Help! My Marijuana Plants Are 20 In. And I Haven’t Started Flowering Yet…?
I only have so much room in my closet, about 10 more inches left. They’re only like 4 or 5 weeks old and both of them are already 20 inches high. I’m not sure if this is normal or not (this is my second time growing, my first time failed) they seem to be growing rapidly.. but i need to know when they’re going to start flowering/budding and what I need to do to help them. And HOW to flower them.
I have dirt from my backyard in their pots and two 67 watt florcent lights above them. We don’t have much money to spend but if i need a special kind of dirt or something to help them I’ll get it. They both have a lot of leaves and they look really healthy and strong. I’m not home a lot, I don’t sleep here or anything, but i’m home at least once a day to see if they need water. And my mom is home every night/morning and she helps take care of them too. Somebody told me i should have started turning off the light during night way before they reached 20 inches so i’m kind of freaking out.
So what am I supposed to do now?
Please, serious answers only. None of that “you shoudn’t be growing in the first place” bullshit, it’s not going to have any effect on me at all so I need to hear from an experienced cannabis grower.
You should start forcing plants at about 1/3 the total height you expect from a pickable plant.You can force at any time with out affecting quality. It will however effect size of buds and total quantity. I grow mine to about 15 inches before forcing and end up with about 45-50 inch plants at harvest. At harvest do not just pick it and dry it. Hang it upside down for 5-7 days in a somewhat humid environment. This will allow the sugars in the plant to cure making for a smoother less harsh smoke.
by Gerry
on 06. Dec, 2009
Is this the illegal drug forum ?
by rowanda
on 06. Dec, 2009
Dude!
Mature plants grow to 6′ plus unless yours are the dwarf variety,
and growing season is 4-5 Mo.s not weeks.
by Irv S
on 06. Dec, 2009
They will begin to flower only after lights are flipped to 12 hours on/12 hours off. Buy yourself a timer for your lights. Once you put them into a flowering light cycle, plants will continue to gain height – up to twice their current height as they mature. If you’ve only got another 10 inches, best bet is to either cut them back, giving them a week or so to recover before turning lights to 12/12, or by using a method called LST, (low stress training) and carefully bending and tying down the plant to keep it from outgrowing your space. Flowering under fluoros is possible, but won’t give the best yields at harvest. Consider adding HPS lighting for flowering.
by hotfix rhinestones
on 06. Dec, 2009
1st check your plants do they have hairs on them?
If so you have a female Plant (Which is the only plant to Bud)
2ndly if not do they have sacks growing? if they do their male- Scrap them, bin them, and clean the room of pollen,
If not any of the 2 above.. I recommend using a better lighting – Mainly UV. Maybe they havent had the right amount of light. and that stops them budding. Try for the moment making their days shorter and their nights longer. see what happens.
Hope this helped
by Stefan
on 06. Dec, 2009