First Closet CFL Grow

toolage said:

Alright, I've decided to go ahead and change the water today while I have time. I will be going out of town this weekend and won't be back till Monday. So, I wanted to make sure that water levels wouldn't get too low while I'm gone.

Before I add water in my resevoir, I was wanting to ask a question. There are a bunch of lower branches that aren't getting that much light. The bud's are very small and I was wondering if it was safe to cut them off. There are probably about 5-8 small branches that I would like to cut off and maybe 1 of them is a decent sized branch, but it's at the very bottom.

I have a picture below that has 2 of the bigger branches circled. Any input on whether it is safe to cut these off would be appreciated. I don't want to put them under too much stress, or even make them go hermie at this point. Thanks alot everyone!!

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I used to run out of smoke half way through my grows all the time. so I would keep one plant above what I wanted my harvest so that I could chop that girl up and smoke her bit by bit if I ran out. The only had 2 hermies my whole grow carrear and neither of them were any of the 100 "live smoke" plants that ive raised. Ive found no evidence to say that the cutting of limbs causes hermies.

Light during dark period is 90% the cause of hermies from all my reading and watching grows on here or any other cannabis forum. The other 10% i would say are true genetic hermies(which cant be helped sometimes it just happens) or due to some type of torture from nutrients.

I say you can wack em with no problem but i dont see much reason too other than to crate some more airflow, but that dosent seem to be a problem looking @ your girl. just my opinion though..
be easy bra, glad I might be able to help out

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wolfensan [/SIZE]] Originally Posted by wolfensan
my dad use to tell me if i added pepper to the water my buds would be speckled

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I thought when I first saw that that you had written that. I was thinking Omg I hope he didnt do that.....I thought he was smarter....
so relieved when I noticed that it was quoted from someone else. lol

kochab said:

I say you can wack em with no problem but i dont see much reason too other than to crate some more airflow, but that dosent seem to be a problem looking @ your girl. just my opinion though..
be easy bra, glad I might be able to help out

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Hey man, yeah I cut down probably 7 small branches and 1 decent sized branch. Not even going to really try and dry it out and smoke it. The buds are just too small to make it really worth anything. Thanks for the quick response.

kochab said:

I thought when I first saw that that you had written that. I was thinking Omg I hope he didnt do that.....I thought he was smarter....
so relieved when I noticed that it was quoted from someone else. lol

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LMAO! hell nah, when I read that I was laughing so hard. There are just some things I read on here that make me laugh. It was definently worth quoting in my sig lmao!

Damn Tool nice girls , she looks really healthy =D , been watching sorry for no comments but I did get a PS3 and GTA IV and NFS ProStreet , but looking for some help and I wanted to know if I can use Thrive-B1 and Kick Start for my seedlings

hey FZ how ya bin, dude? i was thinking for your dissapearing today man !!! honestly! Cheers!

cheetah2007 said:

hey FZ how ya bin, dude? i was thinking for your dissapearing today man !!! honestly! Cheers!

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been busy in the garden whent to the Mud Bogs , got pics and vids , should find a place to post em lol , been playing on my PS3 , and had to deal with the massive head stress my flowering plants had , lost 3 but saved the huge one lol , put em back into veg though , lost most of my 400 clones cuz I got told they were sold and the guy backed down -.- , but I have BC Mango and ordering some Nl , and just bought a notehr timer , 1,000 Jiffy pucks , Kick Start (dk if I can use it for seedlings that just have a tap root , Thrive-B1 (dk if I can use that for seedlings either, 4 15w CFL Day Light (finaly found the right bulbs , changed em out and its bright as heck now and bought an 8 oz of Rootech , and a nother power bar.

PS - I also bought 12 rechargable batteries for my camra so if I don't have any chagred then there's a problum

I doubt at this point you need to worry
Those branches would not have produced much anyway
and if it gives the plant less to tend to (other than those great looking buds) it should be a good thing.
I have been taking off the yellowing leaves once they look like there are no more stored nutes in them myself.
I keep a fan blowing at the base of the plants as well for air.
I noticed that you have no hairs turning brown at all yet.
Yoinks! Sativa mature slow.
Stretchett is looking prime now tho dude
such great work you are doing.

toolage said:

Hey man, yeah I cut down probably 7 small branches and 1 decent sized branch. Not even going to really try and dry it out and smoke it. The buds are just too small to make it really worth anything. Thanks for the quick response.

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he he it dosent look like it would even be a bowl load anyways. lol
But strechetete looks like she is starting to bulk up some crystals so it wont be long....

toolage said:

LMAO! hell nah, when I read that I was laughing so hard. There are just some things I read on here that make me laugh. It was definently worth quoting in my sig lmao!

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I do it occasionally myself, I just try to find something that dosent make the person sound like an idiot so much.....

Alto said:

I noticed that you have no hairs turning brown at all yet.
Yoinks! Sativa mature slow.

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this is prob gonna be a 12-16 weeker I would say.... There isnt going to be any brown hairs for some while I think. All of the pure sativas Ive raised take forever.
Oh and toolage since it looks to be a pure sative, dont be surprised if it comes out with new growth all the way to the finish, it isnt the most common thing, but sometimes pure sativas kinda make new buds over/out of the old existing buds. But you will never be able to get them to mature fully (the new buds) so go with the colors of the hairs on t he majority of the plant.

and heres a picture of the full sativa Im smoking on now...

Dude I have seen frosty dank looking buds on here
I have seen Bright Green "Kind"
Purple shit even!
But the buds you have in that jar are what I am talking about...
That is my absolute favorite kind of smoke right there.
Ahh Tool you are the lucky man, gonna have piles of that bro.

Alto said:

Dude I have seen frosty dank looking buds on here
I have seen Bright Green "Kind"
Purple shit even!
But the buds you have in that jar are what I am talking about...
That is my absolute favorite kind of smoke right there.
Ahh Tool you are the lucky man, gonna have piles of that bro.

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ty kindly man, it aint much for potency as its only a bagseed sativa but it gets the job done

by the way did you notice the writing on my stash jar? I like it....

here's a very small harvest that I did but she got heat stress and made me have to harvest 2 weeks early but the hairs were turning amber though so that's better then nothing

FrostickZero said:

here's a very small harvest that I did but she got heat stress and made me have to harvest 2 weeks early but the hairs were turning amber though so that's better then nothing

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man im digging that scale big time! He he that would sell really good in this little redneck headshop we got in my town. lol I got one similar to it but it aint camo.

that branch looks like itll be a good smoke man. Have you tried any of it yet? Growing your own is sooo much better than buying weed, 1000 times more rewarding than smoking someone elses shit.

kochab said:

man im digging that scale big time! He he that would sell really good in this little redneck headshop we got in my town. lol I got one similar to it but it aint camo.

that branch looks like itll be a good smoke man. Have you tried any of it yet? Growing your own is sooo much better than buying weed, 1000 times more rewarding than smoking someone elses shit.

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no not yet , gonna go to my friends and spark one up , lol hell yea the scale better look good cuz it costed over $100 but it weighs up to 200g but when I was taking it off the branch it was sticking to my finger so it should be some decent smoke

I need to get myself a scale, preferably like that one Though cant really afford an expensive one. I havent a clue what i'll harvest so unless i get one it'll all be guessing. I would have guessed that was more than 2 grams. Shows how bad i am at it lol

if you care to know your yield (or other reasons) - a good scale is important. I messed up rather badly using a faulty scale - luckily no real harm done. but if circumstances were different it could have been bad.

Yeah i can imagine but i dont intend to sell any so i guess it isnt essential for me to buy one. However i would like to know what i yielded so may pick up a relatively cheap one and hope for the best.

thegigglepimp said:

I need to get myself a scale, preferably like that one Though cant really afford an expensive one. I havent a clue what i'll harvest so unless i get one it'll all be guessing. I would have guessed that was more than 2 grams. Shows how bad i am at it lol

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lol I was off by 3g but it was a good gess that I had , it was 7.7g wet with stems , the stems was 0.2g

thegigglepimp said:

Yeah i can imagine but i dont intend to sell any so i guess it isnt essential for me to buy one. However i would like to know what i yielded so may pick up a relatively cheap one and hope for the best.

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same here - i just wanted to know ballpark yield but this scale wasn't even in the same state - let alone ballpark!

for what it's worth - don't get the cheapest one!

email468 said:

if you care to know your yield (or other reasons) - a good scale is important. I messed up rather badly using a faulty scale - luckily no real harm done. but if circumstances were different it could have been bad.

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yea , this was my very first scale that I bought and its awsome so far , friend used it and he sayed it was a realy good scale , i wanna know how much each harvest is so that I can adjust on the foods and such, I might have gotten about 5g+ for the hole plant if it didn't suffer heat stress

email468 said:

same here - i just wanted to know ballpark yield but this scale wasn't even in the same state - let alone ballpark!

for what it's worth - don't get the cheapest one!

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lol I say if your gonna buy some thing shell out the extra money and get your self some thing good