P-91 - CFL 12Pack - SCROG - DWC 1st Grow

[farnorth]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

^^^^what krip said. that sounds lovely. i want a piece of that action as well.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Hey Dime - love the nice even canopy. Buds and plants are looking great - nice pictures!

Happy 420 Day to you!


Edit: By the way, thanks for the photo advice - I'll look into your suggestions when I'm not so high, lol. I appreciate it greatly.

Thank you, I can't wait for my macro filter for my camera to get here. It's a 10X magnification lens that screws onto the end of my lenses. Should make for some cleaner close ups.

Dude the fairy dust is just awesome...those have to be some hot fairies to sprinkle that well..

Awesome job...dude I'm so impressed with how well you've done with this especially considering your shaky start...

Just amazing!

It's like the fairy dust is being distributed by gnomes on angel dust

Thanks for the kind words Giants, you've been here since the beginning and I appreciate you sticking around through the shitty times and the good ones.

Namaste my good man.

Your girls look fantastic, DIME!!!

Do me a favor, leave a little note in your growroom for those gnomes to come see me when they're done with you. I'd like to discuss an arrangement!

^^^^what krip said. that sounds lovely. i want a piece of that action as well.

Thanks guys! I bribe them with Keebler Elf cookies and Rockstar energy drinks I'm just glad they don't smoke weed I'll make some arrangments... The have a very large family

Man! I forgot how much I love outdoor grown meds. The Skywalker OG Wifey and I had is insane!! Sooo smooth and I swear you can taste the sunshine.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Well, my new avatar is up... dime 2.0

Mini update, Day 33 of 12/12

Last night was watering and feeding day. I upped the GH Bloom nutes 2.5ml, l noticed their online calculator shows I'm right where I should be as far as their nutes are concerned. The Hygrozyme got bumped by 2ml.

Girls received per 1 gal RO
5ml GH Micro
10ml GH Bloom
10ml Cal-Mag+
10ml Hygrozyme
30ml Budswel

PPMs only raised a bit and are sitting around 1150.

This morning they were perky as hell and the smell is strong! The pistils are changing from white to reddish-orange on Ashley (little one) and starting to on Mary-Kate (big girl) Only the one quick pic from this morning...more tonight

I now need to figure out something I probably should have addressed a while ago... These girls are nowhere near the same size as each other. Could be the reason little Ashley's buds are so much larger than her big sister's, Mary-Kate... She is getting the same amount of nutes and is half the size. Ashley is drinking a bit slower and could probably go half a day longer as well.

So now I'm wondering if I should just keep on the same path or bump MK's nutes up even more. Next week is week 5 of flower and I'm wanting to start the AN Overdrive soon. I'm just worried that Ashley will finish much earlier and won't get enough time for flushing.

Any thoughts you guys???

Thanks!

 

[Giantsfan24]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Well, my new avatar is up... dime 2.0

Mini update, Day 33 of 12/12

Last night was watering and feeding day. I upped the GH Bloom nutes 2.5ml, l noticed their online calculator shows I'm right where I should be as far as their nutes are concerned. The Hygrozyme got bumped by 2ml.

Girls received per 1 gal RO
5ml GH Micro
10ml GH Bloom
10ml Cal-Mag+
10ml Hygrozyme
30ml Budswel

PPMs only raised a bit and are sitting around 1150.

This morning they were perky as hell and the smell is strong! The pistils are changing from white to reddish-orange on Ashley (little one) and starting to on Mary-Kate (big girl) Only the one quick pic from this morning...more tonight

I now need to figure out something I probably should have addressed a while ago... These girls are nowhere near the same size as each other. Could be the reason little Ashley's buds are so much larger than her big sister's, Mary-Kate... She is getting the same amount of nutes and is half the size. Ashley is drinking a bit slower and could probably go half a day longer as well.

So now I'm wondering if I should just keep on the same path or bump MK's nutes up even more. Next week is week 5 of flower and I'm wanting to start the AN Overdrive soon. I'm just worried that Ashley will finish much earlier and won't get enough time for flushing.

Any thoughts you guys???

Thanks!

Same exact thing is happening with my grow. Dorothy, who was the runt, and Baby are on two different schedules. I'm going to harvest at the same time and have two slightly different highs as a result.

Different water needs, different time in bud development...awesome!!

 

[farnorth]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

well tahts the beauty of soil. is that you can put each plant on its own schedule. makes taking notes a little more complicated. I would say since noone here knows your plants as well as you. That i think you should give your plants what they want and what they need. If MK needs and wants more. Then thats what you should do.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Same exact thing is happening with my grow. Dorothy, who was the runt, and Baby are on two different schedules. I'm going to harvest at the same time and have two slightly different highs as a result.

Different water needs, different time in bud development...awesome!!

Thanks Giants, I do remember that... but I don't remember if you fed them the same or not

I had planned on just staggering harvests if needed... hoping to end up with some couch-lock It would be cool to have the same meds with different highs though.

well tahts the beauty of soil. is that you can put each plant on its own schedule. makes taking notes a little more complicated. I would say since noone here knows your plants as well as you. That i think you should give your plants what they want and what they need. If MK needs and wants more. Then thats what you should do.

Thanks man, my notes are a bit shorter than yours are I can pretty much remember off the top of my head. Your grow I would have to video everything just in case

I do agree with you, I can see the differences and usually can tell when they are hungry, thirsty etc. Ashley looks like she is maxed out but not in a bad way...just on the edge. MK looks like she wants another go at the buffet

Thanks for the input guys, I'll get some pics later for another question...

 

[Purple Goose]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Heya dime did some research with overdrive you want to use it in the last 2 weeks right up untill flush so in a 9 week grow overdrive should be added in weeks 7 and 8 then flush but I dont think it would hurt to go with 3 weeks of overdrive in a strain that is more sativa dominant.

 

[Purple Goose]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Well, my new avatar is up... dime 2.0

Mini update, Day 33 of 12/12

Last night was watering and feeding day. I upped the GH Bloom nutes 2.5ml, l noticed their online calculator shows I'm right where I should be as far as their nutes are concerned. The Hygrozyme got bumped by 2ml.

Girls received per 1 gal RO
5ml GH Micro
10ml GH Bloom
10ml Cal-Mag+
10ml Hygrozyme
30ml Budswel

PPMs only raised a bit and are sitting around 1150.

This morning they were perky as hell and the smell is strong! The pistils are changing from white to reddish-orange on Ashley (little one) and starting to on Mary-Kate (big girl) Only the one quick pic from this morning...more tonight

I now need to figure out something I probably should have addressed a while ago... These girls are nowhere near the same size as each other. Could be the reason little Ashley's buds are so much larger than her big sister's, Mary-Kate... She is getting the same amount of nutes and is half the size. Ashley is drinking a bit slower and could probably go half a day longer as well.

So now I'm wondering if I should just keep on the same path or bump MK's nutes up even more. Next week is week 5 of flower and I'm wanting to start the AN Overdrive soon. I'm just worried that Ashley will finish much earlier and won't get enough time for flushing.

Any thoughts you guys???

Thanks!

Off the top of my head I would say the plant that is appearing to be a bit behind more then likely the soil its sitting in is richer in nitrogen which will delay maturation as both plants are extremely healthy looking unless they were both from seeds didnt read the whole journal but if from seeds then that is one explaination but I assume do to there uniformity that they were clones so I am going with a bit more nitrogen delaying your plants maturity.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Thank you for taking the time to research all of that Cateros, that's very kind.

They are clones and I thought it was strange that they grew so different as they have been given the same of everything so far. I just figured that when they got infected with pythium from the DWC and then recovered, the rate of growth was effected.

From the look of their growth, my smaller plant (Ashley) may actually finish closer to 8 weeks and the big girl (Mary-Kate) could go 9-10. The pistils on Ashley are around 40% orange and MK's are around 15-20%. Is that an indicator of nearing a half-way point in the flowering stage for Ashley? I'll try to find an answer to that but if anyone knows I would really appreciate the help. I'll post some close ups of ech plant when the lights go on tonight.

Thank you all for your help... Man I love this place

 

[Purple Goose]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Generally diseases and such will lower yields and slow them down a bit as well.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Generally diseases and such will lower yields and slow them down a bit as well.

Thanks again my friend! That does explain the one small girl.

Right now I have a total of 33 tops from these girls... If I can pull just 3.5 grams per top dry, I would end up with 115.5 grams or 4.07 OZs then there is the couple dozen smaller bud sites a little lower in the canopy to count...HOLY CRAP!

I'm hoping the OVerdrive will bump that up a bit, but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself because of

Well I was baked and determined to get some pics with the better camera (that was a great idea too Cateros)

Need some sleep now

 

[OldMedMan]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Just Beautiful Mr. Dime.

That new camera was worth the money.

 

[Giantsfan24]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

wow 24" across on that plant!! That's sweet bro...going to be a great harvest off of that sweetie!

I'm drying out over the weekend and harvesting on Monday!!

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Just Beautiful Mr. Dime.

That new camera was worth the money.

Thank you sir! These were actually taken with my regular camera, instead of the cell phone. The new camera will come a little further down the road

Have a great weekend my friend!

wow 24" across on that plant!! That's sweet bro...going to be a great harvest off of that sweetie!

I'm drying out over the weekend and harvesting on Monday!!

Crazy huh? It was 4" wider than that but I had to get creative with the LST to get the tops back under the light . Now she's just about a complete 24" circle.

I'm pumped for you! Harvest time seems like it would be one of the greatest parts of a grow... The time to celebrate all the time and effort. Both of which you have done a fantastic job at

Thank you and congrats my man!

 

[SteveHman]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

That is one of the nicest looking canopies I've seen. Great job! If I had seen this post a year ago, I may have reconsidered paying all of that money for my LEDs and just bought 50 CFL fixtures. Great DIY project and proof that there is not a single best way to grow.

 

[420fied]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Nice work my friend. Your plants look delicious! May all your buds be dense.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

That is one of the nicest looking canopies I've seen. Great job! If I had seen this post a year ago, I may have reconsidered paying all of that money for my LEDs and just bought 50 CFL fixtures. Great DIY project and proof that there is not a single best way to grow.

Thanks man, that is a great compliment.

It's one thing to see people grow with CFLs and another to see it right before my eyes. I never thought they would perform as well as they have. To me, SCROG and LST methods really maximize the potential of CFLs. That and bulb orientation can add up to some interesting results. LSTing has allowed me to keep my lights very close to the plants, after the addition of a circulating fan (never seen in the pics) I have been able to keep the bulbs within 1.5" of the tops with some as close as .5" without any heat stress at all.

Also, I'd keep those LEDs man... your plants are really awesome!

Nice work my friend. Your plants look delicious! May all your buds be dense.

Hey there, thank you for the kind words and for stopping by! If smell is an indicator of taste it should be fantastic ...

The more mature buds are starting to thicken up pretty quick so I'm hoping by harvest time they should have some nice density. The first fan leaf trim has helped tremendously and I will have to take a few off this weekend because of how thick the growth in the middles of the plants have become.

Take care guys.

 

[Muggles13]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

That is too cool, bro. 2 plants and it looks like a mini rain forest.

 

[George Parker]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

That is too cool, bro. 2 plants and it looks like a mini rain forest.

Thanks my friend! Much appreciated

 

[farnorth]

Re: dirtinmyears P-91, CFL 12-Pack, SCROG, DWC 1st Grow

Definitely awesome dime. i can see how they are starting to thicken up and mature every time you update. really solid work here.