Is this ok to do?

i have a 250 watt hps light and im growing 2 plants! i have just bought a 125 watt envirolite in the red spectrum, im going to hang this down the middle of plants so them bottom leaves get just as much light as the lop leafs! is that ok to do?

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side lighting is good yeah lots of people use side lighting to improve yield on lower branches

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Be sure and watch your temps. Those lights can heat things up really quick if your ambient room air isn't nice and cool.

Hell ya, that will work awesome. I use a 250 watt HPS for 4-6 plants without the side lighting and get 1/2 to 3/4 oz off each plant, so you should do a helluva lot better yeild per plant depending on strain. Give each plant a 1/2 or 1/4 turn each day and all sides of the plant will get even lighting. Keep updates on this please, I'd like to keep an eye on it!

the thing is tho im into my 4 to 5 week of flowering and they are not budding very fast at all!! its doing my head that why i got the envirolite, i dunno if its got to do with how early i started flowering them, it was prob week 5 or 6 in veg because i wanted to keep them small is this normal. the strain in nirvana's early girl any ideas? or is it me not giving them time

Great idea wheelerd. Like i was explaining in another post. If the lower branches do not get enough light their buds will not mature and will be small compared to the top.

If it's that far into flowering and you're not getting much budding check to see if your ph is off on the soil or if your water has too much disolved solids in it for the plants to take up nutrients properly. If in soil check soil ph, and just go buy your water from those machines at the grocery stores it's super cheap per gallon. Try the new water and see what happens.

Lastly there should be a natural increase in budding from now until harvest if all things are optimal. The first couple weeks are naturally slow but at 4 weeks you should have good buds forming.

here are some pics so have a look for yourself! also my leaves are sying an falling off to is that normal to?

That's fine, it's all normal including the dying leaves. Add more light if you can to get the lower buds larger or you can harvest the top first and then give the lower buds more direct light for a week or so while they catch up. The buds will start fattening up big time here soon enough.

wheeelerd said:

the thing is tho im into my 4 to 5 week of flowering and they are not budding very fast at all!! its doing my head that why i got the envirolite, i dunno if its got to do with how early i started flowering them, it was prob week 5 or 6 in veg because i wanted to keep them small is this normal. the strain in nirvana's early girl any ideas? or is it me not giving them time

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5 or 6 week old seedlings or clones? That's fine for a clone, but if you are doing seedlings, then you should wait a minimum of 2 months before flowering. It will still turn out fine, but the plant isn't really "mature" until it is 2 months old or so. Since clones come off of a plant that is already over 2 months old, they are mature from the get-go and can flower after only a couple of weeks of veg. The pics look fine tho, you are at the right progress for 5 weeks in. It's the last couple of weeks or so that everything plumps up nice

yer there from seeds, hopefully they will be fine!

wheeelerd said:

yer there from seeds, hopefully they will be fine!

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I'm sure it'll turn out nice, but in the future you'll be happier if you wait until they are at least 2 months old before you flower. They will generally be more potent if you let them mature more before flowering!