Hi I'm new to growing and these are my first three plants.

I started all three of them in one pot with Scott's Premium Garden Soil. I let them sit out on my porch for about 2 1/2 weeks. My neighbors started getting noisy so I decided to start growing them in my closet shhh! I went out and bought 4 26 watt daylight 6500k CFL bulbs and a timer set for 18/6 also made a simple light set up with a piece of wood, a few light fixtures and a extension cord. Very expensive for us poor people.


I let them sit under the 4 CFL bulbs for 1 week and in that time we transplanted them into 3 separate pots and topped our biggest plant.
They suffered minor shock from the transplant and they didn't grow for a few days, While they tried to recover.
Now that were all caught up I will begin to start this grow journal in present time.

8/21/09
We went to wal-mart today and bought 2 new daylight 6500k bulbs and 2 new light fixtures, Now we are up to 600 equivalent watts looking for some advice and tips on our journey!


8/22/09
Currently we added a new light ceptical and Topped our Three Stemmed Beauty (not a mutant). In the new ceptical I placed a 14watt Soft White CFL. We are now up to 660 equivalent Wattage.

(Picture of Construction for the ceptical.) Top right is our three stemmed Beast, top left seems to be our runt and the one in the middle is our tallest, which is topped also.) If you were woundering what the white things are their egg shells its our grow technique. Don't you laugh at it.


(After new Installation)



(Picture of my topped 3 Leaf plant!)



(Setup with fan) Ghetto 2.0

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You'll want to change your bulbs to more around 3500k when you flower..... Or just get some plant and aquarium flo's.....

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I'll update this topic every so often so check back at the first post!

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your doing everything right so far..

EXCEPT..

just wanna let ya know about CFL bulbs and MJ.

When using CFL bulbs.. you can (and need to) make sure that the lights are no further away than 2" inches from the tops or sides of your plant(s). You need to do this to keep the plants from stretching out towards the lights. Keeps stem stretching down to a minimum. That's the only thing I would change... and make sure of.

However you also are up in the 600watt range.

Just make sure you keep the lights and plants close to each other. If your not sure on how far or how close is safe... just use the 'Hand' method. Put your hand under the lights.. about that same height as your plants.. and if the lights start to kinda burn the tops of your hands or (hand)... then you'll know that's too close and your leafs will get burned. Ya dig? If you have any questions just msg me if ya need any help.

peace.

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Your wattage is based on actual watts, the equivalent doesnt mean anything with cfl's. Just so you know.

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Thanks ganja for the advice

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hmm? ah yea no prob man. I'm not a professional. But I have read alot. I mean.. ALOT.
So if i feel like I can share what I have learned.. any maybe help someone out.. I dunno
It's just how the cookie crumbles i suppose. ya dig?
Mainly on indoor growing with soil.

I personally usually go with organic growing. But i do that because I like to make sure that my plant is getting what it needs.
ya dig? I have in the past..
ordered just Nitrate in one bag;
then I ordered just phosphorous in its own bag.. etc.

Like I said.. that way I know what my plant is getting for sure.

Advertised NPK values on boxes and bags.. if you read carefully..
it will tell you what percentage of what is in that particular box/bag of ferts.
Well.. those are not always correct.
Your just hoping that the NPK levels are correct ya dig?

I was woken this morning.. took a couple hits out my glass bowl.
Had some cereal and now im tired again. lol. and stoned.. lol.
That's why im rambling. Sorry about the rambling..
i do that when i get stoned.. yawn.

well, peace.

take care ppl; and happy growing to every
member of RIU. 'RIU' - "RollItUp.Org: Simply the best forums around."
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you might want to get an oscillating fan and direct it towards them babies, just to make the stem stronger considering their height and to keep them from overheating

CFL bulbs actually give off more light from the sides of the bulbs than the top, so when you lower your lights you want the sides of the bulbs to be facing the plants. I'm pretty sure CFLs are meant to be installed so the ballast is horizontal, not vertical. Hanging them ballast-up the way you have makes them considerably more hazardous in terms of potential fire, also, since the heat from the bulbs rises and heats up the ballast.

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looks fine to me...just add a fan like some1 else said

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