Growing on a budget of $0.00

[Italiano715]

LoL sorry to laugh but it's better this way....Those lil things looked hopeless....Now when you start again you'll see a dramatic change from this experience to the next. All you can do is get better!

[ForgetClassC]

all the other plants are actually doing amazingly better, mine just died.....lol

[ForgetClassC]

Well, my plant is completely dead, started germinating some more yesterday, here is a pic of the new cover to the grow box, the large shoe box on the one side is actually covering up a fan that is mounted to the foam-core panel. In the bottom right hand corner of the panel there is a vent that intakes air and the fan blows it out. We are going to wait a little bit(his choice not mine) on replanting, I couldn't really figure out his logic to why not to transplant the female, but yeah. I'll tell ya what happens when we do that, heres a pic of her, shes alot prettier now than when I first saw her.

[ForgetClassC]

Here's my buddies girls. They nicer then I thought they were going to get compared to when I first got there.

[ForgetClassC]

Got some new pics, they are looking awesome. Pretty sure the big one is a female. Also started 3 more on Cinco de Mayo. Very hopeful. Here's the photos.

Can anyone tell me why the one that had been topped has yellowing leaves on the bottom? They are slowly progressing towards green but is there something I can do in order to fix that problem?

ALL PLANTS ARE IN SEPARATE POTS AS OF LAST NIGHT!!!!!....these pix are from the night before last.....

[VanGogh001]

Bad soil there friend. No pearlite, no drainage = big problems. You should have let them alone, try not to go slicing and dicing the first time around. LST Low Stress Training read and learn about it if you don't already know it's a great technique for closet cases. Words of wisdom i received was to take is slow and persevere. Before you post up looking for answers show us that you have done your research. (unless your growing autoflower you aint seeing sex for a while my friend)

Best of luck and happy growing.

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[ForgetClassC]

As for the drainage, yes sir, I know, i wish i had some, but, we didn't, will get some next grow around. But these plants are actually around 2 1/2 months old. Before I brought my box over, these guys were struggling to survive on 2 13 watt soft white CFL. My buddy really doesn't know ANYTHING about growing, so I thought I would help him out with what I do know. I have learn books worth from this site and the plants made an amazing turn around in the past 2 weeks from being in my box.

As for the cinco de mayo plants. chucked 2 of them and kept the big one. Its got some STRANGE ass growth. I'll take a picture today to show you what I mean. The first true leaves are like....rounded then go into normal form, who knows. Heres some pix of our flowering box. Only going to flower 1-2 at a time so that the others can veg out more. Heres the spex on the new box:

-2 30 watt daylight(5000k) cfl = 2000 lumens each = 4000 total lumens(in mail)
-2 12 watt 3 1/2 inch fans; bottom = intake, top = exhaust
-Matte white finish of interior

If I forget anything, I'll post it up next time.


-C

[syde00]

You'd be better off using 2700K CFLs for flowering, 5000K+ is mostly for veg.

also, for 2000 lumens is really not great for 30W CFLs... its not bad, its just not great thats all.

I really like these ones - Lighting > Lamps > Compact Fluorescent Lamps > Lamp,FLE29HLX/2/XL827 : Grainger Industrial Supply 2200 lumens @ 2700K for 29 watts. (which is about 10 lumens per watt higher than the bulbs you mention).

I however would not buy them from that URL... thats a crazy crazy expensive price!

Also, don;t bother with an in-take fan, you should only use fans on your exhaust and have a passive intake.

[Italiano715]

As for the drainage, yes sir, I know, i wish i had some, but, we didn't, will get some next grow around. But these plants are actually around 2 1/2 months old. Before I brought my box over, these guys were struggling to survive on 2 13 watt soft white CFL. My buddy really doesn't know ANYTHING about growing, so I thought I would help him out with what I do know. I have learn books worth from this site and the plants made an amazing turn around in the past 2 weeks from being in my box.

I've came to the conclusion that even though you have READ a whole lot, it's not as useful as getting your hands in there and getting dirty. You will learn a lot more doing it then reading about it! They are starting to look better though I might add. Hope they all turn out females! :thumbsup:

[ForgetClassC]

syde-
ill keep that in mind, ill see what goes down them might get some new ones

italiano-
yes, gracias for stayin with my post, same to you syde. will put up more pix when i take them