My first attempt at growing

ok here are a few pics of the light. I removed the lil flap and there isn't a ballast in it. at least I don't think so... Honestly I know very little in this area.. also I took a pic of the ballast and the light together... Wasn't planning on posting any pics of my babies but they look so good I couldn't resist! btw would lowering my lights help at all with the stretching

Ok at the advice of GrnMan I have added some cfl lights... Although after looking at the post again I think I may have gotten to high a wattage. I got 60watt bulbs four of them. they had soft light and bright, I wasnt sure wich one was best so I got both.. I have bright white in there now... I also added a airation pump and 12" stone... if cant tell yet I love taking and posting pics sooooo here are some of what I have done today.... oh yea I almost forgot, almost imidiatley after ading the cfl lights the temp went up about 3 degrees to 78, Im thinking that is probably ok... is this to close???? where should I have this at week 3?

You can actually get those cfl's even closer, they aren't hot so they shouldn't burn the plants. You could probably get them an inch to two inches away and be fine.

Also, looks like you got the red spectrum bulbs. They like blue light during veg, but those will still work. Looks good!

I think I have the blue as well.. Ill put those in there... Thanks for the direction!

Oh and your temps are fine. You can sit at 85 all day and be cool. I just wouldn't let it get over 85.

Also, the 100 watt equivalents are good to! Pick those up next time you go to the store. You can also get some Y splitters for your lights. This will allow you to expand on your bulbs.

dude, just wait. they'll get huge. I like the setup

hey this grows looking good, look nice and healthy good luck with your grow, cant wait to see them get bigger you from the uk by any chance.

yeah i've got CFL's around mine right now (because my piece of shit ballast stopped working) and I must say, the babies are looking GREAT... I surrounded them with them and they seem to be thriving. I'm glad that they're looking good after that ballast went down. Luckily, I'm under warrantee with the ballast so i'll get things back to normal soon!

northernlights said:

hey this grows looking good, look nice and healthy good luck with your grow, cant wait to see them get bigger you from the uk by any chance.

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I cant wait either! I feel like a 5yo waiting for christmass... Im from lousisiana us...

hothousemary said:

I cant wait either! I feel like a 5yo waiting for christmass... Im from lousisiana us...

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cool cool that first joint of your own home grown harvest will be so nice you will love it, tis like heaven peace out

northernlights said:

cool cool that first joint of your own home grown harvest will be so nice you will love it, tis like heaven peace out

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cant wait to smoke that joint, and cant wait to make the hash....

I'm just sitting here stoned and had a thought that I might ought to start thinking of pest control.... Any suggestions on what I can do for a lil preventive maintenance?

hothousemary said:

I'm just sitting here stoned and had a thought that I might ought to start thinking of pest control.... Any suggestions on what I can do for a lil preventive maintenance?

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Yea, keep your grow area clean as hell. Don't over water and you will also avoid having too much build up near the top of the soil. Bugs love that shit...

Ok I went got myself some spliters and 8 cfl 23 watt bulbs.. I also ordered a new tray 2ft by 4ft... The one I have is way to small now and difficult to deal with..

Woot, way to go with the bulbs and Y splitters....I also see you're going green...

SAVE THE EARTH!!

ok raised my nutes today, got my water at 5.5 ph and ppm of 1412, Im hoping that is not to much but honestly am not sure where I should have it here. just gonna keep a eye on it for now. They all seem to realy love the cfl bulbs! when I get my new tray delivered I think I may try to add about 4 more. Im also planning on transplanting when it comes in, should be next week. Roots are just starting to show a bit at the bottom of the rockwool cubes. Im going to add a few pics in them ya can see lil yellow dots on the leaves of one of my plants.. anyone have any suggestions on what is causing this and I can do about it....

Danger Danger...Danger Will Robinson!



That's most likely from nute burn. Looks like you got yer PPM way too high. Slow down on the nutes...

Check out my journal y0! Got bugs....

I haven't posted in several days... Unexpectedly I am changing jobs. Kinda big deal for me seeing as I have been quite settled for a few years and honestly thought i would be retiring with this company.. anyway better offer and great work situation and after many years with one "the man" I'm jumping to another and have been quite preoccupied... but I am high and babbling right now and you don't care about all this nonsense.. Ok enough babble... The tray I had mentioned in a earlier post has arrived to day and I will be changing my setup a nice lil bit tonight... So later I will be posting with pics of project and the explosion of growth in there that has shown up in the past 3 days. Also I need to address the nute burn that has shown up... I'm not sure how quickly they should go back to normal.. nor how to lower my ppm.. do I need to flush completely? Ok going to read the post GrnMan directed me to.. more later tonight.

Ok I set up my new pan and it is a hell of a lot better!!! I had hell trying to figure out how to set up my cfl lights.. I had to rig up a lil pvc bracket thingie. it has the lights a bit higher from the plants than maybe they should be but it will have to do for now. I'm open to suggestions there as always.. I took plenty of pics as usual... I'm noticing the discoloration on the leaves are only on the bottom, Ill have pics added here specifically of these leaves and the plants... are these leaves I should remove? My ppm is like 1645. I'm thinking that is way to much... Is there a way to lower the ppm or is it time to flush and do nutes over?



the stalk in this pic looks strange to me.....

Stems look nice and healthy, but your PPM is still too high. I don't think it should be that high until close to flowering.

I'm digging the new setup..