No growth for a month

Faceless#1 said:

I spent 700 on a light meter because I wrote to a bunch of light companies letting them know I was running a study and would be making a comparing high dollar lights to cheap amazon lights and asked them if they had a light to lend or donate to the cause. I explained they can write it off as promotional sales and it doesn't cost them a dime but they get free marketing from it. Some companies wanted a deposit, cali made me buy it but told me 90 day no question returns were accepted,some just wanted it back after then some companies such as luminpool let me keep the light. I didn't spend $80 on the light. I spent about $900 in equipment to test lights, equipment I also use to find the right levels of light for when I do remodels so it's not like I just bought it to test the lights. But since I have it, Now I can test every corner of a grow room and manipulate it to what is most efficient. This grow here has been a science project/hobby. I haven't paid for any of my lights. I will be getting 2 new fc3000's from mars hydro and those will be the first lights Ive paid for.

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remodels? so are you a fellow sparkie? welcome to roll it up

Lol, just for the small room I built for the 3 girls that were getting extra special attention. I won't buy that see through crap again. I had to staple it to cardboard to help with the flapping from the fan. Room looked like it had a disco ball before I stapled it to cardboard. I have the bubble thermal insulation in my other 2 rooms that works great. The mylar emergency blankets aren't bad once attached to cardboard but all those lines from being folded into small squares makes small areas of shadows and effects the strength of the reflection. Doesn't do shit to contain odor lol but it's ok in when on a budget, works a lot better than plain white walls.

osowhom said:

remodels? so are you a fellow sparkie? welcome to roll it up

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Sparkie? I'm guessing that's a way of saying electrician in another country? I can run all my wires and hook up all my switches but I can't legally connect them to the breaker box. Where I live in the u.s. you have to be a licensed electrician to connect the wires to the box.. I've thought about going for the license just to make my life easier.

Bernie is correct, dont dismiss it because you have experience.

It stalled because the roots are having issues and are likely trying to grow or regrow.

I had this happen on a plant and discovered it just wasnt drinking like the others and once it dried out well for a few weeks and regrew its roots, it took off again.

Your problem is your light and the fact youre trying to set the bar with a mars 600 which is also a poor light.

P10p said:

Your problem is your light and the fact youre trying to set the bar with a mars 600 which is also a poor light.

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My bar is far from being set at the ts-600... The luminpool is just IN COMPARISON to the ts-600 that is a tried and true light for a 2x2 footprint. Not many people have faith in cheap no name LED's and there's good reasons not too. That was the whole point of my study. Some of the cheap led lights are total crap, saying "5000w!" But only have 35w drivers and use birth sheets from other companies as their own. I did find a couple low cost lights that work just fine for a couple plants. I tested a sun rays qb2000 or qp2000(can't remember without googling it, that kicked serious ass, was under $200. I haven't upgraded from the luminpool because Like I keep saying I've vegged several dozen with the luminpool 2-3 at a time, I have clones I took from the 3 that weren't growing that were vegged with the luminpool and are already in flower. If I have other lights, why am I still using the luminpool? It only consumes 134 watts so I can run it with a solar panel, it has a great footprint for a small area and I've used it in the past on a few plants from seed to harvest and it does just fine for 3 veg plants or 2 in flower. Im also not trying to jump right in and try to grow the very best plant ever grown right away. I'm learning all the ins and out while gaining experience before I attempt medical grade and pay $100 a month in electricity for a good light. I don't see the point in practicing with an expensive light. A good light is important but a good environment is more important. I'm not telling people this is the best light, I'm just saying it's not the worst I've grown with and I know for a fact it has no problems vegging 3 plants of whatever strain this is. It was a free light, that runs off a solar panel. I only have 1 pic of when I used the luminpool+ a single walmart brand 4' 32w led florescent to flower 5 plants in a 3x3 on my phone, I have more on my laptop but I will upload that pic so everyone can see it works. The pic is of week 2 of flowering from the same unknown seeds of my problem plants. Sorry for the blurple pics, that's the 32w walmart led florescent. I ended up with 550 grams from a 3x3 with 5 plants.

*Correction I have a few pics of them right before the 12/12

ComfortCreator said:

Bernie is correct, dont dismiss it because you have experience.

It stalled because the roots are having issues and are likely trying to grow or regrow.

I had this happen on a plant and discovered it just wasnt drinking like the others and once it dried out well for a few weeks and regrew its roots, it took off again.

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Exactly what I think. The roots just didn't want to take once transplanted and the plants were stunted before the transplant anyway. They have not been drinking water, I was thinking it was just better soil and was staying moist. I was giving them water everyday before the transplant, after the transplant once a week and they really didn't even need it. So now I know to watch the fluids in order to monitor root growth after transplants. Thanks for the knowledge

Chemdog1989 said:

Dude you need more light! Light is the energy. The gas f It looks really dim in your grow area. I can barely see your hand in the first pic. At least lower the light man!

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Lol, The light was at 10% in order to take the pic. At 100% all you could see was a bright blur. The first pic I didn't have my flash on.