McToker's 1st Grow with CFL

[McToker]

you know, a little box fan can cool a pretty good size hps. I used that for 400w in a meter² area. The ambient was generally 65-70ºF. At the canopy the temp would be 80º-85º. Just an observation. good luck with the CFLs though. They can do the trick too. You know the math now.

We won't see that kind of ambient temp until December or so. We bumped the house A/C down to 76 F and run a 7 inch clip fan inside the box and have a regular box fan about 8 feet away directing more air toward the box. Right now, canopy temp is hovering around 85. We also have a 500 CFM duct fan hauling the warm air out of the top of the box.

We'll see what kind of results we get from this grow and plan to start a second grow after Xmas when we have cooler ambient temps.

[McToker]

I sure hope we can switch to flower soon and start culling out any males. We're running out of room in there!

The one plant that we topped is showing alternating nodes as are a couple branches on the freak (not on the main cola). Many of the plants show very tiny specs that could be the beginnings of preflowers but, even with a jeweler's loupe, I still can't tell, yet.

The oldest plant is 6 weeks old, today. The others range from 1 day to 1 1/2 weeks younger.

With the new light, the temp peaked at 88 during the night but the babies seem to love it.

[McToker]

I culled out two plants today. One was showing both male and female flowers. I don't know if it's a hermie or intrasexual. The other was showing wierd light brown sections on the leaf surface. I thought this might be because it was the first plant directly in front of a fixed fan.

Both plants were moved outdoors. We'll continue to give them nutes and see what happens. Actually, I hope they do well. We could use more seeds, at the very least.

Now that we have a bit more room, we removed the fixed clip-fan and replaced it with a desktop tower oscillating fan (the kind with two squirrel cage fans in it).

A couple of the remaining plants have little nubs at the nodes but still too early to tell if male or female.

[BeFree]

Wow, looking really good.:thumbsup:

and 'Frankenlight' clicked my inspiration light on. Really appreciate that as well.:hippy:

I've got a indoor growing log with my trinode plant and my little FIM/LST monster if you wanna check it out.

Have a good one and Be Safe, bud.:jointsmile:

[McToker]

The first pic is the one with the brown spots. The second is the bi. Not a great pic but the best I could get. On a couple nodes, male and female preflowers are clustered together.

[McToker]

Thanks BeFree.

Glad to be of help.

I'll be checking out your log.

[hydrocannabis]

looks better than my other flowering plant.but its still flowering ok. so will have to wate and see.

and the ones in the pic all of em they look great.

[McToker]

Thanks hydro. I think the one was just getting beat up by the constant breeze on it. Anyway, needed the room to be able to put the oscillating fan in the box.

We'll probably have to move a few more outside, as well. I figure we'll only have room to flower 3 to 4 in the box, at best.

[weedheaduknow]

Very good 1st grow!! You give me hope, as I plan on growing for the first time and with the use of cfl's. Only questions i have right now is what are all of the nutes you are using and are you even checkin the ph of your water and soil??

[McToker]

I went with what stinkyattic recommended in her basic "stickie", Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow and Pro Bloom with an occasional dallop of Sweet and Molasses.

http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...-dankness.html

Water is from our R/O machine so it's a neutral 7.0 to start. Soil Ph has been holding about 6.5 to 7. Although, I haven't checked it in a while.

Good luck with your grow. I'm sure you'll learn a lot. Seems like I learn something new every day. Usually it's what mistakes I've made.