elliotgreen
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so my plant has been in flower for 28 days now and i was expecting them to be bigger than they are, i have decided to move them closer to the light and train the colas closer to centre if the lamp, will this help
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Its hard to actually say as it depends on the strain your growing as the genetics may cause smaller or bigger colas.
Now also what light source are you using as that is a factor too.
Also what nutrients are you feeding them and how much are you feeding them.
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I would watch them if you do move them closer to that light. LED's are no joke when it comes to light intensity. Although they do not get hot they produce intensely bright light. Light burn does not come from heat so much as it comes from the intensity of the lights and how close they are to the plants. One of the big mistakes is that many people confuse light burn having to do with the light being hot.
Remember you are not trying to stress the plant and want to refrain from making too many changes.
That being said its a decision you have to make on what you think will work best. I would just watch them and note any changes. First signs of any looking stressed at all you may want to back off the lights a bit.
You should try backbuilding! It helps produce dense, thicker buds.
i have heard good things about back building i might look into it.... when is it recommend to back build?
In time, with enough patience, you will become a better grower. Your girl looks like it has many branches. Some growers opt for having just a few main branches which they intentionally keep short with various pruning/fimming/lst/scrog techniques during the vegetative stage. They might do this for several reasons.
One reason would be space constraints. The main reason however could be that many advanced growers are controlling how many flowering sites the plant will have and where on the branches those flowering sites are. I think I understand the reasoning for this now. But first let us understand the question. Is it better to have many branches or have just a few branches? I went into my grow not even thinking of this question. I obviously jumped to the conclusion early on in my grow many branches are better, as many as I can get, that means more sites for buds to grow obviously. And that is true, there are more sites for buds to grow on the plants I am growing. I topped/fimmed/lst'd and now have 7-8 branches on each of the 2 plants I am growing. Success, I got what I wanted but did I really? Is that too many branches? Not enough? Now that I am in flowering like yourself, and after reading posts I now am thinking about this a lot more.
Is it better to have more branches? Maybe not after just thinking about it. Maybe if I would have controlled how many flowering sites there are, and where they are, maybe I could have steered the plants into where the plant will use its energy. Maybe I have more control over how this plant grows than I initially was thinking. Maybe I could have kept the branches shorter, the leaves closer together and therefore many of my flowering sites closer together, leading to a compact dense plant instead of a big branchy bushy plant. I do not know but this is a question I will look to answer during my next grow. I am not about to start cutting some of the branches during flowering, unless I turn them into clones, but I want to try a new strain next grow, so likely I will not be cloning.
This is likely what you are seeing, you are seeing many advanced growers and are wondering what I can do to be like them. This is a good thing. Just remember it takes time and patience to get that good at something. You are going to live, learn and make mistakes. The easiest mistakes people make have to do with patience, and not having enough of it. They want bigger buds so they try to change a bunch of things and look past the fact that they already have a nice, healthy plant that is producing buds. It might not be quite like they picture in their heads but they look past that fact. It is great to wonder how to get bigger buds, after all that is what we are all after, but its not always the best time to experiment mid-grow. You live and you learn and during the next grow you make those changes. At the stage we are at in flowering there is little we are going to change now that is going to drastically change where we end up in the end. Except for the stupid kinds of changes that stress our plants and change the focus of our plant for forming buds, to repairing the damages we are causing. Something to think of before making a bunch of changes this late in the game.
TL/DR:
Basically the question you, and I, should ask ourselves, next grow, not this grow. Can I control the flowering sites? How can I do this? Basically what I am suspecting is happening with both of us is, in shorter words, we have too many flowering sites. Buds are forming everywhere but they are not very large or dense. I suspect this to be that the plant only has limited resources it is working with and we have grown our plants so the resources spread out over many multiple branching areas. There is not just a couple of particular sites the plant is putting its energy into. It is just spreading all its resources out over all the branches we chose to grow.
Can we change this now? Not likely. I do not suspect it to be a good idea to cut branches to try and redirect energy, doing this would direct energy sources from developing buds to repairing damages we are causing. The only thing I could possibly see working is possibly adding more nutrients, but again my techniques are not that advanced to know if that would be a good idea or not. In theory it makes sense in my head. We could give more nutrients to our plants and hope they use those nutrients in developing buds. I however am strongly discouraged by nearly killing one of my ladies with nutrients early on in my grow that I do not think I will be experimenting this late in the game. I have 5-6 weeks to go till harvest and you have 6-8 weeks. You have more time to recover so you have to weigh the risks/rewards. The rewards are you could form more buds with more nutrients. The risks are pretty obvious, if your plant cant uptake anymore nutrients you could have a lockout/deficiency and spend the rest of your grow trying to recover.
In time, with enough patience, you will become a better grower. Your girl looks like it has many branches. Some growers opt for having just a few main branches which they intentionally keep short with various pruning/fimming/lst/scrog techniques during the vegetative stage. They might do this for several reasons.
One reason would be space constraints. The main reason however could be that many advanced growers are controlling how many flowering sites the plant will have and where on the branches those flowering sites are. I think I understand the reasoning for this now. But first let us understand the question. Is it better to have many branches or have just a few branches? I went into my grow not even thinking of this question. I obviously jumped to the conclusion early on in my grow many branches are better, as many as I can get, that means more sites for buds to grow obviously. And that is true, there are more sites for buds to grow on the plants I am growing. I topped/fimmed/lst'd and now have 7-8 branches on each of the 2 plants I am growing. Success, I got what I wanted but did I really? Is that too many branches? Not enough? Now that I am in flowering like yourself, and after reading posts I now am thinking about this a lot more.
Is it better to have more branches? Maybe not after just thinking about it. Maybe if I would have controlled how many flowering sites there are, and where they are, maybe I could have steered the plants into where the plant will use its energy. Maybe I have more control over how this plant grows than I initially was thinking. Maybe I could have kept the branches shorter, the leaves closer together and therefore many of my flowering sites closer together, leading to a compact dense plant instead of a big branchy bushy plant. I do not know but this is a question I will look to answer during my next grow. I am not about to start cutting some of the branches during flowering, unless I turn them into clones, but I want to try a new strain next grow, so likely I will not be cloning.
This is likely what you are seeing, you are seeing many advanced growers and are wondering what I can do to be like them. This is a good thing. Just remember it takes time and patience to get that good at something. You are going to live, learn and make mistakes. The easiest mistakes people make have to do with patience, and not having enough of it. They want bigger buds so they try to change a bunch of things and look past the fact that they already have a nice, healthy plant that is producing buds. It might not be quite like they picture in their heads but they look past that fact. It is great to wonder how to get bigger buds, after all that is what we are all after, but its not always the best time to experiment mid-grow. You live and you learn and during the next grow you make those changes. At the stage we are at in flowering there is little we are going to change now that is going to drastically change where we end up in the end. Except for the stupid kinds of changes that stress our plants and change the focus of our plant for forming buds, to repairing the damages we are causing. Something to think of before making a bunch of changes this late in the game.
TL/DR:
Basically the question you, and I, should ask ourselves, next grow, not this grow. Can I control the flowering sites? How can I do this? Basically what I am suspecting is happening with both of us is, in shorter words, we have too many flowering sites. Buds are forming everywhere but they are not very large or dense. I suspect this to be that the plant only has limited resources it is working with and we have grown our plants so the resources spread out over many multiple branching areas. There is not just a couple of particular sites the plant is putting its energy into. It is just spreading all its resources out over all the branches we chose to grow.
Can we change this now? Not likely. I do not suspect it to be a good idea to cut branches to try and redirect energy, doing this would direct energy sources from developing buds to repairing damages we are causing. The only thing I could possibly see working is possibly adding more nutrients, but again my techniques are not that advanced to know if that would be a good idea or not. In theory it makes sense in my head. We could give more nutrients to our plants and hope they use those nutrients in developing buds. I however am strongly discouraged by nearly killing one of my ladies with nutrients early on in my grow that I do not think I will be experimenting this late in the game. I have 5-6 weeks to go till harvest and you have 6-8 weeks. You have more time to recover so you have to weigh the risks/rewards. The rewards are you could form more buds with more nutrients. The risks are pretty obvious, if your plant cant uptake anymore nutrients you could have a lockout/deficiency and spend the rest of your grow trying to recover.
In time, with enough patience, you will become a better grower. Your girl looks like it has many branches. Some growers opt for having just a few main branches which they intentionally keep short with various pruning/fimming/lst/scrog techniques during the vegetative stage. They might do this for several reasons.
One reason would be space constraints. The main reason however could be that many advanced growers are controlling how many flowering sites the plant will have and where on the branches those flowering sites are. I think I understand the reasoning for this now. But first let us understand the question. Is it better to have many branches or have just a few branches? I went into my grow not even thinking of this question. I obviously jumped to the conclusion early on in my grow many branches are better, as many as I can get, that means more sites for buds to grow obviously. And that is true, there are more sites for buds to grow on the plants I am growing. I topped/fimmed/lst'd and now have 7-8 branches on each of the 2 plants I am growing. Success, I got what I wanted but did I really? Is that too many branches? Not enough? Now that I am in flowering like yourself, and after reading posts I now am thinking about this a lot more.
Is it better to have more branches? Maybe not after just thinking about it. Maybe if I would have controlled how many flowering sites there are, and where they are, maybe I could have steered the plants into where the plant will use its energy. Maybe I have more control over how this plant grows than I initially was thinking. Maybe I could have kept the branches shorter, the leaves closer together and therefore many of my flowering sites closer together, leading to a compact dense plant instead of a big branchy bushy plant. I do not know but this is a question I will look to answer during my next grow. I am not about to start cutting some of the branches during flowering, unless I turn them into clones, but I want to try a new strain next grow, so likely I will not be cloning.
This is likely what you are seeing, you are seeing many advanced growers and are wondering what I can do to be like them. This is a good thing. Just remember it takes time and patience to get that good at something. You are going to live, learn and make mistakes. The easiest mistakes people make have to do with patience, and not having enough of it. They want bigger buds so they try to change a bunch of things and look past the fact that they already have a nice, healthy plant that is producing buds. It might not be quite like they picture in their heads but they look past that fact. It is great to wonder how to get bigger buds, after all that is what we are all after, but its not always the best time to experiment mid-grow. You live and you learn and during the next grow you make those changes. At the stage we are at in flowering there is little we are going to change now that is going to drastically change where we end up in the end. Except for the stupid kinds of changes that stress our plants and change the focus of our plant for forming buds, to repairing the damages we are causing. Something to think of before making a bunch of changes this late in the game.
TL/DR:
Basically the question you, and I, should ask ourselves, next grow, not this grow. Can I control the flowering sites? How can I do this? Basically what I am suspecting is happening with both of us is, in shorter words, we have too many flowering sites. Buds are forming everywhere but they are not very large or dense. I suspect this to be that the plant only has limited resources it is working with and we have grown our plants so the resources spread out over many multiple branching areas. There is not just a couple of particular sites the plant is putting its energy into. It is just spreading all its resources out over all the branches we chose to grow.
Can we change this now? Not likely. I do not suspect it to be a good idea to cut branches to try and redirect energy, doing this would direct energy sources from developing buds to repairing damages we are causing. The only thing I could possibly see working is possibly adding more nutrients, but again my techniques are not that advanced to know if that would be a good idea or not. In theory it makes sense in my head. We could give more nutrients to our plants and hope they use those nutrients in developing buds. I however am strongly discouraged by nearly killing one of my ladies with nutrients early on in my grow that I do not think I will be experimenting this late in the game. I have 5-6 weeks to go till harvest and you have 6-8 weeks. You have more time to recover so you have to weigh the risks/rewards. The rewards are you could form more buds with more nutrients. The risks are pretty obvious, if your plant cant uptake anymore nutrients you could have a lockout/deficiency and spend the rest of your grow trying to recover.