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- Mar 29, 2020
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Freegrower97
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Hi everybody,
I'm growing my first plant and it has just started week 6 of flower. I am just wondering if this is how it's meant to look, because I see so many grows with Huge colas and mine seems so small compared.
Things to note: it is not an auto flower. I have been feeding it fox farm tiger bloom and it is being grown in a small pot, maybe 4 - 5 litres, within a 2f by 2f room with a cheap 300w LED light (real watt closer to 125).
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- Mar 29, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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Freegrower97 said:
Hi everybody,
I'm growing my first plant and it has just started week 6 of flower. I am just wondering if this is how it's meant to look, because I see so many grows with Huge colas and mine seems so small compared.
Things to note: it is not an auto flower. I have been feeding it fox farm tiger bloom and it is being grown in a small pot, maybe 4 - 5 litres, within a 2f by 2f room with a cheap 300w LED light (real watt closer to 125).
Alot of those pictures you see are growers who spent years dialing in their own personal grow space. While they still have time to get bigger, they won't get like those massive colas you are thinking off. Veg time, lights, genetics and enviroment all play a crucial role in growing those massive colas.
- Mar 29, 2020
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Emilya Green
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Hi... yes, growing conditions make a huge difference in the plant's ability to express itself, but fear not, your plant is going to take advantage of what you have given her and you are yet to be happily surprised. In a larger room, larger container, more light, she would have been bigger. It looks like you have done well with her until now, and it is at the 6 week point when magic starts to happen. The last two weeks of the grow are a second period of stretch, when the buds will swell up and gain sometimes twice the size and girth that they are now showing you. The last two weeks of the grow are easily the most important time of the grow.
I hope that you have also been using the other two members of the fox farm trio as you got her to this point, but it is also recommended to do a flush at this point so as to clean out the soil and the roots going into this final stage. A flush, defined by moving 3x the container size in water through that soil in one watering should be done, and then resume your normal feed/water/feed/water cycle after that right up to the end. The buds are going to amazing you by the time she is done. Enjoy the show!
- Mar 30, 2020
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Freegrower97
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Thanks for the replies, I haven't been using any bloom boosters, however I will be buying one in a day or two when I have the funds.
Just wondering if it'll even be worth it at this point though, because I will be flushing for two weeks before harvest and I'm probably gonna harvest in a 3 - 4 weeks. Meaning I won't have much time to feed the extra nutes.
Thanks and happy growing
- Mar 30, 2020
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SarahJane211
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All your plants are a strange burple colour ........... they look really sick to me.
Healthy plants are usually green.
- Mar 30, 2020
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Freegrower97
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SarahJane211 said:
All your plants are a strange burple colour ........... they look really sick to me.
Healthy plants are usually green.
Hi, the purple colour is just from the LED lights. They are green in normal lighting conditions. But thanks for looking out for me!
- Mar 30, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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Freegrower97 said:
Hi, the purple colour is just from the LED lights. They are green in normal lighting conditions. But thanks for looking out for me!
Flushing is for toilets only and pointless....
- Mar 30, 2020
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Emilya Green
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Freegrower97 said:
Thanks for the replies, I haven't been using any bloom boosters, however I will be buying one in a day or two when I have the funds.
Just wondering if it'll even be worth it at this point though, because I will be flushing for two weeks before harvest and I'm probably gonna harvest in a 3 - 4 weeks. Meaning I won't have much time to feed the extra nutes.
Thanks and happy growing
You have been given very bad advice. Giving nothing but water at the end is not flushing... it is called forced starvation. I take back everything I said earlier about your buds swelling to twice their size in the last two weeks then... they won't even come close if you are going to starve them.
And, I wasn't talking about bloom boosters... I was talking about the other two thirds of the Fox Farm trio.
- Mar 30, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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Emilya knows her sh*t.... I would highly suggest taking her advice.
- Mar 30, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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Big Bloom and Grow Big...
- Mar 30, 2020
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Emilya Green
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BubbleBucketz said:
Flushing is for toilets only and pointless....
Proper flushing, ie, moving 3x the container size of water through the soil to clean it out is actually called for several times in the Fox Farm feeding schedule. It is certainly not pointless... it actually is necessary when using the FF system.
- Mar 30, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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Emilya said:
Proper flushing, ie, moving 3x the container size of water through the soil to clean it out is actually called for several times in the Fox Farm feeding schedule. It is certainly not pointless... it actually is necessary when using the FF system.
I was referring to his "flushing"....not the final flush to clean the soil of salts and build-ups.
- Mar 30, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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BubbleBucketz said:
I was referring to his "flushing"....not the final flush to clean the soil of salts and build-ups.
I use the FF trio....only thing is I don't use their sludgehammer.
- Mar 30, 2020
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Emilya Green
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My favorite combo is the trio and the 3 solubles... I grew a lot of great pot using that system.
- Mar 30, 2020
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BubbleBucketz
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Emilya said:
My favorite combo is the trio and the 3 solubles... I grew a lot of great pot using that system.
I tried using the 3 solubles but really didn't see much of a difference when I used it on clones from the same plant compared to the clones that didn't get them. I still use the trio though for my soil and currently using it in my DWC but switching the DWC nutes to GH. Why people ask for advice then do the complete opposite is beyond me.
- Mar 31, 2020
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Jay2323
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I use FF trio, and I also have Bushdoctor microbe brew and Great White. Do yall think its worthwhile to use these mycorrhizae/bacteria supplements with FF? I'm just afraid tht the grow big and tiger bloom will destroy the microbeasties in my soil medium
- Apr 4, 2020
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OrganiKz
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Freegrower97 said:
Hi everybody,
I'm growing my first plant and it has just started week 6 of flower. I am just wondering if this is how it's meant to look, because I see so many grows with Huge colas and mine seems so small compared.
Things to note: it is not an auto flower. I have been feeding it fox farm tiger bloom and it is being grown in a small pot, maybe 4 - 5 litres, within a 2f by 2f room with a cheap 300w LED light (real watt closer to 125).
Looks ok. I have 1 White Widow in week 5 of flower myself.
If you would like to compare let me know. I attached a picture or 2.
Good luck!
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- Apr 4, 2020
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OrganiKz
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I am also using fox farms trio.
The Grow Big scares me a bit this deep into flowering, not sure, some say give it to her till the end, others say no, just use tiger bloom
- Apr 4, 2020
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Emilya Green
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OrganiKz said:
I am also using fox farms trio.
The Grow Big scares me a bit this deep into flowering, not sure, some say give it to her till the end, others say no, just use tiger bloom
What does the published feeding schedule say? I would follow that.
- Apr 4, 2020
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MReilly
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I used foxfarm trio, sledgehammer, microbrew, boomerang, molasses. I went back to using GH. The mess and smell from all the guano was not my favorite and the gnats were a pita.
Coco and GH Flora series with some supplements are treating me very well.
