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My flo flo grow grow

Mr. floGrow

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My flo flo grow grow? Confused yet? Ya me too, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN I PLANTED THIS BITCH!!

Click the gallery link below for pics, I guess i cant post them in this thread cuz im new? :puppydoge

Anywho,... the strain is flo, got the seeds from DrChronic, it's growing under flo lights, thus my confusing title. Something like 14,500 lumen's if my math is right. Humidity was around 58% for all of veg state, temp around 74 degrees. Nothing but organic FoxFarm Ocean bottom soil and organic FoxFarm ferts. Was under 24 hours of light for 65 days roughly, again I cant remember exactly when I germinated. I've been watering usually everyday. It stands over 2 foot tall measured off the carpet, little more then half that from the soil level, it's got a 1/2 inch thick stalk at the base and it measure a lil more then 2 foot at it's widest point. What do you guys think? I'm working my way towards flowering stage now with strictly 2700K CFL's and everyday I've giving them a 1/2 hour more of darkness.

I've never grown flo before but I liked what I read about the high it delivers so I thought Id give it a try. My only other grow has been NL and it turned out ok even though I did nute burn towards the end. I still have no pH meter (there kinda pricey and I wont buy a shit one) but wont have a problem now with the organic ferts I'm using if what I read about not being able to over fert if using organic is true. Still not sure of the sex,.. maybe you all can tell from my pics. Oh and I did top it once a few weeks ago.

The carbon scrubber I made is by far the best I've ever put together. Actually its the only damn one I've ever made that works for that matter. I wasn't too worried about smell when I started this grow since no one else would ever smell it but made the scrubber one board stinky Sunday anyway and man does it work! It's nothing but 2 mesh waste cans from Wal-Mart and black size Q women's pantyhose along with of course activated charcoal all be it a very thin layer between the two (which I got on eBay). Oh and the muffin fan from Wal-mart too. ****in' $25 or so it cost me to make. Granted it's only one plant but you cant smell a thing when you walk into my closet.

Oh and btw that light gets blown by the oscillating fan and actually rotates 1/4 a turn baaaaack and foooorth real slow. Kinda nice, it gets light all over that way :rasta:





















 
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mudvaynefan

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Hello mr grow, looking foward to seeing the pictures. 65 days veg under flo sounds like a great start to a proper flo grow.

Im under cfl for veg, hps for flower, and ff grow big,along with organic soil and castings.

I can tell you I thought the same thing, that I cant over fert with organics, but my recovering plants can testify to the fact that you can burn the shite out of your plants with just a little to much food. Between my soil, castings, and ff, I nuked my bagseed, and couldnt tell why for along time.

Even feeding week strength can cause burn, cause my soil, thought organic, had alot of nutes in it.

I would get a ph kit, I got one for 8 bucks at hydro store, just up, down, and a color chart to compare with. Unless your looking for one of those tds\ec
ph combo pen things, in wich case I wouldnt know a thing.

Heres what organic nute burn looks like, 2 different rounds.








 

Mr. floGrow

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Ya I was hoping organic ferts would keep me from having to drop $100+ on a ph meter but I bit that bullet last night and got a Hanna 98129 on it's way cuz I've got a few discolored leaves. Should be able to get everything just right before any buds start showing though.
 
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cfl...KING

Listen my username is from 07 lol
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dont decrease the amount of light by anything leave it 18/6 or 24/0 until flowering a just switch to 12/12. it will take a long time to start flowering if u slowly decrease the length of time she recieves light, how many real watts u got on her?
 

Mr. floGrow

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cfl...KING said:
dont decrease the amount of light by anything leave it 18/6 or 24/0 until flowering a just switch to 12/12. it will take a long time to start flowering if u slowly decrease the length of time she recieves light, how many real watts u got on her?

Ya know I'm high right now and I still couldn't understand that English,.. :laughing: usually everything makes more sense high too. Ok well first off, I said I started flowering so ummm, thus why I am decreasing the light, and secondly, I'm decreasing it slowly so as to not make the bitch hermi. Everyday night getting a little longer kinda like happens ummmmm in nature and all. It's just this crazy theory I thought id run with but thanks for your 2 cents.

Oh and to the genius that PM'ed me I've got 45 more posts to make before I can even read that so ya might wanna say it here since I know you found me here since this is my first ever thread/posts. :bashhead:
 
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Mr. floGrow

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NEW PICS!

NEW PICS!

Ok so I knew a few weeks ago this plant was a male but since I'm only growing one, and I grind my herb before I smoke it (VAPORBROTHERS ROCKS) and can just pick out the seeds, I decided to grow it out. Hell I'll never have to buy flo seeds again that's for sure.

Can someone tell me though, are those ALL seeds or is that smokeable bud to be??










Here's a pic from drchronic's site of what flo is suppose to look like when it's done.
http://www.drchronic.com/images/DPI-FLOX.jpg
 
Unfortunatly, that is a male. It will not produce smokeable herb. Nor will it produce viable seeds. (IF) you have the room, you can continue its life in vegetation until you have a flowering female unto which the male can release its pollen.
 

The St.

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those are pollen sacs, they'll open soon and a flower will come out and spread pollen... to make seeds you would need a female to pollenate and wait for it to mature then get seeds from her. ive heard of people smoking them just before they open but never tried it... i dont have the space for males really so i cut em down. sorry man!!!!!

Peace!
 
Just a pointer for future reference:

Always do a short-veg on seeds, take cuttings and label them, then when the plant shows its sex you can mother the female clones, and toss the males (and their clones) out.

best of luck,

ten foot
 

Mr. floGrow

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awwww,... i didn't know males gave NO smokable weed :( Can anyone else confirm that? If so ill chop the dick up and flush him and start again but that like totally blooooooooows!
 

Endo

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mudvaynefan said:
Hello mr grow, looking foward to seeing the pictures. 65 days veg under flo sounds like a great start to a proper flo grow.

Im under cfl for veg, hps for flower, and ff grow big,along with organic soil and castings.

I can tell you I thought the same thing, that I cant over fert with organics, but my recovering plants can testify to the fact that you can burn the shite out of your plants with just a little to much food. Between my soil, castings, and ff, I nuked my bagseed, and couldnt tell why for along time.

Even feeding week strength can cause burn, cause my soil, thought organic, had alot of nutes in it.

I would get a ph kit, I got one for 8 bucks at hydro store, just up, down, and a color chart to compare with. Unless your looking for one of those tds\ec
ph combo pen things, in wich case I wouldnt know a thing.

Heres what organic nute burn looks like, 2 different rounds.










the problem is not that its organic or that your feeding it too much.. its the FF growbig. your burn happens when you water dry soil.. the dry roots just burn up with the nutes for some reason. i had the same problem, and a friend of mine talked to FF and they said the best way to do it is to water with some plain water first wait 10-15 min for hydration then water again with the FF grow big. i found out the hard way with this one... but my plants looked exactly like this. i started doing it the way they said.. and it never happened again.

good luck...

Endo
 

Endo

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i was more refering to a general rule for nutes.. i do that now with everything... and havent had a burning problem since.. sorry didnt mean to take it off track.. i just try to tell as many people i see having this ff problem... sorry to hear about hte male too.. better luck next time.
 

Endo

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dont flush him though.. save him and add him to some bud butter or something.. hes got thc in him.. just not in anything you can really smoke... put him in with the trim from your next female when shes done.... mmmmm cannabutter!!!!
 

Mr. floGrow

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I already flushed him. I can't really keep more then one plant where I live and I don't do butter. I got 3 more flo seeds germinating now. Soon as I know I got a bitch I'll go with her.

Interesting info about the FF though. I never had the problem he had in those pics but then again I don't know how much FF he was adding per gallon. How much were you adding to a gallon of water Endo? So far I've been doing the minimum it says on the back of the bottle of Grow Big, 1tbsp. Also I've been adding the minimum it says on the back of the bottle of FF Big Bloom (the earthworm and bat guano), 4tbsp's. How much straight water were you adding first and how dry did you let the soil get before you watered again? I never let mine get very dry at all.
 

Endo

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usually ur supposed to let the soil dry b4 you water again.. its helps the roots strech looking for water. i was using have the reccomended dose for seedlings.. and it still burned them up pretty good.. but your not having the prob cause your soil is not dry when you water...
 

Mr. floGrow

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i think that's the way to go then, i mean it ain't like my plant didn't get big fast. and i cleaned the pot out, roots were all the way to the edges of it
 
Mr. floGrow said:
I can't really keep more then one plant where I live and I don't do butter. I got 3 more flo seeds germinating now. Soon as I know I got a bitch I'll go with her.


You should work on other methods of growing. A sea of green setup may suit you better. In the space you had that 1 plant. You could easily setup 20 clones that are short-vegged on a perpetual harvest, that way you always have some herb for smoke.

I use to grow 1 plant at a time. But I would veg it for 6months on floros before taking it outside. That was with an old white rhino cut. It was such amazing herb and I would harvest nearly 3.5lbs off her.. I miss that cut...
 
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