archimedes
Active Member
DAY 11
I have two healthy looking plants approximately 4" tall. I have a total of 92 W cfl 2-3" away from the plants. I prefer cfl to HID for now because of confined space/heat concerns. When I build a box for flowering I will upgrade the lighting. Unfortunately, the initial growth was a little stretched out. I made the mistake of sprouting too many seeds for my purposes. Out of a total of 28 sprouts (same strain, unknown {low-mid dank seeds}), only two are in my grow box. The rest are sitting on my balcony mingled with sunflowers. At this early stage, I am hoping to string them along as backups in case something happens to my babies. At some point, though, there will be a lot of wasted plants. Oh well, you live and you learn. My grow box consists of a 2'x4'x1' white storage bin with the doors left open in my closet. Lighting is the aforementioned cfls. A homemade CO2 dispenser sits inside with tubing suspended to deliver CO2 directly on top of each plant. The whole thing so far has cost under $100 to make. Nutrients include Foxfarm Big Grow 6-4-4, Big Bloom 0.01-0.3-0.7, and Tiger Bloom 2-8-4. Soil is a mixture of forest compost, sphagnum peat moss, perlite, and a wetting agent (plus 0.21-0.07-0.14).
I have been watering about a quart a day of tap water per plant, and the first nute dose was yesterday, Big Grow at 1/2 strength, a quart each. Any input on anything would be awesome, especially at this time for water/nutrient addition periods. At any rate, I am excited about this grow
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I have two healthy looking plants approximately 4" tall. I have a total of 92 W cfl 2-3" away from the plants. I prefer cfl to HID for now because of confined space/heat concerns. When I build a box for flowering I will upgrade the lighting. Unfortunately, the initial growth was a little stretched out. I made the mistake of sprouting too many seeds for my purposes. Out of a total of 28 sprouts (same strain, unknown {low-mid dank seeds}), only two are in my grow box. The rest are sitting on my balcony mingled with sunflowers. At this early stage, I am hoping to string them along as backups in case something happens to my babies. At some point, though, there will be a lot of wasted plants. Oh well, you live and you learn. My grow box consists of a 2'x4'x1' white storage bin with the doors left open in my closet. Lighting is the aforementioned cfls. A homemade CO2 dispenser sits inside with tubing suspended to deliver CO2 directly on top of each plant. The whole thing so far has cost under $100 to make. Nutrients include Foxfarm Big Grow 6-4-4, Big Bloom 0.01-0.3-0.7, and Tiger Bloom 2-8-4. Soil is a mixture of forest compost, sphagnum peat moss, perlite, and a wetting agent (plus 0.21-0.07-0.14).
I have been watering about a quart a day of tap water per plant, and the first nute dose was yesterday, Big Grow at 1/2 strength, a quart each. Any input on anything would be awesome, especially at this time for water/nutrient addition periods. At any rate, I am excited about this grow
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