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What is a cheap plant grow light set up ?

I want to grow a seedling and am looking for a very inexpensive grow light and fixture

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2 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - May 17, 2010 at 7:21 pm

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: cheap, grow, Light, plant

CHEAP! HID / HPS / Metal Halide Grow Lights

In this video I show how to take a 400 Watt HID Metal Halide Warehouse light fixture and convert it to a grow light that you can you in your home. The same method can be used for high pressure sodium fixtures. These are verticle fixtures but can be converted to horizontal. I bought the fixture, bulb and new cord for .50 USD. I show where to look to find a deal like this.

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18 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - May 10, 2010 at 4:36 am

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: Aerogarden, aquaponics, build, bulbs, Canon, CFL, cheap, compact, discharge, diy, Do, DWC, fluorescent, garden, greenhouse, grow, growlight, halide, HF20, high, hps, hydroponics, Hyrdoponics, indoor, intensity, it, Light, Lighting, metal, nutrients, pressure, sodium, Test, Vixia, weed, yourself

BUY MY POOR MANS AERO GARDEN HYDROPONIC SYSTEM WORKS GREAT !

Let me show you my poor mans aero garden like deep water culture system. Very simple to operate. Grow big harvest of herbs, vegetables and fruits. I also custom build any size system very inexpensively!

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - May 6, 2010 at 4:39 am

Categories: hydroponics systems Tags: aero, and, aquaponics, bob, bud, build, buy, cheap, chronic, culture, deep, drip, DWC, ebb, flow, free, ganja, garden, green, grow, guy, high, home, how, hydroponic, made, marijuana, marley, no, systems, times, to, water

My Cheap CFL Grow Light Fixture Results in Hydroponics (Lettuce and Beans)

This is a video showing hydroponic lettuce growing under the lights that I made in my other video “How To Build a CFL Grow Light Fixture – CHEAP!”. I’ve been making a video from seed to harvest using these lights along with a hydroponic system shown in this video. I’ll post that as soon as it’s all together after my harvest. Comments and suggestions welcome. Take Care.

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - May 2, 2010 at 10:41 am

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: Aerogarden, Beans, build, CFL, cheap, gardening, grow, growlight, hydroponic, Hyrdoponics, indoor, lettuce, Light, Lighting, system

MORE CFL Grow Light Fixture Results in Hydroponics (Bell Peppers!)

More results of my home-made DIY grow lights. If you’d like to share your construction variation or results, upload a photo at www.tinypic.com and send me the link. I’ll post it in the info box to share with everyone. I planted these Bell Peppers from seed on July 9th, 2009. I took this video on November 15th 2009. I started to get peppers at the end of September. I currently have about 15 peppers on the plants. The more I pollinate, the more peppers I get. It’s really a pepper machine! I’m using a mix of two 300 Watt, 2700k bulbs and two 200 Watt 6700k bulbs. I had 4 200 Watt 6700k bulbs at the start until flowers appeared. I had a few unused fluorescent bulbs that I added above them for a little extra kick. I’m convinced that these lights can handle anything you would want to grow since these are doing so well. Bell Peppers are going for .00-.50 USD each. This will pay for itself. I’m going to pollinate them more to see if I can max them out. I had no idea when I started them that they would get so big. They are doing twice as good as the ones I plant outside in the Summer. I’ll be experimenting with other vegetable and posting results as well as building a few new goodies. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LATEST!

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18 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - at 10:41 am

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: Aerogarden, aquaponics, Beans, bell, bubbleponic, build, California, CFL, cheap, compact, crisis, DWC, fluorescent, fogger, fogponics, garden, gardening, general, grow, growlight, hydroponic, hydroponics, Hyrdoponics, indoor, lamp, lettuce, Light, Lighting, Maxigrow, peppers, pumpkin, seeds, spinach, survival, system, T5, T8, wonder

Marijuana Grow Closet Set up Hydroponic Master Kush

Video shows moving Master Kush clones from tray to a top feed hydroponic bucket system. Check out www.GreenHandMembers.com for it’s progress and Live Feed.

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - April 21, 2010 at 9:25 am

Categories: Gardening supplies Tags: begin, beginner, cannabis, cheap, chronic, closet, free, grow, growing, how, instructions, joint, learn, marijuana, mix, nutrient, ppm, pump, Set, to, up, weed

CFL Grow Light Reviews for Indoor Hydroponics and Indoor Gardening

In This video I show the various CFL Grow Lights that I have used the past few years and compare. They are all from local stores such as Menards and Home Depot. I mention the prices and light output for each. I also show hydroponic tomatoes that are a little over 2 weeks old. The largest bulb I show is the maximum length that the fixture can hnadle that I built in a previous video. My work in progress: www.tomorrowsgarden.net Buy your veggie seeds now guys. It’s cheap insurance. The stuff on the store shelves may not always be there.

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - April 20, 2010 at 11:49 pm

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: Aerogarden, aquaponics, basil, build, bulbs, Canon, CFL, cheap, compact, diy, Do, DWC, fluorescent, garden, greenhouse, grow, growlight, herb, HF20, hydroponic, Hyrdoponics, indoor, it, Light, Lighting, nutrients, Radish, Sage, Test, tomatoes, Vixia, weed, yourself

How To Build a CFL Grow Light Fixture – CHEAP!

This light does a nice job for under including bulbs. I suggest getting more powerful bulbs to really kick your growing up a notch. Here is a link to some nice ones that I plan to buy and install in this fixture: www.1000bulbs.com Comments welcome, thanks! ALSO…If you’d like to share a photo of what you created with this idea, upload a photo to www.tinypic.com and send me the link to it. I’ll add it to the sidebar info for others to see! Check out these photo links for a 4 bulb version that You Tube user EatDrinkSmokeBeMerry came up with: tinypic.com tinypic.com tinypic.com

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - April 18, 2010 at 10:49 am

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: Aerogarden, aquaponics, build, CFL, cheap, diy, Do, DWC, fluorescent, garden, greenhouse, grow, growlight, Hyrdoponics, indoor, it, Light, Lighting, nutrients, weed, yourself

A Complete Guide to Growing Weed Indoors from Seeds Fast (1 of 10)

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If you are looking for a place to buy high quality cannabis seeds at a fair price, check out this link! It’s where I always order my seeds.

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How to grow cannabis indoors with Lighting.

Fluorescent tubes are named for the spectrum of light which they emit. Some spectrums are more efficient than others.
Deluxe warm white, warm white and deluxe cool white are all conducive to good growth and should be widely available.
All types of growing light should have a reflector box around them directing the light towards the plants.
You should get the longest light that will fit into your space and the highest wattage you can find.
Screw-in grow bulbs are tempting but highly inefficient.

How to grow cannabis outdoor or indoor with the proper Plant Pot Size

A cannabis of 6″*6″*6″ should be perfect to support good growth.
One of these per plant is how to grow cannabis.

Organic Soil Mixes

There are many different types of soil mixes available and they are easy to obtain from garden centers.
Two proven types are:
-4 parts topsoil, 1 part peat moss, 1 part vermiculite, 1 part perlite.
This is moist, contains medium/high amounts of nutrients and is best for hand watering systems.
-1 part worm castings, 2 parts vermiculite, 1 part perlite.
This is light-weight and high in nutrients.

Fertilizer

The main nutrients that a plant needs to grow are Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium. Most plant fertilizers contain these elements and a good, easily available, one is called Grow More.
If you really want to then here are the some effective ratios of the three elements to be used through the two growth stages.
Early growth stages: 7-9-5 or 5-10-5 or 4-5-3.
For the flowering stages use 3-10-4 or 5-20-5 or 4-30-12.
It is best to build up the amount of fertilizer you use to what is making the plants look healthily green as too much fertilizer can kill the plant.

How to grow cannabis outdoors or indoors and deal with Soil pH Levels

Any pH level between 6 and 7 is fine but you should aim for as close to 6.5 as possible.

Temperature when how to grow cannabis indoor

Aim for 70 F. Anything higher than 75F will be too hot and will damage growth. Make sure the water for watering is luke-warm.

CANNABIS LIFE CYCLE

Cannabis plants may belong to any one of a number of varieties which follow somewhat different growth patterns. The following outline describes the more common form of growth. Differences between varieties can be thought of as variations on this standard theme.
Cannabis is an annual plant. A single season completes a generation, leaving all hope for the future to the seeds. The normal life cycle follows the general pattern described below.

Grow cannabis indoor and outdoor Germination

With winter past, the moisture and warmth of spring stir activity in the embryo. Water is absorbed and the embryo’s tissues swell and grow, splitting the seed along its suture.
The radical or embryonic root appears first. Once clear of the seed, the root directs growth downward in response to gravity. Meanwhile, the seed is being lifted upward by growing cells which form the seedling’s stem.

Now anchored by the roots, and receiving water and nutrients, the embryonic leaves (cotyledons) unfold. They are a pair of small, somewhat oval, simple leaves, now green with chlorophyll to absorb the life-giving light. Germination is complete. The embryo has been reborn and is now a seedling living on the food it produces through photosynthesis. The process of germination is usually completed in three to 10 days.

Seedling

The second pair of leaves begins the seedling stage. They are set opposite each other and usually have a single blade. They differ from the embryonic leaves by their larger size, spearhead shape, and serrated margins. With the next pair of leaves that appears, usually each leaf has three blades and is larger still.
A basic pattern has been set. Each new set of leaves will be larger, with a higher number of blades per leaf until, depending on variety, they reach their maximum number, often nine or 11.
The seedling stage is completed within four to six weeks.

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28 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - March 15, 2010 at 7:22 pm

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A Complete Guide to Growing Weed Indoors from Seeds Fast (2 of 10)

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If you are looking for a place to buy high quality cannabis seeds at a fair price, check out this link! It’s where I always order my seeds.

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Check out the link above or below to get your FREE $500 HOME DEPOT GIFT CARD! You can use it to buy supplies!

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How to grow cannabis indoors with Lighting.

How to grow cannabis outdoor or indoor with the proper Plant Pot Size

A cannabis of 6″*6″*6″ should be perfect to support good growth.
One of these per plant is how to grow cannabis.

Organic Soil Mixes

Fertilizer

How to grow cannabis outdoors or indoors and deal with Soil pH Levels

Any pH level between 6 and 7 is fine but you should aim for as close to 6.5 as possible.

Temperature when how to grow cannabis indoor

Aim for 70 F. Anything higher than 75F will be too hot and will damage growth. Make sure the water for watering is luke-warm.

CANNABIS LIFE CYCLE

Grow cannabis indoor and outdoor Germination

Seedling

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - March 14, 2010 at 5:51 pm

My Cheap CFL Grow Light Fixture Results in Hydroponics (Lettuce and Beans)

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - March 11, 2010 at 5:06 pm

Categories: Plant growing lights Tags: Aerogarden, Beans, build, CFL, cheap, gardening, grow, growlight, hydroponic, Hyrdoponics, indoor, lettuce, Light, Lighting, system

How To make a Dwc oxypot for under £15 – www.hg-hydroponics.co.uk

How to make a dwc oxy pot bubbler for a mother plant or single plant. Simple, cheap, and very effective.
You will need 1 x 5l bucket and lid, 1 x 80mm net pot, some clay pebbles, 1 x 1″ rockwool starter cube, 1 x hydro ario aeretor. ( tools you will need a drill, drill bit and hole cutter to match net pot)
These kits sell for £40 plus online and we going to show you how to make it at home! only from hg-hydroponics – “www.hg-hydroponics.co.uk”

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8 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - March 9, 2010 at 6:51 pm

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First Time Growers Guide to Growing Pot That Teaches EVERYTHING – Ready, Set, Grow (Vol 2, Part 5)

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If you are looking for a place to buy high quality cannabis seeds at a fair price, check out this link! It’s where I always order my seeds.

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SHELF GROWING

Shelf gardening with fluorescents may be the trend of the future, since the materials are so inexpensive, and easy to obtain. Fluorescent lamps are great for shelf gardening. In this system, many shelves can be placed, one above the other, and fluorescent lamps are used on each shelf. Some shelves have 24 hour lighting, some have 12 hour lighting (for flowering). Two areas are best, perhaps with one other devoted to cloning and germination of seed.
Shelf gardening assumes your going to keep all plants 3 or shorter at maturity, so all shelves are 3-4 feet apart. Less light is necessary when you have plants that are this short and forced to mature early.
One drawback to a shelf garden like this is that it is very time consuming to adjust the lamp height every day, and it is harder to take a vacation for even a week with no tending of the garden. This applies mostly to the vegetative stage, when plants are growing as much as an inch per day. Lamps on the flowering shelves are not adjusted nearly as often.
Normally, the lamps should be kept within 2 inches of the tops of the plants, with the plants arranged such that they get progressively taller as the end of the lamps go up, so that all plants are within this 2 range. This is an ideal however, and if you do go on vacation, adjust the lamps so that your sure the plants will not be able to grow up to the lamps within that length of time. If enough flourecents are used to completely saturate the shelf with light, the spacing issue will not create spindly plants. They will mearly grow a little slower if the lamps are not very close to them.
An alternative is to use fluorescent lamps for cloning, germination and early seedling growth on the top shelf of a closet, then switch over to HPS for heavy vegatative growth and/or flowering in the main closet area.
Position the HPS such that it wont need adjustment, at the top most possible point in the closet or room. Most HPS installations will not require lamp height adjustment. Just attach the lamp to the underside of shelf or ceiling as high as possible, and if you want to get a few plants closer to it, put them on a temporary shelf, box or table to get them closer to the lamp.
A shelf is all that is necessary with this type of setup, preferably at least 18 wide, up to about 24 maximum. This area must be painted a very bright white, or covered with aluminum foil, dull side out to reflect light back to the plants. (Dull side out prevents hot-spots; diffuses light better.) Paint the shelf white too. Or, use aluminized mylar, a space blanket, or any silvery surface material. Do not use mirrors, as the glass soaks up light.
Hang shop lamps from chains and make sure you can adjust them with hooks or some other type of mechanism so they can be kept as close to the plants as possible at all times (1-2).
If the lamps are too far from the plants, the plants could grow long, spindly stems trying to reach the lamp, and will not produce as much bud at maturity. This is due to internode length being much longer. This is the length of stem between each set of leaves. If it is shorter, there can be more internodes, thus more branches, thus a plant that provides more buds in less space at harvest time.
Shelf gardening is sometimes referred to as Sea of Green, because many plants are grown close together, creating a green canopy of tops that are grown and matured quickly, and the next crop is started and growing concurrently in a separate area of continuous light. Clones are raised in a constant light shelf, until they start to grow well vegetatively, then placed on a 12 hour per day shelf to flower.

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4 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - March 7, 2010 at 4:12 pm

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Massive Plant with Super Size Buds HARVEST (Alice was her name)

BREAKING NEWS
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See my tips and grow guides.
Do some shopping or Join the Forums and post your grows!

Strain: Ogre/Afghan
Lighting 100% HPS from seed to harvest. 2 X 150 watt HPS about 2 inches away. lights are discontinued and not on the market

Veg. was 3 weeks
Flower was 13 weeks.
This plant was taking to long and was still doing great and growing at 13 weeks. The white hairs were still exploding and I lost my patience. As soon as I seen some amber trichomes I harvested. I will grow white widow or northern lights next.
Soil: Fox Farm Organic Ocean Forest
Pot size was 1 us gallon or 3.8 liters.
No Co2 or Hydro was used in this grow.
2 powerful turbo fans and 1 occilating fan was used for good air movement.

Dried Harvest was 12 oz.
What I could of done to increase the harvest to a pound or more was buy a CO2 dispenser and a MH light for supplement. I didn’t do this because I did not have an air tight grow tent. I did not make my CO2 by fermentation for the same reason, no grow tent.

Stay tuned and subscribe.

“My goal is to reach a pound using 300-400 watts of light.”
-supergrowplants

Duration : 0:8:35

25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - March 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm

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How to Mix & Add Nutrients for a Hydroponic Aeroponic System

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In this Video i describe how to add mix Nutrients for your hydroponic system. Also were to buy them.

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26 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - February 25, 2010 at 3:41 pm

Categories: nutrients Tags: aeroponic, buy, cheap, free, gardening, growing, how, hydroponic, indoor, nutrients, plants, room, system, to, weed

How To Build a CFL Grow Light Fixture – CHEAP!

This light does a nice job for under $30 including bulbs. I suggest getting more powerful bulbs to really kick your growing up a notch. Here is a link to some nice ones that I plan to buy and install in this fixture: http://www.1000bulbs.com/105-Watt-Compact-Fluorescent/31681/
Comments welcome, thanks!

ALSO…If you’d like to share a photo of what you created with this idea, upload a photo to www.tinypic.com and send me the link to it. I’ll add it to the sidebar info for others to see!

Check out these photo links for a 4 bulb version that You Tube user EatDrinkSmokeBeMerry came up with:

http://tinypic.com/r/16gjqd5/6

http://tinypic.com/r/2ln722r/6

http://tinypic.com/r/2wg69m1/6

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28 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - February 21, 2010 at 2:21 pm

BUY MY POOR MANS AERO GARDEN HYDROPONIC SYSTEM WORKS GREAT !

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by Hydroponics Systems Administrator - at 2:21 pm

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What is a cheap plant grow light set up ?

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First Time Growers Guide to Growing Pot That Teaches EVERYTHING – Ready, Set, Grow (Vol 2, Part 5)

Massive Plant with Super Size Buds HARVEST (Alice was her name)

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How To Build a CFL Grow Light Fixture – CHEAP!

BUY MY POOR MANS AERO GARDEN HYDROPONIC SYSTEM WORKS GREAT !

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