About 9am is usually the earliest I can get them out

I'm not an early bird, if I were to get them out at 6am I probably would have stayed up the night before.

lol 9 am is fine, but 8 o clock would be perfect : )


goodluck man : )

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The only difference between what your doing and what im doing is, im doing it right.

Transplanted the 4 larger ones into 1gal pots today. The plant with darker soil I had to add soil to the top of the soil/verm level to give the plant support because I couldn't get it any deeper in the soil without majorly disturbing the roots because alot of the soil broke off of the root ball, blame my clumsiness for this.. but it could have been worse.

I upgraded from 2 20w Daylight Tubes to 8 26w Daylight CFLs, the difference in brightness is night and day, excuse the pun.

I found an old inline 8 light socket light strip for a bathroom in my garage, chopped it in half at the middle, then connected the two side by side. I'll have pics later.. but it looks like this
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I have 12800 lumens now, compared to the 2100lumens before.

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Here's my setup now. I just found that fan yesterday laying around my garage, my parents are probably gonna be looking for it so I don't know how long I will have it. I was looking at wal-mart earlier, they have pretty decent little fans for cheap, but I don't know how quiet they are.







And here's my compost, made last night. It's got newspaper, some old cut grass that has been sitting for a while, some leaves that were in a damp pile, Fox Farm Ocean potting Soil, and some dirt from behind my house. Is this good enough for the worms? Had some leftovers from fishing the other day, so I decided to throw it together.





Tell me what you guys think.

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Planted 3 plants outside about 4 days ago, all 3 are doing well and the slug killer is doing it's job but it leaves behind quite the mess.

4 of the 5 plants I have under lights still are doing exeptionally well, but 1 suffered dramatically overnight last night.. Mites. She was looking rather wilted you know, and she was the farthest from the light, but closest to the fan. I didn't know what was up, but I put all my plants outside today to sunbathe and didn't solve the mite problem in that plant until later at night. I CLOSELY inspected all the plants after discovering 2 mites on the back of one of the leaves (this plant is only a week old, so it has a total of 4 leaves 1 set of new growth leaves.) I used suds from a regular bar of soup dunno what brand or what.... I did this at around 6pm, looked at the plant at midnight after being under the lights and the new growth has almost doubled in size and are a bright green, but the original leaves are still wilted and dark green.. I cut off the worst looking of the leaves because it was just bad and it was only blocking light.

I hope my mite experience is over with.

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Plant 7, the plant that had mites is recovering, but lost 3 leaves. She has started 4 more leaves at the site where she lost the main 2, so I think the mites might have strengthened her.

EDIT: Plants 1-4 are 3 weeks old, 5-8 are 2 weeks old. I go from when I put the germinated seed in the soil, not from when it breaks soil.

Plants 1, 2, 3 are outdoor in the ground and I do not have pictures of them at this time, maybe soon.. but they're doing well.

Here's pics.

Plants 7, 4, 8


Plant 4 struggled a bit the first week or so, remember she(I hope) is only 3 weeks old. I am loving the fact that this plant is short and bushy, by the way this is a different strain the the others.. I had 5 of these seeds but looks like this is the only survivor. They were freebies, "Blockhead" strain.


This is plant 7, Hard to see but she has bright green new growth on top.


Plants 5 and 6, these two are the healthiest of my 4 younger plants.

Plant 8, still in peat cup because I lack a pot. I must have forgot to water it last night when I watered my plants last night, the soil was bone dry this morning.. One of the new leaves on the stem is yellow as you can see.




Anyone have a guess on how many females I'll get out of 8 plants?

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I'm thinkin 5? Somwheres around their prolly.

Plant 1 got topped, naturally. I am thinking deer. I guess I will have to go buy some chicken wire or something before the deer get the others.. Plant 1 still have 4 leaves, 2 bigger ones and 2 new growth, I want to say it lost 4-6 leaves from the deer.

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Plant 2




Plant 1





Plants 4-7

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