Deadmagician
Well-Known Member
So… my veg tent is in my garage and it’s freezing at the moment, 0C to -6C outside probably no lower than about 4C in my tent as I have a light (obviously) and those lizard pad things under the fabric pots (which are shit and barely get warm if I’m honest) and a tube heater, which does provide some warmth.
My seedings are 9 weeks old now and I’ve flowered an entire set of other plants in the time these have been growing, or not really growing to be more accurate. They are really slow I mean not even nearly ready to flip.
I believe it’s the cold, because they look fairly healthy the new growth looks pretty lush, some of the older leaves look a bit knackered but generally they are healthy looking plants I’d say, The stems are pretty fat and robust etc. but they grow incredibly slowly. Like there’s been little change in a fortnight.
Now, I did top them once (before the really cold weather set in) which probably didn’t help, but it was mainly to let more light down on the new growth. I also changed the light schedule from 18/6 to 24h just to keep the temperatures up and consistent more than anything.
I read about slow growth and like everything to do with cultivation of cannabis, you can be given wildly contradictory information and with so many variables it’s hard to judge what is happening. Air flow is good, humidity is fine, light is fine (correct par/off for small vegging) they are being feed correctly, but are taking water/nutes very slowly as per growth. Everything is dialled in how I normally would, except for the temperature which is about 4C at most (even with heaters) but in all likelihood has been zero or below.
My seedlings notoriously take longer anyway because i don’t transplant them, I plant them directly into a 5 gallon fabric pot, which I know some frown upon, but it has been quite good for extending vegging time to match flowering time and keeping things nice and organised, But the weather has put paid to that.
Anyway my question is, are these plants stunted now? Or could they grow to a decent size before flipping?
Should I put them inside in a warmer temperature in order to stimulate them to grow? (This is only an option at this point because my flowering tent indoors has nearly finished) Or will that further shock them?
I think the answer is probably they will either turn out great (but perhaps small?) due to toughing out all the extra adversity, or they will die. Or worse still recover and then herm shortly after I flip them.
I’ve also committed the cardinal sin of not posting any pictures, (sorry) but I will upload some when I get home, just wanted to get some thoughts.
any help/comment/advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
My seedings are 9 weeks old now and I’ve flowered an entire set of other plants in the time these have been growing, or not really growing to be more accurate. They are really slow I mean not even nearly ready to flip.
I believe it’s the cold, because they look fairly healthy the new growth looks pretty lush, some of the older leaves look a bit knackered but generally they are healthy looking plants I’d say, The stems are pretty fat and robust etc. but they grow incredibly slowly. Like there’s been little change in a fortnight.
Now, I did top them once (before the really cold weather set in) which probably didn’t help, but it was mainly to let more light down on the new growth. I also changed the light schedule from 18/6 to 24h just to keep the temperatures up and consistent more than anything.
I read about slow growth and like everything to do with cultivation of cannabis, you can be given wildly contradictory information and with so many variables it’s hard to judge what is happening. Air flow is good, humidity is fine, light is fine (correct par/off for small vegging) they are being feed correctly, but are taking water/nutes very slowly as per growth. Everything is dialled in how I normally would, except for the temperature which is about 4C at most (even with heaters) but in all likelihood has been zero or below.
My seedlings notoriously take longer anyway because i don’t transplant them, I plant them directly into a 5 gallon fabric pot, which I know some frown upon, but it has been quite good for extending vegging time to match flowering time and keeping things nice and organised, But the weather has put paid to that.
Anyway my question is, are these plants stunted now? Or could they grow to a decent size before flipping?
Should I put them inside in a warmer temperature in order to stimulate them to grow? (This is only an option at this point because my flowering tent indoors has nearly finished) Or will that further shock them?
I think the answer is probably they will either turn out great (but perhaps small?) due to toughing out all the extra adversity, or they will die. Or worse still recover and then herm shortly after I flip them.
I’ve also committed the cardinal sin of not posting any pictures, (sorry) but I will upload some when I get home, just wanted to get some thoughts.
any help/comment/advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
