First grow! 4 weeks into flower. Pics included

[jwilt2008]

This is my first grow and i am 4 weeks into flower. I was wondering if they look good for 4 weeks?

My setup
6x5x7 ft area
1k mh for veg 1k hps for flower. They vegged for a little over a month
6.5 gal pots
happy frog soil
fox farm trio

Here are a few pics let me know what you guys think!

 

[Chris323]

Looking good bud... although I don't suggest interrupting there night as they don't like it too much lol. girls do need there beauty sleep lol. good luck there looking great !

 

[jwilt2008]

Looking good bud... although I don't suggest interrupting there night as they don't like it too much lol. girls do need there beauty sleep lol. good luck there looking great !

Thanks!! Yeah that is the first time i took some pics while lights were off.

 

[cflGROWERanon]

They look fantastic, healthy looking and fat buds forming. If you did not announce it was your first, I'd have assumed you've had a few runs behind you.
Definitely green fingered. Great work, keep it up.

 

[jwilt2008]

They look fantastic, healthy looking and fat buds forming. If you did not announce it was your first, I'd have assumed you've had a few runs behind you.
Definitely green fingered. Great work, keep it up.

Wow thanks i really appreciate that! I was a bit worried they were not looking that good for 4 weeks. I guess hard work and reading up everyday is starting to pay off.

I plan on flowering for 11-12 weeks does that sound about right?

 

[BenFranklin]

I love when smart people grow good looking plants and then display them on here..

Those plants look beautiful, don't rate or compare yours to others, your grow is completely different from everyone else's, only the general materials are the same..

You're doing excellent. Just don't get nervous or do something stupid like "Ohh I gotta defoliate because the lights blocking the buds".

 

[jwilt2008]

I love when smart people grow good looking plants and then display them on here..

Those plants look beautiful, don't rate or compare yours to others, your grow is completely different from everyone else's, only the general materials are the same..

You're doing excellent. Just don't get nervous or do something stupid like "Ohh I gotta defoliate because the lights blocking the buds".

Thanks for all the positive feed back means a lot! I am just going to keep on doing what i have been and see how they turn out in the end! Hopefully with some nice yields.

 

[BenFranklin]

When are you going to make the leap into hydro?

 

[jwilt2008]

When are you going to make the leap into hydro?

I have not really thought about that yet. I just started this grow to see if i could actually grow. I wanted to start pretty basic with soil because i was told its the easiest. Maybe i should start looking into it is it a lot harder?

 

[Wilksey]

Them bitches' look NICE and healthy!

Positive waves to you and your harvest.

 

[BenFranklin]

With the proper tools, hydro is easy peasy..... Your most important tool in hydro, is a good all around PH/EC/TDS digital meter.

They are expensive, but, they are well worth every penny. You don't HAVE to use a digital meter, you can use a little tiny plastic cup with PH indicator juice... Learn how to adjust ph to where you want it, by the gallon, and then try hydro... Get one of those little General Hydroponics single unit "Waterfarm", just to give you an idea.. grow 1. Get it right... duplicate... Grow that one side by side to soil, post pics here so we can all see how Hydro kicks Soils ass.. Plus it will educate yourself..

Its not difficult at all, the biggest difficulty is getting your PH right, and all that is, is just trying to find the proper amounts of PH down to add to a gallon of water to get it to between 6.2 and 5.6.

Once you get this down and can do this automatically... IT's like riding a bike..


Like for me, I run well water, I have to put in 1 table spoon per 5 gallons of General Hydroponics PH down. to get the PH to 5.8... It does this every time, and I only use the meter to "make sure" nothing went stupid while I was mixing... Like "I did a bong hit and put in two tablespoons" instead of 1.

 

[jwilt2008]

With the proper tools, hydro is easy peasy..... Your most important tool in hydro, is a good all around PH/EC/TDS digital meter.

They are expensive, but, they are well worth every penny. You don't HAVE to use a digital meter, you can use a little tiny plastic cup with PH indicator juice... Learn how to adjust ph to where you want it, by the gallon, and then try hydro... Get one of those little General Hydroponics single unit "Waterfarm", just to give you an idea.. grow 1. Get it right... duplicate... Grow that one side by side to soil, post pics here so we can all see how Hydro kicks Soils ass.. Plus it will educate yourself..

Its not difficult at all, the biggest difficulty is getting your PH right, and all that is, is just trying to find the proper amounts of PH down to add to a gallon of water to get it to between 6.2 and 5.6.

Once you get this down and can do this automatically... IT's like riding a bike..

I will have to start looking into it. I have been measuring the PH in my soil grow to make sure its not too high or low. I have well water so i only have to use ph down.

I will for sure start reading up on hydro. Is it really that much better then soil?

 

[BenFranklin]

I will have to start looking into it. I have been measuring the PH in my soil grow to make sure its not too high or low. I have well water so i only have to use ph down.

I will for sure start reading up on hydro. Is it really that much better then soil?

Uh-huh... It's that much better.=)

No more trips to the store for soil... You only need to get the nutes. that you have to get anyway for soil.

 

[BenFranklin]

ON the stuff that I got(my own breed and kind), I was running soil at about 120 days start to finish and the buds were only "ok"...


They run about 90 days now, from seed.

From clone they run about 65. =)

 

[jwilt2008]

Uh-huh... It's that much better.=)

No more trips to the store for soil... You only need to get the nutes. that you have to get anyway for soil.

is this what your talking about?

http://generalhydroponics.com/site/index.php/products/systems/waterfarm/waterfarm_individual/

 

[jwilt2008]

ON the stuff that I got(my own breed and kind), I was running soil at about 120 days start to finish and the buds were only "ok"...


They run about 90 days now, from seed.

From clone they run about 65. =)

That sounds nice! I am going to have to do some research before i start asking dumb questions haha

 

[BenFranklin]

is this what your talking about?

http://generalhydroponics.com/site/index.php/products/systems/waterfarm/waterfarm_individual/

Yes exactly... They are AWESOME to learn on... They are practically mistake free, just read the instructions. Judging by your current grow, you're obviously intelligent enough to be able to do this. =)

 

[BenFranklin]

I am here for yah, if you have any questions, I ran these things for several years.

Once you figure it out, you don't need the guts to the bucket, just the air pump and air line to the air stone.

Look into something called Deep Water Culture.

IT's really THAT simple.

 

[jwilt2008]

Yes exactly... They are AWESOME to learn on... They are practically mistake free, just read the instructions. Judging by your current grow, you're obviously intelligent enough to be able to do this. =)

Well thanks appreciate it. I will give it some thought and start doing some research.

 

[BenFranklin]

The water farm unit, comes with EVERYTHING you need to start, including the little grow rocks and the nutrients.... PH up and Down... and it also has the PH indicator test kit..

Thats why I suggest it... it's the cat's meow to learn with. I was really against hydo for a long time because of the perceived difficulties... Now I think it's the ONLY way to grow.. lol! =)