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    Transition Phase

    yeah. i think having it higher and bit by bit lowering it over the daylight hours. I was told as a rule of thumb to place your hand over the canopy and if the lights burning the back of your hand, its too close for the plants
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    Transition Phase

    anyone? lol
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    best types of support system

    That is a great point Scooby! i was already dreading having to get down low each time i need to work on a plant or clear up the undergrowth....... with cages i think i can just pull em out one by one and set them on a crate and work comfortably, tying things here, adding supports there ect......
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    best types of support system

    So im coming close to the time when Im going to eb flowering these girls and am debating what type of support system to use. Im tied between trellis netting, stakes or tomato cages. All have their benefits and downsides and i wanted some opinions from others who may have tried a few. With...
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    Transition Phase

    Hello I have 7 girls in pots in my 4'x4' tent, vegged for about 6 weeks now under a 400w MH. I have a new 600w HPS ready for the flowering stage but what I am wondering is how do I sucessfully get from A to B. I have done alot of reading and asking around outside of these forums but now...
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    Grasshopper stopper

    i have always heard that if you get some praying mantis living there THEY will eat the grasshoppers and most buggers you will encounter..
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    heat wave in so cal last few weeks, HELP

    Hello all James here with some problems Id like some assistance on. I have some girls vegging, well HAD, they are now in flower. This heat wave we had in so cal really kicked thier butts. I have ALOT of burnt leaves, and wilting going on and what looks like some kind of leaf disease. These...
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    Have have some amber trics and it's gonna rain

    if its not gonna be much rain id say cover em and keep some fans going to prevent it from getting too humid
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    scubas outdoor 2013

    you got an awful lot of shade in the pic with the totes.... but it looks like your off to a good start... also, how are you dealing with drainage in the totes?
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    is it safe to bring em out now?

    I have 2 rounds of plants vegging in my greenhouse. some for the last 2 months and a round of new clones. I only have ONE greenhouse which i supplement with lighting and have a blackout cover for. Right now i am supplementing the light so the daylight is from 6am-930pm. What I would LIKE to...
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    Fans and Dry Ice CO2 in a greenhouse

    ok... does any one know how fast the plants absorb the CO2? Is it immediate like our lungs when we smoke? or does it take a while to soak in?
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    Fans and Dry Ice CO2 in a greenhouse

    Nice, thank you everyone, but is my idea viable? would the plants benefit from the CO2 being blown over it? and how fast do the plants absorb the CO2?
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    Fans and Dry Ice CO2 in a greenhouse

    So i have fans constantly blowing in my greenhouse. 2 of them, one thats a constant back and forth and one that comes on at various intervals during the day, mainly when its hotter mid afternoon. I really want to try using dry ice as a CO2 supplementation but worry if i have it over the...
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    when to start staking

    or if you can, get a small tomato cage around it and start pulling branches out to the side to get it trained more like a bush and to let more light into the other parts of the plant....
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    sunlight readings

    ok, im in the SFV in so cal. if anyone in my area needs this, let me know. Im a solar engineer and we use this on our site analysis when we first go to a customers house. it gives them an estimate on the annual production that thier soalr system will produce as well as efficency . the technical...
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    2013 outdoor southern Cali style

    off to a good start man! so cal here too, WEST COAST! lol....
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    outdoor so cal planting trees yet?

    i got a GH with a 400w MH to make the day light strech from 5 am to 9pm. Had em out there for a month so far, doing very well. in the 818 area of L.A. county
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    Spring 2013

    looks like a good collection of seeds. you get them in the ground yet?
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    A free tip for making holes in plastic...

    i have found that a cheap soldering iron from the 99 cent store works wonders.... just gotta let it cool down after but you dont have to keep running to the stove to re-heat it. Plus if you have to use the stove, i assume you would be doing this in the kitchen? You dont want it stinking like...
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