My friend is 5 weeks into flowering. There seems to be a problem tho, the buds aren't really compact. They seem like those small long tootsie rolls, but with lots of hair around it. The thing is, some of the plants have nice compact ones. These ones are further away from the door he thinks.

The pH is around 5-6 in a waterfarm setup (+airstones & extra root holes), 400HPS, temps around 75-79 constant and the leaves look healthy, except they aren't all huge and stuff, kinda small 7-9 point leaves. The strain are Nirvana white widow and some unknown bag sativa. Reflective mylar all around, the plants seem like they slowed down the stretching at around 3 1/2 feet atm. The light is probably 6-18 inches away from them. Using big bud + 3AN kind at 1-1-1 ratio. He has the nutes low, but adds some if the plants look a bit yellow or anything. He adds a little more each time and before, he wasn't adding enough (leaves were yellow and stuff weeks ago), but now he knows to add more everytime changing the water because they need more/bigger and the plants love it. The root mass of each bucket is full and healthy white with zero root rot. The plants are nice and green healthy with minimal problems (bottom leaves seem to never die/fall). There is probably 1 red hair for every 10 white hairs.

I'm wondering, if there is a small light leak somewhere, this is most likely the problem of these small buds? The light interfers with the flowering process, throwing the affected plants into shock (between veg - flowering). So naturally, the plant would focus on growing more like veg and a little on flower?

The amount of light is probably equal to = barely able to see the outline of your hand 1FT facing away from the light, but only a door crack fraction of that. Kind of hard to grasp, but do you think this light leak could be the issue?

Sorry for writing so much, I hope someone reads :hippy:
Abunai Reviewed by Abunai on . Light leak problem maybe? Small long buds? My friend is 5 weeks into flowering. There seems to be a problem tho, the buds aren't really compact. They seem like those small long tootsie rolls, but with lots of hair around it. The thing is, some of the plants have nice compact ones. These ones are further away from the door he thinks. The pH is around 5-6 in a waterfarm setup (+airstones & extra root holes), 400HPS, temps around 75-79 constant and the leaves look healthy, except they aren't all huge and stuff, kinda small 7-9 point Rating: 5