Lighting Cabinet PinkSalad Grow W/ Solarflare LED & Blackstar Chrome LED, Air-pots, M3 soil mix

[PrezDickie]

all the girls are in the cabinet now but i had to turn off my solarFlare LED for now... it got too hot in the cabinet. temp rose to 101 when both main lights and my supplemental spotlight were left on overnight. i'm adding two more passive air intakes to the cabinet but i'm not sure that will do it... hope i can't get heat under control since i'll need both main light when the girls get bigger. and i don't have funds to get an additional a/c or new filter fan for the cabinet right now... (wedding bills no fun)

Temp supposed to be over 100 degrees F in my area later this week. this should be a fun/challenging grow.

 

[DubV]

Don't know how I missed this one but I am ready to rock n roll my friend :head: Sending nothing but pink and green karma! Summer grows are always a bitch bro! You will get it dialed in I am sure :smokebuds:

 

[curly604]

sounds like its gonna be a good run im subbed

 

[Mellow Yellow]

Wow dude... Looks like a great start..... Big female kharma sent to you... Oh and a small amount of male kharma as well..

I am sub'd.....:thumbs:

 

[astronomy420a]

prez, i read on the forum, an idea about some one else having heat issues, but the idea was fill up a bunch of one gal milk containers freeze them and rotate them in and out of your cab!:thumbs: sounded like a good idea!! if you have a freezer it makes it easy!

 

[PrezDickie]

astro, i was just gettin some two liter bottles together to do just that two liter has lil smaller footprint than milk jug.

hoping i didn't bake some of the early sprouts three didn't look too hot this morning but i've got a couple healthy green ones popping up, and surprisingly the seed that almost didn't crack during germination is the tallest best looking one! Pics up tonight.

thanks for stopping by to all the more the merrier

 

[The Squid]

Hey man! Totally missed this I reckon. Cool stuff. I shall flow along as much as I can. How are you going to tier with those plastic cups, cutting them afterwards?

Green karma to you sir!

 

[PrezDickie]

yep, i think i just going to take my utility knife and take off about the bottom 2 inches of the cup maybe a lil more. i'll play it by ear when i actually get ready to stack em

 

[The Squid]

Right on. It's much easier to do it before planting is what I was getting at I guess.

 

[PrezDickie]

should i pull the bags since they are popping up now?



should the bags come off since most have popped and just leave em on the lil ones who haven't yet? or give em lil more time in moist environment to get roots better established?

sorry pics suck thru plastic bags