my babies thriving w/ 14CFLs and one question...

I've got quite a few plants and they are all pretty much growing great. There is one plant that is growing a little 'differently' than the rest.

Here is the plant that is jsut growing differently than the others. Any ideas?




Here are the rest of my plants and my setup, enjoy:

ACK! Sorry they are so damn huge!! I forgot to resize them.

I fixed them though. sorry again!!

when i sprout several seeds and they are in cubes i usually kill off the week and deformed ones, sometimes they pull through and turn out great (one of my curent flowering plants was a deformed baby, shes beautiful now)
i just think its mother nature, you get a few not up to par

They look like they are growing good, nice and stout no stretching. Remember to flip the lights to 12/12 somewhat early I made the mistake of letting mine get to 14 inches tall before flipping and they are now 48 inches 2 weeks later

Your also going to need A LOT MORE LIGHT to get all those to flower decently. I run 6 42w 2700k cfls , 8 26w 6500k cfls, and 6 26w 2700k cfls and I still may need more with the height mine has jumped up to. They will veg great under those cfls, but when its flower time your gonna need More, alot more if you have 3-5 females total. I will admit now it would be alot easier to just run a 400w HPS rather than the 600+ of cfls I have been running. Just my opinion though, good luck

yea that's what I've heard too.

but like you say, I'd hate to kill the ugly duckling just to have it turn out to be my best out of the whole batch. Hopeful thinking I'm sure but that's what it's all about anyways...

where do you get sockets like that

atombomb said:

They look like they are growing good, nice and stout no stretching. Remember to flip the lights to 12/12 somewhat early I made the mistake of leting mine get to 14 inches tall before flipping and they are now 48 inches 2 weeks later

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that is why I lst or supercrop so you wont have a problem only a huge yield.Your plants are looking nice so far. cfl's are real good as long as they are 2 inches off the plant.

atombomb said:

They look like they are growing good, nice and stout no stretching. Remember to flip the lights to 12/12 somewhat early I made the mistake of leting mine get to 14 inches tall before flipping and they are now 48 inches 2 weeks later

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About how tall should I let them get before I switch the lights over? I don't have tons of space really...

danke said:

yea that's what I've heard too.

but like you say, I'd hate to kill the ugly duckling just to have it turn out to be my best out of the whole batch. Hopeful thinking I'm sure but that's what it's all about anyways...

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i know what you mean, i always germ about 8 seeds but i only keep up to 4 of em

gorilladave said:

where do you get sockets like that

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Home Depot

atombomb said:

Your also going to need A LOT MORE LIGHT to get all those to flower decently. I run 6 42w 2700k cfls , 8 26w 6500k cfls, and 6 26w 2700k cfls and I still may need more with the height mine has jumped up to. They will veg great under those cfls, but when its flower time your gonna need More, alot more if you have 3-5 females total. I will admit now it would be alot easier to just run a 400w HPS rather than the 600+ of cfls I have been running. Just my opinion though, good luck

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Yea I'm planning on getting an HPS soon for flowering... I've got a 50watt HPS in the top of the cabinet that you can see in the pics. I don't currently use it because it really isn't necessary I don't think for the time being.

I have been wondering exactly how many watts when I go HPS I will need for good penetration to the lower parts of the plants and for sufficient flowering.

Any advice?

my two largest plants are from my two deformed seedlings - I had thought of pulling them but considered that you just never know and went with it.
here is a thai skunk just before a considerable lst improvement. At six weeks.

ironheadxl said:

my two largest plants are from my two deformed seedlings - I had thought of pulling them but considered that you just never know and went with it.
here is a thai skunk just before a considerable lst improvement. At six weeks.

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That's what I'm talking about!

I'm keeping all of my deformed babies just like the rest of them... As long as I have room for them I'll keep 'em.

I figure when space starts getting slim I'm going to just have to apply Darwin's theory.

Thanks for the advice ironheadxl

I moved my shelf down one position today. So that the plants could be a little further away from the lights. But the problem is that now, my little ones are soooo far away. I've propped them up with some objects to keep them close. Hopefully they'll catch up soon....

I also did a little bit of trimming. And I'm probably just blindly chopping of leaves but I think I went about it right...

I just trimmed off the bottom set of leaves on some of the plants because they had suffered a little bit from something. I figured that since they were I think the first set of leaves that the plants would be plenty healthy to handle it and hopefully it will improve growth!!

nice plants with such little light

chitownsmoking said:

nice plants with such little light

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Thanks man! I'm proud of them. I love dawning my sunglasses and going in there and making sure everything is working out ok.

I'm going to be purchasing a HPS setup for the flowering stage...

For 2-3 plants in a cabinet grow, how many watts HPS should I go with?


Also I thought it was worth mentioning that if you look in my pics there is a blue humidifier in there. I just recieved it in the mail a few days ago and I'm loving it.




You can set what you would like the humidity to be and it will run constant until it stabilizes. It also has an ionizer in it and a spout that rotates 360 degrees so that you can have the mist aiming wherever you like.

I got it from amazon for only like $56 including shipping.

My question is what humity percetage should I have my grow room at during each phase of growth? I've read somewhere on this site about it but I can't for the life of me seem to find it again. I know it's something like 60-70% during seedling and veg then slowly down to about 20-30% for flowering. Is this about right?

Thanks for any help in advance!

Ok so look at this critter that I found.

I've seen a few of them flying around and the first picture is one that got caught in some of my fly paper.

The second picture is one of them that I caught in the act. Hanging around on one of my pots. Any clue as to why they are?






The next two pics are of one of my babies that I just transplanted. It looks so happy in it's new bigger pot.

Some dicks hang to the left, some plants hang to the left, shit happens.

Hey danke, on bugs bugs bugs,

I had that same kind of bug in my grow room recently!!! IDK what it is either. I put some garden dust on my babies and never saw it again though. Let me know if you find out what kind a bug it is.

Dr Greene said:

Some dicks hang to the left, some plants hang to the left, shit happens.

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Yea I just ended up getting rid of like my 5 smallest plants but I kept this one just because it has character.

Thanks for the input.

Dr Greene said:

Hey danke, on bugs bugs bugs,

I had that same kind of bug in my grow room recently!!! IDK what it is either. I put some garden dust on my babies and never saw it again though. Let me know if you find out what kind a bug it is.

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Will do for sure. Hopefully someone more experienced then me has seen these before and can tell me if they are harmful or now.

Keep checking back and maybe someone will have responded.

i grow only with cfl`s. If you look in my profile to some pics you'll see that the CFL's are not bad AT ALL!!!