I have had my new light set up for a couple days now and it has been working great. I recieved a MH light setup from a close friend as a gift and I can't afford to get a HPS set up so my grow will be the MH start to finnish. I took apart the ballast and bulb and built a wooden box with a plexiglass bottom. I bought some 4" dryer flex duct with some 90 degree elbows to attach to the end s of the box. I installed it in my closet and ran the duct up into my attic where it takes in cool air and returns it right back up. I took a small fan and took the guard and housing off of it and rigged it inside of a plastic gallon jar which I cut the bottom out of. The screw cap end is about 4" so it fit right into the duct. Quick ghetto inline duct fan. The temp in the closet right above the soil has held steady at about 74-78 degrees. I used 50/50 miracle grow soil with perlite. I planted my last 3 Papaya seeds 2 days ago and 2 of them are poking out nicely. I also have a aerogarden in the closet so I plan on dividing it in half and cloning in the ag then growing with the MH. But first I'll try these 3 and see how it turns out. Keep an eye out and let me know what you think and any improvements I can make. Also do you think I can use the 1 gallon pots through the whole grow? I plan on flowering at about a foot high.

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sounds all set to go,,yep you should be able to use those pots rite through ,,good luck with that :^D

well i actually started mine in dixie cups and transplanted them into their final pots at three weeks and slowly started adding nutes at a month. im am under the understanding that after so much time of adding nutes the soil gets a build up of things that can be not so great for your plant. dont quote me but i do believe its salt! ph levels can get outta hand if your really jackin em with nutes, i didnt really have a problem i was giving my plants alot of nutes with every watering. 10-10-10 during veg and 25-35-25 during flowering. i think next grow im going from dixies to one gallon then final transplant into a 5 gallon bucket. bigger the pot the bigger the yeild especially with this particular strain. also i dont know if this is your first grow, it is mine, although ive been researching for years, you still discover alot when you do it first hand. make sure you have adequet space for you plants. lets put it this way of the 7 that i started with unfortunatly only 2 were female.....

....and ah yea if i was going the route i was shooting for i never would have had enough room... i got just enough room for these two... and i flowered at 15 inches tall. if you search pics on here of papaya you will see a bunch from me. take care and keep your eye open i will be posting some very beautiful pics within the week!

Yea I was thinking maybe a transplant eventually into 5 gallon buckets. Hopefully I get at least 1 female. If not it is on to bagseed. I'll keep an eye on yours to see how they look. Thanks.

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Well there are the girls (hopefully). I have the third seed back out of the dirt and into a wet paper towel because when I put it in the soil it wasn't split all the way like the others were but I put it in the dirt anyway. It didn't do much so hopefully it isn't a dud. We'll see what happens. I wonder how long until I can sex these. I hate to waste all that time for nothing. Oh well. I have no patience.

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unless your like a super expert on what to look for, you wont be able to sex until around 10 days after flowering...

REAL BRIGHT! Make sure you got proper ventilation on that MH
Looks real good though im starting a micro grow soon 2

I have Ice cold air from my attic blowing right through the light. I have the plants about a foot from the light and the temp probe stays right at the mid 70's. I tried moving it up closer but the temp jumped up to around 100 so back down it went. this summer I'll have to think of another way to cool the light. I'll probably do an outdoor grow. Guerilla style. Can't wait for that.

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when your plants get taller make sure you keep that thermometer at the canopy of you plants, i had a bit of heat stress in the earlier stages of my grow but nothing that did any major damage.