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    Ventilation—Wye Duct & Sizes

    Sup Rollies, I have a 4x4 veg tent and a 5x5 flower tent nearby each other in the same small office and it's getting HOT in there. I live in one of the hottest places in the world and our 3-week long winter is officially over, so I can't vent into the room anymore. I just bought a 6-inch...
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    AZ Winter Greenhouse Grow

    Hey Friends! Anybody else here in the PHX AZ area, or in a similarly hot desert climate? Now that Arizona has legalized home grows, I’m considering putting a 6x8 Harbor Freight greenhouse in my sunny, walled-in backyard and putting a few plants in there for a winter grow. I would start them...
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    Greenhouse Plastic Sheeting to seal lower half of room?

    ’Sup RIU! I’m delving into the world of CO2 supplementation and sealed rooms for the first time. The perennial conundrum is: how to keep room cool efficiently/cheaply while conserving as much precious gas as possible. Right now my set up involves a portable a/c vented to an external air cooled...
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    When to boost lumens during flowering?

    Howdy RIU! As we head into the warmer months, I’m planning on scaling down my basement grow somewhat. I currently have two flower tents with a total of 3000 watts of HID and 950 watts LED (330w COB in one; 620w HLG Quantum in the other), plus an all-COB veg tent. Starting after chop next week...
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    JACKPOT! Found unused 30-amp circuit for old dryer... what to do?

    Hey RIU! I posted a thread a few weeks ago about increasing ampacity in my garden area, and I may have just come much closer to a solution. I noticed a 50-amp rated 240v outlet (USA) in what used to be a laundry room, now a bedroom. I did some testing with the panel and it is the only outlet on...
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    Inline Booster Fan - Worth a Try?

    Howdy RIU! Ventilation question for you experienced heads out there: I’ve got 2 1000w air-cooled hoods (digital se HPS) running inline, being cooled by a single 6-inch 442-CFM centrifugal fan. The fan pulls cool air into my tent, pushes it through one light, then about 3.5’ or ducting, then the...
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    Grow Room Electrical - best way to increase capacity?

    hey RIU! Haven’t posted a thread here in years but I’ve learned most of what I know from you guys over the years. I’m renting a house and want to run a small/medium garden in the basement. Last winter, I was running 2000w HPS in flower and up to 1000w MH in veg in the same basement. I was...
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    Move girls inside to finish?

    Hey folks, I have several beautiful plants flowering under the sun right now. However, where I live the days of sun are numbered and the weather is becoming increasingly intolerable. I am considering: 1) Bringing the two that are closest inside and putting them in a dark room before the...
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    Best Vaporizer??

    Hey folks, I'm lookin to get my old man a vaporizer for Christmas, and I'm wondering if anybody has any recommendations. I know the Volcano is the top of the line, but I'm trying to find the best deal for under 100 bucks. Gotta choose by like tomorrow and get it express shipped cause, as...
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    CO2 Supplementation in open room?

    Hey folks, Would I gain anything by setting up a small, DIY co2 supplementation system in an open room? When I say open, I mean very open. I have a huge basement that's pitch black apart from my light, perfect temperature down there, so I just set my plants up on a table, hung the light...
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    2 400w HPS, or 1 HPS+1 MH???

    Hey folks, need to get some input here. I have two 400w HPS setups, and also have a metal halide conversion. I'm currently vegging 5 plants under 1 400w MH conversion bulb. Come flowering, I'm gonna add the other light in. What I'm tryna decide is if I should go with two HPS bulbs, or if it'd be...
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    Outdoor Harvest Tomorrow?? Too early?

    Hey folks, I got some nice northern lights girls way out in the boonies. I wanted to hold off on harvesting until the weekend of oct. 9/10 or so, but I'm thinking about grabbing a bunch tomorrow, because the weather's looking real rainy for the next week. Does this seem like an extremely...
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    Harvest Tomorrow???

    Hey folks, I got some nice northern lights girls way out in the boonies. I wanted to hold off on harvesting until the weekend of oct. 9/10 or so, but I'm thinking about grabbing a bunch tomorrow, because the weather's looking real rainy for the next week. Does this seem like an extremely...
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    Drying Conundrum!!

    Hey folks, I have nine really nice outdoor plants that I expect to yield anywhere between one and five pounds in total. THe problem is I may be living with my parents this fall, and they don't want me drying this much pot in their house (even though it's by far the most secure situation...
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    Drying in Rental Storage Unit

    Hey folks, I got some really nice monster plants outdoors right now. 9 to be exact. They're Northern Lights and Lockstock. They should yield nicely; from the nine plants together I'm expecting at least a couple pounds of dried pot, if not more. My issue is that it looks like I may be...
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    MONSTER PLANTS!!! what strains???

    What's up RIU! Can a plant of any strain be a pound-plus yielding monster outdoors given ideal care? I ask because I have two plants in veg, one of which I'll add to my flower cabinet and the other I'm gonna grow outdoors, hopefully into quite a monster. They've been goin since...
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    Indica-dom hybrids: Max yield outdoors?

    Hey fellas, I got a real nice female plant in veg right now. It's a Lock Stock from DNA genetics. According to DNA genetics, this plant is a mostly-indica hybrid that produces very large yields (i assume indoors) of sticky stony buds, but it's more notable for yield than potency. If I...
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    Lemon Skunk in Northern New England?

    anybody tried Lemon Skunk outside in Northern New England? I have a beautiful bush that I've been vegging since Feb 1, bursting w/ female preflowers. I was going to flower it indoors but I just found a partner with a more private garden who's willing to grow it into a monster! My flower closet's...
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    Indoor Strains grown outdoor

    Hey folks, I got a really nice Lock Stock female plant that's been vegging for almost 2 months and is a great little bush. I'm thinking of throwing her outside for the season, but I can't find any information on how this strain does outdoors. So, I got two questions for the experienced...
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    Lock Stock strain: OK outdoors??

    Hi folks, I got a real nice lookin female plant in veg; the strain is Lock Stock I got the fem bean for free with an attitude order, and I been veggin the plant since february. I was gonna flower it indoors but I'm thinking I'll just flower two big plants instead of three (under 400w HPS)...
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