Lowryder, 7th week, and only 4inch

Hi, my lowryder is its 7th weeks of growing, i know lowryderi s supposed to be short, but its like 4 inch only! Isn't that kind of small? Any idea if there's a chance this will grow even more for the 8th week?? or if i can go into a 9th week just to get some more?

thanks.

i mean lowryders already spos to be short but i think it will work itself out when u flower it

I wouldn't worry to much it looks nice an healthy? Like NeoAnachist said it should grow alot more when you flower.

it seems to have started flowering, how many more weeks should i leave it to flower? [i have all the time in the world.. so]

Btw, with lowryder, is it necessary for my to change my cfls from cooldaylight white to warm white now?

yes it does look very healthy

ya go ahead and change the lights, im not sure about the color difference in them, id of thought the white lights had more blue in em and the warm ones had more red.

interesting...i have had a similar problem. my conclusion is that sometimes the lowryders just really stay extreamly small in stature. i started one lowryder 2 and two easy ryders under the exact same conditions and one of my plants has stayed strangely small, while the other two have grown fast and big. hopefully we will both get some bud off our tiny plants! at least it has been interesting watching such a small plant flower.

good luck with yours.

silouan said:

interesting...i have had a similar problem. my conclusion is that sometimes the lowryders just really stay extreamly small in stature. i started one lowryder 2 and two easy ryders under the exact same conditions and one of my plants has stayed strangely small, while the other two have grown fast and big. hopefully we will both get some bud off our tiny plants! at least it has been interesting watching such a small plant flower.

good luck with yours.

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nice to have somebody having the same trouble, any idea whether i could just keep the light the same [i.e 18/6] and hopefully expect it will still veg more and give a bit more buds ? or leave it like that for more than 8weeks?

though i just shifted to 12/12 today, i wonder if i can shift back to 18/6

Looks great lowryders a ruderalis so it's not gonna get much taller than a foot, has it flowered yet? it will double in size while flowering and get to the size its supposed to be.

have you thought about topping it and vegging it longer?

well, i haven't changed light cycles or anything, it is still 18/6 with cool daylight cfls, lowryders from what i read isn't affected by light cycle, but it has already started showing sex and white hairs everywhere

logical.angel said:

nice to have somebody having the same trouble, any idea whether i could just keep the light the same [i.e 18/6] and hopefully expect it will still veg more and give a bit more buds ? or leave it like that for more than 8weeks?

though i just shifted to 12/12 today, i wonder if i can shift back to 18/6

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You can shift to 20/4, that is what they recommend for the whole grow on auto flowers.

logical.angel said:

Hi, my lowryder is its 7th weeks of growing, i know lowryderi s supposed to be short, but its like 4 inch only! Isn't that kind of small? Any idea if there's a chance this will grow even more for the 8th week?? or if i can go into a 9th week just to get some more?

thanks.

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My auto ak stayed real short also. I think this one went in the first week of may. Budding up real nice, fruity mesmorizing smell. Still only 8 inches. I have better luck with the auto's if they go into a 3 gallon or bigger pot from the begining. Good luck!

oh, i think thats because lowrider is an AutoFlowering strain so it'll flower when its ready,

NeoAnarchist said:

ya go ahead and change the lights, im not sure about the color difference in them, id of thought the white lights had more blue in em and the warm ones had more red.

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u dont changes the lights on a ruderalis

it flowers on its own

You should be using a 2700K spectrum I believe.

Lowryder and any sub strains created from it are meant to be autoflowering, so you could theoretically keep the lights on 24/0 to get a bigger yield, but I've also heard that it's unnecessary to give it 24 hours of light. I'd suggest just staying at 18/6 to conserve energy, and yes that particular plant will just start flowering whenever it's ready, no matter what lighting schedule you have it on.

if i have gone past 8 weeks its not really a problem is it? seems some leaves are turning yellow

I've seen this same thing a lot with my af's. From what I can tell, if you dont switch the lights to a flowering spectrum early enough, they get stunted and won't ever achieve their full height. Although, that isn't to say that some are just smaller phenotypes in general. My suggestion is that you should switch to a flowering light at the very latest by the time they start showing sex. I usually put mine under flowering after about the third week and just watch them closely so I can catch any males before they release pollen. Also, I think LR1's suck in general and you should definitely go to LR2's or easyryders/short stuff or whatever.

It is okay to have them go past 8 weeks, but they usually don't grow much more past that.

Some just come out small, my smallest was only 11 inches. Got a half ounce from it though, so overall for the size it's all good.

LR is autoflowering, keep it on 18/6 from seed to harvest, it'll do the hard work for you.

It should be ready for harvest week 9 but can go as long as 10 - keep checking trichomes to know whens optimum