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Okay, I'll play! --Bud

Just checking out your thread and I had to laugh when I saw your box ... looks like mine! The box is snugged up against my grow space, which is a wardrobe. There's a double-wide fan in the bottom of the box that draws air through the louvers in the sides of the box, then blows it into the grow...

How about some updated pics? The grow is four plants in two back-to-back IKEA wardrobes. Total interior space is 3' x 4', and about 6' tall. Air intake is through the cardboard box that's snugged up to the rear of the wardrobes (pics in a sec). Light is 12 40W 2700K CFLs in three fixtures of...

The biggest stupid mistake you can make is to tell someone else about your grow. -- Bud

Far too early to tell. - Bud

Thanks for the replies so far. I'm a little surprised, but happy, that only one of the six of you suggests culling it. Watchful waiting is probably how I'll proceed, but if I see pods on more colas, I'll probably cut it down. As for why this one's going herm on me, I have an idea. All of...

Doing a flush on one of my four ladies this evening, and I was checking out all the pretty flowers. They're about three weeks into 12/12 now, so it's been weeks since I culled the two males from the group. So of course, I should be seeing nothing but female flowers, right? RIGHT? Okay...

Thanks. For my first grow ever, I think it's going well. I just wish I had switched them to flowering much earlier...the three Top44's are very big already, and I'm running out of room at the top of the wardrobes. The Afghani is still nice and stocky (it's actually sitting on a box in the back...

Just thought I'd throw a pic or two up here. If I were a good doobie (huh-huh), I would have taken pics as they were growing up, but I never got around to it. These are the four ladies left from six original plants. (Two males were killed off about three weeks ago.) Three are Top44, one is...

My personal favorite is a mylar "emergency blanket" that Wally World sells for $2.88. Two is enough to line a big closet. - Bud

Holy crap! Six 42W CFLs is far too much for one plant. I have six plants growing under 8 42W CFLs. They were under a dozen, but the temps got too high (mid- to upper 90's) ... the plants couldn't get water from the roots to the leaves fast enough, and the leaves were curling. Three plants =...

I had my seedlings and small plants under 500W of CFL, and the temps maxed out around 91F (32.8C). The plants got very heat-stressed ... curled tips, curled leaves, even necrotic spots. Once I reduced the number of bulbs down to 250W worth, and the temps dropped to 80F (26.7C) max, and they...

I've checked out a number of threads about when to flower, but I'd like to double-check. What indicator do you use to determine when to go from veg to flower? Height? Number of fan leaf blades? X number of weeks of veg? Setup: Six plants, started from seed. Four Top44, two Afghani...

If you're talking about the CFLs that are colored red or colored blue, like novelty or party bulbs, that's a mistake. They cut off the light except for a narrow wavelength band and *really* reduce the amount of light going to the plant. The light may be near the correct wavelength, but you're...

I'm having trouble finding high-wattage bulbs for vegging that have good lumens per watt. I've seen those 5700 lumen 85W bulbs for flowering; I'll probably go that way when the time comes, but for vegging I'm looking for 6500K bulbs. --Bud

Putting together a grow closet. The "closet" is an IKEA wardrobe with interior dimensions of 22" deep, 36" wide, 6' tall. Before I pull the trigger on the bulb order, I wanted to make sure I had it about right: 42W CFLs, 6500K, 2800 lumens each. Closet is 22x36 = 792 sq.inches = 5.5...

Okay, this is my first post on this board, ever. I'm putting together a grow room in my basement and have a gas hot water heater available to supply CO2, so I'm checking out these threads. That actually should say that the flame starts to produce CO, not "burn CO2". CO2 and water (H2O) are...