Greetings and welcome 2 my first grow!

I got a new apartment and it had a nice extra room/ closet. I first planned to make a mic-boot of it, but got tempted to throw these seeds in the dirt instead After spending some(too much) time and money on upgrading it, the new breeding facility seems to be in check.

Please have a look!

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they look stretched for the time being

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Ok, so far the score is: White Widow 4 of 10 sprouted, Strawberry Haze 1/5, bagseed 0/0. The bagseeds haven`t even germed after 4 days and they look weak, so off with them. Hopefully I`ll have the last sprouts in the next 2-3 days.
Temperature today has been 22-27 c, RH 50-70%. Vents are on and off. Table fan 24h on. Lights are 20/4.

Soil is 40% dirt, 30% perlite, 20% compost and 10% leca. Hopefully this will have enough goodies in it to keep the babies going for a couple of weeks.

Ph is aproxx 6.0 in water/soil

I have a 600w hps ready as soon as the seedlings are ready for it. Any tips on when to fire it up? Only have 3 x 36w halogen spots and a 20w 6500k ion lamp on them right now. Any advice welcome

I was thinking this too. I had to lift the halogen lamps some to adjust the temp, and they look lanky now.
Should I get some more low temp lights and lower them, or just jump to the HPS?

Peace

Maybe get a few 23 watt 6500k cfl's from wal-mart for the first couple weeks. They're like $5 for two bulbs. Ge white package with blue around it and says 6500K on the left side. Good luck.

Check out my grow...

http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...-cfl-s-my.html

Day 4 and the last ones are sprouting

New lights is coming on tomorrow. Ran to the store and got 4x18w bulbs. These are 6500k, 4000 lumen each. I hope these, in addition to the 20w ion-blue, will be ok for the first week at least.

I`m going to try to repot the strechy ones to cover up the stem tomorrow.
I just hope I don`t fuck it up

How long should the roots be by now?

Just get some CFL's over them as close as you can get them.

If you wanted to you could put your HPS on, but you would have to raise it to like 30" or so until the girls can handle it.

I'd put the HPS on after a week or the first set of leaves get bigger.

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Why are you even using Halogens???? Get rid of it, does no real purpose except create heat. You need to get at least the 27W or 23W cfl's, if you can find the 42W ones rated at 6500K. But to be perfectly honest...i'd do what the last guy said and throw up that hps in a week. Keep the 6500K cfls on it as well...more light the better. But i would like to know how your Strawberry haze is doing, is it from Greenhouse Seeds?

Day 5.

- 12 sprouts so far 9 WW and 3 SH.

Put up the new lights:








I also transplanted the leggy WW`s and gave them a lil water. The stems are now about an inch and a half of the soil. I wanted them lower, but the potsize didn`t allow, and I was afraid to rip the plant. I have no idea if they will strike back from my rough/clumsy/novice/stoned treatment lol

Time will tell











Thanx for the advice! I`ll definately not wait too long to put on the HPS, but like you said, wait till the babies start leaving properly.



- The halogens was a bad idea indeed lol good riddance

- 3 of the Hazes have sprouted. They are feminized from Greenhouse. I have never smoked it, but I think this would be a treat if I can get it right till the end. Super potent!

looks good man, keep up the good work and just keep reading more info. as far as the apartment thing goes, make sure you have a very good odor control...way to many people to close to you that might get suspicious if you dont keep that to a minimum.

i did my first grow years ago in an apartment with a 150w hps in a small 1x1 cab. one day a maintanence man came to the door and said he had to look at my ceiling because there was a leak in the apartment above. at the time i didnt really have any odor control either. when he came in, he asked what the smell was. because my placed was trashed from a party i had a few days before, and there was still a keg floating in the middle of my living room i coughed out the excuse that it was just stale beer that i needed to clean. at the time he bought it, but when he came back to put a second coat of paint on my ceiling he said, "you know what, i pinpointed that smell." freaking out and frozen to my chair he said, "dont worry about it, i used to grow back in the day until i got busted for the largest grow op in our town." after cleaning the shit out of my pants, i showed him my small little grow and actually learned quite a few things from him...including the wonders provided by superthrive.

i got extremely lucky though. 99 times out of a 100 that situation goes way differently. i guess the moral is keep good odor control b/c you dont know who is stopping by those places