First indoor grow...300w cfl

thisbudsforyou86

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Ok I'm an avid outdoor grower, never tried indoor until now. All three are clones that came off some of my outdoor plants i have going. They all came from bag seed I collected throughout last year. The two bigger plants were vegged for three weeks and the smaller was vegged for two weeks. The cab I built myself and the doors came from an old cabinet I had for years
 

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Plant on the right in pic one and on the left in pic two are the same lol sorry I was high when I took the pics.
I'm using fox farm soil, and fox farm notes. The biggest plant is about 18 inches and is in a 3 gal container. The smaller two plants are in 1 gal containers for now but will be going into 3 gal soon.
 
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My grow box is 40 inches tall/24 inches deep/30 inches wide...I'm running fifteen 23 watt cfls, all except 4 are 2700k...that comes out to 345 watts of cfl. I just flipped the lights to 12/12 a week ago, and will be updating the plants progress a few times a week from here on out. Any questions, suggestions, or comments are welcome...
 
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Hey man, for a first time indoor, looks amazing! Though being an outdoor grower your only on obsticle here is light power, cause outdoor the light is freeee! Lol. But those ladies look happy as could be! Keep this thread as a grow log, I'm gonna watch this thread. Good luck on the grow! Excited to see where this goes.
 
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Thanks bro, I appreciate it! And was thinking the same thing myself...so while I was at lowes this am picking up some supplies for work, I went ahead and picked up another bulb. And as I was walking around checking them out, it dawned on me that I get like a 15% discount whe using my bosses contractor account lol so I went ahead and got it! (Don't worry... he's cool if ya know what I mean lol) I'll just pay him back when I see him. Anyway its a 65w/2700k/3900lumen
 
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That puts me at 410 watts, and around 25000 lumens... whatcha think? I'll post a couple new pics this eve when I get in from work and get the new bulb installed! I'm so excited, I can't wait to see the difference this one build will make...since its a 65w and all my others are 23w I figure it will have to make a noticeable difference
 

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Very exciting 86! I'm running a similar set up at the moment but on a smaller scale but I'm hoping to make some changes and need to make some improvements and additions but I basically want a very similar set up to yours bro, can't wait to see how yours turn out
 
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longarms90 said:
You'll for sure see a difference. With that many watts of cfl you should see a pretty decent yeild too.
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Hope so bro! Being my first indoor grow...any amount of quality smoke will make me happy :) I'd rather have an eighth of good quality stuff than an oz of most the swag going around ya know!?!
 
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Update...Day 12 of 12/12
Things are looking great, spitting out white hairs everywhere! Just went into stretch mode about 5 days ago, growing around an inch a day. I'm loving it...anyone know how long the initial stretch after turning to 12/12 lasts?
 
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they look pretty nice ! i have a 300w cfl grow also going atm will be looking at yours carefully while im doing mine think were about the same "phase" im at 3weeks 2 days of veg bout to turn in 12/12 at 1 month ! check it out if you want ! I suggest you poitn a fan sometimes during few hours of the day dirrectly at your plant not for too long though, its gonna help your branches build stronger to "resist to the wind" maybe your already doing it and im off but it looks like your stems could be a bit stronger :) especially if you want that one to be 1 cola O.O enjoy brotha :bigjoint:
 
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[Thanks"growpie, post: 11842184, member: 910426"]they look pretty nice ! i have a 300w cfl grow also going atm will be looking at yours carefully while im doing mine think were about the same "phase" im at 3weeks 2 days of veg bout to turn in 12/12 at 1 month ! check it out if you want ! I suggest you poitn a fan sometimes during few hours of the day dirrectly at your plant not for too long though, its gonna help your branches build stronger to "resist to the wind" maybe your already doing it and im off but it looks like your stems could be a bit stronger :) especially if you want that one to be 1 cola O.O enjoy brotha :bigjoint:[/QUOTE]

Thanks bro, but i have a 6 inch exhaust fan and when I'm home from work I usually crack the cab and let my iscolating fan blow in on the girls...so?
 
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alrighty brotha ! guess your settled but i did notice you have no reflective material on the siding which might not look like much but for my personnal experience it changes a lot on width ofthe plant because of siding reflection if you can catch mylar or just paint it white ! good way to save on some energy instead of adding bulb to achieve similar results ! :bigjoint::bigjoint:bongsmilie
 
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Actually inside my cab the upper 2/3 is flat white, if you cant tell by looking at my pics you might should have your vision checked bro. I ran out of paint thats why lol I'll be picking up another container of paint soon
 
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