help with flowering

[DaReaper]

Ok my little girl is on day 21 of flowering and showing about 50 differant bud spots. But my problem is she is streching like crazy! she over 3 foot tall and about a inch away from hitting the lights. How long is she going to stretch for? She has already trippled in size, and i want her to worry more bout budding. i have pics of her for ya but need so tips on slowing the stretch!

DaReaper Reviewed by DaReaper on 12-03-2009. help with flowering Ok my little girl is on day 21 of flowering and showing about 50 differant bud spots. But my problem is she is streching like crazy! she over 3 foot tall and about a inch away from hitting the lights. How long is she going to stretch for? She has already trippled in size, and i want her to worry more bout budding. i have pics of her for ya but need so tips on slowing the stretch! Rating: 5

[ghengis]

Ok my little girl is on day 21 of flowering and showing about 50 differant bud spots. But my problem is she is streching like crazy! she over 3 foot tall and about a inch away from hitting the lights. How long is she going to stretch for? She has already trippled in size, and i want her to worry more bout budding. i have pics of her for ya but need so tips on slowing the stretch!

Are those CFLs you're using? How many watts/lumens you got in there? Maybe not enough light.

[DaReaper]

Well i have 8-40 watt cfls 4-26watts and 2-13 watts for side lighting.iI really dont think its the lights as i move the plant down a notch to accomidate the growth, so the lights are never more than a inch or 2 away.I have about 500 watta of cfls in a cabinet 2' wide 16inches deep and 4' tall and it very light proof. Maybee some of the stretch is from transplanting from a 1 gallon pot to a 4 gallon pot 2 days b4 flowering. Anyway she grew another half inch last night instead of 2 inches so maybee thats a good sign.....we will see i guess. As far as lumens go. I have over 30k lumens. So i think for the space im growing in that is not to bad. This is my first grow so feel free th chime in!:rasta:

[Dutch Pimp]

use more CFL's with a kelvin temp of 5000k to 6500k to help reduce stretch...although it might too late to do any good now...something to try next time..:thumbsup:

I would tie/bend them over some, with a loose string.

[Dutch Pimp]

something like this: lets the lower leaves get more light & start growing, too

[purplekush989]

yah some light LST is about all you can do at this point.