Whats going on with my leaves

[B.EZ]

Hey Guys

My plants have started acting funny this last week or so, and not sure what is going on.

They are at week 4 in flower.
They are growing in Fox Farm Organic Soil.
Used Earth Juice grow for veg and Earth juice bloom right now.

These guys are really small as they were an experiment using a cfl for the source as my tent with hps isnt done yet due to budget constraints.

For the first 6-7 weeks of life they were only under the cfl. For the last week or so I have been taking them outside for 4-8hrs a day to get them better light as I have been staying somewhere with a yard.

Any help with what is going on or causing this would be great. It seems to get worse and worse and I am afraid of loosing my little guys.

Thanks
~B EZ

B.EZ Reviewed by B.EZ on 08-03-2011. Whats going on with my leaves Hey Guys My plants have started acting funny this last week or so, and not sure what is going on. They are at week 4 in flower. They are growing in Fox Farm Organic Soil. Used Earth Juice grow for veg and Earth juice bloom right now. These guys are really small as they were an experiment using a cfl for the source as my tent with hps isnt done yet due to budget constraints. Rating: 5

[Purple Daddy]

YIKES! They probably experienced shock going from the CFL to sunlight, either way I hate to say this but you're probably better off starting all over. You'll get very little bud from those plants and the condition they're in now won't help the final yeild. If you don't have any seeds you can put them back under 24 hour lights and re-veg them but you really need to give them more light.

How old are they and how much light have you been giving them?

[rattlingdags]

They're definately not looking so happy there. At 4 weeks bloom they're very slow developing. You really need to fill out the trouble shooting form. Its a sticky here in Plant Problems and try to include as many details are you can. Along with your photos it gives a clearer picture of what is going on.

One point though - you might want to reconsider moving your plants in and out. This time of year there's a mass of insects around outside such as thrips, aphids and mites, any of which could latch onto your girls and cause further damage to them and heart break for you. We're having a humid, stuffy summer here and the bugs have breed wildly. The ol ladybugs just can't keep up.
Could your budget manage a couple of extra cfl's until you can get your hps?

[Purple Daddy]

Do you have a bright window you can set them next to? I still think you're better off starting over. Live and learn, I'm sure just about everyone who has ever grown has made mistakes, some worse then others. I fried 6 plants a few weeks from finishing cause I got greedy and thought I could juice them one last time before harvest! Wanna talk about a sick feeling?

[B.EZ]

Thanks for the advice so far. These were grown from clones gotten at a local co-op. I will have to get new clones if starting over.

If I put them back into 24hr light cycle what can I expect to happen since they have entered flowering stage?

I don't have a window right now, either outside or inside under cfl. I am staying with family following a massive surgery so not at home with my setup. Once I got home from the surgery I was going to start the real garden. I was just trying to do something to get something out of these in the mean time. The next grow will be hydro as well so not sure I can transfer these babies to that setup. Guess when that time came I could just cut these up into new clones?

[Purple Daddy]

If you put them back under 24 hours of lights you won't notice much for a couple of week then you'll start to see three finger leaves growing out of the bud sites then eventually you'll notice more vegetative growth. I picked a plants buds that grew full term through spring and left it growing outside, it took about a month for it to really show signs of recovering and about another month before it really started to fill out. Clones from the same plant I started about the same time though have grown twice as big so going with fresh clones might be the best way to go. Because I'm letting this revegged plant grow all naturally wihtout changing the light cycle it will probably double from it's original size.