LHighChief
Active Member
So I figured I'd start up my own grow journal after reading a handful on this site. They've been real interested to follow and helpful as I've started my first grow.
I've been sitting on some bagseed for a while, and spontaneously germinated them a couple weeks ago. During the germination process, I studied up and basic ways to grow a couple healthy, stealthy plants without spending too much money.
I'm on day 14 since I planted the germinated seeds, but I'll get you caught up first.
Right now I am growing in my closet, but most likely will get a grow tent eventually. The closet is a tricky space to work with. It's two feet wide, about six feet long with only a door at one end. So you have to squeeze through the close to get to the back. The other trick thing is that the ceiling in the close it on an angle. At its lowest the ceiling is only 18 inches or so, but at its highest is over five feet.
Lights: I originally was using four bulbs -a GE Reflector plant light, 120 watts, 1600 lumens; two GE garden plant light bulbs, 60 watts, 600 lumens and a 20w CFL.
Soil: plants are in peat moss.
I received bad advice and lined the closet with tin foil. This was on the walls for a week or so until I took it off.
Four days after I planted the seedlings, I added another light - 24 Sunblaze System - Four 2-foot T5 florescent tubes, 24 watts each, 8,000 lumens, blue spectrum.
I'm going to pause with updates on this first post so I don't get ahead of myself. I will update in a few to get this nice and current.
The images in this post are the seedlings after day 9. They don't look great here. I'm pretty sure I had two big issues. I was overly excited about starting my grow and probably over-watered them. Secondly, those grow bulbs gave out too much heat and probably cooked them a bit. I turned off all the lights except the T5 starting day 8. I have also reduced the frequency of when I water them. I will add pictures of the next few days so you can see how they have improved.
Since this is my first grow, and as you can see/read, I'm pretty much learning as I go along. So any advice is greatly appreciated!
I've been sitting on some bagseed for a while, and spontaneously germinated them a couple weeks ago. During the germination process, I studied up and basic ways to grow a couple healthy, stealthy plants without spending too much money.
I'm on day 14 since I planted the germinated seeds, but I'll get you caught up first.
Right now I am growing in my closet, but most likely will get a grow tent eventually. The closet is a tricky space to work with. It's two feet wide, about six feet long with only a door at one end. So you have to squeeze through the close to get to the back. The other trick thing is that the ceiling in the close it on an angle. At its lowest the ceiling is only 18 inches or so, but at its highest is over five feet.
Lights: I originally was using four bulbs -a GE Reflector plant light, 120 watts, 1600 lumens; two GE garden plant light bulbs, 60 watts, 600 lumens and a 20w CFL.
Soil: plants are in peat moss.
I received bad advice and lined the closet with tin foil. This was on the walls for a week or so until I took it off.
Four days after I planted the seedlings, I added another light - 24 Sunblaze System - Four 2-foot T5 florescent tubes, 24 watts each, 8,000 lumens, blue spectrum.
I'm going to pause with updates on this first post so I don't get ahead of myself. I will update in a few to get this nice and current.
The images in this post are the seedlings after day 9. They don't look great here. I'm pretty sure I had two big issues. I was overly excited about starting my grow and probably over-watered them. Secondly, those grow bulbs gave out too much heat and probably cooked them a bit. I turned off all the lights except the T5 starting day 8. I have also reduced the frequency of when I water them. I will add pictures of the next few days so you can see how they have improved.
Since this is my first grow, and as you can see/read, I'm pretty much learning as I go along. So any advice is greatly appreciated!
- Of course you can stick around. I'm learning as I go, and hope to have more success than failure when this is done!
