You forget about the price of the fire extinguisher ontop of the price you pay for the lights.
Just joking 
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Well that’s lame to hear 
… But yeah, it was going to cost like $600 for what I was looking at building just for strips and drivers, so probably not worth it in the long-run. I just like of the idea of diy. Oh well. I’ll just have to find something else to put my efforts to then.
Keep up the nice work!
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Day 32F/32/21
The purple wookie is fading, plucked a bunch of yellow leaves this morning, whether this is just it taking its natural course or from a top watering a week or so ago 
no idea, it is putting its energy into its buds though, The Centripetal Force is surprising me on its way out will be trying for a reveg on it at the end, also pulled out some other old pollen to dust a couple lower bud sites and too see if it was viable and ended up giving my self a face full of it 
plants were in the other room when that happened.
Autos still going with no visible trichome production as of yet, they will get a couple more weeks and ill make a decision to pull early or not, or reduce to run other stuff.
As for the little ones i stunted well they will likely be replaced, just tack it up to a learning experience.
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Always such a pleasure to come see your immaculate grow, cuz! Plants are lovely and healthy!
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Day 35/35/24
Photos kinda going through a fade back which seemed to early looking closer noticed a little tip burn so did a top water to force some run off, ended up being 2.3ec with plain water so root zone likely higher than that, so cycled through some water and feed and refilled the res which was empty anyways.
Likely still gonna go south and fade out from here just a learning experience, so in the future likely will run lighter feed and maybe do a flush back every two or three res fills to prevent any issues.
Autos are growing, back left is better than the front left so may just remove the front, if that happens likely ill also pull the younger Lemon Pie so one side is completely free space wise just currently no need to do that till i need the space for seedlings so they will ride out as is.
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Day 37/37
Photos still fading, likely the odd ec balancing thats going on with it, will just continue on with res fills and the occasional top water.
Even though i said i was gonna wait i didn’t so refined down the one cab and started some more seeds in the mean time, gonna go back to more ruthless selection whether from my own actions and or what i see plant wise.
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Day 39/39
Did a res change out yesterday as they needed one , started with a top water to see run off EC and it pushed up into the 2.2-2.4 range from 0.8-0.9ec starting, so i cycled through alot then refilled back to that 1.3ec i was running, i expect the plants to fade some more till they level out their root zone but otherwise ive done what i can for now, or at least what i want to do.
Autos doing alright, the gnats have been reduced significantly but ill keep on top of that.
Also have some seedlings just starting to pop up, and other seeds i need to plant, they would be sharing space with the autos, but i wanted to get a handle on the gnats present in that cab first.
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Dang man! There’s not enough likes available for your posts! Everything looks so… right!
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Day 42/0
Still fading even if the buds are wanting to bulk, nothing much i can do to correct that right now, so we will ride it out, and my dimmer went so just snipped it off and its easy enough to adjust light levels by the internal pot on the driver as i have it mounted in such a way i can easily access that.
Autos doing their thing, need to get on a res fill for them today, the Mi5 cross “left” still showing little trichrome production say in comparison to its half sibling.
And Gonna call Day 0 on these, some have been up for a day or so as they were started earlier the others just planted the other day and were popping up this morning, just some autos, Cobra Regs, and some older ones i had in my collection from OG’ers that being some Auto Maria 2’s and Ak48’s which ive never run, reason they are all jammed in is not need to move them over to the other auto cab that still has some fungus gnats around.
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Looking great brother!
Wishing u the best on your next run…
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Thanks and yeah looking for less issues, mind you if i keep changing things its kinda a given thats gonna happen, all part of learning new things.
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Well the Cobra autos which are the left most four in the last picture above, three of them dead headed with their first leaf set being albino and not growing ive have had this happen before with some random seeds in the past so i know the outcome and its just a genetic issue.
So they will be pulled, also one of the Auto Maria’s didn’t make it with another we will see in a day or two, but that will pair us down to 8 potentially 7 plants on this start, which if i shuffle the older autos up into the photo chamber will free up one whole cab for more starts, so i think i’ll get started on that today.
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Day 44/2
Threw the autos in the top with the photos to condense things, and that one auto seedling i was suspect that it wouldn’t make it didn’t, so were down to 7 autos atm which will be reduced later down to 4 with selections and male removal if any, in the mean time also started some photo seeds.
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Day 46/4
Late Wednesday update, oldies doing their thing with them needing a top up in the next day or so, and youngens slow going with some freshly planted seeds that arent up yet.
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Day 50/8/0
Photos i just topped with water, likely will chop that mimosa x mac 1 in the front in the next couple days and leave a bit to reveg, the purple wookie still needs some time.
The autos are slow going, and the new photo seeds are above ground all pots except one have plants and i can transfer one in that i planted out on the patio if i wanted but i might utilize the pot for doing the reveg of the photo im about to chop.
and bonus shot
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You do grow some really pretty autos, @Mr.Sparkle
Coincidently that’s a photo one of the few I’ve grown over the last bunch of years.
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Always such a clean grow, never ceases to impress me.
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Day 52/10/2
Going to chop the front one come the weekend or before then really its good to go now just a couple sprigs of aging last pistil/calyx growth, the purple wookie behind is starting to fade, and the autos are bulking out and i don’t expect them to be much more that about 10days compared to the purple wookie in the back left.
And the little ones slowly moving along, i just have to adjust my expectations of going the wick route vs autowatering, as with the autowatering you can control that dry back which makes the roots search out during those times, vs a consistently wet root zone.
Also should just go get a new bag of coco as that hasn’t been ruled out as a detriment.
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Day 54/12/4
Took down the mimosa x mac1 just now with the picture of the cab being from this morning, took a pic but then had to go off to an early work issue.
The autos doing good, and the purple wookie may come down saturday.
Seedlings picking up noticeably, also increased their light decently so may of just been running them a little too light at the start.
Also final shot of the Mimosa x Mac1, which for bwign wick fed and relatively no work im good with that.
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