Flowering Troubles(?)

Hi, I've taken repeated advice and changed my lights--I've stopped with the CFLs and have changed to two 500 watt bulbs.....I've been really surprised by the heat--I don't have to run my heater at night anymore (I grow in my bedroom, as it's the only room in the house that can be closed off)! They seem to be appreciating the extra light and heat quite a lot--new leaf growth just looks overall to be a lot healthier.

There aren't any problems, per se (it took a little time to get the swing of a new watering schedule, but things are fine now--there was only minor leaf burnage on the first day), but compared to the vegetative growth stage I'm not really pleased with my flowering. Maybe now that it's in the last stage of development I'm getting impatient, but after two weeks of flowering this is all I've managed to produce.

Is this normal for an ignorant first-time grower? As an experiment I tied the plant on the right and left the other one as-is. The right-hand plant was already flowering before I officially changed my lights to 12/12 (I think she's just got better genetics than her neighbor), so despite the fact that her buds are bigger, I can't really say I noticed an appreciable difference.

Any advice for a hard-headed head? Too much foliage? Still not enough light? Do I worry too much? As always, any help/advice is much appreciated!

they are way too stretched out. Get a fan on them to thicken up the stems and hopefully promote some bushy growth. How far are they from the lights because by the looks of it they were way too far away or your not using enough light.

500 watt bulbs?theyre is nothing wrong with cfl's...at least use them in side lighting and heat is what ?is that tin foil?what strain...?

LeRoy JaBluntski said:

they are way too stretched out. Get a fan on them to thicken up the stems and hopefully promote some bushy growth. How far are they from the lights because by the looks of it they were way too far away or your not using enough light.

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The lights I'm using now burn pretty hot.....I would guess they're about 15-20cm from the tops of the plants, maybe even a little further. I think the stretching was caused by earlier bad lighting setups. I didn't know that a fan would help to induce bushing.....will it help me to run that during the dark periods, too?

babylonburn said:

500 watt bulbs?theyre is nothing wrong with cfl's...at least use them in side lighting and heat is what ?is that tin foil?what strain...?

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I had thought that CFLs would be fine.....but everybody here has kept telling me "more light", and I finally just gave up and picked up the biggest, brightest ones I could find at the local hardware store. For plants that size how many CFLs would you recommend?

The heat is about 33 by the time the lights go off. Yes, that's tinfoil. Should I be using a different kind of reflector?

I have no idea what the strain is....this whole grow was kind of conceived on a whim--I'm using bagseed.....it's definitely not a designer strain.