1st grow thread

Ok it's a bit welfare but I just wanted to see if I could do it... I'm going to attempt to upload or post a few pics of day 1 and one of day 30.


I started them with 24/7 light on sept. 26th and it is now oct. 25th
I bought a timer for my lights and have had them on 20/4 since oct. 15th or so.
*(ive noticed with the 4 hours they have exploded in growth, maybe its just the normal growth though)*


the first pic is about 3 days after I hooked up the lights, prior to being under 2 6500k t12 40watt flouros they were just under 2 cfl 6500k 23watters. i was expecting only a few to germ so i did about 45 seeds and 25* lived so I have more than I expected

the low down: I've planted them in some soil made by a local bio farmer, he also does some of this type of gardening so hes helping me out too. The seeds: they are bagseed from my mother, she says they are afgani and blueberry... she got it from a friend that had a male plant sprout up while he was on vacation and didn't notice so it made the rest seed.

So really I don't know what I've got growing name wise, I'm hoping that later on down the road here I can upload some more and we can figure it out.

the room: just a downstairs bedroom, 10x10 with 6ft ceilings, small space.

if you see something that needs to be fixed post and ill tell you what ive done.

the lights are on a pully system i raise them right to the ceiling when im taking pics or watering.

Lookin' pretty damn good to me...

yer same you have started these off nicely so how many lumens are produced by your lights ? increasing this will speed things up (Y)

damn! Lots of plants...wuddaya plan on doing when they are ready for flower? Hope you have enough light!

the lights produce 3000 lumens each and I only have 2 right now so 6000ish , I just went and bought another ballast and a new shop light so I can add 4 new lights. (i bought 4 6500k daylight 48" tubes so i can move them into bigger pots)

I wasn't expecting much to grow at first, I didnt know how old the seeds were that I was given, so I just threw them all onto a plate with wet paper towel and on top of the fridge for 3 days and bam 35 or so germinated and out of that 25 survived lol.

out of the 25 that are growing now I was hoping maybe half to be female, but again I'm not sure what I will get out of them

I have been watering them with a special mix called EM, its some sort of "Effective Microorganisms" I have to give it to him though, i left for 5 days and they were all pretty small and i came back and he had watered them only with the EM and they had gained 2 inches... he swears by the stuff and it didnt kill the plants so ill keep using it lol. has anyone else heard of EM?