20W lamp for my seedlings

[Lily of the Valley]

Since I'm a first-time grower and my 2 little babies have just sprouted, I'm raising the seedlings inside my wardrobe with a low-watt desk lamp! Only 20 watts. It's working, although slowly, but I've decided not to buy all that expensive hydro equipment - I'll be growing outdoors. So once they grow to be about 10cm high with the fan leaves, then I'll transplant them to the wild.

 

In the meantime, here's my setup:

 

As you can see, I've had to cut a circular hole into the top of the box to allow the lamp to fit. This way it reduces the amount of light escaping into the wardrobe at night:

 

My first seedling, already with 2 sets of serrated leaves:

 

My second seedling, about a day or two younger than the first:

 

*** both seedlings were planted in the soil just over 1 week ago.

[shroomyshroom]

looking good mate

[Home_Grown]

If it's just a normal 20w light bulb I would highly suggest you go and swap that with a CFL - they'll thank you for it.

 

Normal light globes are not the same spectrum, put out far too much heat and will stretch the hell outta your seedlings.

 

Best of luck.

[leafy]

haha its a cfl i told her to do it

[freddie]

This is kind of predictable....

[leafy]

what are you predicting? we are sticking them in the fucking bush freddie

 

what you never made seedlings before? you never took care of them so rats dont fucking eat them when you put them outside?

 

Outdoors is my best thing, indoors, not so much. If you dont have any evidence to back up your arguement FUCK OFF

[kev.au]

Both urself and Leafy should come into chat, nice people and great info. cya

[brick]

This is kind of predictable....

[Lily of the Valley]

Yes, it is a CFL. Thanks Leafy.

 

Well the main thing I'm concerned about is the possible lack of CO2 in there... I've heard of a cheap option where you use yeast organisms, sugar and water to generate some carbon dioxide. At the moment since they're small they probably won't need that much but eventually they will.

[loylty gets u nothing]

id be more inclined to be sure i was getting max airflow

keep it simple

using co2 will only make things harder

and then wen u go outdoors, wat u gunna do for c02?

so yer id be kiss...

get that bulb in as close as possible

i can get a cfl within 2cm from tops

all the best

bill

 

just make sure the air is always fresh