The Art of Growing, Cheaply

Thx HF. ...now, just from the flower room, temp 72F , HUMIDITY 75%!!! I love it!!! its like a rain forest in there!!! So a few things I am starting to consider...do I make a horizontal reflector for my hybread light in veg room or do I use 2 vertically hanging bulbs? cast ur votes folks....just hanging the bulbs would be a lot easier....anybody know the difference between fox farm ocean forest and happy frog? anyways, later...

...so Sunday 3/20 watered all the girls, while veg ones only get HN grow natural and prozime, the ladies in flower also get HN flower natural, Flavor full and HN Honney...put 3 Lowrider hybreads in flower, have no time , room or desire to mess with them anymore....it's a second year that my lowrider pollonation plans just didn't materialized....only one Iranian is doing well, the other one is sickly and mutated...

...almost forgot, yesterday 3/21 took clones of wheelchair and white lightning, while still leaving moms in veg....

...ok, today and within last few days ....wired and installed another 250 MH installed vertically in veg room....planted some more Diesel and Amazing Haze clones in ground, found some mold on the stem of one of the diesels, I dont think there is a cause for concern yet, however I should wash the clone chamber before the next batch...next things on the list...some light leaks in the flower room, since I run my 12 at night it occured to me that I shouldn't tolerate ANY LIGHT AT ALL!!!....also trying to design an air delivery system for my HN brew jugs, It also seems more efficient to mix my HN in 7 gal jugs and let them brew as recommended for 24 to 48 hours...airating the mix the whole time...I will post some pics as soon as I can, not that anyone reads this besides me LOL...
...oh yeah, the humidity in my flower room remains at around 90%!!!...While I know its to high at the moment it doesnt seem to bother the plants and it seems I dont have to water as often...any thoughts on this??

my current grow is much cheaper growing in a cardboard box, i have used 5 cheap 80mm fans and painted it white instead bought 125w cfl 6500k n 125w 2700k, fmy first grow was just a practic but my current grow is doing great, we don't need does ridiculously priced grow rooms, cardboards nd pc cases, if you are creative and what to something do i'd advice people to get large cardboard boxes, all you needs is a good light source, water and good air circulation and don't forget seeds, my current grow is even getting too big for my cardboard box, but i'll jus LST them, but check out my grow man comment if you want, strains are RUSSIAN ROCKET FUEL AND HIMALAYAN BLUE DIESEL

junglemuffin said:

my current grow is much cheaper growing in a cardboard box, i have used 5 cheap 80mm fans and painted it white instead bought 125w cfl 6500k n 125w 2700k, fmy first grow was just a practic but my current grow is doing great, we don't need does ridiculously priced grow rooms, cardboards nd pc cases, if you are creative and what to something do i'd advice people to get large cardboard boxes, all you needs is a good light source, water and good air circulation and don't forget seeds, my current grow is even getting too big for my cardboard box, but i'll jus LST them, but check out my grow man comment if you want, strains are RUSSIAN ROCKET FUEL AND HIMALAYAN BLUE DIESEL

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Yeah well, I actually have to provide medicine for few patients so I substituted "THE BOX" with the tent...if you ever want to upgrade from CFL's to HID's hit me up...

Looking Good!

...ok quick pics...lets see...first 2 is a Humboldt nut airating/brewing station, after watching those utube videos its definately the way to go, than a pic of an Iranian thats doing well, its like having a pet alien baby, I have never seen anything like this before...

here are a few shots of the flowering room, the hum is still 70-85% I'm trying to vent some moist air outside douring the dark period...do compare the difference 2 weeks make...as you guys can see the lights were raised and now the bulbs are at 45* to the plants while reflectors are almost at 70/80 * to the plants...with the maylar I'm adding to the ceiling Its like the sphere of light LOL...I ran out of maylar too soon though...

...and finally new MH in veg room...

...here is whats beeng done in the next couple of days....germinating/planting some more iranians, cloning wheelchair and sticking her in flower, planting all rooted clones, transplanting and starting to clone UFO's bubblelicious and purple moroc...there will be more pics....let me know what you all think...

...ok where are we..? its april's fool's day...2011...here we go, the Iranians are sprouting, the wheelchair and white lightning were cloned and put in flower, the purple moroc and bubblegummer were transplanted and put in big veg room along with hedghog durban...(blueberryXdurban).....and new amazing haze mom...in the flower room finished "sphere of light" by putting maylar cross the ceiling seems to keep alot more light in...currently letting all plants go a little dry while I'm brewing great white and mayan microzime by Humboldt, it seems there is little too much nitrogen, (just a hair) claw but no burn (knock on wood) so instead of flushing, I figure , add enzimes, and immidiately start brewing some fert to follow 3 days later, be generous with it too...the haze and deisel hybread already flowering , deisel hybread looks like a yelder, we will see...here are some pics...

...spent some money too , but for a while I'm happy with my set up...CO2 I think would be the next thang ...but not right off...

...and here is some before after LST...(different plants)...some moms I forgot and....would somebody besides me comment on this?

i like ur set up that heater must be working good in that space. i bought a pellet stove for my house and it wouldnt heat it well enough so i put it n my grow room. why r u having such a time with humidity? what is the temps inside good job on girls

thanx hammer, current temps stay about 65-75, the humidity is lower now coz I havent watered them for about 5 days, actually tonight I'm inoculating the soil with mayan microzime and great white, we will see how much the humidity will go up...I think the high humidity is due to the fact that the entire flower room is incas3ed in the green house tent, there are vents , but I dont think they are sufficient, after watering, water wapor condences on the walls and ceiling, there is actual tropical water cycle going on...I've been venting 2 or 3 times a day with little results...

Biological Graffity said:

thanx hammer, current temps stay about 65-75, the humidity is lower now coz I havent watered them for about 5 days, actually tonight I'm inoculating the soil with mayan microzime and great white, we will see how much the humidity will go up...I think the high humidity is due to the fact that the entire flower room is incas3ed in the green house tent, there are vents , but I dont think they are sufficient, after watering, water wapor condences on the walls and ceiling, there is actual tropical water cycle going on...I've been venting 2 or 3 times a day with little results...

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better get some fans going in there if ya can

hammer6913 said:

better get some fans going in there if ya can

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there is a recirculation fan thats there. as far as venting out, I dont want to make any holes in the green house...plus with the way the weather has been I dont think I'll be able to drop bellow 70% even when venting...will try to surf it out for now...

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Have you grown Iranian auto b4 or is this the first time?

Man you got to watch that much humidity, it could cause mold...

Thanx Scar, its my first time doing the Iranians, someone told me ,if I keep 'em under 24 hr light they wont flower, its worth the experiment, specially if I can clonem all summer long LOL...Just innoculated the soil both in flower room and in big veg room tommorrow mixing the fert and starting to airate for the next 48 hrs., I think I'll also add some enzimes just to fortify the inoculation...the humidity is at 70% when I shut the door, but I'll bet you tommorow morning it will be around 85% since I watered...doesnt seem to bother the plants yet, knock on wood...think I'm gonna go check scarholes chemoXiranian thread...peace.