400w Club-Show Off Your 400w Pride And Joy

hardroc · Dec 13, 2009

po'thead said:
yes, good decision. I couldn't afford a nice light for my first grow, so I just used cfl's and I didn't even get an ounce off of 5 plants. I figure if I'm doing something this illegal, I need to get a lot more out of it.
these are my plants as of a few days ago.

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looking good bro, how long veg? What strain?

hardroc · Dec 13, 2009

1oilfan said:
They were about 4 inches tall and yes rooted they really took off. They are huge they keep eating anything i give them and keep growing

Nice......gotta love that,
keep it green

po'thead · Dec 13, 2009

hardroc, thanks. I'm not sure what strain they are. one of my friends had a lot of seeds, all of them name brand stuff but he didn't know exactly what they were. I re-vegged them from sep. 2 until dec 3. It took a long time for them to bounce back, they had a spider mite infestation and that slowed them down too.

hardroc · Dec 13, 2009

po'thead said:
hardroc, thanks. I'm not sure what strain they are. one of my friends had a lot of seeds, all of them name brand stuff but he didn't know exactly what they were. I re-vegged them from sep. 2 until dec 3. It took a long time for them to bounce back, they had a spider mite infestation and that slowed them down too.

hey no prob budz, damn that is a long time to revege, mine useually take a good month to start growing like normal but with some damn funky looking leafs lol.
Speaking of spider mites..........little f'ers
I had some crawling all over my plants 2 weeks ago, I was using cfl for veg, and then got my 400w hps and the temp went into the high 80's and I don't see them anymore. I know my temps are high but the plant's aren't burning or anything cause I have a cyclone booster cooling my bulb. I works pretty good, just got to water more often

hardroc · Dec 13, 2009

jwop said:
flowers are starting to form!!!

this is some amazing shit, how old is she?

Kriegs · Dec 14, 2009

po'thead said:
I figure if I'm doing something this illegal, I need to get a lot more out of it.
these are my plants as of a few days ago.

Hah! LOL... Your plants look great, BTW. Should be a nice little harvest.

I got 11oz off four females last year under 400W. They were sativa-dominant bagseed plants about 5' high, and I did some light LST to get 3-5 colas on each plant.

Another key thing to the yield was taking the top colas first, then lowering the light and giving the "popcorn" down below another 3-4 weeks to fill out and really mature. What a huge difference. Those little bottom nugs are just as sweet a smoke as the top cola stuff, even superior in a couple of cases.

hardroc · Dec 14, 2009

Kriegs said:
Hah! LOL... Your plants look great, BTW. Should be a nice little harvest.

I got 11oz off four females last year under 400W. They were sativa-dominant bagseed plants about 5' high, and I did some light LST to get 3-5 colas on each plant.

Another key thing to the yield was taking the top colas first, then lowering the light and giving the "popcorn" down below another 3-4 weeks to fill out and really mature. What a huge difference. Those little bottom nugs are just as sweet a smoke as the top cola stuff, even superior in a couple of cases.

how much longer did you leave them to flower? (popcorn)

Hayduke · Dec 14, 2009

hardroc said:
how much longer did you leave them to flower? (popcorn)

Kriegs said:
Another key thing to the yield was taking the top colas first, then lowering the light and giving the "popcorn" down below another 3-4 weeks to fill out and really mature. What a huge difference. Those little bottom nugs are just as sweet a smoke as the top cola stuff, even superior in a couple of cases.

lightsgreenaction · Dec 14, 2009

So you just snip at the bottom of the top cola and let the rest do its thing for a while longer? Sounds pretty cool if it works without bad side effects, like stressing and screwing something up. I'll be really ready to get some bud, but once I get some (like the top colas) I could give the rest a few weeks longer if it's going to help. I'll have to try this!

Thanks...

Kriegs · Dec 14, 2009

lightsgreenaction said:
So you just snip at the bottom of the top cola and let the rest do its thing for a while longer? Sounds pretty cool if it works without bad side effects, like stressing and screwing something up. I'll be really ready to get some bud, but once I get some (like the top colas) I could give the rest a few weeks longer if it's going to help. I'll have to try this!

Thanks...

That's right. You have to examine your plants' trichomes to see if it's maturing top-down, or bottom-up. It's not always the same.

If it's going top-down, then yes, clip the cola, move the light closer to what's left, and let it go. If not, not much you can do 'cept add lighting along the sides of your area; more work and $.

There's no side effects cept good ones -- at that point, they're putting everything they can into the buds. Take half the plant but you still have all the root mass = 2X as much effort into the remaining bud.

Mine all went top-down last year; hoping they do it again!!

aagiants1 · Dec 15, 2009

heres my 2 widows under a 400...Thinking about going to a 600 or 1000 ,but no matter what, i'll keep the 400 to stay in da club... bongsmilie

Kriegs · Dec 15, 2009

aagiants1 said:
heres my 2 widows under a 400...Thinking about going to a 600 or 1000 ,but no matter what, i'll keep the 400 to stay in da club...

OMG.. fantastic. I'm going to print one of your pictures and smoke it.

Reiss · Dec 15, 2009

aagiants1 said:
heres my 2 widows under a 400...Thinking about going to a 600 or 1000 ,but no matter what, i'll keep the 400 to stay in da club...

Kriegs said:
OMG.. fantastic. I'm going to print one of your pictures and smoke it.

Lol, I agree, lovely looking WW (+rep for you)
Hope my white widow turns out as good, just started flowering her and she's going nuts after 1 week, pistles everywhere.

hardroc · Dec 15, 2009

aagiants1 said:
heres my 2 widows under a 400...Thinking about going to a 600 or 1000 ,but no matter what, i'll keep the 400 to stay in da club...

looking very nice good job, what week of flower are you at?

1oilfan · Dec 15, 2009

new pics from both rooms

burnonedown21 · Dec 15, 2009

got a quick question for all you 400watters. will a 400hps become a major heat problem in a 3*4*8 closet. I'm going to have a carbon filter pushing air out and fresh air coming in passively but will this be enough? the closet doors will be closed most of the time

FuZZyBUDz · Dec 15, 2009

depends! on ur outside temps, and light height, and wat cfm fan, and well a bunch of things. u will really ahve to try and c, but right now in winter i dont think u will hav a problem, i sure dont but my room is an open one, not closed like ur talkin

greenfirekilla420 · Dec 15, 2009

Just depends on your ambient temps in the house, and your airflow inside the closet. You've got a decent amount of space to work with though don't be to worried. Start saving money for an inline intake fan for the room. Also what kind of reflector are you running? And is there a true exhaust one where the hot exhaust air is getting dumped into a completely different room?

:leaf:

FuZZyBUDz · Dec 15, 2009

a ''true'' exhaust, thats wat i was tryin to think of!! thanks dood!

greenfirekilla420 · Dec 15, 2009

No problem bro, looks like we were both on the same page there huh?

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