3rd CFL micro grow

So I got my ghetto-micro-growbox lit and fanned up, a single Jack Herer(from Vision Seeds) seed dropped in a glass of water on august 15, and today morning, the 18th, put in soil with a tap root about half an inch. It's not my first grow, but this time it's first run with a photo-plant. Previous times were with autos, left me very satisfied, but I wanted to try something a little bit different.
The grow space I have is very limited and plant can only grow to a max of maybe 2 feet. Maybe sativaish strain is a foolish choice, but that's what I have. Gonna have to deal with it. Maybe I'll LST, maybe SCRoG it, not sure yet.
The lights I'm going to use for now are 26w(1400 lumen) CFLs, about 3-4 of those. And two small additional 10w leds to light up the bottom, summing up at around 100-120 actual watts and around 4500 lumens. I actually have been thinking about purchasing a cheap 180w(60x3w) LED panel, but not right now.
I'll be doing 12/12 from seed - again keeping space restrictions in mind. Hoping to go through the full grow cycle in a 10-12 weeks.
Again I'm talking about 16"*20"*24"(40*50*60cm) box with a pot right below it and my plant growing straight through the bottom of the box(see previous grow). It's rough, but worked really well last time. I have 2x80mm pc fans blowing out of the box, and a single 120mm fan blowing from the bottom side up like this \ in the direction of the "exhaust". It's small and silent.
Last yield was around 20-22g which is a lot to me, as I only smoke a 2-3 times a week. Hoping to get around the same results with anything above 25g will be a Grand-Success!
Will start posting as soon as she sprouts!

So she broke the ground today!
Also installed the SCRoG screen an inch below the CFLs

im doing a micro grow. myself and mine just sprouted too! I will definately be looking foward towards your updates

ill be following ! doign a cfl grow too using 4x23w ( 100w equivalent ) per plant for total of 276w check it out if youd like mine are at 3 weeks veg already

A week from seed, not much going on. Just keeping track of the progress:


Oh, and I moved her to a gallon pot!

10 days from seed
There's been a mishap, she god sucked into the fan. It happened 2 days ago, and though she does not look very good, she can now again stand on her own.

Hopefully she will fully recover soon

well it will make main stem harder only thing i might look into is if the plant can hermi that early into growth becasue of such tromatism personally i wouldnt know :/

12 days from seed, 9 since sprouted
She recovers little by little. Added some nutes, like 1/4 of a dosage. Maybe it will help her recover faster.
Here are some pics for a status update



I'm only troubled by that I don't see any new growth

well if you can try to check if the top is in anyway damaged or what by whatever happened with the fan ( all my sorry's :< ), other than that the plant looks a bit damaged but what is not looks healthy and it looks a bit blury but to me you do have 2 new set of small leaves going, just give it time ... your leaves have nice colors and i would wait longer for nutes ... really wait till your leaves show early nitrogen def, especially with what hapenned you don't wanna have it wanna deal with more than it already is trying to go threw, if it can't handle the 1/4 + its trying to heal from this tromatism it might kill it in worse case.

OHHH yeah i forgot you might wanna try and add soil medium up to over the damaged point, it won't hurt ! your main stem is pretty tall maybe your light are a little but very little too away

i've had 4 cfl's on each plants from start but they came from clone, id say keep 1x23w cfl until 3 set of leaves but it needs to be about 4 inches away is perfect distance i find with those. it procures perfect growth to stretch ratio for my needs adjust for yours don't go closer than 2,5-3 inch and don't go past 5-6 inches

your light spectrum needs to be bright white, between 4700k-6800k for veg stage they will absorb light better for veg ! sorry for double reply but seems like a few little things could get adjust and will help greatly !

Thanks! Yeah, I have already removed 2 cfls and was planning to add soil little by little. Guess I'll just add it tommorow

12 days since sprout
It seems she have recovered and started to develop. Fresh growth is finally visible!
Did as growpie suggested and added some soil up to a break point. She also grew a bit:

Seing as she have recovered and heat is less of an issue, I added back another cfl, so now it's a total of 3. This is also due to that my light heigh is not adjustable.

Overall not much to say, here are some more pics:


She developed a lot slower because of my f-up, but from now on I hope it'd be a smooth sailing

looking smooth after a fewdays of healing, nice nursing ! letsget this baby out of surgery table and see how it does hahaha curiosity how high areyour cfl set fron the seedling ?

Yeah, she really have)) took some pictures, but they came out blury, will post some tommorow. She is now about 10cm( 4" ) from the lights. Could be closer, but then it would also be somewhat hotter.

Also I finally bought green led flash light, so I can check on her after work(during her sleep)

16 days since sprout
The pics:



Got out and got BioBloom. This will be the first time I actually switch the nutrients when in bloom. Interested to see a difference if there'll be one.

there we go that make smore sense now ! good job keep it up !

19 days
She slowly grows. Gave her 1/4 dose of general(1-1-1) nutrients. If everything was good, she would probably show preflowers in a couple of days, but now I expect another week of simple vegging.

Also I would probably still FIM her. Read about it and although some say I might loose some yield, some say it may actually increase!

She's around 10cm high now.

I will be keeping her on the general nutes up until a week or two into flowering.

just my 2 bits, the diversity about those results you looked on fimming is because some strains do good with it jist like lst, scrog, topping, some strain are known to not only recover nicely but produce better results, but some also take it very bad, its betterto lookup results of those specific to the strain your growing right now as a fim on a critical kush may and will most likely be dofferent than a purple kush for instance.

Will do, thanks!

21 days
Solid progression



Waiting for an aprolriate time to fim now