StevenSD420
Active Member
Alright, finally got around to taking some pics of what I'm doing. I just need some advice from other growers on what they would do/can suggest for my grow room and to help get good efficient harvests. I've grown tired of the legit shops being shut down by the DEA from the requests by San Diego City; and the price and quality on the street is just as ridiculous now as some of the illegal shops still operating (including delivery service ones as well). So being a legal patient in Cali, I'm going to exercise my right to grow my own meds =). 25% of you are going criticize me, but that's fine, I'll just be looking at the other 75% who give good advice/suggestions on how to improve. =)
My friends who grow are giving me some clones, I've smoked some of their yields before and was really impressed. I was given a Purple Kush clone to get started with. My original plan was to veg her out, take clones, veg her again and then flower... but probably like most of new people starting out; I jumped in too quickly without waiting to learn everything. My first mistake? Buying a huge ass CFL, without properly planning out how I wanted my cycles to go, etc. I was originally going to just veg out my plant, take a few plants, veg a little more than put her into flowering... that wouldn't be smart considering I can't provide a strong enough source of light for the flower box I was going to construct... noob mistake after noob mistake; but finally I believe I have a great way to continue and not waste more $$. I'll eat the big CFL I bought and use her strictly to veg my mothers (if I can get good results with the kush, I'm going to pick up two other strains off my buddies.) Then I'll take the clones and still go with a custom grow box, but it'll be used for veg AND flower; I'll just switch out the CFL bulbs when it's time to flower... my first question would be; is that a good enough idea? Or would that big CFL still be giving the mothers too much light and the clones are doomed to fail? I would buy a 150watt HPS (home depot's website has them for $90 including ballast and reflector hood) but the energy would be too much... or would it be the same as using 4-5 CFL's (I'm looking at some bulbs that are around $10-$15 and replace up to 150watt of energy) for vegging and flowering?
While I got busy trying to solve that dilemma, I saw, but didn't pay the attention it deserved, a deficiency coming along with the plant... first started seeing the stems on the fan leafs turn purple; thinking of the strain I thought it was normal, but now I can see I'm either in a late stage of sulfur or nitrogen deficiency... just dunno which. I've fed her twice using Cutting Edge Solutions nutes, and once with just regular filtered water. What kind of sucks is my friend recently told me his soil was miracle grow because he had to find a quick bag of something when he planted the clones I got this from.... he originally thought it was soil-less but he was too blazed to think clearly then obviously... anyway there are some pics below, I'm going to pick up a PH Tester (should've done that first!) after work to test the soil, to see how bad/lucky I am.... Anyway enough blabber, any suggestions would be great.
Oh yea, I'm using my closet as my grow area, I plan on one side being for veg and the other for flower... I'll post pics once I start making it; just gotta figure out how I'm going to do the flowering...
**The pic showing the CFL bulb is a couple of days old, most of those yellow leafs have been taken off**
My friends who grow are giving me some clones, I've smoked some of their yields before and was really impressed. I was given a Purple Kush clone to get started with. My original plan was to veg her out, take clones, veg her again and then flower... but probably like most of new people starting out; I jumped in too quickly without waiting to learn everything. My first mistake? Buying a huge ass CFL, without properly planning out how I wanted my cycles to go, etc. I was originally going to just veg out my plant, take a few plants, veg a little more than put her into flowering... that wouldn't be smart considering I can't provide a strong enough source of light for the flower box I was going to construct... noob mistake after noob mistake; but finally I believe I have a great way to continue and not waste more $$. I'll eat the big CFL I bought and use her strictly to veg my mothers (if I can get good results with the kush, I'm going to pick up two other strains off my buddies.) Then I'll take the clones and still go with a custom grow box, but it'll be used for veg AND flower; I'll just switch out the CFL bulbs when it's time to flower... my first question would be; is that a good enough idea? Or would that big CFL still be giving the mothers too much light and the clones are doomed to fail? I would buy a 150watt HPS (home depot's website has them for $90 including ballast and reflector hood) but the energy would be too much... or would it be the same as using 4-5 CFL's (I'm looking at some bulbs that are around $10-$15 and replace up to 150watt of energy) for vegging and flowering?
While I got busy trying to solve that dilemma, I saw, but didn't pay the attention it deserved, a deficiency coming along with the plant... first started seeing the stems on the fan leafs turn purple; thinking of the strain I thought it was normal, but now I can see I'm either in a late stage of sulfur or nitrogen deficiency... just dunno which. I've fed her twice using Cutting Edge Solutions nutes, and once with just regular filtered water. What kind of sucks is my friend recently told me his soil was miracle grow because he had to find a quick bag of something when he planted the clones I got this from.... he originally thought it was soil-less but he was too blazed to think clearly then obviously... anyway there are some pics below, I'm going to pick up a PH Tester (should've done that first!) after work to test the soil, to see how bad/lucky I am.... Anyway enough blabber, any suggestions would be great.
Oh yea, I'm using my closet as my grow area, I plan on one side being for veg and the other for flower... I'll post pics once I start making it; just gotta figure out how I'm going to do the flowering...
**The pic showing the CFL bulb is a couple of days old, most of those yellow leafs have been taken off**
