Shackleford.R
Well-Known Member
so after a bitchy little girl post about my girly waking me up... something a little more real!
took a plant at the kids just now, and have to say topping was an awesome idea! the ladies are looking lovely and bushy. if it continues at this rate i may begin force flowering within a couple weeks. all i'm truly waiting for are the lower nodes to branch out a bit, the topping has already made its effects known, the lower node leaf/branch development rate has doubled since topping. Still waiting on my straggler to gain some height, i'm hoping for an even canopy, aside from the one beast that is about an inch or so taller. I do expect that straggler to be reaching the average height by the weekend, its spitting up its next set of leafs/branches as we speak.
to put to rest my grow outlook, i plan to get the little ladies as shrubby as possible. once they have bushed out and i can more or less no longer see the hydrotron medium through the canopy, its force flower time. (hopefully they have matured by that time, so i dont have to deal with the possible stress) my main concern right now is lighting, i had to rearrange fixtures today as they are beginning to fill out. flowering light arrangment might be a pain in the ass.
i'm considering picking this guy up from Lowe's for my flowering lamp, and using my current lights as lower auxiliary fixtures.
i also have this beast of a CFL, 26 W actual... 300 WATT equivalent!! its in the proper light spectrum as well, around 2700-3000K. If i do go with that beast i'm in the process of developing a custom built hood for it, so the spiral can be sideways as opposed to right side up (like you would see in a ceiling fixture) as i've heard they are more efficient that way for growing.
not much else to say at this point. should have pictures up in a couple hours. just waiting on the cameras battery to get some juice. in the mean time, i just might get myself ready to face the day and head over to the friendly, neighborhood hydro shop.
took a plant at the kids just now, and have to say topping was an awesome idea! the ladies are looking lovely and bushy. if it continues at this rate i may begin force flowering within a couple weeks. all i'm truly waiting for are the lower nodes to branch out a bit, the topping has already made its effects known, the lower node leaf/branch development rate has doubled since topping. Still waiting on my straggler to gain some height, i'm hoping for an even canopy, aside from the one beast that is about an inch or so taller. I do expect that straggler to be reaching the average height by the weekend, its spitting up its next set of leafs/branches as we speak.
to put to rest my grow outlook, i plan to get the little ladies as shrubby as possible. once they have bushed out and i can more or less no longer see the hydrotron medium through the canopy, its force flower time. (hopefully they have matured by that time, so i dont have to deal with the possible stress) my main concern right now is lighting, i had to rearrange fixtures today as they are beginning to fill out. flowering light arrangment might be a pain in the ass.
i'm considering picking this guy up from Lowe's for my flowering lamp, and using my current lights as lower auxiliary fixtures.
i also have this beast of a CFL, 26 W actual... 300 WATT equivalent!! its in the proper light spectrum as well, around 2700-3000K. If i do go with that beast i'm in the process of developing a custom built hood for it, so the spiral can be sideways as opposed to right side up (like you would see in a ceiling fixture) as i've heard they are more efficient that way for growing.
not much else to say at this point. should have pictures up in a couple hours. just waiting on the cameras battery to get some juice. in the mean time, i just might get myself ready to face the day and head over to the friendly, neighborhood hydro shop.
(see post on 1st page of thread for library of nutrients) 
