Dopey's cfl closet grow fall 2011

Whats up guys. Started a couple journals here but seems I never get to finish so here am again, giving it another whirl. Feel free to post. I welcome all comments and criticism. This is my 3rd grow but the first of which are indoor. I've contemplated going indoor just never could afford to spend shit tons of money on lights and ballast and such. Finally i decided to try with cfl's. I'm starting to think buying a HID bulb and ballast would have been cheaper in the long run. As you can see i've already germinated my seeds a couple weeks ago. They are all purple kush as far as i know. I started out with 10 purple kush bag seeds and germinated them in a damp paper towel in a zip lock bag which i kept in a dark cupboard. when they sprouted I dropped them into party cups with schultz potting mix. Yesterday i transplanted them all into 5 gallon pails.


Medium
ProMix HP

Nutes
Jungle Green plant food. (Our hydro store makes it locally)
I also will be getting a calcium and magnesium booster called cal pow.

Light
15 23w cfl's ( i think 6 of them are ott lights made for growing)
I'm using a homemade reflector i made out of half of a snap together duct fitting i found at home depot. As you can see i havn't yet finished making them. I am just waiting for the glue to dry. If they aren't reflective enough i will put some mylar on there. My walls are already white so i wont be adding anything to them. i also plan on adding more bulbs as i go. The lights im using are actually 6700k. I took the 4100k ones back after finding out they have less usable light



*UPDATE*
Heres my first update. Since last time, i've built my light reflectors. I'm not so sure i want to stay with these. they are very difficult to move up and down. Maybe i could incorporate a pully system somehow?? I would like to put 2 power bars on the reflectors but i think that the weight would be to much for the glue. I was going to go to home depot and see if i could figure out how to wire my own fixtures then i could make a custom fixture for my closet. I also put in my scrog net. That was frustrating! i think next time i will go with something with smaller holes, but this will work this time. Also i'm not convinced i have enough light and its not looking very easy to add more to this setup. Probably gonna be temporary. maybe i'll leave it till harvest. Its kind of a pain in the ass to pull out and blah blah. I dunno,we'll see

Been a little bit lol, taking forever to upload those dam pics. Anyway, havn't really done much, just letting em grow now. On a once a week schedule with the nutes and twice a week watering, If they need it. No point in watering them unless their bone dry IMO. Been keeping pretty steady with the scrog, next time i think I'm gonna get a small spaced screen tho. its hard to scrog with so few space so that are so wide. i mean, it works but its just not as convenient. I been trying my best to follow the feeding schedule but like I'm not sure if i supposed to add all the water with the nutes in it to one plant?? I put in a 1/4 of a teaspoon in 2L of water. That's what it says for young plants, and i gave the full 2L to each plant. Seem to be getting good results. Next Wed. I'm going to put 1/2 teaspoon into 2L as i will be starting my 3rd week of veg. I want to keep a mother when and take some clones but i'm not exactly sure where I'm gonna keep the mother lol. Maybe if i just clone and flower them all instead of keeping a mother?? decisions decisions. They are already smelling up our spare bedroom and they aren't even into the flower cycle lol. My gf walked in there and she was like " whoa it stinks in here" and i was like "he he i know". Lol it was pretty funny. She wasn't to impressed. so I think I'm gonna have to invest in a small scrubber. Anyone know of a good one that would suit my size of op?? i don't want to cut any holes or anything as i am just renting this place and i would like as much of my DD back as i can get lol.

Nice work man How grown are the plants now?

Yeah how old are they? Mine is ten days old and no where near as big as yours. I'm not using nutes yet maybe I should start.

I'm probably looking at about a month now but i think that pic was three weeks. I found nutes really give a good boost, not to mention eventually your plants are going to use up all the nutes in the soil u have. Potting mixes have slow release fertilizers which really arent good for anything but houseplants, because they are slow. not much good for anything except keeping your plant alive...IMO Im using a different journal because i already had some subscribers and to lazy to move all over. heres the link:https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/479255-dopeys-cfl-closet-grow-fall.html

I'll be posting a update in about an hour or so