New Grower WickedOnes First Grow Royal Queen Northern Lights Auto & Delicious la Frutta di Venus 5 weeks

[WickedOne]

Got 6 Total going 5 are northern lights and the tall one front right is the Delicious la frutta. Today is exactly 5 weeks from sprout, except for the two in the back left corner i staggered them by 2 weeks. I had started them outside but they were stretching for light so i put them in the room. Let me know what ya think!

 

[RebelRoy]

they look healthy and fine in my eyes budd

tell alittle more about your setup? ;D :smokebuds:

 

[WickedOne]

Gladly! I'm using 13 23w CFL's 7 are Daylight and 6 are Soft white. I have them on a 18/6 light schedule threw out the grow. The soil I used was miracle grow organic choice mixed with pearlite and peat moss I have no idea what the PH is I need to get a meter. I have 2 3 gallon pots and 2 2 1/2 gallon pots, and the 2 plants I staggered 2 weeks are in 1 gallon pots. I've been giving them tap water threw out the grow I just fill a few gallon jugs and leave the caps off for a few days. I started feeding them Shultz plant food plus at 2 weeks and switched to Fox Farm Grow Big at the start of week 3 and plan to switch too Tiger Bloom sometime in the middle of week 6. They are outside on a porch in a little hidden utility room and the humidity stays pretty high where I am at and the temp stays between 79 and 86.

 

[RebelRoy]

nice little room there it looks like ;D

i dont know if you maybe got it, but i cant see on pic.. maybe try to put upp a small fan in the bottom tho blow alittle fresh air directly on the plants so it wil develope a thick and good maincore, if you know what i mean :smokebuds:

 

[WickedOne]

Knew I forgot to add something to setup list lol, I have lots of fans! I have 3 small 6 inch fans to move air around and I cut a hole at the top and the bottom of an exterior wall and put a 5" pc fan that pulls fresh air in from the bottom and 2 5" pc fans that pull hot air out the top. The door to my room is just a blanket so I put a box fan at the base of the door to also pull air out and keep room as cool as possible. I figured with the temps where im at being a bit on the high side I had better keep it nice and breezy to keep plants cool.
I have a friend who told me before I started my first grow that Autos are junk and not worth the time because of Lowriders bad rep for low yields and weak bud. He has a nice indoor closet setup and ends up having numerous problems threw out his grows with photos. So when he comes over and I show um how my ladies are doing he gets really upset because he spent allot of money on his setup and I used a bunch of recycled junk I had laying around to start my "ghetto auto grow" and its going so well so far . :head:

 

[RebelRoy]

Thats sounds perfect budd

ye no doubt your friend is very wrong i bet he change his meanings when he see yours close to finish :group:

im doing a "ghetto auto grow" my self now. Sweet tooth autos .. veeery easy setup.. feel free to go in and have a look they are getting pretty big now :booya:

 

[WickedOne]

Day 38 everything seems to be going good. I picked up some big bloom and tiger bloom yesterday I think I'm going to switch to bloom nutrients soon!:smoke:

 

[RebelRoy]

budd have a look at this one

https://www.autoflower.org/f44/life-cycle-auto-flowering-cannabis-5113.html

looking fine m8

but think u can hold on with the flowering neuts, if your bbies is still stretching. if you got room for it that is like explained in the link

quote: "Weeks 4 - 6. The plants are now entering a pre flowering stage. During this time the plants should exhibit explosive growth, often as much as a new set of nodes and 1" vertical growth a day. This is the time when they will gain most of their vertical height. Many people make the mistake of switching from vegetative to flowering nutrients at this point, assuming that since they see flowers it must be the proper time. This is incorrect. If the switch to flowering nutes is made at this time the vertical growth will stop and the plant will put it's energy into producing buds. If you need to keep your plants small, or want them to finish earlier, they by all means switch nutes at this point. But if you want to get the most out of your plants continue feeding vegetative nutes until you see the vertical growth slow and stop. Depending on the strain that will usually be sometime during week 5 or 6. "

 

[WickedOne]

Well I wanted them to reach their peak but I don't really have the room for them to get much taller the largest one is 6 inches from the CFLs and I cant raise them more so I'm kinda forced to on this one. I fed them bloom nutes yesterday

 

[RebelRoy]

i understand your problem budd

btw: you can keep the cfl closer than 6 inches, you can keep them like 2 inches from the plant to get the best result. cfl is loosing alot of effect over 10 inches. just watch so the leafs dont burn them selfes on the bulb, and you be fine :smokebuds: