first time, cfl, weird plant growth, small plant for 12/12

NorthWest69

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Nute burn? All I see is some minor browning of the very tips of a few leaves, which could be anything. How do you know that's nute-burn DJsnowballin'? Plant looks generally very healthy to me, that brief occasion where the temperature went up to 100, is likely what may have cause this, but still the damage appears minimal. This looks like one of the healthiest CFL grows i've seen, I don't understand this talk about weird looking growth.
That is too bad about having to harvest a little early, but it should be almost completely done, so it could have been worse. Normally if the plant looks like it's still growing vigorously, I would recommend 9 weeks of flowering for sure. You may be able to tell this through the darkness of the hairs, also the newer growth can be identified by being a lighter green. Also consider what you plant did when put into flowering. Did it form buds almost immediately, or did it stretch then start growing bud. Obviously from your photos it looks like there wasn't much stretch and buds came pretty quickly so I would say two weeks should be almost perfect anyway, so don't worry, be happy.
But what I really wanted to talk about was the really nice pictures showing your setup and various elements of your grow. Nice job taking the time to get some nice shots. Nothing worse than when you see what looks like a sweet grow, but some dip-stick is trying to bob to Eminem while waving his cell phone camera around. This person simply has no sense of composition. For other reasons I have a Digital SLR, but I love using it to take pictures of my pot, you get the most intense detail of your buds, and everything just looks crisp. Even colour correcting in photoshop is a good idea I think, if you're into that kind of thing. Check out some of the shots of my grow box, I wasn't trying anything crazy, just some really sexy shots of Lady Jane, hehehehe.
https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/199973-cfl-wrap-around.html
 

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Jrankin89

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Nute burn? All I see is some minor browning of the very tips of a few leaves, which could be anything. How do you know that's nute-burn DJsnowballin'? Plant looks generally very healthy to me, that brief occasion where the temperature went up to 100, is likely what may have cause this, but still the damage appears minimal. This looks like one of the healthiest CFL grows i've seen, I don't understand this talk about weird looking growth.
That is too bad about having to harvest a little early, but it should be almost completely done, so it could have been worse. Normally if the plant looks like it's still growing vigorously, I would recommend 9 weeks of flowering for sure. You may be able to tell this through the darkness of the hairs, also the newer growth can be identified by being a lighter green. Also consider what you plant did when put into flowering. Did it form buds almost immediately, or did it stretch then start growing bud. Obviously from your photos it looks like there wasn't much stretch and buds came pretty quickly so I would say two weeks should be almost perfect anyway, so don't worry, be happy.
But what I really wanted to talk about was the really nice pictures showing your setup and various elements of your grow. Nice job taking the time to get some nice shots. Nothing worse than when you see what looks like a sweet grow, but some dip-stick is trying to bob to Eminem while waving his cell phone camera around. This person simply has no sense of composition. For other reasons I have a Digital SLR, but I love using it to take pictures of my pot, you get the most intense detail of your buds, and everything just looks crisp. Even colour correcting in photoshop is a good idea I think, if you're into that kind of thing. Check out some of the shots of my grow box, I wasn't trying anything crazy, just some really sexy shots of Lady Jane, hehehehe.
https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/199973-cfl-wrap-around.html
ya, Nute burn is impossible, ive been flushing for 1/2 week, just sucks i have to chop her soon, shes so beautiful. right now the buds arn't really grwoing... and yes, very nice shots you have there,,, lookin good
 

NorthWest69

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Bud growth can be hard to see near the end of flowering as newer growth slows but the bud should continue to swell. So your plants should still be swelling, although I'm surprised that there's not more bud above the leaves. Usually you see a large portion on the very top that is simply bud. also there's not one single orange hair. With these conditions I would expect to see small buds, so this is where I'm a little confused. Maybe you don't have a nutrient overload, but some sort of deficiency. I like to use Molasses and bat guano during flowering, simply because it's idiot proof, you don't need to measure some miniscule amount of fertilizer, you put a spoonful of both right into the watering can, stir, and Bam, youre ready to go, plus I can do this right up up harvest knowing my plant is getting all the nutrients it needs, and I'm not exposing myself to any chemicals that will cause my kid to have a third ear or something. Most people seem to agree a little natural Molasses during flowering will increase bud growth. Try it next time bra.
 

Jrankin89

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Bud growth can be hard to see near the end of flowering as newer growth slows but the bud should continue to swell. So your plants should still be swelling, although I'm surprised that there's not more bud above the leaves. Usually you see a large portion on the very top that is simply bud. also there's not one single orange hair. With these conditions I would expect to see small buds, so this is where I'm a little confused. Maybe you don't have a nutrient overload, but some sort of deficiency. I like to use Molasses and bat guano during flowering, simply because it's idiot proof, you don't need to measure some miniscule amount of fertilizer, you put a spoonful of both right into the watering can, stir, and Bam, youre ready to go, plus I can do this right up up harvest knowing my plant is getting all the nutrients it needs, and I'm not exposing myself to any chemicals that will cause my kid to have a third ear or something. Most people seem to agree a little natural Molasses during flowering will increase bud growth. Try it next time bra.
there are orange hairs, you just can't see them in the pics ive taken, buds look good to me, im happy with what i got :D thanks for the comments and the concerns.
 

NorthWest69

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I'm not overly concerned about your pot, bra. I mentioned before I thought everything looks good. That's why I was confused in one of your recent posts you said "the buds aren't really growing". If the bud isn't growing, then there's usually something wrong. I was just speculating what it could be. But ya, your bud looks really good. I would think it's probably growing.
 

thatdjsnow

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Damn that looks nice man. you make the CFLers proud. haha :P

and btw - said "like" nute-burn...... then said "what's up with that?" ... pretty much me asking what the browning was lol
 

josh b

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yes you have made me proud to see what you have prduced so far when using clf's gonna keep a close eye on this too ur harvest and dry weight

gl growin

thanks
 

Jrankin89

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I know its been a long time, but my comp broke and i havent posted in a while, got bout 1/2 Oz off this baby and she tasted yummy only used 2700k the whole time too! :D
 

hchuck

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with that one plant i dont think you need a fan an i hope you cant see the roots unless your growing in water, those cfl dont make enough heat to worry about a fan, good luck
 
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