First time CFL grow. How do they look???
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CFLGREENTHUMB
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cool... I wasn't really worried about how fast they dried but thanks for that bit of advice i may need it later on down the road
lee harvey
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there ya go buddy..nice cola!
feelingreen
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Nice grow! I enjoyed following it! 
I know it's late, but I noticed that no one ever mentioned it throughout your grow - your plant displayed classic signs of a phosphorus deficiency, from the color of the main stem and petioles (and the bending/weakness of the petioles) to the burning/crisping of the leaves. Additionally, a P deficiency affects yield, which is why some of your buds didn't fatten up quite like they potentially could have. This link has more info if you scroll down:
http://www.greenmanspage.com/guides/plant_abuse.html
Even so, your plants looked lovely - I'm sure it's just that your lady had such an appetite she burned through those nutes during the flowering phase. Which is ideal - that's one of the benefits of switching to 2700K bulbs, besides mimicking the seasonal conditions of flowering by switching light schedules (except for autos, which don't flower in response to a changed photoperiod), 2700Ks also make phosphorus more readily available for your plant (whereas your 6500 make nitrogen more readily available). This means that during the period of your girl's life when she needed P most her lighting was perfect for it - unfortunately, it looked like the P she got didn't keep up with her growth. You mentioned, though, that you gave her nutes and that she responded quite well to it - what nutes did you use, and what was the NPK ratio? I'm wondering if maybe due to the pH being off, you had a nutrient lockout, if your fertilizer did indeed have enough phosphorus.
Phosphorus gets locked out of soil growing at pH levels of 4.0-5.5, and is best absorbed at a pH of 6.0-7.0. Did you mention at one point that your pH was somewhere in the 5s? Was your fertilizer acidic/basic/neutral?
In any case, happy growing, I wish you the best of luck, and fields of green.
I know it's late, but I noticed that no one ever mentioned it throughout your grow - your plant displayed classic signs of a phosphorus deficiency, from the color of the main stem and petioles (and the bending/weakness of the petioles) to the burning/crisping of the leaves. Additionally, a P deficiency affects yield, which is why some of your buds didn't fatten up quite like they potentially could have. This link has more info if you scroll down:
http://www.greenmanspage.com/guides/plant_abuse.html
Even so, your plants looked lovely - I'm sure it's just that your lady had such an appetite she burned through those nutes during the flowering phase. Which is ideal - that's one of the benefits of switching to 2700K bulbs, besides mimicking the seasonal conditions of flowering by switching light schedules (except for autos, which don't flower in response to a changed photoperiod), 2700Ks also make phosphorus more readily available for your plant (whereas your 6500 make nitrogen more readily available). This means that during the period of your girl's life when she needed P most her lighting was perfect for it - unfortunately, it looked like the P she got didn't keep up with her growth. You mentioned, though, that you gave her nutes and that she responded quite well to it - what nutes did you use, and what was the NPK ratio? I'm wondering if maybe due to the pH being off, you had a nutrient lockout, if your fertilizer did indeed have enough phosphorus.
Phosphorus gets locked out of soil growing at pH levels of 4.0-5.5, and is best absorbed at a pH of 6.0-7.0. Did you mention at one point that your pH was somewhere in the 5s? Was your fertilizer acidic/basic/neutral?
In any case, happy growing, I wish you the best of luck, and fields of green.