AsianKatie's First Grow (Indoor)

Okay, I have had the pleasure of having so many of you walk me through everything! from strains to systems to lights! So I've finally done it! I started out on this thread with inquiry to indoor growing pertaining to the aerogarden. I have since decided against it.. obviously.

Here's my set up.

It's a closet grow (literally).

I built a DWC system. Basically using a 10g rubbermaid, netpots, airpump and stone etc. as you will see in the pictures.

I virtually set this baby up yesterday! it's been about 25 Hours, and I have had the lights on the whole time. I was advised to have them on 24/7 for the first week or so.

It's probably about 75F in there. It's not really heating up which is a good thing. i can't plug in a fan yet though, because i am using a 13 amp extension and it caused this weird light issue when i tried yesterday, so I'm waiting on the 15amp cord that i ordered online. should be here tomorrow.

I am using (at the moment) (1) 175 watt Metal Halide by Hydrofarm. It's hanging approx. 15 inches from the plants. (in the pictures it is much further, that was taken before i moved it down..)

For flowering I am thinking about getting a hps conversion bulb although i have been advised by some to get red spectrum cfls. not sure which way I'm going to go yet.

I am starting with 5 seeds. The germination process took about 2 days before i saw little tails cracking out of the seeds, and 3 before 2 of them sprouted. When i set up the system, I put 4 of the 5 in the rockwool-->hydroton-->net pots. the 5th one just hasn't quite come out of the seed yet, I'm gonna give the guy a little more time.

Of the 4 planted, they all had long tails coming out, one had already shed its shell and had a sprout (its the one you see with the duct tape kinda around the hole.. he had an accident and fell through, so i had to make some adjustments. Anyway, the one to the right of that in the far right bottom corner just today is coming out of its shell, the one to the top right was buried a bit in the rockwool so i helped it find it's way up, and now within the last 5 hours it has really popped up. they're starting to get those second set of leaves as you can see. The one that I'm kinda concerned about is the top left corner. there's no leaves on it... I'm not really sure what happened... will they grow? or...

anyway here's some pics.

here's the finished product after I cut all the holes and put the cups in:


Here's the set up to the right side view, this was taken a couple hours after I set it up.


Here's some close ups from today (taken about 15 minutes ago) Ill just show one.. this is the first one to have sprouted that i mentioned before sorry its pretty blurry. (as you can see though, if you can tell its really stretched out of there a lot in the past 24 hours. from where it was just barely sitting on the rockwool in that first picture..)


and here's our odd stem one.. can't really figure out why it looks like this... any advice?

WHAT DO YOU HAVE UNDER THE WATER TO MAKE THE BUBBLE..AIR STONES? AND I GUESS U GOT A AIR PUMP CONNECTED TO THE AIR STONE RIGHT?