ok i have been reading in this forum for a while and finally got up the nerve to create an account a while ago... and now im finally gittin up the courage to put up some pics. my plant is about 3-4 months old from seed. its just bag seed it was really an accident me and some buddies threw some seeds in a flower pot and it started growing lol. so it was started outside, and grown outside for about a month and a half with no nutrients just regular watering. i then brought it indoors and put it under 18/6 light and started feeding it MG all purpose plant food every 2 weeks. i just started flowering it about 5 days ago on 12/12 and am feeding BC boost, BC bloom, awesome blossom, and thrive alive. i toped it at the 3rd node and have done some minor trimming of lower leaves that started to yellow. as far as lights go i have a ~50watt cfl in and a 30in 30watt warm fluro. just wantin some input how am i doing what am i doing wrong. lol sorry its such a long post i wish i would have done this sooner. ill get some more pics of my setup and everything and start a grow journal soon. thanks for all the help

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your gonna want a lot more light than that for flowering... either buy soem more cfls, or, why not just keep it outside and let it really reach its potential? i mean, i know reasons for not doing that, but if its possible for you to grow outside, you will get some sticky buds...

not that floro growing is horrible... its was i did (check my gallery if you want to see 'em)

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I like the toothbrushes. Your plants have excellent oral hygiene.

lol yeah they are so fresh and so clean... but yeah im planning on getting at least one more cfl. i have it in a somewhat of a growbox that is linned with white blackout plastic, the plant is topped and i have tied it down to the egdes of the pot so my canopy is pretty flat, so i dont need a high intensity light to penetrate too far through my leafs, and im not expecting incredable results im using this as pretty much a practice atempt as i have about 5 more plants started in a hydro set up but thats another thread to come soon... but does it look pretty healthy? was topping it a good idea? and any info anyone might have as to a basic strain. and did i wait long enough to start flowering. thanks alot for the help i have been trying to really do my research i have spents numerous nights going through the grow faq wow its so informative. but let me hear what u guys think

yeah i was definitely able to get a lot more light to the buds on my topped plants... but instead of one more cfl, go to home depot or lowes and for like 10 bucks you could get a four pack of 23w cfls... just more for your dollar, thought you should know...

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see now that was something i was wondering what is better one 50watt or 2 25's ?? i know its bassically the same ammount of light but wouldnt the one stronger bulb produce a stronger/brighter spectrum?? sorry if my term's arnt correct i am still new

good eye...

yeah, 2 25's at only 1500 lumen each are only gonna give you a total of 1500 lumen

while that 50 is prolly giving you more like 3500 lumen or something (these are just figures in my head, i'm not looking up the specifics, but you get what i mean)

you just get a better distrobution of that 1500 then you do of the 3500

and with cfls, the closer they are to the plants the less of airy buds you'll get...

a combination of both would be a good idea (well, as much light as possible is the best idea, duh)

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ok so how bout i keep the 50 watt above my plant and then get 4-23watt and have those surrounding my plant on the sides?? my lights are all within 2"-3" of my plant and like it said its in a like 5'x5' grow box totaly covered in reflective black out plastic so i know most all my light is gettin put to use. i got the plastic because the lady at the hydro store told me its just as effective as mylar but cheaper and easier to use. but then again she told me that a wall painted flat white would reflect just as much light as the mylar so i dunno how good her info is. my lights come back on here in a couple hours so ill be able to go take a look and hopefully get some more pics up. thanks for all the help, anyone else got a couple cents to throw my way?

yeah i was takin a look at your gallery and i was noticing ur plants look a little bare. do u trim off all your fan/sun leaves for flowering??? i have read a little about that and was just wondering how good it works, when to cut them off ect..

bump.... any advice for the new guy?? bout to go check my babies anything speacial to look for as far as disease/deffencies? ill try and get some pics of what i think are some pre-flowers and see if u guys can back me up that its female. i stil cant really tell if they are pre-folwers or just new growth.