I'm doing my first grow, i have a purple trainwreck clone, white rhino clone, hollywood og kush clone, and a few bag seed seedlings going. They are in a box built in my closet that is 3x3x5. I have 24 100 watt rated, 1500 lumens each, CFL bulbs, 2 flora-glo 800 lumen tubes, and a dual t5 1200 lumen per bulb hood. I have an AC on the top of the box that pushes cool air down keeping temps around 75 at the canopy. I use Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil and the fox farm soil nute trio fallowing a chart. light is on a timer for 18/6 right now and i'm into my 2nd week for the bag seeds and the hollywood og kush, and week 4 for the rhino and purps. I'm gonna veg for 2 to 3 more weeks then flower. Currently all my lights are 5500-6500k, when i go to flower i have 2500-3500k bulbs ready to replace the blue spectrum bulbs for 12/12. I plan on going 18/6 for about the last week of flowering to try and get the last bit of resin out of the plants, also no water 4 or 5 days before harvest. I'm pretty sure i have the basics of what i need to do to grow good buds, I have sucessfully super croped the purple train wreck, toped 2 of the bag seeds, LSTing, 1 of the bags, and FIMed 1 of the bags, the rhino has been topped twice and the hollywood is just gonna be lollipopped, I want to see what works best for me and my setup. Basically any advise i might have missed would be great and if after this crop if i should move to the MH/HPS route. The Pics are, from left to right, Super Croped Purple Trainwreck, Hollywood Kush at 2 weeks, and the White Rhino a day or 2 after the 2nd topping.
Things i want to know, is the 40,000 lumens good for the space, is 7 plants too many for that size, take into consideration 5 of them have the possibility of being male? Is the high gloss white paint good or should i go out and get mylar.? Day time temps run from 73 to 80, night time is around 65, is this a good range? I have the Seedlings in 1 gallon pots, when should i transplant to bigger and to what, 5 gallon buckets are to big, are 2 gallon pots big enough? Sorry if i'm asking to many simple questions, I'm just a bit OCD and i've done hours of research online, I just want to make sure all is well, I'll post pics of lighting and plants as they grow as long as everyone is intrested in seeing my babies.
Here are a couple pics of my lights and home made hoods. The I have 2 hoods both with the same light setup you see in the pic.
everything looks good might get crowded with all those plants and lts/supercrop use flat white not high gloss keep the night diff a little less extreme transplant 1-3-5 u will wanna upgrade to hps for flower but cfls will be good for veg u also might wanna start a journal this forum gets crowded
I have been tempted to get one of those 400 watt HPS/MH hoods but I've had a couple people say that soft white CFL bubls flower really well, I've been in a toss up, I can get a 300 watt 6" air cooled HPS for 80 bones or replace all the bulbs i have with soft white for 40 and give it a go. I know I will get MH veg, HPS flower after this run when i have more time and money but for now, is CFL 2500k bulbs capable of producing great buds if the genes are there?