Blue Hash and Critical + Cab grow soil

The one on the left is the blue hash and the one on the right is the critical +. I planted this 48 days ago in small starter pots, and was a little late transferring them to their current pots (about 3 weeks). To make matters worse, I didn't start using any nutes until last week. I started them on a grow mix of GH Flora Bloom/Micro/Gro, and this week added Flora Nectar and some subculture M. Both girls are responding well, and both are very healthy, but how long can I veg for before ruining the bloom? I'd like to get at least 24" on both plants before switching the lights, and blooming. Can I veg for another month or even 2? I see a few small pistils starting to show on the blue has around the nodes. Any recos on the lights? Currently 3 15 watt CFL's. Weak sauce I know, but worked well when I was doing hydro.

Thanks for taking a look!

considering you are only using 3 small bulbs they look pretty good mate...........a 2 ft hi plant is going to be a little big under them though..

So, since two weeks ago I've added two additional 5700K bulbs, and have been on a GH aggressive growth plan with the same nutes I've been using. The Blue Hash (on the left) is about 17" tall, and the Critical + on the right is slightly shorter, around 15". I've added an hour of darkness each week, now running at 16/8 light to dark. All steamed distilled H2O for watering.

My plan is to start the transition to flower in 8 days (at day 70), changing all the bulbs to 2700K, possibly adding floralicious bloom and liquid koolbloom for a better yield.

All comments welcome, please let me know what you think.

-Smalls

del66666 said:

considering you are only using 3 small bulbs they look pretty good mate...........a 2 ft hi plant is going to be a little big under them though..

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Thanks Del. I figured that. might my pots (3 gal and 2 gal) be stifling the growth too?

siggysmalls said:

Thanks Del. I figured that. might my pots (3 gal and 2 gal) be stifling the growth too?

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this is in a 6.5 litre pot......

really are nice looking plants though.......chunky leaves...good colour........great job with what you are using.

Thank you.

Guess it shouldn't make a difference then. That is f'n nice. Two questions:

1) What strain is that?

2) What kind of growth did you see from veg to flower?

siggysmalls said:

Thank you.

Guess it shouldn't make a difference then. That is f'n nice. Two questions:

1) What strain is that?

2) What kind of growth did you see from veg to flower?

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its a cross of thc bomb and bubblegum that i made 4-5 years ago......ran it 12-12 from seed...........all mine are done 12-12 from seed

you should love the critical+ siggy. done 3 runs of her now and she's a beautiful smoke.

siggy why do you have 2 exact same threads going?

Del, have 2 threads in different forums for a better likelihood of a response to my questions. Don't want to clog up all the forums, but figured different people look in different forums, so I may get a response in one where I wouldn't in the other. Worked for me. But back to the plants.

Day 75 now, Plants are both around 2 feet, and looking healthy, so started a 12/12 light cycle and changed my bulbs to 2700k. Also adding GH liquid koolbloom to my nute mix. Here are some pics:

Bonzo said:

you should love the critical+ siggy. done 3 runs of her now and she's a beautiful smoke.

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I got one critical seed as a freebie, and really liked it too. I'm so glad I cloned it first.

Buds are coming along nicely. Flowering for about 6 weeks now, fattening up and pistils are turning color. Trichomes are about half clear/half milky, haven't seen any amber yet. I'm going to bloom for another 2-3 weeks, flush for a week, then harvest. Here are some pics...