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Originally Posted by ocitown
Question: This is my 1st grow and the questions will be at the end of this.Plants will be started in a 2x6x8 closet under a 4' 8 bulb T5 fixture and five CFL with one 10.0 UVB CFL inside my 10x10x8 main sealed flower room.This closet is not part of the big room.After germinating there will be both males and females,The two best looking females will stay in the Veg. closet and become my mothers and will be used to clone and then put under the T5/CFL and UVB bulbs for the next year or so. The other plants will be moved into the big flower room under my 1000 w. hortilux super HPS to become seeded(does it matter what the ratio is on the remaining plants,should be aprox a 50/50 mix of the remainder of the 10 pac of seeds, aprox 3-4 males and 3-4 females).I also have another UVB ,should i get one of those alu. reflectors and clamps for each plant in flower? And should i invest in a MH bulb for the HID veg. part of their lives?Will it really mater if i try a pure sativa in the 10x10x8 room since i can go into flower whenever i want and since i will only be growing six plants?Seems alot of people are growing sativas. When in the veg. should i start with co2? About 6" tall? should i set the PPM for 1500 right away or what?I hear if i need to iradicate any pests during my grow i can kill them by adding 10,000 PPM for one hour,is this true? And also read that NG has a lower BTU rating and this 10,000 PPM is not possible,any truth to this? JCJ you warned about the BAD and inaccurate info when you started this thread,and i for one THANK YOU for that warning and all your corrections.As you can see,you are the reason i am where i am and my grow room should make you proud,as you will soon see from the 45mil. pond liner to the deep stainless comercial sink with the drainboard.If i only knew how to post pix??~!!
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i think the t5 & 5 cfls will be enough to start, its always eaiser to add more than to waste $ on something u might not need (mh), & the uvb bulbs really arnt about light output its the uvb rays, which a 10.0 uvb bulb rays are good up to 24" away, so id just hang them from the celing down just to the tops of your plants (turn off those uvb bulbs when u enter the room if u want to keep your eye site). i dont like pure sativas b/c they can grow up to 15' tall, & they take longer to flower than indicas, ide stick w/ a sativa/indica hybrid. as for co2, most only use it during flowering, b/c of its cost & this is where its most needed. i would gradually build up to 1500 ppm wk by wk, b/c in nature the ppm of co2 is only around 300 ppm. & 10000 ppm of co2 to kill pest, never heard of. the best all natural pest control is neem oil. im not sure about the difference on the btu ratings of gases. the advise i can give is buy stuff as u go along & not all at once, i say this b/c i have a closet full of stuff not being used, as your grow comes along youll now what u need to add if anything, remember your a beginner & growing isnt easy as you might think, mj plants need care & love to become the plant they are supoposed to be. & thanks, but its my passion to help others & it keeps me busy, if i missed something let me know. these are the strains ive grown in past
http://www.geocities.com/jdivx2002/strain.html its outdated but there are only about 10 missing.