First Grow CFL Shed

BlueCheesey

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This is currently my first grow. I have recently bought some Blue Cheese feminized seeds from Barney's Farm. But I would like to perfect my room before i start on those. The temp is really starting to rise since summer is arriving, plus i am in a shed outside my house. There is no windows just a dead bolt locked door. I currently purchase an in-line fan from home depot to suck the air in from outside

Medium
-MG soil

Lights
-6 43W CFL

Here are some Pictures
Please Any Suggestions
 

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BlueCheesey

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Hey just an update. Just purchased some comp fans to vent the top but have no idea how to wire them :cry:. Also bought some perlite

Any comments suggestions?
 

BlueCheesey

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***New Update***

Guess no one is following this but whatever

Here is a couple of new pics


Pic 1
- Cleaned Up everything a bit and installed the new intake fan, (it can be seen on the bottom right of the picture, it is sucking air from a shaded area outside of the shed


Pic 2
- Added Vent hole with fans to release the hot air


Pic 3
- All three plants about 10 days in


***IMPORTANT***
I am germinated 2 Feminized Blue Cheese (Barney's Farm), i have the current plants in there right now so i could test my grow box. I dont want to have to kill them but i will if i need any ideas



Also any comments or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated

 

2legit

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I would just keep growin those along with the others if you can/want. Should just set up the room, check it every few hrs that way it will pretty well get as hot or as cold as it's gonna get and you can adjust what you need to for the right temp. If your gonna keep those little guy's, I would just transplant them into their final pot's now so you dont have to later. Looks good so far!
 

BlueCheesey

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Thank You 2legit

The temp in the room is pretty much controlled now, took a damn while but i think i finally got it

I think i might just keep the largest seedling, and then put the start the 2 fem seeds in large pots, so i have three in pots in there (2 Blue Cheese, 1 BagSeed)

Any One Else Suggestions?
 

2legit

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if you have the room just grow them all. you may not even get a female out of any of those 3. It will be good to learn from the early growth too. This is my first run from seed and got 3 sprouts from 4 seeds. One was female for sure so I waited a week after i spotted that one then killed the other 2. I am wishing now I hadn't done that and just grew her for seed to learn and get more seeds. Now I am starting over and going to make a seperate veg room while this one finishes. Then seed a female(took a clone off the female I am flowering now), so at least one female to seed. Anyways im baked right now but I would just grow what you have your first time to learn and practice.
 

BlueCheesey

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Well the reason that i want to just start over with the other seeds was because they are feminized so they for sure will be female, i don't wanna just grow those for them to end up male and pollinate my ladies
 

BlueCheesey

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***UPDATE***

New Pics!!

Pic 1

Here are the three seedlings today, they seem to be looking kind of droopy. Anybody know what that could be?




Pic 2
These are the BLUE CHEESE FEMINIZED seeds that i have been germinating, i dont know when i want to plant them because i dont want to kill my babies but they are just bag seed, tomorrow will be the day i choose what i want to do but i would really appreciate The RIU communities HELP PLEAsEEE :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:




Pic 3

This is just the shit i bought so when i put the new seeds in tey can just start off with their big pots and i heard the perlite works well. ANY COMMENTS?




PLEASE ANY SUGGESTIONS OR COMMENTS WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED :peace::peace::peace:
 

BlueCheesey

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UPDATE

Since spring is getting here and i live in the Southeast the temp outside is continually rising

I just purchase/installed a 4.75 in comp Fan that pumps out 75 CFM this is in addition to a 3 in 35 CFM comp fan, and 4 inch just walmart fan


My shed is acting like an oven but hopefully all that exhaust and my intake fan will keep it under control


ANY COMMENTS SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED :mrgreen::peace::mrgreen:
 

BlueCheesey

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***NEW UPDATE***

New Pics

Well Yesterday i transplanted 2 of the babies and planted one of the germinating seeds. I dont feel as a transplanted them safely enough, and just have that feeling, How long would it take to see if i killed them, (transplanted them yesterday around 4 )

Pic 1


The current setup in the new 3 Gal Pots



Pic 2 & 3

the two transplanted seedlings what do you guys think?




#2




WELL ANY COMMENTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED:peace::peace::peace:
 

BlueCheesey

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They still look the same would they have died by now if it was a bad transplant or does it usually take longer to know?
 

BlueCheesey

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***New Update***

New Pics

The Blue Cheese seedling just sprouted but my camera died when i was taking pictures. The only shots i got off where the 2 others. I dont know how well they survived the transplant still. Let you be the judge





Would they looked fucked up by now, if they didn't like the transplant?
 

ceestyle

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Since you're in an outdoor shed, I would say screw the computer fans and just use a few inline fans. The only reason I and some others use computer fans is that they are silent and good for small spaces, such as small clone rooms. If I didn't care about noise, I would just throw in a few inline fans, a couple at the bottom blowing in and a couple at the top blowing out.

I wouldn't personally use MG soil, as the seedlings don't need the nutrients when they're young, and with liquid nutrients you can more accurately control what your plants are getting for food. Judging from your pictures, I would have used more perlite. I like about 1/3. It makes the soil very quick-draining, which reduces the likelihood of overwatering, allows the quick administration of nutrients when needed, and facilitates leaching when necessary.

Your plants are fine in the small containers until they are much bigger. Conventional wisdom sez that it is better to let a plant produce a compact root system in a smaller pot before final transplant. In addition, you won't waste time transplanting males.

Don't worry about your males. You will easily be able to determine sex and remove them before they can pollinate your females. If the bagseed turns out to be interesting, you could clone your blue cheese and breed them. Believe it or not, you can do this without contaminating the whole crop.

First order of business - I would say - is to get a thermometer/hygrometer for $20 or whatever and monitor your temp. This way you can decide whether it's even feasible to go HID once you have some more growth.

I assume you have drainage holes in the bottom of your cups. How often are you watering? At this point, the most sensitive adjustment you can make is watering, as it appears you have enough lighting at this stage. Could be temp too.

cc
 

ceestyle

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Oh and you shouldn't be running 12/12 for some time now unless you want super-dwarfs. At least 18/6.
 

BlueCheesey

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Thank you ceestyle

I am no longer using the cups i am in those 3 gallon pots and they do have drainage holes at the bottom. Also i am not on 12/12 yet i was going to wait till about 5 in tall
 
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