Start of new grow- 15 days old- How am I doing?

chillindude420

chillindude420

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Yep I keep the lights on 24 hours a day. Im planning on doing this till the plants are about 5 inches tall or so. Then I switch the lights to 18/6.
 
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somebuddy

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ive got an 8 day old plant under one 65w cfl that is 6 inches tall, and has 3 nice sets of leaves forming, lots of growth. that thing looks tiny to this one its blue widow.
 
chillindude420

chillindude420

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huh that wierd how my plant has slow growth. I pretty sure ive got everything perfect. Exept my ph. But I worry about that in a few weeks.
 
chillindude420

chillindude420

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And why do you have your plants on flowering schedual. I put my plants on 18/6 in veg or just 24/7 for the first couple weeks?
 
Nugglet

Nugglet

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Leave it right on 24/0 for veg man. No point in the 18/6 if u think about it in my opinion. The more light the better. Also what is the K of your cfls? Your gonna want the daylight ones. 6500K is what you need for vef. And 2700K for budding. It will say on the box they come in. 2. How close are your lights? 3. What you got for airflow/ light reflection?
 
chillindude420

chillindude420

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Nugglet said:
Leave it right on 24/0 for veg man. No point in the 18/6 if u think about it in my opinion. The more light the better. Also what is the K of your cfls? Your gonna want the daylight ones. 6500K is what you need for vef. And 2700K for budding. It will say on the box they come in. 2. How close are your lights? 3. What you got for airflow/ light reflection?
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I got an ok sized box lined with white paper i use 4 26watt cfls for now untill i install more. The lights are 2 inches away or so. Idk the k but it says it has they each have 1750 lumens
 
Nugglet

Nugglet

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okay. So the box is not sealed then? You should get a 4" fan or something from walmart for like 10 bucks to circulate a little air in that box. For your stem/temps. Your lights should b 6500K Im assumeing you dont still have the box the lights came in? im not sure if the light itself says it on it or not. But ya, the balbs you need are "Day light CFL 6500K". Its not so much the watts you need to focus its the K. I fun 4 23 watt cfl 6500K atm on one plant. Its about 2-3 weeks old. But the first week or two it was outside and got messed up lol. So im slowly recovering it. But other then that man looks good. I'll be watching to see how ur plants make out!
 
chillindude420

chillindude420

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Nugglet said:
okay. So the box is not sealed then? You should get a 4" fan or something from walmart for like 10 bucks to circulate a little air in that box. For your stem/temps. Your lights should b 6500K Im assumeing you dont still have the box the lights came in? im not sure if the light itself says it on it or not. But ya, the balbs you need are "Day light CFL 6500K". Its not so much the watts you need to focus its the K. I fun 4 23 watt cfl 6500K atm on one plant. Its about 2-3 weeks old. But the first week or two it was outside and got messed up lol. So im slowly recovering it. But other then that man looks good. I'll be watching to see how ur plants make out!
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Yep the box is always wide open but in a ok sized closet prolly 4x4 or so. I do have the box but it only says the lumens for some reason.
 
Nugglet

Nugglet

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Well... im not quite sure about the lumens but if u go to home depot or something along those lines i would look for the different K CFLS and invest in a few. 6500K-veg . 2. 2700K for flowering.
 
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