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Shitty creases it leaves in the plants? WTFdood???? :roll: How can foil shittily crease anything if some leaves are just resting on it? Burning from a "bad reflection?" Using foil isn't like using a magnifying glass under the sun! If anything, a ''bad reflection'' would mean light simply...

Some thoughts: Aluminum foil on the inside of the box doesn't affect temps, and they don't cause burn marks. Who started this rumor? The foil sure does tear easily though. To be safe, you should house your wires & splices in conduit & J-boxes. They can mount directly on the Rubbermaid...

Based on your spelling & grammar skills displayed in this thread, I can most definitely tell. :rolleyes:

CFL's only ''suck'' if you're selling to make a profit. If it's for personal use, they work great. In a 32 gallon double-Rubbermaid (4.5 square feet) you can string in about 200-220 watts (10000-15000 lumens) and get 3 oz every harvest. Veg for 1 month, flower for 2 months = harvest every...

Go to Lowe's and get Sta-Green soil in the yellow package. Nutes are 0.05-0.04-0.03. Mix this 4 to 1 with perlite. You'll need some garden lime as you add nutes, but overall it's cheap and worked fine for me.

You need to get the 6500K for now. Get the 26 watt (100 watt equivalent). At Wal-Mart they are in the blue packs. Use these 24 hours a day until the plants are at least 7-8 inches tall. After this you can get the generic Great Value 23 watt (100 watt equivalent) for flowering and use these...

Well I will just keep it going and stay patient. Live & learn. I have plenty more bag seeds to try anyway, and know how to get more. :)

I still think this is stunted. This is day 10 since it broke ground. It's about 2 inches tall and 2 inches wide. Stem is brown, looks like a real small brown twig. Soil is almost dry now. Little embryonic leaves are slowly turning yellow. I don't see any sign of another node in there. One...

Here's one of the inside. Fan on the top. It's a rubbermaid, and the bottom is like this but empty with some vent holes. That's dull side foil as reflector, probably could do better but I think will be fine. The plant can be adjusted up & down and is about 2 inches from all the bulbs. I wanted...

Day 7, still going. Got it in a 6" pot ready for veg. Leaves are still thick like a wax bush! Pretty stiff as well. They curl downward some but still stiff. I'd say this is about 1.5" across and tall overall. Leaves are also now getting wavy/textured and resemble some pix of indicas in here. I...

Ok, just transplanted it into some Miracle Gro potting mix, 0.21-0.07-0.14. Has a bit of perlite already in it but I'm gonna add a top layer for reflection. I got it nice and wet, drained it off (holes in pot) and transplanted it to a moist mix. It's sitting on a saucer and I'll skip a day on...

Update, day 5. Leaves are slowly growing, but I think growth is stunted due to the little dixie cup this is in. This is a tiny 2 oz cup. I have a 6 inch diameter, 10 inch deep pot waiting for it now, and my box is almost complete. I will say this plant feels strong. The leaves are thick and...

That's good to hear. I guess I just need to be patient since I'm basically using a fake sun, huh? This is on 24 hrs a day and the sprout is very green and appears healthy. The stem is not really stretching out but instead getting a little bit fatter. It's at about 73 degrees right by the light...

A kilowatt = 1000 watts, not 100. So multiply 42W x 8 x 24 hours and divide by 1000. That's about 8 kWh per day max, 4 kWh on 12/12. Figure on about 10 cents per kWh. So that's 40-80 cents per day, or about a $12-24 increase per month. Pretty negligible. Be efficient with your heat/AC and no...

I'm building a grow box as we speak. I'm wanting to use LST in dual 30 gallon Sterilite boxes with 6 26W 6500k CFL's good for 10,000 lumens. But for now I have one of these CFL's literally 1.5 inches from my sprout. I'm a little concerned my sprout isn't growing properly. You can see my pix I...