jonnylongton
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Hiya Dobbles, thank you very much for your reply mate. I arent proud of this, but long as I get enough for some pain relief that's all I'm after, anything else is a bonus. Stay safe
Hello fellow growers- A little advice please.-now with proper pics
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jonnylongton
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Thank you so much Boatguy, that's a massive boost for me. It is actually the second grow, the first went a bit awol, but managed a to get a little to keep me going till now, and I guess that's all I wanted.
I know all the basics now, ok still make the odd mistake I forgot to put the feeds on 2 day for 3 week, only realised the other day, because when clicked to 12/12 I changed the feeding times accordingly but forgot to put the little switch down for its first feed. A glitch which I will learn from, just hope they perk up a bit more now of their proper 2 a day.
One question mate if you are still following this, and that's how many times do you buy new lights, is it after every 3 grows, 2 grows, or every grow, because I've read different things by browsing and just wanted to get it right.
Once again thank you for your comment. Have a great day and stay safe.
jonnylongton
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Thanks Boatguy, that's kind of you to let me know, saves me keep buying them every month. I appreciate all your help mate
IndoBlazing76
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Hiya Jonny, just wanted to drop in and say that your plants look fine and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that some strains do just stretch and stretch, especially if they're Sativa dominant and they can take longer to finish flowering than Indica dominant strains. I used to grow an Original Amnesia indoors, but had to stop running her because she just stretched all the way through flowering. Folks are right though Hps will make your plants stretch more than a Mh, but ive used both for flowering and the Hps definitely produced better quality buds than the Mh. Best thing to do, use Mh for your Veg and then switch to Hps for flowering. Cheers
IndoBlazing76
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Or use a combination of the both and I look to change my bulbs anywhere from 6 months to a year.
Gentlemencorpse
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Yeah, a year is a good estimate on when to change your HPS bulb ... but it kinda depends... the bulbs claim 20k hours but most folks i know using HPS swap them out after around 10k hours
jonnylongton
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Hi Indoblazing76, thank you so much for you post and your great advice. I am new to the game, but learning, and hazarding a guess as I don't know what strain I have ( because the guy who gave them me didn't know himself he just dropped me some cuttings off ) but I think these look sativa because of the thin spiky leaves, and do Indica have the slightly more round leaves. If I'm wrong I apologise in advance, as I say I'm new to the game and trying to learn so much. Im glad you helped with the kind of light I'm using, I will change them next time and use Mh for Veg and switch to Hps for flowering. All this help makes me feel great being part of a great community on here. I do take every tip in and note it down, and I'm now trying to find out the best indica as they will suit me better apparently, got bad problems with spinal probs and the pain and stress of the non stop pain drives me mad some days, but this really helps, even better than the morphine I'm on.
Once again thank you mate, it means a lot to me that you go to the trouble and out of your way to help. Stay safe and take care mate.
jonnylongton
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Thanks very much Gentlemencorpse, greatly appreciated. Im studying lights at the moment, as this will be 6 months now these have been used, I will do the 10k hours mate. Im going to use one lot of lights for veg and one for flower mate, to stop them stretching as much
IndoBlazing76
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No problem at all mate, im always happy to help if I can and you're always welcome to drop me a message if you ever have any questions in the future. You are right too, pure sativas and sstiva Dominant hybrids tend to have leaves with long and thin fingers whereas Indicas and indica dominant strains have shorter and wider fingers. It's not impossible to grow sativas indoors if you have the height to do it or you can use a number of training methods to keep the plants as low as possible. I don't have a lot of space so I normally grow indicas or indica dominant hybrids so look for them when choosing new seeds/strains. Its worthwhile paying for some decent genetics if you can and they're not that expensive these days. I understand that you want to use marijuana for pain relief as my girlfriend has a degenerative disc disorder so a lot of the reason I grow is to help her out. When we first met she was smoking and taking numerous pain killers to the point she was almost like a zombie. Thankfully over the years she's weaned herself off of the pharmaceuticals and only uses marijuana now. It's not going to be a miracle cure for everyone, but it helps her so much it makes me mad that with our country's laws she's essentially a criminal in their eyes. Im glad I helped with your lighting situation too, Mh is amazing for Veg and Hps will then give you fabulous buds in flower. You'll do great with that combo and keep posting pics, im interested to see how your grow ends up. Stay safe Jonny, Cheers
jonnylongton
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Thank you so much Indigoblazing76, I really do appreciate your help, specially with the lights, I did hear of duel spectrum which supposed to do both, but your way sounds much better, I guess its just learning how to put the Mh bulbs in properly as I believe they run off a e40 plug and I'm wondering how I fix this to my reflector, because the full kit with reflector is a little to much at the moment.
Im so sorry to hear your girlfriend suffers with degenerate disc disorder, I know the pain she must be suffering, that is what I have, and every disc in my spine has now degenerated and the specialist said my back is beyond repair, also have mechanical back failure and spondylosis top of my back and in my neck. Im on shit loads of painkillers and all to no avail so ive turned to getting this to help, our govt seems the same as yours, you can drink as much as you want and go completely skitz and cause havoc and nothing gets said, yet a simple herbal medicinal drug is such a big bad thing which is outlawed. I have had CBD oil, but that dont work and £30 a bottle is a bit steep when it usually only lasts around 7 days, i keep buying, i have to , but if i get decent pain relief off these i will be made up. I know i will be looking for Indica strains next time.
I will keep you in touch with how things are going my friend. And all the best wishes to your girlfriend. Stay safe Indoblazing and may all your family stay safe. Take care mate and speak soon