2nd Journal

[doublejointed]

sticky-icky bud porn...

 

[fish cake]

just like on tv

 

[GreeenFingers]

Wow those Colas look amazing
Keep up the good work

 

[doublejointed]

week 18 !! dang, it's been a long time growin. 56 days since 12/12, flowering 52 days ... her leaves are turning yellow and she's petering out. her trichomes are mostly cloudy and some just turning amber. i figure one more week should do it; i already harvested the small lower branches in hopes of getting the big buds a bit fatter. after a quick dry i sampled some and it's prolly the best i have grown under CFL's.

 

[doublejointed]

the next crop is doing great all 4 plants growing healthy and vigorous

i'll be keeping my thumbs crossed that the 2 bag seed plants are female...or at least one of em is

 

[fish cake]

so so pretty gots my thumbs crossed for you too!

 

[doublejointed]

well i did a partial harvest last night. i cut off the 10 biggest colas 6 were 10" and 4 were 8" ...no pics tho, i'ts too depressing to have the before shrinkage pics reminding me how big they were... when it's all dried it should be close to 3 oz's of really nice bud.
i left the rest to keep on growing her trichs are almost all cloudy but hardly any amber.

 

[fish cake]

awsome DJ! dont get to depressed you could have gotten no harvest at all.
but you have and a fine one it is!
and you still got some in the oven

 

[doublejointed]

thanks fish...it's all good fish,with my cupboard full and some "in the oven" how could i be depressed i'll be livin high off the hog for a good while

 

[fish cake]

oh yeah I posted some new pics of my scrog today if you want to check them out.

 

[donpaul.p]

it really does prove that cfls can work and work well, i still use cfls for my clones and seedlings, i tried starting plants under my dual spectrum hps and they stretch like crazy, even though the bulb contains the blue light needed for veg, so i decided to go back to the cfls for starting the plants under, and i found the plants grow better under the cfls and have no stretch then after a couple of weeks the plants go under the hps and they dont stretch as much then, i think its just the first couple of weeks where the hps causes the stretch,

so ill continue to use cfls to start my plants, that is till i get a mh bulb and i can then try that for veg,

the plants look great and you got amazing results, well done

 

[doublejointed]

thanks don... well the final tally is 1oz amazin, bud 2 oz really good bud and an 1-1/2 oz of good popcorn bud. all grown under CFL's the scrog was a 6 month project. the total cost for the grow was about $120 in electricity and $50 for soil and whatnots...about the price of an average quality 1/2 oz. i have had very good results starting and vegin and flowering plants under CFL's. the flowering cycle is more of a challenge,the 2700 K CFL's don't seem to have the penetrating strength of the 6500 K bulbs do. growing the SGROG method i got much better results in the flowering cycle. my current grow i'm trying a mix of 6500 K and 2700 K during flowering to see if it makes a diff.
the bottom line is it works !! for over a year now i have been self-sufficient.

well this is the end of this journal, thanks to all who subed and helped out during the ruff patches.

 

[donpaul.p]

i have read that a lot of people go with a 50-50 ratio with the lights for both stages, plus in nature their getting the full spectrum as well, this is why i went with the dual spectrum hps, but it did not give me the results im looking for but as its a digital hps ballast this means i can get a mh bulb and use that for veg, so thats what ill be doing after harvesting these big plants, then i can compare the growth rate between the mh and the cfls, but the truth is cfls work and i have seen some amazing buds grown under cfls, plus i know they work cuz i used them from day 1, and i still use them to start my plants under as my 400 watt dual spectrum hps giving out 55,000lumins just makes them stretch like crazy, my last sour kush was 5 ft tall and the nodes where over 8 inches apart lower down the plant, but when it was in flower under the hps it started to grow slower and the nodes got closer together giving me a good yield in the end, it seems that hps makes the plants stretch in the first 2 or 3 weeks, after that they tend to stop stretching as much, but if i start plants under the cfls for 2 weeks then put the plants under the hps then i dont get this crazy stretch at all

 

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