Clark's First Grow

[clarkkent]

Alright so I've read and read and read some more and I'm ready to give this a shot. I realize that this won't be the most expensive or elaborate setup but I think it will work out just fine. If it doesn't, oh well...I'll only be out time.

I set a dozen or so bag seeds to germinate 2 days ago between some paper towels and plates. Today I checked on them again and have some sprouts!!



:woohoo:
Man I love this picture. Reminds me of when my kids were born. Is that wrong? lol

Anyhow, of the twelve seeds 3 have sprouted so I'll get them into some dirt while I wait for the others.

And here is their new home.

I still plan on putting a small fan in and have put some vent holes at the bottom and top. I'm also going to run by the hardware store and pick up something to reflect the light down and I think we'll be good to go.

It's 24" wide x 18" deep. So far I've got 3 compact flourescents at 2700 lumen each. That may be cutting it close from what I've read, but it's what I have for now. If I need to bump it up, I will.

I'll keep updating and look forward to constructive criticism.

 

[clarkkent]

hmm, links but no pics

 

[HYDRO333]

They don't even work!!!

 

[Flyinghigh]

No Pix still

 

[MrPuffAlot]

working for me..

Looks good, goodluck and may the force be with you...

might want to get some good seeds.. 1st grow or not.
4 months down the road, you gonna think.. " darn, i could
of grown and smoking of my own chronic, instead i got some
midgrade schwag"

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Hey whats going on SuperMan oops i mean Clarkkent. Looks like your off to a good start. Congrats on the new members of your family. :hubba:

 

[BluntFullOfKush]

Nice grow box you got there. try to get like 3 more CFL's and 2 shop lights mounted on each side and you will reall be rolling. you will be looking at close to $45 maybe 50 . I see cheap shop light at walmart for 10-$15.Thatll bump the light up nicely. hope this helps you out. Good Luck

 

[clarkkent]

working for me..

Looks good, goodluck and may the force be with you...

might want to get some good seeds.. 1st grow or not.
4 months down the road, you gonna think.. " darn, i could
of grown and smoking of my own chronic, instead i got some
midgrade schwag"

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Everytime I cruise the seedbank sites and see all the pics posted on here, I'm like, damn I would like to grow something and actually KNOW what it's called and what to expect.

Which leads to a question I have....is there a guide or something that can help you identify a strain of marijuana? Like once it starts growing good, can you tell what it really is?

 

[clarkkent]

Day 4? Dont' really know which day to count as their birthday...the day I put them to germinate or the day they sprouted. I'll go by the germination day. But they popped out yesterday and I put them in their JiffyPots. Today 2 of the 6 in pots are above ground! Gotta grab a few more pots for their lazy brothers and sisters that just popped in their paper towel home.

Grabbing a couple more lights and the fan tomorrow.

 

[3patas]

you know my friend you have to cut the bottom of and for now you are good with lights and when you get your new lights remember cool white and with florus 3 inches away from light any help i am here

 

[BluntFullOfKush]

hey 3 whats up my frien long tyme no talk, how waz the smoke?? O.K now, how many plants do you plan on putting in there, cause that will make a big difference on how many lights to use.Hey Clark if you got a credit card and dont mind spending bout 50-60 bucks for the light and bulbs you can go here http://www.wormsway.com/detail.asp?sku=SST102 and they got a cool T8 Sunleaves Saturn, Its 2x2 so it will fit in ya box perfectly. I gotta fix this guy PC and hes gonna give me a 400w light beats spending 160 for 1

 

[Kupunakane]

Yo-Ho Clarkkent,
LOL, Ya know everyone loves that name. My thoughts are about your venting. I too would love to recommend that you get something to excite youtself over. Lights are sneaky heat builders especially when the door is closed, and it has a chance to accumulate the heat in that space, watch close OK ?
smoke in peace
KingKahuuna

 

[BluntFullOfKush]

King, i totally forgot to tell hime about heat great work on that. Heat build u can be a B!!!h. Even with clf's, flourencents are better but need a lot of them, the site above have a few with lumens 40,000, dot know about the heat they could give off. get u like 2 cpu fans could work nicely for you but i dunno. What do you think he should King or any 1 that reads this???

 

[booradley]

when I was growing with CFLs and passive vent (just a hole in the top to let the heat escape) it never got too hot in my cab. I was using some of those monster CFLs (which I do not recommend - use many smaller ones instead of one or two large ones!).

 

[3patas]

hey 3 whats up my frien long tyme no talk, how waz the smoke?? O.K now, how many plants do you plan on putting in there, cause that will make a big difference on how many lights to use.Hey Clark if you got a credit card and dont mind spending bout 50-60 bucks for the light and bulbs you can go here http://www.wormsway.com/detail.asp?sku=SST102 and they got a cool T8 Sunleaves Saturn, Its 2x2 so it will fit in ya box perfectly. I gotta fix this guy PC and hes gonna give me a 400w light beats spending 160 for 1

waz up my friend well right now i have 14 plants they are doing very good wazup with yours hit me back peace out

 

[clarkkent]

Thanks for all the advice.

I went to Menards today and picked up two more 24" flourescent cool white tubes. One for each side of the box. I have a pc fan right now that I could install, but I'm trying to decide if I should just put a regular small fan in there somewhere.

I had the lights on all day today, still on actually, and it was 85 degrees here...and it doesn't seem any warmer inside. But it cant' hurt to put the fan, plus I read that it makes the plants stronger. *shrug*

Right now I have like 10? seeds started in JiffyPots and plan on really only raising 3 plants once I figure out which ones are females. I know it'll be a while till then. But I'm looking to let them get to be about 15"-18" tall before they go into flower. I really am not sure how much room they'll take up but thought 3 should be easily doable. As I progress you guys can tell me if I can handle more I'd guess.

Keep the info coming.....I appreciate it.

 

[3patas]

hey my friend for you to have an idea every 5 inches your plant will finish on a foot long meaning that if you start a plant 15 inches long on the flowering stage you most likely will finish 3 feet long you might think is alot but when you put your plants on flowering stage the will grow like you never seen a plant grow this is a very helpfull tip for box growers

 

[clarkkent]

So I may be better off letting them get to like 6"-8" and then start flowering? Or is that too soon? Cuz I have the space for them to get to be up to 4' I'd say. But for time reasons, space reasons, and kind of hiding them...I'd just as soon have them done asap. I'm in no hurry to smoke, though I am looking forward to it, but I'd like to not drag this out the first time around.

As far as never seeing a plant grow that fast...I'm sure I believe you, cuz right now their already an inch out of the ground and I just dropped them in two days ago!
:holysheep: I'm almost scared to see what they do when I put the other lights in

 

[3patas]

So I may be better off letting them get to like 6"-8" and then start flowering? Or is that too soon? Cuz I have the space for them to get to be up to 4' I'd say. But for time reasons, space reasons, and kind of hiding them...I'd just as soon have them done asap. I'm in no hurry to smoke, though I am looking forward to it, but I'd like to not drag this out the first time around.

As far as never seeing a plant grow that fast...I'm sure I believe you, cuz right now their already an inch out of the ground and I just dropped them in two days ago!
:holysheep: I'm almost scared to see what they do when I put the other lights in

no dont do that if you have 4 feet tall star at 19 to 20 inches high that will ends at 4 feet

 

[clever_intuition]

:yeahthat: