First CFL Grow, Check It Out

i like your set up, i am trying to decide whether to stay with CFL's or get a 400 watt HPS your set up looks good and didnt cost much im assuming.. but yea im looking forward to this

looking very nice

i think im obsessed with weed plants growing up lol...
i actually enjoy watching everyones grows

any suggestions on watering? should i continue watering every other day giving the plants a cup of water or something else?

personally i wait til the pots feel light then water that way i dont over wate or underwater them

zilluz said:

personally i wait til the pots feel light then water that way i dont over wate or underwater them

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totally agree...
Wait till the soil is dry, put your finger in it to test, and if it is, then water till u see water coming out from the bottom of the pot. Then water when the soil is dry again.

alright will do. does it matter even though i'm using miracle grow moisture control?

i just got back from the store after getting a pH test kit. what pH should i get my water to before watering today? 7.4?6.8? the soil i'm using is miracle grow moisture control.

zjinternational said:

i just got back from the store after getting a pH test kit. what pH should i get my water to before watering today? 7.4?6.8? the soil i'm using is miracle grow moisture control.

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Check the bag of the soil, to see what's the soil's pH. This will determine the pH of the water. If you can't find the soil's pH then get your water's pH at 6.5.

If I remember correct mg soils have low pH, so probably you should get your water's pH round 7.

i looked on the bag and could not find the pH of the soil. i already watered the plants today. both grape ape plants took 5 cups of 7.3 water and both sour diesel plants took 4 cups of 7.3 water. i watered the plants until water came out the bottoms of the pots. i plan on putting the plants on 12/12 on thursday and watering them next friday or saturday with 6.8 water. any suggestions/comments?

the plants are looking good. the two grape ape are going nuts right now. one sour diesel is growing slowly but surely but the other one is starting to dry out. the leaves are starting to curl up and get crisp and turn brown. i thought it was heat burn but not i think that one plant may have a fungus or something. i plan on turning the plants over to 12/12 on thursday maybe friday. let me hear what you guys think is wrong with the one sour diesel plant.

I have been using moisture control on my last grow my plants really responded to a 6.8 ph level

very cool, im doing my first cfl grow right now, good luck!!

any ideas whats going on with the one sour diesel plant? is it having a nutrient problems or does it have a fungus? i need some feedback so i can fix the problem.

if it spreads it is probably not good. It looks like a burn from the cfl I run 42 watt cfl and it has to be reallllly close to burn the leaves

i don't think its a burn because all the other plants are as close as this one or even closer and they don't have any burns. any other ideas?

It looks like nute burn. Do you foliar feed your leaves?

i have not feed my plants any additional nutes

zjinternational said:

i just noticed in my buds for less book he uses 8 42W warm whites for the whole growing process, for both vegging and flowering. could i just get some more 42W warm whites to save some money and use them for both the vegging and flowering phases or would it be better to get some cool whites?

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Hi.
I have this book too and I do not see any mention of K ratings used for the grow.

All I see is 42 watt, 2700 LUMEN, CFLs. Nothing about light spectrum (Kelvins).

The 2700 refers to the kelvins 2700k those are the warm ones. Flowering you want a full spectrum of light but more warm than cool for sure.

The author says he used 42 watt, 2700 lumens, but he does not say which K rating he used. It looks like he used one set of builbs for the entire grow but I'm not sure which K rating he used.

Everyting I have read in the forums says 6500K for veg and 2700K for flowering, but I want to use one set of bulbs for both stages.