Closet cfl cab grow

Danyoojames420

Danyoojames420

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I'm growing with 9x23watt cfls with a total of 207 watts. This is my saliva clone from my last grow that outgrew my box. And another seed I started up.
Foxfarm ocean Forrest is the soil I'm using. These two have been under 12/12 since February 23. Pistols started to show on the clone march 11.
Can anyone tell me this deficiency?
 

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First pic looks a bit over watered.. I wouldnt be nuting those girls if i were you at such a young age in FFOF. That soil is hot as it is, and i usually dont add nutes to it until i see signs of nitrogen def. Thats a lot of CFL's for one plant so it could be bleaching or temp problems. You need to give a little more info and post in the MJ plant problems section for better help bud
 
Nootnam said:
First pic looks a bit over watered.. I wouldnt be nuting those girls if i were you at such a young age in FFOF. That soil is hot as it is, and i usually dont add nutes to it until i see signs of nitrogen def. Thats a lot of CFL's for one plant so it could be bleaching or temp problems. You need to give a little more info and post in the MJ plant problems section for better help bud
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I'm only nutting the clone when I saw white pistols popping out.
What is bleaching?
 
Bleaching is when the light is too intense for the leaves and literally bleaches the chlorophyll out of the leaves leaving them paleer or yellow. Look and see if you can see signs of 'shadows' left in the leaves where the light hasn't been directly on the leaf surface. Maybe the outside of the plant is darker than the bulb side? Could indicate bleaching.
 
These are the two ladies.
Trying out super cropping and lst on the clone. And lst on my Indica dom. I got six seedlings I just started up and gonna be grown under 12/12. My temp is 88-90 avg. and humidity was around 30-40 now I got it up to 60-70 when my closet it shut.
Any ways so cool off these bulbs more? I got a pretty strong fan rotating left and right directly on the bulbs and it's still to hot.
Thanks for the help RIU crew
 

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It might be an idea to add a Silica product like Dyna-Gro's Protekt to your feeding schedule. It will help with the plant's tolerance to heat and drought as well as promote stronger stems.
I don't believe in the '20 bottle regimes' that some growers swear by, but even the most militant of my mindset agree Silica is a worthwhile addition to your line up.
 
Growan said:
It might be an idea to add a Silica product like Dyna-Gro's Protekt to your feeding schedule. It will help with the plant's tolerance to heat and drought as well as promote stronger stems.
I don't believe in the '20 bottle regimes' that some growers swear by, but even the most militant of my mindset agree Silica is a worthwhile addition to your line up.
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Thanks. Doing some research about it and thinking of ordering it. I wanna know the results from it
 
I'm thinking about taking my girls and my lights out if my cab and start actually using my closet for a grow space. Will I get less light penetration if I change my grow space? I don't have any reflective material to cover up the walls right now. Will I have to put my lights closer to my plants?i want to do this because I want my temps to drop down to around 77 degrees. It is steady at 88 right now.
Thanks for the help RIU
 
should be alright if you switch too your closet. i did it. i would have the bulbs completely surrounding the plant and a few right above! keep the lights as close as possible without burning n my case i have a led on top and 4 cfl surrounding.
 
Danyoojames420 said:
I'm thinking about taking my girls and my lights out if my cab and start actually using my closet for a grow space. Will I get less light penetration if I change my grow space? I don't have any reflective material to cover up the walls right now. Will I have to put my lights closer to my plants?i want to do this because I want my temps to drop down to around 77 degrees. It is steady at 88 right now.
Thanks for the help RIU
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I'm in the middle of my first grow, I have two closets going right now. Each one presented different challenges -- just make sure of two thing before you put them in: You need to have good airflow in and out of the closet, to remove warm air and replace it with cool air. And you need to be able to black out the room completely, when you go to 12/12/flower.

Heat was a challenge for me in my spaces, so I had to change the timers over to have the lights come on at night when it was cooler, so that the fan would be bringing in cooler night air to work against the light's heat. Making my plants night-time during daylight hours required that I take extra measures to make sure its really black in there for 12 hours.

Since we are not working with spaces that were designed from inception as grow rooms (like factory made grow tents), we have to work with what we have, and it can be less than optimal. One of my spaces I built as a room within a room, so I'm hoping that the two sets of doors when both closed will block out light sufficiently. The other room I had to cut a large hole at the top of the closet door for the exhaust fan, and then cut another hole at the bottom as a passive vent to let cool in -- these of course let light in! So I've created a thick black curtain to block out the light during the day. That just means that I have to be home at both ends of my 12/12 cycle to take off and put back on the curtain. If I (or someone) were not there to take it off before the timer with the lights kicks on, the heat trapped in the room would certainly cook the plants.

Keep reading and looking at the pictures. There is a "big picture" to the grow cycle, that I think we only fully absorb once we've been though it... maybe a couple of times.
 
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