How Much Will It Cost To Run My Lights?
Here is an explanation to help you figure out your own cost of running your equipment. This assumes $0.12 per KW hour price. (If...
How Do I Power 12v Computer Fans?
Quiet, low power and surprizingly efficient, computer fans are an ideal cooling option for smaller cabinet grows. The only problem is that most computer...
Lighting Coverage Primer (Jackerspackle’s)
A very general rule of thumb is that your garden needs 50 watts of HID lighting per square foot of illuminated area. This rule...
How Do I Design a Fan Powered Cooling System for my...
Introduction:
Every serious growing box needs cooling. Most of us use air cooling because it is cheap and very effective. The following steps are used...
How Much Ventilation Do I Need in My Grow Room?
Each fan has a rating that tells you how many cubic feet of air per minute (CFM) it will move. When dealing with...
How Do I Manipulate The Photoperiod For Larger Yields?
The only photoperiod manipulation from years of experiments that offered discernible improvements was this adjustment made for 1 or 2 calendar weeks at the...
How to Grow Marijuana – Everything You Need to Know!
How to Grow Marijuana
Should I Start My Grow From Clones or Seeds?
Do Roots REALLY Grow in the Dark?
What is Marijuana and what Effects Could...
What Is Photosynthesis?
It has long been known that the green part of plants, when exposed to light under suitable conditions of temperature and water supply, intake...
How To Read Light Level With An SLR Camera?
Using your SLR camera in manual mode, you can measure light level. Set camera ASA speed to 200. Set camera shutter speed to 1/125....
What Are Light Cycles And How Do I Use Them?
The amount of time your garden should be exposed to lighting depends on what 'cycle' your garden is in. The 'Vegetative Cycle' of your garden...
How Much Co2 Should I Add?
Co2 Calculations:
1. Measure and multiply: length x width x height of your grow room to calculate the volume of cubic feet
2. Generally, the c02...
Should I start my grow from clones or seeds?
Introduction:
Growers face the decision to start a grow from either seeds or rooted clones. The decision is not obvious, as both growing options...
How Can I Vent Through The Sewer?
A common alternative to venting up the chimney is venting into the sewer pipe. Depending on how your house is built, if you push...
What is Marijuana and what Effects Could it Have on Me?
Also spelled marihuana, the Indian hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (cannabis), or the crude drug composed of its leaves and flowers. It is usually dried...
How To Build an Inexpensive Carbon Air Scrubber?
Building a carbon scrubber for de-odorizing stinky grows.
The design is such that there is no back pressure on the grow box exhaust fan, and...
PAR For Plants, Lumen For People
While the lumens measurement is based on the sensitivity of the human eye to light, PAR Watts objectively measure the total watts of Photosynthetically...