My First Closet Grow (CFL / AutoFlowering Strains)...

[RickyNewman]

They are just so short and bushy its amazing! It's getting to the point where you can't see the stem for leaves/branches :-) Never seen them grow like this before.. can't wait till they start showing signs of sex. Shouldn't be long now as they're at 18 days after popping through the soil! Keep ya posted..

[RickyNewman]

Oh and one of them has a weird leaf as you can see in the picture above.. it seems to be missing its main branch of the leaf.. looks cool though

[canadianhemperor]

It happens sometimes weird leafs! they usually go away when the plant gets bigger and more mature.

[smoketoker]

Very nice. So small and really bushy. Perfect plants

Have you got a reflector over that bulb?

[RickyNewman]

hey smoketoker!

Yeah I have a normal reflector on it, however i have bent the one side up so that the light off the two 400watt hids which are stacked length ways outside the door with the ten door open those shine on the plants through the 18 hours then i move them just before the timer kicks into darkness.. thats why you can't see part of the reflector in the pictures but it allows me to get 2x400watt bad boys on it though

So I am now starting to think about ferts as they will need them come the 5th week or so.. I have biobizz bloom, should i start them on 1/4 strength for first week, then see how it responds, if well up it to 1/2 dose second week, and so on so forth monitoring its reactions to it?

Any other tips/tricks/advice that could be worth mentioning at this stage, they're just about to show signs of sex they're at 18 days..

Thanks for the comments so far guys!

[RickyNewman]

Hey guys,

I got a weird issues with four seedlings, take a look at the thread if you're following this grow log as it would help me out a lot!

http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...t-strains.html

Thanks Guys!

[smoketoker]

Hi,

The idea you have for nutes seems to be fine. I usually start a bit earlier than 5 weeks but that should vary depending on your preferences and the kind of soil you are growing in etc.

I had a look at the pictures of your seedlings and they could be drying out. That's happened to me many times because I try to put my cfls to close to them. It usually takes a while for them to get the strength to resit the heat from those lights. Keeping the lights further away, using humidity domes/misting with water helps to protect them. If I'm right, their growth might get stunted for a while, but generally they will survive and get strong again. I usually find that by the 3rd set of leaves they are strong enough to protect themselves against the heat.

[RickyNewman]

Hey smoketoker,

Thanks for the advice... I am using biobizz bloom and everything i've read seems to suggest 5 weeks is a good time to start feeding. I will be looking for signs in the plants that they want me to feed it around that mark.

Good thinking, you may well be right with the light/seedlings issue. I am thinking about dropping them back to a part of the grow room that's not directly under the light, maybe this well help take the stress off them and get them back to normal, then when they're a bit more mature, 3rd set of leaves or so, whack them back under the light? What do you think to that solution?

Thanks again for helping me through this, its most appriciated!

[RickyNewman]

Hey guys,

Picture update:









































Hope ya like

[smoketoker]

They are amazingly bushy.