3rd CFL micro grow

23 days and she is now fimmed!


Or maybe topped, who knows
She's quite a big girl already, looks healthy, hopefully she'll recover fast and bloom strong!

27 days
She looks really good and healthy.


And I guess to fim was the right decision. She's getting bushier


However there is still no signs of flower!


Now only giving her 11 hours of light and thinking about giving maybe 10. Gonna switch to bloom nutrients, and water her with a slightly colder water to try and force her into flower

30 days
So still no signs of flowering.


I put her in darkness for 24+ hours, but it didn't seem to do anything. Guess, I'll just have to wait until she decides it is time.
Gonna be switching to the bloom nutrients, and cold water in a couple of days. Soil is still moist from previous watering.

Will be watching those mofos really closely:

Did you change your spectrum when you switched into flower

superbak3d said:

Did you change your spectrum?

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No, but there are mostly "warm white", aka reddish, cfls.
Also she's been in 12/12 from the start, I didn't plan for veg at all.
Will be ordering me a LED pannel, but the shipping will probably take forever...

a plant wont start floweribg until it reaches its mature point, has your plabt reach maturity ?

growpie said:

has your plabt reach maturity ?

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Usually "mature" means ready to harvest...what do you mean? how could one differintiate mature point?

usually a plant mature when the nodes start to alternate, instead of growing in pairs, if u start from clones its usually mature already because its taken of a mature plant ( a nice advantage ), anyway its takes about 3 to 4 weeks from sprout to mature but may be subject to change if plant is tromatised, stunt, etc.

37 days
Finally some news! It looks like first signs of pre-flower


I don't know what helped her, but I did put her in the darknes for a day and a half, I watered her with cold water and switched to the bloom nutes. Maybe it's just a coincidence and she would have showed the same progress even without any manipulation.

Anyway, she looks good and green. Those wierd leaves are from my FIM attempt.
I guess now I know why FIM has that name as you can clearly see - I missed.


That does not really matter. Just wanted to try something new. I will soon begin LST her and at some point put in a SRCoG.

nice ! and to give you an answer sometimes putting a plant in dark for 24h forces maturity to start, i think its a plant survival instinct if i remember correctly

but no it doesn't work in 100% of cases though

Second week of flowering is over.
Here are some pics from yesterday

And ine of the lower branches


Giving her full strength BioBloom, at it's the only thing she gets beside water.
Water generally once a week.

Got my screen back in, gonna try to maximize the usage of the space I have.

25 days flowering
Tha main cola:

One of the smaller colas:

Top view:


Overall she seems good and healthy. Givinging her BioBloom only, every feeding , about once a week or so.

28 days flowering
So this finaly came:
http://ebay.com/itm/Hydroponic-130W-UFO-LED-Grow-Light-Full-Spectrum-Indoor-Plants-Lamp-Panel-Kits-

And this is how it looks now:


Not long left to go