First Grow! : CFL/HPS 8 Plants

yeah ive seen the same pics for different strains too. some breeders just use the same picture for all their strains... but yeah im not really sure what happened to that other light. i was messin with the breakers yesterday i wanted to add plugs to the floodlights rather than how i had them directly wired to outlets so when i went and flipped the power again one wouldnt go on... bought a new one today anyways and put the other 4 CFLs i had on the NL and Cali so i got close to 20k lumens in the veg tent now...

i went out and got a timer for mistic cloner,but the lowest it goes is 5 damn mins..pfff..i hope 2 extra mins wont off set anyhting.i need every 3 mins..EVERY 3 MINS. GODDAMMIT!

im sure 5 minutes will be fine man...

something went wrong maybe over watered system or something,but plants look good,but leaves were feeling brittle..i flushed system and putr new ph'd water in..is it ok to trim off the dead/dying leaves while vegging?..plants are now like 3 weeks old

DKskater75 said:

yeah ive seen the same pics for different strains too. some breeders just use the same picture for all their strains... but yeah im not really sure what happened to that other light. i was messin with the breakers yesterday i wanted to add plugs to the floodlights rather than how i had them directly wired to outlets so when i went and flipped the power again one wouldnt go on... bought a new one today anyways and put the other 4 CFLs i had on the NL and Cali so i got close to 20k lumens in the veg tent now...

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Nice! 4sq.ft. right? I am sure you tried already but...have you tried switching the wires on the plug? I think they are specific cuz of the wide blade? Also when I wired my string of lights in the veg box, I re cut and striped one wire to get a better connection. In doing so, that one wire was ~1" shorter. Every time I plugged it in it popped the breaker. Tried all of the connections, taped over exposed metal to make sure it was not shorting on anything and still every time it popped. I think that the circuit of electricity was making the loop back faster than the other wire or something, cuz I re-cut the other wire to match and no problem. So I think that the length of the 2 wires matters. Another idea, the photo sensor may be getting light, that also happened to me.

yeah its 4 sq ft... trust me i tried everything haha switching the plugs, switching the bulbs (both still work) and then eventually i just opened up the hood to see if anything was wrong inside and still nothing... oh well it was only 40 bucks for a new one and now i have a spare bulb... and yeah paper, go ahead and trim off any leaves that are more than 50% dead they will do you no good...

i think you should make ventilation holes......it doesnt have to be really sophisticated with tha drier cord thing juss make holes for tha heat to flow out through......n how old are your sprouts in that pic all tha way on top...??
kant wait 2 c them bloom.......hahaha

damn my bad i never got back to u about the 65 watters..i got the 4 pack of them off ebay with 2 - 150 watt hps and if needed i got about 5 more 23 watt cfls..how many plants do u think i can get goin with all that i think its a total of about 45000 lumens (aproximently)..i hope i can be smokin right soon..but for now all im running is enough for 2 plants..that is until my juicy fruit gets here..ima get 20 seeds how many do u think i should start with??

DK,can i cut these leaves "down" not off,just get rid of the dead looking material..and i got a 60mm magnifiy glass..doesnt seem like im close enough..i have to get right on the plant to see anything..is this right or what mag should i get?..MM wise

808fatclouds said:

i think you should make ventilation holes......it doesnt have to be really sophisticated with tha drier cord thing juss make holes for tha heat to flow out through......n how old are your sprouts in that pic all tha way on top...??
kant wait 2 c them bloom.......hahaha

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umm to who and what are you talking about??

allout said:

damn my bad i never got back to u about the 65 watters..i got the 4 pack of them off ebay with 2 - 150 watt hps and if needed i got about 5 more 23 watt cfls..how many plants do u think i can get goin with all that i think its a total of about 45000 lumens (aproximently)..i hope i can be smokin right soon..but for now all im running is enough for 2 plants..that is until my juicy fruit gets here..ima get 20 seeds how many do u think i should start with??

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two 150 hps you could probably do about 8 plants id say maybe 10... depends on how big of a space youre working with? you got fem seeds or reg?? 20 seeds i would just do 10 at a time... if you have the space of course

paperfetti said:

DK,can i cut these leaves "down" not off,just get rid of the dead looking material..and i got a 60mm magnifiy glass..doesnt seem like im close enough..i have to get right on the plant to see anything..is this right or what mag should i get?..MM wise

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you can cut them down yeah but it doesnt look like thats going to help much man you got some major nute burn or somethin going on. not good when the new forming leaves are already brown usually if they start dying it will be from the bottom up first...

so what should i do?..im telling you i think this happend bcuz i got scared of the temp of the ph'd water i put in the other day and added some ice cubes to res to sorta even it out...im scared...hold me!
im gonna change water again tomm. fuuck that

this is a damn long journal

paperfetti said:

so what should i do?..im telling you i think this happend bcuz i got scared of the temp of the ph'd water i put in the other day and added some ice cubes to res to sorta even it out...im scared...hold me!
im gonna change water again tomm. fuuck that

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i dont know man... like i told you i dont know shit about hydro your water must be fucked up or something. werent you giving them way too many nutes before??

MacEzy said:

this is a damn long journal

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yeah and youre not helping make it any shorter haha but yeah and to think i just started flowering....

i got regular seeds..so i might germ about 12 and see what i can get

Lookin' really good there, skater.

thanks growspecialist... allout how much space are you working with??

DKskater75 said:

i dont know man... like i told you i dont know shit about hydro your water must be fucked up or something. werent you giving them way too many nutes before?

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nah,the nutes wasnt the prob..phew! found out i shocked them when i added the ice cubes and they should bounce back in a few days

oh thats good... yeah they probably dont like be watered with ice haha

no ice youll shock the fuck outta her.