I need help...(great story)

**lightboy** · 08-14-2006, 09:22 AM

I put it under flouresent lights for good and I moved it away from the window. I think its pissed off. It dropped all the leaves it was growing and barely has any leaves left. it has like 2 leaves supporting a 3 foot plant. and the leaves arent full size. I think I should have left it by the window till it came back from the shock of having its root system screwed up. It was a shade plant and now its in bright light and I don't know if adding more light will piss it off more. The stem is still green but it doesn't look like its making much effort to grow leaves. What do you think is going on? Looks like its dieing. My mom is a horticulterist and she says its just in shock and pissed off cause I moved it around from the window to the flouresent light. I think maybe its growing leaves to adjust to the light spectrum the flouresents put off? But I really don't see any new leaves. Thank you for your help so far. Looks like I might be starting over with some new seeds. At leaste that way they will be used to the flouresents from germination. I was thinking about adding another light. Bad idea?

**lightboy** · 08-14-2006, 09:37 AM

before I took it away from the window
This was when I would have it by the window in the morning and then move it to the flouresant later on and at night.

after

this is my setup

I sprayed that bottle infront of my fan today for the first time. Good idea?
so I have 2 4 foot flouresent lights. And an incondesant light that I didn't point at the plant and is about 2 feet from it aiming at the pot so it helps dry it out. Then I have another flouresant bulb thats suppposed to mimic 100 watts at like 1500 lumens. Its getting a lot of light and yet it just stopped growing. It makes no sense. All this happened after I gave it that damn miracle grow. What do you think?

This plant was thick and strong now it looks really shitty. My mom says its growing back its root system and thats why its not growing on the top much. Is it sucking the life out of its leaves to grow roots? Thanks for your help so far.

**silvernomad** · 08-14-2006, 10:35 AM

You need to set up your grow area alot better then that. Sorry to be blunt

But you HAVE TO step back and start from the ground up if you are truely wanting to grow good bud.

You need more light

Like this or something like it......

You need a fan (not on high speed) to move the air around, for stronger plants, and to get the CO2, and keep the heat down (if that is an issue at the time).

See the fan on the right.

What are you feeding them, is it tap water? What is your soil like? Is it dirt from your yard? All this comes into play.....

by the way, when your plant was in the window, it still looked bad. If you take your time, and setup the closet up right, and read up on it, learn how to grow, then you will be ok. One step at a time

if you really want good/great bud, then you need to do it right.

Closet systems and growboxes <- you may want to read up and get some ideas from this site

peace

**silvernomad** · 08-14-2006, 11:12 AM

Some ideas. not to say they are the best or not, but to just give you an idea of how it should look

**rollitup** · 08-14-2006, 01:10 PM

test

**lightboy** · 08-14-2006, 03:55 PM

how about this?

I don't plan to rest the flouresants on the shoe box as pictured. lol. But I hope you get the idea. The two sets of tubes are not resting on each other like it looks in the picture. They are about a foot apart. So thats 4 26 watt flouresant lights at 1700 lumens each and two 4 foot tubes and two 2 foot tubes.

**Widow Maker** · 08-14-2006, 05:59 PM

Not to be a dick but I think you should start all over. Did you cut every leaf off the plant? lol. You may get lucky and it will grow but I think its gone.

**lightboy** · 08-14-2006, 07:37 PM

I figured it got sick because it wasn't getting enough light under the lights I had. Ether that or the fact that it was practicaly pulled out the ground. Those are the lights I have to work with. two 4 foot up to 4 two foot and any number of bulbs. any ideas what I can do with that in that space I have in my picture?

**lightboy** · 08-14-2006, 11:52 PM

I have an idea what I could do with my grow area. I could make a 3 walled space for the plants to sit in and face the open wall toward the window and line the side and back walls mylar. Then mount the flouresants. That way the plant gets both natural and artificial lighting at the same time. It liked it by the window. It was growing new leaves and comming back. Ive read that you can grow bud by a window and if I add the flouros it'll add even more light. If this plant comes back it has hella good genetics. lol. I put it outside in the shade in the same invironment it grew up in. I think im gonna have problems with the light and all because the days are getting shorter. I heard that if plants don't get enough light and there not in the preflower stage that they will freak out thinking that they won't have another chance to pollinate and turn hermaphidite to self pollinate. Does that even apply in my plants situation. It doesn't even have leaves. lol. I turned the outside flood light towards it. Will that be enough to make it not try to reproduce and stay in the veg mode? Thanks for all your help so far everyone.