Is it too soon to flower?

Funkynugz315

Funkynugz315

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I am doing dwc bublebucket under a 400 w hps. My plant has been vegging since New Years so it's a good 5-6 weeks into veg. It really hasn't grown I. Height at all but the leaves are huge and the main stem is massive almost an inch thick. I have a ton of white roots but still won't grow vertically. I am wondering g if I should induce flowering not knowing the strain I, not sure how it will stretch
 

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fishdeth

fishdeth

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Are you using a brewed tea of compost and microbes.
Check out Heisenburgs DWC slime thread.
The beneficial bacteria and fungi have a symbiotic relationship with the roots and whenever I add my tea, I swear I see the plants take off.

I would try to veg that plant out a little more before flipping.
Plant will basically double in size after flipping to 12/12.
Maybe up the nutrient solution a bit.... ?
 
Funkynugz315

Funkynugz315

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I think what I'll do is up the anti on the nutes a little bit I'm using gen hydro grow micro bloom as I'm just learning how to work with a hydro set up
 
past times

past times

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i would defintiely wait a bit. You have a nice sized closet and if you flower now you will leave a decent amount of deadspace. If it is me, I would top, and give it 2 weeks or so...Then flower. waiting just a couple weeks might double your product in the end. To me there is a Huge difference in final weight if you wait from 4 weeks to 5 or 6 weeks
 
Funkynugz315

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I will take it off the little stool it is on there because my lamp is air cooled so it dosent give off much heat figured it would grow more, but makes sense that if it was off the stool it would stretch toward the light
 
Anon Emaus

Anon Emaus

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I wouldn't flower yet, growth is looking quite slow for how long it's been growing...best to correct this issue before flowering.
What's your EC? looks hungry..and do you know how to read nutrient uptake to know how much nutes to feed?
 
Funkynugz315

Funkynugz315

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It says to put a table spoon per gallon of the nutes, I put 5 ml instead per gallon. That would be running the nutes at 30 percent strength I think I will up the dosage maybe not to full yet but I'll add two table spoons or ten ml per gallon
And the ppm is running around 800
 
Anon Emaus

Anon Emaus

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Funkynugz315 said:
It says to put a table spoon per gallon of the nutes, I put 5 ml instead per gallon. That would be running the nutes at 30 percent strength I think I will up the dosage maybe not to full yet but I'll add two table spoons or ten ml per gallon
And the ppm is running around 800
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Don't worry about what the bottle says, just worry about what the plant says.
Read this: https://forum.grasscity.com/hydroponic-growing/1198022-how-determine-your-plants-preferred-nutrient-strength.html

Basically, if ppm rises you have too much, if it lowers you have too little, try to get it to stay the same or at least drop the smallest amount throughout the week.
 
Funkynugz315

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I finally got the ph to stay somewhat consistent. I considered it being a ph issues also, I'll give that link a glance. The ppm has been dropping, not drastically but consistently by about 10ppm a day
 
Major Blazer

Major Blazer

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Idk about underfed, they look over fed to me. Hard to say. If you're having pH issues, that could explain a few major problems. Ppm is hard to compare but 800 is higher than I ever hit on my much larger plants in DWC during veg and under 400w of lighting - my plants preferred around 550-600ppm (Hanna). Also, what are you doing for ventilation? I had a plant's leaves look like that once from high humidity and inadequate air exchange. Look up vapor pressure deficit - major under looked issue for a lot of grows.
 
Funkynugz315

Funkynugz315

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I've got ventilation down pretty good I've got a 6 inch inline exhaust and a another 6 inch fan pulling air in the tent. It's not overkill I have it on a variable speed controller so I can keep it where it needs to be.is it possible that my tap water is just too polluted bc I really only have about 500 ppm of nutes in there my water out the tap is like around 400ppm. I'm starting to think I need to calibrate my ph/ ec meter
 
Major Blazer

Major Blazer

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oooh that sucks. I had issues after I moved to my current place and the tap water had a lot to do with it. I went to a 50/50 mix of RO/tap but if you can manage it, Id go like 80/20 if not 100% if you can, that should save you a lot of headache
 
Funkynugz315

Funkynugz315

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I never thought of getting just a little distilled water and cutting it with the tap could always be better then solely the tap water which I already know there is a lot of minerals in my tap I am gonna look into having my ph meter calibrated
 
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