80's first CFL/FL grow

So. Since it is winter in my area I decided to try my first indoor grow. As some of oyu may or may not know I do have 3 years of outdoor growing under my belt. But I am finding indoor is where the real science is. Any monkey can stick a seed in a pot and let do mother nature do the rest; When you indoor however you ARE mother nature.

So here it is. I have 6 plants. They are all a week old (not counting germination). I am getting my check in 2 days to expand my grow. So to start off with I used what I could find in my house. I found a 13W 2700k CFL light and a 15W fish tank top. All plants are on a 21/3 cycle. Even though therotically I can go 24/7 I think the 3 hours of light gives them time to rest and I do notice dramatic changes when I put them back into light.

Heres some pics


Four of the babies under the fish tank top


Better shot


My favorite Rebbecca under the 13W 2700k CFL


Close up


April. Who suffers from a text book case of elongation

So monday when I have cash I plan on going to the local hardware place. I'm going too pick up about 6 23W CFL's with dual head outlets. A timer too make my life ALOT easier. Some organic nitrogen enriched miracle grow. Mylar. And a fan. I'm going to make the mini fridge where Becca is the Veg area. These are all Random reggie bag seed. Figured I should get my science down first before growing the expensive stuff.

Anything else I should add to the tip? Any tips, advice, feedback? I know my system is a little ghetto ATM but I plan on making it legit in less than 48 hours. This is my first indoor grow so please help me as much as possible. There all about a week old

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Okay. I did upgrade a tad bit till tommorow. I added another aquarium top on the side too enduce a bit of LST. Another 20W. So the 5 on the floor got 35W on em and Becca still by herself with only 13 =/

Cant wait to get paid tommorow...

Also my mom did bug a bit cause she found a few plants. So Ima use the fridge and an old PC case thats from like ten years ago so its fucking huge. I'll probabley get 250W CFL for the 5 and a 65W CFL for Becca.

Really...thanks for all your help guys -.-

post some pictures of your pc.. If you want check out my pc grow, might give you some ideas..

80mg said:

Really...thanks for all your help guys -.-

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hey man we're all busy smokin up! haha!

anyways i saw you had a 13w 2700K. you said you were pickin up some more but didnt say what kind. since your in veg you need to grab some 6500K.
6500K = veg
2700K = flower
you can mix though. just more 6500 than 2700.
good luck on the grow man!

MoNk0 said:

post some pictures of your pc.. If you want check out my pc grow, might give you some ideas..

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I'll get some pics up once I finish gutting, probabley less than 2 hours. All that's left is the motherboard. IDK who made this PC (well it's a dell, I mean the person) but they like put al lthese metal things on top of the mother board, processor, everything! Making it so hard to remove I literaly had to take a sledge hammer too it.

sprintman said:

hey man we're all busy smokin up! haha!

anyways i saw you had a 13w 2700K. you said you were pickin up some more but didnt say what kind. since your in veg you need to grab some 6500K.
6500K = veg
2700K = flower
you can mix though. just more 6500 than 2700.
good luck on the grow man!

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Okay cool. I had no idea. And Ill post more pics of the babies in a couple of hours too. Today Im getting paid so Ill up the garden. I'm surprised though how good threre doing even with such little light, there already on there seconfd set of leaves, very green, and it's only been 9 days!

Okay. Some updates. First off, heres the old PC case I gutted to use as my new flower area


I was going to get a before picture to show you all the random metal protectors they put on top of the motherboard, cpu, everytihng to avoid it from bein customised...but Im too stoned, lol.


I also started LST. I found another 15W 2700k bulb and outlet in my house so I added that too my baby Becca as seen here. Bringing the grand total of lumens too 5400 and 28W of CFL. Still not enough but gradually getting better. I'm going too cash my check once Im done so Ill post the remodified mini fridge when I do get back


Just another lcose up of my favorite <3 She's already starting on her second set of leaves (although hard too see) only 10 days old!

Also I started LST with the other 5 plants. As mentioned I found another aquarium top and put it on the side of the plants I have on the floor ATM.

Can't wait too post the newly modified grow area tonight =]!

although i'm just beginning to educate myself on what it might take to grow, i will offer a couple of suggestions. first, i'd study up on some of the terminology that goes along with it, as i dont believe you understand LST. also, i would advise reading through some of these grow journals, specifically the ones that say "first grow" or "first attempt", so that you can catch some of the stuff they did wrong and hopefully not make the same mistakes. and, ditch the aquarium lights and stick with the cfl's when you go to the store for more stuff. i'm currently germing some seeds, and will start a thread in the next few days, hope u check it out, maybe we can lend each other a hand if need be. good luck!

Hey man all that stuff thats in that case is held in by rivets, just look to see where what your wanting to remove attaches to the case and find the rivets and just drill them out. When you drill them out just drill till you feel a slight snap and thats the rivet popping loose. Once all the rivets that hold the motherboard wall and drive bays to the case are removed they will come right out..

newdude79 said:

although i'm just beginning to educate myself on what it might take to grow, i will offer a couple of suggestions. first, i'd study up on some of the terminology that goes along with it, as i dont believe you understand LST. also, i would advise reading through some of these grow journals, specifically the ones that say "first grow" or "first attempt", so that you can catch some of the stuff they did wrong and hopefully not make the same mistakes. and, ditch the aquarium lights and stick with the cfl's when you go to the store for more stuff. i'm currently germing some seeds, and will start a thread in the next few days, hope u check it out, maybe we can lend each other a hand if need be. good luck!

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Yeah. I read that on this site actually but I just reasearched it, your rgiht. Although Ironicly I decided to do LST anyway, lol.

Sorry for the delay in pictures. Had to pay some late bills, but i get my other perscription today = all money for the grow

I'm going to post more pictures up today. There now 2 weeks old. There getting big. But I have a few problems.


First off, one of my plants fell over and actually fell out of the pt like the root and all! So I picked it up, almost crying, and put it back in the pot and left it alone. It didnt die but it hasnt grown much either. Actualy if im correxct it hasnt grown sinxce. This was a bout a week ago and now the two begining laves the baby ones that you first get are turing yellow. I also have a plant thats growing but its droopy because I left a light to close to it, and another one who really has no reason to be messed up with the same yellowing of the baby leaves.

What you think?

Okay, since basically the only way to get attnetion to your post is to post pics (even though it really sketches me out) here are some.

The first is a close up of april. The second is the grow area. It has 5 bubls at a total of 74watt. all CFL/FL. Third a close up of Chelsea, fourth a close up of Rosemary.

Okay I'm starting too get a little worried. One of my plants is basically fucked. first I dropped it, scooped back up then put too much mollasses in it. The other plants have had adverse effects from the molasses as well and I mixed a table spoon for a gallon so idk why. It seemed like chemical burn but now they also seem too be nitrogen defficent and there alot smaller than expected. I man for 20 days they dont look terrible, they just dont look like alot of the plants I see on here. I know 74 watts of CFL aint alot but it should work. I just recently mixed bone meal to ogive them the nitrogen they desperatley need and even peed on the plant thats fucked in a last ditch atempt.....some advice...please...

Hey any update? sorry i came to late to help, love to see where your at, pics too.

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OKAY, I KNOW WHY NO ONE REALLY BEEN WATCHING MY GROW. BAD GROWS ARE BORING! WITH THE 84CFL I HAD THERES NO WAY I WOULDA HAD A DECENT HARVEST OFF 5-6 PLANTS.

Well, now I've upgraded. I've moved my plants too a closet thats 5x10 feet, added a intake fan, an extra 100watts of CFL and I got Bone Meal and Miracle Gro organic (seriously the best twenty bucks youll ever spend)

Well here they are now!

I killed 4 males and planted new babys. 2 of thre new Im doing 12/12 from seed to harvest for shits and giggles.


A close up of the babys


This is mother rosemary. The one of two only females I had fro mwhen I started last month. 2 weeks ago she was N deprived and very small leaves. When I upped my grow too 184W CFL it took SO fast. Like two days later Im talking about huge ass fan leaves and the darkest green I've ever seen on a plant I've grown.

I plan on making a cheap CO2 system, adding another 100 watts bringing me to 284W CFL, and uhhhh thats about it for the time!

I hope my grow is a little more intresting now.

h and as you may have saw in the first one, theres a successful clone from Rosemary =]

Looks like your starting to get your stuff dialed in a bit, A little advice with cfls tho the more the better, My first few grows where with cfls and i had about 16 cfls for just 2 plants. And it yeilded me about an oz or 2 per plant going 12/12 from seed, granted i would have gotten more if i vegged but i was happy with what I got. Also your going to want a few cfls just for side lighting only sense they dont have much light penetration. All in all its a good start to your first grow man, Good luck

GANJAxDUBZ said:

Looks like your starting to get your stuff dialed in a bit, A little advice with cfls tho the more the better, My first few grows where with cfls and i had about 16 cfls for just 2 plants. And it yeilded me about an oz or 2 per plant going 12/12 from seed, granted i would have gotten more if i vegged but i was happy with what I got. Also your going to want a few cfls just for side lighting only sense they dont have much light penetration. All in all its a good start to your first grow man, Good luck

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Werrrd so ima get like 5 23watts instead of one 112watt and place it on the side when i get more light today. I am thinking about going back to 20/4 instead of 24. Whats your thought?

Im growin' w/cfl& floures. Also. It doesnt take much to veg,its flowering- thats when u need the power.imo

Maybe the mollasses etc was alittle soon?im on my 2nd try at seedlings(1st were males)& i dont feed any thing till 1mo. Or so. Maybe i should!i sprout in ffof

80mg said:

Werrrd so ima get like 5 23watts instead of one 112watt and place it on the side when i get more light today. I am thinking about going back to 20/4 instead of 24. Whats your thought?

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I personally like 18/6 so i can save some money on the power bill. But If I where you Id do 20/4 some dark period is good for the plants