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hardroc

hardroc

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po'thead said:
yes, good decision. I couldn't afford a nice light for my first grow, so I just used cfl's and I didn't even get an ounce off of 5 plants. I figure if I'm doing something this illegal, I need to get a lot more out of it.
these are my plants as of a few days ago.



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looking good bro, how long veg? What strain?
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po'thead

po'thead

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hardroc, thanks. I'm not sure what strain they are. one of my friends had a lot of seeds, all of them name brand stuff but he didn't know exactly what they were. I re-vegged them from sep. 2 until dec 3. It took a long time for them to bounce back, they had a spider mite infestation and that slowed them down too.
 
hardroc

hardroc

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po'thead said:
hardroc, thanks. I'm not sure what strain they are. one of my friends had a lot of seeds, all of them name brand stuff but he didn't know exactly what they were. I re-vegged them from sep. 2 until dec 3. It took a long time for them to bounce back, they had a spider mite infestation and that slowed them down too.
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hey no prob budz, damn that is a long time to revege, mine useually take a good month to start growing like normal but with some damn funky looking leafs lol.
Speaking of spider mites..........little f'ers
I had some crawling all over my plants 2 weeks ago, I was using cfl for veg, and then got my 400w hps and the temp went into the high 80's and I don't see them anymore. I know my temps are high but the plant's aren't burning or anything cause I have a cyclone booster cooling my bulb. I works pretty good, just got to water more often
 
Kriegs

Kriegs

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po'thead said:
I figure if I'm doing something this illegal, I need to get a lot more out of it.
these are my plants as of a few days ago.



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Hah! LOL... Your plants look great, BTW. Should be a nice little harvest.

I got 11oz off four females last year under 400W. They were sativa-dominant bagseed plants about 5' high, and I did some light LST to get 3-5 colas on each plant.

Another key thing to the yield was taking the top colas first, then lowering the light and giving the "popcorn" down below another 3-4 weeks to fill out and really mature. What a huge difference. Those little bottom nugs are just as sweet a smoke as the top cola stuff, even superior in a couple of cases.
 
hardroc

hardroc

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Kriegs said:
Hah! LOL... Your plants look great, BTW. Should be a nice little harvest.

I got 11oz off four females last year under 400W. They were sativa-dominant bagseed plants about 5' high, and I did some light LST to get 3-5 colas on each plant.

Another key thing to the yield was taking the top colas first, then lowering the light and giving the "popcorn" down below another 3-4 weeks to fill out and really mature. What a huge difference. Those little bottom nugs are just as sweet a smoke as the top cola stuff, even superior in a couple of cases.
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how much longer did you leave them to flower? (popcorn)
 
Hayduke

Hayduke

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hardroc said:
how much longer did you leave them to flower? (popcorn)
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Kriegs said:
Another key thing to the yield was taking the top colas first, then lowering the light and giving the "popcorn" down below another 3-4 weeks to fill out and really mature. What a huge difference. Those little bottom nugs are just as sweet a smoke as the top cola stuff, even superior in a couple of cases.
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lightsgreenaction

lightsgreenaction

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So you just snip at the bottom of the top cola and let the rest do its thing for a while longer? Sounds pretty cool if it works without bad side effects, like stressing and screwing something up. I'll be really ready to get some bud, but once I get some (like the top colas) I could give the rest a few weeks longer if it's going to help. I'll have to try this!

Thanks...
 
Kriegs

Kriegs

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lightsgreenaction said:
So you just snip at the bottom of the top cola and let the rest do its thing for a while longer? Sounds pretty cool if it works without bad side effects, like stressing and screwing something up. I'll be really ready to get some bud, but once I get some (like the top colas) I could give the rest a few weeks longer if it's going to help. I'll have to try this!

Thanks...
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That's right. You have to examine your plants' trichomes to see if it's maturing top-down, or bottom-up. It's not always the same.

If it's going top-down, then yes, clip the cola, move the light closer to what's left, and let it go. If not, not much you can do 'cept add lighting along the sides of your area; more work and $.

There's no side effects cept good ones -- at that point, they're putting everything they can into the buds. Take half the plant but you still have all the root mass = 2X as much effort into the remaining bud.

Mine all went top-down last year; hoping they do it again!!
 
Reiss

Reiss

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aagiants1 said:
heres my 2 widows under a 400...Thinking about going to a 600 or 1000 ,but no matter what, i'll keep the 400 to stay in da club...bongsmilie
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Kriegs said:
OMG.. fantastic. I'm going to print one of your pictures and smoke it.
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Lol, I agree, lovely looking WW (+rep for you)
Hope my white widow turns out as good, just started flowering her and she's going nuts after 1 week, pistles everywhere.
 
burnonedown21

burnonedown21

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got a quick question for all you 400watters. will a 400hps become a major heat problem in a 3*4*8 closet. I'm going to have a carbon filter pushing air out and fresh air coming in passively but will this be enough? the closet doors will be closed most of the time
 
FuZZyBUDz

FuZZyBUDz

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depends! on ur outside temps, and light height, and wat cfm fan, and well a bunch of things. u will really ahve to try and c, but right now in winter i dont think u will hav a problem, i sure dont but my room is an open one, not closed like ur talkin
 
greenfirekilla420

greenfirekilla420

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Just depends on your ambient temps in the house, and your airflow inside the closet. You've got a decent amount of space to work with though don't be to worried. Start saving money for an inline intake fan for the room. Also what kind of reflector are you running? And is there a true exhaust one where the hot exhaust air is getting dumped into a completely different room?

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