growing wide

[bigtopsfinn]

Maybe 2 bulbs will do for now, nurse it back, slowly add lights as it starts looking better.

[firstfist]

She seems to be doing great. Lower light is off already, and I'm seeing a bit of new growth already. Mabey I'm being impatient, but it seemed since there was zero drooping, and new growth I'd re-up the lights this morning. Now there is considerable growth today.

I did a bit of figuring since I have never really kept track of how long it has been, and I'm at about 6 weeks. The first 5 1/2 weeks were just the 12 hours of sunlight we had here, and just put her underlights about 4 days ago now on an 19/5 schedule.

Looking ok for a newbie?

[firstfist]

Thought I'd post a shot of my little cardboard growbox. I had the lamps a bit closer, but thought I'd keep them higher for a few days for the roots (less light?). Monday I should be getting my reflector with the 6000k, and 2700k lamps, so I'm going to squeeze it in just above the hanging cfls. As it grows up I'll move the larger reflector lamp, but keep the 26w ones about where they are.

Sound about right?

[Vancefish]

Looks great! :thumbsup:

My only thought is,.. It looks like your in a 6 inch pot. Is that correct?

I ask just because I started mine in a 6 inch. It needed re-potting about a month in, and was about the same size that yours is now. I noticed the plants leaves started to droop a little, over a few days it got worse. turned out I was root bound.

So watch the droop for signs of that, It'll also seem like the water just runs through the pot.

I added a before recovery and after shot too.

[firstfist]

Thanks.

Apreciate the heads up. Close, it's an 8" pot. I had to repot because it was in a larger pot that the soil wasn't drying out in enough, among many other newb problems like soil, bad pot, too big of a starter pot. So I placed it in this one. It never drooped more than a leaf or two. I'm planning on sitting it in a bigger pot as soon as I see some roots poke out the bottom.

Also thought I'd mention this. Mabey you can't tell in the shot, but it isn't drooping at all right now. I've been doing some elaborite LST, and just did a little tie down session a few hours before the shot.

[stra8outtaWeed]

have you thought of paintiing your box flat white...or some mylar will reflect some of the light back into your plants....that box just eats the light...it will brighten the place up quite a bit with a fresh coat of paint:jointsmile:

[Vancefish]

Ah, I see. Deceptive shot, leaf looked droopy and was freshly trained. Well like I said looks good from here.

Another thing to watch for when doing LST with string is tieing it to tight. I left a tight string on my main stem to long and it kinda strangled it until I noticed and removed it. I added a shot of after it was removed. You can still see the strangle spot through the leaves in the pic.

I ended the issue by tieing a loop in the end of the string then doing a loop around the stem. then the knot itself keeps the loop loose allowing the stem to thicken unthreatened.

That last post was my 420th!

[firstfist]

Thanks guys! Yeah, I only had about 3/4 can of flat white spray, so I got as much coverage out of it as possible. I am planning on getting another can and doing another coat, but again the picture is deceptive. It actually is fairly white

Yeah Vance, I had read that about you in another thread I think...mabey this one? Anyway, I am getting around that by tieing one end of the string to the bucket, looping around the plant, cinching down, and then tieing the other end of the string to the bucket also. Thus making one large loop that only holds the branch around half the stalk so it can grow unrestrained.:thumbsup:

[firstfist]

So I have everything setup....sort of. I'm kind of running into a heat problem that mabey someone could give me a tip on. So now I have the 200w cfl veg bulb, and the capability to have 4 26w cfls on the sides. I have them off for the moment though.

I keep burning my plant. When I have it closer than 6" it starts to burn, but I've read with cfls that is the furthest away I should have it. If I turn on any of the 4 26w cfls it really starts to burn.

I just havn't found a happy medum yet. Either that or I am doing the venting wrong. It does get WAY hot in there sometimes.

Any ideas to mitigate the problemb? Thanks guys!

[bigtopsfinn]

I think you are burning them with too much nutrients. Putting the lights closer is making them suck up the nutrients, and that's why they are burning. I'd flush with plain ph'd water, maybe 1-2x the amount of water in relation to the pot (if in 2 gal pot, flush with 1 to 2 gallons of ph'd water)

You'll need an exhaust fan (or a stronger one that you have now, not sure if you do) to get those temps down. A few computer fans or even a bathroom fan from the hardware store will do the job.