400w Club-Show Off Your 400w Pride And Joy

lonleysmoka

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LS - i think your avatar is already showing some good ass. nice.

grow4joe, 1 seed should be okay, I have read on RIU that it's natural for plants at the end of their cycle to try and pollinate themselves, as you say, you'll have something to grow after, i got 3 seeds from my last crop, all clustered together, the weed is still killer though.:joint:
You said it perfectly with the seeds trying to pollinate themselves. Yea after I had left that post I remembered I got a couple of pics via email......
 

submachinegun

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Got in a money jam, so I borrowed a 400w from a friend. bongsmilie


These plants have lived their entire lives under floros up until the night before last. They are loving their new home under the "sun", no shock whatsoever. They're even handling the additional heat without a problem. I have grown with 400s in the past so I know what to expect. I was hoping to flower my "big mama" under a 600 at least, but I've been out of work and a friend offered to lend some equipment so I jumped.

Pic 1. The big bush is a QCDiablo, a friend and I have been growing it for awhile. We got the beans from a buddy, he said they were from south of the border but didn't know much. We grew them out and they are def a hybrid, they produce well, and the high is killer. We called them Senõr Kush for awhile, but QCDiablo (Queen City Diablo) stuck. Everyone around here loves it and asks for it over our breeder strains. :eyesmoke: She was started in March intended to go out outdoors, but for some reason I decided to hang out on to it and put it in under some cheap floros just to keep around. As time passed the got bigger and bigger, so I started training her to stay low and pruned daily. I have only fed her twice her whole life and she's in Happy Frog soil.

Pic 2. These clones are Afghani Hindu Kush, and they are for my friend for letting me borrow the gear. I'm not really impressed with this strain, but we'll see how she does with me at the controls.

Pic 3. Afghani mother. She birthed all the little ones you see, can't decide if I will flower or keep around.

Pic 4. This is my favorite girl. Skunk #1 x Blue Goo, mmmm. We've dubbed these AirForce1 and it's that one hit shit. I will not be flowering her this time around, she's my mother for future crops. I may throw one in, but they are high smell and im working without a filter. Tend to lack a lot of side branching and form resin covered buds that stink of roadkill / skunk. they will also leave your fingers stuck together. it's so strong we almost called it Pepe Le Goo. :mrgreen:

I will probably flip the switch in a week or so, just seeing how they like all the extra lumens before I commit. Plus I have a few loose ends to tie up in the room.
 

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submachinegun

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healthy looking ladies submachinegun. nice
thanks man, they get a lot of love.


I forgot to mention, all of the others besides the big bush are in FF Ocean Forest. And I also have two of the small AHK Clones (not pictured) in some miracle gro just to compare. So far those have suffered a significant amount of burn on the lower leaves along with clawing of the new ones.
 

greenearth5

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Im not sure when ill switch to hps.. this is my first time using MH so im guessing ill switch to hps when they show sex? I dont know when to switch honestly... what do you suggest riess

Looking good, are you going to use a HPS bulb soon?
 

submachinegun

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Im not sure when ill switch to hps.. this is my first time using MH so im guessing ill switch to hps when they show sex? I dont know when to switch honestly... what do you suggest riess

I always used MH up until 2 weeks into flower and then switched over to HPS for the remainder. :peace:
 

submachinegun

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cool.. i was thinking about switching right after they show sex or when they show the first signs of pistols..
Plants tend to stretch during the onset of flowering, and using a HPS from the get go adds to this. Using a MH during that initial stretch helps to retain tight node spacing. bongsmilie
 

greenearth5

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My last lowrider got 3 foot tall and 3 foot wide in a DWC 150HPS setup initially... then in flowering i bought my 400HPS and hooked it up... this time around i want some short ass plants with hella hellla lot of bud growin on top of them so i got the 400MH bulb so that they will stay short (1 foot apx) ... i dont want too short of plants incase this will decrease my yield.. and i dont want to tall of plants because they are harder to conceal in case of an emergency.. hmmmm.. heres some pic in case i didnt post any earlier
 

submachinegun

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supercrop, on the regular. I squeeze my plants stems until they crush. do this about 1-2 nodes from the top while it's still nice and soft. let a another node develop, do it again. this promotes side branching and lower growth starts to fill in and reach the top. I'd only recommend doing this in veg though. I do all of girls this way, and end up with very short, compact bushes with multi colas.
 

greenearth5

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im thinking about just letting them grow naturally for this first soil grow.. im a hydro man and i wanna get this soil growing down pat before i do anything to it but ill keep the super cropping in mind... do i just bend them over two nodes up? i done that to my blueberry hydro grow.. but i done it spraticallly on some offshooting branches....

correct me if im wrong but the point is to make the top half the plant grow sidewaise so the offshoots grow up to make multi super colas?
 

submachinegun

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im thinking about just letting them grow naturally for this first soil grow.. im a hydro man and i wanna get this soil growing down pat before i do anything to it but ill keep the super cropping in mind... do i just bend them over two nodes up? i done that to my blueberry hydro grow.. but i done it spraticallly on some offshooting branches....

correct me if im wrong but the point is to make the top half the plant grow sidewaise so the offshoots grow up to make multi super colas?

I don't even do that, I just squeeze between my fingers until I feel it crush. then I just let it be. While it's repairing itself, the lower branches start to catch up. but I do this on top of topping as well, which I do every 2-3 nodes.
 

greenearth5

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cool thanks man.. im going to check around the forum to see all the methods i can use to make my plants grow extra large amounts of bud
 
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