clever_intuition
Active Member
Hello everybody out there in weed land. This is my first grow. I will tell you all about my set up, how I started, what I am doing now and show you pictures. All I ask for is creative/constructive criticism. My hopes are not high on this as is is my first time but I am going to try to create something beautiful. 
I started by planting a seed (just regs from a decent bag) in to a pot of soil. I left it outside in a spot where the sun hits it for about 8 hours a day. It took about 1 week to sprout and within days it was about an 1/2 inch tall. I kept the soil very moist at all times. Within 2 weeks it was 2 inches tall so I decided to transplant in to a 5 gallon bucket.This bucket I am using has holes drilled into the bottom of it (about 25 1/4" holes)and I placed it into another 5 gallon bucket in order to catch the draining water.
The soil I am using is very fine, from my backyard. It has organic mulch (compost) mixed throughout it. I don't know the PH of the soil but from what I hear 'Marijuana is a weed and will adapt to anything as long as it has been that way since the start?'
I then moved it to a closet in my house that has an attic vent/fan (hoping to relieve the oder eventually. The closet is painted white and is about 9 feet high, 4 feet deep and 3 feet wide. I started off using a 24" soft white fluorescent light and two 14 watt energy saving light bulbs, I kept the lights about 1" away from the plant. Within 4 weeks the plant was about 3 inches tall and has 2 sets of leaves with the third starting.
I just now have gotten a 48" fluorescent with 2 fixtures. The light I have bought for it are "plant and aquarium f40" EcoLux bulbs by 'GE lighting', They are 40 watts a piece and produce 1900 lumens a piece. Since I have gotten this light the plant has started to really take off (I have the light on 24 hours a day for right now). It is now going on 6 weeks and the plant is about 6" tall and has the fifth pair of leaves full grown and a sixth set that will be full grown by tomorrow.
For fertilizer I am using the compost mixed within the soil and Fish Emulsion (2% Nitrogen, 4% available phosphate, 0.5%soluble potash). I just got the fish emulsion today and today is a watering day (I usually do a cup every other day) so I mixed 1 teaspoon with 1 Qt of water and feed and watered the plant. That is four times the water I usually give it so I will hold off a few days before watering again.
Right now I have my light sitting about 2" from the top of the plant with tin foil draped across and over the light creating a small almost greenhouse and have a fan running on it 24 hours.
Every other day I light a candle for a few hours so that I can produce some carbon dioxide for the plant to use.
I think I hit everything?......If I did miss something feel free to ask about it.
I would like comments, questions.....all of your knowledge.
The three pictures below are 1st two weeks; 2nd four weeks and third five weeks (the pictures were taken with my camera phone so they are not so good but they do work)
p.s. I think I am around 6 weeks. I brought the plant inside on June 30th....It was two weeks old by then I believe.
