my babies

[Somasmoker]

My babies on the fifth day

[cannabislover]

nice babies

[GTC21]

Lookin nice, keep us posted. What strain are they?

[mellow mood]

nice hommie. good luck

[Somasmoker]

Lookin great!!! theese are called "devil" afghani x afghani/skunk

[Somasmoker]

Great!

[PartypokerPlayer]

those are looking great Soma.....i am starting a Northern lights grow....also will have afghani in the grow...then soon after harvest will be a Skunk #1 grow.....along with a hawaiian strain or maybe blueberry...not sure what ill put in second grow...those seeds are being shipped as we speak...but the northern lights are in the dirt and the afghani is about threw sprouting and ready for the dirt

[FUNKYRHINO]

they look good a lil stretched maybe get that light closer but other then that looks great

[Somasmoker]

The leaves are a little deformed besides that looks very good.....

[Somasmoker]

not bad at all....

[Somasmoker]

not bad at all....
theese look so small but they are developing a root ball, later they vill grow as crazy ;)

[genuinestoner]

all i have is 4 in, stem and i set leaves on top 8 days

[Somasmoker]

theese look so small but they are developing a root ball, later they vill grow as crazy ;)


Not so bad.... What do you think?

[HARDDON]

I think they look quite lovely.

Nice stem development. Nice n short....!!

Good job.

[PartypokerPlayer]

great job so far soma.....my nl grow is still doing really good...urs look maybe a week older then mine...mine born on may 17th and 19th ( was shooting for 4-20 but i missed lol ....anyway they look great man ....look alot like mine ...nice and short...compact ....leaves not spread all over the place......keep up the great work

[JohnnyPotGrower]

Does anyone else think they are a little small for 24 days? Perhaps it is just the strain but I would want a much heartier plant going into the 4th week. Is your light strong enough? If thats not a problem maybe you should give em some fertilizer?

I could be way off.

[Mr. Mary Jane]

SOMASMOKER....when u just planted your seeds....what kind of fert. did you use. and how much of it

[Somasmoker]

SOMASMOKER....when u just planted your seeds....what kind of fert. did you use. and how much of it


None yet, but I think Ill give them some this week....

[Somasmoker]

Does anyone else think they are a little small for 24 days? Perhaps it is just the strain but I would want a much heartier plant going into the 4th week. Is your light strong enough? If thats not a problem maybe you should give em some fertilizer?

I could be way off.

Im using 400 hps, I hope its enough...

[JohnnyPotGrower]

400 should be PLENTY -- goodluck with those guys

[MattakaSqueaks]

you might wanna get a MH conversion bulb, it will make them grow more bushy and grow alot faster. E-mail me at [email protected] if you want one. But other than that, the plants look good :) . Peace

[Somasmoker]

everything is looking good but the middle one was so streched, so I decided to cut the top off, I have done it before.... worked just fine then.... hope nothing bad is gonna happen to it....

[HARDDON]

These are what day 28?

Somethings not right. I count 5 sets of leaves.

At 28 days, they should be much further along.

I think too, you should switch to a whiter light.

Barely any secondary growth...looks very dry....and the light appears to be HPS....

These babies aren't getting enough white/blue light in my opinion.

I would really advise diff lights. You should be growing a new set of leaves per day at this stage. They appear healthy but too slow growing.

I would never top my plant either...personally. It may take a week or two for that plant to recover. Please keep us posted.

You have the patience of a saint.

[Somasmoker]

Lookin kindof fine for me...

[PartypokerPlayer]

Well i think your doing a great job Soma....you have really nice stem growth.....my plants are starting to get big now in the final container....these pics were takin lastnight the first set of pix the plant is 22 days old...the other sets of pics ( other 3 plants are 20 in this pic taken yesterday http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=17995 ....nice grow keep up the good work

[Somasmoker]

Cool!!! 2 of the are starting to flower :D

[Somasmoker]

Todays pics.... well what do you think?

[Somasmoker]

Next time Im topping them all, the stem gets really strong and the plant produces a lot more of crystals :)

[HARDDON]

Next time Im topping them all, the stem gets really strong and the plant produces a lot more of crystals :)

Topping produces more THC?

I dont think so.

Topping shocks the plant into a 7 - 10 day stunt.

Of course those plants could still be topped, but I think topping can be PREVENTED by having more light.

Your plants are very healthy, but the internodal length is exagerated. I think you need more white / blue light and topping won't need to be an option.

Yes some plants need to be tooped and yours appear to be candidates. But you CAN prevent this if you put out more white light on them.

Again, very healthy plants.

HAPPY GROWING :)

[Somasmoker]

Harddon what type of light bulbs are you using???

[HARDDON]

To grow my plants for the first 15 days, I used:

3 65W 5500K CFL.

These were within an inch of the plant tops. Once I was satisfied the plants were heatly and stable, I added

3 125W 6400K CFL.

I think too many people fail to acknowledge the importance of the Light Spectrum required by MJ.

Sure you can grow a good grow under HPS from start to finish, but you wont allow you plants to reach full potential in veg growth.

In fact I dont think there is a better way to veg than CFL for the small indoor closet grower.

[Somasmoker]

pics from today....

[HARDDON]

AMEN!

You gonna be smoking some good bud there friend.

The yeild looks as though its gonna be pretty low.... :(

But next time, next time, when you have some good lights and bend and tie the bitches over, you will quadruple your yield.

Nice buds growing.......great job!

HAPPY SMOKING :)

[Somasmoker]

Its only the second week flowering. They have 6-8 weeks to get a lot bigger........ I hope they will grow a lot more! :)

[ProjectEight]

they look good

Harddon,

What do you think about using a horti for veg stage?

[HARDDON]

Yes of course they WILL grow, and, those are some mighty good looking buds for 2 weeks of flowering.

NO QUESTION.

You did good.

Only down side is there aren't enuff bud sites to bump the harvest.

I will take quality over quantity every day.

Next time, bend and tie them. Trust me.

The bud you do grow will be nice :)

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Never used a horti.

Never had to.

I am fine and happy with what I have, and haven't seen anything outperfrom the Full Spectrum CFL's.

In a soil grow, I will take the CFL's over MH during first 30 days.

Sorry I can't be more definitive. Just never done it and never seen comparable results. Maybe you can try and let us know...

I sticking with what I know is all and working my way up.... :)

I wanna grow trees indoors.

Like Zandor.

When I finish current grow, I gonna grow a tree.

[ProjectEight]

I priced those bulbs you use $225.00 or so for 1 bulb plus socket

WOW

How many watts? How long do they last or how many grows can you get out of them?

I will post more pictures as I go, I have had the horti on them from week 2. Except for 3 days that I waited on a replacement bulb, damn tree rat.

[PartypokerPlayer]

just a question to Soma....those plants you have are very nice as i have been following your grow but i am curious to know if u are flowering with an hps...i see then orange light in the pix so was just wondering...also...how talll are those plants when u began flowering and how old were they when u switched 12 12
PEACE ALL
PPP

[Somasmoker]

Thanks ppplayer. I dunno how tall they were but I switched to 12/12 after one month of veg. and yes Im using hps for both growing and flowering, recently I added two CFL´s and they seemed to like it :). But from my expirience its better to veg under MH bulb.
Peace!

[PartypokerPlayer]

yea i vegged under my mh last year and they LOVED it big time....im on my second grow with my mh but took a different turn this year...decided to vegg with compacts cuz it helped save on electrcity and plus they did like the compacts staying nice and short , compact .....i cant afford the hps for this grow ...altho i do have plans to get one for the next grow.....you do have nice bud production for 2 weeks flowering...hope my northern lights and afghani look that nice in 2 weeks ( just ran my first 12 12 cycle....) ....PEACE

[Somasmoker]

Shit! I almost see them geting fater and fater every minute! :D

[Somasmoker]

Beautys:)

[Somasmoker]

Looking delicius :D

[HARDDON]

NIce kolas.

How do the trichs look?

Have you checked them out?

[Somasmoker]

Looking so good I want to eat them! Smelling so sweet I want to smoke'em :)

[Zandor]

Aluminum foil on the back wall? I thought we already had this talk about not using foil? Hot spots are not good for the plants. You should remove the foil before you have problems. imo

Yes the Hortilux lights are great. I just started another grow with 100% HPS from vegetation cycle through to final flower no MH at all this time. I am mixing Hortilux with standard HPS to mix up the colors too btw.

Soma you should consider to alter your feeding schedule and not feed (N) for the last 2 weeks before you flush. It will make the plant use up the stored chlorophyll and speed up the curing process by several weeks. fyi

[Burnout]

i wouldnt complain looks great too me