Wondering why my plants buds are not getting any bigger after the 7th nearly 8th week into flowering

Hi guys i would really appreciate some help on finding out why my buds have stopped putting on any more size after just 7 weeks into their flowering phase so plz any ideas as to how i can bulk them up more would be very grateful to all of you guys cheers
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Tracker

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Welcome to RIU.

I can't clearly see details on the flowers in the pictures, but from what I can see, it looks like they have a long way to go.

What is the strain? What grow media, nutrients, feed/water sched, ppm/ec, pH, temps, RH, light specs/distance? More info is better. Post some pics that show details of the buds better, higher resolution.

On what date did you start 12/12 photoperiod?
 

hotrodharley

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Buds do the majority of stretching up until a couple weeks before they finish. The last couple of weeks is when they start bulking up. Get a scope or USB microscope or something to check trichomes. Forget what the seed seller claims.
 

Hobbes

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op - you're buds are getting denser, putting on weight, without getting much bigger.

I use a product called OverDrive to put on size as well as weight in the last few weeks of flower. I don't know how well it works, doesn't hurt the plants at at.

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Yup cutting corners on lighting slows everything down
Hi thanks for your feedback so i have just the three plants in my tent at the minute and its my first time growing photoperiods plants and i left these girls in veg for nearly 4 and a half months before putting them on a 12/12 lighting cycle there was a real reason as to why i had to keep them in veg for so long so anyway in my head it just done them a better turn because they got so big and bushy that they out grew the only tent i had at the time you know so i lollypopped~them 1/3 of the way up on each of them and well they do look pretty big with a nice lot off heads on them i guess i was just getting a little worried about the size of the buds thats just grown on each of them because they are in there 7th week off flowering and I have seen a decent amount of growth in the first 3 weeks or so but now in the last month or so i just cant notice them getting any fatter and swelling out the way they are i think supposed to be doing at this stage so if anyone can help me in any way please to get them fattened up a bit more before the day of harvest arrives it would be a great help and good education for me going forward with my growing cycles, so i dont know if i already said i have three photoperiods in a 5/5 tent as well as a 600w hps bulb and i have it connected to a fan and filter which i have cooling the light down by attaching a cooltube with the silver 6inch ducking on each side blowing through the cool tube and out the vent in the basment room so, and my 3 plants are first one is the (gelato dream,) and second one is a (Bruce banner #3,) and the last one is the (nova og) 3kIMG_20210805_180123.jpg
Those pics suck...but I see alot of white pistils and taco leaves. Got atleast a month if not more to go, but we nee d better pics.
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MICHI-CAN

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Looks like lack of light, time and nutes. What are you posting during the break between development and filling out? Read a bit more is my point.
 
Tell us about your lighting.
Hi hotrodharley thank you for showing an intrest in my grow issue ok well i am running a 600w HPS inside a cooltube with ducking on each side to help cool the heat from the 600w hps light down somewhat but even with the fan on for the full 12hrs of light per day at the highest setting it is still pretty hot inside the room and the tent which is a 5ft/5ft by 7 ft tall and i have just the 3 plants in it which are 1st one is (gelato dream from anesia seeds) 2nd one is a (Nova og) and the 3rd one is (Bruce banner #3) so there's the 3 plants that i am trying my very best to reach the best finishes possible with them so if you can whatever professional advice you can give to me in order to get them bulking up a lot more than what they are at right now would be a blessing in all honesty thank you
 
Those pics suck...but I see alot of white pistils and taco leaves. Got atleast a month if not more to go, but we need better pics.
Maybe im just over reacting but they will be 10 weeks into flowering now at the end of argust but im just worried about the size of them especially knowing that they are going to be losing half their total size after they go through their drying process you know so if you can plz let me know if its natural for them to just stop growing and putting any more size on at this time of their flowering phase and will they make another jump in size anytime before they have to be harvested thank you for your advice in advance
 

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Looks like lack of light, time and nutes. What are you posting during the break between development and filling out? Read a bit more is my point.
Sorry but i don't quite understand what you mean by what are you posting during the break between development and filling out plz elaborate a little more for me thanks
 

Bukvičák

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The last picture clearly shows that those have at least 5 weeks left. Anyway your biggest concern should be that botrytis or mold taking over your buds. You might have a hard times to finish them…
 

Psyphish

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Maybe im just over reacting but they will be 10 weeks into flowering now at the end of argust but im just worried about the size of them especially knowing that they are going to be losing half their total size after they go through their drying process you know so if you can plz let me know if its natural for them to just stop growing and putting any more size on at this time of their flowering phase and will they make another jump in size anytime before they have to be harvested thank you for your advice in advance
Whaaaaat is going on in picture "img_20210819_191016-jpg"?! Looks like budrot!
 

Dank Bongula

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Maybe im just over reacting but they will be 10 weeks into flowering now at the end of argust but im just worried about the size of them especially knowing that they are going to be losing half their total size after they go through their drying process you know so if you can plz let me know if its natural for them to just stop growing and putting any more size on at this time of their flowering phase and will they make another jump in size anytime before they have to be harvested thank you for your advice in advance
Those have atleast a month to go. You are overreacting about the timeline (ignore what breeders say, your plant will be done when it is done) and budsize and have larger concerns with possible budrot. How is your air circulation, humidity and temps in that tent.
 
Welcome to RIU.

I can't clearly see details on the flowers in the pictures, but from what I can see, it looks like they have a long way to go.

What is the strain? What grow media, nutrients, feed/water sched, ppm/ec, pH, temps, RH, light specs/distance? More info is better. Post some pics that show details of the buds better, higher resolution.

On what date did you start 12/12 photoperiod?
hey thank you for taking the time to help me out with my questions bro i appreciate it so ok the strains that you see are three seperate plants , 1st is a [gelato dream] from anesia seeds, 2nd is a [bruce banner#3] also from anesia seeds, and the 3rd and final one is a [nova og] which is also from anesia seeds so that is the three strains i am growing just now and they are nearing their 10th week off flowering next week end , as for the grow media that im using on them is a 70%coco-30%perlite mix , and the nutes well i used the flora trio on them you know the brown-green-red which are the micro, grow, bloom , trio from [General Hydroponics] and the feeding and watering well i had them in i think 11ltr fabric pots up until there about 2 weeks ago when i transplanted them into 25ltr fabric pots because they got so big while they were just in the 11ltr pot,s that i just felt they weren,t able to grow any bigger because of the size of the pot,s i had them in the whole of their lives right up until 8th weeks into their flowering period so i know i probably should have transplanted them into the bigger pots a hell of a lot sooner but please god they will be forgiving and start putting on some extra size now as i have given them a 250ml of big-bud between them along with the usual GH trio now over the last couple of weeks as that,s all there was inside the 250mill off big-bud to spread over the last 2 week,s going by exactly what it said to give per litre of water into each one you know so anyhow i have just ran-out of all my nutrients there the other day and went and got myself this good A+B plagron type nutrient to give them in place off overdrive as theey only had the overdrive in the big gallon size which i wasn,t able to afford just now so the fella told me that the one i got was just as good as the overdrive i was going to get if not better he Reccon,s it,s a 4in1 type nut especially for the last weeks off flowering so hopfully it does some good and put,s some badly needed size on them for me before i harvest , oh and yes i water them with 3-4 ltr,s every day until i get at least a half ltr run-off from them and that,s been that way now for the last couple off months, now this is where i am going to get some stick over i guess because this is something that i have never quite understood to be honest my friend and that,s this [ppm/ec, thing] so they are something that i haven,t a clue about and seem to be doing i guess ok without them i think anyhow but as for the ph well yes i have a ph tester that i have allways used from day-1 up to this very day which i have allways stuck between 5.5-6.5 so i am hoping that thhem other 2 issues haven,t stopped or damaged my plant,s in any way up to today and maybe i,m wrong and it could be exactly the problem as to why i haven,t seen my plant,s put on the size i am expecting from them up to now, and maybe its not the reason please god its not , as for my temps and RH well my temp,s are usually between 25-31cellseus and my RH is between 55-65% yes i know that,s a bit on the high side which is why i have the extractor fan on at all times which is connected to my 600w hps bulb which is inside a cool-tube and i also have a carbon filter connected to the fan which is taking most but not all of the hot air out of my tent and through the ducking which is attached to the cooltube and through the other side of the cooltube which is connected to more ducking and attached to the airvent in the room so that,s running for the full 12/12 hours each day but my temps and humidity still seem to be kindoff on the high side even with 3 seperate 6inch fan,s stuck up in each corner of the tent along with a 10inch oscilating fan 1 foot up from the ground which is on the whole time the lights are on plus i added another 12 inch oscilating fan right going across the top,s off the plant,s the whole time also which is 12/12 hours per day to so even with all them additions my hummidity and temps still remain on the high side now the rh is not always on the high side like today there it was on 55% simply because our weather where i,m living right now is getting kinda cooler now so they should be coming down every day from here in i really hope anyway, so yes i also installed this led light which is one of them red and blue type led lights that has just the one setting all the time you know its a 1000w led thats no way near a 1000w equivliant type light by any means its just one of them cheap amazon led,s that i bought simply because the person that was selling it had it had it up for sale as a [KINGLED LED LIGHT] which is a decent enough led light but he only wanted 70 euros for it so ofcourse i thought i was getting a bargain of a lifetime and bit the bate only to findout that it had no name or writing on it at all and wasn,t the kingled light i thought it was anyway cutting a long story short i have the 600w hps bulb inside a cooltube and that cheap led light beside it also and by the way my tent is a 5ft / 5ft / 7ft high so there you are my friend i am sorry for going on a bit to much here only i wanted to explain everything in detail as much as i could anyhow so i have also found what i believed to be budrot but just a small bit, now i only think that what it is as its a few small patche,s of rusting spot,s on a couple of the branches but only on the gelato dream and the nova og now they were small enough but i did cut them out off it and i will take some pictures of them so you can see exactly what i,m talking about and you can please god give me your honest opinion on exactly what stage you really believe they are at right now so i can have a better chance of saving them before i harvest them to soon and possibly get no high out of them at all which would be a total shame at this stage believe me my friend so anyhow oh yes just before i go you asked me exactly when i turned them from the 18/6 to the 12/12 lighting and it was exactly on the longest day of the year is the exact day i turned them so i,m not 100% what date that was but hopfully you might know so you will know exactly how long they have been in flower for so thank you ever so much for your time here and i will post some pics tomorrow take care and god bless you all guy,s
ps. sorry i didn,t answer your question about how far my lights were from my plants so i think they are around [1-1/2ft] to[2ft]
 
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