My sexy Afghan first grow with CFLs

[MonkeyBone]

Wow! They really grow 40% more when you put them in flowering mode? 40% taller and 40% wider? So if plants are 24" tall and 12" wide they'll be almost 36" tall and 18" wide! Big fuc*ing plants! (For a closet of 5' by 5')!

Question: When you put them to flower, do you use nitrogen when you fertilize them? Not as much as vegetation mode but a little or nothing at all?

Updates on my log! New home!

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[killa12345]

what up killa,

thanks for stopping by and the kind words! i just read through your CH9 Green Bud hempy grow log and DAMN that girl looks huge! Do you think the hempy buckets are what make them grow so damn fast? Awesome! Also your clones are gorgeous, I wouldn't change a thing if I were you.

Just wanted to note today is flowering day 18. I'll make sure to post that from now on.

Peace all,

-Secret

Man secret....the clones look good the plants look great...what else can i can...pure beauty....And too you question....yeah i fully dedicate the speed and growth to the hempy buckets....its not quite as fast and full as a full hydro setup but its no where close to as slow as soil grow...somewhere in the middle as far as speed...The method is super easy....you should try it one day!

[oSecretGardeno]

what up monkey bone?

The 40% I was referring to can be found here:
40/60 Theory

It's an interesting theory to say the least, and I think it is pretty true. Now I see the buds growing a little upwards, but mostly getting fat and icy. Just how I like my women ... lol! i kid i kid. But in all honesty it's kind of nice because I can pretty confidently raise my lights and leave them there while I'm gone without worrying about 2-3" growth everyday ya know?

killa - about the hempy buckets:
1) I saw you have used up to 11L buckets and also used just like a coffee bucket size too. What dictates the size of the buckets? It seems like they are much smaller then soil buckets.
2) What sort of nutes do you end up using?
3) What do you start your seeds/ clones in?

If you have any links to more info on those buckets I'd love to see it.

Alright, I'll post some pictures later on, I gotta take a f-ing nap first haha.

Peace all!

[killa12345]

what up monkey bone?

The 40% I was referring to can be found here:
40/60 Theory

It's an interesting theory to say the least, and I think it is pretty true. Now I see the buds growing a little upwards, but mostly getting fat and icy. Just how I like my women ... lol! i kid i kid. But in all honesty it's kind of nice because I can pretty confidently raise my lights and leave them there while I'm gone without worrying about 2-3" growth everyday ya know?

killa - about the hempy buckets:
1) I saw you have used up to 11L buckets and also used just like a coffee bucket size too. What dictates the size of the buckets? It seems like they are much smaller then soil buckets.
2) What sort of nutes do you end up using?
3) What do you start your seeds/ clones in?

If you have any links to more info on those buckets I'd love to see it.

Alright, I'll post some pictures later on, I gotta take a f-ing nap first haha.

Peace all!

the size difference in buckets usually has to do with the veg that i give the plants....since from my experience plants usually dont grow many roots during flowering....so the size of the buckets usually has to do with my veg period....i run the 32 oz bottles with a very short veg....they never get rootbound even with close to a 2 week veg....the coffee containers i will run up to 30 days of veg....and the 11 lts anything more than 30 days of veg.....i think the sizes are almost perfect for the period of veg....and all the sizes and time periods have never shown any plant being rootbound....

Nutes....I strictly run fox farm HYDRO nutes...the whole line up...grow big hydro, tiger bloom, big bloom, open seseme, bestie bloom, and cha ching..

And i start all my seeds and clones in jiffy pellets but you can use straight perlite or the perlite/verm combo i use...

In my mixed female log....me and dooobster go over pretty detailed directions on hempy buckets.....unfortunatly the origanal method was post by a HG420 member Hempy and that site is no longer up! Any further questions feel free to ask!

[MonkeyBone]

ok ok thanks man I now understand the 40/60 thing.

Good infos!

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[oSecretGardeno]

killa - thanks for all the info, i will definitely read up more on these hempy buckets and try them out for me next grow. It actually looks like a pretty good way to eliminate some of the bucket height I have issues with now.

I just ordered some new seeds from the Attitude Seed Bank. I went in a totally different direction this time ... Dutch Passion Durban Poison Feminized. 100% sativa is the EXACT opposite of what I'm doing now. But since I feel like I have a handle on it at the moment, why not? It also came with 5 free G13 Lab Power Skunk and 1 Feminized Gigabud seed. So we should have a nice variety if anything, right?

I am also going to expand the grow areas so it should allow for some more serious stuff. More on that later.

Pics in a second gotta get them off my camera.

-secret

[oSecretGardeno]

Check out this girl now! I actually took her out of her home and smelled her up close for the first time and it was one of those amazing smells that makes your teeth tingle. God I can't wait.

Pics as follows:

1) The whole thing, you can see the height.
2) Top down
3) Back in her room
4) A pretty nug there with pink hairs!
5) Another fatty

more coming ...

[oSecretGardeno]

1) Closer of all the tops
2) Bottom fan leaves turning lighter green (I'm assuming on the way to yellow).

Yellowing leaves I am guessing is because they are just getting a real lack of light at this point combined with some sort of need for Nitrogen?

I'll give them a touch of nitrogen next feeding but I don't want to get them too spoiled haha.

Ok I'm done. Hollar at yur boy.

-secret

[MonkeyBone]

Very nice pics man..

Don't bother with the yellowing bottom leaves, they'll fall by themselves a way or another.

I can't wait for mines to give me flowers like this!

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[icbh707]

yaaaahhhhooooo!!!!! wow... i mean, look at you. i think if i ever get the time i need to reread this log again. makes me want to do one. whats it been, a month? ive been skimming through on my phone (you are bookmarked) checking out the pics the best i can. the wife has finals and has the laptop 24/7.
she looks great. how long do you think the stretch phase was? my bubba kush is about 3 weeks and finishes in about 8. the purp i do is about the same but you normally let it go a few days longer to get the color. where as this lambs breath is almost a 4 week stretch and can take as long as 9 weeks. fighting these things back with a weed eater. anyways its just a guide, its really all about the high you want to get out of it. i like the early cut, its a much more active high. and the kush is a body high already. so...i forgot where i was going with this. i lost a lambs cola in an unfortunate super cropping accident and for some reason felt the need to smoke half of it tonight. i need to go to bed.
oh, you ever think about LST. its too late for a "real" lst but maybe some little eye bolts in the wall and cut some long strips of twist-ties. to start pulling those tall ladies out and down.
the yellowing on the bottom leaves looks normal. it actually dont look that bad under normal light. at the point where you are now i have usually taken off the bottom 4-6 fan leaves.
i little advise, i have been using GH nutes for years and i recommend them to everybody i talk to, i buddy of mine went from GH to house and garden but i just love the weight and quality GH puts out. flora or nova, i use flora....cause i can buy it 6.5 gal at a time. the only non GH stuff i use is cal/mag and this newer stuff Bloom from Australia, i use their final. 0-0-0 but i think it really does a lot. and once in a while i use a non Gh sub culture.
ok bed for real now

707