312w, CFL's, 4 plants, TV Cab growbox: GrowJournal.

So I have been browsing the forums for about a month now, I was paranoid about even joining let alone posting pictures, but to hell with it, here it goes. My plants sprouted on Sept. 26th, so currently 9 days of veg.

-Seeds were germinated using paper towel method, tap roots showed at 2 days. Seeds are bagseeds of a local outdoor grown nug, not sure on strands.
-Seeds were placed into 1 gallon pots with a mixture of hyponex soil, organic blends, and a special item from the water treatment plant. I am still researching nutes.
-Lighting is 12 26w 6500K CFL's, was going to switch to 2700K bulbs for flowering, but the $20 150w HPS sounds like a great deal.
-The grow space is inside a 32" TV cabinet, it is roughly 2.5/1.5/3.0ft, ventilation is provided by 2 intake and 2 exhaust fans. When moved to flowering they will be inside a closet with roughly the same dimensions, just around 8ft tall. The closet also has direct exhaust to the attic.
-Currently I am at 9 days of veg, plant growth is high rapid I believe I have almost 4/5 nodes right now.

Like I said I have never done this before so any constructive criticism is great. Ok so onto the good stuff, pictures:

Pic #1 is of my sprout at 2 days old.
Pic #2 is of my first girl at 9 days old.
Pic #3 is of my second girl at 9 days old.
Pic #4 is a side shot of new growth at 9 days old.
Pic #5 is a picture of my grow space
Pic #6 is all 4 of my girls (bottom right girl is only a week old)


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Here is a quick update at 10 days veg. There is a little bit of new growth, I also added a damp towel behind the oscillating fan and I increased humidity to 46%. Should I be topping or adding nuts anytime soon?

No thoughts?

Wow no one, well I will continue to try to post daily pics, I am just hoping for at least 1 female!

Looking good, and should have plenty of nutes available from your starting medium.

Well another days has passed and I swear these things are getting massive. They are not getting very tall tho, more bushy, will this be alright or should I raise the lights a bit? I also changed the setup and moved the plants into my closet. Here's the pics:

Pic #1- New Closet Setup
Pic #2- Picture of the ladies
Pic #3- Lots of undergrowth, this things gonna be bushy.

Nice looking plants, when do you plan on starting flowering? If your temps are ok you might try turning one of the intake fans off, it should raise the humidity, or atleast it does in mine

In the closet I am holding steady at 78*F and RH is 50%. They are only 11 days old so I am thinking maybe another 2 weeks of vegging, I am thinking about topping/fimming them but I do have a lot of height to work with.

bxke1414 said:

Wow no one, well I will continue to try to post daily pics, I am just hoping for at least 1 female!

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Yeah, I can't figure why some journels get less hits than others, but your girls are looking Fab so far man keep at. I've been doing some experimenting with CFLs and they are very effective. I think if you post in the CFL club section you will get some more hits btw.

The plants are doing fantastic, I watered each of them last night. They are drooping a little bit, is this normal? Also, considering my closet is about 5 ft tall, how tall do you think I should grow the plants? I am planning to fim within the week.

Yours are looking AWESOME! Mine are 19 days old and are barely half that size. Keep it up.

SO I fimmed two of the plants today, they are really starting to get bushy. I will put pics up in a bit, any comments or advice would be great. Temps are around 75 today with 47 RH.

sweet, can we see a pic of tha cab?

VERY FAST grow, man. I'm very jealous! Keep us updated, and good luck!

sublimed said:

sweet, can we see a pic of tha cab?

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I moved them from the cab to the closet, I will use the cab for clones in the hopes I get females! Here's a pic of the cab and closet.

nice man, that cab looks perfect for a cooltubed hps scrog imo

So I fimmed two of the plants yesterday, and the growth on the underside is just phenomenal. I never expected them to get this big by day 13, any ideas on indica strains that grow this fast?

sublimed said:

nice man, that cab looks perfect for a cooltubed hps scrog imo

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With how cheap those 150w hps systems are, that cab may be turned into something nice like that.

Well... ummm. I was reading a little bit on pot size, and realized a 1 gallon pot was not enough, I lifted up the pots and roots were already trying to come out the bottom, so I transplanted them to 3 gallon pots, I don't think they liked it very much, in fact 1 looks like its gonna die. 3/4 are drooping, so hopefully when I wake up in 10 hours they won't be so stressed. Pics will be up in the morning.

Ok so here is a picture update after the transplant, this morning 3 of them seem to have spruced back up and are taking the transplant well, the plant I fucked up transplanting tho is not doing so well. I may have ripped the roots a bit taking it out, do you think it can pull through?