Hey all,

I don't have any pics yet, but I am very frustrated. I have 4 OG Kush plants, about 4 feet tall in 5 gallon buckets, leaves are all healthy looking, the plants are very stong, but there is one problem.....after 5 weeks of flowering, there is hardly any bud on them, and hardly any trichome production. I do not know what I am doing wrong. I have another OG kush plant (different strain) with them, and it is 10X bigger buds with a lot of trichome production. I know trichomes are strain specific, but these is all good strains I know.

I am battling temperatures with the summer heat, but I manage to keep the room at 80F during lights off, and it goes up to 87-90F lights on, which I know is too hot without CO2, but I think there should be more buds and at least some trichome production by the 5th week?

The humidity is low , about 20% usually....I added a humidifer today, but all the air gets vented out of the room, so it doesn't seem like that will work with a 440CFM fan venting the room every 3 minutes or whatever.

I have them under 600W HPS Air cooled 2 - 2 feet overhead

They are in FF OF soil, PH always 6.1-6.5 when watering /feeding

Feed them slowly because OG kush burn easily, but lately I am thinking maybe they arn't getting near enough? I am feeding them with the Botanicare line of organic nutes, grow, bloom, liquid karma, cal-mag.

I started the PPM low at 100 -700 while vegging, and now I have gotten up to 1000PPM while flowering. I know FFOF is a hot soil already, so I have been cautious with the nutes.

Any suggestions? Adding an AC will be a definite next summer,, plus winter is coming in like 2 weeks, and it will be cold where I'm at., and I should be able to get the temps down below 75 easy.

So basically my question is ...how do I get these guys to start producing buds and trichs? I know they are good females...they were clones.

The bottom pic shows a closeup of how bad the buds are budding up at 5 weeks. There is 4 plants in that picture...the good one is to the right as you can see how much fatter the buds are.

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you must get your temperatures down and your humidity up ASAP. As you stated 90 degrees is too hot, but that coupled with the extremely dry environment is most likely the reason for your plants lack of flowers.

Is there any light breaking into the room during your 12 hours of darkness?

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They are in a closet which leaks light though the door, but minimal...

I am thinking its one or all of the following:

Root bound? - I thought I had this covered planting in 5 gallon buckets, but they are big....

Too high of temps/low humidity for the strain....I am working on getting temps down...

Over feeding/ Under feeding? I thought I was very cautious by feeding them gradually, and I have not gotten over 1000ppm when watering every other water.....

Lack of something else?

if the plants are getting any light even leaked light they will not be fully into budding stage , you need to fix the light leaks asap

Light leaks are the #1 reason why your plants are having trouble flowering. Secondly, are you still feeding vegetative nutrients or nutrients designed for the flower cycle?

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light leaks will fuk stuff up!! but IMO kush is a slow budder takes about 2 weeks longer to really take off.

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Yeah there is no light leaking actually on the plants. Where the plants are, its fully dark.


I know kush is a slower budder, and can take a couple weeks longer at least..but there should at least be some smell and trich production at 5 weeks? Like I said..my other OG kush plant is looking 10X bigger buds, and smells like good kush should. These other plants have no smell at all, and are pea sized buds at t he biggest. I mean am I wasting my time here? They really haven't budded hardly anything over the last week.

I was so irritated last night, I almost pulled them...because they do not look like they are growing any bud..and is just wasting my space / electricity

they must not be the same strain maybe there sativa dom?? put up a few pics of the big plant and the stupid ones

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Here is a couple pictures.
The first picture shows a pic of the stupid ones that arn't budding up...just little tiny buds...have been the same for like a week..hardly any production..and don't smell at all....and no trichs like I said

The other picture you can see the small buds to the left on the stupid ones, and the other way bigger buds on the one OG plant to the right......

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