Good day, fellow growers.
I would like to share my first growing experience and some professional feedback and critics would be more than welcome.

The 4 plants you can see below came from my dealer who asked me one day if i would like to grow his plants in my closet. As I just moved out of my parent`s house I immediately agreed and transformed my closet into a small grow space.

The size of the grow space: 40"wide x 14"deep x 44"high
Installed two fans, one for air intake, one for air exhaust. Covered the whole interior with white cardboard.
Lights: 2x 23W 2700k CFLs + 1x 25W 2700k CFL + 1x 25W 6500k CFL (all these lights are in reflector i improvised so it hopefully focuses the light better on the plants)
Grow medium: Bio+ flower soil with Ph between 6-7

The strain is unknown to me. All I could find out about them is that they`re sort of a short strain and that the seeds are feminized. Other than that they seem mighty stress-resistant (it took them roughly one and a half day to recover and resume growth after re-potting them).

Now for the awkward part:
1) The dealer dude told me to keep the ladies on 12/12 since we moved them into my grow space, although all I read around here is 24hrs of daylight or 16/8 until the plants show first signs of flowering.
I`d really appreciate it if someone could tell me if the 12/12 from beginning is a viable option and if yes what`s the reason.
2) I was told to keep the lights as far as I could from the plants. Now... this doesn`t seem to make too much sense either since everybody seems to keep their CFLs just at 2-3 inches distance so they don`t burn the plants (whereas the distance in my case is 12-14"), not to mention that the lower leafs get less than half of the light than the top leaves get from that distance. Again.. if you can find a reason to this, it`d be greatly appreciated.

Just so you get an idea of how the girls evolved - I take pictures of them each week, so there`s 7 days time between each set of pictures.
blackmon Reviewed by blackmon on . Closet grow - First attempt Good day, fellow growers. I would like to share my first growing experience and some professional feedback and critics would be more than welcome. The 4 plants you can see below came from my dealer who asked me one day if i would like to grow his plants in my closet. As I just moved out of my parent`s house I immediately agreed and transformed my closet into a small grow space. The size of the grow space: 40"wide x 14"deep x 44"high Installed two fans, one for air intake, one for air Rating: 5