2.25 sq. ft carboard cab. 4 wks into flower w CFL's.

[smallgrow1]

A little more info might help you guys answer my previous questions. Vegged for 3 weeks and its 5 wks into flower. total of about or a couple days over 8 weeks old. thanks

[smallgrow1]

someone.......anyone.....help me with my questions??

[Buffalo Soldier]

pics of one of my girls that's pretty far along. let me know what you guys think. I tried to get some bigger pots today but couldn't find any. I'm gonna go look more tomorrow so I can transplant these ladies. In one of the pics you can see that some of the bigger fan leaves are yellow with some weird brownish/purpleish color spreading from the center of the leaf outwards. Anyone know if this is normal in flowering or is this cause I need to transplant? Maybe a deficiency in something? please help. thanks.

don't transplant while flowering:stoned:

[smallgrow1]

hey buffallo soldier. I though that transplanting isn't recommended during flowering but seems to work out fine when people do it. my other plants are very early in flowering and only have a few white hairs. no batches of buds forming or nothing like that. just like 2-8 white hairs at every location. I thought that since they were so early and need more space so bad if anything transplanting will only help and make for more yeild and healthier plants.

[Buffalo Soldier]

you should be in an appropriate container before flowering....so as not to stress the plants

[Buffalo Soldier]

hey everyone, got some new pics. here my dilemma, I got a hermie which looks nice and all and I keep ripping the balls off of it. out of about 20 balls I took off only one had actual powder pollen inside. the rest had just green plant material with no pollen. I am debating keeping this hermie and harvesting it but at the same time I kinda wanna just get rid of it. here are a couple pics of it. I currently took it out of the box and placed it in another area under a 4ft flouro tube, warm white of course.

U guys think I should just chop it or you think I should just let finish and make the best out of it?

pics of hermie

the pollen sacs will pollinate your females, decreasing the quality because the plants put energy into creating the seeds. If you were able to separate then i'd say yea keep it but if not, then harvest what you have and get rid of it. Pulling off the sacs could have also caused pollination, the sacs are delicate and you shouldn't be messing around. :chainsaw:

...the hermie is what can also be caused by a late transplant(flowering) or just stressing the plants. The plants seem to handle stress better if it happens early in the veg cycle...

create as perfect an environment as possible and just hope for the best.

[Buffalo Soldier]

hey buffallo soldier. I though that transplanting isn't recommended during flowering but seems to work out fine when people do it. my other plants are very early in flowering and only have a few white hairs. no batches of buds forming or nothing like that. just like 2-8 white hairs at every location. I thought that since they were so early and need more space so bad if anything transplanting will only help and make for more yeild and healthier plants.

well, if u must........do the transplant, but in the future you really should avoid this issue

[Mississippi Steve]

The space is way too small for that many plants. not enough lights either. You will never get close to the full potential out of what you have.

Bigger cab, more lights.... Use several 23w CFLs, split them between 2800K and 6300K so you have full spectrum for the entire grow cycle. A 4 inch muffin fan is not near enough.. the cab temp should be around 80F. Definately transplant, and for future reference, top the plants at the 3rd or 4th node, and in turn top the branches at the 3 node also. 18/6 on lighting for veg, then 12/12 for flower. MG potting soil (non moisture control) works very well, but can be a bit strong on the ferts for very young sprouts and seedlings. I attached some pics to show you the difference. BTW, I can't grow more than 3 plants at a time even though my cab is an 8ft tall, 6ft triangle. Most of the strains I grow are 4 months from seed to harvest.

[smallgrow1]

buffallo soldier-i agree with you on the whole stressing the plant out and stuff but I know that I've kept a really low stress grow from the very beginning. I think I just got the 1 hermie out of 12 plants cause its from bagseed and I think it was gonna be a hermie no matter what I did. I am just going to transplant some of my females that are still early in flowering(only have a few white hairs) and see what happens. I think it'll be fine and in case it screws them up, I wont do it to all so I'll still have half my crop which won't be transplanted.

mississippi- I've done the math and think that for my grow space I have more then enough light. I think 7,300 lumens per sq. foot is plenty but your also right that more is better. I know my plants are small and all but I dont want an 8ft tall cab and I dont want plants that are very large. The point of my grow was to keep them small and within the amount of space I have. I know that my plants arent gonna be anywhere near their full potential but I feel like everyone has their particular needs and I know what mine are just as you know what yours are. This is my first grow and I learned a lot. My next grow is gonna be 4 easy ryders in this same box with 1 gallon pots each. I don't sell this stuff and only do it for my own medicinal purposes. As long as I have enough to smoke and not have to go waist my money on something that comes naturally out of the ground, im happy. Thanks for the input though. Your plants look AWSOME man!!! What strain are those? I am hoping that at some point down the road I can go bigger and better but for now I am under a lot of restraints and am happy that I am able to grow what I have. Oh and as far as sayin to use some 23w cfls. I dont know if you didn't notice but I have a total of 268 watts in a 2.25 sq ft area. I am using 8 26w cfl's that are hanging over the plants within an inch or 2 and I also have the big 68w cfl hanging in the middle of all the plants to get the side lighting and mid section. I also did some minor LST and my plants def. love it. I have every piece of the plants getting direct light.

ONly regret was that I wish I transplanted into slightly bigger pots and I wish I had started LST earlier to get low bushy plants. My box will be perfect for the easy ryders though. Can't wait.:thumbsup:

[smallgrow1]

oh also, mississippi,

dont know if you read my post from the beginning but you seem to be missing a few things on my grow. I have 2 cpu fans but their not your reg computer fans. these are bigger industrial fans that move 49.4 cfm and runs only at 28 decibels. I have one up top above the lights and another down low and I only need to turn the top one on to get a constant 78 degrees Fahrenheit. The lower fan spins without power creating a nice breeze inside the box due to the negative pressure created by the top exhaust fan. everything in this box is good. lights, ventilation are very good and exceed the minimum requirements as well as having highly reflective Mylar interior.

enough said bout my box. I know its good and have strived to make sure it has what it needs to produce good plants. I dont want to use an hps light in my box and I dont want a bigger box.

Keep the comments and input coming guys and thanks to all that have posted.