DK's 400w tent grow! Starring Goo, Mango and Purple Nepal!

60 watts of light is needed per square feet. In a 36"x20" space, 400 watts is going to work out just fine. Distance to the plant should be measured with the back of your hand. Hold the back of your hand flush with the tops of your plants & see if the light burns your hand. If you can hold your hand in place for a minute or so without it burning then you're fine but if it hurts you, you will need to adjust the light accordingly. I peeped your 1st grow journal btw, awesome grow for your 1st time.

im going to sub this one they look good i agree with everything pete says follow that and you will be fine. 36x20 with a 400 is going to kick ass lets see these babies grow.

Well, if they could stand to be closer, I guess I should move the light. Thanks for subbing, I promise to keep things interesting. If my new seeds get here soon enough I may add one or two more plants to the mix.

Thanks for the ups on my first grow. Skunk is definitely a good beginner strain, I fucked it up a lot and it powered right through. I still can't believe I pulled over a zipper from one plant under cfls. I've moved on to bigger and better lights, but I'll always carry a reverance for cfls and their highly skilled users. Never knock cfl until you try it :P

Looking good I'm subbed. I guess 18in. is ok. Seedlings and small plants don't like so much light at an early age. Just watch out. they seem to be doing fine. What kind of soil you using?

Best of luck man.

im just pulling up a chair myself, looks interesting DK i'm sub'd and along for the ride for sure
Will you be explaining your brothers experiment with electricity with us, you know you mention in your 1st grow! i wanna know :P
i just bought a 4'x4'x6' mylar tent aswell and ordered some Skunk#1 and some mango strain too
:P see my crazy set up! down below

Basically the experiment was this: Can electricity stimulate plant growth?

He bought a bunch of the same little houseplants from Home Depot and did a test with them. The control group just got water and sunlight. Other groups received water, sunlight, and 5 minutes of electricity each day from various sources.

He had 4 groups including the control. The electricity would be carried over to the soil/roots with alligator clips. He had one group getting their buzz from 9V batteries, one from those big-ass 6V batteries they have in middle school science labs, and one other group whose source escapes me right now.

His results indicated that the plants boosted with the 6V charge were significantly larger than the other groups. Pretty cool if you ask me. The dude won the Utah state youth science fair with it in 7th grade, so it seems like he did a good job. He's way smarter than me, so I'm inclined to believe it may have some validity.

I won't be trying it on this grow, I plant on buying a 5 pack of all the same strain when I do it. It's gonna be a much more well-measured grow when I do it, but that's far from now. Feel free to give it a try if you want. I'd be down to see how it affects my favorite plant in the world.

hey thanks for sharing with us!. i'm and open minded bloke when it comes to new things, i do like to hear that these idea's aren't just blazed as fuck stoner ones (i get heaps of those :P) and it does sound like it credible, i will have to hang around and see how this grow goes for ya and then razz ya up to do the experiment with your new beans!

I plan on trying it out when I have 4 clones. If it's the exact same plant, my control couldn't be faulted for using different plants or even different seeds of the same strain.

UPDATE TIME

First off, all apologies. My thread indicates I'm growing Purple Nepal, when I'm actually growing Purple Maroc. I kind of mix them up because I used to live near a dispensary that had badass ounce specials on PM and it was all I smoked for about 2 months.

Anyway, before we start on each plant as an individual, here's a group shot, and a pic of the tent where the magic happens.

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The Goo & Mango have been yellowing a bit, so I've been trying to just give them distilled water for the time being. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like nute burn. If it's the opposite and they actually need ferts, tell me now before they keel over.

Here they are at 15 days of veg. Looking a little dinky if you ask me, but I always want them to be huge right away, so what do I know?

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The PM seedlings are looking just fine. They're on a steady diet of distilled water whenever the bottom of the soil dries out, blissfully unaware of the fact that I plan to kill them and smoke their vaginas for pleasure.

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They're so cute at that age...

The summary on Attitude's website claims that these do much better outdoors, but seeing as I don't live in a place where it would be wise to grow outdoors, they're just gonna have to be cool with what I'm giving them. Or suffer the consequences.