Me and my GF's first grow//closet//cfl//updated with many pics//experts get in here!!
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robbie82
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Its too late for cloning up to the first week or two in flowering I believe, or so I was told. I have no room for it regardless.
Thanks tech. Your main plants are looking strong too bro.
raeman1990
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damn i just read your whole thread and it was like the best tv drama show ive ever seen i was rooting for your babies. your one female looks great, good luck, good grow, good smoke!
multisonic
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maybe it's just me but i think all of those links are bad....
robbie82
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Hahah thats awesome! I love hearing that, drop by again soon. Another month or so and its harvest time! Stay tuned.
Thanks for the input bro! Its appreciated.
robbie82
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Wheewwwwwweee! thats looks veddie naaawwwcciee!sorry bout that guys link fixed ......pretty sure urs we'll come out like this if not even better
How long did u flower those for tech?
multisonic
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just to save me searching, how many watts and how many lights per plant did you use?
robbie82
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It varied through the grow, but here is how it went down:
Seedligns got 1 100Watt bulb 2000 Lumen each (5500K)
For rest of veg There was a total of 8 (5500/6500K mix) 100 watt bulbs for my 6 plants
And as u can see for the 1 of the 3 plants that made it into Veg. Bushy gets 12 100 Watt Bulbs with a mix of warm and day lighting (mixed spectrum)
And Tech thats awsome for 7 weeks. Im in week 5 now, development seems to have slowed down a bit, Im hoping that it just needs a growth spurt so the budds get fatter. I guess we will see soon!
multisonic
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thanks robbie. i just tossed my cfl's for 4 t12 daylights for my plants that are about 3 weeks old. they arent nearly as bright but they seem to be doing rather well. plus over 1/2 of my cfl's were like 3300K. i only had 1 real 5500. weaksauce. I think i might get a 600 hps for flower so they'll be nice N dense.
robbie82
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Awesome!
natmoon
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Hey robbie i scanned through your pics and some of your info and i noticed that a lot of the leafs on your biggest plant have got a lot of white spots on the leafs.
This is either a deficiency of some kind,the fact that it is rootbound/potbound or you have spider mites or you have no perlite in the soil and the plant cant breathe as its to wet or all of the above.
If it was mine i would first check the underside of all of the affected leaves for mites with a magnifier.
If thats not it i would repot it and water it less as if you have no or hardly any perlite in the mix it will make it harder to drain and breathe for the roots.
This is either a deficiency of some kind,the fact that it is rootbound/potbound or you have spider mites or you have no perlite in the soil and the plant cant breathe as its to wet or all of the above.
If it was mine i would first check the underside of all of the affected leaves for mites with a magnifier.
If thats not it i would repot it and water it less as if you have no or hardly any perlite in the mix it will make it harder to drain and breathe for the roots.
chunkymunkey33
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Hey Robbie, I think the reason you couldn't control them at first was because you gave them nutes, and the soil you Miracle Grow African Violet potting soil already has nutrients in there that lasts for awhile. Next time maybe try regular potting soil, no nutes in it. Also I saw that you said you wanted to get more lights. I got mine from light bulb depot. They have super spiral cfl's which are like 11 inches long, put out 4250 lumens each, and still fit in a regular socket. They are 85 watts and come in 2700K and 6400K and run just under $30. Much better price than HID lights. I also bought 3 work lights(you know the ones with the silver reflector) from home depot to use as my light fixtures which can handle up to 150 watts. Here is the url if you want to take a look at the light bulbs Lighting fixtures, gu10 halogen, light bulb, lamp, fluorescent, incandescent, metal halide from Light Bulb Depot.
natmoon
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If its just needing a repotting it will come back to life within days,if its the dreaded mites then you may have probs getting rid of them all now.
Get a magnifier underneath the leaves or use your camera to take close ups of the underside of the leaves and then zoom in on the pics and check them for mites.
Get a magnifier underneath the leaves or use your camera to take close ups of the underside of the leaves and then zoom in on the pics and check them for mites.
natmoon
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I only just recently started to bother to ph test my water to be honest,i just used to chuck it through a home jug filter out of the tap and leave it for 24-48 hours to evap the chlorine properly.
When i went and bought some decent nutes the shop lady convinced me to check all of my water with the kit.
When i did this i realised that all though my water would not harm my plants it was becoming to soft from the filter and then adding nutes i was reducing its ph to about 5.8-6.0 with this kit i can now get my water exactly how i want it straight from the tap.
I still leave the water to breathe but because i live in a good water area i don't really need to filter it just leave it to breathe and then correct the ph by adding nutes or some organo acid which is basically just citric acid.
I try to get as near to the correct colour of green as i can now using the ph kit.
I believe that it has made a difference in general plant health but was not really something i could ever be assed to bother with before as i was happy with what i had really.
But it seems that it can be better with a little extra effort.
Glad that you haven't got mites though and i am sure a repot will see the plant come back to life a bit