Growth Slowed to a Crawl

Up to the past few days my plants have been growing as I expected indoors.

Now the plants are pretty much stopping growth, or growing very slow. There's no sign of stress, and I have been keeping the environment the same with 24/0 and I'm using SugarPeak Nutes.

The problem that comes to mind is not enough light, the room is about 60 sq ft although the plants are using about 1/3.

I am buying another 1000w for the room because I would like to grow these 9 a lot larger than your typical grow, probably veg up to four feet.

????

Also the larger straings are at 20-22 inches (Kush and Pineapple) and the smaller strain (GDP) is at 12-15 inches

I didn't post in plant problems because the plants look plenty healthy

maybe the pots are too small and the plant just doesn't have any more room to grow roots?

billdubz785 said:

Up to the past few days my plants have been growing as I expected indoors.

Now the plants are pretty much stopping growth, or growing very slow. There's no sign of stress, and I have been keeping the environment the same with 24/0 and I'm using SugarPeak Nutes.

The problem that comes to mind is not enough light, the room is about 60 sq ft although the plants are using about 1/3.

I am buying another 1000w for the room because I would like to grow these 9 a lot larger than your typical grow, probably veg up to four feet.

????

Also the larger straings are at 20-22 inches (Kush and Pineapple) and the smaller strain (GDP) is at 12-15 inches

I didn't post in plant problems because the plants look plenty healthy

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becareful i grow monsters. when mine hit 3 ft in veg then i move to flower room and the they gt 7ft tall. hope you have the room hight. as for your room size if you con cut the room size down instead of buying another light. i use a 1000 wtt rm size is 8 by 8 and 7 ft high. i do have a 4 ft diameter reflector that helps alot. i gro 6 plants at a time. and what is the room temp

mygirls said:

becareful i grow monsters. when mine hit 3 ft in veg then i move to flower room and the they gt 7ft tall. hope you have the room hight. as for your room size if you con cut the room size down instead of buying another light. i use a 1000 wtt rm size is 8 by 8 and 7 ft high. i do have a 4 ft diameter reflector that helps alot. i gro 6 plants at a time. and what is the room temp

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I don't think it's the pot size from the previous reply I have them in 5 gallon containers.

I can't really change the grow room size it took me a long time to build a wall in my shed and door for the room, I guess I could go for a larger reflector.

When I bought mine I wasn't really thinking about the size and it's rectangular, one foot wide and two feet long.

I know another light should help, although I'd be using one MH and one HPS.

Thanks for the reply I'll look into a large reflector, I'd like an AC reflector so I don't think I can go 4 feet in diameter.

It is normal for the plant to grow really fast from seed but after it gets a certain height it slows down to spread out growing more stems and leaves, so as long as it is a nice shade of green and still growing it is nothing to worry about, the plant is just filling itself out.

now whats wrong if ure seedlings are growing slow and there in big pots look nice and green and have plenty of light??!

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coolguy1 said:

now whats wrong if ure seedlings are growing slow and there in big pots look nice and green and have plenty of light??!

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Temps maybe?

la9 said:

It is normal for the plant to grow really fast from seed but after it gets a certain height it slows down to spread out growing more stems and leaves, so as long as it is a nice shade of green and still growing it is nothing to worry about, the plant is just filling itself out.

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Well that pretty much describes it then. Anyways I'm looking into a Growzilla since I've got an extra 1000w ballast from a website by accident, run 1000w MH and HPS.

You should see rapid growth every day even if it is big if you have a 1000w light and the rest of the stuff is ok. I think you have a problem and it might not be light unless you keep the light too far away.

Check ph of soil/water
What nutes how often
temperature at top of plant and top of container?

any more details?

OregonMeds said:

You should see rapid growth every day even if it is big if you have a 1000w light and the rest of the stuff is ok. I think you have a problem and it might not be light unless you keep the light too far away.

Check ph of soil/water
What nutes how often
temperature at top of plant and top of container?

any more details?

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SugarPeak Veg Nutes, no sign of burning and the plants look healthy.

The PH might be a little high, I only have the drops so I mixed some soil with neutral water and it looks like it's reading 7 but I don't know how accurate that is.

It's about 70 at the top of the plant and always a few degrees cooler near the bottom.

Other than that, the new leaves near the bottom have a white powdery look and haven't been looking too great on about half the plants bottom 3-4 inches. And the plants are 16 or 24 inches in 5 gal containers and the water takes days to dry in the soil. I've been watering maybe once a week once the soil is dry about 2 inches down.

I'm thinking of just starting the flowering cycle but I wanted them about 12 inches taller to get the maximum amount of bud of this growth, since I invested a lot for this one. Also thinking of switching my small 12'' wide reflector to a 2'X2' Growzilla and hooking up both my MH and HPS.

Thanks for the reply

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