why aren't these girls bigger?

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bond343

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hi,

looking for some advice as to why these girls are so puny. let me explain the set up first

the set up

running a 600 w hps and have a fan hanging in the room
using a rubber maid 24 gal tote for the res and eight (8) gallons of water
have 6 holes cut in the lid with net pots filled with hydroton.
using a 170 gph pump and two 1/4 jets per pot and also an airstone.

using GH nutes. running 1 tsp purple to 2 tsp pink per gallon of water.
running ph at 6.6-6.8, not sure on ppm as i dont have a meter. (was advised to use this mix and ph level by an experienced grower)

the plants

sour ak, kandy kush skunk, and sage

started from cuttings in rockwool
rooted for about 14 days and had nice roots coming out, and were transplanted to the tote for immediate flowering, sea of green.

starting week 4 of flower, and the plants are flowering nicely, but all very small (4-6 inches), except for the sage, which is about 13-15 inches.

all the plants have very nice roots going all the way down to the bottom and floating in the res

so, who knows why they are so small?

i've seen other sea of green efforts where the plants are much bigger this far along into the process.

i've attached some pics, so if you can see them well enough, please tell me what you think.

thanks for the help
 
*BUDS

*BUDS

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i already told you its the strain plus clones too small, you will have to veg a couple weeks prior to flowering.
 
AbeFroman

AbeFroman

Well-Known Member

  • Your PH is to high and your nutrient level sounds really low. You should be running it between 5.5-6.2 in hydro . They must have been tiny when you put them into flower, you should have probably vegged them for a couple weeks. I wouldn't expect them to get much bigger in that stage of flower.​


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CaliMackdaddy

CaliMackdaddy

Active Member
Dry adding some roots accelerators or look into heisenburgs tea thread for a good mixture to have a nice backup against root slime, which inclues a nice root accelerator in the mixture. https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-dwc-root-slime-cure-aka.html

When i used his tea mixture, not only did i get rid of the slime problem i had but it increased root production at an unbelivable level. Id also say you need a longer veg time, the plants need a nice root base to feed the flowering phase which requires vast ammounts of root structure to obtain what the flowers require. Veg gives the plant pure root and folar growth, Flowering if i know correctly slows down root development, and uses what it currently has.
 
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