CFL Bagseed, Take 2

[melodious fellow]

The 2 month old plant is officially dead

But with death, there is new beginning...... my seedlings have sprouted!

4 or 5 little sprouts popped up today... unfortunately I only have room in my set-up for 1 single 10 inch diameter pot. Perhaps I will try to transplant or kill the 2 or 3 weakest and then leave the 2 healthiest-looking plants growing together in the pot.

The seedlings are in the 60% - 40% peat moss and perlite mix with two 40 watt CFL's and one 23 watt CFL, for a total of 100 watts and 7150 lumens, under a 20 hours on, 4 hours off light cycle.

I am wondering if I should remove the 23 watt CLF, thus reducing the wattage and lumens to 80 watts and 5400 lumens. I ask this because I have read that in flowering, there should be at least twice as much light as the plants received in veg. In my small set up, I think I will only be able to fit enough CFL's to provide around 11,000 or 12,000 lumens maximum. So would it be better to veg under the current 7,150 lumens and then flower with 11 or 12 thousand, or veg under 5400 lumens, so when I switch to 11 or 12 thousand it will be double what they received in veg?

Also, how long can the peat moss/ perlite mix sustain the seedlings before I need to begin fertilizing? I am guessing I shall start feeding after 2 weeks? Then start flower stage after 5 weeks?

Still not much of a vent system: I had a small fan running at the bottom of my grow bucket, with the top of the bucket open for air to vent out I guess... unfortunately the fan runs on batteries.... after visiting every store in town, I could not find ANY small fans...

melodious fellow Reviewed by melodious fellow on 12-17-2007. CFL Bagseed, Take 2 The 2 month old plant is officially dead :( But with death, there is new beginning...... my seedlings have sprouted! 4 or 5 little sprouts popped up today... unfortunately I only have room in my set-up for 1 single 10 inch diameter pot. Perhaps I will try to transplant or kill the 2 or 3 weakest and then leave the 2 healthiest-looking plants growing together in the pot. The seedlings are in the 60% - 40% peat moss and perlite mix with two 40 watt CFL's and one 23 watt CFL, for a Rating: 5

[Zcomp]

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[melodious fellow]

Hey Hate! Yea bro, I have been reading your thread... looking good, I'll comment later

[melodious fellow]

O yea, Hate, I am going to attempt to LST. My seedlings don't seem to be doing shit though...

[melodious fellow]

I am getting more and more frustrated with this grow.

In hindsight, I would have done a VERY simple hempy-bucket grow with just a few CFL's against a wall in a closet surrounded by mylar.

Anyway, here is a pic from yesterday... I swear I only planted 10 seeds total...

As of today, natural selection seems to be taking care of things:
The fan fell and crushed one seedlings.
A large CFL came too close and burned, probably killing 2 more seedlings.

So in a few more days, I should be down to just 2 plants in the larger pot, my control pot.

I think I am turning pot 2, the experimental pot into a hempy bucket and sticking it in the corner of a closet with mylar around. Very simple!

And here is the pathetic pic... after an entire week, they are still this small:

[melodious fellow]

It can be done! This guy is my hero:

http://boards.cannabis.com/grow-log/...-grow-log.html

His pics are amazing. I still went way more overboard and spent waaaay more money than he did, more stress over this and work... and my yield still won't be nearly what his was, if I can even keep mine alive.

[melodious fellow]

O, by the way,

The original grow was being logged in a thread in indoor growing entitled "closet set-up possible without box- please evaluate"

That was until the 2 or 3 month old purple something plant I had brought in from outside died.

So this shall be the new thread for my new seedlings.

Hopefully all you great growers can help me not kill my grow this time!

[melodious fellow]

These pics are from day 2. Hopefully everything looks peachy.

Except there are waaaay tooooo maaaannnny seeeeeeeedlings in one of the pots. The seeds were month old and had just been sitting around out in the light and air, and thus I planted 10 or so in one pot, thinking 2 would sprout. Well.....

Running two 40 watt CFL's and one 26 watt CFL for a total of 7150 lumens for the veg state, upping it to 16,000 lumens for flower.

Trying hard to get a pic up... damn server

[melodious fellow]

Here they are! Damn, I shore wish someone would reply

[melodious fellow]

Whoops, earlier I said the soil was 60%, 40% peat moss and perlite, but it is actually peat moss and Vermiculite

And it might be 50 50, not shore how accurate my mixing was...