First grow Fluorescent lighting beginning to end

[westsacgrower]

my lovely insulation method ha ha

[tevfik]

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I always see creativity with fluorescent grows. Thats why i like it more than any other grows.
When your lights are on and when off exactly? By clock i mean.

[Morbidangel]

dont you run your lights through the night? Idk if this is going to help though cause fluros dont give off alot of heat to begin with. why dont you go return your heater im guessing you bought then go buy a 1000w ballast and hood off craigslist. run the shit at night when its the clodest problem solved and you should be able to put the 1000w close as hell to the plants cause its going to be cold as hell. scratch that you will probly want to go with two 400w or two 600W cause of how your room is set up. Dont waste your time with a heater when you can just run your lights the coldest part of the day.

[westsacgrower]

i run my lights from 6 in the morning to 1 oclock am because the cabinet isnt completely light proof so if i had my dark period in the day there would be light leak onto the plants.

And yeah when it comes down to it i think 2 400w hps lghts are my next expenditure. have a friend working a demolition job and came up on a bunch of high bay hps lights so i think ill be getting in touch with getting one of those and trying to figure out how to make that work. especially during flowering.

But as of right now the heater is running 30 min avery hour and 30 min and it keeping the room nice and the plants are reacting extremely well to it by standing much higher and proud. have it on a timer so it saves at least some energy and cost.

[tevfik]

If there is a light leak, you can give the dark period between 7pm and 0am or sth like that. If you're not using the garage by that time of course. Because, early morning (After 3-4am) is the coldest time. Starting the lights earlier than that can be helpful. Even one hour earlier than current schedule can make change.

[GreatWhiteHuntr]

Looking good nice work...Have you put any plants into flower yet. I am just getting started with 4 white widows from seed....sex unknown yet. Right now I have Blue Magoo, Blue Berry, Star Trek, White Widow, Rue Paul, Satan's Song a beautiful Sativa, and also Pharoah's Finest. oh and I am trying to revert one from bud stage to clone called Godbud.

[westsacgrower]

This is the mark of one week since i have planted them in their buckets and have been running 18 on and 6 off. There is some dying of leaves and yellowing so i wanna address that most of all so i dont lose any of my little girls. watered them last night after i gave them about 4 days of a drought to try and make the roots search for water. Also when i watered them i didnt water near the stem but in a circle with about a 3 inch radius to help the roots spread out and find it. i think it worked too. i gave some about 2-3 oz of nutrients because they didnt look so well and those are the first four in the pictures. the second four i did not in experiment to see if they would react to it. But thats pretty much it. the heater is keeping it nice and warm in there now and the plants are loving it.

in order from left to right it is white widow, alien dog, alien dog, white widow

[westsacgrower]

left to right is ogiesel, alien dog, super silver haze, super silver haze

[westsacgrower]

whole view of all of them

[Morbidangel]

What kind of soil are you using? shouldnt need nutes for the first month if your using fresh soil.