Week 8 Flower- plenty of pics +++CFL+++ first time

SEXWAX

Active Member
We are now in week 8 of flowering and they girls are looking nice.

SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE SEEN A "VERY" SIMILAR POST TO THIS IN THE GENERAL GROWING SECTION & OR NEWBIE CENTRAL. There are a few folks out there in RIU that feel putting duplicate posts in different areas is bad, I get it, but I also would like to expand my options as far as I can go, cover all my bases per se. I have gotten nothing but quality knowledge and awesome useful advice and comments from many users, so why not keep it up. Sorry to to those who I may offend by doing this. These posts may be similar IN INFO PROVIDED FOR VIEWERS but not identical in appearance so technically I am abiding by the rules. Thanks guys

I used:
-FF ocean forrest soil
- 3 Gal pots straight from 16 oz solo cups (only one transplant)

VEGGIN'- Fox farm's- grow big, worm castings, liquid seaweed, banana mana (banana extract nute for veg), Pearlite, vermiculite, high nitrogen Peruvian seabird guano 10-10-2 , and Hard water (h20 we set out for days prior to use)

FLOWERIN'- Fox Farm's tiger bloom, big bloom, Cont w/ some liquid seaweed, Molasses, High Phos Jamaican bat guano 1-10-0.2, and hard water

++ A few things I have that I did not end up using: Epsom salt, liquid lime, Happy Frog fruit and flower fert 5-8-4, organic Blood meal 12-0-0 & Bone meal 6-9-0, Algamin Kelp meal, Terrycycle liquid plant food.

Temps- range from 72-80, stays closer to 75/77 mostly.
Humidity- ranges from 20-24%, usually stays at 21/22%
Drops accordingly during dark periods and humidity rises slightly.

Using 23-26w cfls and 2-42w cfls soft white (all 2700k), I know its alot but they are evenly distributed around plant at all levels. The larger two, one over each plant. Not super amazing light penetration, but they grew just shy of 4ft doing this. While veggin' I only had 8-26w bright whites (5000k) So in flowering we got a couple more.

I Vegged for 2 months using 24/0 and got some mad bushes. Since then they grew tall yet bushy.

I am trying to get a better camera so I can zoom better to give you guys a better bud shot. As of now the mystery dank is about 85% amber pistils and the ram/sensi is closer to 65/70%. I want to get a pocket 10x or 25x microscope so i can use the trichs to know when to chop em.

The beauty is that most of this was free so not a strain on the pockets, and why pay to upgrade when it cost nothing.

Buds are a good size so far, Used the lighter for size comp, and that is the smallest top out of any of the tops from either plant. On both plants, it is budding down pretty far too, maybe a foot or so.

In a few of the pics there is purple coming in to the fan leaves, (looks kinda red in pics but is for sure a bright nice purp) Why is this? Temps and Humidity are great.

What the good word folks? What do you guys think about my ladies at week 8.
 

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RON916

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wow...very nice ...ill be postin sumthing real soon about my girls ... let me ask u when did u water them ???
 

SEXWAX

Active Member
Every other day, and every other watering is a feeding. When we started using liquid concentrates we introduced them at 1/4 strength and gradually went up. Also judge by weight, if it was the night before a watering day and the pot was super light or wilty, we gave the girls some water.
 

headworm

Member
What fantastic looking colas from CFLs! I am very impressed. Bet that rooms gets warm running that many globes?
 

SEXWAX

Active Member
Stays from 69 lowest and 79 highest. we have good circulate and the design of our living arrangements helps air flow. Yea I hope this encourages cfl users. thanks buddy
 

SEXWAX

Active Member
vegged with 8 bright white 5000K 26w cfls and flowered with 23- 26w and 2- 42 w soft white 2700K cfls. You could use way less but we had them so we just covered the plants.
 

mikey136

Member
I can vouch for cfls i have seen them produce nice buds they are a little fluffy but the plant produced a good yield for 5 house hold energy saving bulbs. al try n get some pics of that plant up sometime.
 
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