dollars which u said u did earlier in the thread, when u could have got 400watt ATLEAST with that... 200$ a NEW 1000watt on craigslist/ebay, new in box w/ warranty ... w/e INVEST
I can't. Don't have the space to run higher wattage lights. a 250w would probably be to high wattage for the space. I might buy a 2nd 70w MH but I'll do better this time since I know better now that there are bulbs that have a higher K rating then the one that I got. Also ordering things online isn't an option because I don't have a cc or any thing so cash only is the only way that I can buy things. the other thing that I might do is find if there's a ballast that can use MH and HPS and I don't have to switch the settings on it.

BUUUT for what u have.. u got a nice lil setup add 2 42watt cfl's when flowering and u can pull something decent around harvest if u reflect the light well... good white paint > aluminum
Well I think I'm not going to grow with CFLs unless its with 13w CFLs for clones but also mix it into the veg area to help make the MH lights last linger but I also might go with 35w MH setup for veg instead. As for flowering I'm only would with MH and HPS lights no CFLs. Since I will have a flowering area that I will be putting clones when I start cloning. Also I plan on going with 96% reflective mylar. Its only $20 to $30 for 20 to 30 feet.
 

Toolage 87

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After doing some math I can't believe that my plants are only about 9 days old from when they sprouted. If they keep growing at this rate they'll be big by the time 60 days come. :D
 

stinkbudd1

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Hey bro i was on my way to sleep and something pulled me here before i went out and im glad i did very nice set up and start so far i am definately sub'd to this and looking forward to seeing some of those clones grow up to be fine young ladies..
 

Toolage 87

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Hey bro i was on my way to sleep and something pulled me here before i went out and im glad i did very nice set up and start so far i am definately sub'd to this and looking forward to seeing some of those clones grow up to be fine young ladies..
Hey. Thanks for dropping in. Thank you. My setup was a find things around the house that I can use to set up a grow space since nothing is made for the size and such and building it wouldn't be a over night thing since it requires the equipment to be able to build your perfect grow space and as of right now I still need a inline fan for my cool tube and the dryer hose tubing for it.

I might use that shell thing that I am using to hold my light and fan up as either a SOG flowering thing, different flowering method thing or maybe as a cloning thing.
 

Toolage 87

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thats awesome man. keep it goin. ive got new photos on mine as of a few mins ago.. :)
Cool. Yours are looking very nice. Once the light comes on for mine I will take a update pic for today. It almost seems like since I changed the CFL for MH the plants doubled in size in 2 to 3 days with it. I can't wait to clone them and to see how many females I get. I've read that people have gotten 1 male out of 5 to 6 seeds.
 

bigbillyrocka

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i want a male. just one. ;)
then ill "sex" a little bud and have some seeds. plus i will be cloning as well. :)
my buddy is gonna let me barrow his MH and HPS lights so i cant wait either!!
 

Toolage 87

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i want a male. just one. ;)
then ill "sex" a little bud and have some seeds. plus i will be cloning as well. :)
my buddy is gonna let me barrow his MH and HPS lights so i cant wait either!!
I am planing of doing IBL my self. I might order a 2nd batch of BC Ice and grow those seeds out and see if I can find some thing even better.

Also I might buy 1 of each of the

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5.0
10.0

UVB lizard lights and try them out for flowering. I wanna see what works the best what time they should be on during the flowering time and how long they should be on for and such. Might get even mroe frosty buds from it.
 

Toolage 87

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----- August 1st, 2011 Update -----

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Hey all Today is going to be a 2 part update since I took pics yesterday and I didn't have the time to update them so I am updating them now. I will make it a habit of taking pics around 10:00pm since that's when they were planted and its pretty much 24 hours for them. The fan that I had on top of the grow area well 1 of the fans wasn't doing to well so that had a funeral but I did salvage the power cord to it since its a regular 110v one and I can use it for my HPS ballast wiring for the power cord.

I came across these strains and I might order them down the road if they are sill there when I'm ready to order them. But as for now I will be ordering other strains since I don't have to mess with things and what not and the seeds that I can get will take roughly 3 days to get to me.

Here's a list of 5 pack Feminized strains that I came across. I was thinking about going with the Indica Mix H first since it has almost all the strains that I wanna get.

-----Indica Mix H -----
Seeds are colour coded and labelled. (Feminised) 5 Seeds per pack.

- Great White Shark
- Lemon Skunk
- White Rhino
- Train Wreck
- Cheese

----- Indica Mix G -----
Seeds are colour coded and labelled. (Feminised) 5 Seeds per pack.

- A.M.S.
- The Church
- Train Wreck
- White Widow
- White Rhino

----- Sativa/Indica Mix C -----
Seeds are colour coded and labelled. (Feminised) 5 Seeds per pack.

- Hawaiian Snow
- Super Silver Haze
- Lemon Skunk
- White Rhino
- Big Bang


----- Sativa/Indica Mix A -----
Seeds are colour coded and labelled. (Feminised) 5 Seeds per pack.

- The Church
- Arjan's Strawberry Haze
- Lemon Skunk
- Great White Shark
- Hawaiian Snow

 

Toolage 87

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----- August 2nd, 2011 Update -----

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Hey all sorry for the late update and the pics that were taken wasn't taken yesterday at 10pm.
 

Toolage 87

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----- August 3rd, 2011 Update -----

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Hey all. Today I was thinking of a way to raise the light and I didn't want to make it alot of distance between the light and the top of the plants. I had some of those plastic boxes and I found that each box gives me 1 to 2 inch more height so I used 2 of them on the out side and used 1 for the plants to go on top. I will be changing the height between the plants and the tops over time when I need to. The pics that I took were sooner then I would have done today but I did some change but I did some changes.
 

KawiZZR

Active Member
Looks nice, might want to consider taping up white cardboard or poster paper around the sides of that frame to reflect some of the light back in. Even if you only cover three sides and leave one side, top, and bottom open it'll help reflect more light inside without raising the temp.
 

Toolage 87

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Looks nice, might want to consider taping up white cardboard or poster paper around the sides of that frame to reflect some of the light back in. Even if you only cover three sides and leave one side, top, and bottom open it'll help reflect more light inside without raising the temp.
Thanks. I did the ballast, cap and igniter pic because I got some messages of people thinking it didn't run off one hahaha. Its not alot of light loss for me to really care about since all the main light is hitting the tops.
 
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