Snak
Active Member
Hello all, I've been reading through the forums a lot over the past weeks trying to get everything in order for my first attempt at producing some fine smoke for myself.
I've decided I will try to grow 3 plants at the same time for my first try. I've ordered some Northern Lights seeds, after germinating them I plan on planting them directly into 5 gallon buckets of FoxFarm soil.
My biggest question involves lighting and heat. For the 3 plants, I've ordered six 43W CFL's (6500k) and one single 4ft 54W fluorescent (6500k). I plan on using the 4ft fluorescent across the tops of all three, and 2 CFLs on opposite sides of each individual plant.
I've ordered six replacement CFL's for the flowering stage, 2700k bulbs. I was planning on NOT changing the high single fluorescent, as I read that its good during the flowering stage to still have some of the higher frequency bulbs around to promote growth.
SO- Is that enough light for 3 Northern Lights plants? Or is it too much, or are there any errors in this plan up until this point?
Also, I'm a bit worried that the area I'm growing in might not be cool enough. I'll be growing in an extra bedroom, the closet to be specific. This bedroom has windows but can not have an air conditioning unit installed in those windows. Where I live, the summers get pretty hot and humid. I was planning on keeping windows open periodically and keeping a large fan blowing at all times, would this be enough to counter those few 90º+ days I experience?
Thanks a bunch. This is an excellent forum, I've learned an insane amount of information just from here over the past few weeks, and I'll be coming here for all my questions if ya dont mind
I've decided I will try to grow 3 plants at the same time for my first try. I've ordered some Northern Lights seeds, after germinating them I plan on planting them directly into 5 gallon buckets of FoxFarm soil.
My biggest question involves lighting and heat. For the 3 plants, I've ordered six 43W CFL's (6500k) and one single 4ft 54W fluorescent (6500k). I plan on using the 4ft fluorescent across the tops of all three, and 2 CFLs on opposite sides of each individual plant.
I've ordered six replacement CFL's for the flowering stage, 2700k bulbs. I was planning on NOT changing the high single fluorescent, as I read that its good during the flowering stage to still have some of the higher frequency bulbs around to promote growth.
SO- Is that enough light for 3 Northern Lights plants? Or is it too much, or are there any errors in this plan up until this point?
Also, I'm a bit worried that the area I'm growing in might not be cool enough. I'll be growing in an extra bedroom, the closet to be specific. This bedroom has windows but can not have an air conditioning unit installed in those windows. Where I live, the summers get pretty hot and humid. I was planning on keeping windows open periodically and keeping a large fan blowing at all times, would this be enough to counter those few 90º+ days I experience?
Thanks a bunch. This is an excellent forum, I've learned an insane amount of information just from here over the past few weeks, and I'll be coming here for all my questions if ya dont mind
, the will eventually outgrow those lights. UNLESS, u keep em short. But also, if u start 3 plants, and only 1 or 2 end up being females, that'll give u some extra lights for em since u won't want the males. Temps probly won't be much of an issue with just the 6cfls anthe 1 fluro. They'll get warm, but not too bad, nothin ur fan shouldn't be able to handle. Once flowering time comes, be ready for them to at least double in size in a hurry, so don't run out of space.
