White Widow & Blue Cheese First time CFL Closet grow

Hey Mates, I am starting a first time ever indoor closet grow. I have been infatuated with growing a month ago after stumbling upon some marijuana grow YouTube videos.

So I started buying the supplies after much research for a CFL grow.

Supplies List:

- (6) Feit 200W 6500k Cfls
- Phresh 4x8 Carbon Filter
- Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil
- Metal Piping (DIY Reflector)
- Air Ducting
- Thermostat
- Behr Flat White paint
- 12' Chain
- Digital PPM Meter ( gonna return this )
- 10' x 10' Panda Film
- Mini Blizzard Fan
- Monster Power thingy




I cleared out my closet and started planning. Closet specs are 4' x 4.5' x 8.3'.



In the meantime, I bought 4 Light sockets and wired them together to one of those power cables from your computer power supply. Those are just some random CFLs I found around the house to test.



Got a Timer, Flat White Paint, 12' long chain, 1.5" hole drill bit, 25' extension cord to run power into the closet.



Drilled a hole in the wall with the hole drill bit. Dam wall was like 6 inches deep!

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Got the seeds in the mail and cleared customs, plus a few freebies! Also got 6 x 6500k CFLs 200W with 2800 lumens per.



I took the door down and started to cut it, making the intake at the bottom and the exhaust at the top. For the intake, I got one of those bathroom vents. The interior of the door was hollow, so I got some Spray foam and filled it in. Then after it dried, trimmed off the edges. For the Exhaust, I cut a 4" hole for a small piping section and then locked it in place with the spray foam.


FYI, I am just winging it as I go along. Im just setting up what I need for the vegging stage and will add to the grow as I go along lol.

I went on a camping trip over the weekend for like 3 days and was seriously contemplating whether I should leave them germinating without any supervision over 3 days. I took the plunge.



Came back as fast as I could to my babies and found out they were alright. Germinated (2) WHite Widows and (2) Blue Cheese. I totally forgot to keep track of which was which but 3 of them germinated and one has a little bit of root sticking out but just can't quite burst the shell. I put this one into a glass of water hoping it would germinate but it still hasn't and its been like 5 days since. No change in the bulge.



I got a few Solo cups and put drain holes on the bottom of it easily by using a soldering iron and burning the holes in. I then filled each with the Fox Farms soil and flushed distilled water into them. I let it drain out a bit and then dug small holes for the 3 seedlings that sprouted roots.



Got the Phresh 4 x 8 Filter, PPM meter and a Holmes Blizzard fan. Weatherproof foam to keep my closet life proof and some coil tape.



Day 3 after planting the germinated seedlings into soil the babies has risen! The fourth one is still in the water cup. Forgot to mention that after I planting the seedlings into soil, I covered it with plastic wrap and a rubber band and kept it in the dark room.



So I was playing around with this Panaflo 120mm fan to make a simple starter exhaust fan. Im not a great electrician but I use to dabble with modifying computers so I found this fan in my junk box. Got some aluminum ducting and cut it to make some flaps and then used a crap load of electrical tape to wrap it around the fan. Its a 12V rated fan so I had to find a DC adapter with the same range or else it would not reach its full CFM.

The fan spec is: 103.8 CFM and around 40 db

Heres the current progress in my grow room:






Here's my babies doing well I think at Day 5 from planting them in soil. Im trying to deal with the heat issue. I have my AC outside the living room running alot.

I place the thermostat directly under the hood right next to the plants.

With AC on outside and blizzard fan running: 81 degrees
With the AC Off and blizzard fan running: 86 degrees
Lights off: 77 degrees

Humidity ranges from 35 to 40 which kinda sucks i think.

Here's an Update:


Paper Towel Germination started on: August 16
Planted germinated seedlings into Solo Cups: August 18





My Babies are doing really good and got a lil bigger. I look at them everyday.


I water like every 2 or 3 days depending on if the soil gets really dry and it has already. I believe it might be my fan blowing just the tops of it. Also my 4th seed still has not sprouted out of its shell and its been like 7 days since i paper toweled it.


So 3 days ago I started to germinate another White Widow, but so far it hasnt popped like the first ones.


I'm planning on getting the Fox Farms trio nutes. When should I start using it?





Today I added stabilizers for the Reflector. I just found some scrap metal around the house and dremeled it to size and I ghettoed it by just use wrap ties to secure it to the reflector.


My next little exercise will be to block out the light from escaping the front intake with spare wood parts.


And then after that i'll make an exhaust vent out of a plastic salad bowl. lol.