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A friend of mine said he grew a plant years ago which was nearly 7 feet tall but yielded about 3/4 an ounce of dried bud. It was grown in a closet with flourescent light, looked healthy and yielded decent crystally bud. That's all I know about it. So out of curiosity, I told him I'd post it here to get opinions.
So my questions are - Has this happened to anyone else here and how is that possible? Is it just because the light is so crappy?
It could be that he didnt let it flower long enough or cause he didnt have enough fluros, but ive heard of people using fluros and only yeilding an ounce but just not on that big of a plant.
my friend consistently gets about 3/4 to 1 ounce from his fluro plants. Its not as firm as what I see with HPS but he kept the lights super close, nice ventillation. They get topped, about 3-4 weeks of veg, and 7-8 flowering. Cant remember the ferts but they are an organic, aparantly cant burn. These plants are about 1.5 feet tall and equally wide.
There could be tons of factors, but I would bet on not enough light that is not close enough, irregular lighting, the wrong kind of trimming, or the wrong amount of flowering.
For reference, I have seen a few 5 foot indoor plants that produced 1/4 to a half pound each. Not to discourage your friend, but sounds like the environment wasnt ideal.
Yeah most likely he didnt have proper lighting for a 7ft plant. Ask ur "friend" how much real wattage(not energy savings wattage) he used to flower this plant and how many weeks he had it in flower(12/12)?
Seems like mighty low yield. I grew a couple of small 2-foot plants early this year, and got 5 ounces of bud and an ounce of leaf from them. Hard to believe he got less than one ounce from a plant taller than me. Something was seriously not right.
The buds must have been so fluffy.
I would imagine that it was just the kind of plant he was growing...but if it had crystals on it, I'm sure it was decent smoke and I wouldn't be that dissappointed. Pretty much free.
Like I said, I don't have many details about that grow, but I figured I would throw the story out there for comments.
The first thought I had was that he harvested too early but he said the bud was crystally so the low yield wasn't only because of that.
And I always heard flourescents were so bad but someone posted pictures of 2.5 ounces of bud from one plant grown under florescent light.
ive got a 190cm hydro plant (not in a cabinet or anything) and its been budding now for almost 2-3months and it looks as tho the yeild ill get will be quite small, my plant has been through alot tho (spider mights, no water pump for 2 months, inconsistant temp and PH and irregular lighting) but i think the main factor is that most of the light wont reach the bottom half of the plant (unless u have lights on the side) anyway, just my cents. its just not efficient to grow a plant that big.
misk you head the nail right on the head.I'am haveing the same prombles
and mind is about 7'2" tall and flowering now for 5 wks.salt build up wrong PH
too strong nutrs and yes NOT ENOUGH LIGHT. Flos is best for clones and seedlying.Green Man on pot tv showed me the way,flos for the start grow to about 12"and than HPS for flowering and the finish.I"am going this way after
this grow. Keep on tokeing
Weak light....weak grow.....400HPS Hortilux.....RULES!Quote:
Originally Posted by crazywill
i dont think it would matter how big the light is, if its the only light on a plant that tall it will suffer. running lights along the side would fix this problem tho, making the plant quite a monster, but haveing 3+ lights on one plant would again make it not efficient as u could have many more plants producing more bud in a shorter timespace.
its good to brag bout having a 2m+ tall plant tho :D
maybe ur friends plant was 7 feet because it was stretching from lack of light??