1st Grow. CFL Fruit Spirit Feminized. Day 44 of Flowering. PICS

Hey everyone, this is my first post here. I have a grow journal over on grasscity, but the computer I'm using wont let me load that site anymore. So I figured I would continue it over here, to maybe get some feedback during this final phase of the grow. The Strain is Fruit Spirit Feminized. I have two plants in a cabinet with a scrog setup. 160 watts of CFL for the lighting, and a small desk fan for circulation (as well as intake and out takes of cousrse). Things were rough in the beginning, but by the middle of veg, these plants exploded through the screen.

Now I'm on day 44 of Flowering. I can almost taste the buds .

A little problem has arisen though. A good amount of my fan leaves are yellowing and drying out. I heard this can happen in the later stages of flowering. I'm on week 6 of an 8 week flowering strain, so that seems like that could be it, but just wanted to put that out there for some feedback. Thanks for looking! Any questions, comments, advice, is welcome!

Lookin good dude

yea during flowering the dying of fan leaves is a normal thing

however looks like from your other pics you got some kind of deficiency goin on there, unless thats from earlier

you got 4 40watters in there looks like whats the cab dimensions?

Some nice lookin bud you got there, good job man

The first three pictures are from just a few minutes before I made the post. Those are the ones you can see the yellowing in. I flushed them this week, instead of giving them nutes to see if that helps at all. I'll do nutes next watering. And after that I'll be in week 7 and will want to just use plain water the rest of the way anyways.

looks like youre set to get a pretty nice yield off of two plants for your first grow. im pretty jealous of your screen, being a first timer myself.

only 160 watts, damn.

how long did you veg for?

I vegged from Halloween until Dec. 20th. I know that's a little long. I had some p.h. problems in the beginning and it stunted them a bit. After I transplanted they exploded though, and came back as if nothing had phased them. Resilient mofo's.

So I have a question for you. what would you change for your next grow?

inhalexhale420 said:

So I have a question for you. what would you change for your next grow?

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I would try to keep a closer eye on p.h., and try to find more efficient ways of maintaining the level in the soil. My runoff this whole grow has been really low, lower than it should be I admit. I'm sure that's sacrificed some quality. I would also rebuild my lighting fixture so the lights sit sideways with a reflective hood over top. That would give me more room to work with, and much better coverage. I would also switch to flowering sooner than I did. Most people say to switch when the plants have filled a good amount of the screen, but not all of it. I would actually say to switch at 50% full. The stretch right at the beginning of flowering was a bit overwhelming. I had to tie down a lot of branches and kind of make it work.

Other than that though, I wouldn't really make changes to the set up itself. I plan on building a larger HPS box, but this one is really fine the way it is. The temps stay good, humidity stays good, and the plants definitely liked the environment. My next grow is gonna be so much easier though. The effort of trying to learn about growing, and building a suitable environment for the first time was pretty stressful. Having everything built, and experience under my belt will help a ton.