1st Grow With CFLs

askiba

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Strain: Big Bud X Skunk #1
Plants: 3 (hopeful) females from feminized seeds
Lighting: 1x 125W 6500k CFL and (soon) 6x 42w CFLs
I am just now starting a grow log 3.5 weeks in.

Day 5:

No pics, but the plants starting sprouting about 3 days from seed.

Day 6:

My cat killed one of my 4 plants, by knocking ALL of them over, soil spilled everywhere, it was tragic.

Here are the 3 survivors.

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Day 10:

I planted the jiffy cups into 2 gallon pots. They have got a little bigger in the last 4 days. We now clearly see the serrated leaves! But I think my plants have gotten some heat stress, or soil issue, still haven't figured out what causes this.

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Day 13:

They are really starting to take off. However still having soil/heat issues.

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Day 19:

Upgraded to a grow tent. Still growing at a good pace. What is up with the leaves!?

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Day 22:

Getting bigger by the day, it's hard to tell if you stare at them every day.
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askiba

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Here is Day 26

Watered them and gave them 1/2 strength liquid karma. They are really outgrowing that light. It might be enough for 2 plants right now, but not 3. My 6 CFLs should get here tomorrow I hope.

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askiba

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Aight so heres a big update, I've got a flowering light now, and wanted to jump into a perpetual grow, so I have moved one of the three away from her sisters in my closet to be a mother :D, and I am taking clones, no clone machine yet, def. plan on getting it cause I don't expect all the clones I take to even root, I don't know what I am doing just a newbie trying to copy everyone else.

Day 31 - The plant I designated to be a mother - FIM'd recently

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4 cuttings - Not sure if I'm doing it right, haha.
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Flowering Room -The light I built myself it has 4 42w CFL 2700k so that's 168 watts I think.

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Uh oh, plant sickness!? Heat stress?!


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askiba

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I dunno yet, outside temps here are like 100+ and I am lucky to get the grow room down to 88 with those cfls.
 

MellowHaze

Active Member
there lookin awesome :) get some plant rooting hormone powder clean the cliping ends and dab it in the rooting powder an put it in some water in a non see through glass/beaker so no light gets to the roots :) they should start rooting then pop them in a pot with soil all sorted :bigjoint:
 

askiba

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I got a liquid rooting compound with 4 clones sitting in cubes they seem to be keeping healthy.
Anyone know when I will be able to see their female parts? :lol:
 

MellowHaze

Active Member
sweet man should be alright then :) im not sure wen they'll start showin sex from clone but if the plant you cloned them off is a female then so will they :bigjoint:
 

askiba

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well I dumped those clones, cause I learned that I have to keep them in the rooting liquid for at least a minute but i only dipped them for a second and the bottoms of the stems were black and showed no roots at all so i started over with just 1 clone
 

askiba

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I am gonna gather some pics soon they have been growing well! I just wanted to share that I managed to reduce temps in my tent down to 82F using a home-made contraption, with an intake fan and exhaust fan which circulate air through ice water. it works quite well and the water stays cool for several hours.
 
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