First Grow, CFL Stealth, Purps/Strawberry

So this is my first grow ever, Ive spent a couple months on here reading before I started so I kind of know what Im doing. Feel free to critique me at any time but please be constructive, dont just tell me they look like shit cause it hurts my feelings and theirs. Tell me what I need to be doing instead.

Heres my set up:
1 Dresser hollowed out, 14in x 33in x 40in, wrapped completely in mylar
1 Squirrel Cage Exaust with a Y-split connector for greater surface area pull out. (passive intake)
4 42w CFLS and 2 23w 6400k for vegging, havent gotten the flowering ones yet.
3 plants, one is a strawberry haze, and the other two are OG purps. These were some seeds left over from chron bags boughten.
1 fan hanging in my grow room to shake my plants around.

The settup works like this, I have the hollowed out dresser in my closet which is blocked off by a computer desk and a mini fridge, so that it looks like im just not using it. However I can get in the closet if i jump the fridge. I made mad modifications to this dresser. It looks like a normal dresser from the front but the back panel has been taken off and put onto hindges so i can open it when needed. It has 2 sliding bolts and a lockable hinge so only I can get in. The squirrel cage is mounted to a wooden brace that runs along the back and pumps massive amounts of air through a hole in the back door. When closed the back side of the dresser is drapped with black lawn covering faberic to stop light going in or out.

So i was late starting this journal and this post is dirrectly after my first one but heres the update.

My germ went great, the 2 purps germed the best, but the strawb was good to. They were put into the ground and put under lights for 24/0 and have been running for 13 days. the Purps I named H1 and H2, and the strawb is P1 (names are yet to be decided so).

I watered them for the first 10 days with just distilled water with a single drop of super thrive in it, and have now switched over to distilled water that is on a fox farm schedule (Grow Big, and Big Bloom right now).

H1 is doing the best, it showed the first sprout at day 3 in the ground and has grown like a weed ever since. H2 follows in second and P1 being a little runt in 3rd. The fox farm nutes have seemed to be picking up the pace of the little ones though so im excided about that.

Im only running the four 42w cfls right now, I havnt decided on when to add the other two 23w yet.

The pics run as follow: H1, H1, H2, H2, P1, P1, room overviews

nice plant bro

Nice det , look good

So i did work last night, i added 4 more chains in the box so that way the round fan would hang on its own, and i could hang more lights in there. I added the two 23w as well and dropped all my lights down a little closer to the plants. Pictures show the new room set up. H2 started new nodes so i threw a pic on of it too.

BUT!!!! I found today that H1 somehow got a leaf partially broken, the 4th and 5th picture shows the area that got broke, it doesnt look to bad its only part of the fan but i dont know how it will affect it.

Will this hurt it a lot???? Please say no.

Seriously...no one wants to tell me?




Changed watering amounts today, H1 has been drooping a bit but it looked a little more perky when i got home from work. still just hoping on that fan rip though....

Count me in as subscribed for your journal Rooter . Your plant shouldn't be affected too much by that breakage, your plant is in it's most forgiving stage right now and it will have no problem bouncing back if you give it a little love. I'm running a similar grow right now in a hollowed out speaker with a Haze genetic. How did the plants react with the subtle hit of Superhtrive? Did they respond quickly? Great progress at this point my friend

P.S. Keep lights as close as you can (an inch or two max) to promote more bushiness, less stretch. The babies will thank you

Happy Growing

Thanks for the response man, the rip hasnt seemed to affect it much luckily. The superthrive worked great durring the germ only took a couple days for inch long tails on a heating pad, and Im going to use it to for a foliage spray as well. Just a drop in a gallon is suppose to keep the fan leafs nice and bright.

Hey Rooter just saw the thread and as a fellow CFL'r will def keep my eye out. Cool set up man! Things look good. The low to the soil leafing is GREAT! Dont worry about that leaf rip its nothing. Worse things happen in the wild and will not hinder the plant at all. I would be very careful with early nuting. To be honest young plants dont need much. for the first month actually i would just keep it to light, air and water. If you do want to add anything i STRONGLY suggest looking into organics. I have used a variety in nutes and have found the most sucess in all stages with organic stuff. Worm castings and blood meal are great. When there young they need N mostly which im sure u know. the set up looks great and should sustain ur plants health. I will def keep my eye out on this one.

robbie: thanks man, nice grow yourself. hopefully mine come out that good. I am using mostly organic nutes, got fox farm soil, and the 3 pack of grow big, big bloom and tigre bloom. I only am using half the recomended amounts for the grow big and big bloom for what they say it should have right now but it seems to be stimulating them a bit. the only one thats questionable about its organics is the super thrive but it won a nobel prize for agriculture and has been used since the early 1900 to double the product of plants sooo i dont know.

HGH: thanks man, it seems not to be affecting it, but i almost dropped a nut when i saw it. i kinda felt like i had committed domestic abuse or something, couldnt think of any other way it happened but at least she'll forgive me

Cool Cool, yea fox farm is the shit. Def using thier stuff on my next grow. So can we get an update of the babies?

Your box is awesome...a lot better looking than mine. Good luck on the grow, I'll be following.

Whoa, late update...i know i know, i need to stay on top of this shit but i went out of state etc etc. I digress.

So this is day 21 for the bloomers and they astonished me how much they grew in a couple of days. H1 is bursting with foliage; H2 and P1 are are continually catching up.

Throwing them on 18/6 tomorrow, they have been going hard on 24/0 but i think its running them raggid so ill switch them over tomorrow. First dark cycle they will have ever seen (hope their excited )

Did find some yellow spots on an H2 leaf, thinking it could either be light burn or nute burn...Im going to cut back on the nutes for a bit and see if that doesnt help it. Pictures below of the spot, let me know what you all think it could be and how to fix it.

Final pictures are of a new piece i got while i was out of town; glass blunt.

Pics go: P1, P1, H2, H2, H2, H1, H1, H1, H1, Glass, Glass

Yea those leafs look a bit burned, but there more prone to nute burn at this young stage, def may want to go easy on the nutes.....but other than that they look great! How often do you water?

daily...
its on the H2 as well which is in a smaller pot than the others, could this be part of the problem? maybe to much water in a smaller space?

Rooter said:

daily...
its on the H2 as well which is in a smaller pot than the others, could this be part of the problem? maybe to much water in a smaller space?

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No......over or under watering would just cause deformities, nute burn and deficiencies however cause discoloration. But since young plants really dont need a huge amount of nutes as they do when they get older they burn very easy. Looks like a burn to me.....may want to lower the dosage or even better dilute what ur giving them. Does not look even that serious though to be honest with you and since its a lower leaf it can be pruned later or may even just fall off on its own. Once higher level leafs shows signs of problems then its time to worry. Your plant will be fine though, ill keep an eye out.

Tight internoadal spacing, a shrub! impressive for CFLS

One of my CFLS is breaking on me...damn thing just started to come loose from its base one day so now i have to fiddle fuck around with it daily to make sure its not putting more strain on it.
Trying a new nute today, which may sound dumb considering the burn i discussed earlier but this is just a one day deal for a while. Its suppose to be getting my little babies ready for flowering.
Im also trying to spur their vertical growth by switching them to the 18/6 cycle. get them a little taller before they have to start their budding. Its working two, only been two days and i can deffinetly see a reach in hieght.

Also i think i might have planted the germs a little bit deeper than needed. all my nodes appeared close to the ground, and even now there are leafs that dont make it off the ground. Will this be harmful to my plants at all?