Hey all -
RIU has helped us greatly in achieving information on how to grow using CFL's. I have not posted much i know, but i have been browsing the website for a while now and really do apprecaite the information readily available to all of us members, so thanks muchos for that.
Its my roomies and mine first real attempt at a grow, myself i have not much knowledge, my roomate however has some experience with it, nothing at a large scale at all - we are growing strictly for personal reasons. We've set up a box that measures around 3 X 3 X 4, it is made of metal - an old filing cabinet if you can imagine. We *planned* on using alot of lights, we do have alot, but we wanted way more, we have run into heat issue but after installing 2 outs and 2 ins (shitty eh!) the temps are hovering around 81-85 and 71 at night. This is what we've used for our light set up in both Veg and our flowering set up:
Please Note : flowering stage has *just* started, about a week in today.
Veg - (6) 26 Watt 6500k and (2) 23 Watt 6500k
Flower - (6) 42 2700k ; (2) 6500k
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42 2700k bulbs, and had intentions of putting all 8 in there with a couple more lower wattage 2700 on the side as well as a couple 6500 but we could not with the temperature issue. Is it more beneficial to have simply ( 42W 2700k and no 6500k bulbs at all, or is the current flowering set up better with the 6500k bulbs?
Both plants history is not good, around 4 weeks in or so when they were only 6 inches or so we over watered. To fix this we transplanted into the bigger pots that you see now, and added a 10-2-8 nute mixture. This seemed to help they *greatly*, it was pretty much a live or die scenario. At this point they looked like they were going to be doing fine, we only noticed the curling type happening on one plant, and not the other though - both of them have some leaves, more towards the bottom of the plant, that have turned yellow and somewhat brown..almost dead. About 80% of the plant seems to be green over all with some light burn on the tips, but not too bad.
What is hard for me to understand is why one plant looks fine, not to droopy and mostly all there except for the lower leaves, but the other plant is curling at the ends of the fan leaves and seems to be way more stressed.
I only have 1 picture of the better plant, thats in mostly the good shape..not much curling - and here it is:
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If you notice the plant is for the most part, i think, alright..except for the lower leaf there that is completely yellow, and a few others that are around the plant, basic area of the plant.
The following pictures are of the second plant that seems to be in much worst shape.
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You might notice that the higher sections of the plants are in somewhat better shape than the bottom. I understand not much light is getting there, and that im using CFL - just want to get a second opinion on all of this. You can also notice the temps and humidity in there at that point in time...which is somewhat relative. Here is a final picture of the setup overall, as well as some other photos of both plants since they both are showing some signs of the same thing - especially as far as the yellowing and browning of some of the fan leaves is concerned.
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One more piece of info - the soil that we used when we transplanted is an MG potting soil, but when we first started the mix that we used was more of like a mulchy type deal, was an organic mixture that we wanted to try out. One thing that i do notice though, is that there are little little black flys chilling in the soil, and sometimes flying around on the leaves..The plants dont show signs of the bugs doing anything harmful to them, but they are just all around in the soil.
Any input would be fantastic - being a paranoid person i wasnt exactly keen of starting a journal or even posting pictures, but i'd really like to have some input on the plants alone and the problems that they face.
RIU has helped us greatly in achieving information on how to grow using CFL's. I have not posted much i know, but i have been browsing the website for a while now and really do apprecaite the information readily available to all of us members, so thanks muchos for that.
Its my roomies and mine first real attempt at a grow, myself i have not much knowledge, my roomate however has some experience with it, nothing at a large scale at all - we are growing strictly for personal reasons. We've set up a box that measures around 3 X 3 X 4, it is made of metal - an old filing cabinet if you can imagine. We *planned* on using alot of lights, we do have alot, but we wanted way more, we have run into heat issue but after installing 2 outs and 2 ins (shitty eh!) the temps are hovering around 81-85 and 71 at night. This is what we've used for our light set up in both Veg and our flowering set up:
Please Note : flowering stage has *just* started, about a week in today.
Veg - (6) 26 Watt 6500k and (2) 23 Watt 6500k
Flower - (6) 42 2700k ; (2) 6500k
*We did buy (
42 2700k bulbs, and had intentions of putting all 8 in there with a couple more lower wattage 2700 on the side as well as a couple 6500 but we could not with the temperature issue. Is it more beneficial to have simply ( 42W 2700k and no 6500k bulbs at all, or is the current flowering set up better with the 6500k bulbs?Both plants history is not good, around 4 weeks in or so when they were only 6 inches or so we over watered. To fix this we transplanted into the bigger pots that you see now, and added a 10-2-8 nute mixture. This seemed to help they *greatly*, it was pretty much a live or die scenario. At this point they looked like they were going to be doing fine, we only noticed the curling type happening on one plant, and not the other though - both of them have some leaves, more towards the bottom of the plant, that have turned yellow and somewhat brown..almost dead. About 80% of the plant seems to be green over all with some light burn on the tips, but not too bad.
What is hard for me to understand is why one plant looks fine, not to droopy and mostly all there except for the lower leaves, but the other plant is curling at the ends of the fan leaves and seems to be way more stressed.
I only have 1 picture of the better plant, thats in mostly the good shape..not much curling - and here it is:
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If you notice the plant is for the most part, i think, alright..except for the lower leaf there that is completely yellow, and a few others that are around the plant, basic area of the plant.
The following pictures are of the second plant that seems to be in much worst shape.
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You might notice that the higher sections of the plants are in somewhat better shape than the bottom. I understand not much light is getting there, and that im using CFL - just want to get a second opinion on all of this. You can also notice the temps and humidity in there at that point in time...which is somewhat relative. Here is a final picture of the setup overall, as well as some other photos of both plants since they both are showing some signs of the same thing - especially as far as the yellowing and browning of some of the fan leaves is concerned.
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One more piece of info - the soil that we used when we transplanted is an MG potting soil, but when we first started the mix that we used was more of like a mulchy type deal, was an organic mixture that we wanted to try out. One thing that i do notice though, is that there are little little black flys chilling in the soil, and sometimes flying around on the leaves..The plants dont show signs of the bugs doing anything harmful to them, but they are just all around in the soil.
Any input would be fantastic - being a paranoid person i wasnt exactly keen of starting a journal or even posting pictures, but i'd really like to have some input on the plants alone and the problems that they face.