LemonHerb
Well-Known Member
This is my first grow ever, not just with CFLs and I have a few questions. I will post pictures later but I wanted to get some details up now since I am sitting here at work thinking about it all.
Cliff Notes: I am two weeks into grow as of today from my first sprout. I have 8 plants, all bag seed, started with scotts premium potting soil then moved to Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. About 40k lumens worth of light, only using distilled water. No nutes yet, just super thrive when transplanting. Worried about leaves being a bit Yellow and pointing straight up.
First off I am using bagseed that I had saved from various times, I started the seeds by soaking over night and then putting most of them in rapid rooter cubes and other in soil. When I started them I had them under 1 2' t5 and in a propogation chamber thing for the whole high humidity. Once they started their first true leaves I took them out of the tray and put them in small 5" square pots, kept them under the t5 plus added a couple 27w 6500k CFLs. That was about three days into the grow, I was using Scotts premium potting soil and only distilled water.
On monday my order of CFLs came in, I have 15 30w 2000lumen 6500k light, 3 27w 1800(? maybe 1650)lumen 6500k cfls, and 2 42w 2600lumen 2700k cfls. I placed the plants in my closet and lined the walls with mylar that I got from a party store, I took a couple tops from some rubbermaid bins and covered them with the mylar as well and cut holes to put all my lights through it, most are mounted with the Y splitters so they aren't straight up and down. I am also trying to keep the lights about 2 inches away from the tops of the tallest plant. Oh and I have a 2 liter bottle for the whole yeast C02 generation, a small fan blowing directly on the plants and then a box fan a the other end of the closed blowing air out and the door on the other side cracked an inch to let air in.
Growth has seemed a little slow and the initial leaves from sprouting were starting to yellow, also some of the true leaves seemed to be more yellow in color then I had expected. Last night I transplanted them all into 1 gallon pots, using Fox Farms ocean forest soil, and some super trive in the water when I transplanted. I felt that perhaps the pots that they were in were already too small.
What I am worried about is the yellow color of the leaves, and that the newer growth leaves are pointing straight up. Ill get a bunch of pictures later on, but I am hoping the transplant into the larger pot with the new soil will help. I already got my fox farms 3 pack but I didn't wanted to wait a day or so since I just put in all that new soil. With that many lights should I move them further then 2 inches away?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any advice. This site is great by the way, I have been lurking a lot in the past couple of weeks.
Cliff Notes: I am two weeks into grow as of today from my first sprout. I have 8 plants, all bag seed, started with scotts premium potting soil then moved to Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. About 40k lumens worth of light, only using distilled water. No nutes yet, just super thrive when transplanting. Worried about leaves being a bit Yellow and pointing straight up.
First off I am using bagseed that I had saved from various times, I started the seeds by soaking over night and then putting most of them in rapid rooter cubes and other in soil. When I started them I had them under 1 2' t5 and in a propogation chamber thing for the whole high humidity. Once they started their first true leaves I took them out of the tray and put them in small 5" square pots, kept them under the t5 plus added a couple 27w 6500k CFLs. That was about three days into the grow, I was using Scotts premium potting soil and only distilled water.
On monday my order of CFLs came in, I have 15 30w 2000lumen 6500k light, 3 27w 1800(? maybe 1650)lumen 6500k cfls, and 2 42w 2600lumen 2700k cfls. I placed the plants in my closet and lined the walls with mylar that I got from a party store, I took a couple tops from some rubbermaid bins and covered them with the mylar as well and cut holes to put all my lights through it, most are mounted with the Y splitters so they aren't straight up and down. I am also trying to keep the lights about 2 inches away from the tops of the tallest plant. Oh and I have a 2 liter bottle for the whole yeast C02 generation, a small fan blowing directly on the plants and then a box fan a the other end of the closed blowing air out and the door on the other side cracked an inch to let air in.
Growth has seemed a little slow and the initial leaves from sprouting were starting to yellow, also some of the true leaves seemed to be more yellow in color then I had expected. Last night I transplanted them all into 1 gallon pots, using Fox Farms ocean forest soil, and some super trive in the water when I transplanted. I felt that perhaps the pots that they were in were already too small.
What I am worried about is the yellow color of the leaves, and that the newer growth leaves are pointing straight up. Ill get a bunch of pictures later on, but I am hoping the transplant into the larger pot with the new soil will help. I already got my fox farms 3 pack but I didn't wanted to wait a day or so since I just put in all that new soil. With that many lights should I move them further then 2 inches away?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any advice. This site is great by the way, I have been lurking a lot in the past couple of weeks.
gl on the flowering, and please post pics and stats about the male to female ratio plz. ive been gettin all males so far and just trying to see what the real stats are. GOOD LUCK and HAPPY GROWIN
