fendre
Member
Hey everyone,
I'm hoping you all could help out a first time grower with some plant height issues. The cause of my concern is I have 6 good quality bag seed females cloned/vegged and they are growing faster than expected in flowering. I fear I may have light burned buds before they are ready for harvest.
The setup is hydro ebb and flow with a 600W HPS, mostly AN nutes, 400CFM exhaust and 30 minutes of CO2 every two hours(in light cycle). The exhaust pushes through my HPS hood to help keep the heat out of my tiny space.
I expected to have to grow smaller plants because I already lost 2ft for my table so I started flowering when the plants were 7-9 inches tall. The largest plant had 8 nodes already on the stem. I think it grew really short and stubby because the plants were vegged under HPS 24/0 for about a week before flowering and the light was a little too close about 15" from the tops if I remember correctly.
The day before flowering I realized my mistake after talking with a friend and raised the light about 10". I kept raising the light as the plants grew. Now it is day 10 of flowering and my tallest plant is 25". I'm freaking out because their growth hasn't slowed, they are 17" from the light glass cover and I can only raise my light about another 6-8" because I have an air filter above the light.
Will they be fine without any changes? Should I drop a screen on top and scrog them? Should I chop them down and put 6 newly rooted clones in and skip the vegging period?
Sorry for the extremely long post. I just wanted to fit enough info for you to actually be able to help.
The first picture is of my flowering room day 10 just after the light turned on. The second is a picture of 6 rooted clones ready to be thrown into the flowering room to make for hopefully shorter plants if that is the best option.
I'm hoping you all could help out a first time grower with some plant height issues. The cause of my concern is I have 6 good quality bag seed females cloned/vegged and they are growing faster than expected in flowering. I fear I may have light burned buds before they are ready for harvest.
The setup is hydro ebb and flow with a 600W HPS, mostly AN nutes, 400CFM exhaust and 30 minutes of CO2 every two hours(in light cycle). The exhaust pushes through my HPS hood to help keep the heat out of my tiny space.
I expected to have to grow smaller plants because I already lost 2ft for my table so I started flowering when the plants were 7-9 inches tall. The largest plant had 8 nodes already on the stem. I think it grew really short and stubby because the plants were vegged under HPS 24/0 for about a week before flowering and the light was a little too close about 15" from the tops if I remember correctly.
The day before flowering I realized my mistake after talking with a friend and raised the light about 10". I kept raising the light as the plants grew. Now it is day 10 of flowering and my tallest plant is 25". I'm freaking out because their growth hasn't slowed, they are 17" from the light glass cover and I can only raise my light about another 6-8" because I have an air filter above the light.
Will they be fine without any changes? Should I drop a screen on top and scrog them? Should I chop them down and put 6 newly rooted clones in and skip the vegging period?
Sorry for the extremely long post. I just wanted to fit enough info for you to actually be able to help.
The first picture is of my flowering room day 10 just after the light turned on. The second is a picture of 6 rooted clones ready to be thrown into the flowering room to make for hopefully shorter plants if that is the best option.
The best suggestion I can make is to build yourself a proper grow room,and then you can grow them to their full potential,instead of all these other methods that you have to resort to. Growing weed is an evolutionary process. You keep doing what works well,throwing out the failed methods along the way. Learn from your mistakes,don't repeat them. And keep talking to other growers,and try some techniques that make sense. Remember,opinions are like assholes-everyone's got one-and there are many ways to get it done. Best of luck in your efforts.
