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Hello. I tried growing from bagseed once before, but my plant lived only a few days. Here is as far as it got:
After a few days it stretched out and died.
I was using natural sunlight and putting it under a single CFL at night. I examined the bulb later and found it was only 23W, 2700K, so I figured it did not get enough sunlight and that the bulb as totally the wrong spectrum, thus the stretching that killed the plant. This time I ordered one KC Brains Northern Lights Special seed, one World of Seeds Afghan Kush Special, and got one free White Cheese autoflowering seed from Attitude. While I am waiting for the seeds to arrive (about a week and a half I guess, I will post a grow-log for whatever help I can get), I wanted to see how you guys like my plan for growing this time. I am still trying to be very economical, just growing 1 plant at a time for personal use, but I wanted to make sure my set-up looks "okay" in the sense that my plant should survive and have a moderate yield. Here is a pic of where I will be growing:
I have a board to put on top of the two poles the clothes are hanging on, and then I will be able to raise and lower the plant by sticking books under it.
I have 4 23W 6500K CFLs. I plan on putting one 6500K CFL in the fixture and another 2 in the clamp reflector using a Y-splitter (as shown) for the seedling stage, and then putting a Y-splitter in the fixture and moving up to all 4 6500K bulbs when the plant is vegetating strong. For flowering I will switch to 3 2300K bulbs and one 6500K. I also plan to LST. Is this enough to start with and will I probably need more light eventually? Also, I figured the clamp reflector would provide enough reflection, and am not really planning on investing in additional reflective material, given that the walls are white. Does that sound alright?
I will have a single (fairly large) oscillating fan going in the closet, at the same level as the plants, blowing on them for half of the oscillation. I figured growing in a larger closet like this with just one plant wouldn't require an exhaust fan. Last time I used Miracle-Gro soil and was laughed at a little, so this time I found a local place selling Foxfarm Ocean Forest, so I plan on using that the whole time, with no nutrients for the first few weeks. I will germinate in a paper towel, plant in a peat pot, and transplant to the larger pot in the picture when the plant gets bigger.
I'm feeling good about this attempt since I am using professional feminized seeds and the right spectrum of light, with 3-4 bulbs instead of 1. I am trying to keep things as cheap as possible, but most of all I just want this to work, to have a plant I can bring all the way to maturity and harvest a decent level of good bud from. So mostly I am looking for responses about things I am doing straight up wrong that will hurt the plant. But if there is a relatively cheap way to vastly improve the set-up, I would also love to hear it.
Finally, thanks a lot to people like you who keep communities like this going. I have learned so much from researching on forums like this over the last week and gotten some great ideas. Thanks for the help!
After a few days it stretched out and died.
I was using natural sunlight and putting it under a single CFL at night. I examined the bulb later and found it was only 23W, 2700K, so I figured it did not get enough sunlight and that the bulb as totally the wrong spectrum, thus the stretching that killed the plant. This time I ordered one KC Brains Northern Lights Special seed, one World of Seeds Afghan Kush Special, and got one free White Cheese autoflowering seed from Attitude. While I am waiting for the seeds to arrive (about a week and a half I guess, I will post a grow-log for whatever help I can get), I wanted to see how you guys like my plan for growing this time. I am still trying to be very economical, just growing 1 plant at a time for personal use, but I wanted to make sure my set-up looks "okay" in the sense that my plant should survive and have a moderate yield. Here is a pic of where I will be growing:
I have a board to put on top of the two poles the clothes are hanging on, and then I will be able to raise and lower the plant by sticking books under it.
I have 4 23W 6500K CFLs. I plan on putting one 6500K CFL in the fixture and another 2 in the clamp reflector using a Y-splitter (as shown) for the seedling stage, and then putting a Y-splitter in the fixture and moving up to all 4 6500K bulbs when the plant is vegetating strong. For flowering I will switch to 3 2300K bulbs and one 6500K. I also plan to LST. Is this enough to start with and will I probably need more light eventually? Also, I figured the clamp reflector would provide enough reflection, and am not really planning on investing in additional reflective material, given that the walls are white. Does that sound alright?
I will have a single (fairly large) oscillating fan going in the closet, at the same level as the plants, blowing on them for half of the oscillation. I figured growing in a larger closet like this with just one plant wouldn't require an exhaust fan. Last time I used Miracle-Gro soil and was laughed at a little, so this time I found a local place selling Foxfarm Ocean Forest, so I plan on using that the whole time, with no nutrients for the first few weeks. I will germinate in a paper towel, plant in a peat pot, and transplant to the larger pot in the picture when the plant gets bigger.
I'm feeling good about this attempt since I am using professional feminized seeds and the right spectrum of light, with 3-4 bulbs instead of 1. I am trying to keep things as cheap as possible, but most of all I just want this to work, to have a plant I can bring all the way to maturity and harvest a decent level of good bud from. So mostly I am looking for responses about things I am doing straight up wrong that will hurt the plant. But if there is a relatively cheap way to vastly improve the set-up, I would also love to hear it.
Finally, thanks a lot to people like you who keep communities like this going. I have learned so much from researching on forums like this over the last week and gotten some great ideas. Thanks for the help!
