first indoor grow/420 harvest using cfl/hps lots of pics!

hey whats up people this is my first indoor grow well i didnt have a digi to take pics when i started but heres where im at

i started with 8 bagseeds
out of 8 i got
-2 crappy plants so i killed them
-2 males i killed 1and might keep the other for pollen not sure yet

and 4 beautiful girls

had them in veg for 4 weeks
now im 2 weeks into flowering

also i have 2 lowryder #2 about 2 1/2 weeks in

ok so i started of with 6-26w 6500k cfls for veg and switched to 4-26w 2700k cfls and 2-26w 6500k cfls for the past 2 weeks to start flowering and im waiting for my new 150w hps to come in from htgsupplies

ok so i am limited to grow area for now so im working with a 3' x 3' x 1' grow area for now till i get my grow tent later

ok i know my plants are a little small for there age but i started the grow with just dirt, seeds and crapy lighting and bought all the stuff along the way also i didnt use nutes for the veg cuz like i said i bought everything along the way buy now i got everything i need but my hps light

heres what i got going
for my nutes i use GH flora grow,micro, and bloom also i got the GH floraliciuos

i got some soil from homedepot with time release nutes (which i fount out is not the greatest idea)

in the grow room i got black and white poly (heard it was better and a lot easier to maintain than mylar)

got a 6" fan to move around and cool down the air
- also got one 4" inlet
and one 4" outlet

temps are between 75 and 85 is this bad or
good

also i did some lst on the plants
next time im trying scrog

ummm thats all i can remember right now but heres some pics all comments, suggestions, ideas, and thoughts are welcomed

# 1 is mystery-girl
# 2 is latebloomer-girl
# 3 is twisty-girl
# 4 shorty-guy im decideing wether to keep or kill
# 5 skinny-girl

nobody?????

Great pic quality.
They all look good so far to me.
Until you get a hps or some pro cfls you will only ever get fairly small plants with standard home cfl lighting unless you veg them for a long time.
All the nutes in the world wont matter unless you can provide them with intense light to photosynthesise the nutes your providing.
Best of luck with them,i will keep watching.

natmoon said:

Great pic quality.
They all look good so far to me.
Until you get a hps or some pro cfls you will only ever get fairly small plants with standard home cfl lighting unless you veg them for a long time.
All the nutes in the world wont matter unless you can provide them with intense light to photosynthesise the nutes your providing.
Best of luck with them,i will keep watching.

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thanks for checking out my grow and yea i found out the hard way that just regular cfls wont work that well so i ordered my 150w hps for my little grow room it gets here wensday so cant wait till then

also the 150w hps is only 14"x10"x5" (LxWxH) thiers enough room in there for 2 lights, do you think that overkill 300w together for 4 plants

oh yea forgot to mention the light has glass in front of it and an exaust on the top to suck out the hot air so heat wont be a problem

thanks

jdmlove said:

thanks for checking out my grow and yea i found out the hard way that just regular cfls wont work that well so i ordered my 150w hps for my little grow room it gets here wensday so cant wait till then

also the 150w hps is only 14"x10"x5" (LxWxH) thiers enough room in there for 2 lights, do you think that overkill 300w together for 4 plants

oh yea forgot to mention the light has glass in front of it and an exaust on the top to suck out the hot air so heat wont be a problem

thanks

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Nah the more light the better to a certain extent anyway.
Its really more about making sure that you can exhaust the excess heat from your area.
If you want great results and large buds you will need at least a 400 watt hps lamp imo.

I use a dual spectrum 400 watt hps lamp and compliment it with 2 cool blue fluorescent shop light tubes.
I believe this gives better weed and use both spectrum's of light all the way through my grow.

So to sum up 1000 watts of hps wouldn't be overkill and if it was mine and i could afford more light i would buy it

natmoon said:

Nah the more light the better to a certain extent anyway.
Its really more about making sure that you can exhaust the excess heat from your area.
If you want great results and large buds you will need at least a 400 watt hps lamp imo.

I use a dual spectrum 400 watt hps lamp and compliment it with 2 cool blue fluorescent shop light tubes.
I believe this gives better weed and use both spectrum's of light all the way through my grow.

So to sum up 1000 watts of hps wouldn't be overkill and if it was mine and i could afford more light i would buy it

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if only i could fit a 400w in there i would be happy, to bad the affordable 400w hps are to wide for my grow area and i looked for a 400w cooltube so that i would fit in there but its out of my buget right now

good thing is i already have people asking me to sell them some bud for 420 hopfully ill make enough money for my new lights and and new grow tent iv been wanting to buy hehehe ill probably still have a good amount left over for personal use


by the way do you know any good strains(big yeilding strains/ high thc level) that are good for scrog i plan on doing a scrog grow after this grow and would like to get a head start and actually get everything before i start the grow not like this one that i bought everything i needed along the way i learned the hard way that thats not a good idea

thanks

jdmlove said:

if only i could fit a 400w in there i would be happy, to bad the affordable 400w hps are to wide for my grow area and i looked for a 400w cooltube so that i would fit in there but its out of my buget right now

good thing is i already have people asking me to sell them some bud for 420 hopfully ill make enough money for my new lights and and new grow tent iv been wanting to buy hehehe ill probably still have a good amount left over for personal use


by the way do you know any good strains(big yeilding strains/ high thc level) that are good for scrog i plan on doing a scrog grow after this grow and would like to get a head start and actually get everything before i start the grow not like this one that i bought everything i needed along the way i learned the hard way that thats not a good idea

thanks

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Not that i have tried it but i have been hearing good things about this strains yields vs high %
Obviously for commercial purposes and not for your own private stashbox
http://www.nirvana-shop.com/northern-light-p-54.html

natmoon said:

Not that i have tried it but i have been hearing good things about this strains yields vs high %
Obviously for commercial purposes and not for your own private stashbox
http://www.nirvana-shop.com/northern-light-p-54.html

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dam that strain looks good and tasty
ive been looking at this one for a while now but im not sure let me know what you think about it http://www.nirvana-shop.com/jock-horror-p-47.html

also heres a few others im looking at
i think these are a good mix between yield, flavor. and potency

http://www.goldenseed.co.uk/gs/jackdiesel.html

http://www.goldenseed.co.uk/gs/goldenmoon.html

http://www.goldenseed.co.uk/para/sativaspirt.html

http://www.goldenseed.co.uk/gs/purplewreck.html

They are all great strains.
The one i suggested was just for a good toke with maximum yield of 550 grams.
Really you should choose whatever one you have your heart set on growing as that is the one that you will do the best job on

natmoon said:

They are all great strains.
The one i suggested was just for a good toke with maximum yield of 550 grams.
Really you should choose whatever one you have your heart set on growing as that is the one that you will do the best job on

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yea maybe ill just try a few seeds of each and grow them all the same way and see which ones works best for me and my setup

dam theres a lot of views on my thread and no post???? whats going on lol oh well
well if anybodys reading any comments, suggestions, questions thoughts are all welcomed i would like to hear what people think about my grow and any ways to improve

jdmlove said:

dam theres a lot of views on my thread and no post???? whats going on lol oh well
well if anybodys reading any comments, suggestions, questions thoughts are all welcomed i would like to hear what people think about my grow and any ways to improve

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Once you get some good pics on the go people will come.
Post some new pics every day and people will come in eventually.
Try to do some good close ups if you can.
There are so many threads here its unreal,ive been here for quite a while and i still meet new people nearly every day that i never met before that have been here longer than me

natmoon said:

Once you get some good pics on the go people will come.
Post some new pics every day and people will come in eventually.
Try to do some good close ups if you can.
There are so many threads here its unreal,ive been here for quite a while and i still meet new people nearly every day that i never met before that have been here longer than me

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lol yea i will post up more pics every 2 days or when i see new growth hehe yea im trying to get better pics but im still trying to learn how to use my new digi

lol yea i know theres a lot of people i went to the rollitup members page and got dam 1000+ pages of members

Looking good bro, too bad ya cant go for the 400w'er . You'll still finish up smiling though , SeemoreBuds has an awesome book using about 6CFL's, 3 plants produced 8oz. Theres power in CFLs for smaller grows if you know how to use them. +rep for "twistygirl" lol

Jeffdogg said:

Looking good bro, too bad ya cant go for the 400w'er . You'll still finish up smiling though , SeemoreBuds has an awesome book using about 6CFL's, 3 plants produced 8oz. Theres power in CFLs for smaller grows if you know how to use them. +rep for "twistygirl" lol

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thanks for checking out my grow and dam 8oz from 6 cfls got dam wtf am i doing wrong lol well it takes experience to get everything the way you want it, and i got a lot of years to go hehe

yea hopefully for my next grow ill have my grow tent and i can get my 400w'er

jdmlove said:

thanks for checking out my grow and dam 8oz from 6 cfls got dam wtf am i doing wrong lol well it takes experience to get everything the way you want it, and i got a lot of years to go hehe

yea hopefully for my next grow ill have my grow tent and i can get my 400w'er

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hahahaha yes yes yes my new hps is here im so happy the plants love it and the room looks beautiful hehe well heres some new pics of the plants and the new light 150w hps i have enough room for another so i think i might get it and add it in there to

top of twisty



new light set up 150w hps kinda wierd my cfl's put out way more heat than the 150w'er













and heres some pics of my lowyder









and heres my ladys lowryder its about a week and a half behind mine hehe





and here are the low low in there little grow box for now

heres a good looking pic
well i hope you guys like the new pics

ill post up new pics every 3 days

helloooo nobody wants to at least talk crap about it lol just playing but seriously guys show me some love hehe

Great detailed pics.
Plants are looking nice and healthy.
Hopefully those buds will start to explode now you've got that hps light on them.
I will keep looking in and so will others once they know your here.
Half the prob is no one notices new threads unless you make yourself noticed

natmoon said:

Great detailed pics.
Plants are looking nice and healthy.
Hopefully those buds will start to explode now you've got that hps light on them.
I will keep looking in and so will others once they know your here.
Half the prob is no one notices new threads unless you make yourself noticed

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thanks for the compliments
and yea ive just been going into threads and starting to talk alot more
yea its only been a day since i put the new light in and got dam i can tell the plants are loving it they all look like they at least grew 1-2 inches im so happy but dam i keep checking in on them and keep finding out that im not going to be able to smoke them till 420
but oh well by then they will be dried, and they will at least be 3 weeks cured that will make them really tasty and potent

jdmlove said:

thanks for the compliments
and yea ive just been going into threads and starting to talk alot more
yea its only been a day since i put the new light in and got dam i can tell the plants are loving it they all look like they at least grew 1-2 inches im so happy but dam i keep checking in on them and keep finding out that im not going to be able to smoke them till 420
but oh well by then they will be dried, and they will at least be 3 weeks cured that will make them really tasty and potent

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Try making the link to your journal as your signature so that people can just click on it when they see your posts