First time grower...Tent, Hydro, LED/CFL combo. Thanks for any advice.

just switched the 4 pot hydro to flower last night...gonna move it into the tent in about 3 weeks...too excited...1st ever buds incoming

1st grow, learned much...thank you everyone!! The next 20 gallon, one tote, 3 strains, from seed, led, hydro in the veg room goes into the tent in 3-4 weeks.

Nice man did you harvest?

Yodaweed said:

Nice man did you harvest?

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not quite yet...need advice yoda...let me know when to chop. I have a magnifying glass to look for milky trichomes...thank you

post a pic of your buds when you think your near harvest time I can give my opinion

Yodaweed said:

post a pic of your buds when you think your near harvest time I can give my opinion

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Getting there...what do you guys think? Flushing last 3 days...gonna crop any day. The blue dream is a 5 month grow...she is beast! @GroErr help please! thanks everyone...first grow, learned so much...I am blooming aurora og, cheesey smurf, and another blue dream so stay tuned for my 2nd grow!

Hey Darth, looks good but it can go longer imo, hairs aren't mature, there's frost but not ready to chop. I'd say another couple of weeks if you can keep it going. Try and get some pics in natural light, those LED pics are hard to read the trichs.

K, going to keep it going. Thank you buddy

Groerr is right, you will see a change in your plant, all those white hairs will recede and turn orange/brown/pink/purple and your buds will grow in size and density by quite a bit. Usually last 2 weeks are the most important for the plant when it comes to density and weight gain. Looks good tho keep up the good work!

The veg room now has one Aurora OG and one Cheesey Smurf. The other Aurora and blue dream were male. The mama in flower is still going great. Thanks for the advice to keep her going until more fresh heads.

Yodaweed said:

Groerr is right, you will see a change in your plant, all those white hairs will recede and turn orange/brown/pink/purple and your buds will grow in size and density by quite a bit. Usually last 2 weeks are the most important for the plant when it comes to density and weight gain. Looks good tho keep up the good work!

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Thx yoda and groerr...I'm trying to decide when to flush...Hydroponics is fun for a first grow. Definitely need a RDWC system on the next one. The main problem in my first grow was feeding that beast mama plant a gallon a day of water/nutes. She vegged for 3 months so I think that is why she is taking so long to finish. I also did not PH properly. Used RO water the entire time but exchanging the rez was a challenge. This is also the main reason why I must use recycling deep water culture next time

The LED is actually more light than necessary. Draws 300w but is definitely throwing off great spectrum. I will supplement cfl bulbs next week on the baby mothers. This is fun!!

Cheesey smurf and Aurora OG are female. In bloom now and looking good...It's gonna be awesome when I transfer next week.

Update and seeing trichomes!!! smiling Blue dream takes forever but totally ok with that

Cheers

That's getting better DbA, to me, you are still a couple of weeks away?

Tazbud said:

That's getting better DbA, to me, you are still a couple of weeks away?

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I will wait...I thought I was close but trust your opinion for sure. Thank you

Most people seem to wait till over 50-60-70% red trichomes (by view, I use a cheap loupe and usually just cut when definitely more are dying than new growing). The upside is that your BD do actually look like they are bulking up so yer, maybe just a slow finish (iv'e not grown blue dream, euro beans for me!) You may even have a few weeks, it tends to take at least a couple from no red to 50% (iv'e found).. and you don't seem to have any red? Well worth holding off as they pump up much of the yeild in the last weeks. Looking good though, at least they are movin along.

The info you provided is awesome. I will keep it going and post updates every couple days. Thank you again.