so i have learned alot from other journals and am convinced sharing is caring. thanks for your help. i am here to provide my own if requested. i am proud of how my grow is turning out. it has been 4 weeks of reading, adjusting, researching some more, buying stuff, adjusting again.. you probably know...

my seeds started around the 26th of October. that makes them 23 days old from the actual smoke tray they were plucked from and put into germination. i have no idea what variety or age of seeds... i simply picked the biggest and best looking ones.

so as i uploaded the pics i've taken today, i compared them to the pics i took 6 days ago. they show some remarkable progress, yes? today i'll show off. tomorrow i will post my ingredients list. tell me how they look though please?

here's the 1st setup, just a simple 2ft. 17W grow light from wallyworld for $10. looks really plain don't it? pic taken 29 Oct. 08

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here's the same room, same plants, more 2ft. wallyworld grow lights... pics taken 12 Nov. 08

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close up pics from the 12th...

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better setup, better lights, better plants... i basically built a movable ceiling above my plants. fully adjustable with more lights to come. never the less, here it is on the 18th...

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here they are looking good around 24 days or so from germing.

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the first set of plants are getting close to having lights cut to 12/12 from constant 24 hours, soon, maybe sunday? a little help please?

i started a second set on the 16th using the shot glass method. the first set of 5 is almost ready to cut lights i think... so i started a 2nd closet for the new girls. i took the 4 17W grow lights and put them 3" from the seedlings in a much smaller closet. i think i'll use this for the 1st month of each set, then move them to the bigger room from now on. here's pics...

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so after posting last night i knocked one of my girls over. she took a good hit, but i was planning on moving the biggest girl over to a bigger bucket and had it ready. when i knocked over the one i quickly put her into this bigger and permanent planter. it's just a 5 gal. bucket from a restaurant.

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the biggest and best of my bunch so far is growing a 6th set of leaves. i have moved her into a roomier container. her root ball seems outstanding and she is the only one of the litter to have noticably bigger and broader leaves. these picks are the transplant as it happened...

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sorry, here's what she looked like before the move.

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