First Grow - CFL's - LST - Bagseed - Rubbermaid Stealth Box - Low budget - *PICS*

Hi all. I recently built a stealth growbox, and I am growing one plant with 4 26 watt CFL's (currently all are 6100k color temp, and I will move to 2700k when flowering starts.)

I wanted to post some pictures of my plant at a day before 2 weeks old, (she'll be two weeks old tomorrow)

How is the growth looking? Any ideas if this is Indica or Sativa? Any nute deficiencies apparent yet?

When should I start feeding her nutes? 3 weeks I've read?

I have Shultz's 10-15-10 plant food, I know it's not ideal, but it's better than nothing I guess..

I plan on doing an LST grow with this plant to meet spacial requirements.. I'll start training her late next week probably. I feel like she is REALLY short and really packing in the nodes considering the amount of leaves she has. I've been keeping the CFL's at a close distance for the entire grow (within 3 or 4 inches).. From soil to top she's about 2.5" tall..

Let me know what you think of her



Oh, and of course... all of this "she" talk is just wishful thinking

This is simply some bagseed...

I'll get some pictures of the grow box either later today or tomorrow and post them up.

looking good you seem to be on the right track - and welcome on RIU
what's your light cycle?

I'm currently using 18/6 with a timer. Before the timer (the first 3 or 4 days) I was doing 24/0, but since then I notice a big difference with the rest period at night, it seems to be very helpful in speeding up her growth

looks like your on the right track, will be watching

I'm a newbie but she looks great as far as I can tell. My plant is about the same age and I've been worried recently that she may be a little stunted also. It looks about the same size as yours.

Here's to hoping she's a female

Only time (and patience) will tell.

going to take some pics of the setup right now. I'll have some pics up in a few minutes.

good luck fellow noobie...lol

K guys here's some shots of the stealth grow.. I've edited all of the colors in the image to protect my anonymity. (except the picture of the INSIDE of the grow box, I've changed the color of the walls, floors, boxes, everything, to make sure if someone sees them that would recognize the area, they don't jump to any conclusions.)

here it is from outside of the closet... see it?


a closer view...


all of the stuff removed..


a peek inside


here's what the inside looks like.. I had to go duct tape crazy to stop light leakage...


and here's what behind looks like with the timer, surge protector, and CPU power supply powering my fans..

The airflow is efficient because the room is air conditioned, so with all that stuff on top temps get up as high as the low 80's in the box, then at night it's down in the low 70's..

This might work better than the tape. Get a bit more light reflection. Sub'd


3M General Purpose 45 Spray Adhesive

BTW I like your avatar. Mind mentioning where ya got it from. Be a nice background.

Cransi said:

This might work better than the tape. Get a bit more light reflection. Sub'd

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3M General Purpose 45 Spray Adhesive

BTW I like your avatar. Mind mentioning where ya got it from. Be a nice background.

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Haha yeah, I didn't have any spray adhesive at the time, and this whole grow has to be kept under wraps.. I tried using Mod Podge (basically Elmer's Glue, with a brush) to glue the foil to the container, but it peeled at the seams, which is why I had to put the tape down, light was escaping and making my box glow

I'll probably ditch this box when this plant is done and move on to a better one... i've learned some pluses and minuses of growing like this already for sure

As for my avatar, it's just a picture that I've seen floating around the net for years that I really liked.. I've never found it large enough to be a background unfortunately.. search google for trippy tree man, and you'll see how I found it

Ey nice set up you got goin there dude...nice one.

lol at the color changes to protect anonymity... gotta love the paranoia haha.

Keep it up mate... got the makings of a decent little grow here. Ill be keepin check for sure.

Peace
DoctorMap

DoctorMap said:

Ey nice set up you got goin there dude...nice one.

lol at the color changes to protect anonymity... gotta love the paranoia haha.

Keep it up mate... got the makings of a decent little grow here. Ill be keepin check for sure.

Peace
DoctorMap

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Thanks for the kind, inspiring words.. I can only hope to get results like yours! (Heck, I'd be happy with 3 grams, trust me.)

I love the box, hoping to do something like that in the near future, plus rep for sure.

damn , it would be pity to see that 'lady' become a boy, if you are going with bag seed , you should at least have 3 plants , I started with 7 bag seeds recently and only 3 were females, anyway great setup , wish you best luck !

My first grow started with 6 plants and only ended up with one girl.. it sucked.. but was a good learning process.

Yeah I only had 1 seed at the time, I have 5 more now and they're all germinating.. I'm hoping to get them in now and I can start them all flowering at the same time...

Thanks so much.. I can't wait to LST her and see how the side growth develops.. I'm going to transplant her tomorrow and start to strap her down on Wednesday or Thursday of this week I think.. I'm going to start giving her a light dose of nutrients tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes...

After a transplant, should I give nutrients right away, or wait a day or two for the shock of transplant to wear off?