Planning my first grow. A few questions.

My roll of mylar came in, yay! I can line my inserts for my cabinet finally. All I need now are my seeds and fans, but just the seeds would be sufficient so I can begin germinating.

sm:)e said:

My roll of mylar came in, yay! I can line my inserts for my cabinet finally. All I need now are my seeds and fans, but just the seeds would be sufficient so I can begin germinating.

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hey man let me know what you do for fans cos i just built a box kind of like urs

Well guys, here's my cabinet all covered in shiny.

Now it just needs some green stuff.

hey man why do you have a camera in there? and u should take the reflective stuff of the bottom surface

Nice little set up dude just get those fans and some green bushy stuff and your set!!!!

The camera isn't staying, it's just in there for the hell of it right now. And why Should I take it off the bottom?

dude ide leave the webcam up towards the top so u can watch it grow

light can reflect upward too so personally i would keep it there but thats just me.

yeah but ive seen on plant problems ppls leavs turning over to get the light on the bottom, whateva lol if it happens ull know y.

hey man what did you use for ur fans? i got my box built but i have no fans

Leaves will most definitely turn over the other way to get at the light. It's their nature.

Will they? Probably not.

The light from those CFL's will be a lot more intense than the light reflecting off the floor (granted you keep them close to the tops of the plants, within 1-2 inches), though the tops of the leaves are what collect the light I believe, so a reflective floor doesn't have too much benefit IMO.

But I might be totally wrong. Good luck.

Not saying that you're wrong, but I have seen many threads with cabs that have reflective floors/and or reflectors placed on top of the soil. I believe it's just to help maximum light reach the lower levels of the plant, not to help reach the underside of the leaves. I could also be wrong though. Thanks for the support.


All input still welcome!

Hey guys, so my seeds germinated fine. I'm pretty excited and about to transplant to soil now.






Let the fun begin! Also, should I water the newly germinated and transplanted seeds?

yes water them lol. did you poke holes in the bottom of the cups?

Lol, yeah I poked holes in them. Also, my fans came in today so I redid my exhaust. I only have one hooked up right now since I only have sets of lights on.

Should I do 24/0 until they break the surface or start out right off the bat with 18/6?

Do 24/0 for the first whole month.... this will help them veg faster and grow faster...when you are nearing the flowering stage then cut back from 24/0 to 18/6 to 12/12

sm:)e said:

Lol, yeah I poked holes in them. Also, my fans came in today so I redid my exhaust. I only have one hooked up right now since I only have sets of lights on.

Should I do 24/0 until they break the surface or start out right off the bat with 18/6?

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yeah i would do 24/0 till they all sprout but 18/6 for vegg, but thats just my opinion. what have you done for fans?

I have two 120mm 135cfm pc fans instead of my original 80mm horrible ones that were letting it get way to hot. I only have one in right now and I'm staying at 80 degrees with one set of lights on. So I'm pretty sure with two sets on it should be no problem up once I hook the second fan as well. You can check back in my thread to see how my cabinet is set up.

We have growth! I don't have a good camera so I won't take a picture yet since it's barely out of the soil, but hurray!!

Gratz.

Post some updates when they're a little bigger.