new to site and first grow

hello people, potheads unite!, well this is my first plant and always wanted to grow one for the longest, and so if you like i will be posting the progress of my little one and if u have any advise pls feel free to tell me the right way to do it, so so far my plant is about 2-3 weeks old so far i think maybe less, but im sure i dont have the perfect lighting yet but i will soon as i get some cash, but it has been doing good for wat i have so far . so pls some one talk to me thanks dave

Welcome to RIU!

thank u sir ill post some pics shortly

heres some pictures what do u guys think?

yeah you got it man!

if your using cfls get them wayyyy closer

yeah right now im running two 14w soft white cfls , i dont kno if thats bad?

wat is the exacct amount hours of light i should be giving the plant at this point??? help?

fuck cfls man.get some proper ligntning like hps or something.
plant looks good man.
keep up the good work

For a first time Grower, CFLs are fine, but you really need to get that light closer man. With CFLs you want to have it as close to the top of the plant as possible with out it burning your plant. Usually 1-3 inches from the top of the plant; this is because CFL lighting has a very low intensity rating, that means at 10 inches away you have already lost about 75% of the available light that could be getting to your plant. (guestimate but you get the point, closer is better.)

You can tell you don't have the light close enough because the plant is so long, and stretched out.

Go for the Daylight White CFL so that you are getting the proper vegging spectrum of around 6500k (blue spectrum.)
As for the on off times for your lighting, you want to do 18/6 (on/off) for vegging, and 12/12 for flowering.

You also may want to get a higher wattage CFL. I use 5 100w CFL 6500k lights with reflectors.

Look up some of my grows for pics of my setup.

(not growing right now though, stupid booze )

Other than what I listed above, so far so good man.

You need 18hours of light 6 of dark at this stage prob another 5 weeks to flower.
Good going don't forget move your light closer.

yeah thanks alot guys i already put the light closer and also ima try get higher watteg light bulbs today, thaks for ur help, u guys come back sometime.

lookin good man keep it up

ok i have a journal now and i have a question so plz just go and check that thread out pls im going to be updating on that one so thank u to everyone who commented on this thread .

check out my journal