Sup guys i need help. I've been vegging for almost 2 months(due to improper lighting) as of a week ago I finally have the proper lighting, 300watts of cfls (20,000 lumens) and 6 plants. I'm going to buy a grow tent and 2700k bulbs next week. But I just don't know what I should do at this point. I'll post pics of what the plants look like. I've fimed them like 2 weeks ago. Idk if I should top them, or trim them, or quit wasting time and transition them to flower. Help me out guys!
Personally I wouldn't top or trim. The plant doesn't need to be trimmed and right now needs all the leaf surface it can get to catch the light and catch back up. That plants super small, topping is only going to slow it down and is completly unnecessary. Topping makes no sence. You start off with 3 potential bud sites, remove 1 so 2 can grow bigger causing the plant to slow down while it recovers. With techniques like low stress training or scrog you can bend the plant over causing all 3 bud sites to grow, not removing a site and above all not slowing the plant down. I wouldn't want to slow that plant down anymore. I look at fim the same way, like topping totally unnecessary except to slow your plant down. As far as rather or not to flower right now, that's totally up to you and how much patience you have. It looks healthy, but to flower right now would be a very small yeild.
That's really small for 2 months. If it was only one out of a bunch I'd say it's genetic, but since all your plants have abnormally slow growth rates I'd say it's definitely environmental. You can get a surprising amount of vegetative growth out of relatively low wattage fluorescent lighting. These clones vegged for 2 weeks under (4) 26w bulbs, or 2 bulbs each, couple inches tall when they rooted: It's possible that poor lighting contributed to your slow growth rates, but if that was the only problem I think there would be a lot more stretching, there would be obvious signs. It's my opinion that there is more than one issue at play here, probably a root or soil problem combined with low lighting kept them in a dwarfed, bonsai-like state of growth. I have no idea what you're growing in, but I do believe that there's more going on here than just poor lighting. Just my 2¢
Na I don't have a ph meter yet. Will ph stunt growth but do nothing else? From day one they have been green as can be. And I'll post a pic of my growspace until I get my grow tent in a week or two.
Thanks for your reply dense, I'm growing in a soil that's called thunderhead. I got it from my local smoke shop. But I'm thinking of putting them in fox farms ocean Forrest soil when I bloom. These plants haven't been placed in a closed enviornment, but its always 70-74 in my apt. And now that it's cold outside I keep a small portable heater in the closet for if it gets too cold. Now that I think of it. It may be the temp not being controlled 100% for them. Idk if it would slow them down that much tho. Like people say, its a weed. It shouldn't be hard to grow. I did use seeds I've found in my stash and I kept them in a zip lock bag for a couple months. Dunno if that has anything to do with it. After this batch I plan on getting auto fem seeds from online. By then I should have a tent. So I think I'm going down the right road.
Absolutely, you're on the right path. Ocean forest is decent, nothing wrong with it. My basement gets pretty cold during the winter and growth rates never slow down that bad, but I agree that you need to stabilize your temps. Like I said, it's probably more than one factor but I'm betting on a substrate issue being the main culprit. If you want to grow some autoflowers, I'd highly suggest taking the money you want to spend on a tent and investing it in a 400w or so HID. Autoflowers do great under 20/4 lighting so you can set that 4 hour "dark" period (doesn't have to be completely dark like with photoperiods) for the warmest part of the day. So if you can get by for 2 months without a tent and maybe a rigged up carbon filter on your closet you could come out with a half P or so to reinvest in a better setup. Spending the majority of your budget on an enclosure is not a wise move, IMO. A nice tent by itself grows nothing, it's your lights that make it happen.