First time grow need assistance and advice please (cfl grow)

Lmao thankyou I wont be using CFL to flower at all I have mars hydro LEDs 2 ts600 and a ts1000 I will phase out cfl for all led over next the summer led cooler more efficient and better light for plants.
No more males in my garden they got the chop chop. I have like 20 cfl bulbs that can be hooked up I got a good veg with what i had but flower would have been crap so got LEDs not sure how high to put led but not too close I know.

Sad news Amazon didnt mark outside box as fragile so purlator put heavy stuff on top and crushed the driver into the ts1000 put in ticket with amazon and mars hydro seeing about a replacement.

I sexed all my mature plants and found another male I couldn't cut it down so I got it to the pollinator park. Got 3 females in flower.

Rictor94 said:

I have started a grow in my closet with a few bag seeds and have gotten some lost cost og seeds and have them germinating.
I have 4 60w cfl soft white do I need more light now? How much more?
I really really do not know what nutrients to give them so far was tap water but switched to boiled water as I'm in the city.
I dont have closet set up perfectly but hopefully they continue to grow well. I have some yellow on 1 leaf no idea what it is growing in Miracle-Gro potting mix I have flushed both pots with water as to get the nuts from the Miracle-Gro out.

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There is a great article online about growing with cfl. Its a great read and covers everything. Google search CFL cannabis grow. its the first article in the search from grow weed easy or something along those lines

Rictor94 said:

I have started a grow in my closet with a few bag seeds and have gotten some lost cost og seeds and have them germinating.
I have 4 60w cfl soft white do I need more light now? How much more?
I really really do not know what nutrients to give them so far was tap water but switched to boiled water as I'm in the city.
I dont have closet set up perfectly but hopefully they continue to grow well. I have some yellow on 1 leaf no idea what it is growing in Miracle-Gro potting mix I have flushed both pots with water as to get the nuts from the Miracle-Gro out.

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These are some pics I just took. I did have a problem last 2 weeks trying to figure out how much to feed the bigger plant but I got a 5gal water bucket and pump and upped the last few feeds. She is looking better last 3 or 4 days. I did defoliation on all 3 of these and went too fast and cut 2 or 3 tops of 1 of the smaller ones in like 3rd week of flower. The bigger 1 is starting 5th week of flower. I think prob at least another 4 or 5 weeks to go on it. Starting to see real buds forming and cant wait to harvest and make some bubble hash and enjoy the 5 months of watching and feeding and blah blah blah. Starting a dwc with a ewe 2 from HSO 100% indica just doing 1 dwc along with my coco.

This is my favourite grow thread, holy shit. Looks great. Did amazon replace the light?

Lil’ Biscuit said:

This is my favourite grow thread, holy shit. Looks great. Did amazon replace the light?

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light did not get replaced I got a 5% discount code. I could have sent it back for refund but I needed it asap. Ty I put lots of time during covid doing my first grow. I feel bad I killed the first 2 males now 3rd one is happy at the park.

Good evening fine people of riu. Here is an update on my lost coast og day 50 of flower. Few amber on top buds but rest needs a few weeks still for sure was under fed for a few weeks as i was adjusting to number of plants.

Rictor94 said:

I have started a grow in my closet with a few bag seeds and have gotten some lost cost og seeds and have them germinating.
I have 4 60w cfl soft white do I need more light now? How much more?
I really really do not know what nutrients to give them so far was tap water but switched to boiled water as I'm in the city.
I dont have closet set up perfectly but hopefully they continue to grow well. I have some yellow on 1 leaf no idea what it is growing in Miracle-Gro potting mix I have flushed both pots with water as to get the nuts from the Miracle-Gro out.

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My experience with cfl growing.... Toss them out and buy an HPS. I did 2 runs with 100w total and yielded 15g off both plants. A total of 1 ounce in about a year. I switched over to a cheap 150w HPS and grew a healthier more resilient plant that would have easily yielded me 2 ounces.

Rictor94 said:

Good evening fine people of riu. Here is an update on my lost coast og day 50 of flower. Few amber on top buds but rest needs a few weeks still for sure was under fed for a few weeks as i was adjusting to number of plants. View attachment 4634464View attachment 4634465View attachment 4634466

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Plants do look amazing though

I am only using a single cfl table lamp to assist my seedlings not I have mars hydro ts600 and mars hydro ts1000

I upgraded about second week of flower I do need to get another ts1000 for tent and the 1 600 in there now can go to side area closet is gunna be 2 dwc I have 1 started but rert of closets seedlings and 3 solo cup grow.

Rictor94 said:

I upgraded about second week of flower I do need to get another ts1000 for tent and the 1 600 in there now can go to side area closet is gunna be 2 dwc I have 1 started but rert of closets seedlings and 3 solo cup grow.

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I didn’t see all of the updates. Great looking plants overall. I just went all in with a 600w vivosun HPS. I’m very happy with the results. I just harvested 94g off of a single plant. 50 days or so of flower was under a 150w HPS and it finished under the 600w. I am thinking about getting a mars hydro ts3000 for my 4x4 after this next run. Just to compare the 2 lights with 4 plants.

I dont trust that the mars hydro will last long time so I'd rather get couple smaller ones and replace once enough bulbs go out rather then 800 a time and not sure how long will last. I saw your grow great recovery.! I am helping my neighbor fix their plants old supervisor from past job lol. I wanna share my closet but tech only supposed to have 4 so gotta get all set up before I show off I also got a small led tube light for under canopy but took it down after it fell once cuz dint wanna break it and got it for lower side area. Failed at starting first cube thing and it got alge and didnt sprout second I got to come up today over past few days and now doing ewe2 and BlackBerry kush. Ewe2 100% indica

I started flushing and cut 1 small side bud yesterday cant wait to try it I can deff tell difference in this lost coast og vs the second 1 that only had led during entire flower cycle.

I smoked the nug I dried out was pretty good but I did get some seeds from males that were in with girls too long.
I fucked up extremely bad I dont have pics or not sure what happened exactly I fed my lost coast og that was 2 weeks behind the 1 that's finished up and I didnt ph the water and put in too much nutes and didnt stir enough in between I came back 5 hours later and all fan leaves were dried up and sugar leaves were even dying up. I flushed it for a day and when I knew it wasnt gunna come back I cut it down prob 2 3 weeks before I had planned to cut it. Trics are mostly cloudy thank goodness.
Dried 2 days whole plant I trimmed and cut buds to place in drying net today. Put trim in baggie and small amount of bud into another bag into freezer for bubble hash next week when I have other plant done.