Two weeks on 12/12 - no change?

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redlazer

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Hello all,

I repotted my two best plants a couple weeks ago and moved them into the flowering room. I've been waiting for them to get started, but so far one of them looks wilting, and the other looks healthy but isn't growing.

Using 5-gallon soil bags with about 50% perlite/50% potting soil.

Thanks for any tips you guys might have!
 

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joeswanson

joeswanson

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What are your room temps? Plants seem real stressed out. Also really hard to see any sort of pre flowers from the distance of your photos. Is this in twelve hours of complete darkness?? i.e a tent or something?
 
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redlazer

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Room is around 21C at night, and around 27C during the day. 50% RH.

I'll take some pics of the preflowers when the lights come back on.

I have them in a closet. It's definitely really dark in there - but no, probably not complete darkness. Should be darker than the veg room, though.
 
joeswanson

joeswanson

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Yeah your temps seem fine and as while some people will argue that you need complete darkness to get flowering I am of the mindset that there is moonlight naturally occurring outside so a very small amount of light should not stop it from switching over. What is concerning (as i'm sure you know) is that flowering is general when these bitches stretch the most. I got a single plant in flowering myself entering its second week and I literally have to raise my light a couple inches everyday.

Also its not obvious from the pictures but your plants have decent air flow and room to grow right? How far is your lamp (hps im assuming?) from your plants?
 
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redlazer

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I figured the same thing too about moonlight. I'll try and make it darker in there though, just in case. Would they show stress if light was causing the issue?

Could it be transplant shock? I transplanted them just before I moved them to flowering so they could have more soil.

The air flow should be pretty good. I only have one big fan in there, but the temps stay low so I think the air flow is ok. In any case, I've left the closet open a few times just in case. Right now there is something above them, but I plan on moving as soon as they start bumping into it (as right now it's reflecting some extra light). They about three inches on clearance.

I'm using two 150W CFL's (2100K). They look super bright, and dwarf the 23W and the big fluorescents I'm using in the Veg room. They're a few inches away from the plants - at first, they were too close. The lights are next to - not above - the plants, if that might not help things.

Time is becoming of the essence - thanks again for your help, and for any ideas you or anyone else might have!
 
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redlazer said:
I figured the same thing too about moonlight. I'll try and make it darker in there though, just in case. Would they show stress if light was causing the issue?

Could it be transplant shock? I transplanted them just before I moved them to flowering so they could have more soil.

The air flow should be pretty good. I only have one big fan in there, but the temps stay low so I think the air flow is ok. In any case, I've left the closet open a few times just in case. Right now there is something above them, but I plan on moving as soon as they start bumping into it (as right now it's reflecting some extra light). They about three inches on clearance.

I'm using two 150W CFL's (2100K). They look super bright, and dwarf the 23W and the big fluorescents I'm using in the Veg room. They're a few inches away from the plants - at first, they were too close. The lights are next to - not above - the plants, if that might not help things.

Time is becoming of the essence - thanks again for your help, and for any ideas you or anyone else might have!
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maybe transplant to close to flower they are trying to acclimate to the new medium and probably stressed from trying to flower
 
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redlazer

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KarmaPaymentPlan said:
maybe transplant to close to flower they are trying to acclimate to the new medium and probably stressed from trying to flower
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Aha, yes, I was wondering about that. Another mistake to chalk up to noobness.

So, should I just leave them acclimate? I have transplant fert, shall I give it to them? I can also move them to a more veg-style light cycle, like 14-16 hours instead of 12?
 
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