Would this setup work?

MysticMJ

Member
A little background - I don't smoke weed often, its more of a social thing for me and I felt like picking up a new hobby so I said what the hell, might as well try.
I have been reading on growing for about 3 weeks now and decided to give it a shot to grow a plant in my closet.
I have a pot, soil, nutrients, some lights, a little device for temperature + humidity, and I'm waiting for my seed to come in (ordered online last week only to realize that theres a seedbank a 40 min drive away).
Currently I have 2x 23w 2700k (1600lum) bulbs and 1x 23w 6500k (1600lum) bulb hooked up, tested and ready to go.

I have 2 6500k's - Should I swap 1 2700k to have 2x 6500's and 1 2700 for the veg stages?

At the moment, it currently looks like this:

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I am in the process of figuring out a way to suspend the lighting to be able to adjust the height easily rather than stacking boxes to adjust height as it probably won't work so well if the plant starts growing sideways if the setup remains the way it is now.

The question is if this setup will work for ONE plant (feminized autoflower strain) as I am a noob at the moment. I have enough room in the closet to make space for 50cm (length) x 100cm (width) x 150cm (height) for a plant thats supposed to grow 50-90cm so I think I have plenty of room to expand if I needed to. -------------> For the record, 50cm is like 19.7 inches.

I bought some random nutes from home depot which I don't think is any good cause of the strength of it as I didn't really read up on nutes at the time. Its 10-15-10 (If anything, would I be able to dilute the dosage to use this?).

Last night I decided to hook everything up to test out how much the room would heat up with these 3 lights plugged in using that little device you see on the left of the power bar. It went up to 26.5 degrees celcius and hovered around there as the humidity hovered around 40%-45%. I plan on buying a fan to circulate the air in the room and possibly open up the attic a bit (located on the roof of the closet) to vent if needed. For the test night, I just cracked the door open like 1 cm.

I also plan on adding reflective material but haven't decided what material to use. I heard that tin foil can burn leaves later on and also be quite annoying with rustling. Would I be able to use a white board and create surround the plant area with it?


Also, I plan on going on vacation for 4 days in 2 weeks. Should I only start after I come back as the plant would probably be left unattended. If so, how and where should I store the seed?

Anyways, what do you experts think?
 

MysticMJ

Member
The reason I avoided getting a box is cause I don't really have a ventilation system going on and would think that heat would build up way above where I would want it to be. As for reflective material, mylar sounds like a good idea and possibly some kind of reflective pan type thing over the lights redirecting lights downwards...
 

GrowinDad

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You will need more light. Yes, you want some sort of reflector over them. Plant really only 19" tall? I haven't ever researched autos but that seems short.

Turn the lights sideways so there is more surface area facing the lights.

I'd wait. Maybe germ the seed while away.
 

stone1977

Active Member
More light for sure. Iam using cfls. Remember keep 2in away for plant and good luck oh you need higher first number which is n for nutrition to start.
 

MYOB

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Stop buying stuff before you even have seeds. React to the plant, dont force it to react to you.

I dont get why people buy "random nutes" Learn about what a plant needs in its growth stages and provide that. Understand what NPK values mean and when and why a plant needs each element.

Good soil is critical. It can really make or break a grow. Good soil will do a lot of the work for you. Fox Farm Ocean Forrest is a good soil and wont require fertilizer for several weeks. During these first few weeks you can get to know your plant and see how it grows.

Don't try too hard. Provide good soil, light, and environment (air, temps) and the plant will do the rest.
 

MysticMJ

Member
Stop buying stuff before you even have seeds. React to the plant, dont force it to react to you.

I dont get why people buy "random nutes" Learn about what a plant needs in its growth stages and provide that. Understand what NPK values mean and when and why a plant needs each element.

Good soil is critical. It can really make or break a grow. Good soil will do a lot of the work for you. Fox Farm Ocean Forrest is a good soil and wont require fertilizer for several weeks. During these first few weeks you can get to know your plant and see how it grows.

Don't try too hard. Provide good soil, light, and environment (air, temps) and the plant will do the rest.
Yeah, I was stupid for buying random nutes before knowing what I needed but it was the spur of the moment since I was already at home depot :P I know what NPK means just not exactly which is important at different flowering stages (still reading on nutes).

As for buying stuff before having seeds, I think the only thing that really wasn't necessary is the nutes. I would think having a setup and testing it for conditions before getting the seeds would be the smart thing to do vs the other way around having the seeds and not having the hardware or proper climate.

As for fox farm soil, I have looked in to it but have had trouble getting some cause I'm from Canada. Thanks for the heads up about the make or break depending on the soil.
 

MysticMJ

Member
You will need more light. Yes, you want some sort of reflector over them. Plant really only 19" tall? I haven't ever researched autos but that seems short.

Turn the lights sideways so there is more surface area facing the lights.

I'd wait. Maybe germ the seed while away.
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More light for sure. Iam using cfls. Remember keep 2in away for plant and good luck oh you need higher first number which is n for nutrition to start.


Trying to figure out how to mount the light sideways especially if adjustments would have to be made later.
How much more light are you talking about though? Someone on here grew a nice, decent sized plant with 1x 23w 2700k and 1x 23w 6500k
 

GrowinDad

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There are lots of ways to do it but you may need to construct something. there are many bathroom fixtures that go on the sides. just get creative while staying safe. I run 14 23w CFLs, 75%-25% color breakdown (more blue in veg, more red in flower). I don't really have enough light. Maybe you can have some on top of the plant and some at the sides to surround it?

here's my set up but I have a lot more space.

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/641756-video-my-set-up.html
 

MysticMJ

Member
Nice setup you got going there.

One of my worries of having more light is heat since I dont have a good ventilation system going. The only air that is really coming in is through a crack in the closet door.
 

blowincherrypie

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Get a real light.. If you start fixin together all those splitters and 1,000 9w CFLs you're bout to have Fire Marshall Bill in this badboy fire-marshall-bill-jim-carrey.jpg
 
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