Indoor My Second CFL Only Grow

[IggyPot]

Hey guys,

I am new to this board, as Rollitup seems to be totally dead nowadays. Anyway, I am currently growing Dutch Passion's 'Think Different', which is an auto, so I figured I would start a thread here.

Specs:
2'x4'x4' bottom of a big antique trunk.
Lights hanging off of one of the shelves (about a total of 300w of mixed spectrum cfl's)
Home made SCroGs system.
12" fan blowing on the bottoms of lights/tops of plants.
Bio soil meant for organic tomatoes.
Bio-Green 'Grow 1'
Canna 'BioFlores'
Raw Molasses
Mezaral bottled water with 6.7 pH

Started at 20/4, but now switched to 18/6.

This is just my first grow journal on this site, but if anyone has any questions or comments, please feel free to post/ask

Planted in the last days of January, so she is at about day 35 from germination.




Let me know what you guys think

 

[Budson420]

WOW 35 days? shes looking pretty gnarly man, what CFL's are you actually using, 40w 85w 100w ect ect?
why did you go from 20/4 down to 18/6? going for a photosensitive affect or? anyways looking nice dude!

 

[IggyPot]

Hey Budson. I have 11 Osram 23w (8@2700k, 3@5000k) and 1 Phillips 34w @ 2700k.

I am going for the 18/6 because I learned from my past auto grows that buds really beef up in the last weeks if you give them some extra downtime. 4 hours didn't seem to push the most out of my plants. So I veg at 20/4, and then as soon as there are buds forming and a recognizable smell appears, I add an extra hour of darkness per week. And by the time I am at 14/10 or 12/12, the plant is ready for harvest with a massive increase in resin/trich production.

 

[IggyPot]

http://www.amazon.de/Adapter-Lampen...otostudio-LF258/dp/B00FVU5IMY/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt <-- that is the light base i use. I have 3 of them hanging, and that is enough for 2 massive flowering plants, or 3 little ones. And it is very neat, since now there is only 3 wires hanging instead of like 12

 

[Budson420]

Well thats funny cause i had the same thing in mind thinking the exact same thing i wanted 20/4 then down to 18/6 during flowering, but i locked in 18/6 for now.. thou if its actually worked for you then i might give it a try with my current grow

 

[IggyPot]

but I have also heard of growers doing 24/0 or 20/4 the entire grow, and then giving a few days of total darkness right before the chop. They say this does the same for increasing resin/trich production as my technique, but i guess it just comes down to doing whatever works for you.

 

[IggyPot]

new pics from today. comments appreciated

 

[IggyPot]

Update from today: she's really beefing up nicely. I added Bio Green "Bio Bloom 2" which is a bio 2,9,8 fertilizer which i am using in addition to the Canna "BioFlores". I am using them on alternate waterings, and they seem to be working lovely together. So well, that I couldn't help but start another Think Different under the same exact conditions, but just with a bit bigger of a pot, and I am hoping that this one will get even bigger than the first

 

[steelrat]

Looking nice. If you're Iggy Pot then i'll have to jump on board and be a Passenger ;+}


All the best,

steely.

 

[IggyPot]

Thanks Steely!

Here's Pics from today. I finally got all but 2 budsites up onto the screen, and she is really filling up nicely.

I got a question for you guys... I have these 2 bottom branches that are blocked by all the foliage, and are super underdeveloped compared to the rest of the plant. Is it safe to cut them off? Because they are totally not going to be ready by the time I harvest. Any ideas on what to do about this? It IS an auto, so any kind of pruning slows down the flowering process on the rest of the plant from what I have heard... I'd love some feedback.

Also I implemented my "around the pot" LST method on my sprout, and will start using it once she beefs up a bit

Thanks for checking in