I am a new grower input would help

[atomica92]

Hi I'm atomica92 I recently started growing and some help would be greatful...my grow space is about 4sq ft

 

[Boneman]

Welcome to RIU

There is plenty of information in the GrowFAQ to get you started. Also learn how to use the search function and you will also find answers to all your questions.

Welcome and happy growing

 

[Douche Nozzle]

What are you using for lights? how many plants? What are you expecting? I am a noob also and I have 4 square ft also. I have a 400w MH light with a couple gallon pots. take a look at my grow. Link is in my signature. Let me know what you think.

 

[atomica92]

I have a 65 watt plant bulb and a 42 watt cfl...I have three plants and just found out they have been to far from light

 

[atomica92]

I also have them in 6" pots

 

[atomica92]

Marijuana Growing - atomica92's Album: My babies - Picture

 

[atomica92]

Marijuana Growing - atomica92's Album: My babies - Picture

 

[atomica92]

there's a few pics to see my progress

 

[plumsauce]

hey man , the plants look good, a little tall. but as you said your lights are tofar away. if i were you i would loose the tinfoil. it does the trick but can create hot spots. for a cheep temporary answwer i would try painting the inside of a cardbord box white, and putting the plants ans lights in there till they get a little bit bigger. you would want to cut a cuple holes at the top and botom of the bottom of the box and fix a fan to the hole on the bottom * i picked up a little 4inch desk fan from walmart the other day for 5$* that wont be to strong to break the plants, but strong enough to cool the box.
if you dont have the means to make a little box then i simply sugest mooving the lights as close to the plants as possible, and putting a small fan on them
i hope my sugestions help you,
good luck and happy growing

 

[atomica92]

Plumsauce...I also failed to mention that i've already made a fan setup its just not visible

 

[atomica92]

are milk leaves the first two round leaves a plant grows with?

 

[atomica92]

Marijuana Growing - atomica92's Album: My babies - Picture

 

[atomica92]

 

[atomica92]

thanks for all the help so far

 

[MassGrowth]

LOTS-O-LIGHT. <-- Is what your bout to need. The one CFL you got isn't enough. CFL's are great in my opinion but, you usually have to have a few or more depending on Lumen output. I'm not sure what you are talking about when you said a 65W plant bulb. What type of bulb is it? You might want to push the dirt up around the sides to make it a little more stable. They're lookin pretty skinny and a lil' top heavy.

 

[atomica92]

its a blue tinted GE grow bulb...srry I said plant bulb but I have both the grow bulb and the CFL on right now and I'm planning on getting a few more CFL's right now my lumen output is somewhere around 3100-3300 the CFL puts out 2700 alone

 

[atomica92]

not sure on the grow bulb

 

[Lyrical420]

u might wanan look in a cheap flouro set up i bought one from wal-fart for $10 it's a 24" 2 bulb t8 fixture comes with 2 cool white bulbs for veggin my plants did pretty well grew to over 10"s in just 2 months from seed i can't complain for i got for how much i spent and u already saw my pics cuz u commented on them those were grown with the 24" shop light all thru veg

 

[atomica92]

I could buy another cfl with the same output as mine and be pretty set,or would you suggest just buying the set u explained

 

[atomica92]

that'd be 5400 lumens plus the output of the grow bulb