1st Grow. CFL Grow
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NewClosetGrower
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hey man, just give her a good drowning...she'll come back, with vengeance 
lee harvey
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yup just like new closet said... a nice watering/feeding will do that girl just right.. dont stress out to much bro.., ive made this mistake NUMEROUS times during my current grow.. they will reach for the lights as soon as a few hours after watering..their just thirtsy..feed them b*tches!! and try not to let it happen again!, ur so close to done homie just a few more weeks of TLC and youll have some nice fat buds to cure uphey man, just give her a good drowning...she'll come back, with vengeance
theoldmerchant
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Well I gave her a good watering, but because of things I can't control I'm back out of town and just can't be there to care for her right now. I'm trying to get back tomorrow so hopefully I can try to bring her back, but for now she is on her own!
NewClosetGrower
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she'll be ok dude, how long are you gone for this time? if anything try to water her twice in the same day tomorrow if you gonna be gone for a while...drown the shit out of her and she will survive
theoldmerchant
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Flower Day 49
HAPPY 420!
Well I managed to make it back today. She seemed to make it out okay, she lost all her fan leaves but the buds don't seem too upset about the affair. I noticed it did turn all the hairs on the buds red. Just give her a good flush then I suppose.
HAPPY 420!
Well I managed to make it back today. She seemed to make it out okay, she lost all her fan leaves but the buds don't seem too upset about the affair. I noticed it did turn all the hairs on the buds red. Just give her a good flush then I suppose.
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NewClosetGrower
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i would just give her water till shes done man...atleast you know she'll taste sweet glad to see she made it
glad to see she made it
BIGfattyhooter
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Happy 420!
Metasynth
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Fuck it, buds still look frosty. Who needs fan leaves as long as those buds keep fattening up...lol...But yeah, I'm with stoney on giving her tea or molasses when she dries up,and here's my theory...Mind you, this is just a theory, but I think there were a lot of stored nutrients in the fan leaves you lost that she won't be able to use now, so gotta supplement those somehow? I dunno, it's 4/20 and I'm way stoned, but it makes sense to me at the moment. Anyway, I'm sure she'll be just fine, plants are pretty resiliant, and those buds should just keep swelling!
mustaineaddict
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looks good man just read through the whole thread. I'm currently at week 8 flowering in my 3rd CFL grow, and I know what your going through. Patience is key at this point, I think she needs another 2-3 weeks max but watch her as much as you can because she has been stressed out and may mature quicker as a result. Give her plenty of water to help recover from the drought it appears she endured, but she should be fine. For a first time grow your doing a great job!
Belesar
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Your right there, They seem to bounce back pretty damn quick aswell, Ive snapped the stem twice on my first one and i dont think she noticed much because she still grew 2" both times and just healed up the holes my aggressive bending of her caused lol.
I wouldnt worry too much your on the final stretch now and them nugs look damn tasty
theoldmerchant
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Will do sir!
Cheers to that. She isn't going to win any beauty contest these days, but I bet she gets me high
hahahThank you sir
This weed grows like a weed rightYour right there, They seem to bounce back pretty damn quick aswell, Ive snapped the stem twice on my first one and i dont think she noticed much because she still grew 2" both times and just healed up the holes my aggressive bending of her caused lol.
I wouldnt worry too much your on the final stretch now and them nugs look damn tasty
love it hahaaaa
theoldmerchant
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Flower Day 50 - Week 7
Finishing out flower with 1 65w and 1 55w. Both 2700k
Finishing out flower with 1 65w and 1 55w. Both 2700k
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lilmiggy2009
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+sub + rep this is looking amazing bro keep up the amazing work. I have a plant around the same exact age as yours right now. Can't wait till I chop her down im sure you excited as well!
UVRay
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outstanding thread merchant. Congrats on a fine effort and all the pics you posted on the good, bad and the ugly. I've got a DWC grow going now and it's about the same age as yours but I kept mine in veg much longer, I've just started flowering mine a few days back. I'm growing in a closet tent with cfls, I'm using mostly 2700k 32w spirals (12) and a few 27w 5k and a few 6.5k spiral lamps and one big ole 68w 2700k cfl.
My grow is from high grade bagseed, I ended up with 5 viable plants and that was reduced to 3 girls.. I think two of my girls are some Kush as they have those huge wide dark green puffy leaves and it's short and stocky. My other lady is super skunky but looks like a hybrid and it is growing so well it blows me away. I bought a net for taming the stretch and was considering topping or bending to increase the secondary buds but this gal is so frikkin bushy... I haven't touched her for anything but feeding and trimming here and there as needed. It's in a 5 gallon bucket and it's almost 28" wide now and 18" tall, it's got so many branches I can't count them or see through the plant anywhere. The two smaller females are sharing a 5 gallon bucket, I thought back when I transplanted them into the hydroton that one or both would not make it. They were sickly at first but I learned it was my ph and temps were both very high for nearly a week while I was out of town. Finally got that under control and then it started behaving but it never grew like the other plant, both of the twins are small, just over a foot tall now and it just starting to stretch some for flowering as it's been nearly a week with 12/12 lighting. I have to males that I've removed from the grow area and I'm still growing them as I want some pollen from them as they are both very healthy, super skunky smelling since they had two pairs of leaves and are very busy too, all the traits I would desire in a child.
Anyway, enough about my stuff.... man I could not believe how well your plants have done, at first when I saw that you were flowering them when they were so small I was like WTF??? what kind of yield is that going to bring? Well you proved my first assumption dead wrong. Man that girl did some stretching and growing up once you got her happy. I am inspired by how well they did. This is my first cfl/hydro grow, I've done plenty of outdoor grows back in the day and a few indoor soil based grows but this is my first full on hydro attempt (using DWC) and my first grow with spectrum specific CFLs and proper nutrients. I'm using the TechnaFlora brand, I've got a few of those sample kits with all the nute types in smaller quantities. I'm pretty happy with everything so far and I'm just now getting flowers.
Regarding your last incident where the plants nearly died while you were away, sorry to see such a fine grow have that happen that late in the game... It got me thinking, couldn't you rig up some passive trickle watering that if nothing else would hold the plants over with at least some water while you're away for days or a week? I travel out of town a lot on business, sometimes a day or two and other times it's Monday through Friday. Fortunately, the misses takes care of the girls while I'm away we get on the phone and I ask her to check this, that, etc..
I think you will really like DWC hydro if you try it. It's cheap and basic... but you have to mind the store, it's easy enough to set up float valves to large tanks for keeping nute levels unattended.
One last thing, I assume you've harvested this plant? If so, could you share the yield weight? I'm curious what that baby yielded. again, congrats on a nice first cfl grow.
My grow is from high grade bagseed, I ended up with 5 viable plants and that was reduced to 3 girls.. I think two of my girls are some Kush as they have those huge wide dark green puffy leaves and it's short and stocky. My other lady is super skunky but looks like a hybrid and it is growing so well it blows me away. I bought a net for taming the stretch and was considering topping or bending to increase the secondary buds but this gal is so frikkin bushy... I haven't touched her for anything but feeding and trimming here and there as needed. It's in a 5 gallon bucket and it's almost 28" wide now and 18" tall, it's got so many branches I can't count them or see through the plant anywhere. The two smaller females are sharing a 5 gallon bucket, I thought back when I transplanted them into the hydroton that one or both would not make it. They were sickly at first but I learned it was my ph and temps were both very high for nearly a week while I was out of town. Finally got that under control and then it started behaving but it never grew like the other plant, both of the twins are small, just over a foot tall now and it just starting to stretch some for flowering as it's been nearly a week with 12/12 lighting. I have to males that I've removed from the grow area and I'm still growing them as I want some pollen from them as they are both very healthy, super skunky smelling since they had two pairs of leaves and are very busy too, all the traits I would desire in a child.
Anyway, enough about my stuff.... man I could not believe how well your plants have done, at first when I saw that you were flowering them when they were so small I was like WTF??? what kind of yield is that going to bring? Well you proved my first assumption dead wrong. Man that girl did some stretching and growing up once you got her happy. I am inspired by how well they did. This is my first cfl/hydro grow, I've done plenty of outdoor grows back in the day and a few indoor soil based grows but this is my first full on hydro attempt (using DWC) and my first grow with spectrum specific CFLs and proper nutrients. I'm using the TechnaFlora brand, I've got a few of those sample kits with all the nute types in smaller quantities. I'm pretty happy with everything so far and I'm just now getting flowers.
Regarding your last incident where the plants nearly died while you were away, sorry to see such a fine grow have that happen that late in the game... It got me thinking, couldn't you rig up some passive trickle watering that if nothing else would hold the plants over with at least some water while you're away for days or a week? I travel out of town a lot on business, sometimes a day or two and other times it's Monday through Friday. Fortunately, the misses takes care of the girls while I'm away we get on the phone and I ask her to check this, that, etc..
I think you will really like DWC hydro if you try it. It's cheap and basic... but you have to mind the store, it's easy enough to set up float valves to large tanks for keeping nute levels unattended.
One last thing, I assume you've harvested this plant? If so, could you share the yield weight? I'm curious what that baby yielded. again, congrats on a nice first cfl grow.
theoldmerchant
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Flower Day 51
I'm ready to wind down this grow journal already haha. I want some buuuuddd.
I'm ready to wind down this grow journal already haha. I want some buuuuddd.
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NewClosetGrower
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amazing job man +rep 
nvm it wont let me. this is a picture i would show to someone when they talk shit about cfl's. which you dont see to much of on here these days
nvm it wont let me. this is a picture i would show to someone when they talk shit about cfl's. which you dont see to much of on here these days 
theoldmerchant
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Flower Day 52 - Week 7
Thank you sirs, I can't wait to chop this girl up and give a smoke report.
Thank you sirs, I can't wait to chop this girl up and give a smoke report.
