First time PC CFL grow box

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Hey guys,

Just going to post pics of my grow so far. Feel free to offer advice or share your thoughts if you have any.

- The PC case is 2 ft tall, 2 ft long and 1 foot wide
- A 15cm exhaust fan & 30cm intake fan
- 1 x 130W CFL 2700K and a 1 x 130W CFL 6400K

Growing in 50% soil mix and 50% perlite

This pic is at 4 days from sprout

 

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Day 13 - Turns out putting a sprout within a few inches of 260W of CFL burns them lightwise, won't make that mistake again.

Only fed water up until this stage so nutrient burn is out of the question and temperature never rose above 25 degrees in the box

 

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Day 19 - Put the plants around 25cm away from the lights and within a few days growth seemed to accelerate and colour turned to a nice dark green again. Phew

 

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Bakatare666

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Lt.Dangle said:

Hey guys,

Just going to post pics of my grow so far. Feel free to offer advice or share your thoughts if you have any.

- The PC case is 2 ft tall, 2 ft long and 1 foot wide
- A 15cm exhaust fan & 30cm intake fan
- 1 x 130W CFL 2700K and a 1 x 130W CFL 6400K

Growing in 50% soil mix and 50% perlite

This pic is at 4 days from sprout

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Looks good bro, but with that much light in there, what are your temps like?
Mid-high 80's is ok while she's still so small or germinating, but you'll want cooler than that when she starts flowering, or you might end up with fluffy buds.

 

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Day 23 - New leaf sets popping up daily, vertical growth seems minimal at best. Not sure if its just the strain having such compact nodes or the stunting from the light burn early in it's life?

 

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Day 28 - Leaves starting to sprout from the lower fan leaf nodes so I imagine its gonna get bushy if theres no vertical growth soon. Kinda hard to LST since the branches are so close to one another ><

 

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 10, 2013

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Temperature is only around 21 degrees celcius which is around 72 to you guys? Is winter here tho so once spring hits its gonna heat up quite a bit

 

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Lt.Dangle

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• Aug 12, 2013

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Day 29 - Less than 24 hours after the last photo, i still find it crazy how much growth can occur in one day. If only there wasn't stunting in the first week ><

 

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ganjagrowman

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• Aug 12, 2013

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lookin goood !!

 

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ganjagrowman

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• Aug 12, 2013

• #10

u can probly lower the plant or raise the light a bit to help vertical growth but keep an eye on it dont wanna over stretch the stem