Looks perfect so far... keep those lights close like you are, your doing a great job. i see perlite in the soil so no need for nutes anytime soon, wait until its well established about 3 to 4 weeks old.
Oct.24-got some new lights today. a philips 40watt 48 inch 1600lumen 2700k plant & aquarium which advertises "a unique spectral range of color that is designed to enhance the growth of indoor plants and aquatic vegetation. This light from this one is tinted pink. a OTT-LITE: natural light suppement 48inch bulb. doesnt say how many lumens or color temp or anything on the box however it goes on and on about how this Dr. John Ott made this lamp and how hes knows his shit so i decided to take their word and get it. I also got that fixture from a local hardware store. Suppose to hang on the ceiling but when I put the S-hooks up on the ceiling, it started to get weak. like the ceiling wall won't hold on to the stuff pushed in them; maybe cuz its hollow or something. I decided to just place it on the grow box thing i made. i cut out a square on each side so the actual bulbs arn't touching anything and its the metal reflector thats supporting the light on the box. I don't know how far away to place these lights so im just hoping it'll do okay at the distance it is at now. plant#1 progress plant #2 progress the different colored lights
i love how creative we are....good work u might want to read up on lighting...u need the blue-cool-daylight-6500k at this stage. so they say,so i believe....is wot my babies r basking in.
Oct.29-my plants arn't doing too good. I think its the soil. I shoulda gone with some good soil. I dunno whats wrong with them? whys plant 1's leaves all bunching together in the middle. you can't even see the stalk anymore! and plant 2 has burned leaves and its growing pretty slow... 1st plant is like 2 weeks old 2nd plant is almost 1 week old are they small for their age? plant #1: is that nute burn? whats with all the bunching in the middle? new leaves top view: it looks sick I'm not even feeding it nutrients, its just the soil i think looks like a cabbage plant #2 more nute burn? top view: pretty cool how its symetrical still a baby any comments/tips/criticisms encouraged and greatly appreciated
Never spray water on them when light is open. I think its your problem. Another thing...with my CFL the plant would not be alive for long time as near as your let them so probably its your another problem.
well my light is on 24/7 and i thought flouros had to be 2-4 inches away from the plant to get the energy? i dunno thanks for the input. any other thoughts?
Oct.31-Halloween got some some y sockets and several 28w cfl. added them to the grow. When I added all the Y sockets and bulbs the weight of the bulbs forced the lamp head to fall on to plant 1 burned like 3 leaves. (see pic). Plant 2 seems to be doing well. Is there enough light for it to grow big enough for a decent harvest in the flowering phase? I plan on using a 150w HPS light in flowering. I got 2 hps bulbs for free and I need to read up more on ballasts and stuff as i am electrical noobasaurus. Could there be a ballast with like 2 sockets so I can fit two 150w HPS bulbs? and do i really need a reflector? i mean i got mylar in the box already. if I had the hps set up w/out reflector hanging in the middle of the 2 plants and i rotated the plants every 12 hours to spread the light then it should be fine right? and does anyone reccommend anyplace to buy them besides eBay? thanks. the 3 bulb setup on both plants look like that almost like a ball of leaves the area where the cfl rested on for like an hour or more... comments? tips? advice?
Yeah you do need a reflector. This so you can reflect the light downwards in a nice rectangular shape. Unless ofcourse you are planning on hanging a bare HPS bulb in the middle of your grow. Also, I think you should make sure you cardboard box doesn't overheat. It doesn't take much to ignite drier-then-the-deset cardboard. I recommend a fan. I'm suprised you need to keep the CFLs so far from your leaves in order not to fry them. I noticed this problem gets worse then the air is dry. During times of high humidity I can grow my plants up to 0.4 inch of my CFLs. From this I can conclude the heat circulation in your box is terrible. As a little bonus, a fan gets you fatter stems and possibily improved atmospheric interaction.
thanks for the advice. btw i really like how you did the flouro grow. I was thinking about that myself. I actually was planning to hang a bare hps bulb in the middle touching nothing. I was hoping the mylar would just reflect the light everywhere. do you think this will be become an issue besides overheating? I figured my circulation wasn't very good. I just had the fan indirectly blowing into the box and i was hoping the hot air would come out of the holes in the roof panal. but now i'm thinking i am going to cut several holes on the sides of the box and have the fan blow through one side and out the other. I leave the door in room where the box sits open all the time too. do you think my air is dry in there? I could mist up the room every once a while i guess to get some humidity. my cfls arn't that far from plant. maybe 3-4 inches. The tubes are kinda far so i had the pots raised.
Nov.2-growing pretty quick peek into the room plant #1. tapes there to bound and keep the lamp head from slowly falling (if it does just in case) on to the plant. some burns. it'll probably be okay but should i do anything to help this? about 4 inches tall now and very bushy. plant #2 growing fast! sticks are there so if the lamp should fall due to the bulbs weight, it'll rest on the sticks and not the plants. I need to a better way or new fixtures or something. doing good fan blowing into the box. I'm hoping some air goes in and pushes hot air out and airs out the box some. thats where the air goes in the box. i can see that the air is circulating because i can see the mylar move around some. and some sweet ganja to smoke as i watch the grass grow
I'm not sure if your air is too dry. But I've noticed with my own grows that when its 'dry air' the leaves burn from heat quicker. I also know that 100%RH air absorbs heat up to 20 times better then 0%RH. Looks like you got some weird form of nuteburn on your plants. You may want to try and flush the pot with 2x the pots volume in pH 7.0 water. Great pics your posting, keep 'em coming!
how would i "flush" the plant? I don't want to drownd it with water. i recall ANd my friend gave me some ph strips but i didnt read the instructions. 7.0 should be around what color? any idea to why plant #1 isnt growing tall but just bushy and stubby? #2 seems to be growing fast.
plant #2 died yesterday...RIP. fucking lamp head fell on it and destroyed it as it sat on the then healthy leaves for like a hour. Im so angry at myself but whatever. I've only got one plant now and its doing okay. Still the same nute burn and such. I'm just wondering why it isnt really growing tall. like its growing outwards but theres not like a single stem going upwards. i duno but ill take pics tomorrow...right now im just sad my healthy plant died.
Nov.9-Plant #1's tragic death along with the sick health of #2 discourages me greatly. curling leaves and burnt everything. I flushed the plant after these pictures. and i think its doing better because of it. Nov.13-Tomorrrow is this plant's 1 month birthday. Its so wide and bushy and isn't growing that much taller. is that a problem? setup now with the fan blowing towards the only plant. plant in its entirety bulb setup some burned leaves RIP plant #2 the plants stump...its like growing outwards but not up anymore i think. did I accidently "top it" some how?