Stretching during flowering
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X7GrowerX7
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Im 7.5 weeks with lights at 12/12 and it took about 20 days to start seein pistils so I'm at about 4 weeks into flower but oh boyyyy did my plants stretch like crazy!! I'm a first time grower and my plants were about 2.5 ft tall when I put them into 12/12 and today they are about 5.5ft almost 6ft now!! I'm going to have a lot of bud though, I can just see it coming in everywhere.
You're plants look super healthy and green, what all do you feed? What's your whole feeding schudule like?
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Budgrowguide
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Your doing just fine, they have stretched but not too bad. You can look into training your plants, that will prevent stretching.
PineappleExpress1007
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Yeah a bit of training next time I'd say and maybe just bring the lights a bit closer mate
X7GrowerX7
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Will the plants stretch alittle less if the lights are a bit closer to them durring their stretch?
PineappleExpress1007
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From my experience mate, I had a lot of stretching using similar lights to yours on my first grow brought the lights a little closer and the stretching stopped, I'd get yourself a hps grow light I've just had a 400watt not long ago and they're perfect not had any stretching this grow, and the plants love them !
yours are looking nice and healthy tho mate !
PineappleExpress1007
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Here's my grow at the moment, all autos got 2 sweet skunk 2 amphetamine and 2 Pineapple Express think this pic was day 17
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X7GrowerX7
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I've been using a 1000 watt HPS light my whole grow. I put my plants into flower and the light was about 4ft above the plants and they stretched like crazy the first 3.5 to 4 weeks in flower! I just didn't know what to do and let it keep doing its thingFrom my experience mate, I had a lot of stretching using similar lights to yours on my first grow brought the lights a little closer and the stretching stopped, I'd get yourself a hps grow light I've just had a 400watt not long ago and they're perfect not had any stretching this grow, and the plants love them !
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PineappleExpress1007
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Sorry x7growerx7 thought I was talking to bigbudman when I was talking about the lights haha, still getting use to this site haha
X7GrowerX7
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It's all good, same here
PineappleExpress1007
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Fuck man 1000watt, crazy bets that's costing you a good few quid haha 
love hps my grows going 10 times better than the last other few I've done, yeah they look nice them man !
love hps my grows going 10 times better than the last other few I've done, yeah they look nice them man !
X7GrowerX7
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Nah it really doesn't cost much more honeslyFuck man 1000watt, crazy bets that's costing you a good few quid haha
PineappleExpress1007
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Ahh not too bad then, you'll have some nice fat buds with that light come harvest time haha 
X7GrowerX7
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What does your feeding schudule look like?Ahh not too bad then, you'll have some nice fat buds with that light come harvest time haha
X7GrowerX7
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Also, how do you know if you have a auto?
Budget Buds
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All cannabis I've grown stretches during flowering, the genetics determines how much , usually between 50 and 300% is the norm, most indicas between 50 and 100 % and lots of mostly sativas between 150 and 300 % You cant do anything but expect and plan for it mate..... Drop the lights to make the node spacing get shorter is about it....
PineappleExpress1007
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I was using just tomato bites first few grows and to be fair mate did the job perfect haha but I was speaking to my my mate and he told me to just try big bud bloom and then overdrive for flowering only given two feeds so far but to be honest heard a lot of bad stuff about that big Bud but I've had no problems so far I'm using 8ml of big Bud to 5ltrs of water every other watering, what you use pal ?
but I was speaking to my my mate and he told me to just try big bud bloom and then overdrive for flowering only given two feeds so far but to be honest heard a lot of bad stuff about that big Bud but I've had no problems so far I'm using 8ml of big Bud to 5ltrs of water every other watering, what you use pal ?
PineappleExpress1007
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Bought about 21 auto seeds about a month ago mate, much prefer autos if I'm honest, my first grow with them went perfect since then I've stuck with them
PineappleExpress1007
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Sorry tomato feed I meant haha
X7GrowerX7
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I have been using fox farms nutrients, it's a 3 pack.I was using just tomato bites first few grows and to be fair mate did the job perfect haha
It comes with grow big, big bloom and tiger bloom.