NecterSecter's First grow!

So I am growing under a 400watt metal hallide and will be switching them to 400 wat hps, as well as 1500 equivalent watts of CFL's, my plants are almost 3 weeks in and I will Post pics below, I did my first FIM cuts 4 days ago and they have made a full recovery and have tons of new growths!

One hour after FIM cut

36 Hours after FIM cut

this is day 3 since FIM cut, tons of new growth looks like I might get 4-6 new branches, plus side branches have started shooting out! Will post new pics tonight after work!

My grow room about a week ago

So I haven't posted anything in awhile been busy. These five plants on the left I had 3 males that I had to remove. The 2 females are 21 days into flower. And the plants on the right are almost done vegging, with 8 new seedlings started.

Heres a short video of my grow as of last week. I now have a second closet dedicated to vegging

So I switched over to 12/12 Nov. 26. So I would be almost 5 weeks into flower or would it be considered 3weeks, sicne the first 2 week was stretch? Like a strain that says 8 week flower time, do they mean 8 weeks after 2 week stretch or is it 8 weeks from 12/12 switch over? If I am only 3 weeks in holy shit I am going to have some big ass buds, casue they already starting to get pretty descent. I'll post pics tonight

Why not run both the 400's when you flower and not use the cfl would be better for your plants

You mean like use the metalk halide and hps for the flowering plants? As of now I have 2 seperate rooms. Flower room, and veg room. Each has a 400watt flower got HPS, veg room gots M.H. And seedlings under CFL's, as well I have soem CFLs hitting the undergrowth on the flowering plants. I also built a 8 bulb shroud for CFL's which I am using on the side of the Flowering plants to hit the lower budsites. I have been changing things around constantly though. I had a seperate section on the top of the closet in the flower room that I was using as a veg area, but even after sealing the shit out of it I was worried about light leak. I am thinking of setting that back up and having 2 fdlower rooms cause I am running out of room to flower plants. I have 5 plants ready to switch to flower but nowhere to put them

Could I setup the shroud I built with a combo of daylight, and soft white CFL's for the first few weeks of flowering for them 5 plants until the ones that are half way done flowering finish? But I think that will not be enough light? I am thinking maybe of getting a small led light but am low on money. Is there a descent LED I can get for around 100 bucks or so?

I would use the cfl for veg and the mh and hps for flower the extra blue from the mh will help keep then tighter when they do the flower stretch

Here is a pic from a few days ago of my girls flowering. I will put up some bette pics without the hps on later today.

4weeks into flowering and just transplanted the plant on right into a 10gallon smart pot, out of a 5 gallon lows bucket. I did it because it was becoming root bound and bud development had slowed down a lot, and was getting amber pistils, when it should still have only white pistils

NecterSecter said:

4weeks into flowering and just transplanted the plant on right into a 10gallon smart pot, out of a 5 gallon lows bucket. I did it because it was becoming root bound and bud development had slowed down a lot, and was getting amber pistils, when it should still have only white pistils

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That's a lot of stress for flowering plants man I would have just left them they look good I hope they don't shock to much from the transplant

Here is a video before transplant of flowering plants

Also here is a look at my veg room before i did FIM cuts on the bigger plants

OK I think my first 2 p[lants are about ready to harvest I am going to post pics and a video and link it. Can anyone lemme know what they think if I should chop em down or let them go longer?