CFL Lowryder #2 Microgrow. Day 25 from seed

after my first attempt went 100% male I'm back for attempt #2. You can see my first grow here: Bud shots...
I'm keeping a grow journal but I haven't seen much interest, I thought some other folks running CFL's would be interested.

Anyway, I'm back with the last of my seeds from Attitude seed Co. I rigged an inline fan to push air out my window to help keep temps and smell down. Two 65w flouros can act like a mini heater, it would up the temps in my room by 5 degrees. This setup seems much better and the temps are consistently 80-84 degrees.
I'm using a peat/verm/perlite/worm castings mix
two 65w flouros with a 42w "warm". That makes for 11,000 lumens in my 1 square foot of growing area. I'm using Jack's classic bloom booster now 10-30-20
ph was getting around 7.4 and I just watered with pH 6.5 to adjust. Hopefully that doesn't shock them. Here are some shots, they are coming along. Roughly 6 more weeks to go!




Your comments and thoughts are appreciated. They seem to be lacking Nitrogen as the lower leaves have been yellowing. However, I see a lot of lowryders that seem to do this to some extent...

they looks great man better with hps for sure i know or metal halide for sure but keep up the good work

12/12 from seed is very cool. Watching.

nice lr's nice and stalky. what company did u order from?

ordered from from a Attitude check my grow journal. About to update now with pics...
thanks for the comments guys

you ordered the seeds to your house where you grow?

ryanadams said:

after my first attempt went 100% male I'm back for attempt #2. You can see my first grow here: Bud shots...
I'm keeping a grow journal but I haven't seen much interest, I thought some other folks running CFL's would be interested.

Anyway, I'm back with the last of my seeds from Attitude seed Co. I rigged an inline fan to push air out my window to help keep temps and smell down. Two 65w flouros can act like a mini heater, it would up the temps in my room by 5 degrees. This setup seems much better and the temps are consistently 80-84 degrees.
I'm using a peat/verm/perlite/worm castings mix
two 65w flouros with a 42w "warm". That makes for 11,000 lumens in my 1 square foot of growing area. I'm using Jack's classic bloom booster now 10-30-20
ph was getting around 7.4 and I just watered with pH 6.5 to adjust. Hopefully that doesn't shock them. Here are some shots, they are coming along. Roughly 6 more weeks to go!

Your comments and thoughts are appreciated. They seem to be lacking Nitrogen as the lower leaves have been yellowing. However, I see a lot of lowryders that seem to do this to some extent...

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I think they look great. How old are they. What nutrients are you using.

I've got three AK47 Lowryders that have those same pistil clumps. I growing in an Aerogarden Pro 100 with Fox Farms nutrients.

How's the smell with those? I almost got those, maybe next time. Right now even with the vent I'm still smelling the ladies from time to time. My cab is stupid small and I might move to a bigger setup and run hydro next time.
I like the autoflowering although it would be nice to clone so the male/female ratio thing wasn't an issue. Plus, always having to do seed runs could become a problem.

the pics are of around day 29 i believe. I think I could see better results if I moved to a different nutrient blend. I'm using Jack's Classic blossom booster.
Here are a few more pics...check out the grow journal here too:
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/135500-lowryder-2-grow-journal.html

couple of new shots...can't figure out what's going on with my nutrient situation. It seems like the plant can't keep older growth alive. The pH is maybe 7.5? Could this create a nutrient lock-out situation? Last pic suggests nutrient burn to me...

Almost harvest time. I can't figure out when to pull...I planned for Jan 23rd. I feel like they are almost ready. I want to error on the side of early. I just can't tell if these trichs are clear or frosty? What do you think?
They fawking STINK!

woops...wrong thread, meant to put this in my grow journal...sorry about that...

How was the bud that came off of it looks great but how was the smoke cuz I'm either gnna grow sum aurora indica cuz of strength or lowryder cuz ofspeed but idk how the smoke is I read 1 site that said it was id grade weed, but 2 me t looks like dro material wut do u say??

Looks like some sick bud. What height did the plant grow 2.
Im thinkin of doing the same grow. What size pots did you use for the final stage??

those look amazing for cfl

l3ored said:

those look amazing for cfl

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Regardless of CFL, those look amazing

Thanks for the comments guys!
I've been drying for 3 days now. I took a pinch and smoked it. I'm an everyday smoker and I typically have access to decent weed but The flavor was excellent already. Pine/fruit with a light skunkiness to it. The smell is seriously devine.
The high was good. I got on the phone and started talking to some people and realized that I was completely coherent although I was feeling pretty nice. That was cool. That was a bottom nugget though. I think the top of the cola's were a little further along. The plants are all about 7-10" inches. Super short. I think that it's good though to keep them small and do a sea of green with the CFL's.
I'm pretty siked. We'll see what happens once they are dry. I wonder how much I'm going to lose drying.

I would recommend this strain because it does finish quickly. Do a seed run and plant these everywhere outside this spring. They should be pretty easy to keep covered

Looks great. I am growing two bag seeds under CFL so good to see others doing it too

dam thoes look ill.

rmel0622 said:

dam thoes look ill.

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Yeah, they could look better. I think they need more nutes but they are close to harvest so I don't want to give them any. Nutes at the end make your plant taste like shit.

Dry weight is 16.8 grams. Can't believe it!. Plus I got some seeds out of it. The weed is not all that compact and little looser which must be do to the strain and the light intensity? The heads of the main cola tips are buried in the pic but they are a fair bit more dense.
I'm curing now and rolled my first joint (pictured below). I just smoked about three hits and I'm high as fuck. NO body effects though, just my head is sort of soaring. Smoke was harsh due to the lack of curing time, but the smell was nice. Berry/skunky smell. Can't wait till its cured a little bit.
No energy drain as of yet. I would like a little more body buzz, but this is a great high. I wish I could pass it around to you guys
I'm now looking back at this whole thing and just realizing I'm crazy. Nobody knows about this aside from you guys. I constructed this whole stealth setup wired lights together, read this site all the time, became a little obsessed...for 16 grams.
But, I've been wanting to do that since I was 14. Glad I could share some of it with you guys and I hope you take a chance, and realize this can be done!!!
This grow log is finished if they want to move it to the "finished grow log sections" is there one? How does one find it if so?