Ist attempt PC grow guide 125w CFL, bagseed

After a lot of lurking on the forums here, I decided to hop on the pc grow bandwagon and made my own case. After messing around with a few bagseed and eventually killing the first seedling out of to much love combined with water I germinated all 11 seeds I had left 2 days ago. I first soaked the beans in distilled water for 24 hours then transferred to wet paper towels and have to say got the best results I've seen yet after trying to germinate some 10 plus seeds previously using both soak and paper towel method and read somewhere a combo of both works best. This morning I woke to 6 lovely tap roots. I used the germination 420 method on GC with my organic potting mix (which I got from a organic salad garden kit) with a 30% mix of per/verm that I brought from my local hydro store. Planning on reporting here every few days to make sure I dont mess it up again with my neewbie errors. Here are photos of the set up as well as the peat pots (there are 5 because I put 2 in one pot). TIll then if anyone in australia would like to recommended any good potting mix from as well as nutes to use in later weeks and where I can get them from would be greatly appreciated.

Box set up is as followed:
- 2 intake, 1 powerful exhaust (will attach a scrubber before flowering)
- 1 125 watt 2700k clf, need to purchase the 6500k soon
- panda film/ reflective car windshielf protector


Wish me luck
ps sorry for the shitty phone cam picks, will find a proper camera soon enough. pce
 

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Day 2 and out of the remaining 5 beans, 4 had tap roots and one didnt show any sings of any change and I chucked it. I now have 6 beans in the case and 5 sitting with a plastic container over then and a 37 real watt globe (100 equiv). still waiting for sprouts. will post when I have some movement. and nuzzi will that melt slash break my globe. it cost me 65 bucks and it would piss me off ha. can I just move it a bit so its not over the venting holes??
 
Day 3 and out of 10 beans 2 have sprouted. One from the case and one from the closet with the incandescent bulb. I sprayed both new sprouts with a tiny bit of distilled water as I read somewhere its recommended when moving them out of the humidity dome and put straight under the lights. Thats all till tomorrow, till then here are some photos of mah new seedlings.

if your wondering why the first three posts all occurred simultaneously its cause Im copy pasting the text.
 

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Woke up to 4 new sprouts this morning. 3 from the dome with incandescent bulb and 1 from the case, go figure. One of my original seedlings was bent over, a problem I've occurred a few times so I buried her (fingers crossed) stem a little and propped her leaves to face opposite the cfl to see if itll bend towards it; not to fussed as I plan to cull it down to 3 good plants as I dont think Ill be able to flower more than 2 fems. Surprising enough one of the new sprouts already had its tap root poking out the bottom, after putting it in the box the tap root shriveled from the light and after reading a few posts on RIU I decided to transplant the peat pot to a bigger container.

One of the other peats had two sprouts in it so the better will be kept will the weaker one is snapped. Planning on skipping buying the 6500k cfl and buying a timer and going straight into flower in a few weeks as this is a test run until I can acquire better seeds or clones. Let me know what you think, sorry about the iphone cam quality Ill get around to finding a proper camera soon.
 

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