Dangerous growing room?

After 3 hard days of working, planning, buying, researching, and praying, I have finally completed my first growing room!! It's a completely dark room with no windows, it's own air conditioning, and great ventilation. I am worried, however, that I am risking fire hazards due to my placing of lights..and that I am risking my plant's health due to the location (too close may burn them, too far may cause them to stretch).

Here are some pictures..I did my best! Do you see anything that puts up a red flag?

P.S. I know one of the plants looks REALLY bad...we've had almost no sunlight here(before tonight I've been using sunlight only) and it hasn't been able to evaporate the water so it's overwatered :/

Lights: 6, 23w 6500k CFL

Thanks!
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Let me give you some honest advice;
I'm guessing this is one of your first grows. If not your first.
Now I've been in your shoes, but it really would be best to keep only one plant in the end.
But for now, keep them all alive until you pick out the females. Throw away the males.
And we'll talk about keeping females later.

It would be best to put one lightbulb, over each plant.
Perfectly centered, and keep the bulb as close as possible without burning the leaves.
Probably about 1.5"-2.5".

The only fire hazard I see is the power strip light setup.
A lot of people get away with it every day, but if you're an electrician you'd understand how the more resistance you add to a circuit, the worse off you are.

Keep reading young padawan.
And only feed them water for the next 2-3 weeks.

I think you need about 50 more CFL's for it to be a problem.

It is my first! I have 3 right now, but only one is seeming to be doing well. I have so many (seeing as I only want one, really) because I didn't expect them to live this long even.

I'll do my best tomorrow to put bulbs over them individually. I have those two movable lamps that I can easily put directly over each plant. I do like my powerstrip-light set up that I have hanging, that puts a LOT of light for them to share...but I have 3 lamps now that I can put over each one individually. I figure 23 watts isn't really enough for one plant so the shared powerstrip of lights is really nice to have.

I'm not anywhere close to overloading the circuit, to my knowledge..it's only 4 23 watt bulbs, so that's under 100 watts.
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BESIDES light, I do have some other questions...can I PM you about those, C. Indica?

You can PM be about anything, anytime.

23w is plenty for a seedling like yours.
Honestly I use 13w-15w CFL's with one 20w and one 40w light. But I don't pull out the 40w light until they are about 3-4 weeks old and can use all the light.
You could use a single 23w for each plant, until they are about 3 inches tall.

When they get to that size shoot us some pictures and we'll help you move your lights around to maximise efficiency and minimize wasted light.

Oh and if a mod is reading this, could they move this to the CFL forum? I feel like the OP would get much better assistance over there.

I've sent you a long list of questions - I hope they aren't too troubling!

Tomorrow I'm going to mess with the lights in order to be more efficient, but I just couldn't stand looking at that sad drooping plant for one more day..I had to get it some real light! Any idea if it has any chance at living? After almost 2 weeks, those plants aren't looking too good..only 2(ish) sets of leaves and only one that looks very healthy.

Not at all, I have more fun helping people do this than most other things. Although now that I think about it I feel like smoking a bowl of some Hawaiian Skunk, and playing Cello.

At two weeks, they honestly look miserable, but it's okay they can rebound.
What kind of seeds did you use?
How many did you try to germinate?
How many of them sprouted?
How many of them do you have left?

You should consider getting a 150 watt hps and keeping a couple cfls for side lighting, you and the plants will be much happier

wow thats okay look at this blow out fucken almost took my head off

yea change that setup

If the whole room there is unoccupied why the hell not get some HID lighting and fill it the heck up some more? Not like that is a very inconspicuous set up, so privacy must not be much of an issue.

I am a new grower and I have almost no money to go with...this seemed the cheapest. and I have no need for privacy. At all.

I'll upgrade when I get better, but my plants are all sucking..

thump easy said:

wow thats okay look at this blow out fucken almost took my head offView attachment 1662959

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Could someone explain this?
How does something like this happen?



I'm pretty sure he doesn't have the money for a 150w HPS setup. Or he's just plain and simply not allowed to use it.
Not all of us have access to the big boys.

u keep adding to the breaker add ur amps up it you have a thousand watt lamp then it usualy pulls nine unless your 220 box but in this case i had a small aroe water chiller a.c. fan light n the breaker kept poping yet i countinued to run it n it pop n i run it n it pop n i ran it finaly it sead fuck you n shot out this fire ball out of the extenion wile i pluged it in ZAP the fucken main up on the top of the pole the fucken converter was sparking on n off the lights just dimed for like a month i finaly got tired of it n called my electic company i dont know if it was the transfromer or my amps but together i guess i shot out this fucken big ass flash took out my fucken light bulb to POP! n my chest just wore this fucken battle scar....

Id go out and get more CFLS, I hit up wal mart, canadian tire (if your canadian haha), and a surplus store. I get this rubber pigtail sockets and splitters for a couple bucks so I can put 2 CFLS in one socket. I wire a couple of CFLS togher into some lampcord you can also buy and plug into my power bar. Right now I have 22, CFLS and im seeing good veg. growth. Just started my first journal if anyone cares. https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/442811-1st-indoor-grow-journal-comments.html

what do you mean by sunlight? Your putting them in the sun during the day?