The Female Growers Group

[OldHippieChick]

Purchae at Home depot they have some great for groing...I use those in my cloneing area..can be found there online as well..

I don't know what a good price is but htgsupply.com has a 4 pack putting out 5000 lumins each on ebay for $20 plus shipping. I like HTG.

 

[mojavemama]

Ahhh, OHC, THANK YOU! That's the place I was looking for, but couldn't remember the name. Appreciate!

 

[OldHippieChick]

Ahhh, OHC, THANK YOU! That's the place I was looking for, but couldn't remember the name. Appreciate!

xox
OHC

 

[2Dog]

4U wrote: "Purchae at Home depot they have some great for groing...I use those in my cloneing area..can be found there online as well.."

4U, that's where I got the ballasts, Home DePOT. They just don't have HO tubes. When I asked about special ordering, the associate told me its risky, because they often come in broken, and that I'd be better off just going to a lighting store.

So, I was just wondering what favorite online bulb places members might suggest.

OHC, Low is good setting for heating pad. Be sure there is something between the plastic cover of the pad and your paper towels. Even on low it can sometimes get just a bit too hot if there isn't a bit of buffer.

2Dog(5 Dog in drag)--good point on temp of water! Also, you said you didn't know what your T5's were called--do you mean you don't know if they are regular T5 bulbs or HO T5 bulbs? One more Q.....(tell me to shut up anytime....), are you using the same bulbs for the autos as for regular, that is the 6500K's for vegging and the warm, red spectrum 2700's for flower? Or do you use one or the other or both all the way through? I know with autos you usually only veg, what, about 2 weeks? Then they go into flower?

Ozzy and 4U--your advice on the over-concentrated nutes and flushing was on target. Plants are perking up nicely. THANK YOU!

P'Dude, so glad to hear your wife got such good results from the Doc. Thumbs up, dude. What a relief, huh? Still lovin' those quirky-wonderful pictures!

TC, when do you start your auto grow? December? I'm really, REALLY excited about the autos....got the Jones bad.

lol I know they are 4 feet long and I bought the bulbs at walmart the ones that mimic the sun...I use them for clones and for seedlings then I put things under the 400 mh then I put then once big enough under the 600 hps...

 

[mojavemama]

Ahhh, okay, thanks 2Dog! That won't work for me, since I don't have Mh or HPS lights. I gotta go for the High Output bulbs for the T5's.

I want to get more involved in NORML here, and work to try to get our MM law rewritten and expanded. That means I also have to get legal, and in our state, that means big bucks. Lowest I can possibly do it is for about $450 a year. Not happy about this at all. Torn between my needs to use what discretionary income I have right now on better lighting and beans, and my commitment to changing the laws and stumping for change.

Pain control vs. ethical obligation? Tough call....

BIU everyone, and toke a few for me. Got a doctor's appointment today so must stay straight. Until later. <G>

 

[2Dog]

with your temps I would mostly grow outside...get big harvests and shut down for a few cold months...seems a waste to buy lights when u live in the desert.... course how many plants u grow at a time influences that as well..indicas can take pretty cold weather...

 

[2Dog]

we need to get u cloning to save bean money too...are u only focusing on autos or are other plants cool? man u could grow some monsters...

 

[2Dog]

u live in nevada...u could get nice lights off craigslist if u r willing to drive into cali at all ...maybe even ur local craigslist since it is a legal state..thats where I get mine..I am cheap lol...

 

[OldHippieChick]

we need to get u cloning to save bean money too...are u only focusing on autos or are other plants cool? man u could grow some monsters...

That's definately going to be an early priority for me as well....

 

[mojavemama]

Oh, 2Dog---from your lips to the Cannabis God's ears! Don't I WISH I could grow outside here. Alas, it's far, FAR too hot. Corn doesn't even grow here.

I do utilize the sunshine, but only mornings in the spring, and in the early afternoon, they go under shade screens and get misted. In the summer (May through October) it's just way too hot to put them out at all. No broadleafed anything can survive here. Our trees, bushes, plants all have teeny tiny little leaves for aid in transpiration.

This time of year, though, there is just not enough hours of light to do too much, but it still augments the fluoros and CFL's nicely. Not as well as it did last February, March and April, when days were getting longer instead of shorter.

Also, i couldn't grow outside here even if it was a good climate---I live in the middle of suburbia, and they would get stolen in a hotflash. Our backyard butts up against a larger street and sidewalk, and though there is a 6 ft concrete fence, kids would smell it, or see it and they'd be history. Especially when kids are paying $120 an eighth for schwag here in our neck of the woods. Shoot, those babies would never even make it to flowering!

Craigslist is a great idea, and I've bought stuff through it before. But I have not yet seen what I'm looking for--and that's the newer switchable ballasts. I also have to add on what it would cost to have an electrician come out and put in GFCI's and adequate ventilation, yadda yadda. Plus, I'm in a wheelchair, can't get up higher, and hubby is a math dude, with ZERO ability to do the stuff I'd need to get the room up to snuff. Shoot, I can't even let him near a hammer or he'd lose a finger for sure. Plus, you don't even want to be in the same HOUSE when the math dude is pondering using a tool.

If only it were as simple as just buying a better light!

But for now, I'm cruising right along with the Fluoros, the CFL's and the natural sunlight. It's all going to happen in time. I figure I'm just "paying my dues" now.

And allllllll the good advice and ideas people are coming up with here for me to make what I have somehow work.

2Dog, I plan to go almost all autos, though I don't think completely. Too many good beans I still want to grow and learn from! Plus, I have an Aurora Indica order coming in I ordered just before I learned about the autos, and I don't want them to go to waste.

I'm down to 12 plants now, a very manageable amount. Just what TC said I'd end up with after I culled the males and the weaker plants. I started with 24.

Interesting watching the genetics this time--since I'm not using unknown seeds, and I started out with 4 of each strain--I have been able to see how the wide difference in individual plants from the same strain.

Most noticible have been the F2's, with some plants being verrrry tall, stretched and leggy, and others short, fat and compact with no stretch. Same seeds. Same soil. Same light. Same nutes.The variety is absolutely fascinating.

Also notice that plants from the same strain are not all accepting nutes at the same strength. One plant shows brown crispy edges from the nutes, the other plant loves it. Same strain.

A couple of the purples are doing similar things. This is all information for me. By doing, I'm learning. It's the process I'm so enjoying, though having a bit of good harvest at the end would be nice, too. I just am finding this particular grow to be incredibly helpful to me in teaching me how to read a plant.

 

[painterdude]

mojave......thanks for thinking about the wifey....and...loads of luck on this next grow.....and is Tony still around?

 

[mojavemama]

Thanks for asking P'Dude.

Plants are outside sunning today, the two big Purple Frostings in 3-gallon pots are huge, and I have had to tie them down constantly and wrap them around the pot just to be able to get them under the lights at night. I can't even begin to imagine how big they would get if I didn't keep LSTing them every other day!
OOOh, I'm hoping I will get some good harvest from those two girls.

Still anticipating an auto grow--I'm so hot to trot on those! Only wish they were cloneable...

 

[4u2sm0ke]

Best of luck to you mojave...

 

[4u2sm0ke]

I have some autos im gonna run next summer so i can beat the rain..id well this last one..But ya aint gonna see Monsters in my back yard again..:lama: maybe my neighbors:spit:

 

[mojavemama]

Really, 4U? No more monsters in the back yard? Are the neighbors getting ugly about it? I can't imagine you without some big ol' Amazon girls in your backyard grow. Say it ain't so, 4U! And you're really gonna try some autos? Yippeeee!!!

I think we need an official AUTOFLOWERING thread. Enough of us now that are very interested and would love to see all the auto posts in one place.
Hamster? Chef? HIE?

 

[2Dog]

has an auto ever won bpotm?

 

[4u2sm0ke]

:ciao: mojave...mine are gonna be done in the garden with Giant Pumkins And yes That was a one time run with Monsters..Just to see if I could do it....Way to much to gamble again...glad you was a part of it girl..Auto threa sounds cool why dont ya start one..If ya do i may have to drop a few then but think the autos would do me well outside...take care and be safe:48: them BIG PF show sex yet? think i may have lost thread ya mentioned it in..

 

[tcbud]

Sounds good 4u, some autos mixed in with the tomatos.....or among the corn. Some steathy autos out in a big vedgie garden.....instead of find waldo, we can find auto.....(insert smiley guy here).

 

[mojavemama]

2Dog, I don't think an auto has ever won BPOM, but Ham has a nice one entered this month. He said autos are so small that they may not look very impressive next to the big guns. But what's wrong with petite?

4U, I'm glad I got to watch that monster grow outside via your grow journal. 'Twas very exciting!

As for an auto thread, I'm hoping I can talk Ham, HIE or CHEF into it! Their names are magic, and they have awesome reps so people will be drawn to read their threads. Plus, they have had some terrific luck with autos, and have fabulous pictures to share. I'm not qualified to run that thread. I have never even SEEN an auto in real life!

4U, I think--okay, I HOPE-- those giant PF's are female. They are so big now I can't imagine they would not have shown when the other PF's in smaller containers have. But anything is possible. I'm checking every plant twice a day now. Don't want any surprise hermies to crop up.

Picture 1 is of the big Purple Frosts that are now LST'd and supercropped in a major way. Picture 2 is of the candy grow that is now doing so well repotted.

 

[2Dog]

those look great especially the candy grow!!!! beautiful.