ICURBYOUs WhiteWidow CFL dresser growbox

[icurbyou]

Days since germ: 3 day
Days since ground-break: 1.5
Number of plants: 2
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Temps: 85ºF

Okay, so not huge news. They are growing. This morning I noticed the two jagged leafs are longer than the two rounded leafs. So that rocks.

Also, we have names for them now. The one that is usually on the left's name is CHARLOTTE (Named after Charlotte from Charlotte's Web) and the other one's name is "#3".
For those who may care which one is on the webcam, that is Charlotte. She was the first to come out of the soil.

My webcam is too washed out to really see a good image of the plants today. I think the light must've moved a little closer to the camera. HOWEVER, I screen shotted every few hours again.. Its not worth sharing, but I could tell between the 9:30am pic and 3pm pic that the plant had definitely grown.. Which I like to see! lol

I took a few pics with my phone as well as a digital camera. Here they are:

Charlotte and #3 side-by-side

Charlotte

#3

Charlotte with the digicam

Charlotte and #3 posing for the digital camera

#3's solo shot with the digicam

 

[Scroogeness]

looking better than mine again... but i ordered my nutes today, so you just wait in a couple of weeks...

 

[NorCal510]

Looks good!

 

[PocketsOnSwole]

I really enjoyed reading the way you wrote your journal, so count me in on watching this grow! Good luck.

 

[daggo18]

hey man sorry for budin in but how far from plants do you have your cfls. (i got 4 30watt cfls 2 6500k & 2 2700k
for the one plant by the way?

 

[icurbyou]

Looks good!

I really enjoyed reading the way you wrote your journal, so count me in on watching this grow! Good luck.

Thank you guys much! It makes it worth the time put into the journal when I hear that

hey man sorry for budin in but how far from plants do you have your cfls. (i got 4 30watt cfls 2 6500k & 2 2700k
for the one plant by the way?

Right now for the seedling stage I have the (3)26 watt bulbs and they are about 1.25 inches from the tops of the plants. Luckily with the fan I can have the lights close without burning them. Hell, I can literally touch my CFLs with my hand and I feel no warmth at all and they have been on for about 3 days now straight.

Once they are a little bigger I am going to add many more lights as they grow!

 

[Scroogeness]

ohhh you have been having the lights on 24/0? didnt know this, maybe thats why they are bigger than mine haha

 

[icurbyou]

ohhh you have been having the lights on 24/0? didnt know this, maybe thats why they are bigger than mine haha

I am doing 24/0 right now just because I want them to get used to having lights pumped on them. Once I add more light I think I will cut it down to 18/6.. If they are responding well I will keep them at 18/6 and if they arent then I will keep them on 24/0.

Actually.. After writing that last paragraph I did some searching and I found this thread. I will be cutting to 18/6 tonight.

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/5003-what-better-18-hours-24-a.html

Sounds beneficial to do 18/6 for the plant, for the heat and for the power bill.. (not that CFLs cost much, but still)

 

[icurbyou]

Days since germ: 4 day
Days since ground-break: 3 days
Number of plants: 2 seedlings
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Temps: 83ºF

Hey guys! More pictures of your favorite little seedlings! These girls are certainly becoming PLANTS!

October 1 - Before going to bed I took some pictures of them. Their jagged leafs had grown since I had gotten home from work. I basically just photographed them before I headed for bed. OH! One thing I noticed is Charlotte (left) has skinnier leafs than #3 (right).. Wonder what gives?

October 2 - Guess what!!.. No really... Guess.. Okay, fine I'll tell you. They are starting on their 3rd and 4th jagged leafs!! That's right! I looked very close this morning and I could see, on both plants, 2 little nubs coming from the center. How awesome!

I was asked about position of my lights and the distance from the plants.. I took a few pictures to show that as well.

And now.. The ladies:

Last night before bed, Charlotte and the webcam

#3 hanging out

This is looking straight across. So, as you can see the lights are pretty close.

This morning.. See how #3 has fatter leafs than Charlotte?

Charlottes close up

#3's close up

Another shot of the distance of the lights from the point of view of the camera and thermometer:

 

[icurbyou]

Days since ground-break: 4 days
Number of plants: 2 seedlings
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Temps: 78ºF

October 3 -
Well, talk about some DRAMA today. Here goes it. Last night I decided to flip the plants into 18/6. I wanted the "lights out" to be during the times of 11am-5pm. I pulled everything out of my box that wasn't attached and got to work on making room for this.
It ended up taking 2 hours, I was hot, irritated and ready to punch the box into pieces (Street Fighter video game style - ya know, the levels where you kick the shit out of the cars).
With the help of my adoring girlfriend we got the thing working well. Let me tell you right now, having a small box makes it difficult to fit electrical strips and their fat cords. Those cords fuck everything up.

I finally got it all legit.. I set the fan to shut off 15 mins AFTER the lights, and start 15 mins before. I did this so they would still cool off the lights after they went out since the bulbs have some cool down time.
I also put the box in my closet. That's the true home for the growbox but it has been out in the hallway and my girlfriend was getting bothered.

Well, in the tornado of getting this all done before bed, my stupid ass switched the two times. Needless to say, I didn't notice this until I was at work watching my webcam (it was only looking at the thermometer)... The temps are going up.. 79.. 80... 81...82.. and I look at the mylar in the background which normally kinda blows around slightly and I notice it's COMPLETELY STILL... Son of a BITCH!
I jumped in my car and drove home like a bat out of hell, ran into the house, threw open the closet door, opened the box and began blowing around the plants to cool them down while I reached around in the dark closet to find the "ON" switch to the fans timer.
Yeah, I might have overreacted but I know if in the corner of the box is 83 degrees then my beautiful plants directly below the hot lights have to be sweating their prepubescent tits off.

I left the fan on while I removed the plants from directly below the now OFF bulbs and stuck them on the far wall of the grow box. I left the door open for a bit, took a piss, came back and closed it all down and left.

Tonight I am going to have to get those timers squared away. It's a good damn thing I have the webcam. Otherwise they wouldve been 1" from 3 hot ass CFLs in a confined space for 6 hours.

And yes, some of you who arent stoned right now might be wondering why the lights didnt shut off on their own after 15 mins? I have no idea.. I am going to have to dick with the timers and figure that out. One of them is an older timer, maybe it's broken. I took it from my moms house while I was there one day. She is fixin' to move and I knew she didn't need it anymore.

Anyways... I took 2 pics this morning. For some reason Charlotte (Who broke ground first) is now smaller than #3. She also has skinnier leafs. I'm interested in seeing if in the coming weeks they become more different. I dont expect every plant to look the same or anything.. Just seems interesting.

Pics:
#3 is on the left today! I switched them.

 

[SouthCanada]

Hey, great journal. Very neat. I like your box idea. I've never heard of anyone monitoring their temp via webcam, but when I first started my plants that's all I wanted to do was be able to see them from work.

They pretty much consumed my thinking. But I learned that they grow faster when you don't pay as much attention to them. A watched pot never boils. or so someone said.

Keep it up though. Gonna keep an eye on this one.

 

[Scroogeness]

close one man, lucky for that cam though. id be paranoid if i used a timer haha but eventually im sure ill get one. plants dont look any shaken up by the heat at least.

 

[icurbyou]

Hey, great journal. Very neat. I like your box idea. I've never heard of anyone monitoring their temp via webcam, but when I first started my plants that's all I wanted to do was be able to see them from work.

They pretty much consumed my thinking. But I learned that they grow faster when you don't pay as much attention to them. A watched pot never boils. or so someone said.

Keep it up though. Gonna keep an eye on this one.

Yeah, I'm a little stalkerish over my plants. It's a good thing though, I guess I'd rather be over protective than have something happen. Not trying to have to start all over! lol.

Youre right, they do grow "more slowly" when you are staring at them all day! For some reason I am intrigued enough to watch them.

Thanks for stopping by! Im glad you'll be back!

close one man, lucky for that cam though. id be paranoid if i used a timer haha but eventually im sure ill get one. plants dont look any shaken up by the heat at least.

Yeah, i guess being a weirdo that stares at a thermometer all day paid off. lol.
Timers are really good... Ive read many of times that turning the lights on and off at the "EXACT" time everyday is best. Iunno, cause I dont do experiments with that. Too dangerous! lol

 

[Scroogeness]

yea i bet, so far ive been close, just off an hour one day. thats pretty convenient to check temps over the net though haha

 

[icurbyou]

Days since ground-break: 5 days
Number of plants: 2
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Light Cycle: 18/6
Temps: 81ºF
Nutes: 0

So, last night I made sure each timer was set properly.. Today I checked it and the god damned lights were still on and the fan was off. I am going to take that timer and throw it off a cliff. I need to go to Homedepot for some other shit so I will be getting a new timer.

The kids are looking good. Their 3rd and 4th jagged leafs are coming in quickly. I think they really enjoyed the 6 hours of darkness yesterday.

Judging by their growth I will probably start nutes in a week or so. I don't want to start when they are "too" young because I don't even want to flirt with the idea of having an issue.

Also, I am going to build another lighting apparatus.. I dont think I'm ready for it quite yet but I just want it built while I have free time in case I need to toss it in there. Maybe when in a week or so..

Welp, here's your eye-candy

Charlotte and her beautiful 3rd and 4th leaf growthage.

#3 and her magnificent 3rd and 4th leafs

Both the girls posing in front of the PIECE OF SHIT timer

 

[Scroogeness]

its crazy man, just looking at the leaves on your plant are already becoming different than mine! thats how early strain shows.. anyways im high, so forgive this ramble. afghan x cone of gold baby!

 

[icurbyou]

its crazy man, just looking at the leaves on your plant are already becoming different than mine! thats how early strain shows.. anyways im high, so forgive this ramble. afghan x cone of gold baby!

Id like to be stoned and look at your leafs compared to mine.. but you havent updated pics!!!!! lol

 

[Scroogeness]

im saving it man, see if anyone is impressed haha tomorrow!

 

[icurbyou]

Days since ground-break: 6 days
Number of plants: 2
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Light Cycle: 18/6
Temps: 78ºF
Nutes: 0

I got a new timer last night! I set it up and stared at the setup for about 10 mins making complete sure that I had the times set properly.. I checked this morning at 11am and sure enough, the lights were off. Now I just need to check to see if the fan has turned off yet.

(Im going to check right now...)

Nope still not off.. Maybe in a few minutes...

So, the ladies are really booming now. I think the 18/6 is better than the 24/0. Either that, or it's just in the stage of it's life where it's time to really grow quicker.

Either way, here are some pics!

#3 has her 3rd and 4th jagged leaves, as well as some little 5th and 6th

Charlotte is at the same stage, she is just a little shorter.

Both of them together posing with the new timer!

Clearer shot of #3

and Charlotte

 

[mane2008]

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