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just wanted to share a few pics of my cfl grow i have going... right now she is about 6 weeks into flowering (these are some older pics taken a few weeks ago).
i'll post some new pics of her as soon as i get some batteries for my camera
info:
2x42w cfl
6x23w cfl
1x13w cfl
2x40w floro tube
1x40w incandescent
nutes:
miracle-gro houseplant food, miracle-gro bloom booster
soil:
scott's seed starting soil
Hah, my camera already had batteries in it...
well here are some pics from today
oh yeah, it's bagseed btw
Wow. Not bad at all.
Looks as if the only problem you have is too much nutes. 'Appears that you burned her a little with your fertilizers.
Also, it helps to use more nutritious soil. Like some organic mixture. Miracle Grow has some great stuff called Moisture Control. The stuff works WONDERS.
I like to use heartier soils and less nutrients. It seems to yield MUCH better results. Although it appears you won't be yielding bad at all.
Just another example of how flourescent lights CAN grow buds.
Let us know how it burns.
buds are looking nice...I stopped using mg...it seems to be a lot more concentrated than most nutes..I burned previous plants quite easily and had to be pretty easy when I mixed it up..maybe once a week. I'm using shultz all purpose stuff..15-30-15..daily feeding. plants seem to like it quite well.
Not too shabby for floros, if you can grow it that well with cfls and tubes, I'd suggest a lighting upgrade. And Shultz ferts do have micro nutrients, not enough calcium or magnesium; but shultz is better hands down; they have a 10-54-10 bloom fert that does a heck of a job.
They do look good! Thanks for sharing your CFL grow. I don't think it is too much nutes...the leaves don't look dark green to me. But I can tell from the pics that they have heat stress and cfl burn marks (which the burn marks are not to be worried about so much as heat probs). See how the leaves are curling up and look very ridgey/wrinkly? Do you have any ventilation? If you can supply fresh air better you'll be happier with your final weight. Just a suggestion. You did an excellent job and thanks again for sharing. :jointsmile: BreeQuote:
Originally Posted by GRB.4.Life
Edit: I used Miracle Grow bloom fert...worked good. But AGAIN I don't think you overferted at all.
hey thanks everyone...
this is my third plant (2nd grow), i decided to keep it really small. i got lucky, so far 3/3 plants have been femme
i grow in a closet, so i basically keep the door open all day, temp's about 80.
i know for sure this plant went through some heat stress, maybe a little nute burn. i have to close the door around 7:00 when the lights go off because it's still light out, and i don't usually get to bed til about 12 or 1am. i try to open the door once all the lights in the house are out so that they get air and they don't burn up when the lights turn on in the morning, or i get my GF to do it. she forgot one day and i opened the closet around like 11 or 12am, temp read 134 degrees (shit!)
still learning a lot. finances have been a little shitty, so that's why i'm using the MG and my left over scott's soil. i found the local hydro shop so i'm gonna check em out some time (when i can afford some gasoline)
next grow is probably gonna be even a little smaller, with CFLs surrounding the entire plant to get light everywhere. i'm shooting for a higher yielding smaller plant, to keep things more manageable. probably next grow i'm gonna go 600w hps, or at least i'd like to, plus i'm going to build a cab for sure.
next plant is also gonna be some real bud, haven't decided what kind yet. this stuff you see here is bagseed, but it wasn't from some schwag or anything. found a few seeds in my bud about a year ago and held onto em, not thinking i was ever gonna use em, but i did. my last plant went through some stress and turned herm enough to produce about 4 seeds in the entire thing, so what u see here is plants grown from a hermie
i can't wait to get serious though and start getting some heavy yields. my last two plants put out probably a couple ounces dry out of both of them, but they were much bigger. they didn't yield that well. i'll put a couple pics. there just wasn't enough light to go around.
here are some pics of my last plants (leaning towers...) they got way too heavy for themselves, and there wasn't enough light to go around for both of them, unfortunately. a couple pics of part of the harvest.
i'm gonna try re-vegging this one tho
thanks again, i'll keep growin and showin
Well, I wrote ALL of this before you posted your flowering pics, then now I log on and you have already finished the grow...Oh...(sigh)...well...consider it just discussion on the topic. Let me know if you agree with some of the stuff. :D
Hey, man. Grow looks good. CFL's really CAN give you a decent grow. Those buds look like they are getting fat! :D Have you perchance checked out the Rubbermaid box CFL grow in the JOURNAL or perhaps the Cab of Life CFL grow over in the Grow Log forum?
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I dunno if the pictures are possibly playing with my depth perception or do you have your lights about 6 inches away from the tops of your plants? That is a bit far. With CFLs, you want to have them within 2-3 inches from your plants, and cool them with proper ventilation and a fan blowirng across the top of the plants. Also looks like you have some sort of nutrient problem with the taco-leafing.
According to the PLANT ABUSE CHART, it looks as if the taco-leafing is possibly a Mg deficiency...?
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Maybe the discoloration from a N or K Def...
I have no idea, though, as I am just a humble n00b. Maybe one of the archangels of horticulture will appear and verify my conclusions. :o
The Fog :rastasmoke:
nah i'm not done yet...
those were from the last one