Just Finished First Grow!! Any advice?

Hi All!

I am new to site, mainly used info on this site and various other guides and found them extremely helpful!!
So I started a small closet grow under cfls, harvested at about 9 weeks after switching to 12/12. I started to get concerned as the leaves were shriveling and dropping fast so I probably harvested a lil early but under pocket microscope (beautiful!) mostly cloudly, maybe 1/3 amberish trikes. Based on the images any recommendations for grow number 2?? I dunno what the strain is, just used some seeds i found in last batch of mids.

Thanks for any input or suggestions and making this info available!

I have never had leaves look healthy at the end of flowering. The plant uses the leaves for energy and they crumble and die. You can pick a couple of the completely dead ones off next time. Definately let it go longer next run, and consider getting a HPS light. You did pretty fucking well for CLFs though.

i agree! thats awsome! i pray mine grow as big and beautiful as yours... great job hommie!

looks good man, you took care of em right, id consider upgrading your setup since you have the skill to grow now =) +rep grasshoppah

How many CFL's did you use? And what position were the bulbs to the plant? These are things i'm struggling with as of now.

I used 5 100 watt cfls, I think they are 5700k and 2200k... from home depot. As I got rid of the males I aimed the lights at an angle to get through to the lower nodes. I started with 1 bulb per plant and adjusted as time went on. I am considering adding lighting from the side, or maybe some reflective material. I had the lights on a wooden rectangle that covered my grow area that was height adjustable by rope. Next time I will use chain...prolly a lot easier. Keep them just above the top of the plant as the cfls don't give off much heat.

Good luck!

The best advice I can give you is cure your harvest. Mids when raises right can do some crazy growing lol.

Look good dude! My 1st is just starting to flower!No pic till 2maro cause there sleeping right now.Happy Smoking dude!

Those look like 12/12 from seed. How long did you veg for?
Were they actual 100w bulbs? or 100w equivalent?

I guess 100 w equivalent cfls. They were in 18/6 veg for 10 weeks maybe...should have kept a journal, but I went more for the number of nodes then a set number of weeks. I had three ladies going so I switched the light when they all had 5-8 nodes. Two were way bigger than the other...one was a bit of a midget, somehow got stunted.

Very nice work for cfls/your first grow!

Very nice work. Looks green and healthy... I keep thinking one of those shoes is going to fall on top of them! I have this phobia ever since a inline fan landed on top of one of my girls >_> Good work nevertheless.

Ten weeks veg seems way long for indoor I usually do one month plant look great though

Advise? How about food for thought?

Kinda hard to tell from the pics how much you pulled off this grow, BUT you used 5 "100w eq." CFLs??? 100 watt eq. (just locate and know the watts, dude) is a 26 watt CFL. That means you did this grow with 130 watts! LOL --You could burn that with a table lamp-- Just think if you put some juice to it on your next grow. Actually, Walmart has a 100 watt CFL on their shelves right now @3860 lumens its a 2700K for $12 something. Anyway, you could run a lot of those 26 watters and get ya a grow going.

And yeah, you harvested too early, costing you some quality--- and likely some weight.

Nice work.

What sized pots did you use, and what type of soil? Did you use nutes?

Let us know what your dry weight is.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say: it does look nice, good job.

Thanks for the advice man. Sounds like a very similar setup to mine. Looks like i'm on the right track!

im not jorge cervantes but it looks like maybe it stretched a lil. were your cfls nice and close to your babys?

Wow thanks for all the feedback... I do have to say I am fairly proud of my little ladies (although always room for improvement!). As you could probably tell by the shoe in the background I didn't have a lot of space in my closet so I used 2 planter boxes that are each 18 X 3' X 2' deep which fitted a lot nicer than a bunch of 5 gallon buckets. The soil I used was nothing special just picked it up at home depot. Actually all my supplies came from home depot should be called "grow depot"...Used the bloom formula miracle grow 2 times a week. It didn't seem like they got root bound, they just grew sideways. I did go the budget route, and now that I see the results I might consider upgrading a couple things for efficiency/productivity

oh I missed a comment.... The bulbs were usually 1-3 inches above the tops