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Considering that at 6 weeks that thing is potentially only half done flowering, and its being flowered uner CFLs... I'm pretty impressed I must say. I've never looked much into CFLs for flowering but I was thinking of adding a few for supplemental lighting, either that or I was going to get 4 - 4' Flourescent tube fixtures and mount them vertically on each wall to see if that adds anything significant.
Any pic updates? Come back.. haha I have a similar bagseed sativa that I haven't really cared much for but I probably would if yours was ultimately successful. I've just had too many other things going on with guaranteed genetics its hard to dedicate time to her.
Yeah I'm still hear lol ill put some pics on tomorrow when the lights come back on :)
Deal. I can accept that. haha. My poor sativa went into flower and back into veg before actually going into full on flower... wasn't prepared for it and I was in the middle of a transition to new grow rooms.
oh so is it flowering now? i had a cupple light leaks at the begining so that could of slowed things down.. have u got any pics of your sativa..mines on day 60 now i was thinking of flushing in about a week or soQuote:
Originally Posted by Minnesnowta
Very nice. Next time If I were you I would top it then lollypop it at about 18". and put those CFL's about 6" above her canopy.
I agree with gatekeeper on lollipopping if you plan to continue that strain but its looking great for being a big sativa under CFLs. Trimming will be a long process it looks like but all that aside you're gonna have some good smoke, which is the only real important part. Plus lots of trimming means... lots of trimmings for making hash or whatever you wanna do with it. Have you considered getting any HPS lights for next time or what are your plans? Is this your only plant at the moment? I've actually got an extra small HPS I've been looking to get rid of for cheap. As far as the flushing thing goes I'd maybe wait a little bit longer before you start that but I guess you know best by looking at the trichs and what not. Sativas can take a long time to fully mature, and unlike indicas you've got a much larger window of time to harvest at the right point. Also if you had some light leaking in combination with the fact that its flowering under CFLs probably slowed it down making it take even longer to finish fully. If you plan to do two weeks of flushing I'd give it at least another week before you start, putting you right at around 11 weeks. Its up to your personal preferences though, no matter what you do you'll be happy with what you get.
As far as my sativa goes, I don't have much for good pictures right now, and since it went to flower for a real short period of time, then back to veg, and now has actually been in my real flower room flowering for about 1.5-2 weeks. Its flowering under 550W HPS, 1 400W and 1 150W. I just put it through some pretty heavy pruning as well. So with all the stress it has been under I doubt it will end up being anything real great, but its my first and only sativa so I am going to continue to grow it out unless I end up needing the space then I'll have to get rid of it. Unless of course it is showing promising signs by then. Anyways I will get some pics of it here soon and post them, and ill try to continue posting updates on it so you can compare it to yours. I'm sure yours will be much better than mine, regardless of the fact that mine is under stronger lighting. Good work man, I'd like to see more updates as you go. I am going to post some pics of a small ATF plant that I recently harvested. It dried for 6 days and cured for 2 more weeks, I still have yet to test smoking it so I am pretty excited because it turned out great, I'll be trying it out tonight. I didn't want to test it before it was really ready for human trials so I don't make any premature assumptions about it. The smell is so sweet, its like candy.
Actually I just looked at another pic of the top of your plant and it looks like the light leaks may have caused a little bit of extra confusion with her. Not a big deal but your top looks a little bit more stretched out than it normally should be. I just noticed it because thats basically what my sativa will be like all over the place haha.