K1Ng5p4d3's Cardboard Box Grow (hehe)

before the "reaction starts"....? What reaction? Sounds like it should work fine for ya. I think I'm gonna be building a homemade tent when I get my space ready.

yeah man put ur new plants in there the buds will get faaaaat

my new plants are in there. I was thinkin about putting my old plants in there too during the day, but i dont know how a MH would work for flowering plants.

N when i was talking about a chemical reaction -- i mean,

This year, some company in Hong Kong who owns one of the two only machines in the world that make our grow tents, wether it be a Darkroom a Jardin a Hydrohut or even the generic ones like the one i got, are made.


This year one of these machines ran off an entire line of hydrohuts and generics that were sprayed with some sort of chemical adhesive that hasnt been used in the past, to make the corners of the tent, and all the stitching adhere to itself so it doesnt unravel.

Well i guess what happened was, that this chemical, once applied to the tent, becomes deadly to plant material once the plant is put in the tent, and a growlight placed over it. Once the light heats up the tent enough, it creates a reaction called "Off Gassing" , where vapor from this chemical is heated into the air in the tent, and it kills the plants, turning them yellow at first, and then killing them over a period of a day or two.

So yeah, its got me a little worried, lol. But im watchin everything. Ive had my plants in there for about2 or 3 hours so far, and it was REALLY hot in there for a little bit while i was hookin up all my ducting. But everything still looks real nice though, so im a lot less worried than i was before i started.

I see, I havn't really read much about the tents, so I was unaware of said problem. That kinda sucks though, seems like they would think ahead more. Unless it was done on purpose to stop illegal growing lol. J/K

Lol sorry lil high put ur olllld plants in there

nice buds man , setup looks good man .. you've been pimped ! lol
any light escape out of there when its closed ?

Yo K1ng... I just browsed through... you guys have been busy.. hehehe....

Anyways.. I'ma go back and do some catching up but I gotta couple questions to ask you...

Can you tell me what the temperature inside is with the light on and the vents working...???

I am really curious.. I would also like to know what temp the air around the tent is... so I know how many degrees warmer in the tent...

I am not worried 'cause I can always pump outside air (well below freezing) in to the tent and across the cool tube...

Can you touch the glass?

Thanks...

G

Lookin' beautiful K1. Haha. I would have just built the tent myself. I prefer sometimes when stuff is done by me. Saves some money, and works just as good, but sometimes just doesnt have the professional look.

GypsyBush said:

Yo K1ng... I just browsed through... you guys have been busy.. hehehe....

Anyways.. I'ma go back and do some catching up but I gotta couple questions to ask you...

Can you tell me what the temperature inside is with the light on and the vents working...???

I am really curious.. I would also like to know what temp the air around the tent is... so I know how many degrees warmer in the tent...

I am not worried 'cause I can always pump outside air (well below freezing) in to the tent and across the cool tube...

Can you touch the glass?

Thanks...

G

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well, now that ive figured out my air intake, the temp inside is an even 80 degrees give or take. Outside the tent is about the same, because its in my closet, and i have my exhaust blowing out of the tent, and into the closet, but i also have an exhaust fan set up for my closet (80cfm) sucking all that hot air out so it doesnt get sucked back into the tent by my intake fan.

N yeah, i can touch the tube, its hot, but i can touch it. Right now i have the tube about 7 inches above my plants, and its been 20 hours since i moved it, and they actually seem to love it. all of my seedlings have sprouted overnight, except for two of my twilights, which germinated, but with tiny taproots. I checked them out, and even though i planted them, watered them, and put them under the MH, the taproot hasnt even grown a cm since i planted it. nothing at all. Same goes for the other one too. They are both the exact same, and its kind of stressin me out now.

Does that ever happen? a seed germs, and then it doesnt do anything else??

spida said:

Lookin' beautiful K1. Haha. I would have just built the tent myself. I prefer sometimes when stuff is done by me. Saves some money, and works just as good, but sometimes just doesnt have the professional look.

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N yeah, i love savin money too bro. Only thing about this particular situation with me is, heres what happened, lol.

I went on ebay, to buy a ph meter or some shit. I cliked the buy it now price, and went to buy it. When i bought it, i thought it got charged to my debit card, but when i checked my balance, it never took themoney out. So i called paypal about it, and they tell me i have a paypal buyer credit card. Apparently i applied for one last year when i bought some Steelers tickets, and forgot about the application. Apparently i got approved, and they gave me a 700 dollar limit on that fucker, lol. Spent every single dime within 1 day. And that my friend, is my tent, my light, and everything else i bought .

All in all, the only thing i actually spent my own cash on, was my soil n nutes. I got no problems with payin 15 bucks a month on my PP card instead of bein out 700 bucks out of pocket. So yeah, i probably would have ended up makin my own grow area if i didnt get a deal like that. I actually was thinkin about it, because at first i didnt wanna use my closet to grow with because i was too worried about the temps n ventilation, but everything worked out a hell of alot better than i thought it was gonna. The tent works better than i probably could have done, plus its enclosed, instead of opening my closet door straight to my grow, i have a lighttight room that keeps all air inside of it, and keeps everything nice n stealthy. Im a very happy camper right now.


So no offgassing problem, lol. My seedlings are green, and lookin good man. Im the proud father to four beautiful babies, and hopefully 6 soon, followed by another 2 whiteberries n 2 northern souls, as soon as their ready to grow.Bust out the Cigars Fellas!!!

Hey K1ng, i got a responce from attitude on my free power skunk seeds

"Hi there

According to the paperwork it was sent however can you double check as it was inside a small plastic vile which you may have missed.

Many thanks

Rachel
The Attitude"


heres what i wanted to say ...

Rachel, according to reality (the plastic bag with no powerskunk seeds in it)
You fucked up, you think a pot head cant find seeds in a plastic bag ?????C'MON .. now send me my fucking seeds god damnit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What i actaully said... i offered to buy the nirvana K2 10 pack and send me 2 free viles of power skunk and free express shipping .... lets see what they say ... i think its pretty fair .. i didint fuck up they did... what do you think ????

i highly doubt their gonna ship you out your seeds for free dude. remember, those are free power skunk seeds, lol. the only thing you were gona have to pay for in the 1st place is the shipping -- isthat all you ordered?? i forgot dude.


N speakin of orderin seeds, lol, i just ordered some Sweet God from BcBD. mmmmmmMMMMMMMMmmmmmm -- might replace the twilight seeds that aint sprouting with those, even though itll take a week or so to get them to me. we shall see....

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

i highly doubt their gonna ship you out your seeds for free dude. remember, those are free power skunk seeds, lol. the only thing you were gona have to pay for in the 1st place is the shipping -- isthat all you ordered?? i forgot dude.


N speakin of orderin seeds, lol, i just ordered some Sweet God from BcBD. mmmmmmMMMMMMMMmmmmmm -- might replace the twilight seeds that aint sprouting with those, even though itll take a week or so to get them to me. we shall see....

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i ordered like 130$ worth of seeds.
i got the package and it was missing the power skunk ....
when someone sends you an order missing an item ..... do you pay for shipping again because they forgot to pack the item ???

i mean, you got a point there, but theyll probably keep arguin with you for a while, somethin like "sorry, but we wouldknow if we fucked up your order" , n youll belike "nono IM sorry, but I would know if you fucked my order up, so send me my shit" n itll justgo on n on n on n on, lol. It sucks, but were dealing with international seedbanks who are sending seeds illegally to us, lol. They really aint gonna send us shit unless theirs money involved bro. N attitude is a great seedbank, but i dont think that even thenicest guys in the seed business are gonna send you out some more seeds based on your word alone. I mean, i wrote them an email sayin that my seedswere fucked up and no longer viable, andi gottheir standard response for people who write saying that type of shit, which basically goes soemthing like "so what, its illegal for us to even sell you these with intent to germ. we aint sendin you anything else to replace those. fuck you, buhbye."

lovely thread +rep
maybe I shoulda vegged under my cfls instead of wasting power on this hps IM NOT EVEN FLOWERING YET!!

Don't think that boricuaboi, the hps will produce much better plants, even veggin under it. They should be bushier, and stay shorter.

what?? hps is used for flowering its not better for vegging at all in fact its almost useless during veg...

So did i read the attitude page correctly. I am gonna get the ak47, which is 67 pounds, or 109 dollars. I believe the main page said that with a purchase of that price will will get 10 Ak47, 5 super skunk, 1 durban, and 1 northernlights. Is this correct?

No way, hps will still be better for veg then just cfls, If you have the money, you can also get a blue spectrum hps bulb that will be purfect for flowering. Hortilux makes a red, and blue spectrum blub. Red for flower and blue for veg. Hps isn't destinctive to the spectrum its just the way the bulb is made.

Sorry for the multiple posts, but the bottom of my post about the seeds, didn't show up for some reason unless you highlight the area under the freepack line.