Mr.E's Newbie Grow. 3 seeds/2 dead doners. [Help Appreciated]

Well I'm back everyone! Life got a little more on track! Wish I would of taken advantage of the growing space I had back home though haha. Anyway. So heres the deal, couple of you may remember me from a starter plant I tried back a bit ago. This is what I'm working with right now.

CURRENT CYCLE:VEGGING

GROW ROOM: Just emptied out a little floor cupboard, flat white paint on the sides. Possibly putting up foil soon. Managed to squeeze in 3 little plants. Probably going to stunt the third ones growth just due to lack of grow space. It was originally going to be a little shot glass bonsai but never put it into a shot glass lol.

SEEDS: (Random bag about 50 seeds)
a bag full of random seeds, all bag seeds. Were given to me.

PLANTS: (3 Self grown/2 dead doners)
so far I've got 3 plants sprouted and growing slowly. I'm not sure about the soil, pH, etc. I'm completely new to this again haha. I'll get pictures to show you how my plants are coming along. And the two doners I was given I'm pretty sure are dead. leaves are all dry and wilted but trying for flowering anyway.

So far with the three plants I have been using distilled tap water usually letting it sit out for 2+ days. and I use a spray bottle to regularly mist the plants.
I also bought a random bag of potting soil. I'm not sure if its working as nicely as my first bag I bought which I'll be going back to when transplanting. I also have used thinned out miracle grow. I do it by watering cycles. 1 watering with M.G., 2 waterings just water. So I'm not always feeding Miracle Grow.

The plants all look healthy and all vary from a week to a month in age. Suprisingly the first plant I started shot up and spit out tons of leaves really quickly in the first month compared to my first grow.

LIGHTS: (CFL 23 W/1600 Lumens) x2
I'm using CFL Bulbs. Daylight bulbs I believe 23 Watts/1600 Lumens each. There are two of them for lack of a third lamp. So I just cycle the lights around in circles over each plant. But they all are generally always getting light 24/7. Just low reflection and lumen catching on the one that doesn't get direct light.

NUTES: (Unkown help wanted)
So I have only been using Miracle Grow. Not sure where to pick up any other nutrients been reading and researching a lot of information. But still unsure about the charts and where to get the nutes in common stores. So anything about the Vegging and Flowering cycles I should know about I would very much appreciate it.

CIRCULATION: (None/1 fan)
The cupboard I have them all in seems to be well ventilated and keeps in effecient heat for the plants. I occasionally open the cabinet and let a fan blow in just to get the stocks tougher. usually once a day for an hour or so. Other then that they mainly just get air when I open the cabinet. But the door doesn't seal so theres always air getting in for them.

QUESTOINS: I'll be asking questions and posting them here so if other guys need answers to the same questions feel free to ask me and I'll post them waiting for answers. Thanks.

Q: PICTURES: How do you make pictures untraceable? Or is it safe enough to just upload without worrying?

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Q: NUTES: Any specifics needed for vegging? Mainly I've read Nitrogen.

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Q: LIGHTING: Got into an argument with my roomie about the two we're trying to flower from the dead. He bought heating bulbs from the pet store like 25 watts. Told him off and put a CFL bulb on my side lol. We're doing 12 on 12 off for flowering. Any suggestions? Better light choices for flowering? Etc.

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Thats all for now! Any updates I'll be posting! Along with pictures! Thanks everyone!

-Mr.E-

As far as lighting goes.....CFLs will work great for vegging but horrible for flowering, the pet store heat lamp is complete shit. CFLs will do ok for flowering but you need a shit ton of them. The buds will come out really fluffy/airy and not too frosty. You will get high however. If you have a small space you should maybe just do one medium size plant. I would say go halfs on the cost of a 250w hps or 400w hps with your room mate, you will be much happier. Im not hatin bro, ive just been there before.

I'm going to start regulating feeding and lighting more for each plant. I'm going to post pictures and such here so you can all see the progress of each plant and rough estimate of ages cuz I don't remember when I planted them lol.

Plant 1 (Planted: 1/6/2011)

Plant 2 (Planted: 1/12/2011)

Plant 3 (Planted: 1/20/2011)

2 Dead Plants: (1/25/2011 adopted)
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dopeedogg said:

As far as lighting goes.....CFLs will work great for vegging but horrible for flowering, the pet store heat lamp is complete shit. CFLs will do ok for flowering but you need a shit ton of them. The buds will come out really fluffy/airy and not too frosty. You will get high however. If you have a small space you should maybe just do one medium size plant. I would say go halfs on the cost of a 250w hps or 400w hps with your room mate, you will be much happier. Im not hatin bro, ive just been there before.

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Ah no doubt. I didn't know that about CFLs for flowering. Just figured Daylights with high output of lumens would be best. Was just thinking about it in the sense if they were outside growing natural what would they need haha.
But yea might have to convince him on that. And I told him that too! Was like dude you're wasting your money heat has nothin to do with it and ur gettin shitty 25 watts. Thats gonna do nothing lol. But these plants are pretty gone. No sun leaves left at all on mine. His has bout half his plant wilted. But both have the pistels growing out already from a week in the dark lol. Last minute adoption. Didn't have a setup for them at all. But I couldn't say no to two free plants.
And no worries man. I appreciate all help and criticism. I'm pretty happy with my starters though. My first plant beasted. I'm wondering if its cuz I stole dirt from outside to start it lol, then got it soil later. whatever I did its huge for being less than a month old.