First time Grower, few questions. Currently flowering.

Hey guys, for some reason I am just now making an account on this site even though I've used this site for 80% of my knowledge on my grow. Anyways, so far I've had a long road in my grow, made a few stupid first timer mistakes, but learned from them for the future. Anything you guys can tell me to help would be awesome! My setup is as follows.

Taotronics LED
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008MU049W/ref=sr_ph?ie=UTF8&qid=1418580214&sr=1&keywords=taotronics led 20 gallon RDWC system with 6x 5 gallon buckets, pumped water running to misters inside buckets. I use Mills nutrient and have been doing a light feeding schedule. Currently on week 9/10 running 1200 ppm. I have 5 different plants (started with 6) 2 auto flowers, 3 randoms. Attached is are some photos.

My questions. I've been in flowering for about 2-3 weeks now and I feel like nothing is budding. Only my 2 auto flowers... Feel free to ask any questions and I'll answer anything that helps! Thanks again!

you do realize that non-auto/photo strains need 12/12 light schedule to flower right???

Also add more light to the corners of your tent during flower==== some cree household bulbs sold at HD will help

good luck

PSUAGRO. said:

you do realize that non-auto/photo strains need 12/12 light schedule to flower right???

Also add more light to the corners of your tent during flower==== some cree household bulbs sold at HD will help

good luck

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Thanks for the fast response. They are in 12/12. I will add a couple lights to it, I was just trying to keep the monthly bill down. Should I do CFLs? Or does it pay off to spend the $$ on HPS right now, or could I wait til next cycle? I just wanna get some buds growing! Lol. =]

PPandora said:

Thanks for the fast response. They are in 12/12. I will add a couple lights to it, I was just trying to keep the monthly bill down. Should I do CFLs? Or does it pay off to spend the $$ on HPS right now, or could I wait til next cycle? I just wanna get some buds growing! Lol. =]

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Ah so your running your auto's at 12/12 too, strange setup. Next time go 100% photos for best results, 12/12 from start if you want to save $$$$; speed of autos with room for error;P

I wouldn't recommend cfls anymore due to prices of cree bulbs now..........unless you need the added heat.

If you go hps, nothing lower than 250w

Looking good, I would agree you could use a few more lights in there it never hurts

Thanks for the input! Things have gone well over the past couple weeks. Plants under the LED's grew hudge, but could simply be because the are larger plants...? So I moved things around and this is the setup below. My only question really so far is when should I switch to ripening nutes? It looks like one of the auto flowers are growing crystal atleast a week before any other plant... Deffinently learned my lesson with getting excited and jumping into a project. Will absolutely stick to all standard seeds from here on out haha.

Update:

That's pretty cool, thing grew out the top of your tent lol.

Yodaweed said:

That's pretty cool, thing grew out the top of your tent lol.

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Lol, yeah. I never expected the explosive growth they have done! Haha