Ghetto fabulous Northern Lights grow

This is my first attempt at growing for personal consumption. My aerogarden grow went horribly so I decided to start over with soil. I planted 3 Northern Lights seeds obtained from Nirvana. Using three 8 inch pots with 6 daylight 23W CFLS and 1 42W Soft White CFL. They will be growing in a 10X5 ft closet. Not comfortable with doing my own wiring so I will just be hanging the CFL's from a rack that normally hang's clothes. The back wall has Mylar tacked on along with a couple small wood pieces I stood along the side. Also placed mylar on the door but I won't have it closed much because I want good airflow and the heat in there gets close to 90 in the late afternoons.

Now one thing that is going to confuse me will be the soil, I don't have a good indoor garden shop close by so I just used some potting soil from my friend's garage. The name of the soil is Schultz Premium Potting Soil Plus. Underneath the title it says "Feeds up to 9 Months!" If this is the case, should I never use Grow Big or Tiger Bloom in the future? Or will it be safe to use a small amount of additional nutes? Also for odor control I am using a canister of linen scented ona. wondering if this will be enough to block the smell from 3 flowering plants.

Temps in the closet go from 70-89 degrees depending on time of day. Humidty in my closet is about 20% baseline and I have a cheap Wal Mart humidifier which could raise it to about 45%. wondering if I should even bother with adjusting the humidty. The posted pics were taken this evening,the plants are 2 weeks old from sprout. Won't be expecting great results since this is my first real attempt. Comments and tips welcome

This is the soil being used.

DAY 17


Plants coming along nicely, holding off on the nutes since the soil seems to be feeding well.

looking good bro

keep up the good work...

this is exactly what i will be doing just with sensi seeds instead of Nirvana seeds. Will be keeping an eye on your grow! good luck and keep the pic's coming!

DAY 21


Plants looking a little wilted, taking advice I have read and letting them get slightly wilted before watering. Added an extremely small amount of Grow Big to my water today just to see if I can get a small boost in growth. Should not be nearly enough to burn anything, I added under half a teaspoon. Already starting to get a sweet aroma floating around the closet.

Siamese cats seem interested in whats going on.

Looking great!

I am growing one NL plant that is about a week older than yours, check it out;
https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/178656-medical-cfl-grow-journal-sour.html

Your babies look mighty healthy to me. I'm one week along on a nl#5 so its great to see what's hopefully in my future.

Your babies look mighty healthy to me. I'm one week along on a single nl#5, so its good to see what my future will hopefully be like.

Day 25

Temp got up to 88 in my closet yesterday so I think growth has stunted a little. Also could be from the fimming I did a couple days ago, I heard that fimming can slow growth temporarily. It looks like the areas I cut are growing back in which is a relief since I've never tried it before. Gonna have to shop around for more lights soon as flowering time approaches. The urge to buy a 250W HPS is growing since I find adjusting the CFL's to be a pain.

Day 28

Slow growth continues, I'm hesitant to add many nutes each watering due to the soil I started with and even with small amounts of Grow Big added I'm getting small brown spots on one of my plants.

looking good bro. i am new to the forum and have started my first clf (and first grow ever) with northern lights.
this might sound weird, but what made you choose to grow NL? i personaly have always love the smoke.

have u started flowering?

jestacrazy said:

have u started flowering?

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can we get an update? how r the girls doin?