Quote Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
Looks good so far, your learning and adjusting quickly. The new grow area looks much better without the foil reflective.
Thank you. It wouldn't be so without the help from peeps like you.



Quote Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
If that's a regular incandescent bulb in the hood, replace it with CFL. Better yet, get 3 "Y" splitters and 4 27w CFL bulbs!
It's not a reg incan. It's a bulb for growing aquatic plants. I used to have several aquariums and used a few of them for nothing other than growing underwater plants to routinely replace what my fish shredded, rooted, destroyed or just plain ate in their tanks. Its only a 100w bulb but their designed to provide a good mix of a red/blue spectrum and penetrate deep water, I thought it would be good for a starter here but it adds a bit too much heat. When we add another vertical 4' fluorescent next week were gonna hang another light and add CFLs to both and do away with the hot bulb I got now.

BTW, the splitter is a great idea! So simple and yet I never thought of it. This is probably what I will do.

I don't really wanna keep changing things and keep changing thing suddenly like I have been, I don't want to create more stress than needed right now.

Even if Leafy, the current growth, does not survive this week, its already very tall from what I can tell and I've heard that's a sigh of searching for more light, I still have two more going and two is the MAX I'm going to keep for this grow. I don't want a massively dank smell and want to use this as a test run to figure out what the arraignment of lighting, venting, watering, fertilizing, and so on works best for me.

I began a journal for this the day I planted Leafy. Everything, nothing is missed, get written down. I want to be able to look back and see exactly what I did wrong or right if need be.

And, ya! I named the growing plant Leafy. The other two are going to be Leafy-er, and Leafy-est. We're trying to encourage them to grow big, strong and well... leafy. LOL