1st Grow CFL then, now, and .......... beyond

Discussion in 'Indoor Grow Journals' started by newgrowNY, Feb 26, 2009.

  1. #41 newgrowNY, Mar 3, 2009
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    I never expected anything like this, thats why I started a bunch. Had some issues but they are doing far better than I imagined they would.

    I think the key to using CFLs is keep adding more as they need it and switching out the 6500Ks for 2700Ks at flower... I just kept getting more when every I found a deal on them.

    A little TLC for sure... its a fine line of too much and not enough
     
  2. Two others that got watered today

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    And this one... having a bit of the claw / canoe from what looks like a little N overdose, given a flush and been feeding no nutes... but shes in flower and gota give some P /K. I have some Kool Bloom which is 0-10-10 that I'll feed next round.

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  3. Great job man :) keep it up
     
  4. Ok, a little bud porn update.... this time not as obscenely young as the last :eek:

    I figure at a few days shy of their 3rd week in 12/12 they are pretty much "legal" for at least a litte exhibitionism. :ey:


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    Till next time..... :hello:
     

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  5. Young and smokin' hot, but not quite ready for action ;)
    Lookin' great man, especially liking those photos on the bottom row.
     
  6. The lower pics are from my big bushy lady... I've had really good luck with her since day one shes always looked good...

    The upper one is the one from my first page that was knicknamed "tardo"... I thought for sure it was gona keel over a few times
     

  7. LOL @ "tardo"

    I had considered one of my Skunks retarded for a while and nicknamed another "helmet head" for holding on to it's shell casing for the first week and a half of life.
     
  8. I bet your house smells really nice! Keep up the work.
     
  9. Thanks for checkin out my thread man. Just looked at all your ladies too and same can be said about your stuff. Looking dam fine. Keep up the good work so we can have some nice bud porn pics to look at of each others later ha ha:smoking: I'll be back to see more soon
     

  10. Very excited, are you ? I would be, they look super. Great job on your P+K+N. It shows. Well, I'll see ya around:rolleyes:
     
  11. Yes its a lovely smell to wake up to... its really only strong in the morning just before the lights come on...

    sounds good, I think i'm a week ahead of you went to 12/12 on the 14th

    Yeah... just a little psyched. I've always stayed on the light side with my nutes to be on the safe side
     
  12. #52 newgrowNY, Mar 5, 2009
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    Well... I think the time has come for a little upgrade to my tent. I'm runin it real barebones at the moment with one of my CFL rigs and a 6" ductbooster venting out the top. The current setup works great but want to use the space to its fullest potential. I could throw in another CFL rig, but the wattage to lumens justifies stepping up to the bigger leagues.

    The plan is to add:

    600w digital ballast w/ cooltube[​IMG][​IMG]
    450cfm inline fan[​IMG]
    carbon scrubber[​IMG]
    day/night temp controller[​IMG]


    I'm still gona run my closet on the 504w cfls, when the two big ones are done flowering I'll use it as a veg room. The additional CFLs I have I may throw in the tent for lower suplimental light, if needed.

    The room that the tent and closet are in is 9x9. My idea is to place the scrubber outside the tent, so that it will treat all the air in the room/tent/closet. It will go scrubber / fan / cooltube / outside... the total run will be about 10 to 12ft. To get the air out of the tent I will continue to use my 6" booster and that air will then be sucked to the filter and then outside. The fan cfm and filter rating should change over the room air every 2 minutes and I'll use the day/night fan controller to limit the evening fan runtime at lights off.
     
  13. Looks like a helluva an upgrade! Those cooltubes always look very...well....cool :p
     
  14. hey man looks like youll be all set with that upgrade. I myself am interested in a cool tube, will ya let me know how it treats ya? im sure youll really benefit from all your new toys:hello::D
     
  15. Its time... I was thinking of getting an aircooled reflector but think I wana try out the cooltube... hey its only $$...


    I still need to place the order... I've been putting it off too long, i really want to flower my others and see just what it will do.
     
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  17. #57 newgrowNY, Mar 7, 2009
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    Just gave them a little feeding of Tiger Bloom / Kool Bloom / Big Bloom and a touch of MagiCal

    Next watering they will get molasses and some EM2 Soil Ecolizer
     

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  18. damn you have some beautiful ladies there. very good for bagseed. have you thought about ordering seeds online for your next grow?
     
  19. Thanks drummer ... I want to get some seeds from attitude, not sure what yet. But I may do it in the fall and just go with my baggies till the summer. I think my temps are gona be hard to control in the summer plus with the AC going my elec. bills gona be outa control anyway.
     
  20. Nice grow newgrowNY, +rep. I like to see how far you came from such humble beginnings. I'm starting out my first grow soon (waiting on the seeds) so it gives me hope!

    Did you veg under a 2700k/6500k combo or was that just for flowering? How many watts did you use for vegging (per plant or per sq. foot).
     

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