My CFL Lowryder 2 grow - first grow!

impressive plants!
Grow ON!

awesome lookin!!!!

Extra 125 watt dual cfl just added Hope it doesnt get too hot now. Stupid weathers not exactly hot so it should be fine. It does seem Im wasting a lot of the light having them vertical but I just cant find a secure way of keeping them horizontal (cant really afford special reflector base thingys). Im hoping when they get bigger theyll go nicely around the lights rather than underneath.

They got a tiny bit of miracle grow in their water yesterday, just a bit coz Im very wary of nutes. I need to get some better stuff tho, obv miracle grow isnt ideal.

I can confirm that A and G are girlies too. G is now called Ginny (big Potter fan lol) and Im working on a name for A. B, male, is Borris lol just coz its fun. I dont know what's going on with D , probably male. Think E and F are boys so just H left to show

Liking the smilies today

You could be cheap and cheerful like i was when hanging my 125 dual cfl. Just drilled a hole big enough to fit my holder for the bulb, slid the bulb though the hole and then screwed it into the holder. Bit tricky holding the bulb on one side of the cab and the bulb holder on the other side while screwing the bulb in, but it can be done lol. Granted it is fixed in place but i just lift my plant up instead of lowering the light.

There looking good by the way!

you really should put the cfls horizontally and make a reflector,they will grow faster

excellent work so far!

you can make your own reflector really easily to lay them horiztonally, heres a pic from my grow to show you:



see my journal in my sig for more pics.

looking good Queen. Keeping them girls sexy I c. Keep it up homegurl.

great grow, I just ordered Lowryder 2 X ak47 feminised so I am stoked....just curious, did you use 24/7 lighting? Thanks

18/6 is bout best that ive found for lowryders

Got some awesome new pics for you courtesy of my bfs camera phone. (Zoom in for best detail) You can see pistils and balls and all sorts!

At the mo:

A - Girl
B - Boy
C - Girl
D - Boy
E - Boy
F - Boy
G - Girl
H - Not sure

Im using an 18/6 cycle and plan to keep using that all the way through, though joint doctor says you can reduce it to 16/8 at the end (or maybe middle... or something anyway) with no loss of yield.

Just another one from the top for comparison purposes (poop quality as off my phone!)

my first lot of lowryders i swtched to 12/12 bout 6 weeks in but still got bout 3 quaters per plant. It dont look like im gonna get nearly as much off the 1 i got now lol. ur plants are looking realy nice, will u be breeding with on of ur males or u gonna castrate the lot lol?

Im planning on trying to pollinate one part of one plant. Ive heard the pollen can spread but I think Ill chance it. I think C and D will be bred as D is the biggest and strongest and C showed herself first. Im just keeping them together for a few more days to make sure they are what I think they are then the boys are being seperated. Somehow, havnt thought of the details yet! When do the males release the pollen?

i never grew my males out that long but id say bout week seven the sacks should be open, keep an eye on them. Once they are open then everything in the area will get a squirt of the pollen lol.

wow things lookin good. were did u get the seeds?

I got the seeds from a local shop that sells bongs and seeds and stuff. They had an official looking Lowryder label on tho; my guess is they bought them from the website and stuck an extra tenner on! By the way all 10 seeds did germinate but I messed about with them while they germinating and I think thats why 2 died. I used crap soil to plant the seeds then got some better stuff and thought it would be a good idea to replant them but it came at a price (A, B and C wernt repotted when they were germinating, therefore they came through first and thats probably why theyv ended up showing sex first)

Right... Well Im now sure H is a boy so out of the 8 plants A C and G are girls. Not too bad, 3's better than none!

I still dont want to kill the useless males. I have cut the tip off E just to see what happens (E for Experiment lol). F is in the bathroom, for decoration!

The boys have been moved away from the light mostly so that A C and G are more spread out and are the ones directly under the lights. I keep giving them a bit of miracle grow, not sure how much its helping but they dont seem to mind it at least. Still need some bloom nutes but they'l have to wait til payday!

Ive got a question - D is the biggest stongest male but B has grown lots more balls quickly while D is a lot slower with the ball growing. Which is the best to use for seeds? The stronger plant or the seemingly more fertile one? Im now thinking B so it gives its girl offspring the good sex part forming genes. Does that make sense?!

id go with the strongest one personaly i think lol theone with lots of balls sounds good too maybe do two buds and see wich gives better seeds and plants lol

how tall is the biggest plant?

I have yet again forgotten to measure them but I will defo do it tomorrow. Heres some pics from today.

First and second pics are of Crystabell, shes getting taller and is looking more buddy with little clusters of white hairs forming. Shes not very bushy tho

Third pic is of A (still havnt decided on a name). Shes the bushiest but isnt quite as tall as C, not by much tho

Fourth pic is of Ginny, she is the shortest but is bushier than Crystabell.

A and Ginny dont seem as advanced in the flowering department as Crystabell.

Fifth pic of Borris showing his dangly bits! Thinking I will use D not B for breeding as he is a lot lot bushier but cant help admire B's masculinity lol

looking good QueenBee, nice thick stems u got going there.