Cheers . Is it sad that i get excited each morning when i go check on them? lol its my first grow so everything is new to me. Cant wait to see them develop over the coming weeks. Im tempted to leave them for a couple of days without checking on them, so when i do theres a bigger contrast lol

you got some salvia growin there too dont ya

It is never sad get excited about your babies growing, I am able to make it to work on time because I'm ready to wake up and look at them. I spend my days off sitting in my rocking chair in my grow op and just watch em grow!!!! It's the best feeling ever to watch your hard work pay off!!!

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So its day 14:

My god, the stresses of a first time grower never seem to stop.....

Repotting day today for plant "A". Didnt have one when i repotted its sister so had rush out and buy one yesterday. As you can quite alot of roots were emerging, all photos were taken today by the way:



Anyway, the photos of the plants today were taken before the potting, and the photos later were after it (obviously as its in a pot, but yeah)

The plants themselves are doing well, leaves are really growing well, new growth of nodes is emerging, its as if theyre growing before my eyes now i love it :


(Can see new growth here)






(The above three are plant A)



Anyway, shortly after taking the above photos i started to re organize my grow room. There was no room at all for all my salvia plants as well as the pots for these girls, So i had to segregate the Salvia etc to the top shelves. I will have to get rid of them all together when my new lamp arrives.

Anyway i ordered my new lamp today, a 250w Sodium Son low bay industrial fitting and lamp. My problem is that now that i have repotted them, the plants them selves are too far apart for my light to cover both of them. So ive been running around trying to find lamps etc to do it for now and failed. I found some CFL's but the only lamp i could use them is just doesnt work, replaced fuse etc and still nothing.

So i found this little lights, not quite sure what they are, they get alot warmer than my Fluros, Seem to have a warmer spectrum than that of my fluro. Anyway this was my only option so ended up screwing it to a plank of wood so its just above one of my plants. Im stressed now because i was doing so well and i dont want this to fuck it all up!! My new lamp should arrive in 1-5 working days, but even then i dont know if its suited to these seedlings yet.

Anyway heres some photos of my temporary solution, what do you think?



My improv light:




Sorry for the wall of text today.

oh bro I hope those aren't halogen lights. If so throw them away immediatly! Those don't grow but burn plants to the ground. You can buy studio lights at Lowes/Home Depot for $40 and you can fit 6 lights. If you buy Y adapters you can hook up 12 lights. Its just a piece of 2x4 with lightsockets in it. Small,compact and holds enough lights for your plants!

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fuck man i dunno, i'll try look into them, i'll take a close up of the bulb as well if that helps.. this is why i was worried lol thanks for the headsup

argh christ it is as well, didnt say anything about it on the box or the lamp itself, from ikea, so went on ikea and saw it straight away, 10W halogen... What do you propose i do? is it worth keeping it there if its at a fair distance, or the fans on right by it. I cant get a new lamp untill tomorrow now at least.

remove the light immediatly, put the room back to the way it was until tomorrow and re-do everything tomorrow when you get CFLs. Just get some clamp lights from Wal-mart, Y adapters and some CFLs. You can clamp em on the side of your pots.

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ive removed the light now, only problem is i cant really put it back due to the fact the plants are now both in large pots. However, i have another lamp that i have managed to find. i'll upload a photo now, CFL think. Ignore the ball shaped lamp i'll rig it securely somehow above the plant.



I have the lampside ways now with the bulb about two inches above the plant. Light seems to be covering her fine. Just hope this will do. Cheers for all the advice!

that should be fine until you can get more tomorrow. Just keep that one on 24/0. How many watts is that bulb. Is it glow white, or red?

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