I've been running a pheno of superskunk for over 8 years now...I haven't noticed any loss of vigor. From what I heard, it was over 9 years old when gifted to me. It's probably 100+ 'generations of cuttings' from my original clone. Longest I've kept a mother of it is maybe 2-3 months, then I...
looks good. I grow in small boxes as well. I have a 14"x8" box that I've pulled about 2 oz out of. I run the exhaust with 2 pc fans and 2 of the diy pencil holder filters. Works out great.
Make sure you do something to lightproof the door. I'd go with passive intakes and all fan power on...
I run my 250w bulbs at 150w all the time (for years now). I have an adjustable lumatek 150/175/250/SL I think you're supposed to shut the ballast off before switching wattages though....at least I always do.
I dunno for sure if your ballast works the same as my adjustable one....you might be...
have you considered mounting some light sockets on a piece of wood? Then they will all be attached to one piece and you can raise and lower it. It will keep the lights more organized and let you adjust the spread better.
for a nice diy low profile light-trap, check out scrublouvers...designed by a grower named scrubninja. I use them in a lot of my setups.
..otherwise yeh..just an angled cover painted flat black inside. Painting flat black inside the lighttrap helps a ton.
I let mine dry out well then I crush it up. From there it gets mixed into a compost bucket that I have in my kitchen, from there it goes to the garden or compost bin outside once the bucket is full.. I mostly crush it up so there's no noticeable weed leaves in it later.
If you want to take the...
Thanks alot weed-whacker :) No, I don't have much posted at riu. I have tutorials of these builds and some journals on other sites though. Next time I do a re-mod I'll post it up on riu though..
preflowers show up before the plants start to flower..it's totally normal. Those are old ripe preflowers you see..not new ones forming. My autos do the same thing.
hi I have a few cob microstealth grows...
I have twin flowering speakerboxes each with a single cxb3590@700mA:
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dual speaker box cab for mothers and clones with 4x cxa 2520 @350mA:
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dresser flowering cab with 3x cxb3590 @~600mA:
If smell is an issue you definitely want a carbon filter. It's possible to cover the smell...but opening the box or w/e to water each night will always let out some smell....and trimming will stink pretty good too. If the plants are just chilling in their box with a filter they don't put out any...
I agree with airwalker...just look into just building your own cob lights. It's well worth the investment and much easier then you think. You should watch some growmau5 diy videos and you'll get it all figured out. I put off making my own cobs lights for years until I watched those videos.
I'd...
honestly I veg stuff under 2700/3500k with no problems, though a higher K would definitely get slightly better veg growth. There's alot of debate on mixing spectrums...it's up to you to decide. I personally just stick with warm white for both veg and flower and it does great. I like using the...