Indoor CFL - Strawberry

Alright..Time to start a grow journal for the hell of it.

I'm an outdoor planter, but decided to try indoor in my new place.

I have:

Custom Grow Box - 18"Deep x 36" High x 30" Long
8x23W 6500K CFL's
4x23W 2700k CFL's (for now)


So..One of my outdoor plants was doing pretty bad, so I decided to dig her up and bring her inside. The strain is Strawberry.

PICS:

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This is the custom grow box.

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The Inside

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Here's her new home for the next few months.

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Now, she was outside for the past month in pretty harsh weather. We had A LOT of rain, even hail, and not many sunny days. All the other plants are doing a little better than her. That's why I decided to bring her in. Thought it would be a fun experiment. It still looks pretty good.

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Close-up (I think those are pistils so it should be a she). I think she was in her first week of flowering outside.

Now that's it for her. Will keep weekly updates. I put her in flowering on a 12/12 cycle with 4 23W 2700k CFL's for a total of 92W.....is that enough? or should i add 2 more? I was also thinking of building a reflector.


CLONES:

I took 6 clones from the biggest outdoor strawberries. They were looking huge..about 4 feet high and 3 feet wide with about 15 set of leaves.

I'm new to cloning, but i thought i'd give it a shot.

I bought a dome, some rooting hormone, razor blade and jiffy pellets.

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Here they are in the dome under 2x23W 6500k CFL's in my roomies dresser.

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5 of them. Currently on day 3 of cloning. Still looking nice and crisp.

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And 1 last thing.

My roomie has a 10 seeds that he planting in some random soil. 1 sprouted (Top 44).
And I think it's not gonna live. This is day 9 after sprout and its not advancing at all. Should I trash it?

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It's got stretching, yellow leaves and hasn't grown in a few days...
 
New family additions.

Got 2 more strawberries and 1 Freezeline.

The Freezeline is the really short one - about 8 inches high and already in about week 3 of flowering. The odor is real strong. Kind of cheesy and musky.

Transplanted them all in 8" pots with a mix of 75% coco coir and 25% potting soil.
They are currently getting a half serving of UltraBloom about 2x per week.

Pic 1: Freezeline - about week 3 of flowering
Pic 2: One of the strawberries - about 2 feet high
Pic 3: Little bud starting
Pic 4: Another Bud
Pic 5: Freezeline bud
Pic 6: The whole setup with 7x23W CFL's for now.
 

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Not looking too bad, Id say that your little one has been over watered. Maybe. Just give it a little while and see. Let the soil get nice and dry. Just a guess.
How often was it being watered?
 
Alright time for an update, 13 days later, here's what we got.

Pic 1 : The Flower Box w/ 4 girls in there
Pic 2: That a small freezeline, about 4 weeks into flower
Pic 3: Same freezeline
Pic 4: Strawberry Cough - about 3 weeks in
Pic 5: Up Close
Pic 6: Same
Pic 7: This one is sick - What Can Be WRONG? I'm thinking spider mites cuz we brought them from outside...any idea?
Pic 8: Another Strawberry w/ 4 colas
Pic 9 : Top View
Pic 10: Little baby Church
Pic 11: This was a freezeline the was in flower and was re-vegg'ed
Pic 12: The Veg setup.

How they looking?
 

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go to dollar store and buy a allum turky pan 4$ and it works great with the spliter cut a little hole in middle dead center of pan and screw your lights through the hole into your socket works great for a reflector and cheap. just a tip nice plants.
 
nice tip coolio, just curious though they say not to use aluminum foil isn't this pretty much the same idea though??? I could be way out of line.....:peace:
 
Youve got a lot of people against it, but Ive used it for a while and have never had a problem. Plus, if you have a fan running on your plants during lights on, the plants are always going to be moving a little bit, so how does a reflection burn something that is always moving. I think people made that shit up to excuse defects they couldnt explain...IMO
 
man hot spots is a myth as far as i know, i wouldnt use it but lol, i dont think it would cause damage to the plant. ive seen people grow with foil around their plants and not ever have a problem, id like to see a grower using foil and find hot spots. maybe just as an experiment if u have enough plants to not mind experimenting on just one to see the results.
 
man hot spots is a myth as far as i know, i wouldnt use it but lol, i dont think it would cause damage to the plant. ive seen people grow with foil around their plants and not ever have a problem, id like to see a grower using foil and find hot spots. maybe just as an experiment if u have enough plants to not mind experimenting on just one to see the results.

Youve got a lot of people against it, but Ive used it for a while and have never had a problem. Plus, if you have a fan running on your plants during lights on, the plants are always going to be moving a little bit, so how does a reflection burn something that is always moving. I think people made that shit up to excuse defects they couldnt explain...IMO


Alright well fair enough I just wasn't sure......
 
So I went and bought 2 turkey pans yesterday and replaced the soda can reflectors. It seems to be working better, no hot spots as far as I can tell.

Will update with pics in a week or so.

Also got about 8 Jack Herer seeds germinating.
 
yo! i'd like to hang here a bit and see the yield. real curious what small plants produce. thanks for the journal!
 
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