Purple widow CFL indoors

Tiny2348 · Jan 30, 2008

Hey guys its my first time doing a journal and my second indoor grow. hope it all goes well.

Iv planted 3 purple widow and 4 bagseed inside
and 10 bagseed outside

Im cooking under 500w cfl bulbs and growing in some good soil/compost.

will get pics on tonight.

the widowman · Jan 30, 2008

i thought purple widow was only a outdoor and hates indoor growing conditions. il keep a eye on this grow as iam looking to grow p.widow soon myself.

Tiny2348 · Jan 31, 2008

Day 3 and they have started to shoot up and very fast. just need to get them under me 500w cfl and they will be sorted.

heres a few pics.

any input is welcome

Tiny

Tiny2348 · Feb 1, 2008

day 4 the purple widow has just come through. :mrgreen:

ru8fru · Feb 1, 2008

Lower that light homie, their falling over from being so stretched... dont wanna loose the purply goodness

UserFriendly · Feb 1, 2008

it won't matter how close you get that light to the plants. red light = stretch. you need to get a fan on them and then crank it up after they are a bit stronger. adding blue will help a lot. i hope you plan to do a proper journal. i'm excited to see the end product.

ru8fru · Feb 1, 2008

Hmm well I used red light through all of my veg and I didnt have that issue... But the hortilux does produce some blues.

Hillbilly420 · Feb 1, 2008

Looks like your using a seed starting soil... you may need to get some potting soil so that you don't have drainage issues, root rot, etc... its not too late. and you'll need to put the stem down in the dirt to where theres only about an inch of stem sticking out of the soil.

Tiny2348 · Feb 2, 2008

sorry lads it was my fault with them stretching,
They didnt have proper light for 3 days but they have just been put under a 500w blue spectrum bulb they should be ok now,
there is a fan next to them but you cant see it in the pics.

the plants that are stretched are bagseeds. the smaller plants in bigger pots are purple widow.

i will keep this journal going right to the end.

Thanks for the help guys peace :peace:

Tiny2348 · Feb 2, 2008

also the soil is cacti soil has great drainage and it worked fine on my last grow.

KingOfBud · Feb 2, 2008

As long as it has no time release crap, and has a good pH level. You will be fine. Plants are streching bad, just putting in an extra bulb wont help, they will all stretch towards that bulb. You need a few more, even some 20watt cfl's placed about will do the trick.

Tiny2348 · Feb 2, 2008

the reason why they were stretching is because they went under a 20w cfl for 3 days so they stretched like mad. my grow room still had a plant in ready for cropping.
now that it has been cropped these have gone into the grow room and are now under some proper light.

Tiny2348 · Feb 7, 2008

Day 10
Hi guys bit of an update and will get pics on tonight.

they are getting bigger now but some of them have brown spots on the leaves a bit like nute burn.
my soil ph is 6.8 and i have not added any nutes yet also the soil doesnt contain any slow release nutes.
i have just added 2x new lights 4foot fluorescent daylight bulbs to the grow room

any suggestions on the brown spots and i will get some pics on tonight

MuntantLizzard · Feb 7, 2008

I get some spots from time to time, It can be from a number of things like nutes, but you said you havent added any. lights can burn too but I dont think thats your issue if they are not too close anyway. How are your Temps? Do you have Bugs? Bugs under the soil are hard to spot!

shadymyster555 · Feb 7, 2008

Yeah, I am actually going to order purple widow, being as it is a vigorous plant as is wel suited for outdoor cultivation. On any website under their seed description it clearly states do not use for indoor! I am curious as to how this will pan out. P.S. they can grow to a height of over 11 feet if outdoors : ) It seems like one of those sweet ass strains that will flourish outdoors but not work indoors... keep us updated with pics..

Tiny2348 · Feb 7, 2008

no bugs for sure. but it could be the lights after someone told me to lower them but they dont get too hot.
the room temp is around 75-80 f

Tiny2348 · Feb 7, 2008

shadymyster555 said:
Yeah, I am actually going to order purple widow, being as it is a vigorous plant as is wel suited for outdoor cultivation. On any website under their seed description it clearly states do not use for indoor! I am curious as to how this will pan out. P.S. they can grow to a height of over 11 feet if outdoors : ) It seems like one of those sweet ass strains that will flourish outdoors but not work indoors... keep us updated with pics..

well they say it wont grow indoors but il give anything a try. i ordered them in a hurry and then read that they were for outside,
a bit gutted but here goes.

MuntantLizzard · Feb 7, 2008

Well Outdoor is the way to go! around here anyways..Good luck

Tiny2348 · Feb 7, 2008

here are the pics guys. any help on the brown spots :peace:

the widowman · Feb 7, 2008

Tiny2348 said:
here are the pics guys. any help on the brown spots

its a outdoor plant p.widow so you've got a bit of heat stress. get a fan on them. :joint:

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