yep. the best indor grow room for one plant I have ever seen.I'm very excited to see whats gonna happen
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Very cool idea! Can't wait to see the end result. Nicely done!

thaat is pimp. i like it. very clean

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hey everybody,

i think that everything that i can do has been done. it all seems to be under control and functioning well. it appears to me that my next main concern is the plant itself (obviously). its mama was huge! i'm going to need to control its height. I understand that there are many techniques that i could use but i don't want to change the plant that much. so i guess factors that would impact height are light (where is it coming from and how far away, spectrum), nutrients (nitrogen etc), how long did i wait to start flowering, etc.

well, my lights are coming from everywhere. the plant, i'm assuming and hoping, will grow outward and spherically towards the lights. another advantage of these lights i think is that they are linear fluorescents. i believe this is better because it covers more inner surface area of my can. this way, the plants grow out to the lights and then up them. i'll never move my lights and the plant can grow touching them because they are completely cool.
the spectrum of these lights is 4100K. they are tri-phosphate so they should have a nice range across the spectrum (they sure do look pretty).

next is nutrients. i'm using greenhouse nutrients at quarter strength for seedlings and cuttings. from my understanding of plant biology, if i limit the uptake of nitrogen in flowering it will restrict vegetative growth? please correct me if i'm wrong.

the plant is currently three and a half week old and i'm slowly switching to flowering. its only five inches tall but i'd rather be safe than sorry. today the lights were on at six am and will be turning off at 930P. tomorrow they'll probably be off around 830.

please people i'd like some more feedback. this is my first grow ever and i'm absorbing information like a sponge. please tell me about what you know, what won't work, what you've done and advice. looking forward to it!

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i've switched the watering schedule to every three hours. the plant gets watered at 7 am, an hour after the lights turn on, then every three hours. so 7a, 10, 1p, 4.

i'm also thinking about topping or crowning the plant to see if i can more tops. anybody got suggestions? i'm trying to get a nice yield that'll last till next harvest. you know how it goes

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i would suggest flowering very early because your definitely going to run out of room in there. i dont think i would top the plant because then its going to grow wide and be touching the lights on the side of the can. just flower at 12-18 inches. thats just my opinion. good luck bro i like your style!

oic the lights wont burn.... interesting. what kind of lights? they arent t5 fluorescents?

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socalrippin, and everybody else,

thanks for all the great compliments! this little plant is just reaching four weeks old. its around six inches tall right now. for a bit over three weeks this plant was on 18/6. the last couple of days i've been slowly bringing that time down to 12/12. should i be doing this (bringing it down by an hour or so each night) or just switch it to 12/12? i wasn't sure if i would stress the little one by abruptly switching the light schedule like that. today the lights are on at 6a and off at 8p, so i'm nearly at a flowering schedule.

these lights that i'm using are two foot 55 watt, 4100 K, 4800 lumens, T12 fluorescents, with a four-pin 2G11 base. basically its a four foot T12 folded in half so that all four pins are at one side. these lights are awesome! they are super bright and don't run warm at all. i can have my 50 cfm fan on "low" and temperatures remain optimal. on medium the lights are cool to the touch, on low they are slightly warm.

i'm essentially planning on having this plant growing in close proximity to the light. i don't have much room anyway so i didn't want to waste any, especially needed space so close to the lights.

i'm still not sure what i'll be doing with this plant. i'm curious to see how it grows, and if i'll be needing to step in and help to control its height somehow. i really think this side lighting will promote bushy outward growth instead of upward growth.

the only reason i was even considering topping is because of the genetics of the plant. i'm uploading some pics of its parents so you guys can see what i mean. the mother was the huge sativa with buds as big as my growspace. apparently the "father" is the little indica, who went hermie on us. in these pics that sativa is around eight feet tall, the indica around four.

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i hope that now you guys can see why i may be a little worried about my finishing height.

I hope that you guys all stick around for the ride!

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wow bro ur set up is looking really good i like what u did with that trashcan u made it into a money making machine loll i got my very first grow going on rite now im going to b doing an update later on today check it out if ud like the link is in my signature. How long have u been flowering those big ones for now?

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thanks newb farmer!

actually i'm not even trying to make money with this thing, just save it. overall, the can cost me around $250-300. but thats just what it cost me not what the parts would cost. a lot of the things i got for free which helped me out so much...

the big ones were from last winter. that was a grow of a buddy of mine. he harvested over a pound from that sativa - and he only used CFL's! my plant is the offspring of the sativa and indica. so i have a hybrid sativa/indica cross growing in my trashcan that only has a height of three feet. if i factor in the hydroton and the rockwook then this plant has around thirty inches to thrive vertically. i hope all goes well with this

has anyone done breeding between sativas and indicas? do you have any information on it? i'm really hoping i chose the one with the most indica-like phenotype...

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ok. i guess the more i use this thing the more i know about it and what could be improved. my next improvement is with the resevoir. the can sits on top of the res, so its difficult to lift it to check on the water. i'm going to add a ninety degree plastic elbow to the bottom of the res on the outside. this elbow is going to be connected to a hose. this way i can tell what the water level from the exterior of the res. Bonus: with this design i'll also be able to pour water directly from my res into my pH test kit!

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i know its a shitty drawing but i hope that it gets my point across.

this is going to be great!

Happy smokin

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