One month

[Barngrower]

Ok so I have a one month (a month on the 8th) old feminized LA Woman strain. It growing quite slow height wise (aprox. 4"), it has 4 or 5 nodes including the newest (second set) of 5 finger true leaves. I'll try to get pics up soon.......

 

[mattisreal420]

post some pics dude, and then we can let you know how she looks and doing so far.

 

[Barngrower]

So yeah one month and there's a pencil for perspective, that's a 13w B/R (3/1) LED, two 150w cfls.

 

[HydroHal]

I would ditch the l.e.d.s

 

[Barngrower]

Ok, so I'm gona use this little thread as a grow journal type thing..... I'm on a month and week and today I just started LST, why ditch the LEDs? I do believe that LA Woman is a Indica dominant plant, but I don't know if the height is on par with the strain...... Would that be why one would ditch the LEDs? It's a single plant and I do know the mortality rate is very high in marijuana plants, especially if you're a new indoor grower and if one is experimenting with nute levels and such, like I am.I have grown outdoors and have been successful, but a move made it not possible to grow out doors due to weather..... I'm about to post some new pics here in a sec, hopefully higher quality than my laptop cam. My experimenting with nutes has been me blending, first time, an ounce of espresso grounds(N) with a 1/4 of a banana(P) and a little bit of a Cranberry for (K), 2nd time ramped up the N to 2 O's of espresso grounds and kept the P and K constant. I water twice a week, either having a 2 or 3 day space between waterings and I nute every other watering. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

 

[sm315]

Looks pretty tiny for a month, I'm new to this myself and have done everything imaginable to my plants and have yet to kill one by accident.

Definitely looks like it needs more light.

 

[Barngrower]

Yeah, I thought that it was a little under par, compared to the other journals at one month. It is an Incica dominant strain and I knew it was going to be short, but yeah it's most likely the low budget lights. I am unable to add anymore lights because the electric bill has already risen by like $100, no bueno. I am thinking about changing the bulbs for flowering, any advice? I re-potted today into a large adobe pot, it's a little shocked, but looking alright. It's been a month and a week or so, it's 5", another month of veg and I'll flower around 10". Sounds like a plan.....??

 

[monsterenergyaxe]

I have a auto blue hym disel growing right now and its already flowering at about half a foot completely condensed using 2 cfls and 1 large cfl 35$ menards. Cant post pics but leds kinda suck.

 

[TaoWolf]

... the electric bill has already risen by like $100, no bueno. ...

How much do you pay per kWh where you live?! Most places, you could be growing under a 1000w HPS and then some for $100/month...

What spectrum are your current CFLs (to answer your switching bulbs for flowering)?

 

[Barngrower]

Yeah, we get charged per kWh over here..... The CFLs package was thrown away a while ago, but I got them because it said "6500k Daylight". I will admit in my ignorance the bulbs were like 7" away from the plant at first, but I have done some geri-rigging and they are 3" away. It's been on a 18/6 light cycle and such.

 

[sm315]

Yeah, I thought that it was a little under par, compared to the other journals at one month. It is an Incica dominant strain and I knew it was going to be short, but yeah it's most likely the low budget lights. I am unable to add anymore lights because the electric bill has already risen by like $100, no bueno. I am thinking about changing the bulbs for flowering, any advice? I re-potted today into a large adobe pot, it's a little shocked, but looking alright. It's been a month and a week or so, it's 5", another month of veg and I'll flower around 10". Sounds like a plan.....??

That seems really high, I run 250W of CFL's and some fans and my bill on all that is like $8 a month.

 

[Barngrower]

So since I've changed the light's positions I've seen more rapid growth, about a cm a day. Yeah the electric bill was a little over exaggerated when I said $100, it's more like $70, but still.....that's no bueno. I've started LST and it's looking fun....... I anchored at the 1st node and started bending at the 6th, the 1st set of 7 finger leaves came through the other day and are looking sexy. Oh yeah I re-potted like on the 17th and started LST 2 days later. I used like a huge pot, I don't know how many gallons it is, but it's bigger than a 5 gallon bucket.