Yet another newbie here xd

mierzejek88

Member
Hello Everyone, am looking for someone who will make me sure about few causes :)
First of all am newbie in growin our sweet mommys, thats my first time, so for sure i've made
many mistakes, so i would like that someone with bigger experience tell me what he thinks xD

Heres at the start some infos. Its ofc indoor pland.
I have recived some seeds as a gift. They were called a Bad rider, standard 4 seed pack.
I have greew em up, and find out that only one of the bushes is a lady :(
To bad but for my first step one is enought hehe.

I have some experiance in growing tomatoes, so after some researches i have poted my pland in
decend ground i think. I've set Ph on ground a litte bit under 6 and was keeping it all time during a veg.

Now its at 7 week of flowering, but as u Can see on pictures bellow, some of branches still got popcorn like
buds, heh they all are not that big i was dreaming about but at start its not that bad xD
They are groweing under 24h light from 3dr week of flowering. 2 bolbs 100w givein' 1600 lumines each. Kinda enought i think, correct me if am wrong.
But heres the point the main branch has buds looking like ready to harvest (am sure u will find out about wich i am talking about xD and correct me if am wrong).
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But other ones still needs their time
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So what u think, should i cut this grown up brench and it wont hunt my baby? :P
It will defenetly gives some more light to smaller flowers.
Entire bush looks this way
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Am keeping in on nutrines for flowering, but seems its not helping buds grow bigger.
So here is the time to correct me. What i can do to make it grow better? :)
Yeye i know lights lights and one more light! But 2 bulbs 100 w each givein over 2.5k lumines arent really enought?
Cmon guys help a newbie :)

Best regards!
 

pghdave420

Well-Known Member
Light deff need more.i got 10 cfls (230watt)on plant and i dont think i have enough.you want to keep fluorecent lights close to plants. all my cfls like 1-3 inch away from bud sites
 

TheGoodGrower

Active Member
GrowinDad is right.. you need more light and to promote flowering the plants need 12 hours of darkness, to stimulate the plants natural reaction to the onset of the fall season where it wants to finish up its flowers before winter.
 

mierzejek88

Member
Thanks Dudes for urs answers! I will try to set up some more lights, going tommorow to buy some more Vats bulbs of cfs. But how about the first photo. The hairs on most mature bulbs, hast almost all turned brown/amberlike colour. Isnt it time to cut it down?
 

hbbum

Well-Known Member
It is likely to late to improve the yield on this one too much since you are so far along in flowering. For your next run use way more lighting and do not pay attention to the "equivalent" rating of your CFL, only the actual wattage. You will want a minimum for 100W actual for 1 plant, but more is better. You will also want to keep your CFL within 3-4" of your plant to get the most out of it and ideally you use blue spectrum lights (5500-6500K) for veg with 18 hours of light and 6 hour of darkness and red spectrum lighting (2700K) for flowering with 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness.

You are not quite ready to harvest this one yet, probably 2-3 more weeks.
 

mierzejek88

Member
As i said i've just set up a simplest setup i could think of. Am glad for ur attention! :)
Those two smaller branches, has started flowering a one and half weeks ago, so maybe there is hope for them if i will
give them some more lights?
This first most mature one has small buds, but grouped together and looks preety nice, while new ones just started to apear.
I will give the main branch 2 more weeks as U said, and gonna ask U Guys again when time will come.
But i hope that those young fellows will grew up better than their elder brothers.
It's my first time and i was doin' it like home growing tomatoes heh.
 

hbbum

Well-Known Member
More lights will certainly still help some, but just getting to harvest is good thing your first time. If you enjoyed it you can run again and use what you learned to get even better returns.
 

mierzejek88

Member
Hello Again!
As i said i would, i went today for small shopping.
Havent spent much, arround 8 euro total.
Bought few square meters of emergency blankets
that i've used to build a little house for my beloved xD
It's looks like that
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According to Yours suggestions i've put my love closer to source of light.
Now it's about 6 cm from 32W(labelled as 133), and about 12 cm hrom 100w hps light
cuz of a heat it produces.
So the amout of wats it's getting now is arround 132-233.
Kinda enought? what u think?
Both of them are emitting 2700K colour light, so i've choosed what u was talking about
With an eye i can see that now they have got a way more light :)

Now with new house and stronger light She's eaven looking better heh
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this is the main branch with elder flowers,
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those two are the younger sisters :)
I will keep it on my natural nutrines during the stage of flowering.
I really disslike those chemical things putting to foods and staff.
What u say now? Isn't it looks better?
 

hbbum

Well-Known Member
Nice work, looks much better for light. For a single plant that would be fine, I would consider 2 more of the 32w since you are growing 3 plants.
 

mierzejek88

Member
Hello again. I've made completly new box for my flower :) Last one was lazy made heres the new one
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I have to say, that more light made some improvement, just take a look
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But getting lights 3 inches from the buds, made some leaves burst a little :/
Thats make me sad, cuz i love looking at Her :(
Anyway, i think now she's ok, propably one more week to cut? Or theres a chance to buds grow up for reasons unknown for me
the beginning grower xD?

Another thing, is what kind of strain u suggest me to runt after this little baby in my box?
Its 1.3 m high, deep and wide for 85cm. Can i run inside more than just one plant?
And by more than one plant i mean a bit bigger than this one. I know i turned it in to flo
to early, but it's a newbie mistake xD
Atm i got 4 cfs 23w running at 2.7K, its + 3.3k lumens :)

Am gladly waiting for urs smart replays :P
 
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