1st cfl grow Journal

[J Cakes]

Hi everyone this is my first grow so any help along the way would be great. So i ordered these seeds from amsterdamseeds.com. i went with and indica strain because im limited to space. I had these hopefully 4 girls growing in fox farm ocean forest medium under two 2ft. floresents for about two and a half weeks i just now replaced those light with 6 23watt 2700k cfl's. I know there mostly for flowering but i have 4 40 watt 5000k on there way so the 23watts are temparary.Also running on 18/6 light cycle. i plan on transplanting them when my new bulbs come in.
so leave some feedback if you have any comments suggestions or ideas to better my grow my ears are open like i said it's my first grow so i want to make it a good one.

material list:
-box-3ft high/3ft wide/2.5ft deep
-2 dragon fans 115vac (exhaust)
-1 pc fan 120cfm (intake)
-wrap in mylar
-6 23watt 2700K cfl's
-4 40watt 5000K cfl's (being shipped as we speak)

 

[gsljacobb]

Looking good so far, I cant seem to find mylar anywhere =/

 

[tkjoe]

looking good so far man. but you definately need more 6700k CFL's 5000 is good but you still get some wasted light in there. just go to a hardware store and pick up a bunch of 6700k bulbs. they are cheap if you go to ROna, home depot, home hardwares, lowes, walmart even. just to much red right now man. its good to have some red but not all. Is you fan oscilating? I love how small your set up in and how hidden it is. Check out my grow in my SIgnature. im about a week out of flowering

Peace

 

[J Cakes]

thanks for the replies i picked my mylar of the internet got it on htgsupply.com its cheap. and for the cfl's i got you ima have to wait till i get another check. you think i should take a few of them out insted of having six in there until i get my 40watss or just leave em?

 

[J Cakes]

hey guys i have done a little changes i am still waiting for my 40watt 5000k cfl's to come in they should be here in like a day or two. So for the mean time i replaced some bulbs im now running 4 26watt 6500k cfl's and 3 23watt 2700k cfl's i replaces my mini fan with a oscilating fan my plants seem to like it. here are some pics tell me what you think.

 

[tkjoe]

. looks like its stretching a bit. you might wanna drop the lights a bit closer

 

[J Cakes]

so guess what i got my 40watts cfl today and 3 out of 4 were broken gay gay gay..... so there sending me 3 new ones but when i get them i was wondering what i should do bout those lights its gonna get hot in there any ideas on reducing the heat and keeping it on a low budget?

 

[tkjoe]

so guess what i got my 40watts cfl today and 3 out of 4 were broken gay gay gay..... so there sending me 3 new ones but when i get them i was wondering what i should do bout those lights its gonna get hot in there any ideas on reducing the heat and keeping it on a low budget?

get an intake and an outtake fan! i went and bought a 2 dollar extension cord and a 25dollar bathroom fan i think its 50cfm. thats canadian dollars, way cheaper in the states. i cut off the end of hte extention cord and wired it to my fan and its PERFECT 26-27 degrees all day in there now

 

[J Cakes]

get an intake and an outtake fan! i went and bought a 2 dollar extension cord and a 25dollar bathroom fan i think its 50cfm. thats canadian dollars, way cheaper in the states. i cut off the end of hte extention cord and wired it to my fan and its PERFECT 26-27 degrees all day in there now

my only issue is that it might be too loud for my closet grow i want to keep the noise level down. how loud is it?

 

[tkjoe]

if you get 1 CPU fans, it will be close to silent!. i have 1 CPU fan, and its very quiet, i dont even here it at all. however the Bathroom fan i have makes some noise.

 

[gsljacobb]

Get those lights a little closer maybe...and get that fan!!!

 

[J Cakes]

2nd week veg. runnin one 40watt 5000k cfl and 6 26watt 6500k cfl's. waiting for the other three 40watts to be reshipped. Also today i ordered an 120mm fan 113cfm that i will install on the top of my box for extra exhaust. I also add 4 passive intakes. pics below. Last nite before the lights went out i transplanted my 4 hope to be girls let me know what you think?

 

[Mrphilliplesh]

looking good so far man. but you definately need more 6700k CFL's 5000 is good but you still get some wasted light in there. just go to a hardware store and pick up a bunch of 6700k bulbs. they are cheap if you go to ROna, home depot, home hardwares, lowes, walmart even. just to much red right now man. its good to have some red but not all. Is you fan oscilating? I love how small your set up in and how hidden it is. Check out my grow in my SIgnature. im about a week out of flowering

Peace

hey man i see you say its good to ave some red spectrum during the veg state? is that right? the 2700k mixed with the 6500k? thanks

 

[Nolan]

hey man i see you say its good to ave some red spectrum during the veg state? is that right? the 2700k mixed with the 6500k? thanks

That's what I have been reading on this forum (the only one I use lol), I personally have most all 6500k at the moment but do have one of my t12 4ft fluoro fixture running 2700k-ish and they seem to be doing great.

 

[J Cakes]

ok so here's my next ? i know not to use any nutrients obviously because i have just transplanted 2 days ago. When do you think would be a good time to start adding the veg. nutrients to my plants? I also have two different kinds and was wondering what would be best. Or should i just use one nutrients for two plants and the other nutrients for the other two. give me your feedback everyones has been very helpful so far thanks.

 

[J Cakes]

ok so i checked on my palnts today and noticed that on two of my plants a view of the leaves tips are turning yellow. i haven't used any nutrients and my ph is at like a 7.0 i don't know what the problem is so if you do let me know.thanks

 

[J Cakes]

This is my third week into veg. haven't used any nutrients cause im useing FFOF soil and dont think i need any until flowering. I also installed a new 110cfm exhause fan at the top of my box since i added 3 more 40watt 5000k cfls. now im running 4 40watts 5000k and 4 26watt 6500k and 1 26watt 2700k. check it out and leave some feedback

 

[J Cakes]

got i love this site over 300 reviews and nobody comments wow

 

[J Cakes]

ok so i mistake im now starting my 3rd week of veg. lol i forgot that i started veging on the 7th after i looked at my chart. so my post were a week ahead.lol my bad. Anyways this is day 28 of veg for my hope to be ladies. I also started a little LST for the first time they have been in LST for about 4 days now and it's crazy how it takes off. looking good to me though. I beleive no sign of sex yet still to early i guess. I also added a little nuts to two of the plants just to see if it would make any difference. Well let me know what you think.

 

[JahRoots]

If you dont mind me asking how much did you pay for those 4 bottles? The girls are lookin great!