5 week old cfl autoflower

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I hope I'll have enuf light, but honestly this is my first plant so I'm still wondering that myself. So far It has grown under 160 watts of cfl, but I will be put 2 more bulbs on her soon for a total of 240 watts. Fingers crossed that will be enuf to make some nice buds. I've been feedin her fox farm nutrients, not too much tho, just 1 teaspoon per feeding veg and started 1 teaspoon of the tiger bloom 2 waterings ago.

It's hard to find a nice grow journal using just cfls so I'm curious to see if I'll be able to keep her looking as good all the way through as she does now
 
Flagg420

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remember, add those lights to the sides, not the top, she got top light, and CFL has about 6mm of light penetration, if u got another seed, do the same thing w/ an HPS, even if only a 250w...
 
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The problem is, it's a small box 2' × 2'. So she pretty much takes up the whole box. It's a bright box tho and I got the lights spread out and to the side much as possible. She is definetly starting to flower today and so far so good
 

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hondagrower420

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I'm growing critical rapido right now. They will be 5 weeks next Tuesday. Yours looks great. Has she stretched yet?
 
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Thx man. She is stretching right now, quite a bit actually. I gotta raise my lights pretty much ever day. I'm gna cut off her veg nutrients probably next watering tho cuz I only have about 1 foot left of grow room in my box and I don't want her to grow to big. How's your 5 week old plant doing?
 
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I was thinking it might go 10-12 weeks as well, so the next thing I was wondering was when I should cut the nutrients. I know it's 2 weeks before harvest, but with 10-12 weeks there is a 2 week gap. If I stop at 8 weeks it might still go another 4 weeks without nutrients, but if I wait till 10 weeks it might not have enuf time to flush before harvest
 
hondagrower420

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with as much green leaves you have it might be ok to just pull energy out of the leaves. Pretty sure that the flush thing is more for hydro. Personally I believe that flushing is overrated. I know some old school growers that spit and the mention of a flush. You cant flush something out of a plant. Once it is in there its in there.

I say that there is enough stored energy. People are going to say that it could effect yield and quality. Give it a try.
 
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