paisleyblue
Active Member
hello there everybody! please read my whole post, i promise it's not as long as it looks. 
(twhs)
this is my first post, though i've been reading how-tos on this site since i started growing in may/june. i'm down to one plant. it's about 4 weeks into flowering. here are the conditions it's been growing under:
- natural sunlight, but it's in my window so it only gets direct light from about 1 or 2 until sunset. the house next door is white, so a lot of light reflects into my window from morning on, though.
- no fan on it, but i open the window sometimes. i did much more frequently during the summer while it was growing; now i'm afraid of the tempurature getting to it.
- a mixture of soil i made from miracle grow (the only "good" soil i could get my hands on), soil from plants i had repotted that i bought from a plant store, and sand.
- tap water, with ph balancing drops from my beta fish.
i haven't used anything else, simply because i don't have access to it. i don't have a car to go to the store, and it'd be a good three or four hour walk from here (not to mention the erradically placed sidewalks on main highways). i only tried this so i could smoke without paying for it, this was pretty much an experiment. i was lucky to have anything flower. ^_^
anyway, here is my dilemma: four weeks into flowering, my buds are still tiny! literally. the biggest one is probably smaller than a quarter. they're so small that i don't even see any trichomes, nothing is shimmery like it should be. there aren't even that many pistils (or hairs, or whatever). i'm afraid it won't even get me high, if there is even enough quantity to fill a bowl. and doesn't it shrink when you dry it? =C it's like the buds haven't gotten any bigger since i first noticed them. what is wrong?! is it because i'm not using that bloom stuff?
i should also mention that i kept it very small - about a foot tall, maybe a foot and a half - because i am keeping it in my window. i live on the 3rd floor, so nobody can really see in my window. and if it is seen, it's small so it looks like a flower. anyway, i suppose the short stature could cause it to not develop properly?
also, my "friend" convinced me that if you pluck off all of the leaves other than the buds, it will make the buds grow better or faster or something. i was having a spidermite problem, so i just did it without consulting an outside source, and now i really regret it. it looks pathetic. but it smells soooo good. everyday i come home and get a big nice whiff of it, and then go look at it and i'm so sad.
oh, and i got rid of the spidermites by using a 50/50 lemon juice and water solution. just sprayed it all over, and the mites were gone in a few days. didn't even come back. the plant didn't show any reaction to the lemon juice, and it was already not showing much progress.
well, that's all the information i can think of. PLEASE respond if you have any idea what i'm doing or have done wrong. if there's any more info you need, just ask me. thank you very much for reading my whole post, and thank you so much in advance for any responses!!
(p.s: is it possible to change your username?)
(twhs)this is my first post, though i've been reading how-tos on this site since i started growing in may/june. i'm down to one plant. it's about 4 weeks into flowering. here are the conditions it's been growing under:
- natural sunlight, but it's in my window so it only gets direct light from about 1 or 2 until sunset. the house next door is white, so a lot of light reflects into my window from morning on, though.
- no fan on it, but i open the window sometimes. i did much more frequently during the summer while it was growing; now i'm afraid of the tempurature getting to it.
- a mixture of soil i made from miracle grow (the only "good" soil i could get my hands on), soil from plants i had repotted that i bought from a plant store, and sand.
- tap water, with ph balancing drops from my beta fish.
i haven't used anything else, simply because i don't have access to it. i don't have a car to go to the store, and it'd be a good three or four hour walk from here (not to mention the erradically placed sidewalks on main highways). i only tried this so i could smoke without paying for it, this was pretty much an experiment. i was lucky to have anything flower. ^_^
anyway, here is my dilemma: four weeks into flowering, my buds are still tiny! literally. the biggest one is probably smaller than a quarter. they're so small that i don't even see any trichomes, nothing is shimmery like it should be. there aren't even that many pistils (or hairs, or whatever). i'm afraid it won't even get me high, if there is even enough quantity to fill a bowl. and doesn't it shrink when you dry it? =C it's like the buds haven't gotten any bigger since i first noticed them. what is wrong?! is it because i'm not using that bloom stuff?
i should also mention that i kept it very small - about a foot tall, maybe a foot and a half - because i am keeping it in my window. i live on the 3rd floor, so nobody can really see in my window. and if it is seen, it's small so it looks like a flower. anyway, i suppose the short stature could cause it to not develop properly?
also, my "friend" convinced me that if you pluck off all of the leaves other than the buds, it will make the buds grow better or faster or something. i was having a spidermite problem, so i just did it without consulting an outside source, and now i really regret it. it looks pathetic. but it smells soooo good. everyday i come home and get a big nice whiff of it, and then go look at it and i'm so sad.
oh, and i got rid of the spidermites by using a 50/50 lemon juice and water solution. just sprayed it all over, and the mites were gone in a few days. didn't even come back. the plant didn't show any reaction to the lemon juice, and it was already not showing much progress.
well, that's all the information i can think of. PLEASE respond if you have any idea what i'm doing or have done wrong. if there's any more info you need, just ask me. thank you very much for reading my whole post, and thank you so much in advance for any responses!!
(p.s: is it possible to change your username?)
