am i growing too dense?

[khasbigbud]

Hey everyone im new to this site.

Ive been peeping around for about an hour on here now and havent seen one picture that looks like my dope at all. Everyones plants seem to be much taller than mine.

I have 2 which are almost 6 inches now and the rest are all around 3.5-4 inches. All of them are just over 2 weeks old.


Can you guys tell me if there coming along good or not?

Im using %100 soil with Pure Blend PRO formula (low dose 3.5ml-2L 1/2 gallon) manual flooding every day or so.

400 watt hps and 250watt mh both 15inches away from the top leaves.

[stinkyattic]

Manual flooding? ARe you watering from the bottom? Don't!
The plants look very good.
To prevent future problems, take off any built in drain trays the pots have, never let the pots sit in fertilizer solution, and only water when they are rather dry.
Short plants mean that you are usign the correct amount of light. When you see talk stretchy plants, they should have beeng rown under more light.

[khasbigbud]

Awesome!!

Maybe im calling my watering method by the wrong way.

Im dumping 1.5L of water with mix into the top of the plant with a bucket under my put to catch the water. Usually almost %80 of the water will drain back out.

I do have a 1000watt hps light but no ballast for it yet. Can i not use my 400watt ballast? Also is using both mh and hps lights a bad idea?

[khasbigbud]

hey guys,

My lease is going end where i am at the end of JAN!!!!!! Is it too early to force flowering right now? the tallest is about 7 inches right now and the smallest is only about 4.5. All are EXTREMELY dense with THICK stems. 2 different types but im not sure what they are.
Thank

[dankster11]

I did the same thing, its our first flower and i just wanted to see how the process worked, all my plants probably could have vegged at least 2 more weeks but whatever haha...

[khasbigbud]

so just today Ive started them on 15/9 and am going to try that for 2 or 3 days then get them down to 12/12 eventually. i figure it should not be too big of a loss of yield. Im not shooting to get massive ammounts and the 3 bushy ones have 8 nodes already.

[khasbigbud]

OMFG i took a littlr peek this morning!!!! there all standing right up, loads more grrowth has happened witht the dark period and the starting point of all the leaves where the stem is is now BRIGHT ganga green!

[khasbigbud]

Well i think im def going to start a grow log as my plants have literally doubled in size!!!! so much under growth after its first dark night!!!!!! will post pics soon.
oh so happy

[khasbigbud]

quite a significant increase in growth!

Keep in mind these are no older than.....hell less than 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!! i know prob to early to force but ima try anyways.