Flowering very slow
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Biologically Incorrect
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Do you have any specs? Temp, humidity, PH, soil or hydro, 12/12 or???
FlintTokeStone
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first guess for me would be poor lighting or stress.
Kevdank
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Some pics would really help, I dont see anything wrong with your set up. I'm only using two 23 watt cfl and my plant is doing pretty good, been flowering for 3 weeks, vegged for 3 weeks. I got nice little nug berries startin to form. Check out my grow log in my signature, got lots of pics so u can compare to your plant. You cant see the nugs in the pics cus they are pics from last week, Ill post new ones soon.
Kevdank
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you should try gettin the side lights closer, they are too far, it seems like it is stretching a lil bit. Also if it cant hold itself up that shows it grew mostly taller instead of wider cus it was searching for more light.
JQuick
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yea i messed up in veg
Kevdank
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thats probably why its not growing to its full potential, but if its getting enough light now it should still produce a decent harvest, just dont expect it to be as much as you would get if everything went perfect from start to finish.
RollUpMikey
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^ agreed Kev. Go grab a couple inexpensive aluminum reflectors from home depot and concentrate what little light you're able to provide for your stretched lady. Unconcentrated light is lost light, and in the end, a weaker harvest.
*BUDS
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this is why your heads are not like the other guys. get a hps next time.
JQuick
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o i am, been to the hydro store twice just to check prices on hps with cooltube, gonna need to do a room grow next time not a closet though
puck1969
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I am having the same trouble, my plants (kannibia Power Skunk, Kannibia Special Fem, and Barney's LSD) are under 15 23 watt 2700k CFL
lights. They are in ph 6.5 potting mix and I am using Jack's Classic flowering fert with 1 teaspoon of blackstrap molasses. I did have trouble
during veg. and very early flower. My temps with the light's out got down to 60 degrees. I got a heater and the plant's shot up! Now temp's
are 80 degrees 24-7. The plant's put out pre flowers and then just stopped growing. I have been watering every 3-4 day's (more since the heater)
and I LST'd them at the start of flower.
lights. They are in ph 6.5 potting mix and I am using Jack's Classic flowering fert with 1 teaspoon of blackstrap molasses. I did have trouble
during veg. and very early flower. My temps with the light's out got down to 60 degrees. I got a heater and the plant's shot up! Now temp's
are 80 degrees 24-7. The plant's put out pre flowers and then just stopped growing. I have been watering every 3-4 day's (more since the heater)
and I LST'd them at the start of flower.
TokeSmoker420
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if your looking for nice big dense buds, you should look into buying a HPS, It will pay for itself after the 1st harvest, you can get a whole 400watt HPS kit off ebay for under $150
Tigers Wood
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wow , hang a few more cfl's in there and either put up some mylar or paint the walls white , its like a cave in there for that plant
JQuick
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the only reason i dont have one now is because of heat
TokeSmoker420
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I see, well then I would suggest buying those 100W CFL bulbs, (actual wattage). they work pretty well. if you dont have access to those, then hang 2-3 more 42watt CFL's around, make sure they are all close to the plant within 2". that should help out.
Kevdank
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why do people always think you cant get good crop from CFL, I mean just check out a couple cfl grow logs and youll see the dank buds you can get. CFL are really underhyped. if done CORRECTLY, CFL is a great choice for smaller grows, but of course if you have a warehouse full of plants HID is obviously better.
Kevdank
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thats strange, 15 cfl's should really be enough, are they close enough to the plants?