Is this normal? (help needed)

Greetings

This is my first attempt at growing. After two weeks this is what my plant looks like.

For the past 2 days it looks like it's "closing" is this normal?
What should I do? Am I past the point on no return?





Thank you for your time


Gorlax

im pretty sure thats how my plant started out, took a while too but it was all naturally grown, literally just dirt and water. just give it time i would say. and dont over fuss the plant or water it too much

its streaching get the cfl closer

butter111 said:

its streaching get the cfl closer

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Thanks for the tip, I am using this kind of light



Anything else I should do?

get some cfls and put them 2 to 4 inches from the top

Get "daylight" cfls. "warm" or "soft" ones will also cause (more) stretching.

I Just made a article that should help ya out with that, enjoy -------------------420
Constructing a 100% CFL Grow

also warm or soft-white cfls will NEVER cause streching aslong as u have adequate lighting. Streching only occurs when the plant dont recieve proper levels of light, in short, it forces itself to grow a longer stem to reach the light. If you look at my gallery, all my plants are grown with "warm" 26w cfls' not 1 bit of streching, actually there more bushy then most plants ive attempted to grow, best of luck

Many new growers (and this is the Newbie section) are not providing adequate lighting. Many times, because of lack of funds they are starting with a few bulbs, sometimes only one! I have, in the past started out with minimal "warm" cfls and my plants did stretch like hell. I switched to "daylight" cfls and the stretching stopped, and without adding additional lighting. I think there is a large enough a segment of new growers that do start out like that and/or that is a common enough occurence(again, among newer growers) to merit my previous advice.

that was a GREAT post. Looksl ike you answered all the qustions of CFL's, if not I cant think of anything you left out.

Thank you for taking the time to do it. Now if only they can read.

If thats at two weeks, I would start over. Mine have atleast 8 leaves by now, and the lack of stretching there looks horrible.

lol thnx alot. I tried to answer all the common questions i keep reading. I think there may be a few small tips I left out but for the most part, im pleased. I hevent exactly seen a threah about a pure cfl grow so there it is. PLEASE read that article if your planning to go the CFL way. Will/Should answer the majority of peoples questions---420

is this comment directed towards me and my plants? and "the lack of streching' never knew there was such a thing. From my research, streching is NOT a desired trait. A bushy plant tends to produce less visible bud but thats due to the denseness of the bud. You can have a 5 inch "loose"bud and a 3 inch "dense bud". the dense buds will almost always weight up more. Again I think that falls back to the grower. What do people really want a tall streched plant with tons of bud sites or a bushy plant with less sites but better buds? I guess thats the growers choice..its not really about the cosmetics, its all about what plant will treat you best when its in your system