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preflowers are not the start of flowering. As has been said above, preflowers mean the plant is mature. Many people prefer not to start flowering until this stage. Flowering really consists of two phases, stretching and budding. The stretching will start as soon as she goes under 12/12...

What bigBuddhaCheese said. Smell is very much strain dependent. There are some strains that have a strong odor from early on but generally its midflowering when it really kicks in. Yes if you grow less bud you will have less smell. In fact if you grow none at all you will have no odor...

I don't want to get into the soil vs hydro bitch fight but I think Phil makes a very important point. Too often newbies go for a really ambitious setup which only increases the level of difficulty they face on their first grow. On top of that they max out their capacity so that the grow cab...

Does it have to be CFLs? HIDs give you a lot more bang per watt. What kind of grow space do you have. If you can handle it a 400W MH would be great and easily give 200gm of bud, quite a bit more with practice.

Yeah 20% is what I get too. It's hard to fight. The only thing that makes a difference in my cab is a mini evaporative cooler. Air flow is a good thing but it also has a dehydrating effect. The mature plants are less bothered but the young plants can get into serious trouble. You need to do...

That's very strain and light dependent. Again, it would be nice if you revealed to us the strain you are growing and the wattage you are burning. Looks like hps. A wild guess, around 2oz.

what obijohn said. When people tell you 4 weeks, they mean a ball park figure but the plant will do her own thing and may take a bit longer. I don't think its going to be less than 4 weeks. Looks like its going to be a nice yield!

That's the beginning of 'claw leaf' I get that problem a lot. It needs to be fixed otherwise the plant gets permanently sick. In my experience claw leaf is caused by extremely low humidity (my problem) and exacerbated by too much heat and too much nutes. These things go together, once the leaf...

Pix with the light off would be nice for judging color. You should start seeing a few brown pistils by this time. From the time she starts setting buds, flowers are appearing, ripening and 'finishing' with brown pistils. During full flowering, she grows new flowers faster than the old one's...

There are probably tens of thousands of people ordering seeds to their homes. Think of all the states where MMJ is legal. Sure if you get really unlucky things can go bad but you could slip in the shower and break your neck too. I've only found one instance of a bust that was attributed to a...

UPDATE: To recap: There were two c99 fems. This is #1 in the flower cab at about 4 weeks. Her sister, #2 got sick early on and is still fighting for her life. More on this drama below. C99#1 is about 18" high. I had meant her to get bigger but this was my first sativa dom and I only vegged...

I'm sure you can germinate well in rockwool but I can't for the reasons given above. I think the biggest problem I had was judging when they were dry or moist. I probably could figure it out if I stuck with it, but I found an alternative that is easy for me. That's the thing to remember...

Yeah it's discouraging. Sorry man. But once you get this part dialed in, you shouldn't have this problem any more.

Yeah that says it. I lost a lot of seeds to rockwool in just the way johny describes. Germination is the most vulnerable time in the plant's life cycle and it's where most casualties occur. Newly germinated seedlings are much more vulnerable to dehydration than growing plants, and at the same...

IMO Attitude is the most solid and professional seed bank that handles a wide selection of breeders. To those breeders mentioned above I would add Sannie, Sensi & Dr Greenthumb. IMO Nirvana is not on the same level as the others mentioned here. They have some great strains and some not so...

My opinion is that the germinating seeds get too much handling by your technique. As I understand it, the developing taproot is extremely delicate. It is covered with microscopic hairs that are easily damaged. I was taught to start with water or paper towel and plant it in whatever as soon as...

One or two of your plants have some kind of leaf damage. The focus isn't good so I cant tell. That might be nute burn. There's a whole suite of problems that can cause leaves to droop. Dehydration, overwatering, heat or light stress, too much nutes, root problems....they will even droop...

My experience with cfls is that watt for watt they are wimps compared to MH and not muc cheaper. I recently switch my veg cab from cfls to MH of a lower wattage and the improvement in performance is startling. The cheapest cfls on a per watt basis are the 23W/26W bulbs. 10 of those will set...

The plant is considered mature when she shows preflowers and alternating nodes. You can top the plant as soon as she has three or more sets of true leaves. I like to wait till I have about 5 nodes and make clones from the piece I cut off.

You can save a chunk of change on the smaller MH lights by buying a ballast kit and assembling it yourself. Once you get to 400W, the price difference between a kit and a ready made magnetic ballast it's not worth it.