My bubblefied CFL grow

Well first off here is my setup

Complete Ebay bubbleponic setup
17x11x6 6 pot 1 1/2 gal tank, 5 gal air pump, 6" airstone

4x 250/55W CFL's

I am getting my setup changed slowly but that will be before I flower them.


the pics I have of when I first started I was only using 2 CFL's...also included are pics of the first week of my sproutlings...they were watered with regular tap water aged for a day and PH adjusted to around low 6

mid of the first week...nothing has changed as far as light or water

day 6...nothing changed

day 8...I lowered the ph of my water that I was spraying them with to right at 6...I got a spliter and had to mod my shield to fit both bulbs...the roots had popped out of the bottom of the rockwool so I put water in a cup and slid the pots down in them to try and get the roots to stretch a little further

Day 10

started the bubble setup without nutes just ph balanced tap water that had been aged for a day..I also had a chocolate chunk I was sprouting...it doesnt last to much longer...the light ends up getting to the root and killing it

Day 11

little things are looking good...one is a step or so ahead of the other one

Day 12

I added about 1/4 strength nutes that i got with my setup...the nutes doesnt want to desolve in the water for some reason and my plants dont like it...they start to sag and the smallest one starts to get yellow spots


sorry for the sideways pics...i took all the pics with my iphone and it would go landscape on me

I quit using those nutes since it seemed it hurt more than it helped....I ordered some FF but it will be a few days before it gets here...the plants are looking rough...still growing but looking rough....the smaller one has both bottom set of leaves are almost brown but the other only has the first and the tips of the second set...but each plant is started its second set of 5...I dont have any pics yet but I will get some tomorrow...its almost been 1 month...the faster growing of the two is starting to get leaves at the stem of each layer while the other just has two hairs...from the growth difference the one looks as if it was started 3-4 days ahead of the other but they were started the same time

Day 28

Well I got a chance to get a couple of pics before the lights went out...I am expecting these things to shoot up when I get some nutes...a little small but still kicking...let me know what you think or something that could help...I am expecting nutes within the next couple of days

Well I came home at lunch today and I find a package on my doorstep...I open it up and it was my FF nutes ...I hurried to my plants to give them a taste...the bottle calls for 1 teaspoon/gal...but as rough as my plants look I gave them almost a tablespoon...that's what FF has for heavy feeding...I'll proably go to the 1 teaspoon when I change the water next...I'll get some pics when I get home.

pulling up a chair to watch looks good so far.

Nice grow, sub'd.

im tryin a simalar home made sys.. an have issues from the beg. i think ive got the all worked out now. im about 3 an half weeks from seed.. just cuz every body likes pics the first one was from last week it was all droopy got that fig out. an the next from this mornig it looks alot better

snizzim said:

Well I came home at lunch today and I find a package on my doorstep...I open it up and it was my FF nutes ...I hurried to my plants to give them a taste...the bottle calls for 1 teaspoon/gal...but as rough as my plants look I gave them almost a tablespoon...that's what FF has for heavy feeding...I'll proably go to the 1 teaspoon when I change the water next...I'll get some pics when I get home.

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Be careful not to overfeed. If you start out with nutes you get 20" from a 6" clone in 28 days.

snizzim said:

Well I came home at lunch today and I find a package on my doorstep...I open it up and it was my FF nutes ...I hurried to my plants to give them a taste...the bottle calls for 1 teaspoon/gal...but as rough as my plants look I gave them almost a tablespoon...that's what FF has for heavy feeding...I'll proably go to the 1 teaspoon when I change the water next...I'll get some pics when I get home.

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I dont know why your plants aren't 12" tall after 30 days and ready to flower. Go to the FF website and follow the feeding schedule....they are pretty strong nutes so make sure you check ppm's 7 pH as well.

TylerHTC said:

pulling up a chair to watch looks good so far.

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TheGreenThumbNewb said:

Nice grow, sub'd.

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sweet glad you guys are interested in my grow

HomeGrownHairy said:

I dont know why your plants aren't 12" tall after 30 days and ready to flower. Go to the FF website and follow the feeding schedule....they are pretty strong nutes so make sure you check ppm's 7 pH as well.

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my plants arent that big because I went almost a month on just ph adjusted water...they almost stoped growing without nutes...my next post will be a update

day 35

not much going on just using FF chart for guidance...the ladies(well havent seen any balls yet) are swaying in the breeze and enjoying themselfs...I have noticed my biggest one is getting skunky but my other one just smells like a plant...but both have the two hairs in a v shape

day 36

just some pics this time

Looks good. Those girls were starvin man. Glad you finally got them some food!

i would be curious what your ppm are? It looks like you aer over feeding them the one pic is very nute burned. I would suggest half tsp per gal till they look better. Less is more.