250 watt keep it simple ghetto grow - leftover seeds. COBs.

grapefruitmarmalade

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I decided I'm going to chop on the 9th, 59 days from the switch.
In the meantime I'm going to buy a pre-made grow tent 80cmx80cmx160cm and extraction fan speced up to run a 400 watt lamp. Yes I am planning on upgrading
 

TheStickMan

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That Mendocino Purple looks mint mate, very frosty, can't wait to see her dried and cured. What size extractor you going to be using? I'm using a 4 inch fan (the one I've always used with the 250watter), and so far temperatures have been spot on. Have to see how it does in Summer but should be sound.
 

grapefruitmarmalade

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That Mendocino Purple looks mint mate, very frosty, can't wait to see her dried and cured. What size extractor you going to be using? I'm using a 4 inch fan (the one I've always used with the 250watter), and so far temperatures have been spot on. Have to see how it does in Summer but should be sound.
I haven't decided on the fan. But it will probably be a big one with a speed controller. I want it to run QUIET.
I still can't find a reliable grow tent company. Which one are you using?
I've been looking around and so far I'm sold on the HOMEbox Q80. Is it any good? What are you using?
 

grapefruitmarmalade

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Grape you know your onions when it comes to lighting, have a look at this and tell me if its good or not?
http://www.prakasa.co.uk/200w-led-grow-lights-full-spectrum-by-prakasa
Nah it looks like overpriced junk with questionable lifespan
The only path to go with LEDs is to build your own. Look into the LED section of this forum and you'll find AWESOME advice. I could help you build your own but the best way is to talk to those guys. See posts by SupraSPL and CaptainMorgan and there's more.
BTW high quality COB LEDs are the bees knees. You get a true full spectrum of light and because of the colder temps you get to harvest earlier too
 

TheStickMan

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I haven't decided on the fan. But it will probably be a big one with a speed controller. I want it to run QUIET.
I still can't find a reliable grow tent company. Which one are you using?
I've been looking around and so far I'm sold on the HOMEbox Q80. Is it any good? What are you using?
I've got a BudBox 1m x 1m x 2m, pretty decent quality, its worth getting summat decent or it'll probably only last a couple of grows.
Just looked and that Homebox looks pretty decent. Secret Jardin seems to be a reputable name.
 

TheStickMan

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Nah it looks like overpriced junk with questionable lifespan
The only path to go with LEDs is to build your own. Look into the LED section of this forum and you'll find AWESOME advice. I could help you build your own but the best way is to talk to those guys. See posts by SupraSPL and CaptainMorgan and there's more.
BTW high quality COB LEDs are the bees knees. You get a true full spectrum of light and because of the colder temps you get to harvest earlier too
Yeah I didn't think it was much cop, I've got one in cupboard that I used a few year ago with some autoflowers. I was thinking of getting it out and sticking it in the smaller tent and veg with it, just so when the Golden Lemons comes down Ive got a plant thats more or less ready to flower.
 

grapefruitmarmalade

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Yeah I didn't think it was much cop, I've got one in cupboard that I used a few year ago with some autoflowers. I was thinking of getting it out and sticking it in the smaller tent and veg with it, just so when the Golden Lemons comes down Ive got a plant thats more or less ready to flower.
Sure it'll help but you already have tons of light in there
 

TheStickMan

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I gotta keep my bulb further away from the canopy next grow to avoid sickly leaves. Eureka!
Mine was less than 5 inches away after moving it up a link
It seems like the more experience I gain the more confused I get
Hashplants sprouted! :D
Always kept my 250 at 5 inch away, it was spot on. Other than the odd time a leaf or a top would decide it wanted to grow closer to the lamp and got burnt! Not sure how far away my 400 is away at the mo, it looks around 6 inch but haven't measured it! And everything is fine, I love this cold weather! I think the heat spreader probably helps a bit aswell!
Congrats on the birth of your baby Hashplant, may it grow big and smelly! lol :-P
Is it the Blue Hash mate or the California Hashplant?
 

grapefruitmarmalade

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Always kept my 250 at 5 inch away, it was spot on. Other than the odd time a leaf or a top would decide it wanted to grow closer to the lamp and got burnt! Not sure how far away my 400 is away at the mo, it looks around 6 inch but haven't measured it! And everything is fine, I love this cold weather! I think the heat spreader probably helps a bit aswell!
Congrats on the birth of your baby Hashplant, may it grow big and smelly! lol :-P
Is it the Blue Hash mate or the California Hashplant?
Yep mate you have the super spreader!!!
And it's the California Hashplant... very pitiful seeds... in fact just one of them sprouted and doing well the other is struggling a bit.
Blue Hash I can't wait to run that one too... so little time... so many seeds... looking forwards to outdoor season :D
 

TheStickMan

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Yep mate you have the super spreader!!!
And it's the California Hashplant... very pitiful seeds... in fact just one of them sprouted and doing well the other is struggling a bit.
Blue Hash I can't wait to run that one too... so little time... so many seeds... looking forwards to outdoor season :D
Be interesting to see how it does mate, as it was one of the comtenders in my last grow. It was a toss up between Hash Bomb and California Hash Plant.
Yeah the Blue Hash looks mint. I'm going to do a few different types first and then go back to a hash strain, probably do the Blue Hash, as I I'm wanting to do a blue strain aswell! Like you say, there is so much choice!
 

grapefruitmarmalade

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Be interesting to see how it does mate, as it was one of the comtenders in my last grow. It was a toss up between Hash Bomb and California Hash Plant.
Yeah the Blue Hash looks mint. I'm going to do a few different types first and then go back to a hash strain, probably do the Blue Hash, as I I'm wanting to do a blue strain aswell! Like you say, there is so much choice!
Yeah mate! I've only done Blue Kush so far and I loved growing it. I figured I'm going to do Cali Hashplant then the Blue Hash (cali hashplant x blueberry) and compare notes. But I am itching to do Strawberry Cough or a CBD strain next. So many strains so little time and light
 

TheStickMan

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Yeah mate! I've only done Blue Kush so far and I loved growing it. I figured I'm going to do Cali Hashplant then the Blue Hash (cali hashplant x blueberry) and compare notes. But I am itching to do Strawberry Cough or a CBD strain next. So many strains so little time and light
Great idea pal, would be great to see how they differ! Strawberry Coughs something I've always wanted to grow, well because of the same reasons you want to grow it probably. And would also love to grow some CBD strains, but I'm afraid it wouldn't appeal to the people I sell it to, so I wouldn't get my money back for the grow and would be sitting on ounces of bud that I can rarely smoke. (On some sites I visit at work, random drug placing can take place, so I have to be careful)
 

calliandra

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Great idea pal, would be great to see how they differ! Strawberry Coughs something I've always wanted to grow, well because of the same reasons you want to grow it probably. And would also love to grow some CBD strains, but I'm afraid it wouldn't appeal to the people I sell it to, so I wouldn't get my money back for the grow and would be sitting on ounces of bud that I can rarely smoke. (On some sites I visit at work, random drug placing can take place, so I have to be careful)
WTF? Are you saying you can get fished out at work and tested for drugs?? Talk about surveillance!! :shock:
 

grapefruitmarmalade

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Great idea pal, would be great to see how they differ! Strawberry Coughs something I've always wanted to grow, well because of the same reasons you want to grow it probably. And would also love to grow some CBD strains, but I'm afraid it wouldn't appeal to the people I sell it to, so I wouldn't get my money back for the grow and would be sitting on ounces of bud that I can rarely smoke. (On some sites I visit at work, random drug placing can take place, so I have to be careful)
Recently I cam across a thread about CBD strains. Someone suggest CBD Mango by CBD Crew and said that it's a great get up and go effects with a lot of pain relief. I would say that based on that it's an every day smoke not just rarely!! I would love to grow CBD Mango and CBD MediHaze!
 

TheStickMan

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WTF? Are you saying you can get fished out at work and tested for drugs?? Talk about surveillance!! :shock:
I never have been tested but certain sites that I go and work on do have random drug and alcohol testing for employees and contractors. I was on a site not long back, a well known UK supermarket distribution centre, and they had random drug tests, I shit myself when I read about it on the induction seen as I had had a smoke a couple of days earlier at my friends birthday party!
Also a couple of my colleagues got drug and alcohol tested on a nuclear power plant not long back.
Got to be real careful as cannabis stays in the system for around 30 days? I'm fucked for the next 29 seen as I had a few pipes last night!! lol :?
 
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