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Organic CFL Buds

i.love.scotch

Active member
Just wanted to show some of my organic goodies grown micro in pro-mix ammended w/ all sorts of good stuff and fed mainly water but w/ a couple EWC and molasses teas. Grown under 4x42W CFLs.

BeanHo:

AK47 F4, this one breifely had pink hairs at around 5 weeks of flower and smells like pink bubblegum w/ a floral incense background:





ThaiLights x AK47, sweet meaty earthy smell w/ that same floral incense background as the straight AK47, had some nice foxtails and acutally cured up pretty tight:





Cannacopia:


ChunkyCheese (Cheese x Deepchunk), this one was super greasy, super short w/ some really interesting smells and really nice bud density, even threw some foxtails to show off its skunk heritage, smell cured out to an amazing feildberry cheesecake aroma w/ a little earthiness when broken up, I let this one go really late because I wanted a narcotic/euphoric stone and it ended up throwing a couple nanners:





Genius x Deepchunk 3 Phenos, all three had a smiliar over-the-top fruitloops smell mixed w/ a little pungent skunkiness, these ones really stank:

Green Pheno, this one was the most Genius leaning I got, super rubbery/floppy stems and a crisp positive high:





Purple Pheno, this one was a nice mix of the two, was a smaller plant but nice dense nugs:





Indica Pheno, this one had a much more pungent smell not nearly as fruity as the other two, I wanted to see how the high would be w/ a longer flowering time and since this was the most indica leaning I let it go around 9.5 weeks whereas the other two went about 8, finished up super frosty w/ a nice stone and really good yeild:


 
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tokinafaty420

Looking good and surprisingly the buds don't look all fluffy. I've seen some buds done under CFLs that my friends grew and they were far to fluffy to enjoy.
 

i.love.scotch

Active member
Nope no fluff. I find CFL's pump out the same density buds as HPS but the CFL buds usually have way fatter calyxs.
 

Thundurkel

Just Call me Urkle!!
Veteran
Nope no fluff. I find CFL's pump out the same density buds as HPS but the CFL buds usually have way fatter calyxs.

funny you say that, as I found the same thing to be true or so I think but I'll know for sure after this round under my HPS...

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CFL 7weeks

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HID 8weeks

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then here they are together, notice the difference in how fat the calyxes are? :dance013: didn't mean to jack your thread cuz your buds are LOVELY looking very nice job. Just hate to hear the fluffy shit about CFLs cuz when done right they work wonderful.. BUT I will say HID produces color a lot faster like purple strains start to turn purple a good 2 weeks earlier than CFL that and the yield is bigger...
 

SNiPerXP

Member
Damn, those do look nice for just 168 watts. How many plants and how much did you yield? I always love some good organic.
 

i.love.scotch

Active member
Thundurkel - Nice side by side thats really cool to see the diff between hps and cfl. I'm assuming that those two plants are the same strain?

Sniperxp - Didn't yield very well as there wasn't enough light density and I transplanted from beer cups to 1.5L pots AFTER the plants had been put in 12/12 and showed their sex. Worked well as they didn't stretch much but only ended up yielding about 5-7 grams per plant. Had 7 females in the end so that's around 35g total which I was happy w/. Of course using CFLs one should be able to get around 1g/watt so next time I get a chance to grow I'll be hoping for some improvement in the yield department.
 
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