Lady J's First DWC Closet CFL Grow

Hello

This is where I'll be documenting my first DWC grow, 2nd grow overall (have soil plants flowering). Have had great success with soil and I love it...just wanted to find out about all the hype behind hydroponics and see whether it works well for me.

So first I'll tell you about the grow closet. It's a pretty small one, located in the hallway of my apartment. I was concerned about air flow and it's not like I can just cut a hole in my apartment's walls and set up a ventilation system or modify the door, so I decided to build a door / curtain made out of black plastic trash bags and duct tape. I have a 6inch exhaust fan coming, a long with some ducting, so I'll direct the air out of a 6inch circle in the top right corner plastic door. The door is fastened to the door way via strips of velcro. I usually don't have people in my house but if for some reason I do, I can just roll up the curtain and shut the closet door to hide my plants.



There is some Mylar on the way, and I'll be lining the walls and the inside of the plastic door with it. I'll probably duct tape some trash bags to the floor in case of spills. My wires will be grouped together once everything I'm expecting in the mail is here. The small light on top is a 23 watt 6500k CFL. I have it on just to give my clones a little light while waiting for their roots to take. The smaller plant is Seedsmans Original Skunk #1 and the other is Reserva Privada Sour Kush. They were sitting in just a cup of water for a week, have had them in the cloner for a couple days now. One will go in a soil grow that I will LST in one of the shelving areas of the closest (just for fun and to play with LST), and the other will go in the 5 gallon bucket.



For now, I have a bag seed about to sprout in the bucket. I'm going to play around with it while waiting for the clones to take and generate a healthy root system. Want to make sure I have a good understanding of DWC before putting a good plant in. If you look closely in the middle, you can see it uncurling. I consider "Day 1" to be when you can see the plant visibly coming to the surface for the first time, so Day 1 it is . Since I see it coming to the surface, added two 23 watt 6500k lights. I have higher wattage lights, both 2700ks and 6500ks, but will be saving those for later.



Will be sharing what nutes I am using once the rest of my things arrive. Will be using a Ph meter, won't be using a PPM. Have some guides that I will be following, and have a pretty good instinct about growing so am confident things will be ok . If not, at least I learned for myself, and only on a bagseed.

Thanks for looking

Do you also use CFL's for flowering?