First grow, good advice always needed

[DoDoFoShoDoe]

Today i have started my first grow and i cannot wait to see some leaves!

My setup is in my attic, i have a 4" AC duct tube come directly out of the AC unit so i will be able to cool the room with downstair controls. I've made a room out of empty space and roof supports with wood and 1" thick foam insulation walls.

As of now, i only have 2 100 watt daylight compact cfls and both in large reflective ballasts. I plan to get another ballast and a stronger high output daylight bulb for veging and then find the most powerful warm white cfl for flowering (daylight spectrum contains more blue and warm white has more red).

I used a natural germination technique by putting the seeds appx 1/4 - 1/2" in the soil

I am using Ocean Forrest soil by Fox Farm and will begin using Fox Farm Grow Big for vegetative growth two weeks after the plants have been growing.

Using my beginner judgment and hopefully some help from the growing goorus on this site i plan to transplant 2 times in hope of at least 4 ladies out of the 9 that i planted. 3 of the seeds are seeds ive found in some nice sacks of my own, 1 was given to me i think it was mids, and the other 5 are a mix of crystal seeds and strawberry cough seeds that my greatest ganja buddy gave me. hopefully i get some sort of a decent turn out. The next few months should be fun and a good learning experience, thats all i really want plus a little prize at the end!

Thanks for all the help and i will post pictures as soon as i can!

DoDoFoShoDoe Reviewed by DoDoFoShoDoe on 04-08-2008. First grow, good advice always needed Today i have started my first grow and i cannot wait to see some leaves! My setup is in my attic, i have a 4" AC duct tube come directly out of the AC unit so i will be able to cool the room with downstair controls. I've made a room out of empty space and roof supports with wood and 1" thick foam insulation walls. As of now, i only have 2 100 watt daylight compact cfls and both in large reflective ballasts. I plan to get another ballast and a stronger high output daylight bulb for Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

Cool, good luck, can't wait to see pics.
Isn't foam board fun to work with? It feels like being back in preschool playing with those big carboard blocks that have a brick pattern printed on them!

For a whole mess of seedlings, you need more light. A T12 shop light with 2 'cool white' or 'daylight' bulbs will run you no more than $15 at home depot and is good for a BUNCH of seedlings. It also does not get very hot.

[DoDoFoShoDoe]

I also hope to save up enough money in the next month to get a Procyon 100, hopefully ill be able to use in for some flowering and get some nice resin production like SnSstealth and doughboy!

[DoDoFoShoDoe]

Thanks Stinky! yea foam board is pretty fun to work w but with limited space it can find a way of being a pain.

I was worried about not enough light but i shall purchase more asap!

[DoDoFoShoDoe]

Okay, i went to home depot and got 2 48" indoor garden daylight fluorescents and a ballast. Here goes the setup!

[DoDoFoShoDoe]

Checked the pots today, no sprouts, soil lookin dry so i gave em a little bit of water. I hope i see some results by tomorrow or else i think im going to send away for some seeds.

Any one have any recommendations plants that harvest well with cfls? i was thinking a heavy yielding plant with low odor.

List out some strains!

[stinkyattic]

I've seen papaya do very well under flouros, and the odor is more sweet n fruity than anything. It's also a very easy and hardy plant.

[DoDoFoShoDoe]

oohh sounds delicious! do you know of any sites i can get at least 10 seeds off of discretely?

[SnSstealth]

get some pics up dodo!!! we use all FF nutes and soil too...no complaints....AK-47 does amazing for beginners too....but kinda stinky...it can take alot of abuse though.
well good luck on your grow...I'll keep poppin in on ya:thumbsup:
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[stinkyattic]

The papaya seeds I ran came from seedboutique/nirvana.