How the hell?

I am seeing people post pictures of their grows, mostly flowering stages. I see some showing 5 weeks or less of lfowering and the buds are covering most of the damn plant. Call me impatient or whatever but I am closing in on week 4 and my buds are still just getting covered with hairs and not even going up the main stalk yet. Could I be doing something wrong? I have posted pics in a couple other threads but shit, my plant is mostly Sativa and I have one Big bud skunk/northern light breed that doesn't even look like half the plant I am seeing. Could people just be full of shit when they say what week they are on? I count my week when I 1st change the light cycle so i will be closing in on week 4. WTF?? lol but seriously its not impatience, its nervousness that I got a 4-5 month bud strain 0.o

mostly light difficiency on your part if i had to guess but some of these people have been growing for years and know what the plants need for fattening up..

read... read... read... and you will improve your game..

that and getting your grow space dialed in

grygost said:

I am seeing people post pictures of their grows, mostly flowering stages. I see some showing 5 weeks or less of lfowering and the buds are covering most of the damn plant. Call me impatient or whatever but I am closing in on week 4 and my buds are still just getting covered with hairs and not even going up the main stalk yet. Could I be doing something wrong? I have posted pics in a couple other threads but shit, my plant is mostly Sativa and I have one Big bud skunk/northern light breed that doesn't even look like half the plant I am seeing. Could people just be full of shit when they say what week they are on? I count my week when I 1st change the light cycle so i will be closing in on week 4. WTF?? lol but seriously its not impatience, its nervousness that I got a 4-5 month bud strain 0.o

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If your plant is healthy then your doing nothing wrong,..,,.Being that your plant is sativa......it can take forever to flower.....of course it varies with all sativas but typically they will really start packing on weight in later weeks (6th week and up)...just be patient.....

I believe that some people do lie about how how old there plant is but thats usualy during veg. Seen 2 week old plants on youtube that look more like 6weeks.

Are you using CFL? They are known for fluffy slow bud growth during flowering. IF so keep your CFLs close. Hid will help alot, But sativas take awhile.

I know how you feel, an I just got my first HID box going now an im hoping for those incredible buds. It costs alot to set em up but after that is money tree box.

I have a small grow space so I use a 250 Watt Hortilux HPS. They are sleeping right now so tomorrow I will post pics. I do keep them on a schedule for ferts, water when the soil is dry a finger deep. its not the experienced growers I am talking about, its the people on their 1st grow that post these incredible pics of their plants at 4-6 weeks that look like they could be done in less then a week. They are really healthy plants, no leaves are yellow but they do have a slight yellow tip from me messing up the schedule but other then that they look great. I guess I can start to cry if after the 6th week they are still small ass buds. They did show some big growth in one day after I fed them nothing but 1/2 teaspoon of neptunes harvest hydrolized fish/seaweed to 1 gallon, and 1/2 teaspoon of Purple Maxx which is mostly just 5% Potash. Pictures tomorrow morning I promise

grygost said:

I count my week when I 1st change the light cycle so i will be closing in on week 4.

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A lot of people start the count when they see flowers starting.

I start my growth count when I take the seed from the packet and my flowering period from when I switch to 12/12.

People can lie. Flower production varies with variety (strain). Indica produces flowers in spurts, and sativas produce flowers gradually.

I shit u not, here are my girls, 400w Hps, FFOF soil, FF 3pak nutes, water ph'ed at 6.6 for 34 days then stared ff nutes (tiger bloom first day of flowering. thats ALL!! Day 69 from day i put seeds in papertowel, . 34 days vegg, 35 days flowering=69 days. And i count flowering from the day i switch to 12/12. I count vegging from the day i put the seed in the paper towel

robside said:

I shit u not, here are my girls, 400w Hps, FFOF soil, FF 3pak nutes, water ph'ed at 6.6 for 34 days then stared ff nutes (tiger bloom first day of flowering. thats ALL!! Day 69 from day i put seeds in papertowel, . 34 days vegg, 35 days flowering=69 days. And i count flowering from the day i switch to 12/12. I count vegging from the day i put the seed in the paper towel

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Very nice for 10 weeks in total.

reggaerican said:

mostly light difficiency on your part if i had to guess but some of these people have been growing for years and know what the plants need for fattening up..

read... read... read... and you will improve your game..

that and getting your grow space dialed in

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True, the learning never stops.. Which makes it fun.. I love reading what people are doing and experimenting with different methods. Some of these people are incredibly intelligent and good at what they do.

SCARHOLE said:

I believe that some people do lie about how how old there plant is but thats usualy during veg. Seen 2 week old plants on youtube that look more like 6weeks.

Are you using CFL? They are known for fluffy slow bud growth during flowering. IF so keep your CFLs close. Hid will help alot, But sativas take awhile.

I know how you feel, an I just got my first HID box going now an im hoping for those incredible buds. It costs alot to set em up but after that is money tree box.

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lol so im not the only one who thinks that!

Ok, here are the pics, bear in mind with the HPS my camera gets messed up, but this is week 3 of flowering, start of week 4 will be on tuesday of next week, do these look like they are on track or stunted? Thanks for the help