New Grower Diesel x c99 fem auto (Highrise) 200w dual-spec CFL
- Thread starter Mendel
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12 Days since she first poked her shoot out of the soil.
Leaves still look a little droopy but she is growing well.
Stem has really thickened up and is shedding the purple seedling layer. Starting to get some leaf development at the nodes too!
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Leaves still look a little droopy but she is growing well.
Stem has really thickened up and is shedding the purple seedling layer. Starting to get some leaf development at the nodes too!
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impulse741
Bambud
Looks great, you can already start to see the autoflowering characteristics, early branching and thick stem, gonna have yourself a bushy plant. You should notice your plant become something like this soon.
You could probably start to add nutes if you've not yet. Start on a 3-2-1 ratio of veg-micro-bloom and a 1/4 strength. And once its a bit more developed get an LST in there, will give you a nice even canopy. :stylez rasta smoke:
You could probably start to add nutes if you've not yet. Start on a 3-2-1 ratio of veg-micro-bloom and a 1/4 strength. And once its a bit more developed get an LST in there, will give you a nice even canopy. :stylez rasta smoke:
I bet it took you like a week to get a plant like that! 
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Hopefully she'll look like that in a week or so! I'll get my nutes ASAP, dont think ill use them straight away though as she STILL looks a little droopy. What wattage are those supplementary CFLs? thinking about getting two so I can get some direct light to the side branches. Maybe a couple of 35w 2700k?
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:Hopefully she'll look like that in a week or so! I'll get my nutes ASAP, dont think ill use them straight away though as she STILL looks a little droopy. What wattage are those supplementary CFLs? thinking about getting two so I can get some direct light to the side branches. Maybe a couple of 35w 2700k?
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impulse741
Bambud
Haha, my plant took ages to take off because took about 2 weeks just for roots to show through the rockwool cube, but once the roots hit the water it grows at an incredible rate... its so satisfying to see its new growth every day, and even more so when it responds to you training it like with LST
I highly recomend you do get some side lighting CFLs, along with splitters. I read up loads before i decided on which ones to get becuase I was mega skint at the time! basically the lower wattage ones are more effecient by producing more lumens per individual watt of electricity, so by having several small ones it actually produces more light that a few large ones, and you also have more light sources which with CFL is important because they do not have much light penetration (i.e. isn't very effective at a high range) so by having several low watt CFLs surrounding the plant it will branch out alot more, especially the first and second set of nodes growing right at the bottom of the plant will be much thicker and stronger, otherwise they could end up growing quite small due to not much light getting to them, and plant prioritising growth to other areas.
The CFLs I used were 30w i believe, here's the link to the place i got it:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-x-30w-1...graphy_StudioEquipment_RL&hash=item2c5b5ae4b3
He has a crap load more CFLs there u can use.
And dont worry about the droopiness, it looks perfect. Just make sure to not overwater it, and wait till its relatively dry just underneath the surface before watering. When you do water it really soak it through, and make sure its draining away, the only way you will overwater your plant is if its flooding and suffocating the roots. Deff start on the nutes though! even if very diluted mixture.
Keep the pics coming bro, we love piccies!
[video=youtube;m5vw4ajnWGA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA[/video]
I highly recomend you do get some side lighting CFLs, along with splitters. I read up loads before i decided on which ones to get becuase I was mega skint at the time! basically the lower wattage ones are more effecient by producing more lumens per individual watt of electricity, so by having several small ones it actually produces more light that a few large ones, and you also have more light sources which with CFL is important because they do not have much light penetration (i.e. isn't very effective at a high range) so by having several low watt CFLs surrounding the plant it will branch out alot more, especially the first and second set of nodes growing right at the bottom of the plant will be much thicker and stronger, otherwise they could end up growing quite small due to not much light getting to them, and plant prioritising growth to other areas.
The CFLs I used were 30w i believe, here's the link to the place i got it:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-x-30w-1...graphy_StudioEquipment_RL&hash=item2c5b5ae4b3
He has a crap load more CFLs there u can use.
And dont worry about the droopiness, it looks perfect. Just make sure to not overwater it, and wait till its relatively dry just underneath the surface before watering. When you do water it really soak it through, and make sure its draining away, the only way you will overwater your plant is if its flooding and suffocating the roots. Deff start on the nutes though! even if very diluted mixture.
Keep the pics coming bro, we love piccies!
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Coming along nicely! Should start to get real fun to watch! :stylez rasta smoke:
impulse741
Bambud
Bushy little bugger isnt it! Gonna have yourself a lil orange tree soon :stylez rasta smoke:
autos show sex after couple of weeks, should still be veg'ing though either until you switch to flower nutes, or if you just ride it out and veg it to its limits. My advice would be to force it to flower early since you are only growing under CFL, you will get smaller but more compact buds.
autos show sex after couple of weeks, should still be veg'ing though either until you switch to flower nutes, or if you just ride it out and veg it to its limits. My advice would be to force it to flower early since you are only growing under CFL, you will get smaller but more compact buds.
keeping it small and compact sounds ideal just cos I don't have any odor control! I'm getting quite worried about the soil drainage i just gave her about a litre and there's no run off :S I can visibly see the soil compacting over time aswell. I've stabbed a load of holes in the sides to try and make it easier for air to get in, hope it works!!
I'm too paranoid for this haha
I'm too paranoid for this haha