WSS, first grow(cfl), come watch !!

Cut a small bud of today going to see what its like in a week or two !! Smells very citrusy and my hands got covered in resin from handiling it !

Hope yall had a good christmas

Charbud

same to you

can you use african violet miracle grow?? an what about a 250 watt red light??

I have only ever used a weak solution of all purpose miracle grow which has a lot of nitrogen in it for veg growth. If the violet miracle grow has a high amount i guess it would be ok. Start using a weak solution to start with ortherwise you may damage your plants.

Im using a 250 watt red spectrum light at the moment for flowering. I would reccomend to buy a blue spectrum 300 watt light for veg growth and then switch to the red for flower, this will give you the best results.

Charbud

they looking good man..
sorry i havent kept up with your grow..
and here's some rep for ya
-MG

Hey Charbud what about a pic update. Mine and yours are about the same age, but yours are 3 times bigger then mine. They did go through a lot of stress:wtf:, over watered, lights fell on them and lived at a friends house as a house plant for a week:wtf:. Not as easy when i cant get my hands on them.


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Hey nice grow and show your putting on! Hey question on your bulb. How long before you have to replace them for maximum lumens? I replace my mh and hps every other grow and haven't really used CFL other then side lighting and veg situations. How much was it? Totally dig the reflector your using as well, it seems to spread the light nicely.

Letseeya is it about time for an update ! have been very busy and plants havent been at the top of my agenda.

I have harvested 3 out of the five as they matured earlier than the other two which are still just a couple days away from harvest.

Bit dissapointed with the yield up to now, probably get between1.5 ounces to 2 ounces alltogether. Maybe thats ok for cfl's ?!

Low yield mainly because of the light penetration, cfls arent penetrating at all so all the lower buds didnt develop much, so next time i shall try that technique where you train your plants to grow on their sides, well bent over. Not sure what the name for the technique is though..anyone ?

frostedwonder, i could highly reccomend the cfl for vegging small plants. I have a 300 watt bulb cfl for that which works wonders although the 250watt flowering light doesn't really cut the bread. The bulb was around $65-70 or £35. I would definately stick with the hps and mh ! Also i have no idea when i have to change bulbs. I think they degrade slowly but my lamp is around 20,000 lumens.

Picture time..( i will upload some better pics when i have dried all the colas) and my overall harvest weight!

Colas are drying of line upside down and little buds are on a suspended net - pics soon

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next grows is going to be Vanilla kush and LSD. (done with the bend over technique to help light penetration!)

very nice charbud, I am siked as my babies are coming along very well. Just made a new box for em and it is absolutely the shit. way more lights and very good ventilation and even a cool viewing window. I will post up pics when I start my log after I'm done with everything. I'm comin up to 5 weeks now in a couples days and I started flowering at 3 weeks like you said. I'm just barely able to tell their sex now but def looks like I got a lot of females, just wanna make sure I know a hundred percent before I scrap the males. dont wanna make any mistakes and scrap a female by accident. using mylar and 10 26w cfl's in the new box plus its way taller so I can easily fit 3 ft tall flowers now. You would think this box was professionally built for this sole purpose if looking at it. Hoping I'll be done here in the next 6 weeks or so. Your plants came out very nice, I've been waitin for u to update with harvest info, haha. finally. Well def check in for my log. for security reasons I dont want to start the log til the grow is done. well I'll check back. seeya :thumbsup:

Congrats, Charbud. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.