CFL grow 2008- advice appreciated

growman89

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Today i decide to invest in a cabinet type piece i found at a thrift store for pretty cheap. The first thing i did was line the box with aluminum bubble insulation. is this good? Curently in my box i have 4 23w and 2 27w daylight cfls. I got pretty high the other day and thought up a pretty handy little cfl mount/reflector. i mounted a power strip on top of a big size aluminum bakeing pan found at any grocery store. After mounting the power strip i went to home depot and found all the pieces i needed to complete my cfl mount/reflector. i bought 3 light bulb splitters and 3 light bulb to AC adapter. I plugged each ac adapter in every other slot on the power strip in the bakeing pan and theres my easy cheap cfl mount. I also have 1 intake fan but hope to get another for exhaust tomorrow.

Well now that i have all that cleared up i show yall a couple pictures of my babies.
Any advice is appreciated.
 

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just changed to intake fan to an exhaust and put a little squirel fan in the middle of all the pots. at first when everything was close up my bow was getting a little hot now its much cooler
 
thats a really small box man, only gonna get a few weeks of veg and ull be full up, especially with the vertical cfls, if they where later raised (even taped) against the ceiling (cieling?) i just made a similar cfl box usin a 15w and 13w, made a budget reflector outa tinfoil for a for-now rflector.
 
i think it should be good for a veg box. I take out and put them in one of my guest bedroom showers with all glossy white walls under 400w hps for flowering. might not sound like much but it works awsome.
 
Today i added an intake fan on a swhitch so i can adjust the amount of air coming in for temperature and humidity change. Now i have an intake and an exhaust.
 
also, i dont know much about nutes but i know im going to need to be feeding my plants soon. What should i give my plant for vegging. preferably something i could find easily around town.
 
here are a couple new pictures. almost at 2 weeks. does anyone know why the bottom leaves are twisting? please comment. i need all the help i can get!
 

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the grow faqs page has alot of d.i.y. ideas you might should look at other than that i suggest you find a discreet hydro shop or site to buy hesi products it comes with a grow guide starter pack and all. 4hydro.com is one i use often
 
here are a couple more recent pics. right around 2 weeks please comment.
 

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plants look nice... some kushage bro. looks like it anyways. next time you com in town you need to stop thru and burn while we admire. i just started training my big one to lean and trimmed it too. i will start flower in about 2 weeks hopefully. just remember patience bro use this site more for a grow log... al the info is in the grow faqs at the top of the page. grow power!!
 
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