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Originally Posted by GreenGoblin  Thanks everyone. My two mystery seeds have sprouted so it's time to get moving!
Bozo - The bottom shelf is adjustable, and I just moved it way up closer to the lights. I will probably grab a few of those y splitters. I have one or two around here somewhere. I need a few more bulbs anyway. Speaking of bulbs...
jangel - I am runninng mostly Daylight bulbs. There is one 1600 lumen 2700k "Soft White" bulb in there right now. I am going to swap that for another daylight bulb when I pick some up later today. I read through those two posts a few days ago and it looks like I need between 1,000 - 2,000 lumen per square foot. Right now I have roughly 7.5 square feet of area in that chamber, so I need between 7500 --> 15000 of lumen. I currently have 5120 lumen in Daylight bulbs.
Pappy - Thanks for the recipe. I just popped two of my germinated seeds into some potting soil I had handy. It was a Miracle Grow organic. I am going to pick up some of the Hyponex, pearlite, etc for when I need to re-pot.
I added a small fan to the cabinet today and will be running out later to get an exhaust fan and some vents. I also moved some stuff around to better suit the grow and keep stuff out of the way.
I appreciate everyones input so far.
GreenGoblin |
i'm sure you already know that the plants need both red and blue light throughout it's life cycle, just heavy in the blue for vegging (about 4 to 1, watt for watt) and heavy in the red for flowering (which is what HPS is, heavy in the red)
which is the long way of saying, don't take that 'warm' bulb out, just add more blue