The node length went from tight, 1/4”-1” to 2-4 inches, each branch grew like crazy after I switched to 12/12. There is plenty of LED light. Last grow I kept lights at 28” from canopy with great growth and chunky buds. These plants have grown so high I can only get 20” from canopy, and I had to tie them back over to prevent light bleaching. At 18”, most plants start turning yellow on light exposed surfaces. Not hot, just bright.
The bud sites look very airy, the terminal buds only have 3 or 4 small sprouting leaves. I expected more leaf shorter nodes for fatter buds. The plants showed many pistils in 18/6 at week 4! The bottom leaves look very Indica but top leaves are very skinny and long like Sativa. One plant of 3 was a runt and is only 12” tall (not shown) but budding how I would expect, lots of leaf. My two grew well but stretched a lot when there was supposed to be no stretch on LA C. It’s like my plants are only airy pistils, loads of bud sites but low on leaf.
I’ve grown before with this LED twice before, only thing weird is plants seem to finish early with this light, 60 day flower finishing in 45, previous grows had super fat colas, buds so big on sole plants they fell over. but this grow most leaves are at bottom of branches very few up near bud sites.
The clawed looking leaves on the veg picture were just dry. These plants need watered every other day or they start wilting. 3 hours after watering they look normal. Maybe I need to dial back nutes since I water so often? Typ. 5ml per gallon, 2 quarts each plant every other day or they look wilted. Recommended is 15ml on fast grow, 10ml ordinary growth.
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