New Grower Under $100 CFL Grow

[EvilScotsman]

That’s a tremendous effort for cfl mate. The flushing thing, pop22 has a good thread on it stickied somewhere. I’ll tag you in it shortly.
Because you’ve been feeding full strength I’d recommend more than a few days. What many including myself do is drop the base nutes to about half strength at the same time you start adding the pk booster. Once the buds are properly formed but still still fairly small.
If you feed right you don’t need to flush at all. I grow in a tiny res so it’s really sensitive and you can see that the plants try to flush themselves anyway. About 4 weeks from the chop the amount they absorb drops by roughly 25% per week. By the time they’re full grown and ripening they absorb next to nothing. 100-200ppm. If you keep the feed strength relative to that they flush themselves and you’ll see it in the leaves. Doing it that way means they have all the available nutes they need and you don’t risk starving them with having to flush.

 

[Jakob]

That’s a tremendous effort for cfl mate. The flushing thing, pop22 has a good thread on it stickied somewhere. I’ll tag you in it shortly.
Because you’ve been feeding full strength I’d recommend more than a few days. What many including myself do is drop the base nutes to about half strength at the same time you start adding the pk booster. Once the buds are properly formed but still still fairly small.
If you feed right you don’t need to flush at all. I grow in a tiny res so it’s really sensitive and you can see that the plants try to flush themselves anyway. About 4 weeks from the chop the amount they absorb drops by roughly 25% per week. By the time they’re full grown and ripening they absorb next to nothing. 100-200ppm. If you keep the feed strength relative to that they flush themselves and you’ll see it in the leaves. Doing it that way means they have all the available nutes they need and you don’t risk starving them with having to flush.

Cheers mate i will have a read of the thread you tagged me in shortly.
Although i do no have a ppm metre, only a ph metre at the moment, but i will go half strength with the nutes from now on anyways.
Which bring me to another question. I always feed at around 5.8ph today o checked the run off for the first time at its at about 5.0 is that a problem? I mean it hasnt seemed to be the whole grow but i figured ide ask.

 

[Jakob]

How long yuu think now ?

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

you will be able to tell much better than we can when ya scope comes harvest is a window(2+weeks) a window of like plus and minus a week.i like an early cut,someone that likes a body stone would cut late.no right or wrong time,personal preference.if in doubt chop the top half off and leave the rest another week
looking good :smoking:

 

[Jakob]

you will be able to tell much better than we can when ya scope comes harvest is a window(2+weeks) a window of like plus and minus a week.i like an early cut,someone that likes a body stone would cut late.no right or wrong time,personal preference.if in doubt chop the top half off and leave the rest another week
looking good :smoking:

Damn jewelers loupe wont be here for 10 days, im thinking might be ready to harvest by then haha. I will hold off anyways

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

we tend to be too eager to cut.and when we think its ready we should wait another week.flash some more pics in a few days
keep er lit.

 

[Jakob]

Will do man, cheers.

 

[EvilScotsman]

The ph of the pot will rise during veg then drop during bloom mate. Best to go in 5.8 for veg then around 6.3 for bloom.
Something to do with root secretions I believe.

 

[Jakob]

The ph of the pot will rise during veg then drop during bloom mate. Best to go in 5.8 for veg then around 6.3 for bloom.
Something to do with root secretions I believe.

Gotchya, cheers again.
We almost there I think.
I want to hold off for another 7 or 8 days untill I get that 40x magnifier to see what the thrics look like. I dont see any amber yet with just the phone camera, could be wrong tho.

 

[St. Tom]

looking great my friend im excited to see how you get on with your cfl but your buds look, awesome pal,