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[MEGA]Community Growing advice, tips, tricks, & experiences Part 4

I'd be hesitant too growing it in an apartment. My main concern would be about neighbors doing something stupid. 2 minutes away from where I live is an apartment building, a fire started in one apartment, and the fire department had to go into all the apartments and they found 2 of them who were growing a couple plants... I would be really pissed in such a case so I wouldn't risk it.
 
Ohh that makes sense papa. Thanks for the heads up.

AE, I think I found a better alternative but I'd like to make sure.

http://www.bghydro.com/BGH/customkititems.asp?kc=HLHPS06CLC&eq=

I see this doesn't come with a MH bulb unless I add it on. Would a 600W MH light work or is wattage too much? If it is too much I'd have to buy a 400W ballast to work with a 400W MH right? I couldn't use the same ballast? I'm sorry I'm pretty naive when it comes to this stuff lol.

Another question too, with just 1 or 2 plants am I going to definitely need a carbon filter? I know it helps with odor A LOT, but would one or two plants give off that strong of a smell?
 
600W is fine. Just partition your space off into two sections and use the lamp in just one of them. You need to use the same wattage ballast with the same wattage bulb. Also make sure the ballast can handle both MH and HPS lamps (switchable ballast).

I wouldn't go for an air cooled hood. Overall I think they only really come into their own when using CO2 and hooked up correctly (that is, using air from the outdoors). The glass will block out some of the light so I don't think they're worth using just for a normal grow. Trust me, I've looked into it extensively so I know what I'm talking about. I've even got one myself that I've tested.

If you can, I would just get everything separately. My recommendation would be to get a parabolic reflector, two rope ratchets, a ballast, a contactor switching relay (don't forget this!!) and a pure HPS lamp (not dual spectrum). You'll also need ventilation equipment since you can't just use a light with no ventilation since it would probably overheat and your plants won't get fresh air. Also, there's no point in using a powerful HPS lamp with just a small pissant little ventilation system, so make sure it's up to the job. You'll need both an intake and extraction leading to the outdoors if you can ideally. Ventilating indoors will just encourage mould and other problems.

It depends on how big your plants are, but yes in flower I think you'll need a carbon filter. Growing is expensive so if you can't afford to buy the proper kit I would hold out for a while until such a time that you have the money.
 
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and,...even if you are going to just grow two plants, and you plan to perpetuate that grow, you'll be having 4 plants in two different light schedules most of the time..so you'll need two grow areas that you can control the light schedules independently.
 
It sucks, I can't control my heat... The building owners do and it's always pretty toasty inside because right now the weather here is FREEZING :(.

I know that room has a heater near the ground on the other side of the room, and the room is a very small.

I also looked at some carbon filters online, if I'm looking at the right thing they're only like X USD? (Prices are allowed of legal things right? If not sorry tell me and I'll take it down) which is in my budget. Someone else was telling me they were much more than that so I don't know lol. This is what I had in mind - xxx


prices and source links are not allowed....thanks..
 
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You need a heater connected to a thermostat so that it never falls below about 18-20C.

Cheaper carbon filters don't work fully from the start often, and then fail after a short period of time compared to the more expensive option. This is one area you just cannot skimp on. Lots of people use CFs like Rhino Pros in the UK.
 
topped the plant 2 days ago with the FIM method. any guesses of the outcome yet judging by this picture:

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is there different techniques for growing at different altitudes

im just curious do people who live in denver or boulder have to take different steps in the growing process, because of the high altitude compared to other places..?
 
It depends on whether you're talking about growing outdoors or indoors.


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Starting to grow indoors. any tips or tricks? its going to be in my closet. im not sure what to do with the ventilation system and when to water the plant and also what tempature? anyone can help that would be great!:)
 
Hey everyone, glad to see the thread still lives on.
I just recently cut down my last two plants, one plant I dried quickly, the other I am still curing.
Looks great, smokes great, I plan to take pictures tomorrow and upload them hopefully early Thursday morning. (I would take pictures with my phone, but the camera is awful, I hope to be able to get a detailed picture with a new camera.)


I haven't started to germinate my femmed Northern Lights seeds yet because I don't think I would be able to manage a warm steady temperature.
I've heard of heating pads, and just keeping them in warm areas, but it's been getting down to around 50F-55F degrees inside the house, around 30 or below outside.
Any ideas?

Also, got a new filter and ordered some carbon so I can continue to use my higher-end filter. |
I don't know if it was the new strain (True O.G.) that smelled up the house, or if it was just my carbon filter not working well
(or maybe both?)
In the past, growing Northern Lights Ive never had a problem with smell (unless I was harvesting.)

Happy to see the thread is still alive :D
Hope everyone's growing is going well.
 
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topped the plant 2 days ago with the FIM method. any guesses of the outcome yet judging by this picture:
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Good to see that you're growing.
Plants look pretty good for being in a computer case :)
Also, I think everyone gets excited about their first grow , I know I did.

I basically did the same as you, Used a cardboard box with 6 CFL light bulbs, and a fan blowing in and a fan blowing out.
I ended up just using my closet/wardrobe for a grow room. I couldn't get anything to be produced when flowering with CFLs.(So I just let them flower outdoors to get what I could)
It made a huge difference changing to a larger grow area and lights.
Do you plan to buy a HPS any time in the future?

Northern Lights is a good strain :) my favorite, good for indoors too, short & fat , produces quite a bit of bud and out of the 5-6 times I've grown it,
It's never smelled nearly as strong as any of the other strains I've grown

(also, you might wanna try uploading that picture again or putting it on another site, I dont believe people can see it. Or I can't anyway.)
 
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- I tried to add this as an image but I kept getting prompted that it was 'invalid' , so feel free to hide the picture mods, sorry about that.


Hideous quality, I dropped my camera yesterday before I could get anything, borrowed a friends phone to take the picture, wasn't much better than what my phone can do, I will try another in better lighting , every time I tried to use the flash all of the pictures just turned out white, lol.

Good smoke though,
True O.G. , pretty potent smell, great taste as well. Would grow it again if I had the seeds :/
Not quite the size of buds I was hoping for, but the potency makes up for it.
 
Sorry for not reuploading that other pic. Was too high during christmas time to do any kind of updates or replys :'D

The plants are now in flowering. I think on one plant i can already spot female preflowers but I don't have a magnifiying glass so I can't tell exactly if they are preflowers.

Branching is pretty good on that plant too.
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Somehow that seller from Ebay ripped me off, still didn't get my Y-Splitters for the lights :/
Still running on only 40w.

The other plant is also doing quite good. She's a bit behind because she sprouted 4 days after the first plant.
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I'm still planning to sort out one of the plants when sexes have shown. If both are female i may use one to make clones (a friend of mine would like to have a clone for example) and put it away after it has been stripped from branches.

Happy new year everyone (I know a bit late ;) )
 
How are you going to water them? You have a friend or family member to do it?

Are the roots coming out the drainage holes in the bottom?

The space is filled out so I would switch to 12/12 now or in a week's time. Have they showed their pre-flowers yet?
 
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