My First Grow!

HighLife4Me said:

beautiful plant .. it should start to grow like crazy soon. I have my big female in a 7"x7"x5" pot and it grew to 3 feet had to top and kinda hst it, u do not need a much larger pot than that. i am no pro though. Your plant is looking really nice, looks like indica, lucky u.

same with my thread no one seems to give a crap but its ok D, its nice to have a place to keep track and logs for a grow.(https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/433778-first-time-cfl-check-out-3.html) Im always on here, ill keep checking in with ur grow, looks like ur doing a great job, if theres anything i can help u with ill try my best. Keep up the good work ;p

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Reading Bck - Yes, use mostly 2700k for flowering they have the red spectrum u need in order to get juicy buds with cfls.

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Foolet said:

How much harvest do you think I should expect? I was figuring on using 18/6 lighting from start to finish?

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0011StealTH said:

18 to 6
till finish?
u gotta hit that 12 and 12.

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Hupomone said:

If you can control the temperatures of the box, that sounds great. If not, you're asking for heat problems.

Here's a real world example using two ~35g rubbermaid tubs stacked together and properly exhausted using a passive intake.

Ambient/room temperature is ~72 F
2x CFL Bulbs brings the box to ~76 F
6x CFL Bulbs brings the box to ~81 F

So it's pretty safe to say that each CFL bulb raises the temperature in this example approximately 1.5 degrees.

If you were to use in your example, 12 bulbs, you would be looking at temperatures in the box of around 90 degrees. However, this is considering that your ambient temperature never changes.

Throughout the day, and night, your ambient temperature will change especially based on the room your box is in. Let's say you stick your box in the bedroom, eventually your bedroom is going to heat up from the exhaust. When it does, your ambient temperature is now higher, and thus your intake air is warmer so your box temperature is going to rise automatically. Unless you have a means of exhausting the room that the box itself is in as well, or you can cool down the room through means of A/C, you will eventually fry your plants left unattended.

A lot of people never consider ambient temperature when they design their lighting setups in these micro grows. They consistently say the same things and ask the same questions, "Why is my temperature in my box never going down? I added like 50 200mm PC fans to my exhaust and I got like 50 billion box fans blowing air into also but it never goes below 85! What's the deal?"

The deal is your ambient room temperature isn't changing, so it doesn't matter how many fans you add.

Keep this in mind when you pick the room that will house your box, design your box, exhaust, intake, and most importantly when you decide on your lighting.

Hope this helps.

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feelingreen said:

Close-up pics a bit blurry, but other than that looks great! Which soil did you end up using? Was it the MG, or the Scotts you mentioned? I've been following from the beginning and I never quite caught that. Also, did you end up adding the MG 20-20-20? If so, I would avoid that, dried blood would be better but it's a very concentrated form of nitrogen, so if possible I would go back to where you initially got the blood meal just to read the packaging and make sure, because it can vary, but usually just start w/ maybe a TB mixed into the top inch of the soil. Watch out, though, make sure it's from a non-cow source, even if that's more important to look out for when using bone meal (better for flowering, 5-9-0, typically, and alkaline, whereas blood meal is acidic). Mexican bat guano would work well, too, along with earthworm castings, which are typically a normal soil amendment and have a low, gentle amount of nitrogen. It all depends on the soil you used though, you could be solid, and I'm not seeing any deficiencies. If you used MG be careful, though, they typically don't amend with dolomite lime when using peat-based mixes which can cause some pH issues later on. Does the soil seem fairly well aerated?

Sub'd +rep, I loved your prep work for this, it was nice to see someone who was obviously going to take great care of their plants after getting everything set up.

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Foolet said:

I picked up some nice organic jolly gardener potting soil. It looks very nice, better then scott's no doubt. http://www.jollygardener.com/soil_potting.htm I will be moving it into the new soil hopefully tomorrow.

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