Just A Few CFL growing questions

ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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Hey there one and all! :weed:
iv recently started growing with cfl's and im looking for sum answers
that i havnt been able to find yet so im hoping they find me :mrgreen:
firstly, growing fact states that temps should be around 70degrees
for good growth and any lower than 62 will halt growth, below 52 will
slowly kill plant but with my cfl's i get hardly any warmth or heat at all
and are struggling to keep the temp above 59 degrees so for those who hav tried it i hav a small seedling under a 15w warm wite bulb, what do i do to keep the temp up?
second question is - once my mother plants are the height i want them
and cant grow any bigger or they'll out grow the room, how do i stop
the vertical growth entirely as to keep the plant at the height i want it
without it flowering or harming the plant in a deadly way using cfl lites?

thanx for all the help in advance, i know ill get sum good suggestions :hump:

Peace and Jah Bless :mrgreen:
 
mistaphuck

mistaphuck

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first you could add more cfls of a larger wattage to up da heat second just trim them bitches down a lil wont hurt them!
 
SmokeDoggy

SmokeDoggy

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Yes, you need to do more reading here if you are asking that Q - read up on topping, FIM, and LST. All of those can help you reduce vertical growth and better, INCREASE YIELD.

As for heat, add more bulbs like mistaphuck said, or get non-CFL (will be much hotter) standard incandescent bulbs and add them into your area but not close to the plant - it will help heat the air near the plant but won't cook the plant. Heat rocks and space heaters also work. Just make sure you don't lose your humidity whilst doing this.
 
ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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hmmm, im intruiged :weed:
whats this LST and how can i find out about it?
thanx for the input guys, really appreciate it.

Peace and Jah Bless!
 
cannabiscult

cannabiscult

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Lst is low stress training, and is a method of bonzaiing the plant so to speak to grow horizontally and low and then to grow upward with more light being trained on the nodes horizontally leading to more colas and growth sights. you can go to the faq's in newbie central and it should explain it there better than i did.
 
ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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i went last nite and found out what u were talking about and i got all i need to know :mrgreen: Thanx man, and thank who ever made this easy
and convinient fucking website :roll:
im definitly gonna giv it try!
 
ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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i need just a few more questions answered if u could help me?
this is how the story goes - dry season here in south africa begining
of the year and we hadnt smoked in weeks, so one day we fone our
trusty guy and he hooks us up wit wat he said was mango skunk, and
id had it before randomly but didnt think it was the same shit...turns out,
it was better! to convert it was about 15g for 10$ so we were over the moon about this shit, was dark green with orange hairs and...ok im going too into detail. anyway - we basicaly just bought this stuff for a few weaks and then it ran out and the dude couldnt get anymore, an its
no where to be found but lucky i through ALL the seeds i got into my garden, only 3plants out of about 15 hav survived to this day with cats
and snail problems :roll: and now my biggest one is either male or a hermi :roll:
and what i need to know is how do i remove pollon sacks from a male
plant A - to keep it from pollonating itself while flowering and B - in order to use the pollon to keep a good strain alive. how exactly do i store the pollon too? if anyone....can help me. id really appreciate it, just seemed pointless creating a whole new thread just for this. Thanx!! :blsmoke:
 
cannabiscult

cannabiscult

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wait youre from s.a? me too man this is wierd. i used to live in johannesburg for 10 years, i was born there and my whole family is southafrican! awesome!but now i live in the states so any way


your best bet is to take the male out of the garden all together and move him inside or far away from the otheres. as for collecting the pollen for breeding the strain, i cant tell you anything about it, but if it already has pollen sacks GET it out before it ruins the rest of your plants.

good to see people in S.A. are gettin blazed.

i sometimes wonder to myself if i would have smoked weed if i had stayed in south africa and not moved at such a young age. hmmmmmmmm
 
ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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Dude!.....thats so awesome! yeah S.A is big on the weed scene man :hump:
what are the chances :rolleyes:
so thanx for the advice, ill move it back into my bathroom. I guess
onces the sack ripens and are ready to release ill just.....cut them?
and put them into bankies? :bigjoint: or airtight film canisters?
and then use it from there.

Irie Brother, Jah Bless!
 
ThaDonNacci

ThaDonNacci

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ManikMarijuana said:
i need just a few more questions answered if u could help me?
this is how the story goes - dry season here in south africa begining
of the year and we hadnt smoked in weeks, so one day we fone our
trusty guy and he hooks us up wit wat he said was mango skunk, and
id had it before randomly but didnt think it was the same shit...turns out,
it was better! to convert it was about 15g for 10$ so we were over the moon about this shit, was dark green with orange hairs and...ok im going too into detail. anyway - we basicaly just bought this stuff for a few weaks and then it ran out and the dude couldnt get anymore, an its
no where to be found but lucky i through ALL the seeds i got into my garden, only 3plants out of about 15 hav survived to this day with cats
and snail problems :roll: and now my biggest one is either male or a hermi :roll:
and what i need to know is how do i remove pollon sacks from a male
plant A - to keep it from pollonating itself while flowering and B - in order to use the pollon to keep a good strain alive. how exactly do i store the pollon too? if anyone....can help me. id really appreciate it, just seemed pointless creating a whole new thread just for this. Thanx!! :blsmoke:
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Ok- like said above you gotta get the full blown male outta there like yesterday....... let him mature long enough to open his sacks. You can put some paper underneath him so when he does release his pollen it'll fall down onto the paper. Then you just scrape it off the paper and put it in a container and throw that bad boy in the freezer for later use. That would be the best way IMO. Also, to make sure that the pollen falls to the paper, make sure you don't have any airflow goin around him.

As far as the Hermie goes, there's one guy here that is just clippin all the sacks off and lettin the buds grow. You can do that, just use steralized siccors or nail clippers and cut em off.
:eyesmoke:
I've never had to deal with a Hermie, but reading thru the posts here what I did find seems to make sense. Even tho a lot of people say to just get rid of her/him and not to bother. But if you can keep the sacks off then why waste the bud right?
 
ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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Damn straight man! im with everything u said! gonna stop airflow through the bathroom iv got him in and put paper all around and just wait for him to drop
that shit =D
thanx allot for all your help!

Peace and Jah Bless!
 
ThaDonNacci

ThaDonNacci

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ManikMarijuana said:
Damn straight man! im with everything u said! gonna stop airflow through the bathroom iv got him in and put paper all around and just wait for him to drop
that shit =D
thanx allot for all your help!

Peace and Jah Bless!
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No Doubt! Anytime- glad I could help! Good luck with that- keep that baby goin for as long as you can!
One with green will never be broke!
 
ManikMarijuana

ManikMarijuana

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put the plant in freezer...or the contaner with the pollon sacks in?
.........just kidding =D
.........no seriously? can i keep the male afterwards? or does he die and hav to be turned into hashish =D
thanx again!
 
ThaDonNacci

ThaDonNacci

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ManikMarijuana said:
put the plant in freezer...or the contaner with the pollon sacks in?
.........just kidding =D
.........no seriously? can i keep the male afterwards? or does he die and hav to be turned into hashish =D
thanx again!
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I think you can put him back onto a veg cycle- but not sure how much trouble that may be considering ur lettin him go far enough to drop his pollen. He may just continue out his cycle even if you put him in veg and die off anyway......

If that's the case look at it this way- you have enough pollen to make thousands of seeds for the future-- I'd just turn him into some hash IMO.
 
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