CFL Closet Grow For Me And Wifey

ZipDriveX said:

Well ANYWAY it is now official, Alice is no more. She never showed any signs of growth and the othe three girls are all well on their way to growing their first set of fan leaves. I gently removed her from the soil and he small root was withered and shriveled up so I knew not to bother anymore. I'll post pics of the other 3 after the weekend

Meanwhile, I'm down to my last little nug until tomorrow sucks having no smoke on a Friday night.

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amen to that, im working off roach weed for now. havent had to buy any since August. might be able to scrape by till i harvest but doubtfull.

new pics headed to my page soon, i got the ScROG screen setup and 3 plants bent under to work into the screen.

Well I got some more buds today and decided to take some pictures. I JUST moved the lights up. They're now about 3" away from Tiana and Ariel and about 2" away from belle who is still the shortest. They were milimeters from touching the bulbs before and I want them to grow up some The soil is pretty much all dry right now and I plan to dose them in water tomorrow, trying to be careful with this MG soil. Anywhlay here's some pics

there so precious looking good man, do the lights go closer when not taking pics?

I'm leaving them up like that for a couple days then I'll lower them some

ZipDriveX said:

I'm leaving them up like that for a couple days then I'll lower them some

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i think i made the mistake of putting my lights too close to my plants and they did not stretch at all, kinda wishing i let them stretch just a little bit during the first 3 weeks so they werent so short.

live and learn i guess

Just gave the girls a good watering, first one since planting. This week should show some good growth and I'm excited to see how they are on Christmas

Downloaded a pretty cool app for my Ipod, it's a time lapse camera so I'm going to set it up to record my plants for a full day here soon

Two weeks from starting today and it's getting more exciting now
You can see some differences already in the three strains like the "sharpness" and size of the fan leaves and how they are each growing. Belle and Ariel both have lots of little hairs on their leaves while Tiana does not.

Belle is worrying us a little, she is shorter than the others and has always been smaller and slower as well. She is deffinantly still growing, just slowly. Could this just be the strain or is something up?

Ariel




Tiana




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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

yeah could very well be genetics, also some plants have a slower start but end up winning the long run race so i wouldnt let that become the sole purpose of judgement. give her time and take it from there. if 3-4 weeks fropm now she is not oing anything still then worry. definatly dont pull it may be your only female in the bunch and that wouldnt be good.

Oh don't worry, we have NO plans to pull her! We were just worried that something could be wrong. Heck Tiana sprouted first but Ariel is growing faster and bigger so I know they all grow differantly. Can't wait to see how they are in a couple weeks when they are the size Tom was before we had to chop chop

ZipDriveX said:

Oh don't worry, we have NO plans to pull her! We were just worried that something could be wrong. Heck Tiana sprouted first but Ariel is growing faster and bigger so I know they all grow differantly. Can't wait to see how they are in a couple weeks when they are the size Tom was before we had to chop chop

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some people are just really quick to yank em out if they arent growing to expectations.

cant wait to see the time lapse vid i watched a couple of them the other day and they are pretty cool.

Ya, I have a half second one which is a few hours worth but it's so short it's not worthy of posting. I need to slow down the FPS on it and set it up for the WHOLE day! Maybe when I get my Ipad for xmas I can lean myself off my ipod enough to leave it for a full day lmao!!

you can always do it the old fasion way and take a pic every 15 min for like a week and then just put em together @ like 14-20 FPS have to set up camera on solid surface or tripod and not move the plants but works all the same.

Merry Christmas everyone!! Gave my girls their Xmas watering and they soaks it all up

Picture time!! Sorry they're so big right now, I will resize them later when I can.

Tiana is quite the normal looking plant, very simetrical and growing perfectly.




Ariel has earned the nickname "Twister" due to the propeller style way her leaves grow.




And Belle is turning into one sweet looking girl. Her colors are amazing! Never seen a plant like this before!!




This weekend I plan to replant the girls in larger pots and buy a few more lights since they're starting to get bigger stay tuned!!

looking good man

nothing wrong with huge pics... I can see allot even each tiny little hairs on leaves! ... looking good Zip sub'd

just make sure to let soil dry out before watering again to avoid over-watering. peace

Nice! Nice big pics too! Posting small pics, like so many people do is next to useless.

Anyway, I like the set up, but you've got so much space! It begs for a more powerful bulb. One of the best choices I've made was retiring the CFL fixture I built in order to implement a 250 watt set up.

I threw in a picture of my plant under CFLs and my current plant under my HPS so you'll be able to see why I love my HPS so much.

But, like they say: There's more than one way to skin a cat.

lime73 said:

nothing wrong with huge pics... I can see allot even each tiny little hairs on leaves! ... looking good Zip sub'd

just make sure to let soil dry out before watering again to avoid over-watering. peace

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Ya you can really see the hairs on all 3 of them under my 30x loupe, it's cool but makes me want a 60x.

Also I've only watered 3 times since planting and I make sure the soil is completely dry before watering them. I probably won't water them again in these pots. Replanting this weekend.

Joos Springsteen said:

Anyway, I like the set up, but you've got so much space! It begs for a more powerful bulb.

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This weekend I'm setting it up so that each plant will have 4 bulbs on it using Y splitters. 3 5000k and 1 2500k bulbs per plant and the opposite during flowering (which I will probably start in a week or two.) Im in the room a lot during the day so I can rotate them all the time