top ten of your class....3 ap classes and second year....let me guess spanish? YOUR IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!!! so....your growing in your parents house? Do they know? Probably not cause i doubt they are willing to get arrested...or worse.
wait until you have your own stuff to lose and then put it at...
i bought like six of those they suck balls. its better to just spend the money on CFLs........and honestly after you do that buy a 150w hps.....
i thought i could figure it out...."everyone else just can't do it right"....no those LED panels suck.....you can do it with CFLs.....but nothing...
I grow in a similiar sized set up....area is about the same...you can use a 150watt hps you just need to have good venting.
Like i said i'm around the same size and i use 150watt hps with some supplemental cfls.....
i get good bud....a lot more than when i was just using cfls. CFL's just...
just to give you an idea i...i use a 150w HPS as well...but i only grow 2/3 plants about one to two feet tall max and get about a zip a plant...the taller the plant gets with that little light the shorter the plant needs to be if you want decent bud.
do a google search for DIY growlight hoods...you will find something that will work for what you have. I add a cup of perlite to everything gallon of soil i'm going to use....some people add more some people add less...its all taste...i would add some, its never a bad thing. you can grow without...
you need real grow lights. the heat lamp is doing NO good unless you are living a cold climate, sorry. The heat lamp does not produce the right spectrum for plants. What kind of grow light do you have....it kind of sounds like your plants are stretch. Sadly growing is in no way cheap. Do some...
you could buy a "starter" kit i've seen them but they are either a waste of money or don't have anything usefull. read the growfaq you will find everything you need there. www.htgsupply.com is a good source for lighting equipment. Everything else is personal taste.
you can grow quality bud with a 400w hps. havent seen the vid, don't know crap about hydro. As long as you pay your bill...don't worry about it. and i wouldn't worry to much about the heat from the light either...
signs of flowering can take anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks depending on how long that plany vegs for and the breed.
i usually veg for about a month and the plants usually show sex about a week after i switch lighting cycles