Okay, I did a DIY hydro setup with a airpump and air stone using a 5 gallon home depo bucket. I learned the hard way that I don't have the money right now to buy the ppm, EC and ph meter and the ph down . So I transplanted BACK to soil yet again. As you can imagine my plant looks like SHIT as you can see from the pictures(I crumbled the brown leaves off)

I used a bag of earth gro soil from home dep for like 5 bucks. Took out many sticks out as I could and added perlite to it. I still have foxfarm trio quarts I plan on using in the water with this schedule :

Bigbloom, 2tbl per gallon of water for the 1st month, every other watering
Except, dont give plants any on 4th week!
weeks 5 thru 12 1tbl per gallon of water, every other watering

Growbig, weeks 2,3,4,7&8 2tbl per gallon of water every other watering

TigerBloom Weeks 5thru12, 2tbl per gallon of water every other watering.

I use sink water that sits for 24 hours before use, it has ph level of 7.5 and I use conc lemon juice to lower it to 6.8 after the foxfarm nutes added. The runoff PH was about 6.5.


Those are 4 CFL 100 watt equiv lights in BIG RED cans using a replacement vent peice for a dryer from home depo (3$) as a reflector.. I made that ghetto grow box in the corner of my closet using window reflectors for cars, and cardboard box. The exhaust fan is from a pc fan to lower temp (good enough for that small box). Should I put wholes in the bottom of the door ? or add another pc fan blowing air in?

Criticize me and tell me if anything is wrong. Thanks and I appreciate any input I can get :^D
Locedd Reviewed by Locedd on . Criticize my gro please Bubba kush 5-6 weeks old, This is my first grow, I used regular cheap 3$ bag of dirt from wal mart, then switched it to miracle grow soil. I know I messed up, I already bought a tote, and water pump to make myself a ghetto hydro system, Can I transfer from miracle grow dirt , to hydroponic system at this stage? veg state still. Oh yea, those 2 cfl's are daylight bulbs, about 100 watts each, 5000k ( got a couple 2700k cfl 40 watt bulbs ready for when they flower) The wall is a car Rating: 5