Phat Jays 2nd Grow (CFL/Coco) w/pics

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I unplugged my lights earlier today, the lights would normally be on by now so my ladies are probably wondering :wtf: is going on. I was intending to leave them without water till harvest day, but as the weather is warm I decided to treat them to one last watering with chilled water. At the rate they are drinking (Plant E 850ml & Plant D 750ml a day), the Coco should be quite dry by the time I get to harvest them.

I cropped my ladies 1 day earlier than planned because I am busy tomorrow.

I think Fimming my plant paid off... :)
Plant D main cola (far left) - Plant E's 4 colas
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I got a bit carried away trimming and a lot of the secondary buds ended up on the tray.

Top Left - Buds I accidentally cut off the main colas
Bottom Right - Popcorn
Bottom Left - Secondary buds
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Fimming Definatly paid off, harvest looks awsome, great job want do you think your dry weight will be?

Haha jay, i also harvested today, didnt feel like it on a sunday ! Bus look real nice, especially the colas. You going to make a little bit of hash with the trim ? Congrats anyway and ill get a few pics of mine up tomorrow :D

You alright jay, Hows the drying going ? Had a smoke yet ? envious of your brilliant harvest :D

oi oi sexcpants ow u doin? Nyc harvest mate.. u gna giv a ful report on harvest smel etc.. i updated me thread.. so wt u gna gro nxt? Ope ur kool x

its a little late but i was just reading over your grow and noticed you were having probelms with plants getting too heavy and breaking.


Treat your plants with Silica next time. Plants use silica to to reinforce the cell walls of stems and branches. While it might not keep your plants stading straight up, i promish you not a single branch will break. The stuff is truely amazing and it really helps stregthen your stems. Silica also increases the hardiness of the plants and assists them in resisting disease, drought, and other environmental stress. Its relatively cheap too and can be used with every watering without the risk of burning.

As an added benefit, it really beefs up the inner stems of the plant. This increases the weight and overall yield(more than you would think too, i probably got an extra 1/2 OZ with the extra stem weight.

In fact, your gunna have to bust out the Bolt cutter come harvest time. I shit you not.

sheeeit looks dank though. Thats some of the best CFL bud ive ever seen.

Although it was a really nice smoke, I personally didn't think that this crop was quite as good as my last one. I got 106g's dried weight (after I removed all secondary from their stalks and cut the stalks from the bottom of the main colas). Plant D's main cola was 20g's and plant E's four colas came to 36g's. The other 50g's was made up of secondary buds and popcorn.

Fimming didn't seem to have any effect on the size of the secondary buds, in fact the secondary buds on the fimmed plant were larger than on the plant I left to grow naturally.

Here are pics of the buds once they had dried (proper stalk snapping dry)
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Originally Posted by COOLWHIP

Fimming Definatly paid off, harvest looks awsome, great job want do you think your dry weight will be?

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About 106g's :D

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Originally Posted by Charbud

You going to make a little bit of hash with the trim ?

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Nah.. I quick dry the trim and smoke it, it stops me attacking my buds before they are ready. I smoke the trim 1st, then the popcorn, then the secondary buds and save the main colas till last.

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Originally Posted by xxMrGreenThumbx

so wt u gna gro nxt? Ope ur kool x

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I am growing 2 White Rhinos, they are currently 4 weeks old and are already looking really sexy. I am trying out the Dutch Pro nutes I got for free, so far I am impressed. Hope your good too mate.

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Originally Posted by drudown11

its a little late but i was just reading over your grow and noticed you were having probelms with plants getting too heavy and breaking.


Treat your plants with Silica next time. Plants use silica to to reinforce the cell walls of stems and branches. While it might not keep your plants stading straight up, i promish you not a single branch will break. The stuff is truely amazing and it really helps stregthen your stems. Silica also increases the hardiness of the plants and assists them in resisting disease, drought, and other environmental stress. Its relatively cheap too and can be used with every watering without the risk of burning.

As an added benefit, it really beefs up the inner stems of the plant. This increases the weight and overall yield(more than you would think too, i probably got an extra 1/2 OZ with the extra stem weight.

In fact, your gunna have to bust out the Bolt cutter come harvest time. I shit you not.

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It's funny you mentioned that. I was reading your thread a few weeks ago and noticed your comments about silica. I had put a note on my desktop to ask you about it. :thumbsup:

I may not need it this grow as I am experimenting with keeping my plants smaller and seeing how much this effects yield. I put the cuttings into flower the day I got them. Well I say cuttings, they came from a new source and they had 5 nodes the day I got them. I wanted to put them into flower a bit earlier than that.

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Originally Posted by drudown11

sheeeit looks dank though. Thats some of the best CFL bud ive ever seen.

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Thanks :D

Hey Phat!

Nice grow man! I just started a thread on my second one :hippy: