First 'official' cfl Grow and need to know how it looks in the flowering stage

GreenMeter · #1 07-29-2009, 02:15 PM

This is my first official grow indoors using either bag seed or a seed found in some OG kush stash that i had.

The plant has been under 8 23W cfls (8 day light cfls for vegging, and 6 soft light and 2 day light cfls during flowering). I've been giving it nutes from 1/8 concentration of miracle gro all purpose plant food up to almost full concentration by the end of the vegging stage. Now i am currently giving it miracle gro bloom booster during flowering and am continuing it like i previously used with the fertilizer during the vegging stage.

The plant stands 23 inches in the pictures and is clearly a female, and from the structure of the stalk and leaves it appears to be mostly sativa strain.

The temperatures are at a constant 74 degrees and i have a fan on medium power outside its enclosure to circulate the air around and inside of the growing space.

Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated. Im just having the hardest time determining when to stop feeding it nutes before half or more of the pistils change. They say to leave 14 days in advance of straight distilled or reversed osmosis water before harvesting your plant. If anyone thats skilled in this department and could help me out that would be awesome.

GreenMeter · #2 07-29-2009, 02:29 PM

I forgot to mention its been switched over to flowering and is on a continuous 13/11 light cycle.

The plant stands 25 minches in this other picture. This is the most recent pic of her (disregard the other pic)

More pics of the plants and up close buds are coming soon! i apologize for the shitty quality pics, their from my phone.

ijustgrowGREEN · #3 07-29-2009, 02:30 PM

nice lookin greenery. keep up the good work! about flushing... note the date you switched her to flowering. she'll mature close to 9 weeks from then. so at week 7 of flower, stop all nutes. done. if your thinking it'll be earlier or later, adjust accordingly. it's not a perfect science, she just needs time n water to rid herself of the nutes. you could flush for a week and still be good.... good luck

GreenMeter · #4 07-29-2009, 02:32 PM

The other pic is up now...sorry about that

GreenMeter · #5 07-31-2009, 09:42 AM

I've got one big porblem...The area im growing in will only be vacant for another 3 weeks or so and im wondering if theres a way to speed up the maturing process or am i going to have to move to another location to finish out to the plant's full potential? Also, if i were to hravest early, how bad would it be to harvest premature buds?

Evlaar · #6 07-31-2009, 09:47 AM

unfortunately, youre going to have to move to a different location if you want anything to come of your efforts at all. premature buds suck to smoke even if theyre only a few weeks premature, and it seems like yours will be several weeks premature!

Mysticlown150 · #7 07-31-2009, 09:52 AM

Nice looking plant man. That plant wont be anywhere near ready in 3 weeks. best bet is to either trash it or try to get it to the new location. Would really suck to see that plant go though but its better than jail if you cant get a safe spot for it.

GreenMeter · #8 08-02-2009, 08:06 PM

Heres some pics of week week 3 day 1 of flowering.

Sorry for the poor quality pics and low resolution, im in the process of acquiring a real camera to use and not my phone.

I do have one question at this point so far...Half of the top pistils on the budding site towards the top of the plant are turning a purple to dark purple. Is this because of the temperature conditions or because its the strain or posssibly maturing?