28 days into flowering, buds seem small - Am I doing something wrong?
Good morning, all. This is my first post to this forum. I've found the GWE website to be among the best for anyone wanting to learn how to grow and I'm hoping the folks on this forum are just as helpful.
I have a single plant growing in a self-built cabinet that I have concerns about. This is my fifth grow in this cabinet, but the first time in my new location (Central Colorado).
Here are the particulars:
The seed germinated on Dec 6th and I vegged her until March 19th when I flipped the lights to flowering mode. During her vegetative growth, she has been carefully "manifolded" to eight mains or tops. She has been flowering now for 28 days.
Here is my concern: Are the buds too small for a plant that has been flowering for just shy of a month?
As mentioned, this is my fifth grow and my previous four plants had much more advanced bud growth at 28 days than this one. I know my humidity is quite low but I am somewhat constrained by environment (basement grow in a cabinet).
There have been no major problems during her growth other than a Cal/Mag deficiency that appeared about two weeks ago (lower older leaves yellowing between veins) and I lost just a few leaves. I bumped up the Cal/Mag to 1 teaspoon per gallon with every other watering and that appears to have addressed that problem. Up until a week ago, I continued feeding her veg nutes (1.5 teaspoon of Big Bloom & 1.0 teaspoon of Grow Big) to help her with her stretch. Last week (third week into flowering) I stopped the Grow Big and switched to 1.0 teaspoon of Tiger Bloom. I chose to delay the application of Tiger Bloom once I started flowering because I didn't want to impact the stretch of the first few weeks. Even so, she hasn't stretched a whole lot, maybe 40% (about five inches) since the lights were flipped 28 days ago. She now measures about 20 inches or so above the soil line.
So please folks, can someone tell me if I'm OK or if I have a problem here? Could this just be a late bloomer, and just a strain that is going to take longer to complete flowering? Or do I have an issue that is slowing this plant down?
I appreciate any guidance or suggestions you folks have to offer.
I have a single plant growing in a self-built cabinet that I have concerns about. This is my fifth grow in this cabinet, but the first time in my new location (Central Colorado).
Here are the particulars:
- Strain: BlueBerry Headband (50/50 indica/sativa hybrid, photo-period feminized seed from Emerald Triangle Seeds)
- Soil: 4 gallons Fox Farm Happy Frog amended with 1 gallon of perlite and 3 tablespoons dolomite lime.
- Light: G8LED 240-watt full-spectrum LED, supplemented by 90-watt UFO lamp for flowering
- Nutrients: Fox Farm soil trio (Grow Big, Big Bloom, and Tiger Bloom), also using CalMag supplement.
- Temps / Humidity: Temps have remained a constant 70-72 degrees during the day and mid-60's at night. My humidity has fluctuated between 18% and 25% throughout the entire grow.
- Seed germinated in soil on 12/06/16, flipped to flowering mode on 03/20/17
The seed germinated on Dec 6th and I vegged her until March 19th when I flipped the lights to flowering mode. During her vegetative growth, she has been carefully "manifolded" to eight mains or tops. She has been flowering now for 28 days.
Here is my concern: Are the buds too small for a plant that has been flowering for just shy of a month?
As mentioned, this is my fifth grow and my previous four plants had much more advanced bud growth at 28 days than this one. I know my humidity is quite low but I am somewhat constrained by environment (basement grow in a cabinet).
There have been no major problems during her growth other than a Cal/Mag deficiency that appeared about two weeks ago (lower older leaves yellowing between veins) and I lost just a few leaves. I bumped up the Cal/Mag to 1 teaspoon per gallon with every other watering and that appears to have addressed that problem. Up until a week ago, I continued feeding her veg nutes (1.5 teaspoon of Big Bloom & 1.0 teaspoon of Grow Big) to help her with her stretch. Last week (third week into flowering) I stopped the Grow Big and switched to 1.0 teaspoon of Tiger Bloom. I chose to delay the application of Tiger Bloom once I started flowering because I didn't want to impact the stretch of the first few weeks. Even so, she hasn't stretched a whole lot, maybe 40% (about five inches) since the lights were flipped 28 days ago. She now measures about 20 inches or so above the soil line.
So please folks, can someone tell me if I'm OK or if I have a problem here? Could this just be a late bloomer, and just a strain that is going to take longer to complete flowering? Or do I have an issue that is slowing this plant down?
I appreciate any guidance or suggestions you folks have to offer.
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