Organic, stealth, CFL grow.

phoenix58 · #1 02-09-2009, 05:01 AM

Hi and welcome to my thread. I'm new here but not new to growing. had to start all over again after being busted last year for the first time in my 51 years! Traumatic experience that I hope you never have to go through. taken time to recover but I'm growing the herb again. Keeping it very small this time and decided to go with CFL's in a stealth type cabinet with just 3 plants.

I have just one request for those posting in my thread..... PLEASE don't post telling me not to waste my time on CFL's! I see it in almost every CFL thread I read around the forums..."Get yourself a HPS" etc! I know what can be done with CFL's because I have seen it done well and its what suits me.

OK, the spec:
3 plants, 1 Bubba O Kush and 2 AK47's.
Started 7, selected best 3 females.

CFL's: 320 watts total (16bulbs!), mainly warm but with 3 daylight blues to balance the spectrum.

Cabinet: 2 fans, 1 cirulation blowing one end, exhaust fan at other. Temps hold steady at 78 day/65 night. Doors are opened at 8am and left open all day until 8pm to maximise air circulation. All lights & fans on timers..I just need to remember to open/close the doors!

Feed: organic only seaweeds and kelps plus fishy bits from the beach! No proprietary nutrients at all or additives/boosters used. I bubble my water/feed for a few hours before watering using an air pump. The mixture stinks but gives me very happy healthy plants as I hope the pics will show. I don't bother with PH in soil either thesedays.

I wont overload the details just now but I will put up a series of pics from germination to where I am today, at day 24 of 12/12. I vegged for 2 weeks only.

I use vigorous LST to control my plants shape, right through flowering where I need to to keep them as even as possible.

Just to get me started heres the 3 plants as they stand today. (Give me a few minutes to sort my pictures please! Any feedback /questions welcome

phoenix58 · #2 02-09-2009, 05:17 AM

Heres the first few pics for you. You can see how tight the cabinet is? Theres about another 8" of headroom above those new budsights but I can move all of the bulbs around where I want to.

Day 24 flowering.

Bubba O Kush ( Bubba Kush x OG Kush) (middle picture)

AK47 #1. Mutant but I love her! (3rd from left picture)

AK47 #2. Vigorous this one, just burst into flowering! way ahead of the other AK. (left)

I'll get some pics from germination put here later showing the 7 I started to make my selection.

Thanks for looking in so far.

phoenix58 · #3 02-13-2009, 04:37 AM

Not sure if anyones actually following this but I'll keep it running anyway for a while!

Some of the older images were taken on a phone camera so poor quality. They show the original 7 plants from which I selected the best 3 females. You can see for the first few weeks I was bottom watering from a tray which was bubbled by an air pump. I find this gives faster growth in those earlry veg stages. I'm now watering conventionally through the soil although I still bubble the water for a couple of hours before use.

As you see I remain passionate about the rights of the individual to grow and use cannabis!

Hope you enjoy browsing these images, any questions please just ask away.

phoenix58 · #4 02-13-2009, 04:48 AM

Update: Day 28 flowering.

I have just given them a final bit of training to get all the bud sights as much light as possible. Space is tight, the pots are each 10" and I can just about fit the 3 in there! Anyway I'm happy with them now.

The Kush is a 10 week flowering strain to finish her properly so another 6 weeks will do her. The AK's are shorter strains, maybe 8.5 to 9 weeks. All three of these plants will be revegged for 6 weeks once finished then re flowered again. I find the second harvest is generally better than the first as the plant begins to mature.

TeaTreeOil · #5 02-13-2009, 05:17 AM

How many nodes did the plants have when you started LST?

Very nice looking plants, +rep.

phoenix58 · #6 02-13-2009, 05:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeaTreeOil

How many nodes did the plants have when you started LST?

Very nice looking plants, +rep.

Thanks TeaTree OiI, appreciate the comment.

This pic shows the Kush just before I started the training (poor quality image, sorry). Soon as I could see preflowers through a glass I re potted then began LST by pulling the top down and bracing the main stem back to avoid strain on the roots. As they grow I then keep training the main stem in a circular fashion to follow the edge of the 10" pot. if I kept it going I would end up with a completely circular stem and all of the bud sights growing vertically, rather like a SCROG but without the net! Thats what I aim for. If your genetics are stable I find they can take a considerable amount of this without stress. All fan leaves stay on but again I tuck and tie them down out of the way if I need to or if they are blocking any light above the bud sights.

Midori · #7 02-13-2009, 06:06 AM

Hey Phoenix, welcome to the site. Nice grow you got there buddy, keep us posted.

phoenix58 · #8 02-13-2009, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midori

Hey Phoenix, welcome to the site. Nice grow you got there buddy, keep us posted.

Thank you Midori, nice to be here. Seems a friendly forum, thats just what I like

I'll keep this going through to harvest.

phoenix58 · #9 02-15-2009, 04:02 AM

Day 31 12/12.

Well, had to make the drastic desicion to pull one of the AK's due to lack of space! She will be trimmed down and placed back under a 20/4 cycle to pull her back to reveg. Once the two remaining plants are finished in 5 weeks time she will go back into flowering for a full cycle as the other two take thier turn to reveg! I've been doing this for many years so I'm confortable with the methods and the outcome. I have a friend who has just 2 plants that are both 5 years old and keep him smoking all year round

So heres pics of the Bubba O Kush (3 pics on left) and the AK47 (2 on right) that are left flowering. Give it a couple of weeks and I'll show you how the reveg is going on the other AK.

phoenix58 · #10 02-17-2009, 10:16 AM

Took my two ladies out tonight for a photo shoot

having watched my lovely plants being cut down and bagged up in evidence bags last year with tears in my eyes, having suffered the violation of having every inch of my family home searched including my kids bedrooms it feels not just good but RIGHT that I have these two ladies back with me now....sorry, rant over

AK47 x Lowryder. (Picture:1 to 3 from l;eft) )I lost a special one of this strain last year. She showed a strong purple and I called her 'Purple 47' and was just establishing some clones at the time. Should add these are non autoflowering but are fast to flower and can be kept short for stealth style grows. This one was another mutant and I selected her over a couple of other females because I had a good feeling about her. At 35 days shes going well, I'm happy. You can see the triple bud forming, this is on the strange mutant stem that looks like a stick of celery!

Bubba O Kush. (Picture 4th from left) Sedate lady this one! Taking her time but shes a 10 week finsher so only half way yet. Already that distinctive sweet smell of the Kush strains

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