First grow Fluorescent lighting beginning to end

[westsacgrower]

My first indoor grow second toatal.

Running:
4x2 making 8 total daylight 6500k fluoros @ 35 watts per
air intake from outside air about w/ fan

8 plants total, 2 white widow,2 alien dog,1 ogiesel, 3 super silver haze

just planted the clones yesterday and have them on a 18 on 6 off cycle right now. Hope to put up pictures every couple of days to hopefully show that fluoros do work lol. Let me know any feedback is helpfull. thinking that im going to need more light as I go on.

westsacgrower Reviewed by westsacgrower on 01-06-2011. First grow Fluorescent lighting beginning to end My first indoor grow second toatal. Running: 4x2 making 8 total daylight 6500k fluoros @ 35 watts per air intake from outside air about w/ fan 8 plants total, 2 white widow,2 alien dog,1 ogiesel, 3 super silver haze just planted the clones yesterday and have them on a 18 on 6 off cycle right now. Hope to put up pictures every couple of days to hopefully show that fluoros do work lol. Let me know any feedback is helpfull. thinking that im going to need more light as I go on. Rating: 5

[westsacgrower]

It has been a couple of days now and the plants really havent started to get any bigger. It has been pretty cold in the garage lately and would be very impressed if these girls made it. Am going to let the soil dry out for a couple days probably going to water it this weekend to let the roots to search for water and create a root network. Since the coldness the leaves have drooped and sucked in just as they do naturally. thinking about putting an electric blanket underneath them to try and promote warm soil and growth and tips on if that would be a good idea would help. ill post pictures up on thursday for the mark of the first weeks grow.

Also had a quick question on if it was a poor decision to put the rockwool cubed clones directly into the 5 gal bucket in hope to not need to transplant them again later. and info is helpful as this is my first indoor grow and plan to only improve from here.

[GreenThumbDoc]

I'm gonna assume your clones have already rooted? If so, I would not suggest going from rockwool cubes directly to a 5 gallon bucket. First issue is very little of the soil in the 5 gallon bucket is being used by the roots, so it will be overkill on the watering. I personally go from a 16 oz solo cup to a 2 gallon bucket and finally a 5 gallon bucket. Can I ask what the ambient temperature in your grow box is? They do look very healthy and green though! :thumbsup:

GTD

[westsacgrower]

Wayyyy to cold i know that for sure. The room is in the garage and the last couple nights have been close if not below 40 degrees.

and about the buckets i assumed so a couple days after doing so. but i think i will just have to keep them in there and accept the slow down in growth for now.

[tevfik]

Very good looking :thumbsup:

You may not need more light if you stay in that cabinet. Maybe one more line with 4 tubes. More is better of course.
You can paint or cover the walls with some reflector materials. More effective use for the lights. Reflector helps warming up there. Also, you can give their dark period in daytime.


I want to see fluoro power. Subscribed:hippy:

[WashougalWonder]

Also had a quick question on if it was a poor decision to put the rockwool cubed clones directly into the 5 gal bucket in hope to not need to transplant them again later. and info is helpful as this is my first indoor grow and plan to only improve from here.

Not so much that you put the cubes straight into soil, but the pots(buckets) are way to big for the plant size and any water will go well beyond the roots and even if it can drain well it will get stagnant down there and possibly cause problems. I would be extremely cautious on watering. Buffers and such in soil get used up in about 4-6 weeks. Those plants will be in the same pots for much longer than that. :twocents: My garden is on a routine where repotting is essentially the fertilizer every 4 weeks. Sure did ruin a lot of good weed until I learned to have the right sized pots.

[jon420]

Subscribed:thumbsup: Nice looking setup and plants:jointsmile:

I am not trying to burst your bubble at all, just want to help out and give you a heads up. If all your plants make it through the cold and make it to flowering, you will deffintaley need more light to produce some nice flowers. Im not saying your setup now wont work but I too use floro's and found that using more than I originally planned is always better, especially during flower.:thumbsup:

[westsacgrower]

Thank you thank you for all this input it is very helpful. Thus cold is going to be an epic battle I'm sure. Thinking about some sort of heating device to run in there but as of right now before I left I wrapped all the buckets in blankets hoping to insulate.

As for the lights yeah I was ready to hear That one lol. I'm constantly looking for a bigger and brighter lamp to put in there. Hope depot has a couple t5 fixtures with about 6 bulbs in it and thought maybe if I gathered up enough money hence the reason why I'm growing with fluoros.

And I definitely won't try and cut steps next time with potting. It makes sense to start small. Will keep that In mind for now on.

Pictures will be up soon

[jon420]

Thank you thank you for all this input it is very helpful. Thus cold is going to be an epic battle I'm sure. Thinking about some sort of heating device to run in there but as of right now before I left I wrapped all the buckets in blankets hoping to insulate.

As for the lights yeah I was ready to hear That one lol. I'm constantly looking for a bigger and brighter lamp to put in there. Hope depot has a couple t5 fixtures with about 6 bulbs in it and thought maybe if I gathered up enough money hence the reason why I'm growing with fluoros.

And I definitely won't try and cut steps next time with potting. It makes sense to start small. Will keep that In mind for now on.

Pictures will be up soon

Look in to CFL's...They work very well and are not near as exspensive as t5's.:thumbsup:

[westsacgrower]

just put in a heater and that thing puts off some good heat but at the expense of a 1000 watts. So ill be paying the same damn price as a good hps light that would give all my plants plenty light and heat. so i guess theres no real way to get around the energy bill lol thinking about only running it at night during the dark period and hoping that some heat would stay throughout the day while its a bit naturally warm.

As far as Cfls go i was looking today and saw some cool jerry rigged devices that look like they work pretty good so i think ill add some of those as well.