Plants not growing...help

I have a few plants that are getting kind of bushy and not growing very tall. They are about 6 weeks old. I was wondering if I need to trim some of the fan leaves to get some light down to the under growth?

I have 8-23 watt cfl lights running 18/6. They are planted in ffof and I just started 1/2 strength Fox Farm trio nutes. They seem healthy otherwise.

Any thoughts?





thanks

Rock Lobster 4040

Don't start chopping leaves now out of desperation

look fine and healthy to me. looks like they are focusing more toward single cola.

Yeah they look nice and healthy good internode I guess if you want them to stretch move your lights further away and see what happens but I wouldn't

If those are all "cool white" spectrum bulbs, you will get very little stretch between nodes. Switch a few of those bulbs out for the "warm" spectrum (2700K, I believe), and your plants will stretch out a little (if that's what you want).

Another option... If you top those things, the side branches will do a quick stretch until they are out from the shade of your fan leaves.

they look about right for 6 weeks old under less than 200w of CFL...going to want to up the lighting a bit for 3 plants in flower.

Cool, thanks for the feedback. Should I up the wattage now? I could go to 30-40 watt. Spicy...what is the technique of topping, do you think that would be really beneficial?