First Grow... Help!

mik1978

New Member
Hi all

Im doing my first grow after a bit of initial research.

Im growing 2 berry ryders and 2 supercheese express, all autos, in soil. Im using:
150w red cfl (for flowering period)
300w dual spectrum cfl (for
all grow)
300w blue cfl (for use in veg period)
4 x 5 gallon pots
voodoo juice for roots
AN ph perfect micro grow bloom
AN bud candy
AN overdrive
big bud

Its a stealth grow so just using a 0.5m x 0.5m x 1m grow tent.

I germinated the seeds and planted around 30 days ago. The lights were on 24/7 and ive just changed to 18/6.

I used the dual cfl and blue cfl until now and have just changed blue cfl for red one today

Should they have flowered by now and is there anything I can do to help them flower?

A couple of the leaves got burnt by one of the lights which had been placed at the back of the tent but its since been hung up.

Ive used some voodoo juice during the first couple of weeks to help the roots and have used a small bit of nutes when watering.

Ill post a few pics later.

any help greatly appreciated :weed:
 

Deusracing

Well-Known Member
what they need for flowering sometimes is to ease in to it.. 24/0 18/6 16/8 14/10 Period of 24 hours to 48 of darkness then pop them babies at 12/12 They will flower when they are ready mine didn't show until i was at 12/12 HPS for 3 weeks at least.. 12 week flowering.
 

Dividedsky

Well-Known Member
Be patient give it some time once you drop it to 12/12 you'll notice pistils. Should take about 2 weeks. Do you have air getting exhausted out of the tent and fresh air coming in?
 

mik1978

New Member
Thanks for the advice deusracing, ill change to 20/4 to begin with.

I live in ireland so its just starting to get "warm", about 17 degrees cel lol! The lights seem to help keep the tent warm. Its not too humid and there seems to be plenty of air circulating. Im just using a duct from the tent to a hole in the shed back wall. For odor control Im using ona and an ioniser. Tried a fan, but sounded like a jet engine preparing for take off!

Any ideas wot nutes I should use at this stage to help flowering along?

thanks man
 

mik1978

New Member
Thanks dividedsky, I just got a vent open in the tent and a duct running from the other side of the tent to a hole in the back of the shed. It seems to work well. Ill try dropping the light hrs off from now. Cheers bud
 

furious248

Well-Known Member
i only grow autos and am in london so i know how you feel with the temps lol, it is quite strain dependant, i have had a couple strains that didnt flower straight away, with one i left until 35 days and the morning i was going to switch over to 12/12 i saw pre-flowera, so happy days, also some batches/strains arnt stable so you will have to switch to 12/12 to induce flowering, just try not to let thoes leafs grow into the lights, and autos dont like a change in light cycle, so wait until 30 days then if nothing do the switch yourself, hope this helps.
 

mik1978

New Member
Thanks furious248, im beginning to reduce the light hours now and should get down to 12-12 by the end of the week.

I had no idea I had to do this with autos. :dunce:

Hopefully itll flower soon :grin:
 
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