Day 23 Flowering looking sad

Ctznsnips

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On day 23 of flowering and they are looking sad. not any buds yet, just a few pistils. Could they not have enough light? running 4 monsters under a 600w hps. A pic of one of them, there are four this size under one 600w hps. Help please
 

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darkdestruction420

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looks like plant moisture stress sort of to me, thats based on how flat and limp some of the bottom fan leaves are. I think more pics would help me/us determine for sure, its really hard to tell anything for sure with only 1 pic of 1 of the plants.
 

slowmo77

Active Member
are they out in the open or in total darkness during lights off? if you have any light leaking in during the 12/12 it can cause them to hermie or if it's a lot of light gettin to them can keep them from flowering
 

Ctznsnips

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Im sure there are no light leaks. so plant moisture stress might be the problem, it gets pretty humid in the room. what would be a good way to reduce humidity without having to buy a de-humidifer.
 

Serapis

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Im sure there are no light leaks. so plant moisture stress might be the problem, it gets pretty humid in the room. what would be a good way to reduce humidity without having to buy a de-humidifer.
install an airconditioner. One way or another, you'll need to pull humidity out in order to grow there.... what about mold, mildew?
 

Ctznsnips

Member
no mold/mildew problems yet. i found a cheap dehumidifer online for like 60 bucks, might just pick that up.
 

hellraizer30

Rebel From The North
dude they dont realy look bad at all, but when you start buding if you have high humitity theres going to be a problem so start saving cuza dehumidifiers a must
 
forewarning: dehumidifiers create massive heat (the dehumidified air is heated before being released back into the environment). I would try venting air from your grow room to the rest of your house (assuming you don't mind the smell).

I got a dehumidifer because I had the same problem. I looked up how they work and supposedly the heating mechanism isn't necessary, so if you could somehow disable it, you might be in business (haven't tried it personally though).

But assuming you live in a cold, dry place, why don't you just vent some cool crisp air in a couple of times a day?
 
One other idea, you know those silica ball gel packets you see in packages of beef jerky and what not? the purpose of those is to remove humidity from the air. I've heard of people using them on a large scale like with what your doing. Might want to check those out.
 

Ctznsnips

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Well i live in southern Nevada so its dry as fuck. I improved my air flow today ( more cool crisp clean air in) lets hope that improves things. either way i will be buying a dehumidifer.
 

medimaker

Active Member
Don't think that 600 will be enough for them big suckers. The will stretch up more- you'll move the light up more. Then less light penetration and they will increase in square footage when they start to fill out
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Not a disaster but something to consider for next time.
 

jimbizzzale67123

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One other idea, you know those silica ball gel packets you see in packages of beef jerky and what not? the purpose of those is to remove humidity from the air. I've heard of people using them on a large scale like with what your doing. Might want to check those out.
Get yourself some Calcium Chloride, its the stuff that is in damp rid I am sure you can find a big bad online for a good price.

Throw it in a bowl and set it in the room about a foot by your plant, no where by a wind source or it could blow around.
 

Jonus

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3 weeks is a little long to not see buds. Tell us a bit more about your setup, nutes NPK, pH, pmm/EC all that.
 

Ctznsnips

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Running DWC, general hydro flora series nutes (keep it simple system), Hydrozyme, and pot of gold. ppm is about 1100, Ph is always 5.7-6.1. i think that temp may have been a problem, because it was getting cold, in the 68-72f range, so i bumped my heat up to 78 lights on 73ish lights off.
 
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