LTD's First Grow Log, CFL only

[LimitedTimer]

yah it was down for damn ever!

but it made me step away from computer and fix up my tent. so now i have a

semi professional looking tent thats stealth as fuck rather then out in the open.

smoking a bowl n then tryin out this BAD ass bulb wiring you just showed me.... nice nice.

 

[LimitedTimer]

2 of my 42 w bulbs decided to die on me... so now i'm using 4 6500k and 6 2700k......

and im broke till wednesday so i hope these lights will be good enough for my 7 babies.


gonna try to no package no receipt return to homedepot for new ones ONE WEEK suppost to last "3 years"

 

[EpyxN]

yah it was down for damn ever!

but it made me step away from computer and fix up my tent. so now i have a

semi professional looking tent thats stealth as fuck rather then out in the open.

smoking a bowl n then tryin out this BAD ass bulb wiring you just showed me.... nice nice.

lol ya I like wiring them myself, you can cut down the amount of outlets you use & make them into any kind of a configuration that you want.

 

[LimitedTimer]

yah ur pictures are lil sketchy, so i just strip a AC wire and wire them? do they work one way and not the other way(postive to neg and not neg to pos ) when you hook them up?

i was gonna try to wire up a few today but now i have to use my flowering bubls for veg till i can replace my failed bulbs

 

[EpyxN]

yah ur pictures are lil sketchy, so i just strip a AC wire and wire them? do they work one way and not the other way(postive to neg and not neg to pos ) when you hook them up?

i was gonna try to wire up a few today but now i have to use my flowering bubls for veg till i can replace my failed bulbs

It doesn't matter, positive with neg, neg with pos, pos with pos. as long as you got them twisted together your good

Ya i need to actually put some info on the cfl post dont I lol.

use a knife or tiny screwdriver to get under Metal end cap that screws into the outlet then just pry it up a little, once the metal tears you can take a pair of pliers or something and just pull on the torn piece and the cap will fall of in a matter of seconds.

Use the pliers to reach into the end cap and break the wire away from the 2 points its soldered to in the cap. wallah your done. (you can remove the entire lower 1/2 of the cfl bulb also if you want to, it contains the ballast for the bulb. (but its a little tricky, you have to get under that little lip and pry up until you hear a crack, continue to do this all the way around and them pry the piece off. (its glued on there or something so you need to break that bond all the way around the bulb)

if you take the whole end piece off you can melt little holes so your wires go through the side of the cfl. if not you can just melt slits up into the casing (be careful) and slide the wires into position that way also.

 

[LimitedTimer]

sigh i just bought more local weed....mmmm questionable midgrade ftw.........


thanks epyxn i think i got it, have some hanging lights wednesday as proof maybe haha.

 

[LimitedTimer]

Plants are looking good, i had a few the had the 2 leaves stuck together for a odd amount of time so i took a clean ass razor and cut somekinda remains of the shell to split them... 2 of them are nice and green one has yellow tips like crazy and looks like its trying to grow the first real leaves still , we'll see if that one makes it threw the night


on the water subject?

how do i know when to water, i dont really wanna poke my soil down an inch or 2. the top is crusty? should i use a spray bottle still or water?

and with the wiring of the CFL bulbs do i use an extention cord that has no ground or do i use a phone charger just like the fans in a computer?

CO2 yeast bottles worth investing the few dollars in? i mean its a pretty enclosed space but it has a good intake. any opinions on co2 boosters?

 

[LimitedTimer]

lil fuckin white bug in my garden..i dunno wat it was...

and thne 10 mins later a y socket decides its gonna fall and un pot my plant

hopefully she will recover..... ><

gotta go play guitar for the weed gods for good karma

 

[EpyxN]

lil fuckin white bug in my garden..i dunno wat it was...

and thne 10 mins later a y socket decides its gonna fall and un pot my plant

hopefully she will recover..... ><

gotta go play guitar for the weed gods for good karma

Ouch that totally sucks

I secure my lights with U nails. I nail the nail to the ceiling of the area with the cord in the center of the U then tape the cord to itself to secure it. Keeps it really secure. also makes it pretty easy to raise & lower the lights when needed.

Are they lil white bugs on your soil? possibly mites? I have heard that a thin layer of sand covering your pots top soil will eliminate them. But i have never done this myself. Def try and get them under control NOW before they get too bad.

 

[LimitedTimer]

i have a power strip with the outlet adpaters and didnt have them tied or anything for back up..now i have them tied up to the power strip....stupid mistake on my part...the plant looks like it is recovering
accidential LST lol... shes all tilted and growing sideways now


bug problem...im gonna try to buy a plug in thing thats suppost to keep bugs gone...make some kinda high pitch sounds human cant hear? 5 bucks , so we'll see if it works


i got lil babies running around ill put up some pictures for yall to see them tomorrow

 

[LimitedTimer]

question is if this would work.

If i take my plants and put them into 12/12 to flower and get them to show sex...

of course i kill male plants...but can i immidiatly reveg a Female plant and make it a mother? with out actually buding the plant and then ill always have a female around ? i have the room for this, but it seems everyone says you have to bud the mother plant or have a fem seed and already know.... .

 

[EpyxN]

question is if this would work.

If i take my plants and put them into 12/12 to flower and get them to show sex...

of course i kill male plants...but can i immidiatly reveg a Female plant and make it a mother? with out actually buding the plant and then ill always have a female around ? i have the room for this, but it seems everyone says you have to bud the mother plant or have a fem seed and already know.... .

You can put your plants into 12/12 until sex shows then put them back into 24/0 and they will re-veg. So Yes

 

[LimitedTimer]

i may just end up doing all these plants 12/12 in 6'' pots and take one when they show sex and put it in a 5 gallon and veg it for 3-4 months and clone it alone the way..

im assuming thats how the mothers work neways.

 

[EpyxN]

i may just end up doing all these plants 12/12 in 6'' pots and take one when they show sex and put it in a 5 gallon and veg it for 3-4 months and clone it alone the way..

im assuming thats how the mothers work neways.

Ya pretty much. A mother plant is just used for taking clones and never flowered (well almost never, most either grow one of the mothers clones to good size and once its ready to replace it they take cuts till the old mother is gone or just scrap it out right).

 

[EpyxN]

Also you don't want to 12/12 before there even 21 days old, they aren't gonna show for at least that long so 12/12 would be just making you some stretched plants.

 

[LimitedTimer]

ah word so that means 2 weeks from tomorow is flowering time for them

 

[LimitedTimer]

Pictures just seem pointless to waste 20 mins dealing with ,

11 cups 14 sprouts none with 2nd real set of leaves yet..

8 of the seedlings have 1 inch leave sets.

rest are 2 days behind or so

Day 7's update.

 

[420everywhere]

Pictures just seem pointless to waste 20 mins dealing with ,

11 cups 14 sprouts none with 2nd real set of leaves yet..

8 of the seedlings have 1 inch leave sets.

rest are 2 days behind or so

Day 7's update.

Pics of the crop so far

 

[420everywhere]

Pics of the crop so far

Day 7 of the grow and lookin good for us

 

[LimitedTimer]

bump, my buddy posted the pictures from tonight. we set up a lil better lighting

now we are 8 6500k's 6 3000ks 26w cfl's appearently the 3000k's are cooler to the touch, but let off more heat in the room. Saying this b/c replacing 4 3000ks with 6500k's lowered my heat to 76-79 constant. which is lot better then hitting 90 during the day