First Grow/Set-up, SoS for assistance!

Ok, just a quick update. The rapid rooter plugs are sitting as is. I opened a few of them and checked... couldn't resist the curiousity... it looks like the seeds opened and have the small root sticking out that is burried in the plug. Hopefully, they will start popping out soon.

Also, one of the seeds in the plastic cups is coming out too, it still has the shell on, however it is above ground. It made a lot of progress since this morning.

I checked the seeds that were in water and out of 7 or so, about 5 are cracked with a small root sticking out, maybe just a few mm. I took them out and put them in some wet paper towells, put them in a zip lock bag and put them next to the dubbler, there is also a heater pointing towards it, keeping the temps nice and warm.

Will post any updates as soon as things start happening.

Thanks for the help so far.

Alright ladies and gents,

we are getting better every day here, I had two sprouts in the plastic cups come up and one out of the rapid rooter plug. They are only sticking out about an inch, but I think this is a pretty good start. I am going to go ahead and take the rooter plugs and just plug them into the soil.

Although soil is slower, thats the best results I had so far. Will post some pics tomorrow.

All,

I wanted to post an update, sorry about being late. In any case, the plants are doing fine! some pics attached.

Now I know that I shouldn't have put two seeds in the same cup... but I was so skeptical of even one of them germinating that I took the risk, now I have two plans in one cup.... I tried to separate one of them out to put into a different cup, but when I dug through the soil a bit the roots were very deep, so I didn't want to fuck with it. What are some of the risks I may run into?

There is also a one that is in the rapid rooter plug that is doing pretty well, the rest of them are being a bit lazy or something.

So far I have been keeping the temps at around 70-75 degrees, if it drops below that I would usually open the door and point a heater at it, its cold in the basement... winter here....

I have been watering the plants with water at PH of 6.0, no nutes added. I have been giving plants a little bit of water in the soil and spraying them down with a water bottle.

One of the issues I am running is humidity, its so fucking dry inside (thats what she said). Anyway, I had the humidity dome on, now I decided to take it off (for the reason unknown to even myself).

So far I have 4x100Watt CFLs, they are on 24/7. Starting today, they are going on a 18/6 light schedule.

Does that sound good? Let me know if I am fucking anything up...

Hi, I wanted to post an update.

So far we are in a pretty good shape.

- Temps - around 75
- Lights - 400 watt CFL - now switching to 300 w of CFL and 150 HPS. Both lights are about a foot away from the tips of the plants. (any recomendations)
- watered the plants with 1/3rd of recommended dosage some 3-10-3. (Ph coming in with 6.8, however when it came out it was 7.1( is this good? plants are in soil right now))
- I have also been using a sprayer to spray down the leafs every day or so (plan water)

Thanks for following and tune in tomorrow around the same time!

Edit: Also, currently the lights are 18/6. I had them on 24/0, but took them off it yesterday.

Hey Uncleweed, glad to see that after a rough start things are looking good once again.

Can't wait to see how your grow progresses. I'll be lurking. :rastasmoke:

thanks man... looking forward to it

YEAAAA KEEP US UPDATED ON THAT...WAT STRAIN ARE YOU GROWING?

whats a cheap way to give your plants some CO2?

I just got a can of compressed air, so I have been spraying it in there, but I read that plants can go through all the CO2 around them in like 15 minutes..... i can't spray that often lol

Also, any side effects of using this? It's also nice to use it to cool down your grow set up if the ventilation is not adequate.

ladies and gents, wanted to post a few pics of my set up.

It's super stealthy, mainly because i am paranoid...... the whole set up is hard...

The first pic is the closet (gota love the american flag eh.... cuz i am such a patriot... lol, anyway I thought it was better than a bob marley poster... why incriminate myself..?). Behind the flag is a fake wall (well the wall is real, but it wasn't there before). There is a small opening about 3ft high that allows me to sneak in there.

There is a CFL galore as well as 150watt HPS bulb. Currently, two plants are outside of the humidity dome those ones are doing pretty well, everyone else is still in the dome, they are being very lazy....

There are chains holding up the HPS bulb and chains running across the walls which allows me to mount lights on them as I need.

The black garbage bags cover the light coming through the seams of drywall (i learned that I shouldn't be in construction business through this experience).

The last pic is the cieling, I ran a 14AWG wire from that lamp through the drywall into the DIG. It was a bitch as you can see the drywall isn't set up that great, but I doubt the cops or visitors would notice.