Hello all, I started ny first grow on September 28 and I'm now a week and two days into my first project and, honestly, i'm quite proud of myself and the progress my babies have been making over this first week. My "babies" are Barney's Farm "Tangelo Rapido" & "Critical Rapido". Here's the Critical (no idea why the pictures are sideways) And then here's the Tangelo, I'm growing in my closet (have yet to measure it though, oh well) so I obviously have limited space issues. But the babies are planted in 5 gallon buckets in an organic mixture I mixed myself. My lights consist of: (All CFL'S) x1 68W 4200 Lumen 2700K x4 26W 1600 Lumen 5500K x1 42W 2700 Lumen 6500K x1 32W 2150 Lumen 2700K Plants running on a 20/4 Light cycle since germination. I've got a Large windmaker fan right at the bottom of the door to suck in all the cool air from outside and a smaller fan hanging from a wall to blow it all around the closet. I'm looking into exhaust so info on that would be appreciated. My walls are covered in Mylar emergency blankets (hence why I'm looking into exhaust because it gets kinda toasty in there for the little ones). But the fans do run 24/7! Here's pictures of the closet: So I guess my questions are: Is this satisfactory progress for them being only a week and two days from seed? How would I go about adding an exhaust and where would I even put it? Is it okay to add more lights because my totals are 15,450 lumens and 246W for seven bulbs PLUS the Mylar Emergency Blanket's percentage of reflectivity so am I good on lights until preflowering? How much growth should I expect going into the second week? Third week? And anything else you want to add or say just do it. I just want info, advice, help, whatever you can give me so I can just keep improving.
More then enough lights and lumens for both of them for a while exhaust out the top. Keep lights 2 to 8 inches from the plant.. Looks good I'll sub to see how thus works out check out my journal
Your growth will be hard to determine. If this is your first grow, strap in and prepare to do a lot less than you first expected. And please please please only water every 3-5 days. Over watering and excessive nutrients are a first growers main problems! Tuckerjonesisreal
Yooooo I started my grow October 1st and I'm also growing barney's critical rapido!! I'm also a first timer and growing in my closet! Everything is going well so far except I don't know how much I should be watering
whenever the soil is completely dry. Stick your finger a few inchs down to make sure top layer isnt just dry. I water mine once a week or so. Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fierce using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Jumper420, how would I go about getting the exhaust to come out of the top? Another fan blowing out pretty much? Any specific type of fan I can use for more efficiency? NorthEastStoner,Awesome dude! Maybe we can compare results eventually or something. I'm excited for it to grow even though it seems to be the weaker of the two, but it's still going strong. And yeah I only water once about every four days. It takes forever for these buckets to get empty. Starting light bytes very soon! Thanks guys! Jumper420, how would I go about getting the exhaust to come out of the top? Another fan blowing out pretty much? Any specific type of fan I can use for more efficiency? NorthEastStoner,Awesome dude! Maybe we can compare results eventually or something. I'm excited for it to grow even though it seems to be the weaker of the two, but it's still going strong. And yeah I only water once about every four days. It takes forever for these buckets to get empty. Starting light nutes very soon! Thanks guys!
any fan will do but an inline fan or high speed fan are your best options and you answered the other part