12/12 from Seed With cfls?

Hi all hoping to get some tips advice and help along the way
So the setup :
50X50X100 Cm
1X20W 4X23W 1X22W All 2700k with reflective hood.(working on getting some 6500s but on this sode o the lake noone uses them and we dont have wallmart or home depo stores like u do in the us.)
12 Volt exhaust fan around 105cfm passive intake.
temps: 20 C at lowest for bout half hour
28.5 C at highest point
Shitty little laptop cooler modified to circulate air around plants
Light schedule: 12/12 from seed

Im using potting soil with adedd perlite near to 50/50 mix.
Using plain tapwater and sometimes rain water that i collect on my balcony.

No nutes as of yet, planning on the biobizz family just grow and bloom maybe some fishmix.
I started 6 seeds in shitty tesco soil and in half litre containers .
Ive recently transplanted the 3 that were left into their final 3 and 2,5 L pots. Other 3 died due to me being a noob and not paying attention to temps and overwatering.
So now i have 3 left 2 look ok to me but they look a bit shocked from the transplant ( the soil was really dry so alot of the dirt fell off while i was transplanting)

Well i guess thats it im gonna post some pics of the setup and what i started with . Tonight ill get some of the 3 amigos that are left .

Any input is welcome!

Feel free to browse my 12/12 that is going on. You might get some useful info that will help you.

Only advise I have right now is don't start feeding them for a while...I made that mistake and it sucked. Be patient and stick with water only for a while.

Oh can you make sense of this for me its the npk rating on my soil ..

N50-300mg/l
P2O5 40-300mg/l
K80-500mg/l

So heres a bit of an update let me know what you think to be honest im pleased with the new soil and so are the babies been watering less and i added more light anyways heres some pics of my setup and the little ones .. Oh and youll see that the leaves are somewhat deformed on 2 of the plants dou you guys reckon thats from transplant stress?

Hi back with an update not sure for who but ah well..
Ive added 2 new fans .. one of them circulates the air in the box wich gives enough flow so that all of my plants are being moved by the flow, the other is a small cpu fan i put this ontoo my light hood because it was getting too warm underneath the lights so im trying too pull out some of that hot air that basically sticks in the hood .. ill see in the morning when i check my temps .. my lowest now is around 22C so im happy with that but i wanna drop the max to bout 28, so around 3 degrees..ideas welcome
oh i fed em yesterday ebout 1 :16th recomended of biobizz grow,
My babies were pleased and so am i got some new growth and things seem to be speeding up
anyway whats an update without pics?

hi just read through your blog your plants look good mate...see you have a fan on ya lid...all good mate keep posting pics janiking be following your grow mate...peace. what strain are your plants?

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Feel free to browse my 12/12 that is going on. You might get some useful info that will help you.

Only advise I have right now is don't start feeding them for a while...I made that mistake and it sucked. Be patient and stick with water only for a while.

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i argee dont feed just yet let them grow a bit first....the soil will be good enough for now...

Your seedlings look OK but I suspect your soil is too *hot* for them. They appear to be getting a little burned already.

hihi i ended up putting around 1 ml of grow in a litre of water and watered them half with that and half of normal tapwater till i got runoff and the plants seem to have loved it cause they all starting to grow a bit more vigurously unfortunately ill be gone for 3 weeks and i have my girlfriend taking care of them ..showed her the knuckle and weight method .. i even weighed em right after watering just so she can use that as a guide i hope she wont kill em .. well to be honest i dont think the soil is too hot cause none of the actual leaves are yellowing (might just be because of the lights) just the cotyledons are dying off ..
anyway i told the missus to just use tapwater and ill start a proper feeding schedule once im back .
Also for my next grow im going to be getting a bit more serious i have a shed where i can make a 150*150*200 cm room so ill be getting a hps to flower in and i think ill get a 125watt cfl for veg ..

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Your seedlings look OK but I suspect your soil is too *hot* for them. They appear to be getting a little burned already.

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N50-300mg/l
P2O5 40-300mg/l
K80-500mg/l

these are the specs for the soil , u think this is too hot?

It's either the soil or the small amount of grow you added. They are way too young to be feeding and need nothing but water until they get their 3rd set of leaves.

janiking said:

hihi i ended up putting around 1 ml of grow in a litre of water and watered them half with that and half of normal tapwater till i got runoff and the plants seem to have loved it cause they all starting to grow a bit more vigurously unfortunately ill be gone for 3 weeks and i have my girlfriend taking care of them ..showed her the knuckle and weight method .. i even weighed em right after watering just so she can use that as a guide i hope she wont kill em .. well to be honest i dont think the soil is too hot cause none of the actual leaves are yellowing (might just be because of the lights) just the cotyledons are dying off ..
anyway i told the missus to just use tapwater and ill start a proper feeding schedule once im back .
Also for my next grow im going to be getting a bit more serious i have a shed where i can make a 150*150*200 cm room so ill be getting a hps to flower in and i think ill get a 125watt cfl for veg ..

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good job man allways about the bigger grow space i use cfl lights too... i would advise using the 300w giant blue spec or duel spec for the vedge part the are big bright lights and excellent for the vedge process 125 are ok but 300 is ample light... the price on ebay is not that much more either...check them out on ebay...http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Red-Blue-Dual-Spectrum-CFL-Grow-Light-Reflector-Hydroponics-Kit-125W-200W-300W-/400416360445?pt=UK_Baby_Baby_Feeding_Bottle_Warmers_Coolers_LE&var=&hash=item5d3aacc7fd

eugene b said:

hi just read through your blog your plants look good mate...see you have a fan on ya lid...all good mate keep posting pics janiking be following your grow mate...peace. what strain are your plants?

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just bagseed from some good smoke

Hot Diggity Sog said:

It's either the soil or the small amount of grow you added. They are way too young to be feeding and need nothing but water until they get their 3rd set of leaves.

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oh ok ill ease back on the nutes for now anyways ill have them watered with plain ol water for the next 3 weeks .. to be honest i read somewhere that when cotelydons die off u can start nutes , my fault for not reading more on the subject i guess

Sucks your going to be gone for 3 weeks. If you give her feeding instructions will she able to follow them?

Hot Diggity Sog said:

It's either the soil or the small amount of grow you added. They are way too young to be feeding and need nothing but water until they get their 3rd set of leaves.

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Hi HDS can,you post me a link to your grow

do i hear right you are leaving your plants to the care of a lady Omg good luck!!! give written instructions bold face capital letters-)

I grew from seed and I was unsure what nutes they could handle at the end I put up a 240 cool blue cfl and used this feed when they wear seedlings I had amazing results they vegged well green threw out
http://www.vitalink.eu/en/_range/vitalink_plantstart.htm

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Sucks your going to be gone for 3 weeks. If you give her feeding instructions will she able to follow them?

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Yeah she has quite the green thumb she has all sorts of different plants in the house which she takes care of , and ofcourse ill be skyping witht he babies to make sure everything is right , i told her if shes not sure on wether its dry or not to not water wait another day or two and water them then, i guesstimate watering arounbd once a week for the bigger pots and maybe twice a week for the smaller one if need be , im sure i can trust her with it cause shes been interested in the grow anyways and basically helps me with everything i do to be honest i was so specific that a monkey copuld probably do it so im sure theyll survive without me for the 3 weeks

eugene b said:

do i hear right you are leaving your plants to the care of a lady Omg good luck!!! give written instructions bold face capital letters-)

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yeah man i know but its the only option hopefully shell be able to handle the 3 waterings or so that shell have to do i also have her taking pictures every day of each one so i can see if shes over watering ( my only concern really) or has them too close to the lights. anyways im off now to drive about 14 hours lights should be on by the time i arrive and hopefully ill be able to post more pics for you guys,
Thanks for all the input , it kinda makes it more fun doing the journal if there is actually people who are interesyted