Lets grow some plants.... Advice would be great!

[Posjr408]

So i'm a first time grower. I was up late last night reading theards until the sun came up. I'm on a budget so i'm doing a cheap grow you can say :thumbsup:

I have a good size closet. 2ftx5ftx9ft I'm going for 8 plants. I live in an apt. Which i have a crawl space underneth. Which i will add a bath room fan and make a hole in the floor and mount it.

I have added about 12 seeds in a wet towel and within 24 hours 5 have spourted. Seeds are nothing spacial. I smoked it before from the same family and it did its job :jointsmile:

I just got back from OSH and homedepot and picked up some lighting. 6 sockets ($1.19ea), Six y-sockets ($2.00 ea), 10-23w 1,600 lumens 2700k (4pk $3.00), 2-30w 2000 lumens 3500k ($7.50). I plan on doubling this later when plants get bigger. So the tatol at this point is 290w and 20000 Lumens.And i plan to add a higher bulb mybe two 5.6k into the mix. All bulbs are CFL.

So tomerrow i well start the tear down of the closet. I had two questions....

1. Is my lighting ok? And should i add two 5.6k bulbs CFL bulb.
2. Also should i add foil around all the walls in the closet to get better lighting with what i got.

I start taking pix once i do the tear down.

Posjr408 Reviewed by Posjr408 on 04-13-2008. Lets grow some plants.... Advice would be great! So i'm a first time grower. I was up late last night reading theards until the sun came up. I'm on a budget so i'm doing a cheap grow you can say :thumbsup: I have a good size closet. 2ftx5ftx9ft I'm going for 8 plants. I live in an apt. Which i have a crawl space underneth. Which i will add a bath room fan and make a hole in the floor and mount it. I have added about 12 seeds in a wet towel and within 24 hours 5 have spourted. Seeds are nothing spacial. I smoked it before from the same Rating: 5

[Posjr408]

I planted 12 seeds that have rooted just waiting for them to spourt. Than i'll sex them and put them in their own pots.

[Krimet]

Don't plant more than one seed in a pot, they'll be to hard to separate once their root system has started. You will only want more foil once your plants start to get bigger and you raise your lights. If you close the closet door I would put some foil on the back side of that too!

[Posjr408]

Sounds good. I'll repot them as soon as they spourt or get acouple inchs high. Yes i will be closing the door. I'll put foil on the doors some day soon. Thanx

I drilled a three inch hole on the floor which leads to the crawl space which is my vent system and added a bathroom fan from osh for 10 bucks.

I also added two 65w 12000k bulbs. Are they a overkill. It was left over from my old saltwater tank.

[Cede2Weed]

I do not think you can have overkill on lights as long as you are keeping the temps down.

I am sure others will chime in, but I have read on the boards that white paint is more reflective then tinfoil/aluminumfoil. I started with it as well

Mylar is the most recommended reflective surface. If you cannot find it, use safety blankets found in the camping section of walmart.

Looks like a very nice set up. :thumbsup:

Good luck!

[Cede2Weed]

You also may want to consider placing some books under your pots to get closer to the lights. If you can get to within 1" or 2" without the heat getting to bad that would be optimal.

[JaySin]

I would say get the fluorescent tubes down with the CFLs. I'm not sure if their band of light is useful, but more of their light would get to the plant if they were down by the CFLs.

[Posjr408]

I just got back from walmart and got 6 26w CFL 6500k. Which i replaced with the 23w 2700k. So know i'm pushing 6 26w 6500k, 23w 2700k, and 2 65w 12000k bulbs. I have two more 65w 12000k bulbs laying around which i'm still not sure if i should use them also?

I also bought a temp and humid gauge. Along with some 18-18-21 food.

My humid says 34% and high. Time to do some research.........

Temp is 82 so i just turned the fan on high.

I think i got some work to do. Plus i'm still waiting for the seeds to spourt. Only 2 have spourted out of 16.

[Posjr408]

Ok i added a glass of water to help raise the humid level.

Yesterday night i also add all the seeds to there own cup besides 3 per pot.

Here is a pix as of right now. Next i plan on makeing reflactors out of beer cans. Beside tomerrow is my b-day and there sure will be planty of beer cans around :thumbsup:

[Cede2Weed]

Happy birthday!