day 19 cfl closet grow some lovely girls

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czydiamond

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This is 19 days after my first plant popped the soil. Had a scare for a few days. I was getting really bad dead leaves on many of my plants. It was either really hard water with low Mg and high Ph which I corrected with epsom salts and MirAcid. I might have also over fed them with superthrive. Thankfully the problem went away. I am very happy with the progress so far. Nice bushy plants. I am using fairly small 1 quart containers. I have to watch them really close because the plants drink up water. I have to check them every day and water about half of them every day.
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czydiamond

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In the closed closet the temps were getting too high. Above 90 degrees. Now I put in a small oscillating fan and crack the door a bit and the temp stays at a nice 75 degrees. I have ordered an AC 80 mm cooling fan which should get here Friday. I will cut a circular hole in the closet door put the fan on a cardboard tube filled with activated charcoal. This should vent the hot out and the cool in more effectively than just having the door cracked. I have never grown indoors before. I don't know how much the charcoal will help the odor but I will also seal the front door to my apartment and have all the vents and cracks around plumbing etc. sealed.
Fortunately I have a downstairs neighbor who smokes a bit of weed and uses tons on incence to hide the smell. The neighbor I am worrying about was joking with me about it today. Any smell escaping my place, he will assume it is the girl in the basement.
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czydiamond

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yorban said:
any plans for lighting the sides of the plants ? or are you just lighting them from the top?
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I am using flat white card stock printing paper on the walls and floor. The top of the hood is painted flat white. I understand that flat white reflects light just as well as mylar.
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