stuart6060
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i bought one of those upside down tomato baskets and i started from bagseed, waited one day and then placed the whole 4" pot, covered with a coffee filter with a hole in the middle for the plant down into the upside down planter with help from someone holding the basket i lowered it thru the hole at the bottom. removed the pot and added more soil around the roots. i then stuck it under a 27 watt 6500k cfl, then place a paper towel around the bottom of the topsy turvy also with a hole in the middle for the plant, this is to help with some of the heat and reflect some light back to the bottom of the plant. my biggest concern was watering without having water drip down onto my lights, so to try and fix this and several other more technical problems i am trying to overcome, i lined the top of the soil with sponges to help keep the water at the top of my planter, and act like a wick system for watering, hopefully solving these problems. this is just day 2 of its life, and i will try to keep updating this. i am doing this as a small project just for curiousity in between my other grows. i just registered for this site today, but this is my main source of knowledge of growing. i have frequented many related sites, but i always come back to this one. as for future plans for this girl, as long as things go well, are to switch the light out, it was just an extra one i had lying around, to one 27watt cfl negative ion bulb, one 27watt uv cfl bulb, and one 42watt cfl to be my top light source and add other cfls for side lighting as she gets bigger. i will have these new bulbs within the week and will update when i do.