Recent content by RLK3

I've been looking for someplace to write about this topic. I've been on this road too. It took me 6 withdrawal seizures before I decided I could stop drinking. Now my body is all bashed up and i've got millions of dead brain cells at the age of 38. I've come to realize I had a spiritual hole...

Purple is a beautiful color for plants to be. My BBCheese is somewhat purple in the stems. I grow corn and pole beans with lots of purple in them too. Delicious. White might be ok too if its in the genetics. If the plant looks healthy don't mess with it too much. Lemon Juice in de-chloroniated...

Thanks for explaining the Emerson effect. I'm going for a blend with 6500K, 5000K and 2700K CFLs and a couple of 4Watt LED floods with both red and blue total use is 250 watts over 6 plants in a 3x5' tent. The space is completely surrounded by Mylar and foil. Also, i'm using Gas Lantern Routine...

You want to reflect as much of your light as possible directly onto the leaves. If real reflectors are out of reach you can make them out of any number of reflective materials. My new favorites are made out of good old American garbage. 7-eleven's Double Gulp cup lined with inside out Dorito...

That's only 40 cubic feet of air. How hot do you want to cook your plants in there? Here in the dead of winter I keep my house at 60F CFLs in my tent keep them at 64F. Humidity is 64% in there today. Its just ambient conditions. Some ammendment 64 coincidence? You betcha. It helps that that a...

Re: has anyone tried this?? dont laugh!! Thinking along the same lines I bought a string of 100 red xmas LEDs. Upon closer inspection I can see that its a white led with red plastic lenses. The blue ones have blue lenses, etc. These won't do anything for growing plants. They look bright to the...