Help my babies don't look so good

hempstead said:

HPS and quality nutes. Mine is hanging up to dry after about 10 weeks. They will come along, what strain are they again?

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It's and Indica/Sativa by Swiss Intruder called Heidi's Pussy, I got those from a small shop in Geneva Switzerland... the photo will explain why I chose this strain..

[QUOTE="SICC";3846100]you can get just as good buds with CFL's, how many lights do you have? if your only flowering with the AG lights thats your problem[/QUOTE]

I'm using more than the AG's lighting sorry I know nothing about wats and HPS, I attached a pic, does it look enough or should I add more?

HPS is only good if you have the proper ventilation, and are able to pay the extra cash on your light bill, i mean its obviously the best choice as far as whats up to PAR, but CFL's can produce the same quality.

A guy i follow uses about 350 watts of CFL's, used to be a HPS guy but prefers the CFL's for those very reasons.

so you dont kno the actual wattage of the CFL's?
Like 23 watter, 26, 45?

it also looks like you losing alot of your light, you need a closed aera to reflect the light bac at the plant, looks like an open space she's sitting in, so that probably why things ae going slow

Cutting fan leaves reduces photosynthesis; which I'd the wAY plants breath basically. Cutting a little may be ok but all your doing is stressing the plants. If you feel your not getting much light transferr then your probably right. But what's your lights adding on soft white CFL's will help in those areas which are hard to reach with hps's but are okay to use with them as well.

[QUOTE="SICC";3846214]HPS is only good if you have the proper ventilation, and are able to pay the extra cash on your light bill, i mean its obviously the best choice as far as whats up to PAR, but CFL's can produce the same quality.

A guy i follow uses about 350 watts of CFL's, used to be a HPS guy but prefers the CFL's for those very reasons.

so you dont kno the actual wattage of the CFL's?
Like 23 watter, 26, 45?

it also looks like you losing a lot of your light, you need a closed area to reflect the light bac at the plant, looks like an open space she's sitting in, so that probably why things ae going slow[/QUOTE]

OK, after checking.. I have three 26 watt warm light bulbs (yellowish) and one 127 watt natural day light (white) plus the AG's pro 200 hood does that sound sufficient?
you're correct, I am loosing a lot of light and I'm trying to find a solution for that

Love your party cup thread, beautiful stuff man

thanks man

Seems like you got a good amount of light, just try get some kind of cab going so you dont lose all that light

If in doubt count the lumens. Trying to mimic the sun can be quite hard, but 30,000 lumens should do the trick if you have more already then awesome. Post pics!!

OK. I did what SICC recommended, but I couldn't find any mylar so I got some 0.8mm stainless steel sheet (first picture) it reflects light much better than foil, and got some liquid nutes (second picture) my PH is 6.2
I noticed that the growth of bud is not equal, I am certain that some buds will ripen way before others, what should be done then?
How long would you guess till harvest?

well how long have you been flowering? The mimnun should be like 8 weeks, they look like thay still havea good amount to go. When the time comes, and if some are ripe before the others, you can do a partial harvest, and let the rest go until its done.
Thatsheet should be fine for now, but i would try to make an actual cab on the next grow.
Keep your pH at 5.8, 6.2 is a lil high

Hello Everybody,
Exactly 8 weeks into flowering

I'm in a hell of a tight spot here, in two weeks I have to go on a trip for 4 weeks, my babies are not ready yet, and there will be no one to take care of them, so all I have is two more weeks of grow... should I start flushing now? or keep nuting them and hang to dry after 2 weeks?
some pics to show where I'm at...
(THIS FEELS LIKE HAVING AN ABORTION)

I would just give them 2 weeks of flushing with pH'd water then harvest them, you can use your knowledge for the next grow and get a full harvest going

[QUOTE="SICC";3935694]I would just give them 2 weeks of flushing with pH'd water then harvest them, you can use your knowledge for the next grow and get a full harvest going[/QUOTE]



Thanx for the advise SICC, I actually felt a sense of irresponsibility stopping my grow "short" and I let a close friend in on it, so he will be taking care of my ladies while I'm away..

here are a few pics (week 9 flowering)

I came across a famous YouTube clip which I'm sure you've seen...... this lady had one plant in her AG and it looked amazing, much better than my grow ever looked, and she had no extra lighting no airstone no fan, using tap water and AG nutes!, and she was one of the reasons I decided to start my AG grow.
I know for a fact if I did what she did, my grow would be dead.

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How do you think that is possible?

Looks delocious Carlos!

Looks tasty

OK,, today I used my magnifying thing for the first time, and almost 75% of Trichomes are amber on the colas, and cloudy on the rest, so I decided to start flushing.
Does my timing sound right?
Should I harvest the colas since they're ripe but not flushed?

Some Pics

good time to flush. didnt you say u were leaving too? cause if you are going to cure you gotta watch them for a couple days to watch out for mold

How long have they been flowering?

i think a lil over 9 weeks

NinjaOZDuce said:

i think a lil over 9 weeks

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Spot on NinjaOZDuce it's 9.5 weeks in flowering and 14.5 weeks from planting, wow I started my grow last year !
Isn't that a little long? maybe its the strain...

I have tree plants in my AG, two are (Swiss intruder - Heidie's pussy) and one Northern lights, but I messed up which is which, could the shape of the cola confirm the difference?