My CFL Lowryder 2 grow - first grow!

Some pics from before they went to bed a couple of hours ago. Thats the end of day 11 under the light, about day 14 or 15 overall. Im still not sure when to count day one as

Looking good QueenBee. Those some healthy sexy plants like there mother eh? haha Take it ez and keep them girls looking good. .Im doing a small micro grow with bagseed my self in a 3ft sqare space with CFL's.

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Lol cheers
Just another sneaky pic to show their growth today - these pics are just 5 and a half hours apart!

QueenBee said:

Some pics from before they went to bed a couple of hours ago. Thats the end of day 11 under the light, about day 14 or 15 overall. Im still not sure when to count day one as

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Some people start from the day the plants first sprout above ground, others start from when the seeds were first planted. I suppose it's not technically a plant until is sprouts.

I think C's a girl!!!!!! It seems early but theres defo some little white hairs! Thats the only one tho I think. The hairs seem to make it quite obvious with the girls but Im not sure what Im looking for with the males. A lot of the new bud growth fits the description of 'little balls'. Im going to do some more research... But yay for C!!

queenbeezee,i used a 3gal pot bc the roots dig deep,i used a 17:30/6:30 light schedule. by push i mean feed it with nutes till it shows a little burn,then carefully trim off "useless" leaves that prohibit growth bc u want to exploit the light for all its energy and by removing some leaves it will forcefully make the plant grow bigger than what it would really be as is,mine grew to about 19in,i gave it 72days total and it was the shit,and flush for 17days bc it takes a few days for all the nutes to diminish completly and then for about 14days,the plant(s) start to convert all of its moleculer structure into glucose and sucrose making the final product sweet,tasty and smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth,u dont need to use molasses,let the laws of nature do the job,and before the murder you will see the leaves look horrid and sickly but let it be oh let it bee queen

heres a pic that helped me. puff puff pass>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks for the pic. Ive seen that before but I think its harder to tell whether things are new bud growth or those male bud things. Whereas the female seems to be quite obvious. I dont like only finding one female, hope some more change soon. I may go and strain my eyes a bit more trying to find minute buds and hairs. I think D'd a boy which is dissapointing coz thats the biggest one but like I said Im not as sure with the boys.

Well 3 gals is about 13-14 litres according to google. My bottles are 2 litres so Im going to be needing lots bigger pots...

This is what I think at the mo:

A. Girl
B. Boy
C. Girl
D. Boy
E. Boy
F. Boy
G. Unsure
H. Unsure

But its still early days.

well ive found that boys grow faster and more leggy and show sex first and the girls tend to stay more bushy and show late so if u have some unsures its a good chance its a girl.

Yea Im really hoping that G and H are girls because they dont have anything. Theyre the smallest ones. Im surprised how early it happened, I was examining them and noticed C has the white hair things. I think A has one hair! Hoping thats not just a bit of fluff or something! But I only planted them on the 30th so at most yesterday was day 17 and at least one of the girls was obvious, its a bit early isnt it? That normal? Fingers crossed for G and H. B, D, E and F are now the furthest away from the light, giving A, C, G and H the most light possible. C is right in the middle!

if u were growing 12/12 strains the one that showed fem firdt would be the one to clone the hell out ofthey the alpha females so to speak lol. My dlr's showed at 3 weeks so u got soe faster than me lol

Hope you get some girls! Glad now i only got the one girl both wouldn't have fit in my cab now there too big lol.

Im confused about the sexing now. C is definately definately a girl, she has lots of the white hairs. Still think A is too. But one of the 'balls' off D has turned into a leaf and the other balls are kind of opening up. Are little white hairs going to come out?! The only boy im confident about is B, he seems to have a good couple of pairs of little balls! I hope D is a girl coz thats the strongest biggest one. So just waiting some more, waiting to see if more white hairs appear! It makes sense that A B and C have shown themselves first coz they were up first.

So... if the little 'balls' start opening up, does that mean theyre not balls?!?!

Bless C being the alpha female! Shes called Crystabell. Sounds soooo white trash (no offence any crystabells out there) but theres a private joke for me in there!

pictorals will help morals

Lol OK, but my camera doesnt get that close up. This is the best I can get of B, you can see the little balls sticking out...?!

cant see but there looking good and healthy.start pushin them if u want max yeild and make a seperate area for the males so u can decide witch one you like to breed wit the best looking gal

Cool thanks, I will help them as much as poss but Im not sure about cutting leaves off and stuff you talked about before! I dont think I know enough to start lopping things off! When I know the sexes for definate Ill probably kill all but 2 males (one spare) and put them outside or something. The Joint Doctor grow guide says to use a 1-2-1 fertiliser from about now so Im going to start looking for some such stuff

a 1-2-1 is low,i use 18-25-22 flowering mix thats half to 3/4 strength than recomended,full strenght tends to be too much.when it starts budding up thats when u start clipin leaves,its an art form that requires skill and knowledge and previous history,but if you ask questions than you can prob at least hit an oz a plant,if you grow for a longer time and try lr2 you can get maxxxxx yeild.you can have your light 3in above the plants any closer and it burns the leaves.

This is lr2. So what age do you start the clipping? Its just I thought the buds didnt need light coz the leaves get the light and do what they do with it and then pump the energy to the buds. Thats my understading so Im a little dubious about cutting leaves off! Its definatley something Ill look into more though, do a little more research! My light is very very close, probably less than an inch in places; I havnt had any burning yet but maybe I should move it a bit just to be safe.