Low-berry CFL Grow

After an epic fail on my first attempt at growing, Iv done a few upgrades to the setup and decided to start over.

Using Bio-Bizz AllMix soil and letting nature germinate the seeds by just throwing them in the dirt. Im growing under a 200W 2700k CFL in a homemade grow tent.

Below are some pictures of the biggest of the Lowberrys. its 7 days above ground. Any comments/advice based on it?

Thanks in advance guys, I might start a journal if people are interested.

see the twisting bottom leaves? thats caused by heat stress..... what kind of ventilation do you have?

My light isnt in the right place because Im growing 2 different height strains at once and the Lowberries are on a shelf thing thats just too close to the light. Im giving the Widows to a friend to finish today so once i get the light a decent distance away from the plants the heat stress problem will be gone. Aside from that she looking decent enough for her age?

I think its a good plant for 7 days. Mine are 20 days old, and stretched.

Laze said:

I think its a good plant for 7 days. Mine are 20 days old, and stretched.

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I found that my plants stretched depending on what pot they were first planted in, the ones planted in the smaller pot stretched more than the one planted in the bigger pot even tho the smaller pot was propped up on a box to ensure it was the same distance from the light.

Dunno if anyone is watching but heres some new pics at day 12...they missed out on a day of light due to security issues so its probably a day behind.

Nice! seems you took care of that heat stress and its actualy reacting posativly to the days lack of light (as far as i can see).

have you given get its first feeding yet? its at 4'th node so it would be a good time to top if you wanted. its also time to start feeding it by the looks of it, and it could be a little closer to the light source to slow the strech (like a DVD/VHS case height, 1-2 inch closer.... dont want to heat stress it again).

thats one nice indica you have there

Corbat420 said:

Nice! seems you took care of that heat stress and its actualy reacting posativly to the days lack of light (as far as i can see).

have you given get its first feeding yet? its at 4'th node so it would be a good time to top if you wanted. its also time to start feeding it by the looks of it, and it could be a little closer to the light source to slow the strech (like a DVD/VHS case height, 1-2 inch closer.... dont want to heat stress it again).

thats one nice indica you have there

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I think part of the stretch may be that I use a 2700k light (red spectrum) because I aint bothered getting a blue light for the seriously short veg period.

I was gonna wait for flowering to start feeding her, should I start now you reckon?

Harrekin said:

I think part of the stretch may be that I use a 2700k light (red spectrum) because I aint bothered getting a blue light for the seriously short veg period.

I was gonna wait for flowering to start feeding her, should I start now you reckon?

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since its a seedling id throw it into flowering right now and start feeding it. it wont actualy start to bud untill its ready but 12/12 light wont hurt it as a seedling. my seedlings have been under 12/12 for 2 weeks and still havent even preflowered, where as the clones in the room are starting to pistol.


feed her flowering nutes the whole way through, you'll notice discoloration of lower fan leaves, but you can slow that with some extra nitrogen every now and again, mollases is allways a soil growers friend to if you can keep the PH in check, mollases likes a low PH where pot likes it neutral.

Corbat i think he's growing an autoflowering strain so no 12/12,no use in topping .

Harrekin said:

After an epic fail on my first attempt at growing, Iv done a few upgrades to the setup and decided to start over.

Using Bio-Bizz AllMix soil and letting nature germinate the seeds by just throwing them in the dirt. Im growing under a 200W 2700k CFL in a homemade grow tent.

Below are some pictures of the biggest of the Lowberrys. its 7 days above ground. Any comments/advice based on it?

Thanks in advance guys, I might start a journal if people are interested.

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get some fans in there and open air circulation bro and you should be good to go .

nellyatcha said:

get some fans in there and open air circulation bro and you should be good to go .

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Plenty of circulation there bro, with fans and windows to the outside world!

Just two new pics, its day 21...she should start flowering soon, right?

Yeah, looks pretty

I wish it would flower...wanna see what it smells like!

give her a few more days, she'll show preflowers. do you have it under 18/6 or 24/0? 18/6 helps show preflowers.

Corbat420 said:

give her a few more days, she'll show preflowers. do you have it under 18/6 or 24/0? 18/6 helps show preflowers.

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Its now around day 47 for this plant...think the autoflowering gene is absent in this one...no pistils or anything under 18/6. Sorry some of the pictures are a bit dark, but what should I do?

EDIT: Bumpage, I need an answer!

Anyone have an answer?

Just let it keep going? Maybe its just a longer auto-flowering plant.

MilkyLep said:

Just let it keep going? Maybe its just a longer auto-flowering plant.

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give them a full day of dark then start on a 12/12 cycle, you will see preflowers in about 5 days with how healthy those weeds are man. great looking plants!