Grow ROOm setup??

blower

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im going shopping this week. mainly for soil what kind is best for basic grow 1st timer.? What Fert.s to get??
and most importantly where can I buy that reflective foil looking material????
and best place for CFL and the panel of sockets.???
thanks for all help:blsmoke:
 

bigbudmike

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im going shopping this week. mainly for soil what kind is best for basic grow 1st timer.? What Fert.s to get??
and most importantly where can I buy that reflective foil looking material????
and best place for CFL and the panel of sockets.???
thanks for all help:blsmoke:
Dont know about the soil and fert. because i am a hydro guy but I do know that walmart has safety blankets in the camping isle for $3 and it is basicly a 4'x5' piece of mylar. it was a great find! Also you can get four 23w 2700k cfl's from home depot for like $8 And a couple of y socket adapters for $3 each Hope this helps. Peace and happy growing!! :blsmoke:
 

blower

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good looking really thanks was needing that basic info badly
walmart very convenient....
so the y sockets willbe able to hang up no hard electician needed for that right?
is there a panel for a bunch of them to be plugged too?
same to you happyh-day
 

stumps

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look for potting soil without nutes. mix it with 1/3 perlite. As for nutes you can use what ever you like> I would say alaska fish fert. It does have some smell to it but very ez to use.
 

bigbudmike

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good looking really thanks was needing that basic info badly
walmart very convenient....
so the y sockets willbe able to hang up no hard electician needed for that right?
is there a panel for a bunch of them to be plugged too?
same to you happyh-day
No the Y socket is just an adapter that turns one light socket into two. Very easy to double the amount of bulbs you can use. You should look for an over the sink bathroom fixture with multiple bulb sockets. Ive seen some with up to six sockets and with using the y adapters thats twelve bulbs @ 23w per bulb thats 276 watts. Not to bad for $100 or so.
 

blower

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No the Y socket is just an adapter that turns one light socket into two. Very easy to double the amount of bulbs you can use. You should look for an over the sink bathroom fixture with multiple bulb sockets. Ive seen some with up to six sockets and with using the y adapters thats twelve bulbs @ 23w per bulb thats 276 watts. Not to bad for $100 or so.
those are in walmart or homedepot?? where are better deals?

another favor can you show me a pic of that sockets.?
 

bigbudmike

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those are in walmart or homedepot?? where are better deals?

another favor can you show me a pic of that sockets.?
I am attaching 1 pic of the fixture and 2 of the socket all from homedepot. The bulbs shown are also from hd, they are 100w equiv (23w actual) @ 2700k. Whats nice about getting a multibulb fixture is that you only need to wire up 1 conection. I wired all my own, so if you need help just let me know. I reccommend wiring it to an extension cord so its easily removable.
 

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blower

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okay the mylar i found at hydro store...
now i bought some mixsoil from walmart, with peat moss will post pics. and then some black gold....
which potting soil without nutes????
pics please

and will these cfl fixtures work for my ladies?
or will the swirly bulbs work too?
 

kushey

Member
im going shopping this week. mainly for soil what kind is best for basic grow 1st timer.? What Fert.s to get??
and most importantly where can I buy that reflective foil looking material????
and best place for CFL and the panel of sockets.???
thanks for all help:blsmoke:
fox farm ocean forrest soil. its the best by far. it is completely organic and has some basic but yet organic nutes in it already. such as bat guano, kelp, earth worm castings etc. this doesnt mean you cant fertilize. quite the opposite. id also go with fox farms big 3 for your nutes...which consists of Grow Big, Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom. great organic nutes work wonders. with the soil, even though it already has perlite in it i would still add more to make it more airy as well as more drainage.
 

blower

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okay well, the black gold i should just return.????
and get ocean forest then right...
and will these cfls work
or get the cfl swirlys in the mean time?
thanks
 

bigbudmike

Active Member
okay well, the black gold i should just return.????
and get ocean forest then right...
and will these cfls work
or get the cfl swirlys in the mean time?
thanks
Those cfl's will work fine but they are more expensive. The reflector is nice though. Should work great actually.
 

blower

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what soil has sand perlite, and worm casting also batguano???
or where can i buy those bags seperately? besides hydroshops
 
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