1st grow advice is appreciated...

[mainegrown]

That's what ghetto growing is all about! You get baked & think about how to be cheap yet effective & the creativity flows!

only too true that .. gotta find a cheap way to do what others do for mad $$
-J

[superskunk1]

Thanks alot guys and I haven't put up any updates because since this was sort of a work in progress I had a little problem with temp. If I don't open my closet door everynight the temps hit up to 90 degrees, which burnt the top of the plants and made the soil very dry. I watered the plants and raised the light hopefully when I get back I can finish the tip piece and install a exhaust fan.

I am planting new babies as soon as they germinate and keep the haze plants in the middle. Since all the seeds I have now are cheap strands i'm sure they will grow under any condition.

Tonight everything will be done hopefully and I will have pics of everything...

[hillbillyjim]

follow my recipe,if you wanna grow !a million watts of light is unnecessary! how big is your grow area?

[superskunk1]

My setup is in a 18 gallon bin (18x16) and I believe it's working out pretty good except for the temp, I forgot to ask if hummidity is important, my thermometer tells me that the hummidity is low and it usually says that when it drops bellow 30% do I have to keep it at 40-50%???

[Vancefish]

I just germinated 3 seeds a week and a half ago. Here's how I did it.

I put the seeds in a bowl with enough water (highly filtered) to cover 3/4th of the seed. I put a plate on the bowl and put the bowl in the closet(dark).

Two days later I opened the bowl and found two seeds had a 1/16" root tip.

I added a little filtered water to the bowl and scooped up the seeds with a spoon.

I dropped them on the surface of the soil and pushed the soil around just to aim the root down(still on the surface). I did the same three days later when the third seed popped.

Then I misted the seeds every few hours (as I happened to walk by).

I used a single 23w CFL, and a single 1' 15w Florescent(stock bulb) from k-mart($7) until the third day.

The root shot into the ground. By the next morning the root was a 1/2' long. I continued to mist it every few hours. By the third day I had leaves, and the root was long buried.

It didn't cost me a dime. THEN I added 160w more florescent THEN added three more CFLs,....

Point is I needed very little light to start them.:thumbsup: I needed no extra equipment or baggies. I didn't bury them either (I wanted to watch!:stoned.

From what I've seen in nature. There is a good chance that a seed sitting on a damp speck of soil will grow. So, that is what I simulated.:thumbsup:

[superskunk1]

Ok well because of the outside weather my temps in my room rose so the temp inside my bin is at 87 degrees at one point it hit 93 which burnt the plants. I raised the fixture and took out 4 bulbs. Now there's to bulbs and the temp is at 83, I'm thinking about taking out all the emergency blanket and leaving it plain or flat white paint.