250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Hettyman

Hettyman

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Nope, i've been growin for about a year, but all with CFL, and even these spent the first half of flower under CFL...oh and all my plants veg through CFL.

I've got the strength and taste sorted, just always with the small yields, though i have been under feeding. I'm hoping to get an OZ per plant, on a 2 plant rotation now that I have my 250 though.

and here's a bit of a run down of getting them this far

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/552558-hps-cfl-side-side-flowering-2.html#post7948136
 
brettsog

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lol its quite rare in the UK. ive never actually met another brett in real life. :) and yeah i did one grow under cfl really wasnt happy with the results. it may have been that i jumped in at the deep end and just went a bought a load of stuff without doing any research. i got auto ak47 which wasnt the greatest yeilder but the smoke knocked me for 6. its all a learning curve at the end of the day. is that blue mystic nice. i have gone with a few of the more common strains. ak48, amnesia, purple haze, big bud, sage. i have to say that the switch to dwc has me amazed. i still have 4 fem ak47 autos which im gonna do soon cos i reckon without me fucking it up they might yeild a bit better.
 
Hettyman

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brettsog said:
lol its quite rare in the UK. ive never actually met another brett in real life. :) and yeah i did one grow under cfl really wasnt happy with the results. it may have been that i jumped in at the deep end and just went a bought a load of stuff without doing any research. i got auto ak47 which wasnt the greatest yeilder but the smoke knocked me for 6. its all a learning curve at the end of the day. is that blue mystic nice. i have gone with a few of the more common strains. ak48, amnesia, purple haze, big bud, sage. i have to say that the switch to dwc has me amazed. i still have 4 fem ak47 autos which im gonna do soon cos i reckon without me fucking it up they might yeild a bit better.
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Yeah, nice and rare this side of the water, but Oz and Americans love it...in fact if one more person asks me where i'm from
I grew AK 48 for my first few grows, and to be honest, Blue Mystic reminds me of it, but slightly more fruity and less citrus, oh and with smaller yields. These are the only stains I've grown so far, so its hard to compare. That said I am a seasoned Amsterdam veteran. Thinking of trying Aurora Indica next, for bigger yields and hopefully a more dank nasty "old tramp" smelling weed... the kind you smell in a crowd from 20 metres and are immediately jealous, yet at the same time almost disgusted.

Sorry what strain is DWC the abreviation of?
 
RCgrowerman

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brettsog said:
a harvest is good...... is this your first? my first was 44g :) second was a disaster. got 12g :( third times a charm lol
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It was my first grow with good gear. I learned by using cfl's, but it hermed out real bad and only got 3 blunts worth. So for me I would say yes this is my first legit harvest. But my girls right now are much larger than the auto and I have 2 so my next harvest will dwarf this and its only about 6-7 weeks away. I am always learning, but the majority of my knowledge has come from threads on this site although I would caution to not take everything to be the truth because someone took the time to type it lol.
 
ace720

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hey guys hows it going, just got a few pics from my grow i got going on. 3 plants all THC BOMB one big and two small clones.
snaped some tops so it can b all the same size

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Hettyman

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ace720 said:
hey guys hows it going, just got a few pics from my grow i got going on. 3 plants all THC BOMB one big and two small clones.
snaped some tops so it can b all the same size /QUOTE]

Very nice. I watched a vid on bending the stems (i currently tie) ... how do you find it works. Have you tried using ties instead??
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brettsog

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i have supercropped my WW. (broke the top of the stem or severely bent it until it cracked inside not outside) it worked ok but after it recovered it just grew straight back up again. what i will say is that it helped the few buds around the main cola grow bigger. its almost like i have 2 top colas
 
10acjed

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Well after a week of sneaking around to take a toke here and there of mid grade out of a metal pipe I am excited to be heading back home to my first clip all jarred and waiting.
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to have a good familly member leave a care package, but I've been dreaming of my girls.
Had my partner give the last dose of h20 n sweets Saturday, will inspect them 2morrow am. Hopefully I can starve them til sat and chop.....

She said the first chop tastes a little green and fruity. But it definitely packs a punch :-D
 
brettsog

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i have an NYCD boy. little balls forming in clusters on some of the internode. gonna leave it a week or so to get some pollen and make me some WW x NYCD :)
 
Hettyman

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Afternoon all!!! :)

Just thought I'd throw a few pics up of where my ladies is in there new pots and grow room. I have just repotted from 6.5 to 10 litre buckets, will be vegging for about another week to let the roots start to work out, then flipping. Do you recon that is just about as much root as I can get out of those pots before the start to become bound?? They currently have 60w - 4000 lumens of 6500k, and 125w - 8000 lumens of 2700k, which I know isn't ideal for vegging, but this is best set up I could make by swapping my bulbs around, and will be fine when I flip them shortly anyway

They are about 7" tall, but have 4 nodes on the lower half, and then they were topped and have about 3 main stems coming up. I also topped some of the lower branches about a week ago, and it's my first time at trying this. I'm hoping now the roots have more space, and the plants have more light they will bush out lovely.

With my 250, I'm hoping to harvest 2 of these every 19 days...which will be nice!
 

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Hettyman

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Anyone know is only certain stems of a plant can hermie?? On one of my ladies at 3 weeks flower, there are a few top budds that don't quite look right, they are more teardrop then pine cone shape?? I can't think of any stress that the plant has endured to cause this, just a bit concerned. No sign of ball bags yet though :)
 
RCgrowerman

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Yes individual branches can hermie by themselves that's what happened to my very first grow. Certain nugs were seedless and some were jam packed.
 
Hettyman

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right looks like i'll be doing some snipping soon then. Still no signs of pods, but i'll keep a close eye out. Ta muchly :)
 
L33tGanjaMan

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Hettyman said:
Afternoon all!!! :)

Just thought I'd throw a few pics up of where my ladies is in there new pots and grow room. I have just repotted from 6.5 to 10 litre buckets, will be vegging for about another week to let the roots start to work out, then flipping. Do you recon that is just about as much root as I can get out of those pots before the start to become bound?? They currently have 60w - 4000 lumens of 6500k, and 125w - 8000 lumens of 2700k, which I know isn't ideal for vegging, but this is best set up I could make by swapping my bulbs around, and will be fine when I flip them shortly anyway

They are about 7" tall, but have 4 nodes on the lower half, and then they were topped and have about 3 main stems coming up. I also topped some of the lower branches about a week ago, and it's my first time at trying this. I'm hoping now the roots have more space, and the plants have more light they will bush out lovely.

With my 250, I'm hoping to harvest 2 of these every 19 days...which will be nice!
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Hey dood, nice looking plants, they seem to be very happy with the treatment they are receiving, i will say though i am not 100% sure what you are trying to achieve related to your question about being Rootbound. Well in my opinion that picture of your plants Roots looks like there is a Whole bunch of room in that Soil for a bigger Rootsystem.

I was so dissapointed in the past to see the size of my Rootballs in '5 gallon Pots' which i thought they were gonna fill those things, under my 250 a 5ft tall plant will barely touch the sides of that size, damn i had plants with just as big Colas and the same hieght in 15cm Pots.. LOL .. sure there was No Soil left in there come the end and they were rootbound as hell and needed watered twice daily but Damn, talk about wasteing Soil! LOL

But yeah, back to it dood, i would say another couple of weeks Vegging left in those Pots 'At Least', depends how tall you can go ;)

Soil is overratted imo.. but still i grow in it. *shrugs* I must be High :bigjoint:
 
L33tGanjaMan

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Hettyman said:
I was thinking of doing something like that, but i'm currently experimenting with more mature plants trained to flatter canopies.

Here are some pics fo my sorry ass harvest. After spider mites, and losing a main cola through dropping thte plant, i'll be looking at around 40g dried. Not great but it could have been worse, considering.
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Damn, bad luck with the Little bastids etc. man, but hey on the Bright side of things you got some nice smoke for the input of watts.

With those CFLs must have been Low cost grow so.. bongsmilie
 
Hettyman

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Well exactly. Plus the cola that broke was huung for 4 days, then finished with a quick dry. With no flush, and premature, it was still better then anything that I have been forced to buy n the past 4 weeks, so in about 4 days i'm gonna be a happy bunny, I know it!!

All my grows are relatively low cost, cheap enough to bung the wife the odd £20 to keep her sweet :)

I prob won't let them veg much longer, i'm all about rotation, and stocky plants, so even the lower canopy is still within 10" of the bulb
 
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