8ishop's closet-CFL-Dirt-1st Grow

Time I started my own journal I suppose. So far I've been happy with what I have and only hope and expect things to get better. So far my plants are on day 8 above dirt and I've already gone along way into making a commitment of them.

What I have is 6 CFL 26 watt 6500k lights surrounding my circle of babies that I hope to see be ladies. 5 of them are on the day 8 and the two sprouts are new ones that just came up yesterday. All but one of them are in 2" jiffy Pots and one is in a short can. What gets to me is that all the 8 day old plants are growing at the same rate it seems, except the one in the can wich is much much much more developed and larger. Where the others are starting small leaves of the 3rd set, the canned one is well into it's 3rd set getting started with the 4th set just starting to show. It also has growth from it's first nodes starting to pop up. This thing is looking amazing and I don't know why it is in a different level than the jiffy potted ones. Could it be that the jiffy pots are absorbing water and not letting the plant have it?

This grow is in cheap potting soil with a high peatmoss and sand content.. I might have even overdone it with sand and moss. I use the standard MG mix for nutes wich i am happy with for now but will most likely change later due to the community views on MG.

I am posting 1 photo of the canned one from april 23 and one from today april 27. Also posting a photo of the group.

 

the stretching came from the first two days out of dirt. I started out with only two lights within 4 inches instead of two and a 3rd light that was about 8 inches away. since changing my lighting and upgraded they have not actually grown any taller just larger and fuller. I got a fan for breeze wich has trained them to be much stronger already.

as for perite. I had been hoping it was something I could just do without since I have sand and moss to keep a soft and draining soil. I'll have to get some input on this and make a choice. Just for note, they plants will be tranfered into larger self watering planters. Not so sure how that will go. more learning awaits.

 

Just got some new lights and changed my garden. This was needed cause I transplanted two of my plants. Now comes the hopes for girls. I transplanted my largest one from the can and named her(?) Persephone. I took a random from a jiffy pot and named Jade.

Jade and Persephone with a couple images of my set-up

 

Things seem to be going good with the plants. Comparing a Picture of Persephone from yesterday with one from today really shows some amazing growth. All these Images can be found in my gallery

Yesterday and today

 

My friend, I dont even smoke weed and wouldn't even know where to begin. I asked my bartender to get me some seeds out of a stash one day. Only thing she knows about marijuana is that it gets you high. Well she gets me these seeds and says "it come from some hydro called kush i think". I explained, with my disgust at the term, that hydro is no more a type of pot than dirt is. As it goes though, i grow the bagseed and it is without a doubt indica domi.

As for my grow room. I grow one young plants in the corner of a closet with 4 CFLs. My mature plants grow in their very own closet with 4x 48" tubes overhead nearly 2 feet from the plants with my 8 CFLs directly over the plants. 4 cfl per plant. I have a fan in this closet to move air and make the girls strong.

As for venting, I have none at all, I leave my doors open. For odor control I use an Oust small space odor eliminator that i just happen to see at the store one day for $4. in the next couple weeks I'll have an ONA bucket made for serious odor control.

in time I will pick me up a cheap dresser from a thrift store or yard sale and gut it and make me a nice grow cab. For now I'm broke, layed off, and doing good to just be able to buy lights.

 

I actually keep my CFL's inside the plant nearly. They are so close that I have to possition the plant so that it's leaves apre between the bulbs. My plant is actually extremely short. Up the stalk, my nodes are only 3/8 to 3/4 inch apart. None of my plants are more than 4 inches tall.

 

just a few pics. One of Persephone after re adjusting the ropes. mostly pics of my lights and crap as they are now. The lights on the power strip over the clay pot are actually a good distance above the plant (about 4 inches). But right now it is topped and i kinda want the limbs to stretch out some so that i can have more space between the 4 main bud sights and also make them easier to tie down and let spread out the new growth.

 

I never really notice much growth in my plants from day to day. They always seem like they are halted. then i look at pictures of them at a day or two apart and my eyes become open.

In the last couple days, Persephone's size had not seem to change all that much but looking at the photo from the 13th, she has really filled out alot and much more bushy. She has really gone along way since recent LSTing. She has become a very bushy plant opposed to a twiggy plant with a few leaves.

Now if only I had some explanation why Jade laggs so far behind. Persephony started passing all her sisters in growth since the first few days. I still think the difference was the can. Perhaps damage to the base of her stalk when she was pooped diapers. I'll prolly never know but i do find it odd that even now Jade cant even start to catch up with her. Inside, I hope that it is incredible genetics that cause Persephone to grow so strong in wich case I still only hope she is really a she.

Persephone-Persephone again- and Jade

 

I was having a really hard time dealing with gnats so i resorted to a layer of sand to cover up the dirt. It did seem to do a really good job at evicting the bugs.

 

My plants grow in open area. Closet with the door open. I've been having gnat problems since february. Started whith my Salvia plants wich really made for problems as i was spraying them twice a day or more for moisture. most of my problem comes from me being a noob to growing so i water to much and dont let my dirt dry out enough so the gnats love me.