1st grow w/cfl's in the closet

zmanoside

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So I've been on this website for about a week or so...This is my first grow ever. I'm a full time student and I don't have a job so I'm being as cheap as possible. The wife gave me a closet in the house to use as a grow room!! This is what I have so far.

3 40 watt cfl's, 1 daytime and 2 soft white in a 3 light reptile cfl fixture. I also have another 40 watt cfl in a desk lamp off to the side for extra light.
I'm using mg organic. I have two digi gauges for temp and humidity. Temp at 79.2 F and humidity at 48%. One small fan in there as well. I've been germinating some shwag seeds for 2 days and checked them out today and all were sprouting, so I took the nicest looking ones and potted them today 18th of sep. I have a 2 week old that has been under a reptile basking light for the past 2 weeks until today. So 4 plants total, One 2 week old and the others waiting to sprout. I call my closet ghettofabulous because...it is....I ingeniously hung the reptile cfl fixture with fishing line attached to speaker wire that is knotted to the closet hanger bar.....that spins!!! So I can easily adjust the height of the light fixture by turning the hanger rod:blsmoke:....so here are todays pics so you can see the setup!! Any comments/suggestions welcome!!!! Z
 

zmanoside

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So I was mistaken...I didn't have 4 x 40 watt cfls, I had 4 x 9 watt cfl's, stupid mistake on my part. Went to the store today for better lights...the delema I have is that the reptile fixture that I'm using has a max of 3 x 26 watts...so I'm forced to get those for now and a true 40 watt cfl on the side via a desk lamp....so total wattage is 120 watts:-| not stoked, but it's gonna have to do till I get paid and figure something out....I have 2 new sprouts today out of the 3 seeds I germinated, hopefully the other one will follow. The 2 weeker is lookin good, survived the transpant, but the leaves look kinda droopy, so I'll have to do a search on what makes this happen....heres some pics of the 2 weeker and the sprouts in all their glory. Any comments are welcome...Z
 

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zmanoside

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So over this weekend I worked on the closet a little....I took out everything, brought the high closet shelf down and relocated it to about 3 1/2' , mounted the reptile cfl fixture to the bottom of the shelf, brought in an old piece of furniture and put aluminum foil inside for relection...and put another fan in....so the two sproutlings are about 3 days, goin good and the 3 weeker is in the lil wooden deal with the 42 watt on it...temps are starting to be a problem, with the doors shut temps are at 91-93 F with it slightly cracked its at 84 F....so obviously I'm keepin it a lil cracked when i can...here are some pics from today....comments and suggestions welcome...:peace:
 

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