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I use Massive bloom formulation in flower along with my flower nutes. But the feed is only part of the equation and a small part at that. This is what plants need to grow their best. #1 Sun, get the best lights you can get, led are ok if you spend upwards of 2000 dollars, Hid is still the best for people without that kind of money to spend. The light is what allows the plant to create the sugars to grow. The better the light the better they grow. A cheap Hid will outperform a lower quality led any day. #2 is environment. Keep that as close to the humidity, warmth and c02 they require., then comes the food. With food, less is always best. Under fed the girls will still perform very well. Overfeed and the will suffer greatly and under perform on the flower production. Cheers

You could put it lower than the apical, and aim it at the middle range and lower set of flowers, as long as you have a main lamp also running above your plants.

Let it be, those big healthy green leaves are providing all the energy your plant NEEDS to grow her biggest flowers. 10 of the small "bud leaves" can not produce as much energy as one big fan leaf. Leaves should only be removed when they go yellow. Fewer healthy green leaves = less energy produced = smaller flowers. It is that simple. Plants can not "channel" energy. All energy is used throughout the whole plant. If you remove the healthy green leaves, your plant will just want to grow new ones to bring the potential energy production levels back up again. While growing the new leaves, she will delay flower growth, resulting in smaller and possibly less flower volume. Hope this helps..... Organoman.

Seems like a nutrition imbalance, could be humidity problems too. Good luck and stay lit growmie.