So, long story short, I live in Europe and this is my first, very unofficial grow. I know I am doing a ton of stuff wrong, but given the fact that I have a family who doesn't approve, I don't have the luxury to buy myself a real setup. Basically I have two plants which I am supplying with light through normal lamps (not HID or fluorescent). Accordingly, I know things will take quite a bit longer, and the amount of bud I can expect is quite limited, but this is just something I have to accept given my limitations. The plants are almost 16 weeks old at this point and have been on 12-12 for quite some time. Here are some pictures of the slow progress: Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week 5: Week 6: Week 7: Week 8: Week 9: Week 10: Week 11: Week 12: Week 13: Week 14: Week 15: Week 16: (Sunday, 22.11.15) Both plants are approximately 25 centimeters tall at this point (10 inches) and being fed with a mix of water and BioBizz Fish Mix. My questions are: What can I do to better the growth if I'm growing indoors and can't buy equipment? When should I make them flower? Any tips would be appreciated. And like I said: I know I need lights and the works, I know the growth is quite stunted and I know the conditions are extremely suboptimal, so no need to bash my attempts with this grow, I know it's probably futile.
They are already flowering due to being on 12/12 from get go. If anything they should have or be on 18/6. You can trry to reverse and reveg but it may hermie. If you keep schedule like it is now you may get 2g if youre lucky. Use CFL lights, incandescents are useless. Search on here for CFL grows.
Like naturalMistik said, regular light bulbs don't grow anything but you can get a CFL for under $10 at any hardware store or even Walmart, heck, even the grocery store should stock them. If nothing else they're small enough to get some window time without drawing attention. Anyhow, good luck, you never know. Let us know if they survive.
You have done well ...very well take look thru my blog: http://forum.grasscity.com/blog/1093/entry-12822-1... and the cfl arrys ..that supply good light thru out http://www.rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/a-collection...