Cfl closet grow sativa *poor man*

I'm feeling kind of lazy but am tired of aimlessly browsing riu, so I'll post some pics of my FIRST GROW now and gradually fill in details as time goes on/ people sub.
I have a bag of seeds of a west african variety thats give crazy powerful head high. Growing for fun, and because i dont know where to find any similar strains here.
Too broke to buy bud or to invest heavily in the grow, so chose to use cfl and buy one or so each week as my plants got larger.
Used several items I already had lying around.

Plan:
Flower these babies as quickly as possible without getting caught or spending much.
Dont really care about yield, Just want to get bud asap

Grow room - 5x5x2 ( lined with Mylar)
Lights - 1x85watt(5500k) 2x65watt(2700k) 2x105watt(2700k) total: 425watts actual cfl
Medium - Organic soil
Nutes - Fox farm trio
Total cost spent on materials(lights/nutes/seeds/etc) ~ $200 (TOO MUCH MAHNEEEEEEY! )

Germinated at least 10 seeds using paper towel method. then moved to rapid rooter plugs while
waiting for money to set things up..


Some died right of the bat due to weak genetis/ newbie carelessness. Ended up with 6 in total alive and 2 runts.
Threw em in MG soil... then read that it was bad for them and quickly switched to organic.
Started Under 26watt cfl:
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Grow Room set up:



Progress:




Leaf Problems/Mutant:
RIP First Casualty:First Runt Didn't make it...

Bought 85watt veg light ; NOW they're growing :


Begun adding nutes:
Mutant is Still MUTANT!

Got Flowering bulbs and switched to 12/12 WAY too EARLY:



GNATS begin to appear, added buku ventilation:


Sometimes They get bored of the CLFs, so I throw them in the sunlight coming from my window.



MUTANT stopped growing taller(stunted?), lots of tiny suckers on base of stem!!



Last remaining Runt Shot up and began to grooow:



3 weeks into 12/12.
1 male and......3 FEMALES!!!


Uprooted male/Inspected root system, performed "experiments" on plant after pruning all pollen bearing stems.
Kept alive by dunking rootball in nuted water periodically


Hairs finally sprouting. Decided to Prune Suckers and grow clones(as an experiment, I wont enough time to actually finish them):


Performed "Experiments" on Mutant, after knocking pot/soil over by accident and breaking main stem:
growing new leaves 4 days after accident!!!! What a resiliant plant
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Few More Pistols on the runt:


Runt Promoted to LAST HOPE(put in center stage for the most light):
MY GREAT GREEN HOPE, please dont fail me...

I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO HARVEST IN 50 DAYS BEFORE I MOVE TO NEW APT,
HOPE I CAN FINISH BY THEN.

WILL UPDATE POST EVERY FEW DAYS.

They look pretty nice. The first few pictures where they were all in the same bucket had me a worried.

BBbubblegum said:

They look pretty nice. The first few pictures where they were all in the same bucket had me a worried.

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Thanks. Yea #firstgrownubproblems

I decided to add mylar to the floor, and its really boosted the brighness in of my grow. Mind you, the camera adjusts to bright light, but I assure you its beaming in there.

looks good show pic's of yeild when done... are you starting another grown after you move

been very curious about doing a sativa dom under cfl's
cfl grower, hence my interest, looks like some good results so far

I may not get to harvest. I only have about 5 or so weeks left to flower at this point, but i do see another grow in the future, now that i have acquired some knowledge and the equipment

much regret, but don't despair just yet! duct tape man, duct tape! fix her up proper if done quickly

I rushed to taped 3 of the breaks within seconds after they happened, but the leaves begun to look dead literally seconds after it broke, and now they look even more dry/lifeless

bootywarrior said:

I rushed to taped 3 of the breaks within seconds after they happened, but the leaves begun to look dead literally seconds after it broke, and now they look even more dry/lifeless

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that is very disappointing, surprised, but every plant/strain has its quirks

growone said:

that is very disappointing, surprised, but every plant/strain has its quirks

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Yea it was my most promising plant too, i was banking on it being the only one that would be able to barely finish, the others have put out only half as many pistols, and dont seem to want to flower at full force yet.
Now all i have to show for my countless hours are sparse stems and leaves. I dont even feel like finishing this fucking thing and wasting more time on it when theres only like three popcorn buds to be had IF my plant even decides to keep flowering after losing its most mature growth. What a great idea it was to prune the lower buds RIGHT before my light comes crashing into the top ones leaving me with virutally nothing, fucking stupid.

wow what happened

closetkush said:

wow what happened

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Dropped a light and broke several flowering sites. like a fucking idiot.

switching to 18 hour day 6/12 cycle to see if i can speed things up. Not sure how my stressed plant is doing at this point.
Just trying to focus all my energy on getting the center plant to give me something smokable in 45 days since its been throwing pistols for a week.
you guys think its possible?

you never know, it might have a spurt hidden inside the genetics - likely? no - possible? yes

growone said:

you never know, it might have a spurt hidden inside the genetics - likely? no - possible? yes

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heres what it looks like atm. i just want anything smokable that will get me high if i harvest in 5-6 weeks
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i'm no expert of sativa's, at least not recent ones, did use to do mexican and columbian bagseed grows outdoors
sativa's don't like to move quick on flower, so let's say you've got 2 weeks of flower going(from the pics)
8 weeks of flower will not be the best, but sure, it will be better than nothing
big issue is how edgy will it be? immature weed can be unpleasant, but the genetics do vary
it's worth the chance

Next time you drop a light and have broken stems try sticking them in a cup of water asap. One of my plants was dying when I woke up once and I put her and water and she got happy real quick haha

ihavealotofquestions said:

Next time you drop a light and have broken stems try sticking them in a cup of water asap. One of my plants was dying when I woke up once and I put her and water and she got happy real quick haha

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yea good thinking. I have an emergency vase full of sugar water just for that purpose. The problem is it was still handing by a thread, I taped it right back rather than rip it of and have to deal with re-attaching it in the right orientation.