First grow and have a few questions

Well this is my first grow. I have spent the last two months researching what to do and what not to do. Also I live in an apartment on the second floor of three floors.

Strain: White Widow
2/3 Soil: Basic zero nutrient
1/3 Compost
Nutrient pellets – For the mother plants

Nutrient choice for clones and flowering stage – Hesi starter kit

This is Day Two for the seeds under the lights. The plants to the left are tomatoes (For practice)
My veg room is kind of junky but it will work until I can build something similar to my flowering room.



This is my unfinished flowering room. I figure I have some time until it’s going to be needed.

Its dimensions are: 6 feet high, 5 feet long, 3 feet wide.




Here is my growing space. Its dimensions are 4 feet long and 3 feet wide and 6 feet high. Obviously the Mylar isn’t on the walls yet because using a flash camera + Mylar = bad idea.



For ventilation, I have decided to build a carbon coal filter. The exit is in the picture highlighted by the red box. Behind that part of the box happens to by a window YAY.






So I hear apartment growing is risky. The things I need to point out are I have two inspections per year and that’s for fire alarms ONLY. I can tell them I replaced the batteries and they won’t need to come. My flowering period will start when the temperature outside is so cold everyone’s windows will be closed and I live on a windy street.

What I need help with is the power and lighting part of growing.

What I had planned on was having 14 40 watt fluorescents 7 cool white 7 warm white. That would produce 45500 lumens. With a cfl 150 watt running at 42 watts putting out 2700 lumens that goes up to 48200 lumens in the flowering room.

Using the tool energy guide
Flowering room - 14 Fl +1 CFL = $214 per year. 17.83 per month @ 12 hours per day
Veg room - 4 FL = $86 per year. $7.16 per month @ 18 hours a day.

Total cost per year $300, per month $26 (a lot of rounding up)

With all my fans it will be around $34 a month (again a lot of rounding up)

#1 - Would that be a noticeable spike? Would the electric company ask questions?

#2 – Will the yield be decent with fluorescents?

#3 – What’s the safest power cycle to have? (Please select one from the chart)




I guess that’s all for now. Thank you for reading and for your input.

I don't think so but for a good measure go to some hardware store and replace all you lights in your house with 9 watt cfls so that 32 dollar peak turns into like a 15 dollar peak or maybe it will stay the same depending on how often you use your everyday house lights. Cause come a regular house bulb is uasually like 40 watts so if you have three that run all the time that's 120 watts running all the time so replace three with 9 watt cfls that's just 27 watts used so there ya go the electric company won't even see the grow lights

Sorry i couldn't include any actual numbers besides watts it's hard when your At work and your uncle it a pot Nazi

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