My first attempt at growing

Hi all this is my first attempt at growing, so far seems like things are going pretty good but I wanted to get some experienced eyes to take a look at what I have going and hopefully get some suggestions. I have to 2 4ft florescent with a warm white and cool white bulb in each. I have a five gallons of distilled water at a ph level of 5.5 and ppm of 6hundred something(its in my journal but not handy at moment) im going into the third week of growth. im using a feeding chart I got on line for the products I have, flora grow,flora micro, and flora bloom. changing water once a week... There is a little curling of some of the leaves im a lil concerned about. but to be honest I really dont know what signs to be looking for... any coments will be welcome... oh yea 18 hour light cycle, and watering 3 times a day with a drip system to rockwell cubes. pretty much I just make sure they always have a lil weight to them.

looking good guy

in some of the pics ya can kinda see there is a lil bit of curling going on with some of the leaves.... Does anyone know what might be causing this?

going into the third week and all looks well! Granted Im pretty inexperienced and not sure what to look for but all in all things look good. Changed water and nutes today and thought I would take a few photos to show exactly what im using.



this is the chart im using to measure my nutes... 5 gal in reservoir...
IM getting excited! they look so nice doing so well!!!

They look fine to me, other then a bit of stretching it looks like you had. Maybe step up the lighting a bit.

Your temperature and humidity levels look great. Good luck!

GrnMan said:

They look fine to me, other then a bit of stretching it looks like you had. Maybe step up the lighting a bit.

Your temperature and humidity levels look great. Good luck!

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by step up the light do you mean raise the lights or leave on longer? I have them on a 18 hour schedule now..

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. What I meant was get more lights. How many are you using right now?

**updae**

Sorry, I'm stoned. I see what you are using. That should be ok for the first couple weeks, but they will most likely want more light.

thanks for the super quick response! I have the 2 lights, do ya think another with the same set up will be good? I was planning on staying with the florescent for my veg room... I actually have quite a few other lights but was planning on using them in flower room only but I will do what ever is necessary to keep lil beauties alive strong and happy! btw checked out your journal the last pic with all the buds almost made me cream!!!! Hope I can do as well you have!!! here are a few pics of the other lights I have... I have six in total ballast and all...

HAHA, thanks but those are from my buddy THC's grow. I was asking him if that's the grow he was talking about where he was yielding well over a qp per plant.

Yea, maybe get more cfl's with blue spectrum. I don't think you can ever go wrong with more light.

Nice! That will be done tomorrow.... One thing though.. I havent been able to find and cfl bulbs, are they called somthing else in the home depot? Right now I have warm and cool light...feel like I should be passing this bowl of humblot guru to you right now!!!

is texas hydroponics in austin???

They look like this:



Get the 26 watt (100 watt equiv) cfl's @ 6500k. Those are the ones with the blue spectrum. They also might read "daylight" on them. You can find them at Home Depot and Wal-Mart.

What's that other light you got? Has like the ballast built into the hood. Is that for HPS?

Err, I can't comment on that....

thats my hps the ballast is totally separate..

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Yea, the ballast for the HPS is in that hood right?

Too bad that's not a switchable ballast, then you could have just thrown a MH in there. I think a conversion bulb might go in there. I'm not sure on that thought, maybe someone else can answer that.

actually the ballast is not in the hood.... its seprate.

hothousemary said:

actually the ballast is not in the hood.... its seprate.

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Sure does look like this setup.

Texas Hydroponics :: Grow Lighting :: HID Complete Systems :: Hydrofarm Sunburst Compact Garden Lights

Guess not...

How big is that system?

yea it sure does.... I do know I have six separate ballasts and six separate hoods... I actually inherited the lights.... How can I tell if the light has a ballast in it?

GREAT job so far...keep it up and you will have some kind bud..

thanks for the encouragement! Strange new land, this side of my love for the sweet bud. but I am enjoying the process.