Dank Reviews of Grow Tips 101
Grow Tips 101
Published: 12/30/2011 by Gerg in Grow Tips
Some basic grow tips to help get you started. Enjoy!
MH and HPS
Dare Moe from San, Jose - 01/08/2012 - 10:57 pm
Supplemental lighting can be overkill. The plant only uses part of the spectral radiation emitted by a HID light and therefore it's best to just use the one type for each cycle unless the falloff in the spectral range is more complimentary than most. Great tips though. I hope to see more of your articles. Oh, do keep the poor people in mind :( Not everyone can yet afford such things, seeing as how right now they probably can't smoke what they're growing...
The 1 thing to add
Kristin S. from Lynnwood,WA - 01/04/2012 - 03:23 am
Great starter info! The only thing I'd add is FANS FANS FANS! You really can't have too much air flow!
Good start here!
Noah Ring from Somewhere,Colorado - 01/02/2012 - 12:14 pm
Couple things I would add:
Another cool reflective surface one might consider is elastomeric paint. It is over 90% reflective, and will help you avoid possible intensity burns on your plants from other materials like mylar. It runs about $15-20/gallon.
Ventilation of air, into, and out of your grow area is essential. When planning a setup, it is important to keep in mind several things.
1) Fresh air should constantly be coming in at an adequate rate for the plants to breathe.
2) What do you do to ventilate that air, or the heat built up from the lighting system? You need to decide what to do with that exhaust. I personally like to vent it back into another room during the winter as the warm air helps conserve on heating bills, and then use ducting tubes during the summer to vent the air outside, this helps cool the room in general as well.
3) Is smell a concern? Attach a carbon filter to the extractor fan, probably in most cases, attached to the inside portion of a 4"-6" duct, so that the air is pulled through the filter on its way out.
As a cost saving alternative. In a smaller growing area 4x4 or less in my opinion, you can use compact flourescent bulbs to both vegetate and flower plants instead of an HPS/MH setup. Or if you want to only use an HPS for flowering, you can just use flourescents during vegetation, and plan to have a little bit longer periods to sit these plants in growth preparing for the flowering room. Staggering the vegetative state can be particularly useful if you have plans of running a perpetual harvest (continually running the flower room and placing in new plants over a set interval of time/removing finished ones as finished.)
I could go on, but I think I have become a bit longwinded already.
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Kristin Hood from Flagstaff, AZ - 12/30/2011 - 06:22 pm
Good advice for the beginner/ intermediate grower to get started and to increase the chance of a bountiful harvest. Only serious critique is a double posting of the "start a journal" tip.
Thanks!
Nugs Lover from San Diego - 12/30/2011 - 04:39 pm
These are great grow tips. More, more, more!
