hey guys this is my first grow. only using three 26watt bulbs , started growing these two from bag seeds about 6 months ago just put them into flowering a month ago, there is 4 colas on each plant and there bot ruffly 3 ft tall, give or take. could you guys tell me how its looking, I've never done this before so I'm not sure how well I'm doing, any body with experience?? also anybody have any ideas as to what i should be expecting in terms of yield?
looks really nice dude.. just keep doing what you're doing. can't really predict yields, but anything on a first grow with minimal lighting is a bonus...
thaanks man!! do you think you could ruffly give me an idea as to how much longer it will flower for? lol sorry for all the question, but i need to get it out of where its at soon cause i have a baby on the way and i don't want them in the house with the baby
is this what is supposed to look like at 4 week into flowering? dose that look like ill have a good yield with decent sized buds? dose it look healthy and stuff. this is my first from I'm not sure if I'm gunna be well of or not
All the plants want to do is photosynthesize and drink some water. Wait until the white fibers turn reddish orange and some of the colas develop more THC resin. Then it's like picking fruit from an orange tree. I'd say a couple more weeks everything will turn out nicely. Don't worry about the quantity of the yield if you are using a low powered system indoors, since there is little you can do besides add more lighting. Looks good though, looks like in several weeks you will have some decent nugs. Also, wrong forum. Belongs in beginners grow Edit: also if you are using nutes, try to lay off the N for now. If I'm not mistaken, I can see some deep ridges along the leaves which may point to too much N in the soil. But the leaves aren't curled or anything so it looks alright and its probably just the strain.
Typical flowering phase is 54-60 days for our happy friends. If I had to predict yield...it's gonna suck sheep's ass in quantity, but quality may be decent. Why? You're using CFLs. I've been doing this little science lesson all over...dunno why folks don't look this shit up themselves, or forgot it from high school. Light falls off as a square of the distance from the source. a "100 watt cfl" (23 true watts) is so named because it puts off the same 1500-1700 lumens as a 100 watt incandescent. At 18 inches from the bulb, this translates to a mere 4.9 lumens per bulb (in direct light...reflected light from the hood is weaker). In comparison, sunlight delivers 128,000 lux (lumens per square meter) to the ground at sea level. A 400 watt HID puts out 32,000 at the bulb (98.7 lumens at 18 inches), a 1000 watt, 283.9 lumens at 18 inches. The "100 watts a plant" idea is pure bullshit....it comes from people being told (or reading) that the sun delivers about 120 watts at ground level. But watts are a unit of joules per minute, and a joule is a unit of energy expended to create heat, or do work. The sun delivers 120 watts of POWER (mostly in the ability to create heat---warm the ground), the energy spent to create LIGHT was used 8.3 minutes ago, when it was turned into light AT THE SUN. It doesn't magically become light when it hits the ground. Proof, for those unwilling to look that up, who still don't get it? 400 watt solar panels measuring 12 sq feet. Solar panels convert light energy...at a best rating of 18.1% efficiency. That means the actual light energy hitting that panel, if completely converted at 100% efficiency, would be over 2209 watts. And even then, that's the figure for perfect efficiency using the types of crystals currently used in panels. True figure is MUCH higher. The short and sweet of this is you'd need 400 TRUE watts (18 bulbs) of CFL to come CLOSE to the light output of a 400 watt HID, which is still more than 1,280 times weaker than natural sunlight hitting the same area, and natural sunlight is what the plants need to produce the yields that are usually desired (which is why most serious growers who do it professionally are outdoor growers...you just won't get 128,000 lumens at ground level with any manufactured lighting, try as you might. You can burn your neighborhood down in an attempt. Or burn your house instantly to ash, even trying for 12,800 lumens at ground level from 6 feet up. But you won't match it. Much less with the intensity of the bandwidths you need.
