Yea but some dude may of over heard you talking to the chick about growing. They're probably plotting right now how to do a clean sweep of your plants in the next couple weeks when theyre flowering. sometimes its good to be a little paranoid lol.
oh come on dude don't tell people to rep you. Even if you provide a service like helping people its still at the person you helped discretion to rep you .
I heard it smells like burnt popcorn. I wouldnt worry to much. when i made my first bong I to thought I was smelling something chemical. It was only the weed though lol it has a sweet scent to it.
It also depends on which kind of cfls your using. The 2700k bulbs fry plants if to close but the 6500k bulbs can sit on top of them. I cooked some leaves in my day but its all good cause the plant will use half of whatever is left to still grow.
Looking at my roots today some of them are hanging out of the drainage hole lol so not only do they get the water from the plate that collects the runoff water but they get o2 :)
You choose a mom by either knowing their from feminized seeds or seeing female pre flowers or taking clones and putting the clones into flower to determine the sex of the plant that was cloned.
Ditch that 5000k. It's nearly useless and you won't see growth. Better get 6500k, they give up much less heat to so that would make your temps a couple degrees cooler.