My apartment has windows in weird places so I only get about 3 hours of direct sunlight a day between 4 and 7. That being said I do move the plant into the sun as often as I can maybe 6 times a week. The box is almost falling apart now, I guess from the humidity. I only have it to increase the...
unfortunately mostly bad news in this update. first if all I tried FIMMING but because i'm a noob I just ended up cutting the tops of the new leaves off deforming them and making the whole plant go into shock I guess because it stopped growing for a while.
then I noticed that twi if my biggest...
Yeah it's growing super slow because the first month I didn't do anything to take care of it. Even now I only have a 15 watt T8 18" flourescent light on it. I know it needs way more light but I don't want to spend any money on it
I made a new taller box so I have some room to grow now. More interestingly the last two days I put the plant in the sun while it was out and I could get direct sunlight on it and its been making it grow faster as far as I can tell
Obviously this is a barebones cheap as possible first time grow. I hope to not spend more than the $13 for the flourescent light but I may buy another for extra light when the plant gets larger. I've been looking in to getting a work light with an incandescent bulb and replacing it with a cfl...
I started by just throwing a bagseed into the bottom half of a plastic water bottle with some wet dirt and let it sit in my window sill about March 1st. After two weeks it sprouted and I just left it in the window sill in the bottom half of a water bottle. I made a janky grow box out of aluminum...