First Grow (midgrade) CFL and sunlight

Started this kind of as a joke with a buddy but kept it going after it started to look nice. Started Germinating 10/2 and started flowering 11/29. Im growing it in Miracle Grow potting mix with fert. Ive heard to stay away from it but its worked well thus far and I didnt know any better when I started.

Up until last week its only source of light was direct sun light. I work nights so Im able to move it around throughout the day. Last week I purchased 3 40w cfl's and have been running those from the time I lose sunlight until I put her to bed. I was watering every day up until 11/25 and now Im watering every 2-3 days.

Only problems so far are a few leaf tips have yellowed slightly, the stems seem thin, and I burned one fan leaf with a cfl. Let me know how you guys think its looking so far and where I should go from here.

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First thing how can I get m,y pics to show up as thumbnails instead of the full pic?

And second should I be putting my plant in the direct sunlight as much as possible or should I stick to the cfls?'

I would say pick sun light or cfls, but after looking at how nice your plant is doing i would say just keep up the good work the only way to truly know is to try it yourslef.

Thanks for the response. Been having our first few cloudy days out here lately so thats why I ask which method I should be focusing on.

Overall growth has slowed since weve had these cloudy days but bud production is looking good

you guys got any input? Ill have some new pics up later today. How do I post them as thumbnails?

beautiful plant man, i just started my first grow myself, for the thins stems have you tried having a fan on it constantly i started doing that and my plants are a lot stronger even at how small they are. just an idea

and the burning could be from the aluminum foil not the light i hear that a lot

Thanks yea Ive since ditched the foil and picked up a fan. Should I keep the fan on during its dark period also?

Also picked up a bottle of Fox Farm Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom. Should these 2 suffice though out flowering?

Updated Pics: these were taken 12-8-08

Ill start with the Tiger Grow and Big Bloom either tomorrow or the next day.

New pics taken today 12/11

Added a half dose of tiger bloom and big bloom this morning. Had 2 more 3-prong bottom leaves yellow and fall off today and 2 more 5-prong are starting to yellow. Im hoping the nutes will solve this before they get too bad.

Anybody know what the red stems indicate, if anything?

And should I keep the fan going during its 12 hours of dark or give the plant a break?

bump... any input guys and gals???

alota ppl say keep the fans runing all the time so it replicates wind and makes the stems stronger bigger stems = bigger buds

was that from like mids brick like flat buds or just sum alright lookin stuff

i hear reddish stems are a ph defichiecy gahh thats way off on grammer lol but ya i hear you can look it up if i wrong a drop or so of vinager can fix that problem but post b4 you try anything in not 100% i was kinda blazed atm lol

Honestly Im not sure what it is. To start I planted a handful of stress seeds and a couple kush and chronic seeds and from there I got about 6 plants. 2 are mine and 4 are my moms. I wasnt taking this whole thing very serious until its 3rd week so I wasnt paying very close attention.

I kept the fans on all night last night though. A little noisy but I made it through the night.

The plant seems to have stopped growing height wise as soon as I induced budding. It was putting on about an inch a day in height in veg. The last 2 weeks I think its grown an inch or two. Hopefully these nutes will help.

boneyshapeye said:

i hear reddish stems are a ph defichiecy gahh thats way off on grammer lol but ya i hear you can look it up if i wrong a drop or so of vinager can fix that problem but post b4 you try anything in not 100% i was kinda blazed atm lol

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thanks for the help. I hadnt ph'd thmy water until I did a flush 2 night ago. I had been using straight tap before that and we have very hard water out here. Ill pick up another test.

thanks man

np man im just going on what i hear im still fairly new 2 this im not 100% on that its the ph what im goin on now purple steams are 2 cool and red are a ph again im not 100%

boneyshapeye said:

np man im just going on what i hear im still fairly new 2 this im not 100% on that its the ph what im goin on now purple steams are 2 cool and red are a ph again im not 100%

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much appreciated. I started a new thread in the Plant Problems section so hopefully a few more people will chime in.

So today my brothers buddy came home from the Army and brought over a 600w HPS with hood ballasts etc and said I could use it until I was done. I know this is major over kill for a single plant but I figure I could run it maybe half the time to keep down on the electric bill.

Im growing in a closet maybe 3x8x6 and I need to make sure this wont bake my plant. I have a fan blowing right on the light and another on the plant. Should I be ok or would I need to make a cool tube to make it work?

New pics taken this morning 12/13

Added a full dose of tiger bloom and a half dose of big bloom this morning. Hopefully I can save those 2 bottom leaves. The HPS is about 2.5' from the plant.