#Wanted some tips on my setup#

[ozsmoker]

I think i might use Fish Emul for the first nute .The seedling is only 2 days old so ill wait until one week and half till i use it, i also decided to buy 4-5 20watt compact fluro's thoughout the grow if i wanted to i could grow until harvest with all of them couldn't i? the wardrob has white walls do you think i need to put panda film or some kind of reflectors on it?

the white walls seem to be alright tho... still asking what kind of compacts i should buy ,warm white, cool white and whatever other one's there are.

 

A big thanks to all of you for your input and hopefully you can help me thought "My First Grow"

 

Ozsmoker.

[Guest Field_of_Light]

just make sure if you are going to add nute to your young plants that you dilute the nutrients....use only a 25% strength mix for the first couple of weeks...then increase it

[white_cluster]

thats a harder one to answer as you can spend 300$ setting that closet up properly but if your not going to see a huge reward for your money spent and troubles its not worth it....

Dont worry about expensive nutes, they wont help you in a small grow like that, get some really cheap stuff. Like some Maxicrop or Dynasol for veg, and some bloom booster or african violet food for flowering. And use a double pot method, like have your first (veg) pot in smaller pots in a mixture of good soil, perlite and blood and bone. and your flower mix, get a bag of straight bone meal, or use lush like pipeman says, all cheap as fuck, anyway, once you have figured the gyrls from the boys, chop the bottom off the gyrls pot and put it in a big pot with the flowering soil mixture.

 

Get a combo of cool white and warm light bulbs, say 1 warm to every 2 cool.

 

you wont need much of a fan, If you got a old computer and a 12v DC adapter around you got yourself a fan that'll do. Or you could just run a little deskfan and drill some airholes, or you could buy a fan, but that is your 50 almost gone.

 

Its not that cheap to grow. For good results, cut down how much pot you buy, put your pot money away for a while, and save up for a 400w HPS or bigger. That $200 you spend on a light, can grow you like $3000 worth of pot, but once your growing a good amount, pot will have the same value to you as dirt, and you will curse yourself for ever paying those crazy prices.

 

What Field of light says in that quote there somes it all up.

[ozsmoker]

UPDATE: Seedling is 1andhalf cm hight,and 3 days old, is it natural at this age for the mini leaves arnt pointing directly upwards towards the light its more like on a left angle? Sorry cant take pic it's too blury,ohh yea the seed casing droped off like on the first day .

 

Ozsmoker

Edited July 13, 2003 by ozsmoker

[Guest Field_of_Light]

Um without seeing a pic of how close your lights are to the seedling Ill offer tentative advice....

 

They are probably just reaching for that great cf in the sky.....normal

 

If your light is too close however Im assuming it will adversely affect your seedling as they dont like to be bombarded with shitloads of light....

 

Only one come up?

[ozsmoker]

No they all came up & just got the other one's in there about 4 hours ago because they'l die of frost and i bought a new light,its a daylight kind of think have a look i found it on a hydro site went and bought it was like $7.50.

Edited July 13, 2003 by ozsmoker

[Guest Field_of_Light]

did u check your jpg?

[ozsmoker]

No they all did just got the otherones in there now and i bought a new light,its a daylight kind of think have a look i found it on a hydro site went and bought it was like $7.50. tell me if it can be used looks alright and seems to work well ,the fucker puts out heat like motha fu*$er tho

i also saw some "Growlux" fluro tubes how are they? might but the fittings for tube fluros it i can find some at a gararge sale or somewhere.

 

Ozsmoker.

Edited July 13, 2003 by ozsmoker

[Guest Field_of_Light]

oz is that a cf or a normal bulb?

 

if its a normal one Id take it back and get a cf.....they generally have no heat or very little........

[ozsmoker]

hey i fixed the Jpeg and no its a special grow globe and i didnt get the fluros today ,but will buy it on friday .The Globe