My First Ever Grow!!!

[Scholar]

Well i figured im new and any advice would be great! so i will tell of my First grow.

Materials-Miracle Grow Organic potting soil,Perlite,NutureLite and CFL both 150watts. ill get ferts later this week.

Grow Spot-My attic it gets kind of hot up there so i figure with a Dehumidifier and a fan it should be ok.

Scholar Reviewed by Scholar on 05-17-2006. My First Ever Grow!!! Well i figured im new and any advice would be great! so i will tell of my First grow. Materials-Miracle Grow Organic potting soil,Perlite,NutureLite and CFL both 150watts. ill get ferts later this week. Grow Spot-My attic it gets kind of hot up there so i figure with a Dehumidifier and a fan it should be ok. Rating: 5

[Scholar]

some Pics of my Goods

[mountainman]

That light will do very little for you. Incandescents waste too much power to heat and don't have a very good spectrum. You should look at compact flourescents at the very least, if not HPS or MH.

[Scholar]

I have a 150 watt CFL and a few 75 watt CFL's that im going to pop into my set up area once the pop out the dirt. The lite claims to have a good spectrum for Plants. Im sure this Light isnt that great...lol it was a Few bucks less then CFLs.

[mountainman]

Yeah, just use the cfl's and return the other one.

[Scholar]

How about my soil? I Hear that Miracle grow is bad, but this is organic it should be fine right?

[mountainman]

I don't know much about that organic, but it's probably fine since the concern with regular miracle grow soil is the synthetic fertilizers in it.

[Scholar]

update on my lil ladies. This is 5days later,I'll post more after the cavs game..

[Scholar]

well if anyone cares to check em out,i would like to know if they are stretching?

[BigBudDaddy08]

Yes they are stretching a little bit and the stems look a little thin .You should pop in those cfls that you have and get a nice fan in there to get some air movement in your area and to stout up those stems .Also the cfls get them as close as possible without burning them or makeing to much heat between the plant and the cfl (To much heat for me is above 84 deg.)