Rass3ngan
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Ok, i'm new so Hi Everybody <"hi Dr. Nick">!
This thread is here simply to ask for some advice from you folks who've gotten impressive yields. I seem to have completely cocked up my first grow despite quite a lot of research and effort, so any tips are greatly appreciated.
I vegged 3 Flying Dutchmen Power Skunk plants for 5 weeks under 2 x blue spectrum 150w CFLs until they grew to about 20" tall. I switched one of the blue lights for a red spectrum CFL after 4 weeks, then gave them 2 red spectrum bulbs 3 weeks into flowering.
I'm using a water farm drip/flood system which hasn't given me much bother to this point (fingers crossed), but i think that having all 3 in the same bucket has caused some root restriction.
I've been using Canna nutrients, which seemed to burn a little at first, but my girls soon got used to it and made spectacular gains in height and leaf production. I topped two of the strongest looking girls one week into flowering, but left the third because she was the smallest at the time. Right now, they're ~ 110" tall, but have taken some burns on the fan leaves (stoopid goddamn plants keep hugging my bulbs
).
Here's the problem; 7 weeks into flowering and the kholas are f****ing tiny! I'm starting to see the calyxis swell but at this rate i'm only likely to get about 1 oz. dried from all 3 plants!!
so i'm planning to harvest the top 3rd and leave the lower parts to thicken up. Then make some block out of the tonnes of shred i'm gonna get. I've been flushing with pure water for the last 3 days so as to get rid of the chem taste, and expect to harvest in the next week or two.
I do have some 250w MH & HPS bulbs which i bought at the inception of this project, but when i tested them out in my growing environment the temp. rose to over 110 degrees F! So i went with CFLs instead.
To conclude, what's gone wrong here? and what can i change in my next grow to improve yield?
This thread is here simply to ask for some advice from you folks who've gotten impressive yields. I seem to have completely cocked up my first grow despite quite a lot of research and effort, so any tips are greatly appreciated.
I vegged 3 Flying Dutchmen Power Skunk plants for 5 weeks under 2 x blue spectrum 150w CFLs until they grew to about 20" tall. I switched one of the blue lights for a red spectrum CFL after 4 weeks, then gave them 2 red spectrum bulbs 3 weeks into flowering.
I'm using a water farm drip/flood system which hasn't given me much bother to this point (fingers crossed), but i think that having all 3 in the same bucket has caused some root restriction.
I've been using Canna nutrients, which seemed to burn a little at first, but my girls soon got used to it and made spectacular gains in height and leaf production. I topped two of the strongest looking girls one week into flowering, but left the third because she was the smallest at the time. Right now, they're ~ 110" tall, but have taken some burns on the fan leaves (stoopid goddamn plants keep hugging my bulbs
).Here's the problem; 7 weeks into flowering and the kholas are f****ing tiny! I'm starting to see the calyxis swell but at this rate i'm only likely to get about 1 oz. dried from all 3 plants!!
so i'm planning to harvest the top 3rd and leave the lower parts to thicken up. Then make some block out of the tonnes of shred i'm gonna get. I've been flushing with pure water for the last 3 days so as to get rid of the chem taste, and expect to harvest in the next week or two.I do have some 250w MH & HPS bulbs which i bought at the inception of this project, but when i tested them out in my growing environment the temp. rose to over 110 degrees F! So i went with CFLs instead.
To conclude, what's gone wrong here? and what can i change in my next grow to improve yield?
