1st grow.... F*@*#!! terrible!!!!

well this is my first grow and i decided to share it with all of those who (A) choose to read this (B) accidentally stumbled across it (C) came to demean or help out my grow....:thumbsup:

okay first off i'm broke as shit so.... my grow room setup was basically free besides the electric bill kicking my ass...:mad:
i actually did buy the light for 15 bucks off a friend who told me it was a 500w MH light but.....when i got it, i found out it was a garage light like the ones you would use to work on a car. though it said it was 500w, nowhere did it say metal halide so i don't know if it's right or not. but it's working.
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my grow room is full of junk which could hurt the plants in the long run but i don't really know... i tired to clean up a bit but was to anxious to start growing and change my green tip to a green thumb...

okay so far the plants have been planted and sprouted for two weeks now. And so far they look pretty good besides the dumbass fact that i have them all in one pot, diverting back to how broke i am.
the plants are growing in miracle grow (which i heard is bad) and i been feeding them Fox Farm grow big every other day and at two weeks it's doing pretty good i'll get pics up very soon.....:jointsmile:

:(SORRY PICS ARE SO BIG CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT:(






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That light looks like a mercury vapor light. Is the bulb long and skinny? ...like a pencil?

if so...it uses lots of electricty and puts off a lot of heat... and has the wrong light spectrum for good growing conditions. IMO.

yea the blub is actually kinda short but definitaly thin.... i mean if u read above then u understand that i'm broke as hell and can't afford another light but this one seems to be working do u think i could still use it??? i mean so far i'm surprised that it even gots this big in 2 weeks it's almost like 15 inches or so....

go out and buy 3 27 watt cfls's ... daylight and you will be good

yea......... i would......but.................i'm broke as fuck..........


but nobody answered my question about will it continue to grow or not it's fuckin beauty to my eyes right now... and i think i might just leave it up to continue my grow log....:D

It'll grow. They'll grow under any light source. Its just the better the light source the better they do. You would probably actually save money on cfl's because they will use way less electricity and then you can get them in the right color.

That looks to be a halogen work light. No good.


If you have absolutely no money whatsoever, dont grow pot yet. If you dont do it right, the buds will be horrible. For all the work and time you'll put into it, and then it comes out looking like gras clippings, the feeling is horrible, I know from experience. The least you can get away with spending is gonna be about 20 bucks, 3 CFL's on a power strip in a white box.

Those plants are already so stretched I would start over.

i might have to look into that but, i'll be broke for at least another two weeks and i was planning on flowering them in 2-3 weeks or whenever they hit 2ft.....
does anybody think having them in the same pot could kill em????
i think it's like way to late to transplant them and i never transplant right anyway....btw there was 9 plants in total in the same pot, but my inexperience in transplanting killed 5 other ones then i gave up.....any answers....???


Also could you flower using the CFL's?????

can anybody else help the kid out??????????