My envirolite grow 250w red + 250w blue

so i germinated 9 seeds with 100% sucsess using paper towel method on the 15th of feb they all popped.

so today by plants are 23 days old, below are pics as of 22 days since seed.

there are 6 ak48s and 2 northern lights, at the moment im only using the 250w blue but when i flower il add the red so total would be 500w.

as im just over 3 weeks now im unsure if they are large enough for me to start flowering, any advice / opinions on weather it is showing sex would be great.

heres the pics from yesterday (day22)

looks good man....you can start flowering if you want....

CALIGROWN said:

looks good man....you can start flowering if you want....

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how much bud do you think i would get per plant if i flowered now?

also are they showing any pre flowers yet to determine sex?

Is this your first grow? Because you're doing very well, you have the right soil, right size pots and healthy looking plants, so give yourself a pat on the back. If you are planning on having the 25ow red and 250w blue then I'd say veg for another 2 weeks, but make sure all you plants are getting the same amount of light. Also the light needs to be closer, but not to close else the plants on the edges won't get enough! As for your yield, one can only give a ruff approximation, but I got 25g with 1 200w red and 2x 125w blue, no ventilation, 3l pots, standard soil, vegged for 4 weeks and fucked up the flowering, and repeatedly burnt them. Hope that gives you an idea.

yup this is indeed my 1st grow

hopefully il get a good ratio of ladys, any ideas when they will start to show pre flowers as im unsure how to distinguish between new growth and pistils

whats showing in the pics is new growth right and not pre flowers?

gethigheveryday said:

yup this is indeed my 1st grow

hopefully il get a good ratio of ladys, any ideas when they will start to show pre flowers as im unsure how to distinguish between new growth and pistils

whats showing in the pics is new growth right and not pre flowers?

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Oh so they're bag seed, I'm so used to growing with feminized now I forget about males LOL. There's no way they're showing preflowers at 3 weeks, depending on the strain, you should start to see them after 8 weeks+ veg, or 1/2 weeks into flowering. when they come through you can't miss them, just type in cannabis flowers or something like that into Google and you can see some close up pics. Males usually sex first, and you may want to consider extracting pollen for personal use (which I love) or to strategically pollinate some pistils for seeds. Good luck, I'll be watching.

how much did you pay for the two 250w cfls?

there not bag seeds sorry forgot to mention, they are nirvana northern lights and nirvanna ak48

the cfl's cost me around £40 each

wow 40 euro isnt bad, but in the us thats a lot more.. those look really good, A LOT A LOT better than my first grow looked,

i can not tell you how good the CFL's have been doing for me i run 10 bulbs at 42 watts 2700kelvin (for flowering) 6000 kelvin (for veg) 40000 lumens I like the look of these little girls. be careful using such a high wattage CFL bulb because the lumens per wat go down the higher you go up in watts between 42-60 watts is ideal do the math on lumens per watt before you buy or you will be wasting lots of power for very little lumens you can get good bulbs, hoods and reflectors from this guy he makes hoods to....


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im goin to flower them in the next week or so, only problem is on the 18th of this month i am going away on a business trip for 2 weeks but the gf will be droppin by every 4-5 days to water/change height of lights and kill the males if they show

hopefully she'l manage

i know its not the best times to leave the plants, especially in 1st 2weeks of flowering but theres nothing i can do, i hope they will be ok

Oh dear, I would not like to be in you situation. I went to my mothers for Christmas once for 4 days, came back to find my plants pressed up against the lights burnt like toast. Hope your gf remembers to pop round.

you may want to consider leaving them on veg until you get back from the trip, the plants are going to stretch like mad during the start of flowering and it might be harder for your girlfriend (who may or may not have knowledge on the subject) to handle it.

well the plan was to leave the lights about a foot over the plants, i know its not optimal but it will leave plants room to grow without burning.

updated pics, DAY 24:

They look great. I love those large cfl's.

thanks guys, well i have 6 main plants over just 250watts blue spectrum enviro and my plants are doing ridiculously well!

i have gaven them no nutes so far as im using biobizz all mix soil which has 5% nutes in it.

there growing like an inch a day easy.

im gonna be swapping in the next few days to a 250w red spectrum and change lights to 12/12, then after 2-3 weeks of that im gonna add the blue spectrum 250w and another red spectrum 125w

so total for the last 4-6 weeks of flowering il have 625watts of cfl lighting on no more 6 plants (thats if they all turn female - so more likely just 3 plants)

hopefully that will produce sum bud never seen before by cfl's

so far iv been very happy with my envirolights.

heres updated pics - DAY 27

man can't wait to see the ak48 final outcome.i think i'll order this strain for me.

me 2 man there smellin pretty skunky even though there still in veg

the roots are showing out the bottoms of all the pots so i think that means they have settled in their new pots and its time to flower next few days.

i think there a fairly good size now to put into flower, what do you think?

dunno man. if you got enough height, why not veg them a few more weeks.if you don't - then go ahead.good luck. Peace!!! Cheetah