First grow, Northern Lights

smigula

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I have decided to start over entirely, this is my first grow and I want everything to work properly as to minimize the mistakes I will more than likely make. This time I germinated only 3 NL seeds and 1 Nirvana white castle seed I still have left. The 3 NL seeds sprouted, I am about to put these 3 in my propagator pro, it looks like the white castle seed has started to sprout I am going to leave it in the wet papertowl and container a few more days maybe it will sprout completely.

I am starting over since I bought a new air cooled hood and inline fan so I am in the process of getting the heat levels where I want them and will be putting them under my MH light in 3-5 days
 

smigula

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alright so I got an air cooled hood and an inline fan, got everything set up including the ducting, I also bought a humidifier as it was ~30% in my grow space, now it is ~65% so in the next few days I am also going to get a dehumidifier. The fan is also super loud, I am probably going to get this speed controller soon, what are some other tips to reduce the noise?

I placed my 4 babies in my propagator pro the other day, here they are I think I am going to let them grow close to the top before transferring them to clear solo cups and putting them under my light, which reminds me I also decided I am going to use HPS for this entire grow
propogator.jpgsetup.jpg

A good friend I went to college with has a complete 600w setup and he is going to ship it to me for free I only need to pay the shipping costs, so when I start flowering them I will use the 600w, and possibly the 400 as well
 

Oo S0uP oO

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Wrap your shit in cheap sleeping bags brah, fan, ducting all of it. I can barely hear my vortex collection running 24/7. -S0uP
 

smigula

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I just transplanted my plants from the propagator pro to clear plastic solo cups and have them 1.5' under my HPS light. I am going to keep the light on 24 hours until they get to ~16" in height (as they will double maybe triple in size during flowering and my grow space is 6' in height). Right now the humidity is at 45% and the temperature is at 84 degrees which I am trying to get down to under 80.

day 1 under HPS.jpg
The 3 in the front are the northern lights and the one in the back is the white rhino. Also after transplanting the first plant was drooping so I put a lot more water in the cup.

Big ups to Nirvana, so far every NL seed sprouted and the one white rhino I have also sprouted :), and they are growing really fast I had to take them out of the prop pro as they grew so high they couldn't grow any taller. They stretched a little to get towards the light, so when I put them in cups I buried them in soil so only 1-2" of stem was above the soil.

EDIT: By the way, the NL are regular seeds and the white rhino is feminized
 

eastcoastmo

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Sweet as mate, looking good :) my only suggestion is to lower your light, they are stretching under the hps. 400w lights can go down to about 1ft above the canopy.
 

deephouser

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Put those seedlings under some 23 watt 6500K CFLs. One light per seedling. About 2 inches from the top.

Check out my grow journal for the seedling cab I made. It's my first grow too, and I've had pretty good results. I'm two weeks in right now.
 
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