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chunkymunkey33 said:

That new avatar pic is awesome raiderman. Is that your's?

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GrowKindNugs said:

it was a very stoney 4th indeed, haha...i hope everyone stayed safe...nice work melted, i'd love to try some of that wb, looks dank as hell....and raider, i think that's just over a half pound, so definetely doable...

gkn

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GrowKindNugs said:

oh yeah, heads up, bout the 400w hid system...i'm no pro, but have been using a hydrofarm for a while now, and i'm loving it, really quality shit for a great price...i still have an old school magnetic ballast and it get's pretty hot, but has a long enough cord that i can put it in the closet so that heat doesn't affect my grow...depends on how big of yields you want, but with less plants, the bigger and more yield you'll get...my first run with autoflowering plants i only had 4 females under my 400, and they got huge, it was awesome...so i'd say a good number is 4-8 plants...all up to you...hope that helps some..


gkn

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Heads Up said:

As usual, it seems I'm home alone on the thread this time of morning. So today is the completion of week five of flowering for me. The girls look like they are starting to put on some weight, they are frosting up nicely and they smell oh so sweet. Stopped over my partners house yesterday afternoon to check out his girls. I try to only go over once a week for a look see so I can judge the progress. He is using a six tube t5 for a total of thirty thousand lumens. He also has bent and tied his plants and he is two weeks behind me as far as grow time. His buds look awesome. He too has six girls going. If his harvest is that much more than mine, I have decided I'll buy another four footer to bring up my lumens to forty thousand while I save the money to go hid. He ran out of pots when he started his plants so he had to use one half gallon grow bag, he has a crystal in it, a cross of northern lights and white widow. The plant is amazing. I wouldn't believe you could grow such a girl in a half gallon bag but seeing is believing. I'll get some pics up of his grow before all is said and done. The oldest teenager went out with the camera so I can't get any pics this weekend, maybe next. I want that hid setup badly but if his grow produces that much more I'm going to spend the hundred fifty for the fixture and the eight tubes. I can get two or three more grows out of it before I save enough for the hid and maybe even produce enough to sell a bit to one good friend to help offset the costs. If I can get an ounce dry off each girl, that will let me be able to sell two and keep four. I won't smoke an ounce a month by myself it it's good. That gives me time to get my next grow up, going and dry and cured before I would run out again. Between the two of us we're shooting for a pound but would happily settle for twelve ounces of nothing but bud. It won't be a waste, after I get the hid I can use the t5's for vegging and the hid for flowering and that way have a constant grow going.

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GrowKindNugs said:

hey man, you get up wayyy to early for me, hahaha...in fact, this thread has a 10 am start time, lol, i'm only playing...
for my first auto grow, i had 4 females and ended up with just under 5 ozs of dried nuggets, not too shabby for auto's...and you'll be fine using fluoro's for a bit longer..you should research using different temp bulbs so you have different spectrums of light...i saw in a hightimes a dude was using all fluoros with great success, he had some pink bulbs, blue, just check it out...
my little babies are looking really healthy and should be showing sex soon as their getting close to 20 days old....

gkn

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GrowKindNugs said:

and i know you're supposed to keep fluoro's really close to the top of plants, like a couple inches..I also remember that article saying that plants kept under fluros will be shorter and yield less overall, but will be loaded with crystals!


gkn

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GrowKindNugs said:

Hey everybody, I was board so decided to take some new pics..I know there a bit boring, but they couldn't be more healthy and green...I also just learned how to put big pics in my post, and i think i'm a little addicted, haha...1 diesel ryder didnt sprout, so that leaves me with 9...i hope i get more than 4 females, cross your fingers....
enjoy and have a great sunday....

gkn

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Heads Up said:

As mentioned before, they are tied to shower curtain rods. In two weeks I've moved my lights once, to lower it a notch this morning when I went in there and adjusted my girls. At the furthest point my buds are four inches from my lights, at their closest maybe and inch and a quarter. I have a thirty six inch tower fan blowing into the closet to keep the lights and plants cool. No burn at all with my lights this close, the fan keeps sweeping across the tops to keep them cool.

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Heads Up said:

It's a for sure, I have some seeds going on at least one bud from one of the bombs. I'm hoping the caramelisious buds I painted also produces some seeds buts it's hard for me to tell, it's tied to the back rod so it's rather hard to see. I'm hoping for an ounce or more per plant and at least ten more years of growing so I can grow a half pounder.

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GrowKindNugs said:

hell ya dude, i'm happy to hear that...i've noticed that auto's tend to have more rounded leaves earlier in their lives...i've spotted my first male, and i think i'm gonna use his pollen cause he's an absolute stud...fast, uniform growth, smells dank already, i've heard that smelly males are good to use for breeding...so now i have to find him a wife, then we'll be set with hundreds of autoflowering seeds!!
wow, come a couple months we're gonna be swimming in bud and seeds! i can't wait..


gkn

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Floridianpuffnpuff said:

Yes very true . We should all have a nice variety of buds n seeds to keep us busy through the upcoming months.

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