The Church 39 days into flowering

[Durban_Guy]

Hey all.
Just thought i would share my church grow with everyone.
I keep hearing about people growing this strain but i havnt seen one flowering photo.

So here are mine 39 days into flowering

Flowering Setup:
Grow cupboard (3ftx2ftx6ft)
Cupboard temp: 24-27 degrees celsius.
400w HPS
feminized church from greenhouse
3 Girls each in their own DWC 5gallon buckets.
Each bucket contains 1 dual channel air pump with 2 airstones each
Using SCROG method.
Nutrient mix is a local A + B nute mix with flowering powder.
Flowering week 1 & 2 : 1200pm
Flowering week 3 & 4 : 1600pm
Flowering week 5 : 1800pm

Im going to add UVB floro's in the next few days. Havent used them before in a grow so im hoping to see some results.

Let me know what you guys think....

Cheerz!

[screwdababylon!]

looking good man

any group shots?
cab shots?

P

[Durban_Guy]

Originally Posted by screwdababylon!

looking good man

any group shots?
cab shots?

P

I took a quick snap of my church cupboard

[sambo5472]

Nice looking plants dude.
I'm gonna check how this turns out, i'm growing the church myself. Are u'r seeds from greenhouse seeds?

[Durban_Guy]

Originally Posted by sambo5472

Nice looking plants dude.
I'm gonna check how this turns out, i'm growing the church myself. Are u'r seeds from greenhouse seeds?

Yup. Got em' from greenhouse through Dr Chronic They feminized.
Its such a kewl strain. From what i can tell, you gota be very agressive with these babies.
They dont grow at all if you dont pump them with nutes.
Oh and the yield looks like its gona be pretty promising. I dont think we would ever get 800-900g per meter as advertised. This looks like around 200g by the end.

[flipflop]

I've got 2 Church, 22 days into flowering using the scrog method. I'm using 250w Hps with NFT system. My cab has same floorspace as yours but only just 4'8" height. They've just started to show flowers but they ain't nowhere near as impressive as yours. Good pics dude, i'd love to see more as your grow continues as, like you said, you don't see much of the church about.
What kind of Ph have you been keeping them on, mine seem to like 5.8 but it took me a while to figure out. Mine are right bushy little bastards with loads of leaf, I've been pulling some off in an attempt to thin them out and expose more budsites to the light. Have you pulled much leaf off? I was worried about doing it at first, but i've tried to be sensible and they seem ok.
Any hints dude would be most appreciated.
Good luck with the yeild. When you can if possible get some more pics up, i'm keen to see how they progress.

[Durban_Guy]

Originally Posted by flipflop

I've got 2 Church, 22 days into flowering using the scrog method. I'm using 250w Hps with NFT system. My cab has same floorspace as yours but only just 4'8" height. They've just started to show flowers but they ain't nowhere near as impressive as yours. Good pics dude, i'd love to see more as your grow continues as, like you said, you don't see much of the church about.
What kind of Ph have you been keeping them on, mine seem to like 5.8 but it took me a while to figure out. Mine are right bushy little bastards with loads of leaf, I've been pulling some off in an attempt to thin them out and expose more budsites to the light. Have you pulled much leaf off? I was worried about doing it at first, but i've tried to be sensible and they seem ok.
Any hints dude would be most appreciated.
Good luck with the yeild. When you can if possible get some more pics up, i'm keen to see how they progress.

Hey dude.
I try keep the PH between 5.6 & 5.8
Its alot easier to manage my PH during vegging using a DWC. BUT Its been constantly dropping alot since week 4 of flowering which is kinda irritating. If i keep the PH @ 5.8, they suck water like hell
Ill try add some more pics tonight or tomorrow. They currently just over 6 weeks (44 days).
Afew heads got introuble cuz of heat issues, i never realised over the weekend that my infan stopped working, but its all sorted out. The top fan leaves just dried & curled up. I still thought these girls would be bigger though @ 6 weeks. But alas, there is still 3 weeks before harvest, anything could happen. As far as im know, they should start fattening up right about now and then get infested with trichomes in the last week (if i maintain conditions).
Ive tried to avoid picking off any leaves. I only pick off the dead ones of course, mostly at the bottom under the scrog. I figure they need all the photosynthesis they can get since ive pumped them with 1800ppm at the moment. I dunno if this is correct but ive always thought that the more they can photosynthesise at one time, the more they can feed and get bigger.
You right about being bushy, i intend to harvest only the top of the scrog and leave the remaining buds to get bigger and mature

So keep watching

[jcj77d]

i have a church plant in flower (29 days), & i like it so far, its flowering w/ 5 other plants, 3 master kush, 1 skunk special, & 1 big bang, in a homebox w/ 700w hps, & a x10.0 uvb bulb, but all my plants are over 5ft, but i veged for 3 months, u can check them here http://forum.grasscity.com/absolute-...ml#post2710942 & here http://forum.grasscity.com/absolute-...ml#post2704542

[Blaze all day]

Sexy.
I had church one time...nice shit.

[flipflop]

Hey dude. How's the grow going? I got some pics up of mine if you get chance to have a look. On my recent pics i'm on 38 of 12/12 and they seem miles behind yours. I think it's because of two reasons: 1. My scrog is overcrowded, 2. I'm using a 250w Hps and you can see the difference. Hopefully it'll pick up a bit as i'm kind of at a loss what to do.
Be nice to see how yours are doing, how long you got left and how long you gonna flush for?
Hope it's going well.

A link to my grow.

http://forum.grasscity.com/grow-jour...ml#post2785763

[Durban_Guy]

Hey man.
I harvest this sunday (03 August)
They like 3 times the size of the pix i posted.
Been so lazy to upload updated pictures tho. But the plants themselves dont look very pretty at the moment anyway. leaves are very yellow...the heads are falling over each cuz they so heavy...some dried up dead leaves..etc.
But anyway, the heads themselves look amazing. I started my flushing beginning of last week. I usually flush 2 weeks before the planned harvest. The beginning of this week, i added sugar to the flushing water, should make it sweet by harvest
Ive been watching the trichomes under a microscope to make sure sunday is a good time to harvest. As of last night, ALMOST half the trichomes are ambient in colour. Im looking for a half half mix. So i think sunday might be the perfect time to cut off the top layer of heads. ill let the remaining buds from the lowest part of the scrog canvas finishup as much as they can.
As for lighting, ill switch my lights off for 24 hours before hand. So saturday they wont have any light.
Will take picks of the final harvest and weigh it.
Your grows looking fine to me Church is a very bushy grower, so dont worry about the over crowded scrog. What i did was as soon as the light came on, i took alook around the scrog and move and tucked leaves away from any heads so that they have as much light as they an get. I do it every day. Im think the labour has paid off

PH is soooooo important :P

[Durban_Guy]

To those who are watching this thread, check out my harvest

LLLIIIIIIIINNNKKKK

[sgm03]

when did you notice the buds start to fatten up and get crystallized? I am at 3.5 weeks (flowering) now and they have pistols like crazy and are abundant....but they haven't become dense yet

added 1teaspoon of tiger bloom Wednesday (no bad side effects) straight water Saturday should I give a full strength next feeding?

[dudecheese]

So it is easy for you to grow, three plants in a 3'x2' box, do you just trim or what? I didn't think that would be enough space heighth wise, even for indicas. So is this easily done?

[Durban_Guy]

Originally Posted by sgm03

when did you notice the buds start to fatten up and get crystallized? I am at 3.5 weeks (flowering) now and they have pistols like crazy and are abundant....but they haven't become dense yet

added 1teaspoon of tiger bloom Wednesday (no bad side effects) straight water Saturday should I give a full strength next feeding?

I noticed they started 2 fatten up around 5 to 6 weeks. then from end of week 7 they decided to get real fat.

Im not sure about the tiger bloom mixings so i have no idea. I had a nutrient mix of A and a B poweder also a flowering poweder. During flowering, i replace 20% of poweder A with the flowering nutrient. Anyway i was using full strength nutrient before even going into flowering. I slowly increased it every week aswell. I was happy with 1800ppm by the 8th week. It was a serious amount of nutrient and flowering powder, but it also got the job done well