my first cfl grow

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crazed1011

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agreed thats what i did for my this one. was my first and wanted to make sure i could grow before i buy more complex stuff
 
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Hempcrazed420

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[SUB][/SUB]Wow.... Fckn Awsome u lookn good I'ma few weeks behind u but I'ma first tome grower using cfls also ..... I'm lookn at ur plant and all ur post it reminds me of everything I'm goin through .... Awsome experience right ..... It's like ur baby ....But I'd love to show em to ya at work right now so I can't post anything
But I'm about a week into flowering and I'm like a kid in a candy store....Will post piks asap
 
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crazed1011

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for sure man post away its exciting for sure.about the temps she's in the basement and i live in Canada so its not super hot yet the temp went up a couple degrees
 
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crazed1011

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so i was thinking of chopping her wenesday of next week. now i havent read much about harvesting so i think i might have to start. would i chop trim then dry? this makes sense to do it that way
 
bostoner

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Nice and frosty. Pic 4 looks like a phosphorus def or lock in. Lock in could be from cold temps. Or it could be natural for the strain you have. I don't even think I know the strain now that I think about it... what is this??... if you know. It looks isolated so I wouldn't worry about it. I'd give it a week to 2 weeks if I was smoking it, probably 2 but I have trouble sleeping so I like my smoke to be sleepy time. IMO harvesting later in the peak window changes the smoke noticeably. I like to have some for day and some for night so I usually do both but I also hate the psychedelic high you get from something harvested at about you plants age. If you like that you could cut sooner. It's all about your preference. Should be a nice balance between the two extremes your genetics have to offer in a week or so. I don't know if you have a loop or microscope but they are pretty cheap. Probably the first thing someone you ask about harvesting will tell you to get. It is a good idea to get a look at the trichomes covering your calyxes. When they amber the thc starting some major degradation into cbn. Less psychoactive than thc but some like the sleepy feeling they get from it. I was trying to make this quick and it really isnt working out that way.... OK well quickest simplest harvesting instruction my way. Many people like to have an extended dark period before they cut. This is because thc is degraded by light when the plant is dead or alive. By throwing it in the dark the plant will continue to use stored energy to replenish damaged thc and create new trichomes in the dark bringing up bag appeal. Also some strains see benefit with a higher thc content than those without a an extended dark period before harvest. I guess this mostly pertains to white strains.... only one I know of with scientific data anyways even seeing benefit with dark periods as long as 2 weeks. Either way you go want to chop at dawn or after lights off. I like to chop the plant at the base and hang it upside down then trim off small branches to trim. Remember to save frost sugar trim for later. then hang the branches individually in the dark. Not much air movement is needed to prevent mold if your RH is lower than say 60. If not replenishing air without fans directly on the hanging buds is key to prevent mold. You don't want your buds to dry too fast or they will retain the taste of chlorophyll. If your RH is too low like me with central AC, you can slow the dry by putting the buds in brown paper bags rolled up loosely. If its around 65 or higher it will take around a week before your buds to be dry enough to jar and burp. Some say to jar when stems snap completely but for me that's too late. I like to jar like a day before that happens, experience is key here but buds will be completely dry to the touch and the stems will feel like they almost want to snap. I cut off the stems before jarring and fill a jar up all the way without packing the buds in. Now burping can be ramped up slowly but with my experience I don't need to check it that often anymore. The idea is just to close the jar up wait and open the jar again to see how much water is still being wicked from the stem in the center. Can happen as fast as 6 hours if bud is way too wet. If the outside of the buds are wet and the jar has some dew on it its too early to jar and try again later. The amount of time you leave the jar open for depends on how wet it is. You want to wait until the bud is dry to the touch again. I find if I can keep it closed for around 4 days and no moisture shows I can seal for 2 weeks before smoking or burping once more for storage. If you open and smell the jar and it smells a bit like ammonia you jarred too early. a slow even dry and a long cure is the key to good tasting buds. AHHHH anyways I'm done babbling this is just my way and I suggest you still do some research to find what best suits you.
 
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jokerindustries187

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My guess would be not enough water...mine looked like that and then i watered em every other day and they perked up...dont know whats wrong with it now though cause the leaves started curling up and down and twisting and looks kinda funny...i dunno...ill figure it out
 
reppinhigh22

reppinhigh22

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This plant is beautiful. I hope I can get mine to be similar. It's perfect i.m.o because it's short and produced great. That's what I'm lookin' for.

Have you started flushing yet? now would be the time. :D
 
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crazed1011

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Lol thats alot to understand i will def do some research here in the next week or so, glad to see you join in from start to finish for sure i appreciate the support! still havent seen your grow/grows so you should throw a link.
bostoner said:
Nice and frosty. Pic 4 looks like a phosphorus def or lock in. Lock in could be from cold temps. Or it could be natural for the strain you have. I don't even think I know the strain now that I think about it... what is this??... if you know. It looks isolated so I wouldn't worry about it. I'd give it a week to 2 weeks if I was smoking it, probably 2 but I have trouble sleeping so I like my smoke to be sleepy time. IMO harvesting later in the peak window changes the smoke noticeably. I like to have some for day and some for night so I usually do both but I also hate the psychedelic high you get from something harvested at about you plants age. If you like that you could cut sooner. It's all about your preference. Should be a nice balance between the two extremes your genetics have to offer in a week or so. I don't know if you have a loop or microscope but they are pretty cheap. Probably the first thing someone you ask about harvesting will tell you to get. It is a good idea to get a look at the trichomes covering your calyxes. When they amber the thc starting some major degradation into cbn. Less psychoactive than thc but some like the sleepy feeling they get from it. I was trying to make this quick and it really isnt working out that way.... OK well quickest simplest harvesting instruction my way. Many people like to have an extended dark period before they cut. This is because thc is degraded by light when the plant is dead or alive. By throwing it in the dark the plant will continue to use stored energy to replenish damaged thc and create new trichomes in the dark bringing up bag appeal. Also some strains see benefit with a higher thc content than those without a an extended dark period before harvest. I guess this mostly pertains to white strains.... only one I know of with scientific data anyways even seeing benefit with dark periods as long as 2 weeks. Either way you go want to chop at dawn or after lights off. I like to chop the plant at the base and hang it upside down then trim off small branches to trim. Remember to save frost sugar trim for later. then hang the branches individually in the dark. Not much air movement is needed to prevent mold if your RH is lower than say 60. If not replenishing air without fans directly on the hanging buds is key to prevent mold. You don't want your buds to dry too fast or they will retain the taste of chlorophyll. If your RH is too low like me with central AC, you can slow the dry by putting the buds in brown paper bags rolled up loosely. If its around 65 or higher it will take around a week before your buds to be dry enough to jar and burp. Some say to jar when stems snap completely but for me that's too late. I like to jar like a day before that happens, experience is key here but buds will be completely dry to the touch and the stems will feel like they almost want to snap. I cut off the stems before jarring and fill a jar up all the way without packing the buds in. Now burping can be ramped up slowly but with my experience I don't need to check it that often anymore. The idea is just to close the jar up wait and open the jar again to see how much water is still being wicked from the stem in the center. Can happen as fast as 6 hours if bud is way too wet. If the outside of the buds are wet and the jar has some dew on it its too early to jar and try again later. The amount of time you leave the jar open for depends on how wet it is. You want to wait until the bud is dry to the touch again. I find if I can keep it closed for around 4 days and no moisture shows I can seal for 2 weeks before smoking or burping once more for storage. If you open and smell the jar and it smells a bit like ammonia you jarred too early. a slow even dry and a long cure is the key to good tasting buds. AHHHH anyways I'm done babbling this is just my way and I suggest you still do some research to find what best suits you.
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she is def getting enough water. you might be water 2 much 2 thats why shes curling? i donno im not a pro, my girl likes water every 2-3 days but shes smaller
jokerindustries187 said:
My guess would be not enough water...mine looked like that and then i watered em every other day and they perked up...dont know whats wrong with it now though cause the leaves started curling up and down and twisting and looks kinda funny...i dunno...ill figure it out
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yes i started flushing on sunday. only water is going in right now. ya i didnt want 2 big of a plant for the first time.
reppinhigh22 said:
This plant is beautiful. I hope I can get mine to be similar. It's perfect i.m.o because it's short and produced great. That's what I'm lookin' for.Have you started flushing yet? now would be the time. :D
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bostoner

bostoner

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I don't have any journals on here from start to finish or anything. Come here not to show off but to discuss and observe new techniques and help newbies because I was one not too long ago. I just read a few books and skimmed a few more as I learned on the go. The plant is deep, seemingly bottom less. I have a few pics around from the past.... I'll throw a few up. Only have a mother of my own strain right now from a clone and 6 seeds just dropped. One bagseed from gods gift that may not pop bc it wasn't fully mature (great tasting strain tho). N a few from a guy who I've been helping gave me some. They are og 18, mkage, Delahaze and two reg SSSDH (super silver sour diesel haze ... lol funny every time...). I also have some back home in storage I plan to pop within the month which are sensi star, trainwreck, pineapple express (g13), blue widow, critical jack, and a few more I can't remember. Also purple haze on the way too possibly for outside.... lol anyways got bored and typed too much.... heres some pics....
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From first to last....maybe...lol.... blueberry bubblegum, next my two first plants ever chopped a Mazar and a vanilla kush, then a vanilla kush cola, blue berry gum in veg look how thick those pistils are, spikes instead of hairs.... tutankhamon sp? idk its a select ak 47 and was the bomb wish I still had it, next is a early release of tangerine dream that started foxtailing like whoa, next is the plant I just cut last month of my own strain, its mazar x querkle was real real good. next is a different vanilla kush from my first grow, a little blurry but looked ok. And last another tatankhamon, as you can see I let it go to shit with the n deficiency but it was killer anyways so I didn't mind. ahhh im done. sorry for so many repeats I don't have all my grows on my comp.
 
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crazed1011

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very nice very nice!!! ya i got mkage,18og, sensi star sssdh and a few others when i bought my sensi star they gave me a bunch of freebies! we should do a seed at the same time. and see how they turn out.
 
bostoner

bostoner

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Well sensi stars not in the ground yet but I expect some others to pop tonight. Do you know the strain you have here or is this just from a random bag seed?
 
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crazed1011

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well i chopped her tonight. was gonna be running into a busy next week. got a toupe to check to see how they were. i would say roughly 60% cloudy its drying now and i took a couple of popcorn buds and quick died them. would say its pretty damn good haha.
 
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