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Im in the flowering stage of my 1st grow. Ive had a few problems along the way but have been able to get by. The biggest was losing a 3ft plant that was beginning to sprout real nice looking buds. Im using a homemade hydro system that resembles some of the ones made out of rubbermaid bins with a water pump and air pump in the reservoir and the plants in baskets cut into the top of the bin. Im growing Blue Cheese and The Kali. Im about 5-6weeks in but still have alot of white pistils on some of my biggest buds. Ive been using advanced nutrients, a 400w HPS, a 125 and 85 watt CFL. Im thinking Im about 2weeks out from harvest but it looks as if the buds are still loose like they may need to tighten up some more. It could be the fact Im a newbie and just worried but if anyone can offer some advice it would be greatly appreciated. These are camera phone pics so they may not be the best but thanks for any info.

looking good mate...and welcome to riu

hello my fellow smokers noob to the site not so much to growin but still have much to learn. Feel free to look at some of my pics ,or ask a question cheers

Hey RIU,

Great site with some great info

I'm a very basic small indoor grower from the UK. Had me a fine crop a few weeks ago, first in over a year...

...been pretty much horizontal ever since haha

I grow in Biobizz all mix, nutes (grow, bloom, topmax) in 10L pots and hand water.

Recently popped a few seeds, as all my grows have so far been clones either passed on or from my mother plants (which were from clones), I only have one mother now and access to clones aint what it used to be for me.





In there, is

1x Trainwreck - GHS - FEM
1X Whiterhino - GHS -FEM
1X Pineapple Express - G13 Lab - FEM
1X Pineapple Chunk - Barneys Farm - FEM
1X Blue Cheese - Barneys Farm - FEM
1X G13 Haze - Barneys Farm - FEM
2X ? - Some seeds from a grower I met on my recent holidays - REG
1x Skunk x Haze -REG
1x Whiteshark X Cheese -REG
3x Blueberry x Cheese -REG

Pineapple express was a fast cracker and the tap root was inches within notime.
Pineapple chunk was slow to get going and the G13 Haze was taken out of the room after 10 days, on the 11th day the seed cracked. The other seeds all managed quite uniform growth for the first 2 and a half weeks.
I also managed to drop my T5 light on one of my holiday plants, all the growth above the the first set of leaves were killed 90% snapped off. This plant can be seen bottom left of the picture with the zebra background, its still growing...love it.

Should be interesting times for me as I've never grown from seed before, plus I dont really have the room to flower these on. I extended my grow room to fit 10 decent plants in (my last was 6plants) , but then filled it with 10 plants and put on flower last week and theres no room haha


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Hello my fellow bud mates.I am a newbie and very nice to meet you.It is a very wonderful forum and thank you very much for the invitation.I am a first time grower and i have a alot of questions I hope you don't mind and thank you for everyone's time and sorry if I am putting these questions in the wrong area.I am a first time grower.I started out learning to grow in my closet I only have so much space.It is 2 1/2 feet long x 18 inches wide x 4 1/2 feet tall.I am using CFL efficient lighting.One bulb at 26 watts equals 100 and another at 75 watts equals 400 watts.This is what it says on the packaging.I think it equals to 8,000 lumens which I know it is not enough, but it is a small area and I thought it would be okay since i painted the walls flat white.It's pretty bright and I can't really afford anything else.Would this lighting be good for 3 female plants at about 28 inches?or would it be better with just 2 females and would it produce more of a yield? I started with eight plants from different seed which they all grew pretty nice.4 grew about 14 inches tall and the other 4 grew about 12 inches all in about 30 days. I am not looking for really tall plants because of the space I have 5 that were males I pulled them early they had little balls on them.I put the 3 females on the 12 /12 flowering stage at about 14 inches tall.They are now at 22 days into flowering since i changed the light cycle and are about 28 inches tall.Will this lighting be enough for some nice size buds?I heard some say if you prune you will get really nice top buds,but I really don't want to do that,because since I have females I want to keep 2 of them or 1 to cut half way down or a little more after harvest so I can put them back at 24 hour light cycle to regenerate them so I can take clones off the mothers or cuttings.I don't think they look to bad for 22 days from not getting enough lumens but I don't really know.I guess I have a ways to go until they are ready to harvest? Also I have a oscillating stand up fan on the floor blowing on the plants because I don't have enough room for one above the plants.Will this be okay it blowing on the plants when flowering? The fan moves automatically and how high of speed should I have it? I don't really have the room to turn the fan so it is not blowing on the plants.Also I made a door to close the space up so it is not noticeable in my closet.The problem is I don't have enough room for a exhaust fan but I ventilate it once in a while with closet door open.A hour in the morning and a hour at night.This is the time the lights are on.I have a air conditioner in my room so it cools them pretty good.I have it set at 75 degrees.Is this enough ventilating time for them or do they need more? all the leaves tips are starting to turn brown a little just the tips.Could it be that I am not ventilating enough and it could be heat stress? if it is do you think they will be all right til harvest time? I am really not over fertilizing them I use 15-30-15 at 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water every other feeding.Also the plants are different.They started at 5 finger leaves at vegetative growth now on top of the plant they are 9 finger leaves.Is this still a indica plant?or is it a indica and sativa plant?I got the seed from street weed,but the weed was pretty good way way way way far from swag.Thank you so much for your help and sorry for all the questions and thank you inviting me to your forum.Please let me know how my plants look and do you think I will get a good yield from them? should I trim some leaves off them for a higher bud yield? Peace my friends

Hi everyone! I'm a newbie and need lots of advice please!! I started a few plants from seeds (3) and all took but are at different sizes. I'm planning to grow indoors, and bought one balast. fluorescent lights and it says t8. I have read a lot of posts on here and they talk about t5. I dont know the difference. The bulbs are 2700 lumens and the only ones I could get at the time are not your average looking ones, these are thinner if that makes sense =) A friend told me to put all 3 plants under one light and put the light a few inches from the tallest plant? I'm planning to buy a few clones hopefully the same size as my other plants since I'm not sure if the ones I have are females. I have a dedicated grow room with hopefully enough space. Not sure when to add nutrients and all that fun stuff. I'm in the process of transplanting into bigger pots to I assume the new soil has enough nutrients for the time being? I'm lost here so any help is much appreciated!! Thanks!!

Hello everyone,
I am a relatively inexperienced grower from New Zealand.
I have only ever grown outdoors, having for the past 3 years grown about 5-8 plants each season, leaving at least 3 strong females each time.
I have been growing an old East Coast strain that supposedly has Shiva Shanti and Afghan genetics but I’ve really only ever considered it high quality bagseed.
This year I hope to try my first small indoor grow, and also to order some beans online (which is why I have registered here ).


Anyway, thats me.
Hopefully I can learn a bit more here and then maybe contribute something later on down the line.

Hello everyone,
I am a relatively inexperienced grower from New Zealand.
I have only ever grown outdoors, having for the past 3 years grown about 5-8 plants each season, leaving at least 3 strong females each time.
I have been growing an old East Coast strain that supposedly has Shiva Shanti and Afghan genetics but I’ve really only ever considered it high quality bagseed.
This year I hope to try my first small indoor grow, and also to order some beans online (which is why I have registered here ).

Anyway, that's me.
Hopefully I can learn a bit more here and then maybe contribute something later on down the line.

Sup every one , newbie here, just looking to learn a thing or two a thing or two. interested in growing/experimenting and starting small.

Hey benny well you are already about 3 weeks in so you pretty much have to ride this out. Your tips are burning might be due to salt/nute build up or gave them a dose to much, so i would give them a good flushing followed up by a reg nutes .your fan is fine where it is you want to make sure that pretty much all your gardens leaves are slightly moving, good even circulation.if you want to get side branch flowers bigger prune the two nodes up the the stem .If you wanted smaller plants u should have flowered around 4 to 6 inches For the next time i would grow two larger plants maybe top them or super crop them and i would keep cfls as close as possible without burning plants if you can get more cfls for the sides or flower as many small plants as you can and top them all sort of a mini sea of green sory if i did not answer all you ques im hella tired message me if you need help

welcome to riu all new members ..if u need out dont hestitate to ask...

Thanks

pop by my thread if anyone wants its doogeis nuts thread on general forum your all welcome...

Can't wait to gain some real knowledge for you folks here on the forum before starting my new hobbie hope all is well.

Yo Yo happy to be here. REady to learn and hopefully help out as well some day. Thanks for the direction on these forums.

Hello everyone! I am Josh. You can call me that or Blstas or whatever ya want. I have a thread if Anyone wants to help me out! Thank you!
Blstas

cheers mate

yoo i guess never really said hi, just went straight to other topics ...and yea so im daniel 20 years old doing my first grow started on October 5 2011 a date that will be remembered for eternity and im from canada and i game ps3 "smokinpot"

peace! and this are my girls :LSD, SUPER LEMON HAZE, AND BIG BANG. =)

looking good keep up the good work...