ultimate newbie stealth closet grow room

patriots1818

patriots1818

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magellan_70 said:
Have your lights on 12/ 12 overnight. It will help with the heat issue having the ballast off during the hotter parts of the day. It will also help with the cost if you are on time of day pricing. Find a little cabinet somewhere else in your house. (I use an old microwave stand that has a big cabinet in it.) Put a couple cfls in it. Get a little usb fan and have it running in there. Let your clippings grow so that when you harvest, you can transplant into bigger pots, and within 2 weeks be flowering for the next harvest. Or..... keep the seedlings under the 12 hour light and wake them up in a window or spare room for a couple hours during the day and it will be enough to keep them out of flower. You need to do this or you will only have one good harvest off your seeds. The alternative is to reveg your plants after flowering and then don't worry about cloning at all.
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I greatly appreciate this idea. I'm gonna look for a small cabinet I could put in the grow room for a couple cuttings and see if I can fit some CFLS in there.. good idea man thanks
 
patriots1818

patriots1818

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..BULLIT.. said:
your environment is paramount.....id check up on that ballast heat thingy . If your gonna keep ordering seeds and you haven't got a veg room ..would it be better growing autos ? You could have 3 plants in there growing at different stages under one light time.
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I would grow autos except that you can't clone autos so the issue of plants being in different stages would never occur
 
patriots1818

patriots1818

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..BULLIT.. said:
your environment is paramount.....id check up on that ballast heat thingy . If your gonna keep ordering seeds and you haven't got a veg room ..would it be better growing autos ? You could have 3 plants in there growing at different stages under one light time.
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also by paramount you mean good i hope? hhaha i will look into that ballast heat..
 
patriots1818

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Also UPDATE:

Just ordered the 400w Apollo ballast with an enhanced HPS bulb that'll work through veg phase, a TDS meter, another quart each of the flora series, and the apollo hook rope hangers! they'll be here monday :)
 
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..BULLIT..

..BULLIT..

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patriots1818 said:
yeah i may do this (partition room in half and then veg my cuttings while my main plants flower then when it's time to harvest and i'll switch my veg'd cuttings out into flowering room
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id put your flower at the back wall ..so your not interrupting the flower every time you need to check on your veg.
 
DutchHaze

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that ballast is going to get hot. I had a full size regular room that I had to open the windows all the way in the middle of winter(35 degrees) just to keep the temp at 85 in the room. I was running 1000w but better circulation. let us know how you make out
 
patriots1818

patriots1818

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DutchHaze said:
that ballast is going to get hot. I had a full size regular room that I had to open the windows all the way in the middle of winter(35 degrees) just to keep the temp at 85 in the room. I was running 1000w but better circulation. let us know how you make out
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Well I'm guessing there will be a huge difference in heat between 400w and 1000w lol granted you had better circulation and a bigger room so that would equal out the comparison more but I'm still betting there's a major heat difference.
 
patriots1818

patriots1818

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DutchHaze said:
that ballast is going to get hot. I had a full size regular room that I had to open the windows all the way in the middle of winter(35 degrees) just to keep the temp at 85 in the room. I was running 1000w but better circulation. let us know how you make out
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I could be wrong though, could be fucked majorly with the heat if it puts off way too much lol. I'll know on monday when it gets here, I'll set it up and leave it on for a day and see what the temps were like.
 
patriots1818

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magellan_70 said:
Are you growing for you or for profit? How much do you smoke.
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Both lol, I smoke really small amounts (.2 twice a day) but this is just due to a life of poverty lmao hahaha so i plan to grow myself a shitload of weed to smoke so i stop wasting so much money on it, and make some profit as well.
 
patriots1818

patriots1818

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yeah it's my first time, and yeah hahah i really don't know what compelled me to grab the pink duct tape in the store honestly lol
 
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