My CFL Lowryder 2 grow - first grow!

[jman,tokerforlife]

Pretty short plants,but you get your yield alot faster,look for 20g a plant if they stay as good lookin as they are now,and put up some mylar,u can get it out of emergency kit at wal-mart,foil has hot spots,other than that looks good chic

 

[QueenBee]

Dont think Il get 20g a plant to be honest, especially not off G, shes got the fewest and smallest buds. We dont have wal-mart here (UK), it reminds me of that south park episode lol! I might look into getting some mylar for the next lot but dont have the money to be getting more stuff in yet Thanks for the comments tho!

 

[o8supersamxix]

hey queen bee what plants are they and insted of mylar use mirrors ini

 

[buddha42Osmoka]

wow i havnt been online in about 4 weeks and holy shit ur plants got beautiful!! good luck with them

 

[buddha42Osmoka]

how big are they now?

 

[QueenBee]

Thanks Buddha! A is about 29 inches (not including pots) and A and G are about 26 inches.

A is looking a little worse for wear. A few of her leaves came off with a little tug (first picture). Some of the leaves have brown spots. Im worried that this is a disease and might make the bud not healthy to smoke, any ideas anyone?

So A's not looking great, and also the pistils have started going amber which seems to be happening quite quick. It is 8 weeks at the end of this week / beginning of next week tho so maybe this should be happening now? I thought that maybe coz shes dying shes getting on with it, whereas the other 2 are being slower and doing it properley coz theyre healthier?

 

[mr west]

yeah i got a pile of old leavs like that sitting next to my bed lol, i never tug them off tho just lift them and if shes finished with them they will fall off on their own

 

[hmmm123]

Hi queenbee, not sure if this is the case for you but when i had brown spots on my leaves i think it was nute burn and that i had overwatered relesing to many nutes that where in the soil. Not sure if that's the case for you though. I wouldn't worry to much about a few fan leaves falling off at this stage Trinity has shed loads of hers in the last few weeks. What i do is just give them a little pull and i mean little and if there dead they just drop off if they don't drop of i leave them on till there dead. Did i say there looking good! I'm just gonna go have a look though my pics for you and see when my pistals started turing amber. Going by my terrible pics lol, i think they started turing amber about 8 weeks so i wouldn't worry to much. Here's a pic of Trinity at 8 weeks for you just incase you want to compare or something!

Thanks Buddha! A is about 29 inches (not including pots) and A and G are about 26 inches.

A is looking a little worse for wear. A few of her leaves came off with a little tug (first picture). Some of the leaves have brown spots. Im worried that this is a disease and might make the bud not healthy to smoke, any ideas anyone?

So A's not looking great, and also the pistils have started going amber which seems to be happening quite quick. It is 8 weeks at the end of this week / beginning of next week tho so maybe this should be happening now? I thought that maybe coz shes dying shes getting on with it, whereas the other 2 are being slower and doing it properley coz theyre healthier?

 

[QueenBee]

Cheers Hmmm! Trinitys fatter ! I wouldnt think it would be overwatering, if anything I think I maybe dont give them enough sometimes! Its really only on A as well and they get treated pretty much the same so Im stumped. I didnt pull the leaves that hard but maybe ill wait for them to fall off from now on just in case... I think A will be the first to get the chop as she now has the most plump buds and most brown hairs but Ill try hang on another week, maybe less. I moved the 125w light on its side in a last attempt to boost yield. The el ninos will suffer from the light going up there but I dont care much about them anyway. Aww poor things.

Pics are all of them with the new set up (they have also been spread out a bit more to get more light to the lower branches hopefully), A, A close up, A close up, C, C close up and G (being as bushy as ever!).

 

[mr west]

cant u raise the el ninos up to meet the lights, like put an upside down pot underneath em lol>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[QueenBee]

I could, but to be honest I couldnt be arsed with the faff! I keep dreaming about the plants now, think its coz of the drought, I keep dreaming that theyre swelling up and getting huge juicy buds. Lol, crazy lady in the hall!

 

[hmmm123]

I forgot to mention not sure if you wanna try it though! But i put a bottle with water sugar and yeast in my cab at about 7 weeks to give Trinity some more CO2 think that's what it was called! Just shaked the bottle up every day. Give me a mo and i'll try find you the link where i got the info from will edit it in if i do find it. I couldn't find the same guide i got the idea from but here is a simlar one, you could just down size it a bit to suit your grow space. https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=262

Cheers Hmmm! Trinitys fatter ! I wouldnt think it would be overwatering, if anything I think I maybe dont give them enough sometimes! Its really only on A as well and they get treated pretty much the same so Im stumped. I didnt pull the leaves that hard but maybe ill wait for them to fall off from now on just in case... I think A will be the first to get the chop as she now has the most plump buds and most brown hairs but Ill try hang on another week, maybe less. I moved the 125w light on its side in a last attempt to boost yield. The el ninos will suffer from the light going up there but I dont care much about them anyway. Aww poor things.

Pics are all of them with the new set up (they have also been spread out a bit more to get more light to the lower branches hopefully), A, A close up, A close up, C, C close up and G (being as bushy as ever!).

 

[QueenBee]

Thats a cool tip, if I could be arsed to do it lol!

This is about day 58 for A and she looks very ripe so I think she'll be getting the chop on thursday, ooh exciting! I have a nice big bag of bud now so Im not being impatient with them anymore! I will cut off the main buds on A and leave the bottom ones to ripen a bit more. C doesnt look ready yet and neither does G so I havnt set a date to start chopping them yet. G has quickly got more brown pistils over the past couple of days so shes getting there. Oh and another timer broke so they only had 2 hours dark the past 2 nights. Stupid timers, thats the second one. Ive got my extension lead plugged into it, has anyone else had this problem?! Two seems to be more than just bad luck!

Photos are A, A, A, A, C, C, C, G

 

[mr west]

looking yummy how they smelling? iv blown 3 timers, i buy the slightly expensive ones now and its allgood £9 instead of £4

 

[o8supersamxix]

hey again what cfls are you using i got loads now three 20 watt and loads lil 11watt and 25 watt and also i am using a 500 watt halogen flood light and since that 500 watt light been put there my plants growing fucking amazing what you think ??

 

[vcrew.gambit]

Halogen? Are you nuts? Don't do that.

 

[johnnyt2184]

nice lowryder 2's i got some under a 400w hps and the look alot diffrent than yours im 2 weeks flower will get pics this week i topped and fimm'd mine and also got 2 good clones you should try cloning they get bigger then they sau i will post some pics tomorrow

 

[repvip]

Nice grow man!! Looking good! I have 20 feminized Lowryder 2 x AK47's for my next grow.. I can't wait! Lowryder 2 gave great results.. my hopes are high.

Johnny: post some pics man... would be curious to see clones from a ruderalis strain for sure.

 

[QueenBee]

nice lowryder 2's i got some under a 400w hps and the look alot diffrent than yours im 2 weeks flower will get pics this week i topped and fimm'd mine and also got 2 good clones you should try cloning they get bigger then they sau i will post some pics tomorrow

I read that they cant be cloned. Its coz of their short life cycle and autoflowering properties (hardly any veg stage) so maybe what youve got isnt lowryder?

Supersam - I think you can use floodlights but using the floodlight might be a bit dangerous and expensive. Also I think you'd need to switch to a sodium light when they start flowering. But I dont know much about non-cfl lighting. I went with the CFLs coz they looked easier, cheaper and safer. You should definately get on ebay and look at the BIG dual cfls, the 125watt or 250 watt ones. Theyre about £30 each (dont forget you need the hanger plug bit to use it lol) but one can last you throughout your whole grow and I imagine that would be a lot safer.

Mr West - I dont like the smell all that much. I dont think it smells much of weed. Its very strong and.. pungent? If I touch the leaves my fingers get sticky and stink. Im hoping thats good but I dont have high hopes for the taste of it!


I totally went back on what I said the other night and I cut 2 small branches off A. Not coz I couldnt wait tho, coz I wanted a couple of branches each night for a few nights to see if theres a difference in the smoke. So I made my cardboard box with string to hang them and the 2 branches are sat drying now! Ill put a pic up later.

And ALSO! I got some lowlife seeds ordered so Im very excited about that, cant wait for it all to start over again! Theyre Lowlife (automatic) White Russian which is a cross between Lowryder and a White Russian (a White Russian is AK47 crossed with White Widow). I think Ill start a new journal when they arrive, I hope everyone will pop in to say hi!

 

[hmmm123]

yer your along the right lines there queenbee it's not that they can't be cloned because maybe they can, it's just pointless because you can't stop an autoflowering strain from flowering. They have basically no veg stage like you said which makes cloning pretty pointless, especially when you can't stop them from flowering. You can veg most normal strains for as long as you like becuase they go by lights as to when they start to flower (hens why you put them to 12/12 when you want to flower them.) But with an autoflowering strain that is not the case, they go by the age of the plant not by light sechedules. Basically an autoflowering strain will flower when it is ready to and you can't stop it from flowering!

I read that they cant be cloned. Its coz of their short life cycle and autoflowering properties (hardly any veg stage) so maybe what youve got isnt lowryder?