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twenty2

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ya, its been growing a lit latley. above is a 200w cfl. im hesitant to switch to HID lighting because of the heat, i have no ventilation system now... i just open the doors for a little during the light cycle. i mean there is a fan inside but nothing bringing in fresh air / removing stale air. im thinking of maybe buying a 400w HPS and then using the 200w CFL as side lighting... what kinda yield do you think i could see off a plant this size?
 

Crypnotic

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Hey Crypt if you aren't supposed to lift anything heavy does that mean you will have to sit down to piss for a lil while? LOL And yeah your addy may be the thing that is fucking him up on your order, I was thrown off by it a lil when I saw it. Oh and if you need him to mail it to someone else just PM me and I can forward it over to you if you want sannie to mail them to me! Did you explain to him that your addy was a lil weird? Like I said bro just PM me and if need be just have him mail them to me and I will Priority them over to your mud hut on the Crocodile River, South Africa! ;)
Haha, yea I told him to watch out for my address. Good news is that I got my seeds today! So stocked! Got the Herijuan x big white freebee too. I got my surgery on Firday morning, so not time to start these before D-day, which is shame. If they would have gotten here on time, I could have gotten this grow off before the surgery, but now its just too close and lifting will be too much. That being said, these bitches are getting planted as soon as I can lift all the dirt and water and shit. I will send you a PM, got some news to share.
 

Crypnotic

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ya, its been growing a lit latley. above is a 200w cfl. im hesitant to switch to HID lighting because of the heat, i have no ventilation system now... i just open the doors for a little during the light cycle. i mean there is a fan inside but nothing bringing in fresh air / removing stale air. im thinking of maybe buying a 400w HPS and then using the 200w CFL as side lighting... what kinda yield do you think i could see off a plant this size?
A plant only needs about one 100 watt cfl to grow well. A 200 is more than enough to get the full potential out of one plant for sure.
 

Howard Stern

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Haha, yea I told him to watch out for my address. Good news is that I got my seeds today! So stocked! Got the Herijuan x big white freebee too. I got my surgery on Firday morning, so not time to start these before D-day, which is shame. If they would have gotten here on time, I could have gotten this grow off before the surgery, but now its just too close and lifting will be too much. That being said, these bitches are getting planted as soon as I can lift all the dirt and water and shit. I will send you a PM, got some news to share.
Glad you got your seeds brotha! It is worth it to order from him for the free seeds you get with your order over Nirvana! the only problem that I have seen with Sannies is that most of their beans take over 10 weeks to flower. That is my only complaint, but they are Sativa dominant so it is expected! GL on your surgery brotha! And if you aren't up to getting on here have a friend or family member let us know how it went brotha! Or get to it when you can!

Oh and didn't get a PM from ya, but I just cleared out my inbox. If you mailed me one re-send please cus I may have deleted it.
 

Arthor

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Haha, yea I told him to watch out for my address. Good news is that I got my seeds today! So stocked! Got the Herijuan x big white freebee too. I got my surgery on Firday morning, so not time to start these before D-day, which is shame. If they would have gotten here on time, I could have gotten this grow off before the surgery, but now its just too close and lifting will be too much. That being said, these bitches are getting planted as soon as I can lift all the dirt and water and shit. I will send you a PM, got some news to share.
We got the heijuana/big whit as well. We topped it tons during veg cuz gobbly started to run out of space. Ours has very loose kinda small buds, but we are both wondering if we might have topped it too many times. I'm stoked to be able to compare your to ours to see if its a strain thing or how many times we topped it
 

Howard Stern

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We got the heijuana/big whit as well. We topped it tons during veg cuz gobbly started to run out of space. Ours has very loose kinda small buds, but we are both wondering if we might have topped it too many times. I'm stoked to be able to compare your to ours to see if its a strain thing or how many times we topped it
I think Crypt is going to be out of the growing game for a few months unfortunatly, Sorry to hear about the loose airy buds. Was the KF airy or were they tight solid nugs?
 

twenty2

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thanks for the reply Crypt. i dont have a ton [read none] of experience growing indoors, and from my reading i understand that the light intensity of CFL diminishes greatly as the source is moved further away. i'm just concerned my plant is too tall for that one CFL, i dont wanna have a oz of firm bud from top colas then pillow stuffing for the rest. but anyway, thanks for replies... i have learned everything from RIU, yall are extremely helpful.
 

gobbly

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I think Crypt is going to be out of the growing game for a few months unfortunatly, Sorry to hear about the loose airy buds. Was the KF airy or were they tight solid nugs?
we aren't 100% sure on the harijuana/big-wite yet. The buds are small and mostly leaf at this point, but it has 3-4 weeks left, so it's quite possible it'll plump a lot in that time (I hope :D). We have 6 clones from it though that only veged for 2 weeks and weren't topped, and another clone from it that has been vegging a month so far and was topped quite a bit less, so we will get an idea of whether it just didn't like the topping, or is just a low yielder. The KF was a typical sativa dominant hybrid. It's not fluffy like many pure sativa's, but no where near as dense as some of the pure indica's I've seen. It looked slightly more dense growing than it was dry, but the pink is looking a lot more dense so far, and is getting close to dry.
 

gobbly

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thanks for the reply Crypt. i dont have a ton [read none] of experience growing indoors, and from my reading i understand that the light intensity of CFL diminishes greatly as the source is moved further away. i'm just concerned my plant is too tall for that one CFL, i dont wanna have a oz of firm bud from top colas then pillow stuffing for the rest. but anyway, thanks for replies... i have learned everything from RIU, yall are extremely helpful.
you're correct. penetration in flo's and hid is really determined by watts and area. A CFL (and all flo's) take the wattage and spread the light output over the surface area of the entire bulb, a much larger area than the HID (which is considered a point source), resulting in much lower penetration. There are ways to deal with that, for instance a number of very short plants (think sog or scrog) works well with all flo setups. Another option would be to use a few CFL's and wrap the plant with them (have some up top, but also some wrapping the sides and illuminating deeper). Other option is to switch to HID or something.
 

Howard Stern

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we aren't 100% sure on the harijuana/big-wite yet. The buds are small and mostly leaf at this point, but it has 3-4 weeks left, so it's quite possible it'll plump a lot in that time (I hope :D). We have 6 clones from it though that only veged for 2 weeks and weren't topped, and another clone from it that has been vegging a month so far and was topped quite a bit less, so we will get an idea of whether it just didn't like the topping, or is just a low yielder. The KF was a typical sativa dominant hybrid. It's not fluffy like many pure sativa's, but no where near as dense as some of the pure indica's I've seen. It looked slightly more dense growing than it was dry, but the pink is looking a lot more dense so far, and is getting close to dry.
Thanks brotha for the info, My two little KF upstairs are growing short and bushy as fuck already! I am stoked to see if I get a girl, If not I will have to chop them and to tell you the truth it will make me sad! LOL I am like a pussy with my plants, I get attached to them and if one dies like my Purple Shana it does hurt to chop it.
 

gobbly

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Thanks brotha for the info, My two little KF upstairs are growing short and bushy as fuck already! I am stoked to see if I get a girl, If not I will have to chop them and to tell you the truth it will make me sad! LOL I am like a pussy with my plants, I get attached to them and if one dies like my Purple Shana it does hurt to chop it.
We still have 1 more KF from seed and another 3 clones to go into flower, but we have now harvested 2 of them and no hermies. I know you had a bad experience with fem seeds, but so far all the fem sannies have been free of hermies (haven't even found an errant seed in any of the harvests so far like we would with bagseed). Hericules and hari/big-wite are fem as well; haven't harvested any of them yet, but they are getting close, and no hermies from them either. I'll keep you updated if we do find any though :)

Hope you get better soon cryp! I really look forward to seeing your herc when they get going!
 
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