1st 297W CFL closet

Closet is 22" x 30" x 8', has a 70cfm bathroom exhaust fan in the ceiling, 9x23W and 3x30W warm CFL's with a 6" desktop fan for circulation. Pots are 3 1/2gal filled with a cheap organic garden soil and perlite at almost a 50/50 mix. The 12/12 flip was 5wks before the pix were taken and they are on an every other watering feed schedule with a liquid 10-15-10 nute and have had 1 feeding with Epsom salts. Water and nute water is always pH'd to 6.3-6.6.

looking good man. make sure you keep those cfls close!

looking tasty! can I ask - did you use any topping or fimming techniques for these?

pothead18 said:

looking good man. make sure you keep those cfls close!

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They are 2-4 inches away, shitty pix but the buds are pretty tight and dense.

acidbass said:

looking tasty! can I ask - did you use any topping or fimming techniques for these?

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Both, plant#1 had nothing done to it except it was tied down when it was flipped to 12/12. Plant#2 was topped then LST'd in a "mainlining fashion". At the flip it was LST'd again to fit inside of the closet. Plant#1 has 1 top cola, 2 more colas just as big as the top, and 15 nice sized decent nuggets. Plant#2 has 4 top colas and 13 decent nuggets.

Nice man wait untill they start to swell before finishing.... mmm i bet that smells just great im on my first grow as well its a pure power plant closet grow just starting to get a bit of a smell..

looks great keep up the good work and THE PICS!! lol

thanks for the info, I just had a go at attempting my first fim, then it was lights out time so haven't really had time to check things yet.
If they turn out anything like yours, I will be happy!

acidbass said:

thanks for the info, I just had a go at attempting my first fim, then it was lights out time so haven't really had time to check things yet.
If they turn out anything like yours, I will be happy!

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I tried a fim on one of my plants but it never worked... it just grew like normal ... but all my tops worked and some of the ones i topped are going to have like 6-8 tops.

were you referring to my plants acid?

I was complimenting jsj's plants kano, although yours look mighty fine too. Mine dont look quite so healthy as yours both, probably partly due to there poor start
in life - 20 watts of light haha. But they are showing positive signs too, will post an update soon.

Not sure how my fim attempt worked out, its hard to see signs so far, I hope things are going well with you guys grows!

JSJ id like to see how you have your lights set up.. also how long did you veg these plants for they seem small.. im asking because i have only 30 watts more of cfls then you quite similar

KanoCannabis said:

JSJ id like to see how you have your lights set up..

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Light setup, is 4 brooding hoods attached to a piece of 3/8"OSB cut to fit the closet. In each brooding hood there is 2x 'Y' splitters giving 3x sockets, 3x sockets times 4x hoods equal 12x bulbs, 9x23W 3x30W, 297W total. Not the ideal setup but it is version 1.0 and working, lmao. (pix will come if you want)

KanoCannabis said:

also how long did you veg these plants for they seem small

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These plants are survivors to say the least. Seeds went to dirt back in like the 2nd week of February. They had nute burn and lost a lot of leaves, pH dropped to having run off at 3.5 which gave them lockout, finally they got repotted and starting growing. They were a sad sight for sure for a while. Vegging that long they should be 6-7 footers, lol. Big learning curve from outside to inside. If both plants together yield an ounce, it will be a bitter sweet success.

Good looking buds !!!

JSJ said:

Light setup, is 4 brooding hoods attached to a piece of 3/8"OSB cut to fit the closet. In each brooding hood there is 2x 'Y' splitters giving 3x sockets, 3x sockets times 4x hoods equal 12x bulbs, 9x23W 3x30W, 297W total. Not the ideal setup but it is version 1.0 and working, lmao. (pix will come if you want)
These plants are survivors to say the least. Seeds went to dirt back in like the 2nd week of February. They had nute burn and lost a lot of leaves, pH dropped to having run off at 3.5 which gave them lockout, finally they got repotted and starting growing. They were a sad sight for sure for a while. Vegging that long they should be 6-7 footers, lol. Big learning curve from outside to inside. If both plants together yield an ounce, it will be a bitter sweet success.

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Im sure you know but its worth repeating carefull of your plant height you wont wanna get over 2-3 foot tall plants under cfls... yeah i know how PH problems can be specially when your a new grower thinking... WHAT I CAN GROW THIS ON A TREE NO WAY!!.. then your like fuckkk these things are harder to take care of then a child lol.

Those are looking very nice!

Can I make a suggestion? I would switch the nutrients to something with lower in nitrogen. I recommend 2-7-7 Schultz Cactus+ liquid fertilizer all you need is 4 drops in 1 quart of water. And just wait and watch those flowers blow up in 1 week man. And replace all 6700kelv cfl's with 2700kelv cfl's that would also increase there density.

Besides ^^^ that.. I will type this again. (They are looking Very Nice.)

Psilocybir said:

Those are looking very nice!

Can I make a suggestion? I would switch the nutrients to something with lower in nitrogen. I recommend 2-7-7 Schultz Cactus+ liquid fertilizer all you need is 4 drops in 1 quart of water. And just wait and watch those flowers blow up in 1 week man. And replace all 6700kelv cfl's with 2700kelv cfl's that would also increase there density.

Besides ^^^ that.. I will type this again. (They are looking Very Nice.)

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Thanx! Originally switched to 10-15-10 nutes when they got flipped to 12/12. They started showing signs of a bad N def, yellowed up real bad, so they are getting some extra N right now. All of the 23W are 2700K the 30W are like 3200K. And again thanx!