My very first grow/CFL grow

Hey everyone whats up?

This is my very first grow. I used MiracleGro Moisture Control for the soil. I used a 18" Fluorescent til they sprouted. Then about a week after letting them grow I got more lights. I added 2 of these 47452 - Features & Photos - GE Home Lighting Products
and 1 that is like that but are 6500k 1600 lumens at 26 watts. I also have 2 100 watt reveals but those are going to be replaced with 2 of the 6500k ones. I plan on adding 1 more of each that i listed above. So all together I will have 6, one of each on each plant. That will be a total almost 13000 lumens at 203 watts. I have a humidifer that gets it up to 60% humidity. I also have a nice fan that blows them around pretty good. I have a temp/hygro meter works real good got it at wal-mart for 10 bucks or so. I think thats about it. If you have any questions or comments just post it up.

Here are a bunch of pics of my plants and grow room

Grow Room

SideView of them all

My best plant



My second best plant


Now my one that is kinda sick looking


Its all cracked on the left side there. Im not real sure whats doin it but its the only one doin it. Oh well I still have 2 really healthy plants.

damn..ur plants are killing mine as far as height..but how high are you're lights from the tops of the plants? you might need to move the lights a little lower to stop the stretching..and do you have a fan on them? but they look really good for a week!! keep it up im gonna keep a close eye on this one..
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Haha na its be more like 2 weeks since they sprouted. I just transplated them like 3 days ago i think. At first when they sprouted I didnt have enough light so they got pretty tall. I do have a fan it blows them around pretty good.

do you have names for those plants?

Unfortanly I do not know what it is. I got the seeds out of many random seeds I had saved.

what i meant was "did you give your plants names?" eg. sandra, barbie, val, mary jane.

rig some kind of reflector for those bulbs. coat hanger and foil if you got it. the sick one (if you can call it that), looks like heat damage. maybe from that side lamp you could do without, if you had a reflector? wasting a lot of energy there.

Hahaha ok I get what you mean. Na I havent just the sick one I call it retard all the time. Cause its like really tall not has many leaves as the others pretty much its just growing retarded. I dont even know what to call them. Ill have to think about it.

you might want to put up a piece of cardboard or something like this.

Thats a pretty good idea. What else could i use besides foil cause i heard that creates hot spots. And also that would total block my fan but im sure i could figure outsomething cause my fan hangs on the left side you just cant see it.

no hotspots with cfls. if you think it a problem just lower the hanging fan.

Claytronics said:

Thats a pretty good idea. What else could i use besides foil cause i heard that creates hot spots. And also that would total block my fan but im sure i could figure outsomething cause my fan hangs on the left side you just cant see it.

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You could reflect even more light if u put some white posterboards to reflect the light more.

Hey thanks thats a pretty good idea. For now im gonna get 3 more lights. 2 of the 6500k and 1 of the 2700k and add those in there so hopefully that will help them out.

Just had a quick question. When the leaves stand almost straight up in the air what does that mean. I was thinking that its just spreading the leaves out to absorb as much light as possible.

Here are some pics

Move your lights closer. like 3 inches from your tallest plant.

They are already 3-4 inchs from my plant. The pic above is just really close so it looks further. Thanks though

Just looks like thier getting good strong light

Yea thats what I was thinking. Like they are just optimizing themselves for the most light.

I always see this with my out door plants on very sunny days

hmmm intersting, thats good to know. I really didnt think it was a problem. I was just like god damn thats crazy gotta take a pic and post it hahaha.