It's been one week since I set up my closet to grow my own bud. The reason I decided to produce my own smoke is mainly because I dislike buying weed from other people, and I'd much rather grow my own.

So after a couple weeks of research (ALOT of research from this site ), I started setting up my closet. I bought a 4 foot flourescent shoplight that contains 2 T8's. i have two fans, one oscillating and set at the plant's level, and the other one to circulate the air above the plants. I covered the window in the closet with black plastic that I made SURE was light proof. I didn't want anyone to see my light from the street at night. I chose to start my plants in small clear cups so I can see the roots hit the bottom or the side, letting me know when to transplant. I have about 10 of each kind of pot i have, the medium ones are 5 1/2 inches across, the largest is 8 inches. I realize I'm going to have to get bigger ones. The water i'm using is tap water, which Ig put chlorine drops in (the fishtank drops) and let sit for 24 hours. I keep a fishtank pump in there to keep the water moving. I have yet to been able to go to the local grow store to pick up a Ph meter or Ph up/down chemicals, but it's on my to-do list for this weekend. I added a digital thermometer yesterday, and with the door closet open the temp is usually around 78 and the humidity from 45-50. At night when I have it shut it has gone up to 82 and 54 though. Intake and exhaust is out of the question though. I can't cut holes into my wall or anything like that.

So one week ago after I set up everything, and my seeds had been germinated in a paper towel, I planted 12 seeds. Some have the little plants have become my favorite. In the end, I'm only hoping for about 2 or 3 female plants that i can clone.

well, here's some pictures. let me know what you think, or if you can suggest anything.

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Pictures of the plants, the seeds are bagseed.













Here are the pots and the moisture/ph meters that i have. I don't think the ph part works though...

It gets over 80F with flueros? I noticed your fans are pretty far away from what I see. Your lights are really close which is alright, but I think if you bring the fans closer the temps will go down. Ive noticed my seedlings do the best at about 72F or so. Other than that, plan on getting some veg. nutes in a week or so if you dont already. Thats my amatuer opinion

Yeah i was going to get some grow nutes from the grow store. it's strange, they are only open on weekends. the fans are about 2.5 ft away from the plants. i think the reason it's so hot in there is because there is now vent in that closet and the wood floors only make it worse. It's alright though, leaving the door open seems to do the job.

keep it up, post in few days when they get bigger. Do you know what strain that is?

honestly, it's just some seeds i got from some shwag i bought here in texas. I didn't really have the money or the sources to buy seeds, also it's my first grow so i don't know what to expect.

Here are some more pictures..

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It's been 11 days now. Yesterday I transplanted my plants after seeing that the roots were visible on the bottoms of their cups. The soil mix I used was 2 parts MG Organic (checked for gnats), 1 part perlite, and 1 part vermeculite. I also added a little tiny bit of blood and bone meal to the top of the soil. The transplant has been good so far. I was worried because some of the leaves were droppy but they look much better today.

I went to the hydro store today and got some mylar and fox farm grow big. I'm going to be using it at half-strength next watering.

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For how young they are, it seems like you might have enough ferts in your soil already. Im not a soil guy, but I would take it easy on the nutes. If you do use them I want to see what happens in a few days.

yea dont use nutes when there so young. the whole point of transplanting is to give them fresh soil with fresh nutes, plus the MG stuff normally has so many nutes in it that it burns plants. Wait till there further along to feed.

the organic stuff didn't have any nutes in the soil from what i read. do you really think that the tiny bit of blood/bone meal i added will have that large of an effect on the plants? will half strength nutes give it nute burn at this stage?