Yuki_Lasombra
11-26-2008, 01:57 AM
Hey y'all.
I know I don't post much. Preferred to remain unknown when I lived in the US... but hey...
I moved back to my home country recently (Spain), and picked up a couple of seeds "for the hell of it." First of all, I want to say I feel stupid: Most people posting are working so hard to get a good crop, for a variety of reasons and mostly illegally... and you are all like... experts. So I almost feel bad, 'cause I'm growing for the hell of it, sloppily, not caring much either way. Literally. It's a time-passer, like growing geranium. I almost feel like it's a lack of respect to the growers who are working so hard and who have learned so much to get a great crop.
So I bought three seeds of feminized Sweet Afghani Delicious and my sister-in-law (who needed a project, like me) got some of that autoflowering AK-47 stuff.
That was three months ago. We exchanged 1 plant early on to just see how the environments affected progress. Both of us grow it outdoors on our balcony. I face the South, so I get a good bit of sun most of the day. Unfortunately, because of a shift in season (or something), my plants get now about 6 hours of full daylight. As I said, I know little. I have a basic entheogen garden on the balcony, and know enough for each plant to survive. About it. I planted them in enriched soil, by the way.
So the AK grew (not much, but considering it wasn't nuted at all, and suffered a couple shocks... wow), and I harvested a while ago, and it's all good. However, my SAD has quite clearly let me know it refuses to flower. It grew a few feet and now seems to just have stopped. Was supposed to start flowering about two to three weeks ago. It ain't doin' sh*t. Knowing barely nothing, I made a little foil semi-sphere and attached it to the pot to get some more light going on the plant, about a week ago... figured it was something like that... NOTHING. I notice minute details, and what happened is that it grew about a quarter of an inch taller and stopped. All this in the space of two days. Nothing else. Last week, my grow shop man advised me on a nutrient pack that would essentially push the plant into flowering (hard to explain how he put it... he talkie fast...). Was eight bucks for a pack of concentrate and it says "Flowering" on a legit-looking bottle. Called Bachumus Ecohemp-F. He also told me that if maybe a streetlight was hitting it at night, even with the most minute light, the blue spectrum was present in the light, and it was just nightly throwing the plant back into a vegetative state (sounds dodgy based on the few things I know).
So it's been a week. Have given the plants their plant food, and have made it a point to block all incoming streetlight from 7 PM to 8 AM (roughly... essentially, when they are on). AND NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. The plant has not moved. Refused to flower, refused to do ANYTHING. Didn't even grow or tilt. It's just a big ole' green leafy mess, static in time. Yes, it has the little... er... "bud sprouts," but that's about it.
Any ideas? It looks nice and smells light and pleasant, but I mostly wanted to grow because I'm looking to smoke it, not because it's pretty.
Strangely though, my sister-in-law says some smaaaaaall buds are growing on the SAD she got from the switch.
I know I don't post much. Preferred to remain unknown when I lived in the US... but hey...
I moved back to my home country recently (Spain), and picked up a couple of seeds "for the hell of it." First of all, I want to say I feel stupid: Most people posting are working so hard to get a good crop, for a variety of reasons and mostly illegally... and you are all like... experts. So I almost feel bad, 'cause I'm growing for the hell of it, sloppily, not caring much either way. Literally. It's a time-passer, like growing geranium. I almost feel like it's a lack of respect to the growers who are working so hard and who have learned so much to get a great crop.
So I bought three seeds of feminized Sweet Afghani Delicious and my sister-in-law (who needed a project, like me) got some of that autoflowering AK-47 stuff.
That was three months ago. We exchanged 1 plant early on to just see how the environments affected progress. Both of us grow it outdoors on our balcony. I face the South, so I get a good bit of sun most of the day. Unfortunately, because of a shift in season (or something), my plants get now about 6 hours of full daylight. As I said, I know little. I have a basic entheogen garden on the balcony, and know enough for each plant to survive. About it. I planted them in enriched soil, by the way.
So the AK grew (not much, but considering it wasn't nuted at all, and suffered a couple shocks... wow), and I harvested a while ago, and it's all good. However, my SAD has quite clearly let me know it refuses to flower. It grew a few feet and now seems to just have stopped. Was supposed to start flowering about two to three weeks ago. It ain't doin' sh*t. Knowing barely nothing, I made a little foil semi-sphere and attached it to the pot to get some more light going on the plant, about a week ago... figured it was something like that... NOTHING. I notice minute details, and what happened is that it grew about a quarter of an inch taller and stopped. All this in the space of two days. Nothing else. Last week, my grow shop man advised me on a nutrient pack that would essentially push the plant into flowering (hard to explain how he put it... he talkie fast...). Was eight bucks for a pack of concentrate and it says "Flowering" on a legit-looking bottle. Called Bachumus Ecohemp-F. He also told me that if maybe a streetlight was hitting it at night, even with the most minute light, the blue spectrum was present in the light, and it was just nightly throwing the plant back into a vegetative state (sounds dodgy based on the few things I know).
So it's been a week. Have given the plants their plant food, and have made it a point to block all incoming streetlight from 7 PM to 8 AM (roughly... essentially, when they are on). AND NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. The plant has not moved. Refused to flower, refused to do ANYTHING. Didn't even grow or tilt. It's just a big ole' green leafy mess, static in time. Yes, it has the little... er... "bud sprouts," but that's about it.
Any ideas? It looks nice and smells light and pleasant, but I mostly wanted to grow because I'm looking to smoke it, not because it's pretty.
Strangely though, my sister-in-law says some smaaaaaall buds are growing on the SAD she got from the switch.