So I don't really smoke a whole lot by my friend grows and got me into it by showing me what he was doing and talking about how growing is his passion. So, I decided to give it a shot.

I have a roommate that is not cool with me growing so my only option for growing is my crawl space (has to be super stealth). The ambient temp down there stays around 75 and I had about of 4 ft of height to work with so i figured this would be perfect for me. The only thing is, i live in super suburbia and my house is about 10 feet from my neighbors so that really sketches me out. Oh well, we will see how it work. Hopefully no one will notice me going in there all the time or the small amount of light shining through the vents and door.

To get started my friend and I built a box using a plastic container. We installed a vanity light fixture that has room for 3 bulbs. We put a Y on the end of each outlet to get 6 CFLs in there. We then coated the box in refelctive material and cut out holes for fan. We are using 6 80cm computer fans. We only had 3 at the time so only 3 are installed but that will change shortly as i have 10 more fans coming in the mail tomorrow. Finally, we wired everything together and the box was done.

Next I had to work on my crawl space. I only had a light down there so I wire a recipticle down there to power the lights and fan.

As of 7/10 I have been growing. My friend gave my 3 clones and some hybrid he calls El Diablo QC. Anyways, thats what I am growing and they seem to be thriving. My friend recently found out that this strand tends to herme but we will see. I was planning on making these my mothers and building more boxes for clones, veg, and flower but i think i am just goign to grown and harvest these and be done with this strand and then try to clone some hindu kush. We will see!

Overall i spent right at $100 on box contruction and a nutes starter pack.

Right now the plants are a few inches tall and growing fast the temp is the box is a bit over 80 degrees so I am looking forward to getting 3 more fans in there to cool it down a bit.

I am using the Technafolra Starter Kit for nutrients. If anyone has experience with these nutes please let me know. For now I am following the instructions on the kit. I'll post later about results or if I decided to vary from the instructions.

Feel free to comment or offer any suggestions. Ill be posting here regularly to show my results and upgrades to my setup.

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Lookin good bro, I have some pics of your starter kit that I will post up later. Can you take a pic of that outlet you installed? I'd like to see it. Oh yeah, if those diablos don't hermie, you can always re-veg them and you will have 3 mothers or three established veggies, or any combination of the two. I can tell they have already grown a good bit. keep it up. Did you get any ph down?

Homer is a friend of mine and SMG, we are all growing this diablo strain as well as a few variety of kush and skunk. He's a newbie so let him feel welcome, give him some advice and constructive criticism. I can already tell he is getting that warm fuzzy feeling inside that we all get when we grow these beautiful ladies.

Good Luck!

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Oh yeah, I meant to tell you, you should go ahead and pick up some grow bags from your hydro store, I'd get 1 gallon bags, sometimes they will have white bags instead of black, if they do, get the white ones, they reflect more light. With CFL's you need all the light you can get. Those clones have already established some good roots so you can go ahead and throw them in the 1 gallon bags with your MG (miracle grow) and remember to add a good bit of perlite. Putting them in the bigger bags with more soil will allow the roots to reach deeper and the plant to grow faster with nice tight side branching (keeping your lights about an inch away from the plants will also help this, just remember to keep an eye on them and make sure they are not getting burnt).

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Yeah thanks man, I lowered the lights about 2 inches today, I realized they were way away from the plant so hopefully that will help. And i dont need to buy bags remember, you gave the 3 of them! Thanks again! haha

oh ok, I thought I only gave you one, but I remember giving you the other two now.

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sweet box man Fer sureeeeee
Remeber to up that lighting for flowering at least double or tripple the lights 2700k
When do you plan to flower with your height an all?
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good to see you posting up your grow, subscribed. the only thing I would really worry about growing in the crawlspace is humidity issues and pests.

are you doing 12/12 from seed?

Queen City Diablo does tends to hermie, but it's usually late in flowering. Be vigilant about looking for male flowers / bananas around 35 days in flowering. it's not that heavy of a yielder, but we're working on that. this is what you have to look forward to...

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Thanks LRG and SMG,

SMG, its funny you posted that about pests. I just went to water the ladies and the 3rd plant has very very small looking mites/flea looking things. I would have never seen them if they weren't moving all around. The weird thing is that they were crawling all around the soil and not on the plant and they were only on one plant. I am posting more pictures today and the 3rd plant i post is the one with the bug problem.

I should be getting the other computer fan in today and if I do, I will wire them up today.

Also, about they humidity concerns, I haven't measured the humidity but what i am down there it doesn't feel humid at all. I am sure it will change with the outside humidity but doesn't feel any more humid than that.

And no I am not on 12/12. THC advised i should let them veg for a while so they are on 18/6 for the time being. I was also planing on some LST to get some more nodes growing. If all works out one might turn into a mother (we will see).

LRG, about the lights, I have 6 26watt CFLs in there now but not sure how many K. What would you suggest to double or triple the lighting or would my current setup be enough.

THC, the first picture is a picture of my 110 wiring. I wired the receptacle in parallel to the light and switch so it always has power even though the switch is off.

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I've had the same bug problems, you probably took them home from my place. They are fungus gnats. All you have to do to get rid of them is make sure you are letting the soil get completely dry before watering again. That way the fungus that they feed on will dye and therefore they will dye. You can also try getting some "safer" caterpillar killer but I've found it works much better to just let the soil dry out. I had that problem because I was having to over water the clones when I first put them in the soil, therefore, causing a perfect warm, moist environment for the fungus. The roots have developed enough now to where you only need to water when the soil is pretty much completely dry; as dry as it can get without letting the plant wilt. It might take a few times to figure out exactly how long to wait but you will get it.

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not that it really matters but they are actually 6 26W CFL's 100w equivalent each.

The "K" that LRG is referring to is the color spectrum. I mentioned it to you but not in these terms. Your bulbs are 2700K, This is a warmer spectrum and best for flowering. For veg it is better to use 6500K, which is a cooler (blue) spectrum. Like I told you before, you need to get the 6500K for the veg and mother cabinets, but we went with the 2700K for this cab because it was intended to just be a flower cab from 12/12 remember? You are only vegging in this cab because you dont have your veg cab yet and we decided that we were just going to wait for the mother because I want to get you off of this strain and on to the kush. if you want you can do like I do and mix up the lighting to get a more full spectrum.

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