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mhbound
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Cheap Bagseed Grow - Updated [March 19, 2010]

#352355 - 01/23/10 02:40 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

After enough toying with the mexi-seeds I had I gave up..It was for the best. I planted a female and its coming along...My damn puppy knocked over the plant that pulled the light down that burned it a little but I'll save it and it will be fine...

Anyway, here is some specs and pictures. Sorry its not more documented but I screwed around and I really need to get this thing done ASAP.

Specs...3x2x3 will be the box specs in order to one day move both cfls to a small area for clones.

I don't know what the fuck I'm going to do with this after I finish it because I don't need it..

I wanted to show that anyone can grow with limited resources you just need to know what to look for in order to achieve optimal results.

-I'm using Miracle Grow Organic with a mix of perlite in it
-Nutrients are miracle grow - rose(had it sitting around), schultz 10-15-10 plant food which I'll probabl use and feed every other watering or so..We'll see how it responds. And another but I can't remember the name of it..I wouldn't use it anyway.
-Lighting...This is where this grow is unique at least around here...I'm using 2 70 watt curly-q's(the big ones) with just the basic heatlamp reflector deal..Then as I was walking through home depot and what ultimately inspired me to do this were some of these bad boys for like 30 dollars..They had 100 watt lamps also and had them in metal halide. I chose these for heat reasons:

All I did was remove the ballast/ignitor from the inside and made it a remote ballast tyep setup. I have the ballast up at the top where a PC fan will be removing air...This makes the heat almost zero near the lamp. Of course I had to wire a heavy duty extension cord to it but its really simple if you have any knowlege at all of wiring then you can safely do this..However I do have more knowledge than the average joe so I do recommend someone more qualified to be safe. See images below to see how this was done.
[Note:Sorry for the lack of instruction here but I will be doing a full on pictorial and posting it soon so just wait for it if you have any doubts.]

I got a heavy duty new timer also from home depot for like 6 dollars I couldn't not get it..
A larger fan and thats about it...
Of course the wood and screws and zip ties and all that shit...But I just made what I had work, work...Hopefully to get some more people growing.

Ummm...I guess here are some pictures of what I have now if you have questions ask but like I said this grow will not be documented real well since I'm going to be building and growing and building a larger grow area..So,,,,,,,,,But I will post more pictures throughout.

This is basically the complete wiring, but before that fucking ground your shit and do it right so you don't burn down your apartment complex or your parents house or wherever it is you roam..

This is how I grounded mine to the 3 pronged extension cord.

Now here is the wiring I was talking about I can draw a diagram if someone really wants to do this I will do all I can to help I don't want any 18 year old burning down his house because he saw a simple design on the internet...There is more to it than that...Gauge of wiring..Wiring capacitors in for multiple ballasts..Etc.:

The ground wire in the box with the reflector back on with nothing else inside...Everything was removed.

Some more wiring:

Test lightttt:

The "work panel"

Here is one of the cfls mounted..Notice the ignitor and ballast mounted above to keep the heat out the grow space and help the lamp run more efficiently...You can move it farther but I would go no more than a few feet...6 feet maybe.

Here was my final result after several hours:

More to come...Oh here is the lady:

Here is some pictures I'm not keeping up with age so I don't know..Um, here are some randoms sorry they haven't gotten all cool an shit yet but I just topped it but I'm feeding it tonight :grin:

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Suck my balls America

Edited by mhbound (03/20/10 09:06 PM)

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