The 12-12 From Seed Thread

[HighLife4Me]

Oh ok ya I will for sure, question, when you did auto when did you start adding nutes? I'm growing it in coco/perlite, and under my 250w HPS?

I use FOFF soil for the first four weeks. So, dont need to add any nutes. I never tried using coco i heard it retains more salt so definitely flush her out after every few feedings in the later stage of growth.. I have had good results in normal potting soil running a 500ppm solution the first four weeks.

 

[HighLife4Me]

hey guys im wondering what you guys under 600w hps's are getting yield and hight wise.
im running cfl#s atm and getting pretty consitant height around a 2 feet and yielding anywhere from 1z to 3z
just looking for input

3zips dried with some cfls is some serious bud and some serious cfls. For me switching to hps from cfls tripled my results. Its not even fair to compare them in my opinion. I average 70g-100g per plant. i think the most i harvested at one time was about 260g under a 600w and 200w of cfls.

U should go for the 600w HPS you will love it i promise.

 

[shadyslater]

Cheers guy. I've been messin with soil to get the basics down (2years lol) i tripled my yield 12/12fs in coir recently.

 

[nvhak49]

I use FOFF soil for the first four weeks. So, dont need to add any nutes. I never tried using coco i heard it retains more salt so definitely flush her out after every few feedings in the later stage of growth.. I have had good results in normal potting soil running a 500ppm solution the first four weeks.

no ya I've heard they retain salts too, so I'll be flushing just pure pH'ed water every few feeds. On my next grow after I harvest these two plants I might do soil and see how it goes. But I gotta get some grows under my belt first cuz I'd like to go organic but I gotta get some grows under my belt. My big plant is in a bubbleponic system with GH flora trio nutes it's going really well and drinking the water like crazy. Exchanging my 250w out for a 400 I bought it a few weeks ago so I can still exchange and up grade. It'll be here next week!

 

[HighLife4Me]

Sweet. Growing in coco will break you in right i think. If you do go to soil. Please for the love of god use promix or heat treat your own potting soil. I wish someone would have slapped me and told me that when i started. I just posted on a thread about bugs. Looking back i had some hard times with aphids and gnats. If youre growing inside with soil or coco even, u will have a problem at some point. So i stress the fact of heat treating soil before you bring it in or use promix or hydro.

 

[shadyslater]

Lol yh i had all the bug problems too in soil as soon as i tried coco no more bugs lol. Id stick with it just for this reason.

So how tall do your 12/12fs plants end up?

 

[ChingOwn]

So guys that have been growing like this for a while what is the average yield? Sorry if it was already answered but this thread is a monster.

 

[HighLife4Me]

Lol yh i had all the bug problems too in soil as soon as i tried coco no more bugs lol. Id stick with it just for this reason.

So how tall do your 12/12fs plants end up?

35"-50" 5gal pots. Short answer. There are so many factors. I have had large plants and small ones under 12/12. Also had small and large ones vegging for 6 weeks. To me it seems like the size of the pot is more important when u want a larger plant. But it all depends on how the previous plant was grown. I think vegging promotes better overall health and potency and of course max's out the size. 12/12 is good for your average home grower you can grow really great and potent plants using 12/12 and save a butt load on electric costs. But if budzz are your business i would suggest to stick with vegging.

 

[HighLife4Me]

So guys that have been growing like this for a while what is the average yield? Sorry if it was already answered but this thread is a monster.

70g-100g per plant 4-5gal pots 600w hps 200w cfls.

 

[kmog33]

70g-100g per plant 4-5gal pots 600w hps 200w cfls.

What strains are you running?

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[HighLife4Me]

What strains are you running?

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nice .. OMG what am i running. Ok here it is. I only have 1 flowering atm it will be chopped down in a few weeks GHS Kalashnikova. Ok that said i had two recent orders from tude and one was the birthday promo. Have 3 GHS bubba Kush plants 2 weeks old. Will be planting 9 tomorrow and will run them under 18/6 for 6 weeks. And i should mention im a strain whore. 9 will be, [GHS Super Lemon Haze, Lemon Skunk, White Rino] [G13] Pineapple Express, Gingabud] [Dinafem Cheese] [TH Seeds Critical HOG][Sensi seeds super skunk]{HS Green Crack]

I know GHS gets a bad rap but i love their strains. Also grown a lot of G13. Looking forward to Cali Conneciton GSC i have a couple reg seeds.hoping for a male.

Have to shout out to Black Skull Seeds. Their Bubble bud and Jack Herer are great.

 

[nvhak49]

Sweet. Growing in coco will break you in right i think. If you do go to soil. Please for the love of god use promix or heat treat your own potting soil. I wish someone would have slapped me and told me that when i started. I just posted on a thread about bugs. Looking back i had some hard times with aphids and gnats. If youre growing inside with soil or coco even, u will have a problem at some point. So i stress the fact of heat treating soil before you bring it in or use promix or hydro.

Ha ya that makes sense I wouldn't use soil from outside but I've heard good things about promix I actually have a buddy that is growing in promix and loves it so I'll probably go that route once I go soil. What's the big diff in guys growing in soil rather than coco or water? The naturalness of it?

 

[HighLife4Me]

I heard people say that there's more crystal production but that's relative. I cant honestly speculate on coco to much, have not put to much time in researching it. Some people swear by it. I think the medium picks the grower. People like it because it works well for them. Soil,soiless,hydro and coco are capable of growing the finest weed.

 

[HighLife4Me]

O yea speaking of pro mix.. I ordered three more 3.8cuft promixBX bundles from amazon.( don't get prime shiping for amazon you wont stop ordering stuff) Will be delivered tomorrow morning. Poor UPS guy

 

[nvhak49]

Ya I've heard the same too with coco but I thought I'd give it a try and flush it out from time to time so it doesn't load up with salts but I'll be careful and if I don't like it I'll go with promix, either way I want to try out the smart smart pots I bought the bubbleponic system is sweet but the tub I have it in is like 16" tall so if I went coco or soil I could have an extra 16" probably not that much a lot more than what I have now cuz I only have a 4ft tall tent. So I need the extra room specially with the 400w hps. I have my current plant FIMed and LST'd so it's short but really bushy.

Heres my plant not the most current pic but I'll take some tomorrow..

 

[HighLife4Me]

Good shit man. She looks great.

 

[Mukky400]

So i only have about 3 solid feet of room from the glass on the aircooled reflector to the top of the pot. Should I start plants with it dimmed, and go to 100% when they start to flower, or 600 watts all the way through?

 

[desertdog]

I now have food up 750 ppms still every three days so far, and adding worm casting teas with some goodies. Now that the sex is showing I was expecting the flowering to get busy, they really haven't formed any bud yet. Is this normal ? The sex showed on one last week and the rest followed each day. The plants totally went 50/50 and they are looking great. This cross is turning out to be a keeper.

I increased food to 1550 ppms and still taking bat-worm cast teas as well. I am changing the name to High Roller Cush. This shit is bad ass.

 

[nameno]

hey guys im wondering what you guys under 600w hps's are getting yield and hight wise.
im running cfl#s atm and getting pretty consitant height around a 2 feet and yielding anywhere from 1z to 3z
just looking for input

I usually get those numbers the last 2 grows I have screwed things up & got less.I'm running 600w hps. Lucas formula.I was trying for four.

 

[m4j20]

how long into 12/12 fs does it take for flowers to show? roughly