Please comment on my first grow...Romulan

[therealribbit]

Romulan, i think, started from seed. Four female plants stood out of about 10 sprouts. Pics about 2 weeks after forcing flowering. Different start times per seed, but they all seem to be catching up to eachother. Had spider mites appear, sprayed with water till i nearly killed plants, not intentionally, but killed off the spiders it seems. Had some flies biting at them, but after removing males i put the fan blowing gently on them and seems to help keep flies off.

CFLs are 100 watt equiv, ...a few are daylight balanced, most are tungsten. I started with all tungsten, even though daylight is preferred with vegging and tungsten for flower... so i am doing about half and half for flowering to kind of catch up.

Ps. a fourth 'wall' goes up when i'm not taking pictures, i shoot the fan below it

therealribbit Reviewed by therealribbit on 03-14-2010. Please comment on my first grow...Romulan Romulan, i think, started from seed. Four female plants stood out of about 10 sprouts. Pics about 2 weeks after forcing flowering. Different start times per seed, but they all seem to be catching up to eachother. Had spider mites appear, sprayed with water till i nearly killed plants, not intentionally, but killed off the spiders it seems. Had some flies biting at them, but after removing males i put the fan blowing gently on them and seems to help keep flies off. CFLs are 100 watt Rating: 5

[therealribbit]

close up of my top bud on 'best' plant...

[PhatJay]

Looking nice :thumbsup: General concensus on this forum is that you would be better of painting those reflective screens white, instead of having them covered in tin foil. White is supposed to diffuse the light better and prevent hot spots.

[bigtopsfinn]

I think they look great :thumbsup: but would probably invest in some more lighting... as long as you can keep the temps under 85 F. Y socket splitters give you the opportunity to run 2-4 times more bulbs with the same number of sockets you have now. :twocents:

How are the temps in there? And how many watts and lights (not equivalent, but actual wattage)?

Happy growing :jointsmile:

[therealribbit]

Phatjay - heh, thx.. actually those boards are already white, i had added the tin foil lol

Bigtopsfin - temp hovers below 80 seemingly naturally. I have 9 cfls going, 4 are daylight balanced which run a few more watts i think than the interior ones. Interior are 23 watt i think, daylight are 26 i think. So 219 watts total would be my best guess.

[therealribbit]

So i added a couple more cfls, got 11 23-27 watt equiv going and took down most of the tin foil, ...got a little foil left for fun i guess. As you can see the walls of my closet are painted white anyway, but i can definitely tell more reflective light when i move my mini-walls closer.

Plant numbers may not be the same.

[therealribbit]

and here's that bud i showed last time..

[Vancefish]

I agree with everyone. They look good. I would have suggested more light, but you already did that! :thumbsup:

So nice grow.

[therealribbit]

Almost 3 weeks into flowering...(not sure if i should request this moved to 'grow log' forums or not, cause i'm still a newbie)

The grow room hasn't changed at all in light or anything, but kind of screwed up today by opening a door, which reflected light onto another door, which reflected light into the grow closet... not sure if that kind of light i need to be worried about, i mean plants in nature get moonlight right?

Anyway, the top bud areas are starting to get crystally, but the plants aren't starting to 'smell' yet.... here are more pics, plant numbers may not be the same, the only two i labeled were first two i found as females, but all seem to be catching up.

[Rusty Trichome]

Showing some heat stress. (upturned leaves on growing tips)
I'd ditch the rest of the foil, as it is useless in a growroom, closet or box. (collects, traps and radiates heat) Shiny...yes. Useful...no. Flat-white paint works great though.

Might want to raise the lights a tad also. Got a circulating fan on 'em? (can use it to blow-away the heat from the lights)