Week 6 day 3 small buds…

I am in week 6 and my buds seem very small! In dwc. Its stardawg and apparently its a 7/8 weeker but surely there is longer to go yet as they haven’t even started swelling at all…

slightly worried by the size of them, anyone think I’m overthinking it or they are actually pretty small
Set up is 1x600w pro lumatek zues 1 x300w pro lumatek in a 9x5 and nutes are at a stable 2.6 ec snd ph 6.0.
Only issue i can see is my water temps range from 15c to 19c i know thats cold but will it be that detrimental that it massively crashes my yield

Looks like you're only few weeks in to flowering patience grasshopper give her 8 more weeks and then check back I bet she's way bigger

Lizard0420 said:

Looks like you're only few weeks in to flowering patience grasshopper give her 8 more weeks and then check back I bet she's way bigger

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Hi mate, wow thats a shocker 8 more week! I am supposedly 39 days into flowering! They did show signs ealy after 1/2 weeks but just haven’t got bigger!! I have a plants in the room with orange hairs already

I I could be wrong I'm sure some more will pipe in it's me it doesn't look like you're that far into flowering at all

And they look real dark green maybe to much nitrogen it can delay flower

Those are not 6 weeks into flower.

Thanks for the advice people. I am using athena nutes but ec is quite high, timers have never had an issue and I’ve not touched them in flower so not sure whats slowed them down so much

Marcorfl said:

Thanks for the advice people. I am using athena nutes but ec is quite high, timers have never had an issue and I’ve not touched them in flower so not sure whats slowed them down so much

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How long have then been 12/12

Those only look like 3 weeks into flower..
I would ease back on the N.. theyre abit dark.. they look good though.. you have a ways to go yet .. i bet they'll look nice a big in 6-7 more weeks..

Cut back on the nitrogen for sure.

Another vote for cutting down the nitrogen here . They look good otherwise . Can't rely on breeder info on finish time , the plants will tell you . Those have many weeks to go . What strain and breeder ?

So by cutting back on N shall i lower ec? I will keep High pk? They have been 12/12 since October 25, they showed signs lf being in flower before 2weeks from 12/13 they just have stagnated. Do you think water temps are making a difference. Cheers people

Strain in stardawg from msnl seeds. Always use them and are always really good! Supposed to be a 7/8 weeker lol!

Marcorfl said:

So by cutting back on N shall i lower ec? I will keep High pk? They have been 12/12 since October 25, they showed signs lf being in flower before 2weeks from 12/13 they just have stagnated. Do you think water temps are making a difference. Cheers people

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Ah so there's the confusion, they've only been 12/12 for about a month, so they've only been flowering about 2 weeks.

^^Yup, you don't count flowering weeks when flipping, you do it when they actually are flowering. Ignore breeder finish estimates, and even then I have never heard of 7-8 weeker. They are done when they are done, you likely have at least a month and a half to go

Marcorfl said:

Hi mate, wow thats a shocker 8 more week! I am supposedly 39 days into flowering! They did show signs ealy after 1/2 weeks but just haven’t got bigger!! I have a plants in the room with orange hairs already

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No - breeder estimates are mostly bullshit.
Plant takes as long as it needs to finish.
No matter the breeder hype.

Plants look good albeit a little heavy on nitrogen.
That can impact bud formation sometimes. Buds are stacking up nicely.

To add to the info people have already shared, you have the 'budding'/'pre-flower' phase that starts first when you start the plants on 12/12. This period is when they are just budding and starting to flower out. After 1-3 weeks (correct me if I'm wrong) then you are actually into the flower phase.

Okay well thanks everyone for the information! I am not overly concerned when they are done i was more worrying about them being at this size with only 2 weeks left but they have longer (thank god) will keep an eye on ec over next few days and may back off 0.2/0.4 but keep pk up

Yeah, soon as I saw em I thought 3 weeks in.

You filling that whole 9x5 with only 900w of led?
If so that's way under lit .

shouldn't ever need that high ec, I flower whole way with 1.2 up to 1.4 if my hand slips.

plants will generally take what they want nutrients wise and having a high ec in hydro won't totally fuck you up but Nitrogen is a luxury to them and they'll take what they can even though its detrimental to flowering .

just drop the EC and don't fuck with the ratios