Wow! She is lovely

Thought I would share my cold weather work around. I've seen a lot of questions on the web about how to keep your plants warm enough to grow in a shed or garage during the winter. In fact, I was looking to solve this problem for myself but did not like the idea of space heaters, etc. . So I figured out my own solution and wanted to share it with you guys. My issue is that I was growing in my house but the smell of the plants was becoming a problem. I have a detached garage but it wasn't logical to try and heat it and I really didn't like the idea of placing a space heat or oil filled radiator in the cabinet with my plants, so here is what I did. Recently, my 50 inch big screen tv died and was so old that it didnt make sense to try and fix it so I hollowed it out to make a grow box. Its pretty large, 52 inches wide, 25 inches deep, 60 inches tall. Perfect for 3 lowryder type plants (currently AMS). I wired up a six socket vanity light and stuck in 5 105w 2700K CFLs that put out 7900 lumens each. The inside has various supports and a shelf in the back that are perfect for attaching my heat source and small fans. What I used for heat are two 150w ceramic heat emitters that are not lights and are typical used for keeping reptiles warm. The inside is lined with mylar and I set up a mylar shield of sorts to keep the emitters from heating the plants directly. I just placed a small fan between them that circulates warm air and it does get toasty in there! In fact I had to put a fan at the bottom to pull in cold air to keep it evened out. The lights with fans on them keep temps at about 79F and the heat emitters just about the same. I had to find the right placement because initially the temps were in the 90's. Oh, the outside temp has only been in the teens and the temp in the garage hovers in the mid to upper 30's. For added insurance I put an electric blanket over the tv for insulation but haven't needed it. Everything is timed and when the lights kick off, the heat emitters kick on

Im currently testing a Sunshine Systems Grow UFO 90W on an autoflower Polar Express with amazing results. They had a holiday sale let cut $100 off to make it $180. The plant truly seems to love it and just starting flowering so we will see what kind of crop I get out of it soon

I actually just started that one about a week ago. Its really lanky though, about two inches tall and just looks like a very awkward basketball player . To counter that a bit I dropped some 6500k cfl's right down on it and am hit it with a constant breeze to make sure it stiffens up a bit. I did some looking around on the net and it seems this is a characteristic of this plant so I will see how it turns it out. I figure I will mother it and flower a few clones to see how it comes out. Im willing to try anything once

well, I dont know about cool but currently I have 4 growing, AMS, White Lavender, Polar Express (that one is kind of cool ), and a Vintage 2006. I got the WL and V2006 for free with my order. The PE is an autoflower that is truly surprising me with its quickness to mature and almost zero odor. Thanks for the Welcome

Hi everyone! I found this forum when I was looking for info on a AMS grow. I have really enjoyed and gained from the information on here and think I will stick around for awhile