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[ghostgardener]

Nada

 

[GardenGuy24]

Enjoin that big buddah are you?

 

[ghostgardener]

Maybe a little too much.

 

[GardenGuy24]

HAHAHA i think i would be too you have a time of day you prefer your ww and cheese

 

[smokedabong]

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happy days sussed it well this is the first 3 weeks of growth of my l.s.d from bf and the other 2 in pots are my mutant ak autos they stopped growing after the cold got to them they was on 18/6 under hps the girlfriend wont let me leave the hps on 24/7 so i got my cfl's out and she dont mind them on 24/7 after a few days they started again 1 stayed short and fat the other instead of growing 2 leafs grew 3 then 3 growing tops popped out. an auto topping auto flower happy days just wish it was under my hps anyway thanks again roseman any criticism welcome peace

 

[GardenGuy24]

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happy days sussed it well this is the first 3 weeks of growth of my l.s.d from bf and the other 2 in pots are my mutant ak autos they stopped growing after the cold got to them they was on 18/6 under hps the girlfriend wont let me leave the hps on 24/7 so i got my cfl's out and she dont mind them on 24/7 after a few days they started again 1 stayed short and fat the other instead of growing 2 leafs grew 3 then 3 growing tops popped out. an auto topping auto flower happy days just wish it was under my hps anyway thanks again roseman any criticism welcome peace

lookin pretty god man i been growin 2 in a 5 gal bucket 3.5 gal in it they are at 5 and 6 and a half weeks on tuesday they will be 6 and 7 vegged under one 250 wt cfl and two little 43 watters and for flowerin im goin to add another 250 watt warm cfl

 

[smokedabong]

lookin pretty god man i been growin 2 in a 5 gal bucket 3.5 gal in it they are at 5 and 6 and a half weeks on tuesday they will be 6 and 7 vegged under one 250 wt cfl and two little 43 watters and for flowerin im goin to add another 250 watt warm cfl

i've got 3 125 cfl's 2 red spec 1 blue need the red for the ak's i'm going to get dual spec next time and another bucket i think i'm going to flower under hps though peace

 

[GardenGuy24]

That sounds pretty good to me like i said i am new myself so i dont know much outside what i have researched and seen on this website, but i know my grow is doin pretty decent other than the fact i have one that is a week older than the other its a huge diff

 

[MostlyCrazy]

Look great to me. Saw a little nute burn but that strain is a little picky when it's young and I have never not burned the first set. They plump up real nice when the root get well into the water.

Just add all the lights you can.

 

[MostlyCrazy]

Got a question how much would 2 150 hps yield between 3-4 plants ? i know theres alot of factors to answer this but lets say i got everything going good what would i expect? (seeds most likely to be 2 white widow and 1 northern lights )

I'll answer you based on what I've seen. A new grower is going to get around 70% of what an experinced grower can get on average. Rookie mistakes and using low budget items as you start to learn are inevitable and necessary. I would figure you would pull about 1 1/2- 2 oz per plant if everything went as perfect as can be.

If you are using 2- 150 hps you'll have flowing covers. I like to add some 6500k (cool) cfl's to my hps also but that comes later. You'll either have to use another lighting system like a metal halide or possible a group of 6500k cfl's. Another option is a HPS to MH conversion bulb but i'm not sure that a bank of cfl's wouldn't be a better option.

 

[smokedabong]

i've only been growing myself about a year i done a couple of grows with a friend at his house but it aint the same as DIY though in the past year i've done soil to slow for me then i went to little rockwool cubes so i could ad nutes pretty much straight away the first 2 ak's done under hps in the rw i got 2 and half oz's dry and cured then i found rosemans tutorial and bubbles is the way forward peace

 

[RPsmoke]

i've got 3 125 cfl's 2 red spec 1 blue need the red for the ak's i'm going to get dual spec next time and another bucket i think i'm going to flower under hps though peace

Looks good man. I got some Autoflower seeds for the outdoor season. Pretty stoked to see what they can do.

Just so you know... you do not need 24/0 light schedule. 18/6 or 20/4 works great and saves some electricity. Just an option.

Flower under HPS if you can. CFL's work great. I can even produce some super dense nugs. But the yield is nothing compared to HPS.

But lookin good! Think we could get more pics of those Autoflower plants? Or do you have a journal? Love to hear a smoke report after they dry and cure!

 

[junmr2]

No one can really answer this accurately for you. But I'll try! It's the question any grower has as they get started. How long do you plan to veg for? How tall and bushy? How much headroom do you have? Grow room size? What medium? (I can assume Deep Water Culture but so many other methods of growing are in here... not sure)

How big you allow the plants to get has a lot to do with yield. Outdoors, I can grow trees, so yields of a pound per plant are possible. Indoors, I keep them a bit smaller. If I were growing with your setup, I would probably average 2-3 ounces per plant.

If you can source extra side lights (cfls) and have plenty of head room, you can expect more.

Proper trimming, and proper trellis design can open up a canopy and net a bigger yield.

Are you growing in the SH reservoir? Or 5 gallon buckets? Or...?

A lot of yield also has to do with strain. This will be a factor. Also, as I'm sure you know.... tons and tons of other factors can effect yield.

im growing in the SH reservoir .. i also have cfls side lighting but i was wondering will it be better and increase my yield if i just get another hps 150w sun system since i can get it at a good price?? .. and got alot of head room 5 feet height .. and was also gonna do sum LST .. thanks for all the help btw

 

[CellophaneSam]

Hey Deep Water Culture

Anyone here grow a ww/blueberry cross? I am right now. Things are looking healthy. Plants are about 12" tall on day 32. I am just wondering if, with this strain, I should veg 5 or 6 weeks. Right now, I am leaning toward 5, but if someone has experience with the strain and want's to talk me into 6, I'm listening.

More specifically, they are Blue Venom from G13 labs.

Peace

Sam

 

[CellophaneSam]

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today"

Will you sing that song to me as I fall asleep on Mr Tom's growroom floor?

Peace

Sam

 

[smokedabong]

Look great to me. Saw a little nute burn but that strain is a little picky when it's young and I have never not burned the first set. They plup up real nice when the root get well into the water.

Just add all the lights you can.

yeah the nutes i'm using are high in npk so i had to back off a bit but seems ok at the mo i remember reading (quite a few pages back) you've had some experience with this strain i might need to call on you if things go tits up peace

 

[junmr2]

A couple of quick observations:

Get rid of the tin foil, it only reflects about 55% of the light while flat white paint is in the 85% range, you'll do much better with the paint.

The air pump should be above the res. This will prevent siphoning of the res in case of power failure.

The light is pretty minimal for that space. I'd recommend adding cfls to increase your lumen output, I believe you're a ways under what you need.

thanks man gonna git rid of that tin foil .. also i think it would be even cooler in there is its white flat walls.. and i do have cfl lighting (4 actually watts 26w) 105w 2 5000k and 2 2700k .. but i was wondering would it be better to get another 150 hps since i can get it at a good price only 50 bucks thanks so excited i feel like im on my way of grower real soon

 

[FryingPanFlyer]

thanks man gonna git rid of that tin foil .. also i think it would be even cooler in there is its white flat walls.. and i do have cfl lighting (4 actually watts 26w) 105w 2 5000k and 2 2700k .. but i was wondering would it be better to get another 150 hps since i can get it at a good price only 50 bucks thanks so excited i feel like im on my way of grower real soon

Hps burn more efficiently so you get more lumens per watt burned. But the trade off is heat, they put out a bunch! It's a bit of a toss up, you can do real good with cfl's, check out my grow, I've got some sour diesel flowering under 5000k cfl's and they are doing great!

Sorry, I know you've asked this questions a couple times and no one is giving you a straight yes or no. But that's because nothing is written in stone. Every case is a little different and it may not work as well for you as it does for me. There are no absolute right or wrongs, just a bunch of "well maybe this will help a little more"s. I doubt either will make much difference to your grow, you need to get as much light in there as you can.

Multiple cfl's can help you in positioning, place them near a particular plant, or a particular bud. It's all a guess and a little personal opinion. I can tell you what worked for me, but that may not hold true for you for some other variable that neither of us knows right now.

 

[ghostgardener]

HAHAHA i think i would be too you have a time of day you prefer your ww and cheese

Anytime of day will work really but I like a good early morning stone it helps shake the cobwebs out.

 

[smokedabong]

Looks good man. I got some Autoflower seeds for the outdoor season. Pretty stoked to see what they can do.

Just so you know... you do not need 24/0 light schedule. 18/6 or 20/4 works great and saves some electricity. Just an option.

Flower under HPS if you can. CFL's work great. I can even produce some super dense nugs. But the yield is nothing compared to HPS.

But lookin good! Think we could get more pics of those Autoflower plants? Or do you have a journal? Love to hear a smoke report after they dry and cure!

no i dont have a journal rp might do next time i will just give people a quick update on here once a week as for photos of the autos no worries i do my res change saturday so i'll take some then. i will be flowering under hps only 1 baby i need as much bud production as pos i do give the lights 1 night off so i should have said 24/6 me and the girlfriend split the electric bill so i dont mind that much she's paying towards my hobbie little darling peace