Waterfarm Closet Grow [PICS]

[dopewear]

oh you can only upload 3 at a time dude unless you a gold member i believe

 

[Shackleford.R]

oh you can only upload 3 at a time dude unless you a gold member i believe

the manage attachments window shows space for 4, and i didn't do anything out of the ordinary. websites glitch from time to time, oh well. i couldn't upload to my pictures and albums either. go figure.

on the subject of my grow, i released the confines of LST, and plan to continue pruning and vegging all 5 kids, keep them low lying and bushy, then SCROG and see what sort of results i get.

i'm also looking for a reputable seed outlet. i'm wanting to get some lowryder. i have a feeling 4 or 5 little lowryders in my setup will crank out some good harvests. that and given that they are autoflowering, seems like a no brainer. my rig is pretty no frills, and so autoflowering sounds like a plus.

any thoughts my peeps??

 

[slipperyP]

Nice looking grow shackleford...when are you going to start flowering...are you using CFL for that?

 

[Shackleford.R]

Nice looking grow shackleford...when are you going to start flowering...are you using CFL for that?

thanks slip-master-flex (everyone on my journal gets an interesting nickname)

now for a drawn out, yet concise thought process...
Given that I'm going for small scale, i'd like to switch to 12/12 tomorrow. See what i can get out of my random bag seed shorties. However I don't want to sell my short (no pun intended) so i plan to veg for a couple more weeks, bare minimum. Along the way, I'm hoping through continuous topping (and a hefty dose of silicon solution for strength and rigidity) i will have created a nice shrub, similar to a LST plant.

So at the risk of being repetitive, i plan to veg for about a month pruning/SCROG, then flowering.

Now I believe you're asking if I plan to flower under CFL.. and the answer is YES! I know people say it gives poor results. But I'm having a lot of success vegging under CFL, and whatever this bag seed strain is, it seems to LOVE the CFL daylight spectrum. However, I won't be flowering with the daylight spectrum, I plan on keeping the same lamp fixtures, and using warm white spectrum, to mimic the red-orange glow of the HPS lamps. By keeping the scale small and using the SCROG technique i hope to be able to keep the lamps close enough to achieve dense, hefty buds.

I've attached a photo of my current lighting rig, not shown in the picture is my make-shift reflector constructed of foam poster board wrapped in mylar, that hangs over the lights.

By the way, I hope everyone reads this and thinks to themselves "You know if he did that, but also did 'this' he would have much better results" Thats what I'm hoping for, any input any has to offer would be awesome.

 

[dopewear]

dont flower yet dude how old they now?

 

[Shackleford.R]

haha of course not!! no i wasn't planning on, just wishful thinking, getting antsy watching these little kids make their way. they are about 3 weeks right now. i plan to veg for another 3 weeks minimum, see where they're at then.

i'm just confused on sexing. one source says, switch to 12/12 pistils/sacs show up instantly, but then your forced to flower from that point. then another source says, they show signs of sex when they are good and ready, THEN you switch to 12/12.

 

[GypsyBush]

Some people force flower, so the plant shows sex (hopefully) before it is ready... then switch it back to veg... which causes a certain amount of stress...

If you need to sex, I would recommend taking a clone and puting it in 12/12... when it shows sex (hopefully before the mom) you will know what you have....

You are not in a hurry, and you seem to want to do it right... so ...

Just let them be, and grow, and they will drop their panties (hopefully) when they are good and ready...

My 2 cents...

 

[dopewear]

i vegged for 5 weeks but im growing in a pc case, but if you veg long enough you get preflower eventually but if you flower before you see preflowers itll take few days of 12/12 mine took 3-4 days

 

[Shackleford.R]

finally a straight answer! +rep for cutting the bullshit. the cloning, the craziness... its not for me. i'll take what females i get when it starts to shoot some pubes. (only when discussing cannabis is that ok to say... and now that i've said it, i'm not so sure)

nice to hear all sides of this, thanks d-dub and gypsy! you know what? +rep for everyone!!

 

[dopewear]

shackle rep your way! wooo rep party!

 

[GypsyBush]

Just remember... males usually develop faster than the females... usually

And also that POLLEN GETS EVERYWHERE... in the ducts, vents, carpet, pets clothes EVRYWHERE...

If you see a male, CONFIRM IT FIRST, but kill it as soon as you know...

One male flower open can doom you whole house forever... not really but almost...

If sensimilla is important to you, keep a close eye for balls...

 

[GypsyBush]

Thanks for the REP...

Here is a taste of what the Gypsy does... lol... Sorry about the hijack...



Indicas @ 6 weeks

Satvas @ 6 weeks...

 

[Prot3us1]

hey shackleford wheres my fancy nickname

 

[growman3666]

well here am,
no disrespect taken man im a laid back joking person,

looking forward to updated pics

 

[slipperyP]

I was asking if your going to use CFL to flower...I consult a couple of new growers and they haven't caught the bug enough to justify spending the bucks for an HPS/MH...

That being said....In about 4 weeks im gonna need to know what to help them with as fas a CFL goes....

Have you found any good pics of flowering with CFL?

Many strains will show sex during veg....it can save you alot of time compared to culling out the males with forced flowering of clones? I think it mostly depends on the strain.

 

[Shackleford.R]

Apparently my thread got a lot of action last night, like a lone redheaded cougar on dollar drink night... So here goes my first multi quote response post!

I was asking if your going to use CFL to flower...I consult a couple of new growers and they haven't caught the bug enough to justify spending the bucks for an HPS/MH...

That being said....In about 4 weeks im gonna need to know what to help them with as fas a CFL goes....

Have you found any good pics of flowering with CFL?

Many strains will show sex during veg....it can save you alot of time compared to culling out the males with forced flowering of clones? I think it mostly depends on the strain.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I haven't caught the bug enough, my brother keeps tempting me with low wattage HPS bulbs at the grow shop. "Come on man, its only 250W!! It won't blow your electric bill THAT much!" I set out with CFL and I say I'm in it for the long haul. You should check out "bakedat420"s thread, 'Noob tryin it with CFLs' he posts here on my thread time to time, and hes a fellow CFL flowerer i think?? Heres the LINK

well here am,
no disrespect taken man im a laid back joking person,

looking forward to updated pics

One love growman.. you'd have to be some kind of crazy to grow cannabis and be an uptight asshole... actually you'd have to be an undercover pig *ZINGER*!!
I should be getting pics up in the next day or so, no rush not much has changed yet since the topping.

hey shackleford wheres my fancy nickname

Protasmic. If you don't like it, too bad, shouldn't have begged for it Protastic.

Thanks for the REP...

Here is a taste of what the Gypsy does... lol... Sorry about the hijack...



Indicas @ 6 weeks

Satvas @ 6 weeks...

Never mind the hijack those pictures are WAY tasty, I love grow porn as much as the next guy. Funny though, I show these pictures to my girl and she just says "thats cool and all, but i just like to smoke it... dont really care to stare at it"
haha if only she knew! its my goal to get her interested and start a crop of her own. but i couldnt even get her to plant something in the vegetable garden outback.

Just remember... males usually develop faster than the females... usually

And also that POLLEN GETS EVERYWHERE... in the ducts, vents, carpet, pets clothes EVRYWHERE...

If you see a male, CONFIRM IT FIRST, but kill it as soon as you know...

One male flower open can doom you whole house forever... not really but almost...

If sensimilla is important to you, keep a close eye for balls...

Alright sweet, this information is awesome, all my grow books and everything else couldn't get this info. Much love for forums like this and fellow growers.
Also this should be the first time in my life I'm checking out balls more than... well I've made enough jokes now



WHEW!!! that was rough. With all that said, thanks for stopping by so often and checking out my grow. I really appreciate all the input, and now its my turn to make the rounds and check out everyone else's threads! What a hard life!

 

[dopewear]

thats was a well executed multi quote there shackle looken forward to the fuckupdate...

 

[Shackleford.R]

the fuckupdate? i will kindly ask you to watch your language on my thread! there are children checking this! wait a minute.... there aren't children reading this? never mind.
either way, what the hell you talkin' bout boy?

 

[dopewear]

its an update of your frequent fuck ups, but im totaly kidden you got this grow bangen!

 

[slipperyP]

Yo Shack...you get a nickname too...I wasn't trying to say you didn't have the bug. Thanks for the link, i'll check it out....and if
you do join the HPS club...I would recomend a 600 watt. I'm very happy with mine....almost as much power as a 400 watt and almost as much light as a thousand.