my first grow - northern lights

[deadhead65]

I ordered Northern Light seeds last week from Dr. Chronic and got them within 5 days in a very stealth package along with 10 freebie seeds.

Let them sit overnight in a cup of water until they sank and then put them in rapid rooters in a 5 oz dixie cup. They're sitting in a baking dish with a cover on top in my closet with the lights off as we speak. I tucked them in and kissed them goodnight and told them I'll be back in the morning to say hello.

Here is a closeup of where they are in their cups and one of the closet.

deadhead65 Reviewed by deadhead65 on 09-09-2007. my first grow - northern lights I ordered Northern Light seeds last week from Dr. Chronic and got them within 5 days in a very stealth package along with 10 freebie seeds. Let them sit overnight in a cup of water until they sank and then put them in rapid rooters in a 5 oz dixie cup. They're sitting in a baking dish with a cover on top in my closet with the lights off as we speak. I tucked them in and kissed them goodnight and told them I'll be back in the morning to say hello. :D Here is a closeup of where they are in Rating: 5

[deadhead65]

For those of you who have endured my never ending saga of where to do my set up and how............I finally had an epiphany last night while doing laundry. I have two closets that I've shown previously directly next to my washer and dryer. They are the KEY area that I can grow in because if I hear the cellar door open (it makes a loud hrrrrrrrrrrrrmph when you open it) I can quickly shut the closet doors and make like I'm doing laundry. :thumbsup:

One closet I am using soley for storage of my equipment such as lights, soil, nutrients, cleaner, etc. The other is my grow closet.

Today I had to remove two pieces of shelving so that the plants will not be so cramped and will have room to grow. I think it's a total of three feet from the bottom shelf to the top shelf where the lights are hanging but I'll measure it tomorrow to be sure.

Then I had to make a hole in the side wall so that I could put an extension cord in it since there is no electrical outlet in the closet. That was a bitch on wheels since I have no drill. Basically the wood is just panelling so I hammered nail holes in a circle and then took a small saw and just kept turning it and turning it until it wood pieces kept coming out. It wasn't big enough for the plug so I had to cut the wire of the cord, strip it, then put it through the hole, then connect the wires of both ends and wrap it in electrical tape.

Next I made two hooks in the bottom of the top shelf so I can hang the lights but I think I should put a few more hooks since the light on the left just isn't doing what I want it to.

I took two reflector lights, removed the reflectors and screwed in a y-adaptor so I can put two lights in to each fixture. The lights are 23 watt soft white cfl's but of course I can't remember if those are the right ones for vegging or if I should use the daylight ones for vegging. Anybody?:wtf: I have both so it's no biggie and I'm not even keeping the light on at this point since I don't even have a sprout yet but I wanna be ready.

I hung a temp/humidity monitor up and it's about 78 degrees now and the humidity is around 75. Not sure if that's ok but i'll look it up if no one chimes in. That's without any lights on at all.

I don't have any air input/output yet since I'm still recovering from getting that puny lil hole in the wall. lol. that will have to wait for another two weeks or so.

Oh I forgot............I took out the old doorknob and put in one with a lock THAT took me almost two freakin' hours!!! The hard part was removing the old knob which had a funky set up that forbade you from getting to the screws. I sounded like a truckdriver while taking that sucker out!!!!!

That's it for now. I"m pooped!!! This is hard work!!!

[killerweed420]

Looks like it should work good.Get some mylar and cover the walls and maybe put in a couple stealth vents in the back for ventilation.

[deadhead65]

I quit. I got really freaked out today reading some busted reports on various sites. Now I have over $150 worth of stuff and no use for it.

[canuck grower]

Oh dude that's a shame. Sorry to hear about your shutting things down. Peace of mind comes first I suppose.

[KL4D4]

well if you wanna unload anything to me it'll go to a good home, maybe try an out door grow someday.

[deadhead65]

I am still growing...couldn't bring myself to destroy everything. lol. I posted this on another site but one cannot get too much help so here goes:

So these seedlings are approx 2 weeks old from the first time they popped outside of the soil and about 3 weeks old from the time I soaked the seeds in water. Seems like they're both growing wicked slow for me. Any ideas as to why?

Happy Helen, though slow growing, looks pretty healthy imho, but Sick Sally has this weird color to her leaves all of a sudden and it seems to have happened as soon as I added a warm light bulb into the grow closet.

The soil is an organic seedling soil with equal parts soil, worm castings and perlite. First week I watered them with distilled water 1 oz each day with the third day getting 1 oz of superthrive at 1tsp to 1 gallon distilled water. Second week they have been getting 2oz each day of distilled water and 2 oz of superthrive mixture at 1tsp to 1 gallon distilled water.

Sick Sally's ph is steady at 7 and Happy Helen is at a wee nudge below 7.

Temps in the room stay steady at 80 degrees and 60% humidity. I have a small fan blowing at them at all times to strengthen the stem. The lights are 6 26 watt daylight cfl's with the 1 added 23 watt warm light bulb.

Like I said the leaves started turning when I added the warm light but maybe that is a coincidence? The lights are about 2 inches I guess from the top of the leaves.

Any thoughts?

[stinkyattic]

Overfert. The light's heat jsut accelerated the problem.
Punch some extra holes in those cups so you can very gently flush them.

[deadhead65]

Overfert. The light's heat jsut accelerated the problem.
Punch some extra holes in those cups so you can very gently flush them.

thanks, though of course you know what I just did to them.


For those that don't know I just put them in fox farm ocean with perlite, though sick sally's leaves were already starting to get crusty when I pulled her out.

We'll see if either is alive tomorrow. Oh well lesson learned for the newbie. :P

[BigWeed]

I am still growing...couldn't bring myself to destroy everything. lol. I posted this on another site but one cannot get too much help so here goes:

So these seedlings are approx 2 weeks old from the first time they popped outside of the soil and about 3 weeks old from the time I soaked the seeds in water. Seems like they're both growing wicked slow for me. Any ideas as to why?

Happy Helen, though slow growing, looks pretty healthy imho, but Sick Sally has this weird color to her leaves all of a sudden and it seems to have happened as soon as I added a warm light bulb into the grow closet.

The soil is an organic seedling soil with equal parts soil, worm castings and perlite. First week I watered them with distilled water 1 oz each day with the third day getting 1 oz of superthrive at 1tsp to 1 gallon distilled water. Second week they have been getting 2oz each day of distilled water and 2 oz of superthrive mixture at 1tsp to 1 gallon distilled water.

Sick Sally's ph is steady at 7 and Happy Helen is at a wee nudge below 7.

Temps in the room stay steady at 80 degrees and 60% humidity. I have a small fan blowing at them at all times to strengthen the stem. The lights are 6 26 watt daylight cfl's with the 1 added 23 watt warm light bulb.

Like I said the leaves started turning when I added the warm light but maybe that is a coincidence? The lights are about 2 inches I guess from the top of the leaves.

Any thoughts?

You dont want to give them any nutes the first couple weeks that means no superthrive. The fox farm soil is okay I start out all my seedlings using it i just dont use any ferts the first few weeks. Try and get your humidity down to 45% 60 is way to high and try and get your temps down to about 77 that will help them out a lot. Other than that keep up the good work.:rasta::rastasmoke:imp: