Pistils turning brown and "shriveling" up-Only about 3 weeks into flowering?

are you sure the hairs are turning brown and not an orange or amber? Orange and amber here and there isnt bad. If the are browning, being a lower budsite its gonna get the same nutes just not the same light to use them up with. leaf tips look fine. do you know what your ph is like; have you tested run off?

thats fine they will turn color and spit new ones out thought the grow............you need way more light tho

yeah how many lights do you have?

i have a 150 watt hps and 3 26 watt CFls.........................3 cfls per plant in flower will give you really good results just keep them with in 4 inches of the plant.......how many lights you got how close?

its normal. over the next 5 to 8 weeks those buds are going to swell up and all those white hairs are going to turn brown and shrivel up and here soon if you havent noticed already you will start seeing crystals (trichomes) form around the buds

Guys I am very aware what my yield is going to be like: small

This was only a test run until I can get a 400W HPS/MH setup, which will be in August. I still want to give these plants a good run though, no reason not to.

(Btw. The pictures look dim as my camera cannot handle the intensity of the light that my CFLs throw off, so it looks much dimmer in the picture)


Now that I think about it, the pistils look more amber than brown, I just thought it might be too early in the flowering cycle for this to start happening.

Thank yous for the help though!

Yo beverage I GUARANTEE you that is the heat from the lights shriveling their hairs. that is not normal. It is definitely too early for them to be doing that.

it happens...