Turning Bagseed into Gold w/ CFL's (I hope)

[Mr. Brown]

So this is my first grow. That being said, I've been researching for more than a year, 90% of which was done on this site so thank you to everyone so far. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do and how to go about doing it, but I know I'm gonna have some questions and greatly appreciate all the help I can get.

Here's my setup:
4x2x5 wood frame cover with black plastic and jammed in my closet
6 150 watt cfl's
fan from walmart
Happy Frog soil
Fox Farm's nutes
Liquid Ph tester
That's the best I can do until I get a job. I plan on getting mylar and some kind of exhaust set up, but until then, this will have to do. I'm broke as a joke, and by joke I mean I'm in the hole $100 to my brother for Radiohead tickets (way worth it!)
P.s. he is also assisting me (splitting the cost and reward) on this journey.

So far I have been watering with tap water that I set out for a day so the chlorine evaporates. I use a tiny bit of vinegar to lower the Ph then mix my nutes and water away.

We now join our regularly scheduled program already in Progress...

I have 7 plants in 1 gallon buckets that just hit week 5 of veg. My plan was 5 weeks then switch but we'll see, maybe 6. The tallest one is about a foot, the others are ~9 inches so I decided yesterday to do some LST, really LSTTT low stress twisty tie training thanks Opie Yutts. I bent them over and kinda rearranged and tied back some fan leaves and moved bud sites into the light.
My plan now is to switch them to flower when they are ready, kill the males, and move them to 4 gallon buckets where they will live out the rest of their lives in comfort.

So, here we go, wish me luck and we're on our way.

Do any moderators know why I can't attach pics in the Grow Log forum? I can in other forums, just not this one. Oh, and what does registered+ mean?

Mr. Brown Reviewed by Mr. Brown on 02-25-2008. Turning Bagseed into Gold w/ CFL's (I hope) So this is my first grow. That being said, I've been researching for more than a year, 90% of which was done on this site so thank you to everyone so far. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do and how to go about doing it, but I know I'm gonna have some questions and greatly appreciate all the help I can get. Here's my setup: 4x2x5 wood frame cover with black plastic and jammed in my closet 6 150 watt cfl's fan from walmart Happy Frog soil Fox Farm's nutes Liquid Ph tester Rating: 5

[Mr. Brown]

Here are the pics of yesterday's post. The before and after LST. They are all reaching for the light again a little more than 12 hours later.

[basementbotany]

you need 50 posts before you can add attachments to your thread, i believe.

[Mr. Brown]

yea man, I dont know, it didnt work last night but it worked today so im happy.

[Sjapp]

hey how do you have your lights fixed like that? hanging? i have a grow box from tubbaware but i plan on building something with 2 compartments, one for veg and 1 for flowering, and i cant figure out away to lower and raise my cfls. and what light spectrum are you 150 watts?

[paperchaser825]

First off lemme ask a few questions, 150 watt cfl's or 150 watt equivalents?

Those look like some 26 watt cool whites from wal-mart or the like. I would use at least 4 per plant for veg then switch them out for 4 47 watt warm white cfl's. Also, get rid of that black lining on the inside. Black is the single worst color for light reflection. Also, I would put some type of fan in there to circulate if not exhaust the air inside. Check out my grow log link to see just how much light it really takes (Check the 2nd page towards then end). The trick to getting the best harvest from bagseed, harvest at the right time. I would invest in a 30x or more microscrope, not more than $30 and harvest when the trichs are 30% or more amber. Harvest early to get a real heavy coughlock effect, later for more of a body high.

[Sjapp]

what link? and 4 per plant... thats a fire hazard dont do that... i would get another 2 if you can find the money but i defently think you should get some reflective material first.

[Mr. Brown]

they are 42 watt warm white 150 eq. It was a bitch trying to get the lights to hang straight. I ended up with hangers with string tied to the ends and then to the lights. I can move them up and down as well as side to side, so it worked out well.

So no ones confused cloudy trichs give a heady, energetic high and amber trichs give a couchlock, body high. But yea, I was thinking somewhere between 35 and 50% amber would be a good time to harvest. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

For any one who cares, when i wake up tomorrow at like 3:00pm, i will post the pics of the lst that i've done so far. Peace

[Sjapp]

so you used coat hangers and string? and then you just bend the coat hanger up to raise the lights?

[Mr. Brown]

Day 30

This morning I tied them down a little further, and moved around some of the new fan leaves. I took some twisty ties, cut'em in half and used them to pull the fan leaves behind the the main stalk, kind of like a ponytail. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing but a lot more light is getting to the bud sites. I read a Stinkyattic post on someone else's grow that leaving the fan leaves on lets the buds produce more trichs. (im paraphrasing so dont hold her to that)

I was gonna wait til I new the males to transplant them, but it looks like they have stalled a bit. They're in 1 gallon pots now and I think the roots need some more room. I wanted to wait til this sunday to switch to 12/12, that would be 5 weeks veg. Since they look like they are stalling, I need to transplant as soon as possible if they are. I'll wait a couple days and see.

As far as the lights, I still have to untie the string to move em up and down. My problem was that they were getting twisted and with the hangers I can keep them strait and right where I want them. I got these little T things that have a pull chain on them so thats handy too. I put pics up if that helps

The first two pics of the plants kinda show how the light is better used. In the third one you can see how I used the twisty ties to tie back the fan leaves.

The last pic is one that I had to put in a zip lock bag because I'm semi retarded and counted 7 plants but only bought 6 pots so I picked the the smallest one and there it is.