This is my second grow.

Your Equipment:
.1) four 100 watt CFLs, two 4' tube flourescents. (about 11,000 total lumens)
.2) approx. 8''-10'' from lights
.3) white hood reflectors for tubes, and a ghetto foil hood for the cfls
.4) It's in a closet, so the air is as fresh as i can get it in that situation.
.5) I only have a circulation fan.
.6) all cfl's = 27 watt (100 watt equivalent) tube flours = 32 watts each. they are on a 16/8 cycle right now.

Your medium:
.7) I started with scotts premium potting soil, which the roots are now bound in. I transplanted to miracle-gro potting mix, its less muddy, and worked well for my last grow. I also added perlite to make the mix about 75% soil, 25% perlite.
.8) 16oz solo party cups for containers
.9) plastic bag method was used for germination, planted all 6 seeds when two taproots emerged, 5 grew, one did not.

Your nutrients and water:
10) tap water. Ph is almost exactly 7.
11) i used test strips with color indication charts. so, i hope its accurate.
12) I haven't done any ph adjustment other than letting the water sit out for a day or two before using it.
13) Im using schultz 10-15-10 plant food, but only using a 25% strength solution. (each quart of water calls for 7 drops... i used 7 drops per gallon
14) i have been watering with the the 25% strength solution every other day. (im thinking this is too much :/)
15) no additives.
16) im not sure if the ph fluctuates. i can't really tell with these stupid test strips
17) ingoing ph = almost exactly 7. runoff ph unknown, but i checked the ph of wet soil and it was a little lower, in the 6.5 range.
18) i dont foliar feed... but i read somewhere to spray water in the air to keep humidity up and it get on the foliage.

Your growroom:
19) Indoor grow.
20) using a storage tub at the moment, moving to a 3.5 foot length, 1.5 foot width floor space with 3.5 foot walls.
21) temp is approx. 80 degrees F with lights on, humidity is pretty low... winter in this area sucks moisture from the air. temp with lights off is about 70 degrees F.
22) no insects that i can tell.

Your strain:
23) a few different strains: one was called green frost, and i was lucky enough to find a seed in my bag of romulan others are unknown.
24) all from seeds.
25) none of these should be autoflowering.

this whole thing is pretty low budget. if theres anything i can do for VERY CHEAP to improve, please let me know. and if im being an idiot and doing something completely wrong, tell me! thanks!
Faddenator Reviewed by Faddenator on . A couple problems Ok. i added a picture (its A LOT brighter than that in there i promise). the plant on the right is growing fine, no problems. however, the two to the left seem to have stunted growth, and definitely have some curly, not very sexy looking leaves. the one furthest left also has some yellow/brown cripsy edges. this is the only plant with this problem. so what can i do? I have 5 plants under three 27watt (100 watt equivalent) daylight cfl's. it sorta looks like overwatering, minus the crispiness of Rating: 5