Outdoor Northen Lights Auto Grow Journal

[jessyfromgcf]

its about 6 ft long 8 ft high and 2 ft deep

 

[oldster]

Ok, so 12 square feet, bigger than I thought. So that would say 36,000 lumens now and up to 60,000 lumens during bloom if you need to light the entire space. So you could add more or go to something like 55 watt cfls, 16 of which would put you at around 60,000 lumens. You would of coarse use less of them now

 

[jessyfromgcf]

dont need the whole closet lit up the height is 8 ft high but only need about 5 ft of it for grow

 

[oldster]

You want to measure the area of the area of floor space your pots occupy. To start having about 3000 lumens per square foot of floor space will work nice and as the plants get bigger after a few weeks you can step that up to about 4000 - 5000 lumens per square foot. Height of the space does not matter you want to calculate base on the area of the floor space

 

[MisterHarpy]

Usually on the side of the bulb or box it tells you how many lumens each bulb puts out

 

[jessyfromgcf]

ok i took out 4 light bulbs 2 on one side and 2 on the other so now theres 4 light bulbs for each plant

 

[jessyfromgcf]

also here is day 10 and looking pretty good i also raised the lights some as u can see in the other pic hope i didnt raise it to high

 

[MisterHarpy]

Is that water on the leaves? That's a no no water the soil and roots not the leaves as it can burn them. In a few weeks you can foliar feed during veg if you want. But don't get water on the leaves right now.

 

[jessyfromgcf]

That was just with a spray bottle one spray each thought it was ok but now I know thanks for letting me know

 

[Darth Vapour]

Hey jessy, I use a large turkey baster from the dollar store to water when they're young. Nice first grow so far!