420newbieg
Well-Known Member
Well here it is a basic cfl grow more then 3 months old i started out with a 16/8 light/dark cycle which i dident figure out till 2 weeks lata after it sprouted so i started to give it a 24/0 for like 2 months sometimes id take it out into my garden then in at night under the lamps when i could this was done using only bare items poormans stuff. So heres the setup one gv 23w daylight cfl which puts out about 1450l at 5000k also added a 2ft flou office industrial flex lamp which gives off 5000k about only 840w there but the spectrum is much wider which helps i also have the 4 footers tubes with ge plant bulbs but the only thing is that gody big thing uses 80w and alot of light was wasted which is why im going small . For maximum light use i use white reflectors from paper which you can get decent package of like 1000 sheets for printers for like only 5 bucks then u take some cardboard and cut a couple pieces now to glue the paper to the cardboard i just bought some car headliner adhesave and you just spray alil on the cardboard sticks perfectly for me. i also use a shoplight clamp fixture which they sell at hd pretty cheap has a metal reflector not to meantion when using cfls they work best in a fixture facing down not standing up ive also added a piece of foil on the inside of the shoplight reflector which makes it work much better at reflecting. Now for nutes i used indoor plant spikes from mg to start off in veg. I know there are some of you people who claim they dont work or aint the right nutes but as you will see everything is fine i also added some worm castings. the only mistake i made was adding too many plant spikes to the pot which resulted in over nuting. I have a 3 gallon pot that is all the soil is just some moisture control mg which might i add already had some nutes in it os i really dident need to add anything till flowering. Now for flowering i used a pinch of chicken shit worm castings and couple more plant spikes. Now the kicker i also used a special multi vitamin which i also added to the water you should know what your doing before u add anything i knew what was in the multi vitamins almost all of the ingredients in what i used is safe for mj meaning your crop shouldent die from adding any if anything its gonna help if u add the right amount by now i got sorta a dark green mixture of mg spikes worm castings chicken shit and the multi vitamin in a big cup with distiled water premixed worked well so far i wouldent use this mixture in vegging stage too many nutes. hope everyone likes. oh and the strain is belived to be a sativa canadian strain something from an online store which prolly aint around anymore gotta love the tiger stripes i put seeds in soil if they come up im good i never use cups of water or towels anymore because with those methords almost anything could come up i go seed to soil ive found thats the best way to assure good seeds.