Jealous's 156W CFL Rubbermaid Fem'd Bubblicious Grow

JealousFoliage

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for temps in such a small box u could buy a bag of dry ice and put a lil in a small box helping the temp cecause the increase in co2 from the dry ice also helps plants take greater heat extremes
Thanx for the posts bro and the input, but I don't know where to get dry ice, lol, and I don't think i could afford to keep buying it either after it melts, that's unique though i've never heard of that do you know if that would even work?
 

Dr.Blunt

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yeah ive seen in a few booksu can get for prettycheap by the bag at the grocery store it stays cold longer then ice co2 has no liquid form an goes fromm the solid ice to gas
 

JealousFoliage

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yeah ive seen in a few booksu can get for prettycheap by the bag at the grocery store it stays cold longer then ice co2 has no liquid form an goes fromm the solid ice to gas
O shit I didn't know that, but still broke, and I think with all the ventilation I have that wouldn't work out.
 

JealousFoliage

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O shit, havn't even been able to update or log in for 2 days cause RIU said database error whenever I tried to log in. Pic updates tomorrow.
 

JealousFoliage

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Well it's been a lil bit since I did a damn pic update but here it is. They're burned a lil by nutes and a lil by the bulbs, but the buds themselves look great, and they're bouncing back from both sets of burns. At first I didn't realize that they were getting nute burn cause they'd grown into the bulbs and been burned pretty good. But stopped nuteing and have the lights at a safe distance and day by day the leaves are getting better. Here are the pix.
 

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gumball

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a couple of my plants look a lot like your 1,2, & 3. do you know what is causing it on yours? i thought it was cal, but my treatment for that made it worse. i have no clue now, just use plain water i guess...
 

JealousFoliage

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a couple of my plants look a lot like your 1,2, & 3. do you know what is causing it on yours? i thought it was cal, but my treatment for that made it worse. i have no clue now, just use plain water i guess...
I didn't read through ur whole thread but I think it's prolly nute burn, plus ur growing in a box as well. When the nutes build up in the leaves that makes them even more susceptible to heat burn too. That's what I think though. Once I stopped nuting and just giving reg water it stopped, as to why the 1 is doing better than the others I have no idea. But i'm a new grower so I'd really ask someone more experienced lol.
 

KidCreole

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man, i like yer setup. great lil thing goin. if yo dont mind me askin, what kind of spike have you seen in your bill? im doin bascially the same thing as you, but with twice the bulbs. i dont need a specific number, just a general range if you could. but your buds look great and your aboot halfway there id say! plan on flushin? and now you should get your clones in more soil to make that a perpetual grow!
 

JealousFoliage

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Buds are looking good. How are your leaves? Check out my sig thinks have defiantly changed.
Thanx dude, i'm loving em too. I looked at ur thread no idea about the leaves dude, not to expeiranced but hey as long as the buds are good you should be good right? lol
 

JealousFoliage

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man, i like yer setup. great lil thing goin. if yo dont mind me askin, what kind of spike have you seen in your bill? im doin bascially the same thing as you, but with twice the bulbs. i dont need a specific number, just a general range if you could. but your buds look great and your aboot halfway there id say! plan on flushin? and now you should get your clones in more soil to make that a perpetual grow!
Thanx dude, I haven't noticed any difference at all in the bill truth be told. Small fans and cfls use hardly any juice anyways na mean? I think i'm to far into flower at this point to take clones lol, only a couple of weeks till chop time. I woulda taken clones awhile ago but i'm moving to a diff city in a couple months and I imagine moving a whole grow, even a smaller one would be pretty damn hard. So when I get set up in the new place ima just start from seed again. I have 2 more bubblicious seeds and 10 freeby's so I'll just use those, then take clones and get a damn perpetual going! Should be fun.
 

crusty420

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Ya true. I flushed a couple of the plants last night. Gonna add some soil to the cups maybe give it some more nutrients from the fresh soil.
 

JealousFoliage

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Ya true. I flushed a couple of the plants last night. Gonna add some soil to the cups maybe give it some more nutrients from the fresh soil.
That sounds like a good idea. I wish I wouldn't have been a idiot and transplanted into new dirt before going 12/12, I think that woulda helped me out alot.

Today when I was watering and pulling off dead leaves and minding my own business I totally noticed a slight smell of bubble gum! I coulnd't believe it. The plants actually smell like bubble gum lol. Fucking crazy, i mean mostly they just smell really dank but today I for sure smelled bubble gum underlying the weed plant smell. O i took some pix today, here they be...
 

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RyanTheRhino

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i just nutted..... dam thats mad good looking buds for what i thought they would look like with only cfs.... do u still have 9 26watt cfls? mabey hps/mh users say that cfls dont work because they never actually grew with them. hmm i think u just proved them wrong



im not saying cfls are better but they do the dam thing if u dont want to blow $$ on expensive lamps
 

AudiA6Driver

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just read the thread man its lookin good for all the issues and stuff, our grows are kinda similar. Right now ive got 10 - 2700k - 23w CFL's in a 24x15x42 box, i too have had heat problems for the past month(whole grow). but my temps are around 78-86(for now, its still cold outside like 40 F and i keep the room the box is in at like 68 F and that was 18/6 lights and today i switched to 12/12). i have 4 - 4" fans blowing directly on the CFL's(one at each end of a row of 5 lights) and a 8" fan blowing under the plant, and a mini tower fan blowing up from the bottom, i have 3 120mm - 180 cfm PC fans at the top back of the box for exhaust and 1 120mm 80cfm PC fan at the bottom for intake, but right now i have to have the door of the box open like an inch with a fan blowing towards the cracked door(Great stealthly grow with a box that looks like the damn sun is trying to escape) or else it too gets to around 91 F even with all the fanns and air flow. im trying to find a solution for the heat and my only solution is running a hose from my A/C to the box for a cold air intake basically. i havent done it yet, cuz i dont have much of a smell yet but i know i will soon and i need to shut that door. i too wish i would have just gone with a 200w CFL with a hood and stuff, Still thinking about getting one and rearranging the box one day before its to late. Good luck with yours, im subscribed and +rep.

PS feel free to check my journal out, the box changes drastically from the first picture to the most recent posts.
 

JealousFoliage

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i just nutted..... dam thats mad good looking buds for what i thought they would look like with only cfs.... do u still have 9 26watt cfls? mabey hps/mh users say that cfls dont work because they never actually grew with them. hmm i think u just proved them wrong



im not saying cfls are better but they do the dam thing if u dont want to blow $$ on expensive lamps
Yep still the same amount of bulbs, I actually think I have 1 less now cause of the heat. Thanx dude.
 
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