Making Plants Taller

mattyferris

mattyferris

Active Member
Hi, New to the forum and growing etc..

But How would i make my plants grow taller they are currently around 5-7 inch after
3-4 week and im using a 250w CFL ??

Please Help !!
 
smokinrav

smokinrav

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5"-7" after 3-4 weeks is very small, you may have health issues....

You don't want tall plants when using a CFL, you want trained bushes with many tops on an even plane because of the small effective footprint of the light.

Check out LST supercropping
 
sso

sso

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it looks healthy.

possibly its a runt (something stunted it at the beginning or it was just always a midget(more likely the stunt)


but, it looks healthy enough to not really want to mess with anything now.

did it always grow so slow or has it grown faster lately?
 
mattyferris

mattyferris

Active Member
yes 250w CFL self ballast

the one at the back has always had yellow leaves but the rest are all good the one you can see is the tallest of them all
 
sso

sso

Well-Known Member
good point, something might have stunted them at the beginning, did you have different soil then?
 
mattyferris

mattyferris

Active Member
sso said:
it looks healthy.

possibly its a runt (something stunted it at the beginning or it was just always a midget(more likely the stunt)


but, it looks healthy enough to not really want to mess with anything now.

did it always grow so slow or has it grown faster lately?
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Id Say the last week or so started to grow slightly faster but not much, i kept my light on 24/0 is this right ?
 
mattyferris

mattyferris

Active Member
no recently swapped around about week and half ago from 125w CFL, Am i best of going buying a 250w or 400w HPS OR MH ??
 
sso

sso

Well-Known Member
hmm, yeah, but he should have a larger plant with the 250w, and the thin stems, well, if they got woody quite quick on, might explain the runtness, maybe it was too strong a soil for a seedling.

though the yellow leaves on the others might indicate a lack of feeding.

maybe the soil was too weak ;)

difficult to say, but the plant looks healthy.

so, maybe its just the strain.
 
mattyferris

mattyferris

Active Member
sso said:
hmm, yeah, but he should have a larger plant with the 250w, and the thin stems, well, if they got woody quite quick on, might explain the runtness, maybe it was too strong a soil for a seedling.

though the yellow leaves on the others might indicate a lack of feeding.

maybe the soil was too weak ;)

difficult to say, but the plant looks healthy.

so, maybe its just the strain.
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I have White Widow And Big Bang 2 and yes maybe the soil was too strong as its got plenty of nutes in anyhow, should i get a better light 250w HPS OR 400w ETC
 
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