New Grower New grower, first grow 2x3

[CaptainKush88]

So I'm 12 days in my first grow, here is my set up.. I'm growing in a old pantry that has been sitting in my basement with no real purpose for a couple years.. lined the bottom portion with 3/4 inch foam board with reflective film, I'm using an inline 200 cfm 4" fan with the carbon filter outside the tent sitting on top of the cabinet (in a box with open top point to floor joists to help disguise), the fan is in the top of the cabinet( theory here is I can add a duct to top to filter air from both spaces, so I can dry in top and perpetually grow in the grow space) cut a 4" hole in side of cabinet for air intake and added a short piece of ducting to eliminate light pollution, small 4" fan in grow space in front of air intake to move fresh air, light I'm using is a cheap 3500k led from amazon aponuo is the brand, also using a small infant cold mist humidifier to add humidity and help cool the space, I'm using root farm potting mix(coco coir mix) and root farm brand nutrients along with ph up n down, cabinet is a bit smaller that 2x3 and about 4 1/2 feet tall, growing 3 seeds that I germinated in a glass of water for 18 hrs followed by a couple days in paper towel, first two are a love potion in a 3.6 gal pot and a northern lights big bud in a 2.6 gal pot, the third is a lemon skunk in a 3.6 gal pot that is about 2 days behind because the first seed didnt ever pop.. first I'll add a few pics of the set up then I'll add a couple updates from the grow so far and will continue as the garden progresses

 

[St. Tom]

So I'm 12 days in my first grow, here is my set up.. I'm growing in a old pantry that has been sitting in my basement with no real purpose for a couple years.. lined the bottom portion with 3/4 inch foam board with reflective film, I'm using an inline 200 cfm 4" fan with the carbon filter outside the tent sitting on top of the cabinet (in a box with open top point to floor joists to help disguise), the fan is in the top of the cabinet( theory here is I can add a duct to top to filter air from both spaces, so I can dry in top and perpetually grow in the grow space) cut a 4" hole in side of cabinet for air intake and added a short piece of ducting to eliminate light pollution, small 4" fan in grow space in front of air intake to move fresh air, light I'm using is a cheap 3500k led from amazon aponuo is the brand, also using a small infant cold mist humidifier to add humidity and help cool the space, I'm using root farm potting mix(coco coir mix) and root farm brand nutrients along with ph up n down, cabinet is a bit smaller that 2x3 and about 4 1/2 feet tall, growing 3 seeds that I germinated in a glass of water for 18 hrs followed by a couple days in paper towel, first two are a love potion in a 3.6 gal pot and a northern lights big bud in a 2.6 gal pot, the third is a lemon skunk in a 3.6 gal pot that is about 2 days behind because the first seed didnt ever pop.. first I'll add a few pics of the set up then I'll add a couple updates from the grow so far and will continue as the garden progresses

Welcome to afn my friend you seem to be off to a great start

 

[CaptainKush88]

March 2nd is day one for the northern lights X big bud and the love potion, 3rd pic is March 4th/ day one for the lemon skunk

 

[CaptainKush88]

Here we are on march 8th day 7 for nlxbb and love potion and day 5 for the lemon skunk.. all going good so far, nlxbb seems to be a lil bit deformed and is quicking starting to look dwarfed by the other 2 but is showing more nodes and a faster growth rate other than size than the other 2 plants

 

[CaptainKush88]

Also on day 7 posted above I watered the girls to a ph around 6.0 but maybe a bit too soon? Noticed gnats in the garden within a few hrs of watering and started loosening the top layer of soil to help it dry faster and added some dietamaious earth to help fight against the pests, this continued for a few days until soil was completely dry for the top couple inches, still some gnats but no as bad..

 

[CaptainKush88]

Now here we are on march 13th, day 12/10, I have been fighting the last couple days to keep the heat down, was consistently around 27-28°C until a couple days ago now its climbing above 30°C and humidity is dropping to around 30%.. other than misting the walls is there anything else I can do to bring the humidity up and temps down? Gave the girls another feeding today hopefully the extra moisture in the soil helps with the humidity and temps.. anyways here is a couple pics of the garden today. Note I did swap the position of the northern lights x big bud and the love potion

 

[AutoWonders]

I'm using an inline 200 cfm 4" fan with the carbon filter outside the tent sitting on top of the cabinet

When extracting with filter outside of grow space, be sure to crack a window in the room for fresh air. I've grown with my fan and filter outside my tent for years. Incoming fresh air is important.
Is the CFM of the filter at or higher (preferable) than the inline fan cfm?

 

[420Forever]

ppp

 

[CaptainKush88]

Is the CFM of the filter at or higher (preferable) than the inline fan cfm?
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Honestly not sure, was also a discount amazon buy... got the fan/filter combo.. just says the fan is a 200 cfm and the filter is reversible.. just checked the box the filter came in and doesnt say what its rated for.. for now I'll say its higher because I only have the exhaust fan running about 1/2 throttle lol.. as for crackin a window wont be doing that just yet either.. I live in the northern part of Canada and its freezing out there haha

 

[CaptainKush88]

Day 15 for the northern lights x big bud and love potion, day 13 for the lemon skunk.. couple days ago was having issues with my heat creeping up to 30°c and humidity dropping, filled the humidifier and couple hours later it was still full n realized it was no longer working, went out yesterday and picked up a new cool mist humidifier that is much higher quality that the cheap pediatric one I found laying around the house, bumped my humidity up into 60 % range and dropped my temps down to 26°c.. the dietamaious earth seemed to work pretty well in getting rid of the gnat flies, also bought some stick traps yesterday and put them in the plants with a cup of apple cider vinegar and dish soap. Caught a few flies on the traps but non in the glass and I've only seen a couple flies in the soil so hopefully those issues have been taken care of.. forgot to mention earlier I'm running my lights at 18/6 and dont plan on changing the cycle, going to see how these girls fill my space and I think from here on out I'm going to go with a bit smaller pots and start new plants on the middle of current plant cycles in order to minimize time between crops.. love potion is filling out beautifully with the lemon skunk not far behind, the northern lights big bud has been mutating since day one with fat, puffy curly leaves.. kinda love how it looks lol probably about half the size as the other two but just as much growth minus the stretch. Gave all three girls about a liter each of nutrient solution mixed at just under half of recommend dose. Raised my light up a bit last night to let them all stretch a bit and plan on starting some LST within a couple days.. first pic I took this morning when the lights turned on, next few(all taken yesterday) are the nlxbb, a couple love potion and last one is the lemon skunk