HELP MY PLANT PLEASE! light deficancy?? need advice

jomama8940

Active Member
so this is my autoflower bubblicous at about a lil over a month. it is starting to bud and i have been applying tiger boom for about a week! everything has gone pretty good had to repot the plant at 3 weeks do to roots coming out of the bottom. only problem is i beleive it is stretching and some lower leaves are drying up and falling off and some small lower leaves feel real moist and are falling off as well. i am planing on applying more light to the bottom/ middle section as of right now i am using two cfls that are the equavilent of 300 watts. please help me i want this to come out fantastic. plus anyone know how much longer this should take ? autoflower says two months but the way this bad boy is growing im not to sure it i will hit that mark. i have about 8 colas at this point so hoping yield will be nice. any comments of suggestions would be aswome i appriecate it ladies and gentlmen!View attachment 2198700View attachment 2198701View attachment 2198702View attachment 2198703View attachment 2198704View attachment 2198704View attachment 2198705View attachment 2198706View attachment 2198707View attachment 2198708View attachment 2198709View attachment 2198710View attachment 2198711
 

Dr Kynes

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more light.

looks really healthy, but it needs more light. surrounding her with reflective materials would help, or if thats not gonna happen, CFL side lights will really put that lower growth on the fast track. she is already stretchy so you may as well bud the lower branches too.

your plant makes me smile. she is tall and happy. if you can get her to fill out on the sides youll have a really good plant. make sure you have a small fan making her leaves rustle, or when she gets really bushy she may start stifling her growth by stacking leaves.

Never listen to the "incandescent equivalent" numbers, they are shit!

100 REAL watts of Flourescent lights are roughly equivalent to 80 watts of Metal Halide, or 78 watts of High Pressure Sodium lights!

they penetrate foliage less effectively, so you need more reflective material, side lights, or more light power than HID systems. you have to keep them closer too. fortunately they generate much less heat.

sorry for the size but this is important to understand. you are most likely using about 70 real watts of power, -20% = 56 watts of metal halide equivalence. most growers would use a 250 watt light for 2 plants that size, so you have about 1/3 of the light your plant would need to really grow optimally.

TLDR get many more lights!
 
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