Indoor First Time CFL Grower

[nastrada]

Power consumption...

So it's my first tent grow and I know CFL's don't use alot Of power but to avoid any paranoia I decided to lower the wattage used in my appartment. After all, I will be powering four or possibly six fans and two lamps for nearly twenty four hours a day and who knows what else I will be adding in the future, more lamps? It can be quite costly to do so but I guess it will make a difference. All my domestic lamps (living room, computer desk and bedrooms etc etc) were using 50w lightbulbs and my ceiling fixtures were using 65w lightbulbs. So yesterday I set out to buy some energy saving lightbulbs. There was quite a choice but I went with the Philips Genie Energy A Class 10 year 10,000 hrs.

Just to give you an idea of the difference. I bought 5 lightbulbs for my two domestic lamps in my livingroom each lighbulb uses 11w of power but is equivalent to a regular 50w lightbulb. So one lamp that had 3 lightbulbs used to use 150w (3x50w) but now uses 33w (3x 11w, but emits an equivalent or slightly more amount of lumens). I have replaced the majority of my ceiling lights with my new 14w bulbs which are equivalent to your average 65w lightbulb. I think this will make quite a difference especially if you have children, I do not have any yet.

These lightbulbs are quite expensive though, they cost between 8.99 and 10.15 euro each but they last alot longer. But I feel they are a good idea even if you don't have a growing project. I will be replacing the rest of my lights today that's for sure.

Well that's all for now...

Shake a hand, be nice.

 

[nastrada]

Nice!

Recieved 11 more seeds today 10 Speed Devil Auto's Feminised and a free Red Dwarf Feminised. Have some more on the way. These will do me until September and beyond, when I visit London and buy a pile of seeds to keep in stock. Unfortunately it is illegal in France to buy cannabis seeds, I've been forced to buy online which I don't like at all. My trip to London at the end of this summer will put an end to buying online for the foreseeable future.

Over and out...

 

[whatsgoodie]

Power consumption...

So it's my first tent grow and I know CFL's don't use alot Of power but to avoid any paranoia I decided to lower the wattage used in my appartment. After all, I will be powering four or possibly six fans and two lamps for nearly twenty four hours a day and who knows what else I will be adding in the future, more lamps? It can be quite costly to do so but I guess it will make a difference. All my domestic lamps (living room, computer desk and bedrooms etc etc) were using 50w lightbulbs and my ceiling fixtures were using 65w lightbulbs. So yesterday I set out to buy some energy saving lightbulbs. There was quite a choice but I went with the Philips Genie Energy A Class 10 year 10,000 hrs.

Just to give you an idea of the difference. I bought 5 lightbulbs for my two domestic lamps in my livingroom each lighbulb uses 11w of power but is equivalent to a regular 50w lightbulb. So one lamp that had 3 lightbulbs used to use 150w (3x50w) but now uses 33w (3x 11w, but emits an equivalent or slightly more amount of lumens). I have replaced the majority of my ceiling lights with my new 14w bulbs which are equivalent to your average 65w lightbulb. I think this will make quite a difference especially if you have children, I do not have any yet.

These lightbulbs are quite expensive though, they cost between 8.99 and 10.15 euro each but they last alot longer. But I feel they are a good idea even if you don't have a growing project. I will be replacing the rest of my lights today that's for sure.

Well that's all for now...

Shake a hand, be nice.

Haha, this is normal for beginning to grow. I myself thought I was crazy by doing this but I started watching everything and making sure my power consumption was in line. It's more of a fear of a crazy bill for me than it was for someone to come knocking. Here where I am as long as you pay your power bill they don't really care what you do. I've replaced all of my bulbs with CFLs and I power off unused equipment (monitors, receiever, PCs) I even find myself in my grow room several times a day adjusting the AC, fans, etc.

It's worth it, growing marijuana indoors teaches you a lot, a lot more than just 'how to grow pot'.

Don't buy online if you don't have to, don't buy in London if you don't have to either!

Learn how to breed, there's LOTS of great information here - you can start crossing your own strains and reproducing the ones you have. It's trial and error, but it's very cost effective and leads to new developments in the AF world!

Good karma sent for the grow!

 

[nastrada]

Haha, this is normal for beginning to grow. I myself thought I was crazy by doing this but I started watching everything and making sure my power consumption was in line. It's more of a fear of a crazy bill for me than it was for someone to come knocking. Here where I am as long as you pay your power bill they don't really care what you do. I've replaced all of my bulbs with CFLs and I power off unused equipment (monitors, receiever, PCs) I even find myself in my grow room several times a day adjusting the AC, fans, etc.

It's worth it, growing marijuana indoors teaches you a lot, a lot more than just 'how to grow pot'.

Don't buy online if you don't have to, don't buy in London if you don't have to either!

Learn how to breed, there's LOTS of great information here - you can start crossing your own strains and reproducing the ones you have. It's trial and error, but it's very cost effective and leads to new developments in the AF world!

Good karma sent for the grow!

Cheers for the message and feedback buddy, hopefully I will get to the stage of breeding my own but for now I'll keep working on growing. But breeding would be some buzz... Still though I hate buying on the net, my imagination works overtime when I hve to pass by the post office to collect simple parcel!

 

[nastrada]

Hey there everyone, so I haven't been on here for a while and I promised some photos of my first indoor and first auto grow ever. I have purchased my grow box for flowering which you will see in the photos coming up.

Right now I have four plants which is all I can fit into my vegetative area I have 2 La Diva feminised that have been in the first box since the 6th of June a day after they started to show there heads from germination. I put the 2 La Diva's each in a 5.5 litre pot from germination. Beforehand I was going to do a 18/6 light cycle but I decided to go with a 24/0 cycle instead but I am going to go to 18/6 oon and leave it at that. I hope this doesn't effect them but since I will be rotating the plants from a vegetative box to a flowering box I have to start somewhere. I gave them nutes yesterday for the first time.

Meanwhile I began to germinate 2 Speed Devils (feminised), both sprouted and are in the same environment as the La Diva since the 11th of June, but this time I germinated using a propegator. You will see these in the photos also. These little rascals are still too young for nutes.

Today I began to germinate a Red Dwarf (feminised). This will be going to an 11.5 litre pot which I completely saturated today and left out on the balcony in preperation for the little fella. I can fit 2x 11.5 litre pots and 2x 5.5 litre pots in the vegetative box.

For the Flowering box I have two CFL 200W Red Spectrum bulbs, one is suspended above and the other will be placed on the inside of the box/tent on the left side (just need to wire her up), I plan to rotate the plants each day 180° to compensate for the lack of lumens penetrating the right hand side, it's quite possible I will buy a third lamp for the right hand side of the box in the near future.

Right well that's all for now I'll get about putting up the photos I have taken, I'm not a great photographer by any means but hell I've taken the time to do it in any case...

Any comments or advice will be greatly appreciated.

Over and out.

 

[nastrada]

So, here we have the two grow boxes/tents, the one on the left hand side which is an old converted sewing machine is for vegetative growth and the tent on the right is for flowering. Inside the vegetative box I have the 2 La Divas to the right which I talked about on my last post and to the left of them we have the 2 Speed Devils which are slightly younger.

The third photo is just to get an idea of the inside of the grow tent, these are regular photo plants. Will be getting rid of these soon. The lamp has been lowered to give them more light and the fitting/ballast for the new lamp that I will be wiring in the next 20mins can be seen to the left. All the usual stuff are in both boxes aswell thermometre/humidity reader/ 2x extractors in each also, one for bringing air in and one to take it out. Still have to fit the second extracor correctly in the vegetative box though. I will probably buy a fan for the flowering tent in the next week or two.

Any advice?

 

[nastrada]

Three more photos here, So the first is of the speed devil at 15 days old, I germinated them in a propegator and to be honest I left it a bit late to put them in the pot and they stretched alot at the start but they seem to be doing just fine right now they are both app 10cm in height at the moment and seem to be quite healthy to me.

The second and third photo are of La Diva which have been grown directly from the pot, they measure app 14cm in height each. You may not see it but I have tried a little of the Fan Leaf Tucking Technique that Dr Autoflower explains very well on both this site and youtube, hats off to you Sir. I'm guessing in about a week I'll be doing alot of tucking. Still a bit iffy about when I'll transfer these to the flowering tent. As I have said above I began germinating a Red Dwarf today so I may transfer one of La Divas to the flowering tent when the Red Dwarf begins to kick. When would you transfer the La Diva to the flowering tent? They have both been in vegetation since the 6th of June.

 

[nastrada]

A birds eye view of one of the La Divas ( I know, I know, it's a nasty ole habit that nail biting). They seem to be spreading out nicely but this is my first time so who knows... my hand is app 17.5cm from base of thumb to top of middle/index finger. Just to give you guys an idea of how these babies are filling out.

So that's all for today guys I'm off to wire up that new 200w flowering CFL.

As per usual and feedback or advice is welcome.

Shake a hand, stay nice...

 

[JM]

loookin great so far mate! dont worry... you'll be fine... keep us up to date with pics... if we spot a problem we'll let you know if we see it... if you have any qustions... hit the cannabis infirmary... we'll get you back on rack! speed and safety karma sent!

:dance2: :smokebuds:

 

[nastrada]

loookin great so far mate! dont worry... you'll be fine... keep us up to date with pics... if we spot a problem we'll let you know if we see it... if you have any qustions... hit the cannabis infirmary... we'll get you back on rack! speed and safety karma sent!

:dance2: :smokebuds:

Cheers buddy will do.