1st Log, 1st Grow, pure CFL

Ok so about 6 weeks ago I am sitting on my couch smoking some ganja, like I normally dooooo. When it hits me! Why spend money on smoking green when I can grow green and smoke it laaater? So I kicked it into gear and hit the books. I read the Cannabis Grow Bible by Greg Green, Marijuana Horticulture The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Growers Bible by the one and only Mr. Jorge Cervantes, and I also watched his Ultimate Grow DvD. I couldn't get my hands on some good genetics so I went ahead and germinated 4 seeds one of which survived, caught a case of stem rot and survived. It has a nice little belly button now :).

I am about week 3 1/2 - 4 on my pure CFL DWC bagseed grow.
I am using GH 3 part nutes.
The plant is on a 3 1/2-2-1 ratio grow-micro-bloom
My grow lights right now are 8 26 watt 6500k CFL's and 2 27 watt 6100k CFL's. I plan on adding about 8 more lights and then replacing them all with 42 watt 2700k CFL's that put out 2700 lumens ea. I figure 48600 lumens is plenty to flower a single plant.
I am running a whisper 100 and whisper 40 tetra pump connected to a single 5 in airstone.
I am growing in a standard 5 gallon bucket wrapped thoroughly in black duct tape.
I got the bulbs from Wal-Mart at $6 and some change for 2 and the black all-weather sockets from Home Depot for about $2 ea. and the Y's from Home Depot for about $1.75 ea. the aluminum was cheap for the hood. The top part of it actually came bent like I needed it.

I have a minimum temp/humidity of 69F and 48%
And a maximum of 76F and 60%

Thoughts on my grow?

I know I posted a log in hydroponics but I didn't know about this section of the forums at the time if ya know what I mean :stoned:

Pic 1 is a pic of the outlet vent, it is the same vent as my a/c so the air runs through a filter before it goes to the rest of the house and it also keeps fresh air in the room since it is a closet. You can also see the green light that I installed so I can work on my plant during the 6 hours of darkness if need be.
Pic 2 is a pic of my grow station as I call it. It is where I keep all my shit that I need for upkeep of my DWC.
Pic 3 is my inlet vent. It takes air from downstairs and brings it upstairs into my closet. It also has a filter on it though unlike the outlet it won't have a carbon filter on it eventually when I start to flower. If you look in the pictures above this replay you can see I have one of the sides of the hoob placed up. This is the vent that blows in that direction so every time the a/c is on I have a steady airflow over my plant.

This grow long looks really promising, it seems like you have either grown before and are just not telling us, or just a rather smart fellow, and did some actual learning when you did your research, which is saying a lot.

i'll keep my eye out on this one.

Nope bro, first grow ever, just read the fuck outta some books and made sure I knew my shit before I did anything. The law is 5 years minimum for 1 plant out here so I wanted to make sure I did this right if I was going to risk anything.

Just a little addition I made to the hood.

Update pics, getting bushier.

Anyone see any signs of sex in the first pic? I don't really know what to look for.

looks good :thumbsup:

I added 4 more lights, 2 6100k and 2 6500k so I have 4 6100k at 1300 lumens ea. 10 6500k at 1600 lumens ea. for a total of about 350 watts.

Update pics, can anyone tell what sex this thing is? I took some close ups and I know what to roughly look for but still can't tell.

Wow.

Looking gorgeous man. Nice setup. Clean n sweet.

Nice grow man!

I just bought some afghan seeds and their coming from holland. Planing on doing a set up like yours.