Cfl grows ww x bb and mystery bean opinions needed on growth

Ok soo im not a complete noob, ive grown in soil indoors and outdoors, not really looking for arguing, i like my little setup, just want to make a grow log showing progress from 1 150w mini lotus since i had a hard time finding info on it, so mystery seed is in a dwc bucket (home made whole setup is pretty ghetto, all homemade with scraps laying around except the bulbs) ,ww x bb will posted later as im still getting the hang of a dwc, before i try more clones yada yada, i do have my baby the ww x bb in a small veg box in soil but plan on running clones out of the dwc, what i have mystery plant in atm, i know she got nute burn 2 days before 12/12 and has been getting some color back, take a look at the pics, using the mini lotus whole lifecycle on both (1 each) ww x bb 1 week old, mystery plant 1 1/2 weeks into 12/12, mystery plant im surprised is still alive, long story but it went bushy as hell considering mom was about 7 feet i lucked out bigtime, more or less wondering if its in schedule with its bloom

The little one will be mom gonna fim and super crop the shit out of her to keep her stuffed with clones, but the dwc is the one i want opinion on

What kind of light is that ? I would keep it as close as possible.

diet coke said:

What kind of light is that ? I would keep it as close as possible.

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Its a 125 w 9500 lumen mini lotus cfl i bought off ebay dual spectrum, in my setup im a little crunched for space so a mh or hps was out of the question because of heat issues, i lowered this light almost down into the canopy and it produces minimal heat so i havent burned anything yet, but this far along i just felt like it cant hurt to ask questions

Ok this is mystery bean in week 4 if flower, it was a clone that i took before i was prepared for growing really so it had a really bad stretch, so in a attempt to slow it down i chopped the main stem at a random spot this was the outcome, shes had multiple issues in her life and is still surprisingly hanging in by the hairs of her chiny chin chin.....

Cool lamp m8 - never seen that one before. As many ppl pointing out in the forum - light is just one of the magic ingredient needed for the ladies.

I think u will be just fine tbh (besides the hard life your lady been trough )

Yea im hoping she turns for the better and not for the worse, had a serious ph problem was waaaaaay high on the alkaline side of things got it down to about 6.0 i think (wont know forsure till ph meter comes), any ideas why she branched out like that, i cut the main stem at a uneven node meaning 1 leaf/branch at the node i cut.

Week 5, not looking too shabby for what shes been through in her life

Still week 5

Ok since this has had a ton of views and hardly any responses i want to ask a question, has any1 had a plant ever develop like this one has? As i previously stated the clone had a terrible stretch at its beginning, which was my fault i had the light waaaay to far away from the plant, so in a desperate attempt to slow growth i attempted to top the plant, but this is the thing, where i topped it, it wasnt exactly where a person normally would, instead of cutting it where there was a "Y" in the stem, or in other words where there are 2 leaf sets and 2 new branches forming, i cut it at a spot where there was just 1 leaflet which caused it to stop dead in its tracks for a main cola, and instead all lower branches shot out and up, but the main stem never branched into 2 it just grew like a menorah instead with a huge open space in the middle of the plant (which actually worked out quite well for me being i use 1 giant cfl bulb) but am wondering if any1 else has ever tried this or even had it happen by accident as i cannot find anything similar anywhere and whether or not it could be a trusted way to continue to grow clones, i kinda like it because i can hang my bulb right into the center of the plant to get the most of my bulb. Any input on this is greatly appreciated.

Tried my best to get some pics of what im talking about but all the foliage and little buds make it hard to see .....

Still trying lol

For god sakes ..... Its really hard to get a photo of what exactly happend.....

Hey Zig, I see you are not getting much of a response. I am by no means an expert, but I can see a few things you might being be doing wrong. (Did you get you ph tester yet?) use it daily! Keep that water around 5.8 - 5.9.

She looks like she has some nute burn. What are you doing with nutes? What ppm?

I think you are going to have algae issues with your bucket. You have a white bucket and it's not wrapped. That bucket sitting naked is letting light into your water.

Yea i did get a ph test kit, its been at about 5.8 - 6.2, and ive been cleaning the bucket about once every 2 weeks, or every time i change/feed, nutes have been a bit of a issue, i was using water soluble mg nutes at about 1/2 strength, for a little while till i received my ff nutes, i had a gallon of hydro nutes i got from a buddy, when i 1st got the clone, unfortunately he mixed it at dbl strength and that is where the nute burn came into play, the nutes i started bloom with were water soluble and i used a mixture of 10/60/10 with 12/18/18 each at half dose for 1 gallon of water for the first 3 weeks, its a 4 gallon bucket but i use about 2 1/2 - 3 gallons of water so i figured id go light on them once again, which actually seemed to do better during bloom than the ff has so far, itll be the start of week 6 on wednesday and progress slowed considerably after i started the ff.

Its ff big bloom 0.01/0.3/0.7 btw

I would defiantly use more aluminum foil, thats the key to good indoor growing..........................

Yea im waiting for this plant to get done flowering, i have diamond mylar now, the box its in now was originally gonna be a veg box, i read somewhere before that alot of "blue" promoted more females, but i decided to just bite the bullet and order feminized seeds instead, those will be the next round in the box and the mylar will be in with a full ventilation system, the blue that u see in the pics is floating floor underlayment i used because it has a plastic layer on it (kinda reflective?), and in the winter itll provide a little more insulation for the boxs temp, i will also be running 2 possibly 3 of these bulbs for bloom on my next batch but am trying to take it kinda slow for now till i know how many clones i can run at once in there if i just go from maybe a week or 2 of veg and straight into bloom in that space. Considering a hps but they run so hot i dont know if i dare to in that space it about 2.5' x 2.5' x5'

My vents are 4" running from 2 boxes into 1 line with a 4" inline duct fan at the connect of both lines, but really doesnt seem to make much of a draft inside the boxs, however i havent got them fully installed atm, just did a little trial run one day before i got slammed on my work schedule and just havent had the time to get it done since, i figure by the time this plant is done, work will have slowed down and deer season will be over, i should have adequate time by then to make my mods to the cabs and get things going in full swing

Ok update time i ph'd the water last night to a even 6.0 1/2 rain water 1/2 tap thinking she still had about 1-2 weeks left before harvest but i got my loupe today and this is what i found, how much of a dark period should i give ger before chopping her?