im puzzled.........

ok evrytime i grow a plant it always starts gettin really tall before any nodes starts, the 3 i have now got 2 1/2 inches before nodes started, i germinated them them planted and kept the light on them, plants before tha i germed and had no light until a week old and the were still tall and weak, but i found one outside in my driveway after drought and then a rainstorm and in was 1 3/4 inches tall with at least 6 nodes and bushy, whats the deal, how can i grow inside plants short and bushy??????????????

choadey62 said:

ok evrytime i grow a plant it always starts gettin really tall before any nodes starts, the 3 i have now got 2 1/2 inches before nodes started, i germinated them them planted and kept the light on them, plants before tha i germed and had no light until a week old and the were still tall and weak, but i found one outside in my driveway after drought and then a rainstorm and in was 1 3/4 inches tall with at least 6 nodes and bushy, whats the deal, how can i grow inside plants short and bushy??????????????

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or should i say start out short and bushy

its strain dependent from my knwolege my man.
my bubblegum and wonderwoman right now get real lanky before they start puttin out leaves.

what kinda of light how far away? What is temps? humidity? Nutes (hope not) just curious

light is too far away most likely.

what im thinking to, trying to help but not enough info

i have a 2 gallon pot filled half way with soil and i set the light right on top of the pot, it stays about 72 in here and humidty is prob around 60%, im usin 2 lights now, a regular 60w bulb and a 50w florescent, the 50w was the one i had on top the pot

choadey62 said:

i have a 2 gallon pot filled half way with soil and i set the light right on top of the pot, it stays about 72 in here and humidty is prob around 60%, im usin 2 lights now, a regular 60w bulb and a 50w florescent, the 50w was the one i had on top the pot

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The regular 60w bulb isn't doing a thing and may be why your plants stretch. You cannot use regular bulbs. If your two gallon bucket is half full and the light is sitting on top then its about 6" away which is too far. You need your fluorescent light about 1 inch away, and you need to leave light on it at least 18 hours a day. Seedlings can go 24 hours fine.

yeah, get rid of that incandesent, its not worth the energy it uses, find yourself some cfls. a 13w cfl is better than that incandesent light(i'd reccomend 26w if your real low on cash as they are the most lumen to watt effecient and a 4 or 6 pack is like $5-10 at times depending on where you go, if you can find a better deal on hgher watt lights you should still get them though. for one plant you should get a 4 pack of the 26w(or whatever you find a deal on, i wouldnt actually recommend the 13w's they put out too little light imo) get 2 y splitter and 2 hanging clamp light sockets w/reflectors.probally run you 15-20 and will really help your plants out. lol. keep the cfls no more than 2.5-3in away, i prefer like a few centimeters away but you gotta have really good airflow or you'll burn em, try for 1 inch if possible like the guy above said. flouro tubes should be 2-3 cm away all the time since they put off almost no heat and the leaves can even touch the bulbs w/o burning the leaves(not saying they should touch the bulb of course, but they can on alot of flouro tubes and not really hurt em if you dont raise the light quick enough and they grow into it or something..)