6wks flowering, slow bud dev

Hey guys this is a violator kush plant i have had for some time now. I vegged the plant for a month, took six clones and then vegged a few more weeks before putting her into flower. I noticed she was flowering kind of slowly all along, also began very rapidly losing lower leaves. I didnt pay much mind to the loss of leaves as this has happened to pretty much every plant i've ever flowered but now im a bit concerned because it is week six and the buds do not seem to have gotten any bigger in a while. They've looked pretty much the same size for about a week now and they seem to be very thin and airy compared to what i usually get. I have a critical jack plant that has only been flowering 5 weeks with alot more bud development and it makes me wonder whats holding the kush back. First i thought N def, then ph or nute lockout, rootbound? I use ffof as well as ff gb bb and tb. 3 gal pot entire plant life. The buds are resinous and smell great, but they just dont seem to be growing at a rate i am used to and i would like to see what i can do get as much as possible from this girl. All tips much appreciated

I have no way to test the ph but im thinking a flush couldnt hurt, maybe flush really good tomorrow and then water with nutes? Transplant to a bigger pot? Just keep watering as i have been and take what i can get?

What's your light set-up?

That second photo shows you've lost all of your lower fan leaves, which is not good, flushing probably wont help...and if you are going to flush but have no way to gauge your ph, then what are you going to flush it with? Chances are, your tap water isn't balanced...and kinda how people say, you are what you eat, same for cannabis.

My light setup is two 250w cfls for flowering, this plant is directly under 1 of them. Thats too bad punk, any thoughts on what i should do? or should i take what i can get from this one and hope the clones do better? Obviously i need to start testing my ph and i plan to get a meter when i can. My main focus now though is getting these kush buds to fatten up if possible. If not as long as they ripen i'll be happy

You missed the window to max there potential for sure.

I suggest just trying to keep your nutrient levels within reason, high in P,K and Mg from here out, and get a lot of run off. A little more ventilation and circulation could help them breathe more CO2... but the overall harvest on this is going to be diminished...

Give them 4 more weeks, in that month a lot can happen, just be patient and try to stop over feeding them. It is the reason you're losing so many leaves. I think you probably need more run off to balance the media with your solution.

Sounds good snow crash, thanks for the input. Im ok with a smaller harvest if its still potent and 4 weeks sounds pretty good to me. By more run off do you mean water coming out of the bottom when i water? TBH i very rarely have water come out of the bottom when i water so perhaps the salt content or nute content of the soil is too high? If i'm over feeding this one then i may be overfeeding my crit jack as well, you're sure thats the reason for lost leaves? again thanks for the help

HashMash said:

Sounds good snow crash, thanks for the input. Im ok with a smaller harvest if its still potent and 4 weeks sounds pretty good to me. By more run off do you mean water coming out of the bottom when i water? TBH i very rarely have water come out of the bottom when i water so perhaps the salt content or nute content of the soil is too high? If i'm over feeding this one then i may be overfeeding my crit jack as well, you're sure thats the reason for lost leaves? again thanks for the help

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Yup, probably the main contributer right there.

You already did a flush, so now you just need to to keep the run off steady, at least 20% of what you add must drain out the bottom.

Sweet man thanks for the advice, i need to pay more attention to drainage/runoff +rep

You could also try throwing a few more of the 26 or 48 watt cfls on the sides...I bet your buds would fatten up for sure! The only drawback of the cfls is they don't penetrate that well, so lights on the sides help bigtime.