Closet, First Grow(Open to comments)

Clear cups off. Move the lights closer. Here's a pic of my temporary set-up and one of my plants that is 10 days old.

Nice bro i love that idea of the lights like that. If i take the cups off the fan will blow the plants over any suggestions?

The fan blowing on the plants will help strenghten the stems. The reason my cups are only half full is that if/when they stretch, I just add more soil to bury them to their necks.

Here's a pic of the underside of my light panel before I added the splitters and the lights. The sockets were $1.39 each, the extension cord was .99, the plastic chain I used to hang it was $6.99 and the wire nuts and screws were just laying around.

although i don't think ill use it i still love it solstice. I just took all the clear cups off and the raised the fan a bit and its not completely knocking over the plants.

and is it healthy to haev the soil all the way up to the leafs , like covering the stem??

Is that better for the plant??

doobiee said:

Is that better for the plant??

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That's a matter of great dispute. All I can tell you is that it works for me. New roots will grow from the part of the long stem that gets buried. That much I know for fact.

Nice, well I also covered till the leafs ....How often do you water your plants?

When they need it. In those little cups half full of soil, maybe once a day. I check them all at lunch time and after dinner. They get an ounce of water at a time. An ounce goes a long way in those little cups. When they dry out, they get another ounce. I weigh the cups to determine when to water. After the first transplant, I use instinct coupled with a water meter. More on the instinct side, though.

perfect, thanks solstice

When I get close or I should say if I get to flowering would this be a better option than the security light?
http://www.hydroempire.com/store/product_info.php/cPath/3_20_107/products_id/1408

That looks a lot better to me. I might have to search around a bit but back when I was looking to add light to my grow I found a place that was selling just a ballast, socket, and bulb combo for $85... But 400 watt!! There's no reflector but you can just hang it vertically like you were talking about.

Hell yeh man, if you find it link me up PLEASE!!

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

The first 2 pics, should the plants be growing UP^ like that??

You said that you were growing in "garden soil". Exactly what kind would that be? I could be wrong, but I see hints of time-release nutes in that soil.

the yellow pellets are already crushed they were in the compost pile so just used that,.. but is the leafs sposed to be pointing up like that?

I wouldn't be as worried about the upward pointing leaves as I would the yellowing/shriveling ones.

what should i do about the yellowing/shriveling ones.