Awesome, I will flip the ladies this weekend. Good luck.
My tent grow in soil w/ cfls
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Thanks 4betshove, it has been a real experience. I can't wait till this weekend to start flowering.
We'll not a whole lot going as far as regular feedings, flipped the girls 12-12. The girls are approx. 4 weeks of total growth, I believe 3weeks seedling, 1 week veg. I Will harvest based on trich color. Some of the ladies stand 7inches and other about 51/2.
Some how I forgot to check the girls for a couple of days and found them extremely lacking water. No fret I found out though, the ladies starting wilting big time (sorry I missed the pics). I feed water and within the hour they started recovering. Not that I would intentionally hurt the girls but I did learn something.
The girls look good ( I will get pics soon) should I feed some of my MG organic food? Should have I already starting feeding? The girls look good but would they be "bigger"?
Hey there $, any thing to show since te flip?
Some how I forgot to check the girls for a couple of days and found them extremely lacking water. No fret I found out though, the ladies starting wilting big time (sorry I missed the pics). I feed water and within the hour they started recovering. Not that I would intentionally hurt the girls but I did learn something.
The girls look good ( I will get pics soon) should I feed some of my MG organic food? Should have I already starting feeding? The girls look good but would they be "bigger"?
Hey there $, any thing to show since te flip?
freshmoney
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nope nothing new. i flipped them on Wednesday so about 3 days of 12/12 and they got a little bushier but thats its. i can't help but to check them every couple hours when i can a chance, 12/12 runs from 8pm to 8am. its to dam hot during the day.
dsam
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newmex... great job! the girls look great!! I have a few plants going right now too. I just got my tent as well! I think a nice 400 HPS would go great in there for flower!! I know CFL's will work but you have the AC and HPS is more of a set it and forget it... dont need to worry about missing spots on the plant as much! but other then that! GREAT Grow!! +Rep!
Thanks dsam, I was starting to feel the same way, something with interchangeable bulbs though. The CFLs are great but do require a lil attention to "maintain". and I would like to grow'em a lil taller. a cool tube is what i am eying.
Thanks.
Well flipped 12-12, and had to get 42w cfls from the HD ouch 10 bucks each and i picked up 10! The temps seem to be cooler too even though the new bulds are more than 10w larger. here are some pics.
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Some of the girls have yellowing of the lower leaves, seems to start at the tips and works back toward the main stem. I am leaning towards a N deficiancy and will try to start a solution based on that.
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Some of the girls have yellowing of the lower leaves, seems to start at the tips and works back toward the main stem. I am leaning towards a N deficiancy and will try to start a solution based on that.
freshmoney
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1800bulbs.com has 42w 2700ks for $2.50 per. OUCH on 10 a piece
Afraid the the girls are gonna grow so much that light penetration will be inadequate. That is why (and i've been meaning to) I need to adjust the config of my lights and why i would like to go with hps/mh bulbs like 400watters. At this point i am extremely happy with the cfl, but think i would like to grow the ladies a lil taller.
freshmoney
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i was afraid to let them grow taller, some of my plants lower leaves are already getting no light because of the upper leaves
Thanks $, I will check it out for next go around, I plan on using my 27w for 2 grows and my 42w for 3 grows unless i change my light type setup. My goal when setup is "complete" is to be producing the equivalant of 20$-30$ an 1/8th and if I could get approx 2-4 oz a harvest dry, that would be cherry.
I hear what u r saying, should we do some trimming? That is what I have been meaning to get corrected because I knew that issue might be arising.
freshmoney
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not sure..... ive read the first set of leaves tend to turn yellow and die off. but im gonna read into it some more.
freshmoney
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i see the lower first set of leaves look just like mine there real yellow but the rest of the leaves look fine
WATERED the ladies this morning, watered until I had a Lil runoff. The ladies look good, a Lil yellowing on the lower leaves but not gonna worry just yet but I will keep my eye in the situation. I hate to say this but I almost hope one or two end being dudes as I don't feel the ladies are getting the light coverage they need even though I am trying to keep them rotated.
I was wondering if a 400w MH cool tube setup would better penetrate the lower leaves?
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At the moment I have almost 500w of total cfl but much is not getting to the lower leaves.
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At the moment I have almost 500w of total cfl but much is not getting to the lower leaves.
freshmoney
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same here i have about 450 above my girls with lower yellow leaves
Are feeding nutes yet?