Bomb seeds "gorilla bomb" with 135w led and 300w cfl

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Thisngurl has been kicking around for a while now, she spent most of her life in a window sill, being moved into the tent at night to prevent her getting 12/12, whilst being topped/fim'd repeatedly
The purpose of this being to keoo her as short as possible but build up a huge root system!
I put her in flower just over a week ago and she has sprung to life! I wish I had better light for her but I'm making do with what I have!

This was her at 12 weeks (ish) old in her 1 gal pot, cute right!

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Fast forward 2 weeks and she's in a 20L pot and extending that root ball, no more topping, just bending and tucking into place to try and form a decent canopy, at this point she was under just the vipar 300w (135 real watts)

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

This is today..
At a rough guess she's 18 weeks old.
When I switched to flower I added in the only extra light I had, a 300w dual spectrum (2700k+6400k) cfl bulb
I'm hoping I've done what I can to maximise what I can pull from this cheap light set up.
Any pointers to make the most of this girl would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Joshc92]

Very nice , at how many weeks can you top them? I'm using led and cfl too. I have clones going on 3 weeks.

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Once they've sprouted their 5th or 6th node it's good to go

 

[KlosetKush]

Once they've sprouted their 5th or 6th node it's good to go

Are you buddin on a budget from instagram?

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Nope I'm just a newb mate lol

 

[Joshc92]

Thanks for the info man, appreciate it. Your plants are looking awesome tho. How far do you usually keep vipar in veg? I have a 300 w too

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

16-18 inches seems about right, 12 inches for flower

 

[Joshc92]

Thank you, they are about that height. About 16 away, I have 4 Cfls for extra light.

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

I've added cfl just because I had it there, but I did some research first.
There's grow experiments where they use 3 separate tents.
Tent 1 = 600w led
Tent 2 = 600w cfl
Tent 3 = 300w cfl + 300w led

Tent 3 blew the other two out the water! Same wattage used but they liked the variation in spectrum by the looks of it

 

[Joshc92]

For real, that's crazy, I just bought some 23 watt cfl 5000k after i bought them I saw on a thread or somewhere its better to use 6500k or 2700 k.

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Yea from what I've read, 6000+ for veg, -3000 for bloom
My 300w bulb is half and half 6400k and 2700k
I think 3500 is the best middle ground, it will veg and bloom okay

 

[ThatSpudGuy]

Looking good. Have a pack of this so be interesting to see how yours turns out

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Looking good. Have a pack of this so be interesting to see how yours turns out

First one was nice!

 

[ThatSpudGuy]

First one was nice! View attachment 4079422

Nice man. What was the taste like? Was there much frost?

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Very similar to sour diesel! And very frosty!
My first attempt was tiny but the buds got really fat!

 

[ThatSpudGuy]

That looks sweet as man. What you yield from that one

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

Was just under 1oz but she was a fuck up from the start lol

 

[Buds.on.a.budget]

She might get bigger 2nd time round I chopped her and put her back on veg lol