First CFL bagseed grow

Geddah your plant is to young to show signs of pre-flowers, the branches havent started alternating nodes yet. There will be sets of leaves comming out of where the nodes are so dont be suprised by that, thats where there preflowers will also be when the plant is mature enuff to show preflowers or when you flower. Those lil spur things you think are preflowers thats showing in the second picture showing near the top node set are on both plant sexes and are not preflowers.

Thx doobieman, and others who want to see more pics, I will post pics soon, at the moment im having hps lighting trouble (posted about it in the indoor lighting section) and it is stressing me out hopefully monday when my new bulb comes ill post good news along with lots of pictures. My Girls are huge now and if it wasnt for my hps light problems would be in flower already hopefully it will be solved on monday.

Ok I got my new bulb and it works.! The other bulb must have been faulty so now I got 55,000 additional lumens of budding power. My lil (big) girls are finally going into 12/12 today. I am so glad it was just a faulty bulb and not a faulty ballast. lol well ill post tonight so stay tuned.

hope it goes well; if you have starting probs again, post; could be one of several things, most of them quick fixes. here's a good wiring diy and diagram too, just in case...

How to wire your own Marijuana Grow lights &Save Money & Wiring 2 Rooms With 1 Ballast,

Scarlet Sky Thanks for the diagram. Im hoping it was just a faulty bulb and not a ballast prob, but thanks for the diagram. I actaully had it all apart seeing if there was any loose connections.Im glad this bulb works lol. Its like having the sun in my grow area lol. Right now there is a 400watt hps 55,000 lumens , plus 150watt's of cfls about 10,000 lumens. 65,000 lumen's total. Not nothing super amazing but its a nice step up for me.

How is everything? Can we see some pics?
Peace,
horror business :rasta:

Here is a group shot and my new grow light a 400watt hps with a batwing reflector its a 55,000 lumen lamp. Also a closeup of my favorite indica.

Here is some more plant pics of my girls. Also a couple shots of rooted clones of my sativa bush and my favorite indica plant.

Here is a few pics of my sativa bush, its got alot of future bud sites.

Finally here are some pics of my "finicky bitch indica" she isnt so picky anymore and has a nice citrus orangy smell. And also another group shot.

They have been flowering for 2 days now , they all have many, many female preflowers because they are quite mature plants. I am debating on putting them each in 10 gallon containers in the next couple days because these plants are large. I am happy that I moved up to hps , but I still have 156 watts of cfl's in the flower chamber so 55,000 lumens hps , about 10,000 lumens cfl's 65,000 lumens total. Hopefully I have a nice first indoor harvest , I am going to now germ some hashberry and northern lights beans so they will be ready to flower when these girls are done.

lookin good doc

I hope everyone is liking my recent pics I posted of my new light and stuff.
Thx skatin_foo, and everyone who has been following my grow which seems like alot of people since my thread has like 3000 some views lol.

I got new news I think growshopalien has sent me more seeds on accedent, lol. I got a pink slip in the mail from there address (growshopaliens) its registered mail which they send some orders out that way. The seeds will be picked up from the post office in a few hours when it opens. Hopefully they accedently sent me some high dollar strain or strains lol. Or maybe there just being extra nice for the original order slip up lol. Either way the aliens rock. Not everyone can say there seeds came from aliens lol.

In other news , I was examining my favorite indica plant. I musta been a lil rough with it when I was setting up the new grow area because one of the lower branches was bent over looked like it wasnt going to heal its self so im making a clone outta that branch and prolly will veg it for only a short time and put it into flower with the girls I got going now lol. The plant itself looks fine you cant even notice that small branch is missing.

Its still tripping me out that I have seeds waiting for me again! lol. Wish me luck!

I must have have a lucky streak commin because I just got another pack of Mandala Hashberry and another pack of Nirvana Ak-48 in the mail today. I dunno what beans I should pop for the next grow ,
hmmmm im thinking Hashberry and some other strain??????

Ive got (2) packs of Mandala Hashberry, (1) pack of Nirvana Northern Lights , (2) packs of Nirvana Ak-48,(1) pack of Nirvana K2 and (2) packs of Alien NLX , I need to pop the beans in the next day or so because there gonna need time to grow while my current girls are in flower.

So any ideas of what beans I should pop with the hashberry??????

Well my plants are on there 5th day of 12/12 , and they are doing great under the hps lights. The only thing ive had a problem with is it seems my 2 indica plants really love the extra lumens alot, so much so that seems like there using the lower leaves on the plant to produce newer top and side growths ive noticed that a few of there lower leaves have turned brown and fell off. There is alot of new side growth's on all the plants. And I dunno if I am crazy but seems like alot of the fan leaves are already starting to get some crystals on them. Hope you have all been enjoying this grow as much as I have , and to think the best parts are still to come lol. I am finally going to germ 5 hashberry seeds and 5 ak-48 seeds for my next grow. That way I should end up with 4-5 nice females.

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I hope everyone is liking my recent pics I posted of my new light and stuff.
Thx skatin_foo, and everyone who has been following my grow which seems like alot of people since my thread has like 3000 some views lol.

I got new news I think growshopalien has sent me more seeds on accedent, lol. I got a pink slip in the mail from there address (growshopaliens) its registered mail which they send some orders out that way. The seeds will be picked up from the post office in a few hours when it opens. Hopefully they accedently sent me some high dollar strain or strains lol. Or maybe there just being extra nice for the original order slip up lol. Either way the aliens rock. Not everyone can say there seeds came from aliens lol.
In other news , I was examining my favorite indica plant. I musta been a lil rough with it when I was setting up the new grow area because one of the lower branches was bent over looked like it wasnt going to heal its self so im making a clone outta that branch and prolly will veg it for only a short time and put it into flower with the girls I got going now lol. The plant itself looks fine you cant even notice that small branch is missing.

Its still tripping me out that I have seeds waiting for me again! lol. Wish me luck!

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WTF? Shit like that never happens to me, ha ha! You're grow is hella cool, I like the new light! I can't believe all that has happened in the past few weeks! I'm going to start flowering mine tomorrow! However, mine aren't the monsters yours are. I'm glued to my monitor!

:jointsmile: Bree

Thanks bree I know I was tripping it ended up being another pack of hashberry and ak-48 , so now I have enuff seeds to last me for a while, considering im gonna keep moms of the two best plants I got going now and moms of the hashberry and ak-48. Thats awsome your starting flowering tommorow , are plants will only be 6 days apart in flower time lol.

Yes my plants are monsters lol , I let them vegg alot longer then intended because I was getting equipment around not a bad thing though it will just mean a bigger harvest lol. Yes my grow has came along alot in the last few weeks alot has happened lol, had its ups and downs but its a great learning experience.

Well folks I thought I would post a few more pics , since im bored at the moment.

Here is a couple that show what a preflower on my finicky girl looks like.

Here is some pics I just took of my fav indica plant , notice how it has a bunch of new side shoots growing. It has only got these since I got the hps light so it has grew them quick in the last week.


Also is a picture of the finicky girl plants branch structure.

Here is a couple of my sativa bush , or redwood tree lol dunno which one it is.

It is absolutely loving the hps light. Shes gonna have like 100+ budsites on it i think lol.

Jesus I didnt realise how much and bushier my sativa has gotten in the last 6 days since she has been under hps. Compare these two pics side by side and see:

Sativa day 1 under hps: http://boards.cannabis.com/attachmen...vafullbush.jpg

Sativa day 6 under hps (5th day of 12/12):
http://boards.cannabis.com/attachmen...antredwood.jpg

She has gotten a little taller but shes gotten almost twice as bushy, all that in a week! lol (((I love hps)))

Just a quick update folks , My plants are on there 7th day of 12/12 and I can finally notice the first signs of buds forming. Seems like there getting smellier by the day , lol. All 3 of the plants got preflower pistils everywhere so im hoping for some nice buds come harvest.

Well the lil girls starting to grow up. The macro on my camera sucks, but for all of you watching/reading my thread I made sure to take some half way decent macros so you can see the lil buds forming.

All the plants are on there 8th day of 12/12.

First up is a couple macros shots of my sativa girl. Notice in the first picture the glistening of tricomes already starting to appear on the leaves...

Here are a few shots of my favorite indica girl taken today (day 8 of 12/12) Notice how in the picture showing the whole plant , it has grown many budsites. It has grown all these in the last 8 days since being placed under hps. I will post photos of my other indica the "finicky girl" when my grow light comes back on it turned of for the night while I was snapping photos. One thing I noticed about the finicky indica girl is she seems to have quite a few tricomes on her leaves already.

So how do you all think the girls are comming along?

nice man, nice...

I don't know if you read my posts, but a week ago, I killed all four of my plants, because I was convinced they were male. They had pre-flowers, that were male preflowers. Well, they had a bunch of little "preflowers" but no pistils, and when I separated the preflowers, they formed a "petal".

I'm starting to wonder though, if some of them weren't males, and I'm getting pissed, thinking of the fact that I could have killed some females.

So, when female preflowers show up, do they start as pistils? Or do they start as a little preflower, and then grow pistils?

They start out as a little tear drop shape things and then get either 1 or two white hairs that can take a long time unless you flower them. Male preflowers usually are not "pointy" like a female preflower and usually come in pairs or more,
you should always wait to kill a male until your 100% positive its male. Sorry about your bad luck bro are you gonna try another grow?

...Well, I'm pretty sure I killed three females and 1 male then... Because only one of the three, had a cluster of those things, and was on a stem. I was 99% sure it was a male. I used a jewelry magnifying glass and everything.

But, the other three, they each had one of those pointy tear drop shaped things, that I assumed would turn into a male like the other, since it kind of looked similar, and I didn't see any white pistils...

Until just finding this out, I was discouraged about ever growing again, unless I had a clone, or feminized seeds, or lowryder, all three of which are hard to get.

But, now that I think I might have had females, I might try again, but I'm going to save up for a hydro system and a grow box this time.

By the way, do you have any close of pictures of female preflowers BEFORE they show their pistils, that way I can be sure of what I had?

Thanks again,
peace

lol, thats why you don't kill before your sure.

anyway...r00tdoctor goodluck on your grow

horror business nope dont got any pics of preflowers that are that early in development my camera that I had then wouldnt have been able to take a pic of them. You really need to wait until there are sign's of pre-flowers that tell sex before you cull your plants. Dont kill a plant unless your sure its male, (that it has at least a pair of balls next to each other)

Bodom Children Of , thanks for stopping by my grow stop back again im gonna keep this grow updated till harvest and smoke report time.

Im currently working on building a very stealth veg/mother cabinet, with a "kitty liter" carbon scrubber and all. Its gonna be very stealth because its gonna be in a cabinet underneath one of my aquariums in my living room no less.. lol. Will prolly post pics of it when its further along.

On another note I picked up a cheap "soil ph/light/wetness' multi probe thing from lowes for like $9 bucks and it sucked (at measuring ph) so I took it back. There $20 soil ph-only probe is alot nicer though. (Im tired of testing my soild with aquarium test kits lol)

My girls are comming along nicely there now on there 9th day of flower! lol...
The buds are starting to form nicely , hopefully this is a sign of giant colas in my future.

Nice plants, I sure wish I could have a 400W instead of a 250W >:[. I hope you get a nice harvest, will be watching :). Next time I think you should LST like I did. That one plant looks like if that tall plant grows any more it will be taller the the lights lol.

Ive got a 9ft ceiling in my grow area so im cool for vertical space. Lol. Stop by often I will be updating alot since there flowering.

i swear i feel the need to blaze every time i visit your thread, must be them beautiful plants. anyways, need yer help again. since i keep guessing wrong, about when should i expect my plants to sprout their...ummmm, genetalia? and where should i look? at the split of any branches, or at one in particular?

The first preflowers usually form near the middle of the plant then sporadically in other places , the older a plant gets the more preflowers it will have. The will usually show there first preflowers right around the time the nodes (branches) start alternating instead of forming in pairs. You will be able to spot them at the "v" where the branch splits off, at first they all look the same (like a lil numb)so dont kill a plant until your sure its a male. A female preflower will look sort like a tear drop with a pointy end and grow 1 or 2 little white hair's comming out of it , while a male will look more like a "ball on a stick" and male preflowers will form in little groups or clumps of pre-flowers (you will see male preflowers form more then one next to each other ;first there will be one then more will grow next to it) Dont kill a plant until you see sets of "balls" growing lol. Thanks for your complements on my grow.

Nice plants rootD! They all look really healthy and happy. :thumbsup:

Thanks weedhound,

I'll be posting a few pics today so keep an eye out.

Hello everyone first Im going to show you all a picture of a rooted clone from my favorite indica plant. The method of cloning I use is very simple , requires no special materials and anyone should be able to have success with this method.

I clone my plants by old fashioned water cloning. I dont use a humidity dome and I dont use root hormones. I just take a cutting and place it in a glass of water (cutting the stem at an angle so theres more room for root growth). I poke a hole in aluminum foil and place that on top of a glass of water and put the clone in the hole. It stays under 24 hour lighting in my veg area. I change the water in the glass every 1-2 days , and mist the clone once daily. Once it grows roots I them place it in my soil. Then I have me a new clone. One thing I like about this method is it has very high success rate (in my trials all the cuttings I have tried it on have grown roots in 7-12 days) and you dont need root hormones or humidity domes or anything; just plain h2o. Also after the first 24 hours there is very little wilt and you dont need to mist very often , I usually mist once a day.

Hopefully this cloning method will help people out who are having a difficult time cloning with other methods.

I cloned this little branch because a few days ago when I set up my flower area I must have been a little to ruff with my favorite indica plant. Because there was a branch that was almost broke off and starting to die so I decided to rescue it, lol.

Here is the broken branch off my "favorite indica plant" that I saved and made a clone out of using this method:

Here are some pics of my favorite indica plant day 10 of 12/12. She is comming along nicely.

Here are some pics of my giant sativa bush at day 10 of 12/12.

She is turning out to be a very bushy and beatiful plant, im glad ive got clones of here.

lookin' good, keep the updates coming.

Thx bordom , im really pleased how my plants are comming along. I want to update the photos everyday lol. But im restraining myself to only update every couple days lol. My walk in closet is looking like a forest at the moment my 3 plants are really filling up the closet with a sea of forming buds. lol. Ill prolly post some updated pictures later tonight.