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Week 4 no growth

Go go n chill

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my autos under CFL lighting appear to have stopped growing, they all have pistils. Could this be normal? Seems like 2-3 days ago they slowed way up on the veg part. I wasn't expecting this till about week 6. This is my first grow. Please check out my journal . I know there is a bit of clawing. I would say it's high in nitrogen since they didn't do that with just ph water. I'll have to change nuted next grow maybe.
 

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Throwing a link to your journal would help :bigjoint:just a thought!
It would help to have more information as well. What nutrients are you using? what is the wattage of the CFLs your using and how many of them are you running? Have you changed anything in your nutrient regimen that may have caused something to change?Has there been a major swing in any part of the environment? IE Relative Humidity, Temperature, or even the difference in temp between day and night. and one of the most important things, have you been regularly scouting the plant (and the pot) for any creepy crawlies or other pests?
 
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Saint Skinny said:
Throwing a link to your journal would help :bigjoint:just a thought!
It would help to have more information as well. What nutrients are you using? what is the wattage of the CFLs your using and how many of them are you running? Have you changed anything in your nutrient regimen that may have caused something to change?Has there been a major swing in any part of the environment? IE Relative Humidity, Temperature, or even the difference in temp between day and night. and one of the most important things, have you been regularly scouting the plant (and the pot) for any creepy crawlies or other pests?
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I'll gives details when I have an opportunity ASAP
 
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13 cfl's a mix of 27k and 65k placed at 2-4 inches away.
Rh is 69% not much I can do about that idk!
Temps lights on are about72f now... I just put in an exhaust befor that temps were high 70's to low80's
Night time temp drops to 67 f
My nutes are local shop branded, I'm including pics of bottles. I haven't used the bloom buster except once because their chart said to. And I inky used a 1/4 tsp per gallon of water for 6 plants in 5 gal pots.my space is 2x3. It is cramped. I never expected all 6 seeds to survive my first grow. A week and half ago I started watering every3 day or so because they were pretty dry by then.
Major swing temps? Yes I think with the exhaust fan.
The last nutes were the bare minimum on the bottles. They didn't look bad before I just wanted to love the girls and give them a boost.
But still don't know why growth has dropped
2 plants are afghani regs#1 and they are still growing they have a little nute burn on tips. That's all for now gotta go
Water is tap that has sat out for 3days and ph'd to 6.3-6.5 every time
 

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Go go n chill

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Saint Skinny said:
Throwing a link to your journal would help :bigjoint:just a thought!
It would help to have more information as well. What nutrients are you using? what is the wattage of the CFLs your using and how many of them are you running? Have you changed anything in your nutrient regimen that may have caused something to change?Has there been a major swing in any part of the environment? IE Relative Humidity, Temperature, or even the difference in temp between day and night. and one of the most important things, have you been regularly scouting the plant (and the pot) for any creepy crawlies or other pests?
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I haven't checked for bugs closely but I'll check. I had one leaf that looked torn or chewed on. I think it is from the fan blowing on it repeatedly. There were a bunch of changes since you mentioned it... All real close together....1 the exhaust 2 which dropped temps all around 3 the rh has increased here, outside temps and humidity are in the 90's with crazy humidity. So my house as a norm has increased in humidity.
You think they are in a bit of shock?
 
Swims_GD

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you sure they havent just stopped stretching. they look about 2 weeks into flower. defo not veg. and they wont start bulking up till week 4 onwards.
 
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all that vegging energy you saw before is now going into bud production. doesn't seem like a lot the first 2-4 weeks buts its all a buildup till the big boom. weeks 5-onwards they will fill out.
patience is a virtue my fello grower. with cfl power your not going to have massive coke bottle colas but you definatley want some reflection to increase there productivity . half of your light is being wasted. (upwards)
 
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your plants look very healthy from the pictures, you must be doing it right otherwise your little girlys would be grassing you right up by now.
 
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Go go n chill said:
Yes all 4 have an abundance of pistils! Seemed early to me
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Swims_GD said:
all that vegging energy you saw before is now going into bud production. doesn't seem like a lot the first 2-4 weeks buts its all a buildup till the big boom. weeks 5-onwards they will fill out.
patience is a virtue my fello grower. with cfl power your not going to have massive coke bottle colas but you definatley want some reflection to increase there productivity . half of your light is being wasted. (upwards)
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they are in a reflective hood, all but a couple. Can you see the domed fixture?
 
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Swims_GD said:
all that vegging energy you saw before is now going into bud production. doesn't seem like a lot the first 2-4 weeks buts its all a buildup till the big boom. weeks 5-onwards they will fill out.
patience is a virtue my fello grower. with cfl power your not going to have massive coke bottle colas but you definatley want some reflection to increase there productivity . half of your light is being wasted. (upwards)
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Thx for your help
 
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Go go n chill said:
they are in a reflective hood, all but a couple. Can you see the domed fixture?
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lol, thought you might say that. you want a reflector on each bulb. litterally an inch next to it. not sure on the exact numbers but after 6-8 inches there light power is dramatically reduced.
bouncing the light of reflector too far away and it will do nothing. quick tester for you. grab a piece of aluminum foil and hold it above a bulb at an angle to reflect on one of your buds. i will eat my hat if you can honestly tell me that the light power was not significantly increased by doing so.
 
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Swims_GD said:
lol, thought you might say that. you want a reflector on each bulb. litterally an inch next to it. not sure on the exact numbers but after 6-8 inches there light power is dramatically reduced.
bouncing the light of reflector too far away and it will do nothing. quick tester for you. grab a piece of aluminum foil and hold it above a bulb at an angle to reflect on one of your buds. i will eat my hat if you can honestly tell me that the light power was not significantly increased by doing so.
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I think next grow I'm going LED
 
Swims_GD

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if your a techy person theres some very good threads on here with regards to diy lecs and quantum boards. dont use any cheapy ebay ones as they are no way near to what they advertise. even some of the low end brand names lie about there outputs. definatly no china leds (1200watters come out at 300w when tested)
 
Go go n chill

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Swims_GD said:
if your a techy person theres some very good threads on here with regards to diy lecs and quantum boards. dont use any cheapy ebay ones as they are no way near to what they advertise. even some of the low end brand names lie about there outputs. definatly no china leds (1200watters come out at 300w when tested)
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