I'm coming out of the closet!!!! Lots of pics

I have to agree with roseypanties get hps or & mh!!! rep+

roseypanties said:

With All the money you spent on the CFL's you could have bought a nice 600 watter HPS. Did your Female Buds have SEEDS because of the Male Polinating? I saw that Big Guy in the picture and the pollen was spread on the leaf..so, What happened?

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knowing what i know now i prolly would have gone the hps route. my roomate is convinced that the feds put a search warrant out on everyone who buys an hps. our agreement was that i couldn't use any grow lights. the challenge was part of the fun for me.

i don't know about seeds yet as i haven't harvested yet. it was my first grow so i was still figuring out sexing. once i realized that i had males and that they jizzed all over the setup, i got the females out of there and scrubbed down everything. i didn't put the females into flower until a few weeks after the males died so i'm hoping they weren't fertile. if not i have an excuse to start round 2.

who curd eat just one said:

looks like a fire hazard

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not really. nothing gets too hot to touch. nothing very flammable is nearby. and as for the electrical, well, lets just say that electrical engineering class i took came in handy.

johnny961 said:

I have to agree with roseypanties get hps or & mh!!! rep+

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probably will go that way for round 2. see my prior post as to why i couldn't go hps or mh even if i wanted to. $ was a little short at the time too and i could add cfl's one at a time whereas hps and mh aren't like that.

thanks for the rep!!

Week 5 of flowering:
early August

Things are starting to really pick up. Vertical growth is increasing and buds are really starting to fill out. I also started playing with my camera settings. Otherwise just doing what I have been...~.5 gallon H20 per plant every 2-3 days w/ nutes and molasses. Temps in the low 80's and humidity ~40%. I think all the close ups are of #2.


Here is my setup from a few feet away.







#2 starting to look pretty good

Dam more great pics /////////

Hel ya
keep up the good work

makinthemagic said:

i don't know for sure. The seeds came out of some smoke i had back in february or march. At the time my guy probably had purple kush, hemp star or elvar? (some organic strain).

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camaro630hp said:

Dam more great pics /////////

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Thanks. This is where the pics just start to get good. I will be posting more this weekend.

wow man ya your grow looks amazing, givin me faith in CFLs again

Week 6 of flowering:
mid August

This is a few days later from my last post of pics. The girls continue to fill out and put on weight. Trichs start to become visible to the naked eye. Almost all of the close ups are of #2 as it is getting harder to move things around to get close ups of #1.

By this point I am maxing out the nutes, MG flowering every other day w/ RO DI H20. My tap water is like poison to them.







#1's cola


#1 from a distance. She is getting too heavy to stand on her own. She spends the day leaning against the wall


Spider man keeping guard!



Cola's everywhere!


Its hard to focus the camera that close


Much better


Trichs!!!!






Some heat burn and nute burn visible on #2



#1 is losing leaves faster than I can clean them up. But #2 is hardly losing any leaves. Anybody know why?


A bunch of #1's colas all in a row


More of #1's colas lined up





And again, but with different camera settings





#1's main cola again


Better focus



This cola is really starting to fill out


Frickin' dead leaves





Not too many white hairs growing anymore




More of #1's side branches and plenty of manicuring for me to do. I swear these girls are higher maintenance than female humans.


Some leaves dead, many more on the way.



This shows one of the tricky parts to my setup. I have to keep the clip on lights spaced and positioned correctly so the shop light stays balanced. Move one light into the right spot and it shifts another into the wrong spot....



Colas everywhere. Looking upwards this time.



Colas and cfl's oh my



#1 again. Her side branches are sagging under the weight.


CFL sunrise!



#2's main cola.







If you couldn't tell I couldn't take enough pics of this



Better view of some heat burn on the cola, nute burn on the sides.



CFL's might not be too hot but they can burn





Back to #1 again


Some more pics of #2's colas.










I finally got the macro setting and focus right.

excellent job, i'm drooling

awesome grow!

hell ya
some crazy ass pics
keep it up

They might have been losing so many leaves because of too much heat. Do you have enough ventilation?

kiss-assthis is me kissing your ass because i am speechless!

Rotfeast said:

They might have been losing so many leaves because of too much heat. Do you have enough ventilation?

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I think ventilation is ok but #1 is back in the corner with the least circulation. That black fan moves a lot of air and I have the tower fan blowing air into the closet. Temps are in the low 80's during the light cycle except for a day or 2 when I screwed up. They were in the mid 90's+ for a few hours.

HiGHLiFE28 said:

kiss-assthis is me kissing your ass because i am speechless!

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Check back in a day or so. The next batch of pics to be posted were taken 2 weeks after the last batch. Its almost harvest time.

i wanna c lolol

thats the best comming out the closet show ive seen.

Week 9 flowering:
Early September
I apologize as I didn’t take any pics for about 2 weeks. It’s my busy time of year at work and there have been plenty of parties on the weekends. Fortunately I’ve at least made time to keep the girls fed and watered. These pics are about a week old.

Here is my standard setup as I leave it for maximum light containment balanced with reasonable heat dissipation and stealthiness. My roommate didn't notice for 2 months even though he walked by my room multiple times per day. He only found out because he saw the bag of soil in the trunk of my car. I knew I forgot something before I picked him up from the airport.




"I think something is living in there"


I think it wants out.


Lights, lights and thermometer


Nutes and RO DI H2O visible. Who says MG doesn't work?


BONDAGE TIME!! The side branches sagged first. I had to tie them up before they ruined themselves. I think my girls are freaky cuz they like to be tied up. I like my women like that.


One shoelace did the trick. I used one side to help hold the other.



Routed the shoelace over a node to hold it.




The girls have gotten heavy now. I don’t like fat girls but this is a different story. I tied the fatties up.



Another of overall layout for those looking to replicate. Its hard to tell but #2 has a flat side close to the fan. That was due to accidental topping via CFL. It also has been kind of LST's due to the wind.



Some of random closet junk and the light reflectors that I removed. I should have cleaned the junk off the shelf for better airflow and cooling but it was the one thing I chose to be lazy about. I hate cleaing. I don't know if had an effects but I put the reflectors up to contain a little bit more light.


Have to run the wires through good spots and keep them tied up too. Don't want them leaning on the girls or going where they could be a fire hazard.














More bondage







#2 and some of her colas


I tied #1 to #2 to hold each other up.








Also had to use some zip ties on #1. She is really getting weighed down.





#1 main cola


#1 main cola


Here is some idea of the scale


#2. Note the spots. I knew I shouldn't have used tap water.


#2, not sure which cola


#2 again


Another cola on #2


#2


#2. Manual focus at 1cm is hard to nail perfectly


Back to #1 side branches



More #1. Line em up.


#1 side branches. They keep growing into every little corner. Its getting annoying.



CFL sunrise. #1 side branches



#1 side branch, the one way in the back. Its getting hard to get under the lights, between the girls, around the wires while holding the camera.


#1 main cola from a low angle


#1 main cola from a higher angle


Trichs are really starting to show now. Getting the hang of the macro setting.




#1 side branch with others in the background


An attempt at something artistic but the camera focused on the background instead


This is what I was trying above. #1 side branch little nuggets in the foreground


#2. Her hairs stick out a little more and won't turn amber as fast


#2 again


Back to #1 main again


and again


#1 sides again


#1 sides again


and again


back to #2. this is one of the side colas.


apparently i couldn't get enough of #1 that night


and back to #2 side colas. damn adhd


#2 side colas



These are the last pics I have as of this moment. I'll take and post more tomorrow. I know these aren't trich shots but can anyone more experienced than I give me an idea of when harvest should be? I might take #1 down tomorrow. This is my first harvest so any and all advice is appreciated.