CFL/Fluorescent 1st time grower

Hi there all! This is my first set up and I'm using CFLs and fluorescent tubes. All my seeds are from random bags I've acquired. These pics are dated 12/13, the first 3 are of my first seed to sprout taken about 35days after sprouting. I had it under an Ott-Lite Flip up grow lamp after it sprouted 24/7 light for about 4 wks . It wasn't till a week before these pics I got the cfls and fluors. At this time a friend gave me a clone free !! That is the second plant, the name is Hum something but I will just call her "Hum". The lights were 4 fluroscent tubes that rated 6500k and around 3k lumens each at their tops and 2 26w 6500k bulbs in reflectors hanging at both sides of the plants. My soil was from my garden made last year which grew awesome peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, raspberries and a few other things. I cleaned all the soil by hand the best I could and planted the seed and just transplanted the ready clone when I brought it home. My only feed at this time was free fish emulsion I believe is what it is and they love it. I actually need to go buy some and will inform you of what it is really called when I do. This starts my journal and I will be putting up posts till you all are caught up on what I have been working with.

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welcome to the RIU fam....nice looking girls i love cfl grows

Those extra pics were 3 days later... Here are some now 7 days past start of photos.19.jpg20.jpg16.jpg17.jpg18.jpg21.jpg

Thnx Cowa the smaller one I named TRG 1 for reference purposes was under the small light for too long and dwarfed a bit but you'll see that is ok soon. They are about 6wks at start of photos. These are 10 days now
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Here you can see how closely branched TRG1 is and Hum is slowly filling in since the transplant. Also this shows my earlier light set up.

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Last set 13 days btw. these 17 days. They are filling out nicely and I went out and bought some panda film to make reflective rooms. I now have a room meant to flower in but both are veggin atm. I also planted some more bag seeds I came across and have a new sprout! 2 others sprouted but died before they even looked like this one. Its about a 5 day old sprout at this time. This one will become TRG2.

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Day 21 now... In that time I went out and bought 12 2700k 26w CFLs and 10 reflectors needing only 10 I think. I moved Hum into the flowering room as I'm being told by the owner of the mother that it is ready to go. I setup the cfls and reflectors 4 at the top and 3 on each side. I will show the setup later. Also my seedling seems to be taking off nicely.

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Day 27: My seedling had something eat that missing fan leave pretty badly so I plucked it and thats why you don't see it now. My smaller plant is growing nicely here. Unfortunately Hum had gotten attacked by spider mites 3 days after I put into 12/12. The only person I knew to ask was the guy who gave it to me about how to fix it. He made me put it back into 24/7 vegging but i didn't want to have it leave that sealed room so its still under the 2700k cfls at 24/7 light. Not sure if that was a bad idea or not but I am treating with neem oil and this liquid ladybug. DAMN BUGS!!


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