My envirolite grow 250w red + 250w blue

Titania

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I seriously would not recommend growing them a lot taller, with HID lights it would be fine, but cfl's lose shit loads of intensity with distance! keep them short and stocky, with close proximity to the light. Also, leave the blue enviro in for the first 2 weeks of flowering, it stops them stretching as much, and they use the blue light more efficiently at that stage of flowering. Plants looking great btw, so obviously you know what you're doing. Keep it up!
 

sicknasty

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Plants looking awesome, I would flower now too I agree with titania with out some form of LST the light penetrance will drop unless you have a completely reflective grow box or some form of side lighting. A month should be plenty of veg for a very respectable yeild considering your plants look perfect like they have never had any adverse conditions in their lives. Your girl should be able to handle it if she is intelligent, you just need to make it worth her while. I would definitely get her something for her efforts if she does well. good luck!
 

gethigheveryday

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yeh, well either way the plants are gonna spend most of their flowering lives under both spectrums, especially the last 4-6 weeks of flowering when males have been seperated.

heres some updated pics, as you can see my big baby is pretty tall now, jus hope to god she isnt a he lol

i ordered some more envirolights so now in total i have 250w blue, 250w red, and 125w red, as i say i will have all 3 of these over the plants during final month of flowering to maxamise yield, shouldnt be too bad, 625watts of cfl power is quite a lot i think.









 

gethigheveryday

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oh and just to say when im away and my gf will be looking after/watering plants, she will log on using my account here and ask any questions put up pics on this thread if she is having difficulty determining sex.

hope thats ok
 

gethigheveryday

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im watering every 5-6 days, is that ok? they seem to be fine with it no drooping or yellow leaves.

what about nutes, when should i start giving bloom nutes? start if flower or 4 weeks from when i repotted?
 

macab24

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hey, nice grow. im hoping to get 200w CFL for my grow, where in the u.k did you get those two lights for £40, im struggling to find a 200w for less than £50
 

gethigheveryday

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just use em for mail order mate, find there service top notch.

lighs went off last night midnight like usual, only there not coming on at 6 am, 12 to 12 now.

il post pics tonight of their 1st day in flowering.

should i start with bloom nutes or wait 2-3 weeks into flowering?

im using biobizz all mix soil and last repot was around 2 weeks ago.
 

Enigma

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just use em for mail order mate, find there service top notch.

lighs went off last night midnight like usual, only there not coming on at 6 am, 12 to 12 now.

il post pics tonight of their 1st day in flowering.

should i start with bloom nutes or wait 2-3 weeks into flowering?

im using biobizz all mix soil and last repot was around 2 weeks ago.
Reading over the suggestions from many nutrient suppliers:

Stop feeding with any veg nutes week 1 of flowering

Begin feeding full strength (which could be 1/4 to full depending on strain) flowering nutes week 1 of flowering

By the last two weeks of flowering back off on feeds (if full strength go 1/2, then 1/4)

Last week no nutes.
 

gethigheveryday

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koo, iv not started using any nutes yet through the veg stage, so gonna start with 0.25ml biobizz grow and 0.5ml biobizz bloom per litre, in the 1st week of flowering.

should i feed nutes every week and say by week 4, double the dosages?
 

Enigma

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koo, iv not started using any nutes yet through the veg stage, so gonna start with 0.25ml biobizz grow and 0.5ml biobizz bloom per litre, in the 1st week of flowering.

should i feed nutes every week and say by week 4, double the dosages?
What are the concentrations of those feeds in N-P-K?
 

Enigma

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bloom is 2-6-3.5

grow is 8-2-6

i have no idea what that means, does that sound good?
First week of flowering stop using the Grow formula.

Add a 1/4 - 1/2 strength bloom feed for the first week.

Over the next few weeks up the feed until you get to full strength, if you are comfortable with that and your plants are burning.

Then for the last 3 weeks before harvesting work down to no nutes.

For example, working from full strength feed:

Week 8: 1/2 strength
Week 9: 1/4 strength
Week 10: No nutes
Week 11: harvest
 

gethigheveryday

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thanks a lot thats very usefull, first watering since 12/12 tomorrow night so il be starting off with just the bloom 1/4 to 1/2 strenght
 
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