First Grow in Boom Box with WHITE WIDOW!

snowman4839

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Hey guys, I know this isn't technically my "first grow" because I started that with my bagseed grow thread but I planned on doing these side by side. So it's kind of part of my all-inclusive first grow.

Setup: Stereo Speaker 8 inches x 1" x 2" (small but workable).
-1 300W incand. equivalent CFL up top with 3000 lumens and color temp of 2700K (reddish white).
-2 70W incand. equivalent fluro tubes down the sides with about 700 lumens each and color temps of about 7K (bluish white) IIRC.
-Computer Fan Mounted up top in front of the 300W CFL to keep it cool and to obviously use as an exhaust. Powered by an old charger I wired and soldered into it. Funny thing is, it's probably the most power-hungry part of the entire box over all of the lights.
-Miracle Grow Moisture Control. About 7 Quarts IIRC.
-Timer
-Temp Sensor
-Where I live, it's amazingly humid almost all of the time so that's not a problem.

So I got the hookup and pretty much everything planned for and it's working out great with my other grow (exact same setup except a different color temp on one of the fluro tubes). Now I'm ready to start growing teh delisious wite widoh :-)).

Started by putting some soil in a cup and watering it and letting it drain the excess. Then I planted the seed (wonderfully provided by Nirvana Shop who I highly recommend) about a half inch down in the moist soil and covered it up. I left it under and incandescent lamp white close to it (about 5" or so) as to keep the soil warm (but not hot) and to give the sprout a little light during it's first bit of life. I checked periodically to make sure the lamp hadn't fallen and the soil was warm BUT NOT HOT to the touch. Waited three days and after all of the checking and keeping the soil temps right, I got a sprout! :-)). My little WW sprouted HuRrAy! I'll then transplant it to my big grow box where it can actually get sufficient light once it grows out a bit more and the first leaves have flattened out. So probably another day or two under the incand. light.

Let me know what you guys think!

Nirvana Shop FTW. (Anyone know what those little gold balls are?)


Day 1: Sprout!
 

snowman4839

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Ummm. I just pulled off the seed shell to make sure the leaves would spread out correctly and I tried pulling it up at first (bad idea) and it pulled the entire plant up just a little bit. Would it have any roots to tear this early if it just sprouted today? I then just twisted it and it broke off fine. I really hope I didn't already screw up this grow.
 

captbooyah

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IMO... you should have let her grow in the cup for a up to 2 weeks before transplant so she can start a root system... sub'd for your gow
 

snowman4839

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IMO... you should have let her grow in the cup for a up to 2 weeks before transplant so she can start a root system... sub'd for your gow
That probably would've made more sense but I guess I just got a little overzealous.

DOn't spam your shit, that seller has 0 ratings, no return policy quoted, and thats the only thing they have listed. That seller is probably you, take your bullshit spam elsewhere biatch!
Thank you. Saves me from typing it out :-)
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Alrighty well I just got a little overzealous here and went ahead and transplanted it, watered it, and left it to grow in its new home today :-). I waited a day or so to transplant after sprouting my other grow but it's growing strong so I'm hoping some gentle care and warm feelings will help this one grow well also.

 

captbooyah

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d23-5.jpg Here is my white widow (seedsman seeds from attitude seed bank) She is about 13 days old from planted seed.
 

captbooyah

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vegetative growth is best at an NPK ratio of 2-1-1 (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium)
adding nute this early will cause burn, not help it grow faster
 

snowman4839

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vegetative growth is best at an NPK ratio of 2-1-1 (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium)
adding nute this early will cause burn, not help it grow faster
Haha! Just read like for 30 seconds and learned like all I needed. Thanks for the link

I wasn't planning on adding it this early, I just wanted to look into it.
 

ZenithXalaga

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Hey snowman,

I have some of nirvana's white widow waiting for a future grow as well.

As per the gold things in the bag of seeds, I have those in mine too. Just a theory but I think it may be to fool xrays into thinking there's a bunch of crap in a bag.. don't really know lol

Also why are ya using incandescent lights? Aren't those really hot?
 

snowman4839

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Hey snowman,

I have some of nirvana's white widow waiting for a future grow as well.

As per the gold things in the bag of seeds, I have those in mine too. Just a theory but I think it may be to fool xrays into thinking there's a bunch of crap in a bag.. don't really know lol

Also why are ya using incandescent lights? Aren't those really hot?
That's a plausible idea...

No, I only use incandescents while the seeds were in a separate plastic cup I use for sprouting (not in it's final grow box). I use those specifically because they produce a lot of heat. I water the soil, drain the excess, plant the seed 0.5 inch down, and leave the incandescent light on it as to keep the soil warm and giving the seedling a little bit of light when it sprouts. The 2 things a seed needs to sprout are moisture and warmth. I've seeds in a damp paper towel and let them stay damp BUT NOT WARM and it took like 3 days for them to even hardly germinate. So the incandescents make heat just like I want them too. THEN I transplant to my grow box.

My final growbox has 4500 lumens of fluorescent lights. I keep it around 76-82. If I had incandescents IN MY GROW BOX, I'd be screwed from the beginning because it would probably be like 90F+ in there.
 

snowman4839

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Going to start posting these as once-a-days or as random important stuff happens. Just posted a few today because of the important stuff (sprout and transplant).

Day 1: Post-Transplant

 

captbooyah

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hey- if you can, try flipping your flouros the other way around that way the light is from the bottom up rather than the switch
 

snowman4839

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nice grow man, subbed :)
Thanks man!

hey- if you can, try flipping your flouros the other way around that way the light is from the bottom up rather than the switch
I thought about that before I built the box but the wiring would've been a nightmare. The cord comes out by the switch and it's already pretty short so if I flipped around, I'd give up a lot of cord length which I just can't do. Plus I already staple-gunned a the cord into the wood for organization so i'd have to take out the plant, rip out the staples, flip it, restaple, and put it back in.

Wow that kinda came off kinda know-it-all douchey. Sorry. Thanks for the suggestion anyhow
 
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