Hey maz. Started from the beginning of your thread, lookin real nice. How the hell do you keep them so short ? I posted mine-
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/439301-8th-week-lookin-good.html , This is 3 1/2 weeks in flowering, look at the difference. Is it the strain- maybe sativa. From what I think you said is sativa grows tall. I'm real new to this. Back a ways you were talkin about the technical crap most newbies do, been there and half of it I didn't use this grow. This is my second, the first was a disaster, I hope this goes better. The only thing I'm missing from your journal is the feeding, when you do it, what your using, how much and when. Do you think you can help me out with that? How long do you veg for? Sorry for all the questions Bro, you just got me pumped up, lol I have a lot of them, but I'll stop. I'm also using a 400 watt mh/hps
hey depot, its all good bro...im just sitting here drinkin a beer, smokin a lil and gettin ready for work tomorrow, ill help you out for sure bud...as far as how i keep mine so short its quite simple, they arent as short as you might think, lol, just super full...those plants are 26 inches tall from soil to tops, but to answer your question more directly i keep my light literally like 7 inches away from the tops,if your light is any farther IMO they will stretch to get closer (they think the light is the sun and plants are living things, they wanna live and thrive so they grow tall to be closer to the life source) everyone says keep it farther but i dont, as long as i dont see crispy, curled up leaf edges i run it close as possible, and i switch the lights to 12/12 at about 3 or 4 weeks, usually 3...ALWAYS think the plants will for sure double sometimes triple in heighth...ofcourse its always gonna depend on the strain but u can pretty much manipulate what the plants do as well...but then again, depot, dont get misinterpreted, my one plant that looks like its exploding all over is the LA CHEESE, shes a special strain, she flowers extremely fast and pops nuggets all over even faster, on the other end of the spectrum is my silver diesel, shes the thin leaved spindly (not budding a whole lot) looking one bushy looking one, so obviously strain has something to do with it...sativa doesnt necessarily grow taller, per say, just different, indica plants are fat and stout and ridgid (most of the time) sativas have thin stalks and real thin leaves (most of the time)....and when i say that IMO newbies mess up from all the technical stuff is that they read journals, and all these comments and things on here from people who (IMO) take it too far. maybe they yield more, maybe their smoke is better, but i dont want a frankenstein plant pumped with .00001 of this and .0004 of that, too technical. heres ALL i do, straight up...pen and paper,lol.jk...
(regular tap water the whole time...)
i get the clones and for the first 3 or 4 weeks i veg them, in fox farm ocean forest soil with no nutrients at all the whole veg, no root accelrator, or hormones, nothing, they stay super green and grow super fast, thats good enuff for me...for this stage i keep the metal halide conversion bulb 38,000 lumens like 8-12 inches away
as soon as i go into flower i give them each a teaspoon of flora nova bloom nutrients mixed with a gallon of water, and a 1/4 teaspoon of koolbloom...i do this for 3 feedings (every 3 or so days or when the pots are ultra light)
the flora nova has a 4-8-7 npk ratio...that means it is hiogher in p and k...p=phosphate k=potassium...these two elements boost the plant into flowering (dont ask me how, lol)
and the koolbloom has a 2-45-28 ratio which is the equivolent of a kick in the fuckin ass of p and k as u can see, haha...this is what really makes them go boom IMO, koolbloom suggest u only use it once in first week and last 2 weeks but i just do it every other watering...beginning till flush
ok so pretty much every three watering i up it a teaspoon of flora nova bloom until i hit 3 teaspoons and then i stay there until flush. so pretty much im no guru when it comes to growing but i have good results i think. im a total new grower as well, dont worry, keep it simple, the less you fuck with it and trip about every little thing, the easier it will become...
so dont worry about the questions, welcome to RIU and good luck, ask anything u like....except if im free this weekend, haha .jk...lemme know if this helped...
p.s. Got the kool bloom, fed with 2 waterings and I'm liking the blow up I c +rep for recommending it