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    First Grow

    I put mine in a damp folded-up paper towel, on a saucer inside a 1gl freezer ziploc, dark warm place etc... and get taproots showing in a day or three normally. This is my first time with 'store-bought' beans, and I have had 100% germination, and 100% survival through the first few nodes. The...
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    I'm no carpenter....so wtf do I do?

    Consider that 'doorway' for a moment... and go find and look at another complete door inside your place. Notice how the side with the hinges exposed (the side the door opens towards) the door is biased towards that side? If you install the door so the hinges are on the outside, - so the door...
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    Homebrew indoor soil

    Probably about 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of FFOF. All for nothing if the stuff kills my $10ish per seed babies though... :D
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    Homebrew indoor soil

    I mixed up a bunch of soil about a month ago, using the following recipe: 1 part (1 gl-+) peat 1 part vermiculite 2 parts perlite 1 cup lime 1 cup bone meal 1 cup blood meal 1/4 cup mag sulphate 1 cup+ worm castings 1 cup+ mushroom compost 1 cup+ black cow compost Batched into fills for...
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    Okay this week we got a curve ball when our 34yo 200 amp panel took a shit... We were getting bad juju/dimming & 120v bulbs popping for awhile, not due to anything I'm doing, just aging & corrosion took it out. Thankfully without a fire or serious disruption. So we have fresh & new from where...
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    Things are well Phillip, thanks! Since the other ballast lacks parts, all I could do was light off the 1k HPS in the bloom room. I ran the 8" fan for a couple hours and saw temperatures around 69-70°F and 58-65% RH. With the lamp lit for 2.5 hours and the outer door "mostly" closed (needs...
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    I have a question pertaining to cooling my lamps. With the fan PULLING the hot air out of the sealed hoods, should the hood be oriented with the air going at the bulb first or the socket first? I would think it would be a bunch less restriction with the airflow going first past the (blunt &...
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    co2 regulator questions

    I have two regulator kits appearing identical to the one pictured above. The directions state to put the outlet hose behind a circulation fan up high in the room, so that the CO2 gas gets dispersed and being heavier than "air", will sink down to UR veggies... Now my memory isn't that good (and...
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    need help on ordering seeds off internet

    Attitude and BC Seed King both completed one order each to me in the US March 2012. 100% germ on the 13 I put in 3-20. YMMV.
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    A weekend and a night babysitting our 5yo granddaughter a huge jam in my production, but I have most all my wiring done, and have set the wall anchors for conduit clamps & CO2 jug safety chains. I lack boring holes & setting 8 more to mount Lumatek ballasts, awaiting Brown Santa on that. Once...
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    How do i stop light from exiting my vent holes?

    X2 on the elbow and some flat (not glossy nor satin) black buzz-bomb inside your ducting. I am wrapping up the lamp air intakes for my two-room setup, and used a couple cans of flat black inside the plenum and duct connectors to kill any errant light. I also installed a couple pieces of 2x6...
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    Hi all, I've been busy little ant down in my hole... Question? I have some 2x2 stock and planned to run one band around the walls of the bloom room, and screw a bunch of 1" (I think, maybe 3/4") hooks on maybe 8" spacing... How high off the floor would be good? 36" works well as does 44" (or...
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    BC Seed King and Attitude: Two Thumbs Up!

    I placed my first bean order with BCSeedKing in the outbound mail 2-21-2012. They sent a confirmation email a few days later when the order arrived, and another when it processed. The order arrived in stealth cloaking on 3-5-2012, which included two weekends and one US mail holiday. My second...
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    Thanks Phillip, I had been trying to sort out the lamp heat exhaust and the room air purge, and I considered our HVAC usage: I think for the past couple years we have never shut off the circulation fan... it may not be heating or cooling at any particular moment, but it is pulling house air...
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    Newbie from NC

    Hi All! (Replacing a vanished intro post...) I'm Don & found this site a month or so ago while researching setting up an indoor grow room. It appears y'all have an interesting community here, hiding in plain sight as it seems... :mrgreen: I'm 45 years young, and been messing with gardening...
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    Another newb setting up a new indoor grow looking for input

    Hi all, It looks like my original post got goobered, so I'll take a do-over with upgrades to my original proposal. What I am looking straight down the barrel of now is setting up a small grow room, and an adjacent bloom room. I'll lay out my plans first, and welcome any advice or input from the...
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