7 1/2 weeks into flowering WHY are my buds not growing?

zubey91

zubey91

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don't use 3500 for anything.. it does nothing.. 2700's for flower 6500's for vegg...

and don't listen to peeps that say CFL's won't give you crap..

here are my grows.. ALL from CFLS.. now i'm not saying you won't yield more with HPS.. but its damn close.
 

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Tyler the Gardener

Tyler the Gardener

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Bojangles69 said:
Ph = 6.4
Daytime Temp = 76, Nighttime Temp = 65
9 CFLs total:
6 - 2700k, 2 - 3500k, 1 - 6500k total of 288watts
NO LIGHT LEAKS it gets 12 hours pitch black every night.

Plant is 3ft, 4 inches tall, has 2 small colas and 2 larger ones.
Its in an organic potting soil mix with about 30% vermaculite by volume (roughly)

It gets watered every 2-3 days, and I give nutes (low dose miracle grow) every 2 weeks. Started giving blackstrap molasses (unsulfured) 1 week ago.

This plant grew fast and strong its whole life, never gave me any reason to consider it inferior in anyway. That is untill I started flowering, and noticed that within the last month, the buds haven't actually gotten bigger at all. They HAVE spread a lot, but the buds themself simply will not get big.

Now some things I've considered. Maybe I don't have enough light. But, if that was the problem, the buds that have been 2 inches right by the light the whole time ALSO have not grown at all. And I'm noticing buds closer to the bottom where theres nearly no light at all, and they are basically the same size. The ones on the very top aren't "big", they might have more flowers in general up there, but all the flowers are tiny.
It has 3 gallons of dirt, so I simply can't figure out whats going on here.

The buds started at week 2 of flowering, by week 3 they were literally like 75% the size they are now (when I compared older pics). So in 4 1/2 weeks, the buds have barely grown at all. NOT EVEN CLOSE to how plants on here are growing, and it makes no sense.

The last thing I was thinking was maybe this particular strain does best outside, and needs a ton of light, but still, shouldn't the buds at least be moderately sized by now? They are as small as I could have possibly imagined them being.

Here as some pics, any ideas on what I should do? Should I just go crazy and throw like 3 - 68 watters in there? I'll do w/e I need but because the buds by the light are so small, I wasn't thinking it was really a light issue to beging. Its my first grow, 13 1/2 weeks total now, and I really need some expert advice here. I'll do w/e I need to jump my yield up cause this is really just becoming a waste of time at this point. I also notice crystals on a lot of plants here and theres not a single one on the entire plant so idk.

Thanks!
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That's really crazy, mine are in week 3 and I'm afraid they're gonna fall over soon. I'm in soil, but watering the 5g once a week. I don't understand how people water every couple days and not rot everything out. Nothing added to my soil but some perlite, and the gh trio.
 

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turbobuzz

turbobuzz

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Bojangles69 said:
Ph = 6.4
Daytime Temp = 76, Nighttime Temp = 65
9 CFLs total:
6 - 2700k, 2 - 3500k, 1 - 6500k total of 288watts
NO LIGHT LEAKS it gets 12 hours pitch black every night.

Plant is 3ft, 4 inches tall, has 2 small colas and 2 larger ones.
Its in an organic potting soil mix with about 30% vermaculite by volume (roughly)

It gets watered every 2-3 days, and I give nutes (low dose miracle grow) every 2 weeks. Started giving blackstrap molasses (unsulfured) 1 week ago.

This plant grew fast and strong its whole life, never gave me any reason to consider it inferior in anyway. That is untill I started flowering, and noticed that within the last month, the buds haven't actually gotten bigger at all. They HAVE spread a lot, but the buds themself simply will not get big.

Now some things I've considered. Maybe I don't have enough light. But, if that was the problem, the buds that have been 2 inches right by the light the whole time ALSO have not grown at all. And I'm noticing buds closer to the bottom where theres nearly no light at all, and they are basically the same size. The ones on the very top aren't "big", they might have more flowers in general up there, but all the flowers are tiny.
It has 3 gallons of dirt, so I simply can't figure out whats going on here.

The buds started at week 2 of flowering, by week 3 they were literally like 75% the size they are now (when I compared older pics). So in 4 1/2 weeks, the buds have barely grown at all. NOT EVEN CLOSE to how plants on here are growing, and it makes no sense.

The last thing I was thinking was maybe this particular strain does best outside, and needs a ton of light, but still, shouldn't the buds at least be moderately sized by now? They are as small as I could have possibly imagined them being.

Here as some pics, any ideas on what I should do? Should I just go crazy and throw like 3 - 68 watters in there? I'll do w/e I need but because the buds by the light are so small, I wasn't thinking it was really a light issue to beging. Its my first grow, 13 1/2 weeks total now, and I really need some expert advice here. I'll do w/e I need to jump my yield up cause this is really just becoming a waste of time at this point. I also notice crystals on a lot of plants here and theres not a single one on the entire plant so idk.

Thanks!
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What buds? You've got to have light leaks. No other explanation
 
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Minesbigger

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I have a grow going at the moment and there is a mixture of plants I ordered new seeds and about 7 different strains and never in 10 years of growing has anything like this happen but i have about 12 plants of 24 plants doing this and one strain i ordered from sour seeds out of Colorado called voodoo scout and its doing what this guy's plant is doing and i believe it could have been a strain that should have had a quicker veg time possibly and like one person on here said it is stuck but idl never heard of that but don't think its impossible but other strains i have like purple afghan kush is doing great day frosty buds like I've alwyas had but also another strain is doing this from another part of the world and im believing that i had it in veg and used veg nutes for to long and possibly didn't get to flush them out enough maybe and i grew them in 5 gallon buckets and grew them about 4 feet tall first in 24 hours a day of light like i always have but they were in veg for awhile but i also was experimenting but nothing crazy to cause this. I believe that the veg nutes might have caused it and the amount of time in veg and using the veg nutes for that long. Or it could be the seeds cause the other half of my plants are kick ass and i did the same thing to all of themm i know all plants are differwnt but i had to statt some where learning what they like and how they respond and what i can do different ..but this shit going on is fucked up looking and i want to blame it all . om just gonna buy more purple afghan kush and grow it cause it is badass strain and plant to have now that ive grown it.
 
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