2/20/11 cLONES, SEEDLINGS, AND ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

Okay, as I said before this is my light set up, 1000w mn. I have an Hps light too but i stopped fucking around with flowering indoors when I realized the lights were costing me enough to run without having to settle for small plants in a hot, unvenitlated bedroom (you have to drill a 10" hole in the side of your house to bring in fresh air, and an air conditioner if you want it under 87 degrees or so in the summer, and the whole thing represents an awful big investment if you don't know what youre doing.  so make your bones outdoors first, and then try indoors.  I KNOW IT LOOKS TEMPTING WITH ALL THOSE PICS IN HT WITH THE HUGE GROWROOMS FULL OF WALL-TO WALL BUDS.  But until you can get those kind of plants outdoors, you will never get them indoors. trust me.

Okay, now weve got some seedlings and some clones.  what are we gonna do?  give em light, and lots of it!  I think my 1000 watter is running a bit low because the bulb is old so I just put all the seedlings under there and they made it through the night without burning up so I guess they'll be okay.

Anyway, with seedlings as i said before, until they turn into real plants you want to be careful with them.  too long out on a hot spring day will burn em up and youll be out youre daddys 130 (Lol) and do you really think he wont notice a second time if the same kind of order appears on his statement?  Plus all that nail biting wondering if your seeds are coming (they are)...

So you want to give your seedlings clones about 18 hrs a day of light.  if they are clones, stick them all under the mh light as close to the light as they will fit, giving the tops of your plants at least 3-4' of clearance from the bulb, and you will want a pretty big fan to blow through the plants to keep things cool.  a 1000w light should be able to cover a circle about 5' in radius.  so mark a spot directly below your light.   Make an imaginary 5' circle around your floor.  Anything within that ciircle is good.  You can pull some of the plants out from the middle and rotate them to the outside and vice versa.

So what I do is I set the timer to go on at 7pm, and off at 7 am.  around this area of the country that gives the plants about 15 hrs or so of light, if you happen to be fortuneate enough to be facing a big window that is on the South side of your house.  Otherwise, wake up early (or don't) take the plants outside.  leave them out all day, or at least unitl 3:30.  do the math

12 at night
+ 6 daylight hours=

18 hours of light.. 

the afternoon sun after 3:30 or so really weakens so if youre planning on going out or hitting it for the day, just take your plants in at 3:30 and leave them until the timer comes on again. 

Once again you'll want to watch the seedlings closely for any kind of heat reaction or burn.  If they get too hot, they will fry.  take them to a cfl (flourescent lamp) and leave them under there for a while until they look okay agian.  then do the three hour at a time thing. only stick the seedlings under the HID lamp or the outside sun for three hours at a time, watering with the spray bottle before and after.

As far as the clones go, at this point they cannot get too much light.  You can test em the first day by setting them outside for 3 hours and then just go hell bent for leather.  there's more where those came from anyway.