I am so stoked!

[qdavid]

All four of my Redonda Red Hair (if that's really what they are) germinated in less than 36 hours. Ireally only want three plants but I plated them all. Now I only hope one of 'em's a girl. They're in 8" pots under four 42W cfl bulbs in a mylared cabinet. I also put in a little computer fan. It's only like 88 cfl? Anyway I plan on putting in a 150 fan sometime. The 88 computer fan I have is a little weak so I got a desk fan blowing too hoping to keep the temp less than 90F. By the way, sdhall I saw your posts. Good on you. I hope you got girls. I'll post some pics if anything sprouts.

qdavid Reviewed by qdavid on 08-31-2006. I am so stoked! All four of my Redonda Red Hair (if that's really what they are) germinated in less than 36 hours. Ireally only want three plants but I plated them all. Now I only hope one of 'em's a girl. They're in 8" pots under four 42W cfl bulbs in a mylared cabinet. I also put in a little computer fan. It's only like 88 cfl? Anyway I plan on putting in a 150 fan sometime. The 88 computer fan I have is a little weak so I got a desk fan blowing too hoping to keep the temp less than 90F. By the way, sdhall Rating: 5

[phytokind]

Try to keep it below 85F.

[qdavid]

I also meant to add, I bought a big bag of potting soil at Walmart. I buy my dog's food at a Dollar General (cause I kind of live in the boonies and it's closer). So I saw potting soil there and bought a bag. That stuff from Walmart was freakin' heavy. I filled each of my 3 pots about 2/3 full with that and topped them off with the stuff from the dollar store. I've got a lot of dirt left over, for next grow. It turns out that stuff from Walmart was pretty smooth and had some sand in it. But that stuff from the dollar store had perllite, rotting wood chips, and other organic crap. Then I put the germinated seeds in. I poured in tap water (it's well water) and soaked the soil good. Lots of water, but not mud. It's really hot here in Florida right now, but I'll try for 85F.

[Stylus]

are ur cfls cool light?

[qdavid]

Actually I don't really know what they are. I just grabbed what they had at Walmart, I threw out the package and didn't even look. It might say on the bulb somewhere but I ain't shuttin' 'em off to look. Kinda bright to try and see when their on.

[smoky mcpot 05]

aw david your fucking up already my brother! don't buy the 'walmart' special soil! especially at dollar general! And you gotta read the package on the CFLs do know how much wattage you got and how much more you need. around 30 watts per sq. foot is good, 40 is better.

[kdspecial]

You will alsop want to find out what kind of CFLs you got cuz the wrong ones at the wrong time can really Messs with your grow, You want 6500k For vegging and Lower 2500K for flowering,,

Or in Lamins terms Cool colour(White) for Vegging and Warm (OrangyRed) for flowering

read the Thread on Compact Flurocents It will really help then go to Walkmart website and find out what you gotzzz so you dont waste Time with those precious seedlings... And you want Cfls Close to your plants the closer the better 1.5 to 3 inches at all times of the grow

kd

[smoky mcpot 05]

yea not to mention what Kdspecial said. More blue waves in the 4th week of vegetation the higher percent of females. Theres alot more that will increase your female ratio, look it up at www.dutchpassion.nl

[qdavid]

aw david your fucking up already my brother! don't buy the 'walmart' special soil! especially at dollar general! And you gotta read the package on the CFLs do know how much wattage you got and how much more you need. around 30 watts per sq. foot is good, 40 is better.

I wrote 42W but I guess I was fucking up.

[qdavid]

I've done a lot of reading from a lot of different sources, including that cfl grow sticky before I went ahead with this. That's why I got four 42W cfl bulbs putting out 10,400 lumens about 1.5" from the soil. Walmart doesn't sell light bulbs online so I pulled one and it just says 42W helical. I'll look at the store sometime. I'll investigate that wavelegth thing but fact is fact, and opinions are like assholes.....everybody's got one, and they all stink. Thanks.