Hey guys, aint posted in a long time been loving my harvest from my first lowryder grow, question is:

My first attempt I grew under a 400W HPS at a very high electricity cost, got an ounce yeild and an awesome smoke but...

The second time round I went and bought myself 3 125W CFL lamps, 2 red spectrum 1 blue spectrum. I've been vegging this lowryder under my Blue Spectrum for 15 days now and it's only 45mm tall...

however the plant itself looks really healthy, it's got a mass of leaves but no branches splitting off as of yet... i think i've counted about 17 small leaves on this 15 day old plant, my lights are 2 inches away from the top...

Any ideas, but should these plants be bigger than they are? or is it just healthy and soon enough they'll shoot up...?

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you should get your red spectrum lights on now!! lowryders have an extremely short veg stage. you can keep lr purely on red as they go almost instantly to flowering

Hiya Paul

What an earth possesed you to bother with lowryder when there are way better strains out there for less money? Weird, I just fail to see people's attraction to lowryder.

The answer to your question lies in your question - you've switched from a 400w HPS to a 125w blue enviro - you're going to get slower growth for a number of reasons - 1) you're getting less light, 2) the blue enviro is primarily blue in spectrum which will keep internodes short 3) red light causes more stretching between the internodes.

With a 125w blue Enviro you'll always get slower growth than your 400w HPS.

I wouldn't sweat it though, lowryder will start flowering when it's chronologically ready to start flowering and that's when you can switch in the 2 red Enviros.

For your next grow check out White Satin from Mandala - low odour, low light requirements, heat resistance, easy to grow, finishes in about 50 days flowering. Would knock Lowryder into a cocked hat.

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No he shoudn't.

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Hi, "moinas"

Need some advise on the Lowrider #2...if possible...
1-How I distinguish a male from a female?
2-Should the females be separate from the males’ ones? When?
3- I read somewhere that the right time to cut and put to dry is when the buds (or leaves?) are getting brown red colour, is this correct?
4 – Till the buds start to appear, the correct light to use is the 6400k and then we should switch to the 2700k, right?

Thanks for your help,

3 x 125watt cfls use only 25 watts less electricity than the 400watt hps so seems a very small reduction in power costs,
not that im one to talk, im using a 300watt cfl instead of the 600watt hps lol,

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I have a question regarding the auto flowering strains and the spectrum they require???
I just don't seem to be able to get a definitive answer...

Blue for veg, Red for flower.. I understand this... but with an autoflower.. they dont have a veg state really at all.... so no need for the blue?

They come into flower automatically.... so do you need the red light?

It says 24/0.... or 20/4 like you would with a veg state in a normal strain... so that leads me to beleive it needs a blue light...?

So whats the deal... auto's need red all through the cycle or blue??? Or both just like normal plants?

Cheers!

just got a variety pack of 20 lowryder seeds. if i got i grew them in a pots below the windowsill would that be sufficient light

In my experience with lowryders strains, they require as many lumens as possible!

Whether it be strong sunlight, CFL or HID... the key is as much as possible....

I imagine it is summer in the US now... so as long as they get a fair bit of light on the window sil ... you will be laughing

I really think that if you want to grow lowriders the best way to go is in a vertical grow system. The plants are so small you could get 150 to 200 plants in a 4' , 4' , 7' grow area.

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