ICURBYOUs WhiteWidow CFL dresser growbox

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Thivi11

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This is an incredible journal, it's really instilling confidence in me about my grow too. Your box is just painted white right? Does that get the job done? I think I'm going t try and go the powerbar-plug-in-light-way like yours, and make a reflective hood. I love this set-up. Mine's going to be in a rubbermaid so it'll just be a bit smaller scale.
 
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icurbyou

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Thivi11 said:
This is an incredible journal, it's really instilling confidence in me about my grow too. Your box is just painted white right? Does that get the job done? I think I'm going t try and go the powerbar-plug-in-light-way like yours, and make a reflective hood. I love this set-up. Mine's going to be in a rubbermaid so it'll just be a bit smaller scale.
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Thanks for the compliment bro. To answer some of your questions:

Your box is just painted white right? - I do have it painted white, but I also put some mylar on all of the walls/door too. I went to a local 'party' store. They had some rolls in a box and it was about 15cents per square foot. I got $5 worth and that was sufficient enough for my project.

I think I'm going t try and go the powerbar-plug-in-light-way like yours, and make a reflective hood. - I honestly love my power-strip light bar with my homemade reflector. It was cheap (in my opinon virtually free).. Altogether I paid, what, $10 for it?
I have a link to the "tutorial" on how I built mine if you havent seen it.

Mine's going to be in a rubbermaid so it'll just be a bit smaller scale - Ive seen some bomb plants coming from rubbermaids.

You'll grow will do great. Just pay close attention to the information on this forum. Make sure you learn from everyone else's mistakes. So far during this grow I wouldnt do anything different than I already have. We're only a week in though! Im crossing my fingers!
Write shit down if you need to. I have a text document that just has random info I have found. Even when I find 2 answers to the same question, I write them both and determine while growing which one I will go with. Just my 2 cents.
 
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icurbyou

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Days since ground-break: 7 days
Number of plants: 2
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Light Cycle: 18/6
Temps: 78.1ºF
Nutes: 0

Alright, well, my plants seem to love the 18/6. I'm no plantologist but I really do think they like it.
The difference in the 2 plants' growths are interesting.

#3: She is very bushy, but a little taller. However, her 5th and 6th jagged leaves arent growing in quite as fast as Charlottes... However, her 3rd and 4th leafs are large!

Charlotte: Her 2nd set (3rd and 4th) leafs arent as large as #3's, but it seems her 5th/6th are growing in better. She's trying to push more leafs out rather than growing out the one's she's got. ha




I would like to do a "over the weekend comparison"

I will show friday, and then today.

 
bxke1414

bxke1414

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We started our grows about the same time, yours are looking good, I'll have to keep an eye on this journal.
 
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khulozz

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This is awesome I'm growing white widow too, my first so far sucessful grow and my plant is like two days older than yours! I only got one plant going but it's a feminized seed so I'm not too worried.

But yeah according to my seedling your plant looks to be growing pretty much the exact same rate mine is. I'd post pics but my cell phone camera broke and too lazy to dig out the camera.

I love the neat organization you're doing. I'm following this
 
icurbyou

icurbyou

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Thanks for stopping in guys.

With all of us growing at once, it appears that we are adding a lot more weight of pot to the planet earth. lol.. Hope we dont throw it off it's axis.
 
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icurbyou

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Days since ground-break: 8 days
Number of plants: 2
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Light Cycle: 18/6
Temps: 79ºF
Nutes: 0

So, I ran into my first LESSON!

Make sure, when you fill your pots/cups you fill them high enough that the plant wont get caught up in the restraints of said pot/cup.

Charlotte has a wider diameter than the cup has. I even tried to put some sticks in there to prop up her leafs so they would grow to the outside of the cup but they are friggin stuck, they are shaped to the cup now. I want to transplant her into the 1gals I got, but I think it's a little early. Oh well, maybe her turning into a pretzel early will be okay since I will be LSTing her in the end anyways.

Otherwise, they are looking good. I love my fan because I got my plants closer than an inch from these lights.. Im talking like half inch at the most, and they arent being burned, or scorched, or discolored at all.

Here are the beauties on day 8:

POOR CHARLOTTE!!! :(:(


Luckily #3 got tall enough before pushing out her leafs.


Group shot!:
 
Scroogeness

Scroogeness

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icurbyou said:
With all of us growing at once, it appears that we are adding a lot more weight of pot to the planet earth. lol.. Hope we dont throw it off it's axis.
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maybe the world won't be so horrible now! haha

anyways those plants are taking off! i guess if you dont really need the cup you could get some scissors and make the cup shorter. just a thought.
 
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icurbyou

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Scroogeness said:
i guess if you dont really need the cup you could get some scissors and make the cup shorter. just a thought.
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LMFAO.. Dude.. that is HILARIOUS... I did not even remotely think of that idea at ALL... I feel like a complete MORON. I thought I had a 'think outside of the box' sort of mindframe.. but.. lol.. apparently I dont!

I will do that the MOMENT I get home! HAHA. thanks bro!!
 
icurbyou

icurbyou

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Days since ground-break: 9 days
Number of plants: 2
Lights: (3)26w CFL
Lumens: 1600 (x3 = 4800)
Light Cycle: 18/6
Temps: 76.8ºF
Nutes: 0


Welp.. Here we are on a typical Wednesday afternoon. I dont have much to say.. uhmmm.. Well, actually, I planted these into that whole "3 month feeding" miracle grow shit.. I know everyone hates on it, and rightfully so, but I didnt go out and get new dirt by the time the seeds got here and my excitement of planting them got the best of me...
Right now #3 is having some leaf damage possibly due to one of the 'feed balls' breaking.. On one hand I want to flush water in the cup to clean her up, but on the other hand, adding more water could cause more of the 'feed balls' to leak.
I'll just ride it out and see how it goes.

It could be related to something totally different. Not much I can do for now.

My plan to counter this, is when they will be transplanted I will buy the proper dirt for their 1.5gal pots.

Pictures of the ladies:

Webcam shot of thermometer


The "habitat":


Charlotte free from the barriers!:


You can see the issue in this image of #3.. Look at the two leaves that point at 4 o'clock and 7 o'clock.. There are spots of kind of a "browny" color...
 
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