First Grow: 7 Plants, CFL's

You will probably want to go a little longer than 7 weeks with those girls, unless they really come on strong in the coming weeks.

regards,

well i want a nice head high with a subtle body high so im gunna aim for 30 - 35% amber pistols (i think thats right?) so yea probably a little more, but not by too much

EDIT:
The buds are only about 1.5 weeks old, they didnt start showing for quite some time

today i transplanted them to these beast pots (15in), they were only temporarily revived from the last root bound incident. I'm feeding with molasses, and have been, these girls are growing very nice, the nodes are starting to interlock with pistols, its beautiful.

I need to find 2700K fluorescent 48in tubes. Home Depot, Lowes, and Wal-Mart don't have them. I know their website says they do, but their employees say no. Got to get them shipped to me... so I still have the 6500K tubes 3 of them, with 10 2700k cfls hanging off around the hood.

I just went out to a local store and bought 3 x 40W 1600 lumen 2700k tubes. I also got 2 more lights + 2 y-splitters and 4 x 27W (100W equiv) 2700K CFLs at 1600 lumens ea.

So i now have
12 x 2700k 27W 1600 Lumens CFL's
3 x 2700k 40W 1600 Lumens 2700k tubes

I did the math:
24000 Lumens
444 Watts (1320W Equiv)
5 Plants = 4800 Lumens + 88.8 W (264 W) / plant

Buds are really starting to fill out. 4 into flowering, 2 weeks of actual flowering. probably going to go on the heavier side of 6 weeks left until harvest

Here we are, 65 days old! 30 days of veg, 35 of flowering with another 3 to 5 weeks to go!

I'm still waiting for my friend to email me more of the pics on her camera. The bottom pic shows the plant with, what i think, a potassium deficiency. I bought a new fertilizer to combat it, and to also add flowering specific nutrients

dude you should put those cfls a bit closer to your buds, they won't burn CFL's dont run that hot, trust me i did it to my babies and buds enlarged, great work man i have a similar setup,

Thanks man, just did it. +rep

My new concern is surprise... the first hurricane to hit the northeast region in 20 years. fuck. im currently tracking irene and trying to figure out what to do if worse case scenario of power goes out. Anyone have experience with generators? My setup is using about 600W

I had to harvest one of my plants prematurely because of space issues, but after 7 days of drying the stems were bendy but stiff. I just finished cutting up the nugs and pre-curing/pre-trimming i got only 4.8g, but it was only in flowering for 38 days and out grew its container.

The other 4 are still flourishing. The one with the K deficiency isn't getting better but nor is it getting worse, its still growing so I'm happy. The other immature plant that I kept is slowly unfolding it's leaves and is starting to create some nice small buds.

Now the last two are fucking amazing. I predict at least 2oz per plant for these ladies. With 19ish days left until the 8.5 week mark of flowering (7 weeks of budding) they are already look like they are close to harvest, in reference to size of buds.

I'll upload more pics soon

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I have quite a bit of stems and leaves from the first harvest.. how do I make hash?