first time grower
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Doctor Cannabis
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Get another pair of 42w cfls, maybe even more. You definitely need to throw more light at your plant if you want the buds to build up faster.
Doctor Cannabis
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If you cant get any more lights, improvise. Get some incandescent bulbs from your home that you don't really need to use. Also, if you havn't, put up a reflective surface and minimize light loss towards the outside of the growspace as much as possible.
Flushing is essential. 2 weeks before you harvest your plant, you need to give it only water, without any nutes. It's best to move the pot in the shower, garden etc and just let 1.5-2x the amount o water you usually use pass through the soil and out though the holes at the bottom of your pot. This eliminates any excess nutes in your soil. Flushing will permit the plant to use up it's nute deposits.
If you do not flush, nutes will stock up in your buds. Eventually, the buds will end up tasting and smelling like nutes, and that is pretty nasty, unhealthy and unpleasant.
Flushing is essential. 2 weeks before you harvest your plant, you need to give it only water, without any nutes. It's best to move the pot in the shower, garden etc and just let 1.5-2x the amount o water you usually use pass through the soil and out though the holes at the bottom of your pot. This eliminates any excess nutes in your soil. Flushing will permit the plant to use up it's nute deposits.
If you do not flush, nutes will stock up in your buds. Eventually, the buds will end up tasting and smelling like nutes, and that is pretty nasty, unhealthy and unpleasant.
o ya im using organic soil and im not using nutis
Dr.GreenNutz
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With no nutrients and only 84 watts of cfl you cant expect huge buds. Be happy with what you have if you dont have money for good shit
im happy with what i got how will i know when it is done,for my first time i know i made alot of mistakes,im learning alot from first grow next time i will have alot more light
i am using mirical grow organic soil if that matters about the nutis
Dr.GreenNutz
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You will know its done when some of the hairs start turning brown and your trichomes are cloudy and amber. If you harvest when all of the trichomes are amber you will have a really strong intense high, and if you harvest when most of the trichomes are clear/cloudy you will have more of an energetic high.
Doctor Cannabis
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The only problem with MG soil is that it has time release nutes. The nutes in the soil become over time toxic to the plant, especially if you tend to overwater or you grow sensitive strains. I would not recommend this type of soil to new growers.
ok thanks i will never use it again
Doctor Cannabis
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Very typical. If you can't get a magnifying instrument, try to guide yourself according to pistil color. When more than 75% of pistils are red, the plant is harvestable, although you are well advised to wait for some 90% of the pistils to turn red if you want to really enjoy your crop.
Also, if some buds develop faster than others, harvest the mature buds, leaving the young ones on the plant til they mature. This way you save space, time and the young buds profit from more nutes and light redirected towards them.
Also, if some buds develop faster than others, harvest the mature buds, leaving the young ones on the plant til they mature. This way you save space, time and the young buds profit from more nutes and light redirected towards them.
ok i will wait thanks for ur addvice and if u think of anything else i need to do plz feel free to let me know
noltnercr03
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yeah go use anylights you can get around your house hell use a lamp tip it on its side or something. worse case ask someone you might know who has like one of those worklights someone you know has to have one! Just take it and give it back after flowering is done.
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i have a small work light like the pic u show mine just sits on the ground its ok to use that
i just need to watch how close i put it to the plant so it dont burn it ya
noltnercr03
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well test it first do you have a thermometer and see how far away you have to be from it to keep it around 80 or less for flowering. This should work because they pack a punch when it comes to wattage and will dish out a lot of light. Unfortunatly don't know how many luminas but you could possibly check it out
ok i will check temp to see how far i need to be from plant and i just uploaded so pics to