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BAy415

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Please help I am 5 weeks into flower and my plants have only grown like and inch or two since I switched to 12/12, why is this? I didnt invest in four 1000's for this kind of yield. I use 3/4 strength nutes flora bloom and flora micro for flowering. I vegged with BCUZZ A and B and also 3d Liq. Organics. Any ideas? Please help
 
do your plants look healthy?are the temps right?are the pots big enough?is ya grow area light tight when lights are off?
 
are there any pics of the plants and sett up somethings got to be off they should grow more than that, but if they look healthy it may be okay. 4 1000 watt lights man thats a large grow are they all not growing?
 
If your temps are too hot it will slow growth. Sounds like with four 1000w lights they are putting out some heat. If your temps are high try bring them down with fans and more ventilation or possibly a A/C. You might think about using CO2 as well. I would also check pH and ppm. Also if your temps swing more than 10 degrees between light and dark cycles can slow growth as well.
 
I am doing 36 of them all in 2 1/2 gall. pots which are plenty big. My temps light on are usually 74-81 and lights off its like 65-72. I have not used Co2 which could be the issue but aside from spidermite damage they are all pretty healthy aside from bottom leaves yellowing but that normal. My biggest is only like 24-25 inches. I even vegged for a month and a week trying to make them bigger. Think its too much nutes. I think im gonna switch to reg. water only for awhile... Any other ideas, tnite im putting in 6 homemade Co2 of yeast and sugar. Do you think thats enough for 36 plants. Check out my most recent gall. pics they are all pretty much that size still.
 
BAy415 said:
I am doing 36 of them all in 2 1/2 gall. pots which are plenty big. My temps light on are usually 74-81 and lights off its like 65-72. I have not used Co2 which could be the issue but aside from spidermite damage they are all pretty healthy aside from bottom leaves yellowing but that normal. My biggest is only like 24-25 inches. I even vegged for a month and a week trying to make them bigger. Think its too much nutes. I think im gonna switch to reg. water only for awhile... Any other ideas, tnite im putting in 6 homemade Co2 of yeast and sugar. Do you think thats enough for 36 plants. Check out my most recent gall. pics they are all pretty much that size still.
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You would be better of foliar feeding the carbonated water and a spray bottle for C02. I would definitely flush with a mild nute solution and make sure my pH is good. It could be a build up of salts and they could be nute locked.
 
Thanks I will try that out and tell you if it worked. I also put the six 500ml bottles of my homeade C02 we will see how they like it. (Foilar feeding carbonated water) what do you mean I have heard mixed things about carb. water too. Is it good??
 
how much water should I be using to flush them with 2 1/2 gall. pots? Also how mild of nute solution, like 1/4 or less???
 
thats a wierd situation, it it be there is not enough air circulation in the room or maybe your growing space is to small?
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No the grow space is plenty big check out my gallery pics. I have two fans (not including the can fan) and the air circ. seems ok. I dont get it???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
BAy415 said:
how much water should I be using to flush them with 2 1/2 gall. pots? Also how mild of nute solution, like 1/4 or less???
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I grow hydro so i am not too sure but i believe i have read that you should flush with 2X the volume of your pots and use 1/4 strenght nutes or plain pH adjusted water if you grow in soil or soilless mix . For hydro i use distilled pH adjusted water with a hydro flushing solution added.
 
flushing is with ph balanced water, no nutes. and 2x the volume of the container, so for 2.5g pots, 5g of water.
 
Im afraid it might also be drainage prob. and if I flush will it hurt them because when I water hardly any water comes out the bottom onto the saucer??? And no I dont have a PH meter but I figured I was ok since I use bottled drinking water? Do you know the PH of that???
 
I use Ozarka distilled water and every time i check the pH is at or around 5.8 with a ppm of 0 right out of the jug. I would use distilled water to flush with.
 
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