FlowerPharm
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Hey all. Longtime lurker, just wanted to share my most recent grow with you all!
First time getting plants properly flowered. CFL grow started with 100 watts, added as I went. Ended up around 500 watts! I had maybe 12 bulbs in light pans and 13 or so just exposed as you can see in my youtube videos. I moved lights daily/weekly in the beginning (SUPER IMPORTANT WITH CFLS!), but last few weeks when plants stop stretching, I stopped moving them.
Why CFL's? Had to sell my HID's, money problems. Plus, this was kinda an impromptu grow. I do like CFL's and will keep using them.
Nutes were GH 3 Part, used Lucas formula. Liked it a lot! Also used a GH Bloom booster and Molasses. I used Great White and Myco Madness fungi products in growth, I cannot suggest those enough!!! Fungi products rock in adding huge root systems. Honestly, I'm going to Super Soil next time! Loved the hydro, don't get me wrong, but tons of work.
I didn't track yield per plant, just overall yield. I had 18 plants; 9 were 1 foot tall or less kept those tiny and slapped them in roots organic soil cause I was out of DWC stuff/medium/nutes. The rest are the MONSTERS you can see in my pics/vids. 5-6 feet tall+ OGs' and 3 foot tall Purples. Grand total was 182 grams of PRIMO bud, AFTER dry/trim. I also had another oz or so of popcorn that wasn't trimmed and therefore not weighed.
I use Clonex Gel for cloning.
I use Clonex Clone nutrient for the clone food.
I use GH 3 Part, only Veg and Micro in veg and only Micro and Bloom in bloom.
I use rockwool cubes as my medium. Like em a lot! Not good for huge plants though...I flushed the buckets with fresh water and changed them every 7 days.
I use 3 gallon and 5 gallon buckets with airstones for DWC. I got my airpumps from walmart for ten bucks for 2 outlets that are MUCH stronger than the airpumps you can get from the hydro store with two outlets, for the price.
I tie up the plants with wire. Floral decoration wire from the craft section.
I cut days down towards the end to 11.5/12.5 and then 11/13. I needed to speed flowering up a little. Plants had already mostly swelled by this point so no yield loss was observed.
I dryed them for 5-6 days in a cool room. I stripped fan leaves for 3-4 days, then cut off small limbs and hung those for quicker drying. Then, I final trimmed and put them in jars, burping daily for a week or so and then half weekly for a month.
I vegged for prob around 2 months and flowered for 60 days. I harvest at day 60 after 3 days of darkness. I flushed for 2.5 weeks, or 17 days. Super smooth, clean burning smoke, but not any taste really. Smell is present but could be better.
The bud is great. The Purple Urkel is a great Indica plant with interesting smells, including sour cream, grapes, lavender, musky, etc. The OG Kush Sativa is a nice plant I got from another patient. It grows Sativa dom, but is def. a hybrid. It's super potent FIRE. Lemon/lime smelling, with musk/funk/earth undertones, and a little weedy in there. GREAT Smoke.
Any questions, comments, etc welcome!
This grow is already done, so there won't be any updates, cept more pics posted.
Thanks!!!! And check me out on youtube@ youtube.com/flowerpharm!
I have more clones of both of these plants currently and will have more grows up soon, including a TGA Subcool seeds grow soon! Check back!
First time getting plants properly flowered. CFL grow started with 100 watts, added as I went. Ended up around 500 watts! I had maybe 12 bulbs in light pans and 13 or so just exposed as you can see in my youtube videos. I moved lights daily/weekly in the beginning (SUPER IMPORTANT WITH CFLS!), but last few weeks when plants stop stretching, I stopped moving them.
Why CFL's? Had to sell my HID's, money problems. Plus, this was kinda an impromptu grow. I do like CFL's and will keep using them.
Nutes were GH 3 Part, used Lucas formula. Liked it a lot! Also used a GH Bloom booster and Molasses. I used Great White and Myco Madness fungi products in growth, I cannot suggest those enough!!! Fungi products rock in adding huge root systems. Honestly, I'm going to Super Soil next time! Loved the hydro, don't get me wrong, but tons of work.
I didn't track yield per plant, just overall yield. I had 18 plants; 9 were 1 foot tall or less kept those tiny and slapped them in roots organic soil cause I was out of DWC stuff/medium/nutes. The rest are the MONSTERS you can see in my pics/vids. 5-6 feet tall+ OGs' and 3 foot tall Purples. Grand total was 182 grams of PRIMO bud, AFTER dry/trim. I also had another oz or so of popcorn that wasn't trimmed and therefore not weighed.
I use Clonex Gel for cloning.
I use Clonex Clone nutrient for the clone food.
I use GH 3 Part, only Veg and Micro in veg and only Micro and Bloom in bloom.
I use rockwool cubes as my medium. Like em a lot! Not good for huge plants though...I flushed the buckets with fresh water and changed them every 7 days.
I use 3 gallon and 5 gallon buckets with airstones for DWC. I got my airpumps from walmart for ten bucks for 2 outlets that are MUCH stronger than the airpumps you can get from the hydro store with two outlets, for the price.
I tie up the plants with wire. Floral decoration wire from the craft section.
I cut days down towards the end to 11.5/12.5 and then 11/13. I needed to speed flowering up a little. Plants had already mostly swelled by this point so no yield loss was observed.
I dryed them for 5-6 days in a cool room. I stripped fan leaves for 3-4 days, then cut off small limbs and hung those for quicker drying. Then, I final trimmed and put them in jars, burping daily for a week or so and then half weekly for a month.
I vegged for prob around 2 months and flowered for 60 days. I harvest at day 60 after 3 days of darkness. I flushed for 2.5 weeks, or 17 days. Super smooth, clean burning smoke, but not any taste really. Smell is present but could be better.
The bud is great. The Purple Urkel is a great Indica plant with interesting smells, including sour cream, grapes, lavender, musky, etc. The OG Kush Sativa is a nice plant I got from another patient. It grows Sativa dom, but is def. a hybrid. It's super potent FIRE. Lemon/lime smelling, with musk/funk/earth undertones, and a little weedy in there. GREAT Smoke.
Any questions, comments, etc welcome!
This grow is already done, so there won't be any updates, cept more pics posted.
Thanks!!!! And check me out on youtube@ youtube.com/flowerpharm!I have more clones of both of these plants currently and will have more grows up soon, including a TGA Subcool seeds grow soon! Check back!
