So how are my girls looking? What now?

Asking you guys opnions on whats going on with my plants and if I need to do any topping or FIMing. Or just leave them alone. This is my 1st real grow and I could use a hand. I ordered some hydroguard and some other nutes that will be here soon. Im using the lucas forumla and my ppm is 1000, the ph is 5.6. I cant wait to get the hydroguard, it should help a lot.

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Nobody can help? Thought you guys would be excited to see my grow?

Looking real good! specially the plant in the second pic, shes loving whatever your doing. what kind of light you got? is that a hydro system?

looking nice and compact there m8, gd job yellowing at bottom though i gt the feeling its not down to slack lighting? as they dont seem stretched, wat strain and wat set up u gt there bud?

southernsmoke23 said:

Looking real good! specially the plant in the second pic, shes loving whatever your doing. what kind of light you got? is that a hydro system?

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Thanks, yes shes the biggest by far. Im running DWC and CFLs. 200w over them for now and will add more for flowering.

sweetsmoker said:

looking nice and compact there m8, gd job yellowing at bottom though i gt the feeling its not down to slack lighting? as they dont seem stretched, wat strain and wat set up u gt there bud?

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Yeah idk with the yellowing leaves, the biggest one has brown spots on the leaves. Seems like all of them look bad at the bottoms but the tops look great. I see some small leave coming in on the bottom of the plants too, those are weird. Im using 200 watts of mixed 6500 and 2700 cfls.

texashustle said:

Asking you guys opnions on whats going on with my plants and if I need to do any topping or FIMing. Or just leave them alone. This is my 1st real grow and I could use a hand. I ordered some hydroguard and some other nutes that will be here soon. Im using the lucas forumla and my ppm is 1000, the ph is 5.6. I cant wait to get the hydroguard, it should help a lot.

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What you got in there, looks like a mix of Sativa- and Indica-dominant plants. If so, it can be a real pain managing the different growth rates.

Are they all feminized seeds? And I assume they're being grown under CFL's? How many CFL's and what size will you have for flowering?

Anyways, you need a plan to manage the canopy to maximize the yield for whatever lights you're using...without out-growing them. Oops, I'm an idiot, that's what you're asking for!

Dystopia said:

What you got in there, looks like a mix of Sativa- and Indica-dominant plants. If so, it can be a real pain managing the different growth rates.

Are they all feminized seeds? And I assume they're being grown under CFL's? How many CFL's and what size will you have for flowering?

Anyways, you need a plan to manage the canopy to maximize the yield for whatever lights you're using...without out-growing them. Oops, I'm an idiot, that's what you're asking for!

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Shit sorry I forgot, these are Northern Lights and the 2 tall skinny ones are Afgan x Mazar. The are regular seeds. I have WW and Pineapple Express going in another res. They are all femd and babies. Yes 200w mixed cfls, flowering will be around 300+ cfls. So do I need to FIM them or top now?

If it were me, I'd plan on getting three females. You might get more, but three is probably the most you'll be able to support with bushy Indicas anyways.

I'm no expert on CFL's, I've never done an entire grow with them, so you'll probably be better off if you seek out someone like Roseman. To me, one of the advantages with CFL's (besides low heat) is that you can spread them out to give a nice horizontal light spread. The disadvantage is that they don't have a lot of vertical penetration.

So you want to try to get a nice level horizontal canopy going so all your main buds will be at the top of the plants, directly under the lights. A ScrOG will give you this, but since you don't know what sex they are yet a ScrOG is probably out of the question (you don't want to have to deal with pulling a male out of a screen and with seperating the roots in the reservoir at the same time). So I would look at other methods of keeping a level canopy like LST or super-cropping.

If you want to top or FIM I would do it now and I would shoot for four main colas on each plant. But really, especially with the taller plants, I would just super-crop them to get them to bush out and level out the canopy. It basically gives you the same results as LST, but is easier to do in my opinion. Give MostlyCrazy a shout, he's an expert on supercropping.

nice plant s ur doing em good =) also i ave a huge variety of bulbs at home for my mini stealth 1-2 plant project but it only sais the lumens and watts i need to kno the kelvins anyone help me