First Time Closet CFL Grow. Lots of PICS! Soil and DWC/Bubbleponics

Hello everyone (or anyone). This is my second time growing and hopefully first time finishing (my mom caught be the first time ). So now I have my own apartment and I'm back at it once more, hopefully without any interruptions.

Here is a few pictures of my closet is the making. Obviously not done yet. Wait for my roll of mylar to arrive. Using leftover stuff for now, but ran out.



As you can see it still leaks a lot of light, which is really the biggest problem because I sleep in the same room lol. The mylar panels work wonderfully. I'm gonna be buying some weather stripping to help keep more light sealed in.

Here you can see what the mylar panels look like. It is just mylar wrapped around pieces of cardboard and then tapped to my closet. Eventually I will use pieces of drywall or thick poster board to make a more permentent seal. This seems to work pretty well for now.

My babies at two weeks old, and my four 26w 6500k CFLs.

From here on out, when I refer to the plants age I will be referring to the day I planted them. I will be posting an update on every Wednesday. Expect lots of pictures

Wednesday March 18, 2009

Introductions:

Plant A (Agatha) The strongest of the group. Growing much faster than the others from the beginning. Two pairs of true leaves with two more pairs coming up already.


Plant B (Betsy) Furthest behind, but not too far behind. Seems to have heat stress. Moved lights a little further away hoping to correct the problem. Catherine and Dorothy also have mild "burns" near the edge of the leaves on the top only.


Plant C (Catherine) The tallest of the kids. Also the only other with another pair of leaves starting to develop, although very small.


Plant D (Dorothy) About the same size as Betsy, but with fewer burns.

Please feel free to comment, criticize, complain, or compliment. I am new at this, so as much advice as possible would be appreciated. Thanks!

Next Wednesday:

• All closet walls surrounded in mylar
• Less light leaking.
• First lighting fixture permanently attactched to closet shelf.
• MORE GROWTH!
• LESS HEAT STRESS!!
• A fan. Yeah, I know. No fan? What was I thinking?

Future plans for Grow Closet:

• Four more light fixtures (one for each plant)
• First DWC bubbler bucket for clones.
• Carbon filter/Smell control
• Weatherstripping/Light proofing
• Redoing closet door panels.
• HPS and MH lights.

sweet cant wait to see how this goes,welcome to riu aswell and plus rep to you


do you have a ph meter?the tips of the seedlins leaves are browning a bit

No I do not have a PH meter yet. Unfortunately I am very impatient and wanted to start my grow without everything I needed first. I may get one of those cheaper Ph meters to monitor the soil. I will be getting a digital meter before I start the DWC.

A for the cotyl leaves...I am hoping it will not be too much of a problem. What's weird is that the one that has the worst seedling leaves, seems to be doing the best overall (Agatha). But I will be checking up on it and hoping getting that meter on Friday.

i think betsy is goin to give you problems till the end. hopefully all 4will be girls

yeah :[ there's always got to be one problem child.

but thats why i pre-named them all with woman's names.

So they can grow up to be strong beautiful woman D

sorry about the last grow.i just started growing in closet.hopfully my mom dosnt do the same things like ur mom did.. =]

gl with grow