McToker's 1st Grow with CFL

[TheMetal1]

Congrats on your new adventure. I'll be stopping back by. CFL's are pretty cooooooool :thumbsup:

and:

The Homebox showed up. YEAH!!!

hahaha... seriously one of the best things about growing. GETTING NEW SHIT!!!!!!!

[McToker]

Here's a better pic of the DIY scrubber. This was after we made it shorter.



and.............. everyone in their place in their new digs.

[SunnyD]

PURDY!

Lookin fine

[GreenLeaf420]

Nice Clean Set-up you have their!!! Very Happy plants you have the color is wonderful beautiful tight Nodes!!!What is the way you added those PICS it reminds me of another site? I like the way you have those CFL's Set Up Were did you pick up the 8 unit one HD? That is a nice piece how much was that? Great for Supp and side light... Good Luck GL1

[McToker]

The pics are hosted on Photobucket and linked to the post.

Yup, the 8-light unit is a 4-socket vanity light from HD for $8. I just added 4 "Y" sockets ($1.59 at Wally World) to it to double the bulbs. Each socket was originally set to handle 60 watts so, with 2 26-watt CFL bulbs in each socket, I'm still at only 52 watts per socket.

[McToker]

Had some heat/ventilation issues to deal with. The 2 biggest plants were showing signs of heat stress. Apparently 90 CFM on the exhaust fan was just not enough. We ditched the 4 inch tubing in favor of 6 inch and put on a bigger fan. The only thing I could find was a 500 CFM unit. We just finished getting everything changed out. Yesterday, the temps were ranging from 86 to 89.7 F and I had to move the lights a good 8 inches above the plants to get that. We even unscrewed every other bulb on the 8-bulb unit.

So far.......... knock wood........... temp is holding at 81.0 with 47% humidity.

We have central A/C and keep the house at 78 degrees. I'll be happy if we can keep the tent in the area of 81 with all the lights on.

The 2 biggest plants have been in MG for a month now, so I figured the nutes were about used up. Since we are still waiting for our new nutes to arrive, I gave them a 1/4 dose of Fish emulsion to hold them over.

Moving the lights up last night did cause some stem stretch on the biggest plant. It gained 6 inches since yesterday.

[McToker]

Well, when something is too good to be true........... it probably is.

One of us inadvertantly left the thermometer set on the temp for "outside" the box.

Right now it's sitting at 85 degrees. We can still live with that but I cranked the A/C down a bit anyway.

[anbesol]

Looking Good!

[McToker]

Thanks Anbesol.

They seem to have started recovering from the higher temps. The yellowing on the newer growth of the larger plants seems to be receeding.

Temp is holding about 84 degrees even after the wife bumped the A/C back up to 78.

[McToker]

There was just a trace of smell making it through the filter. Picked up some dryer sheets (Bounce with Febreeze). I threw a sheet on the filter and the problem was taken care of within 30 minutes. The wife is happy now. And........ when the wife is happy, I'm happy.

Temps are holding at 84 to 86 with humidity at 40 to 42%.