Grow Mediums Big Buddha Blue Cheese 14 weeks young

[MattW]

Evening all,

Here we have a Big Buddha Blue Cheese Auto in a 15 litre DWC bucket, receiving 80l/min from an air pump.

It is now 14 weeks and 3 days old!! Seriously...!!

It was started under a 120w fluorescent then moved under a 300w LED.

Growth was slow initially for whatever reason but within the last 4 weeks it's exploded, drinking loads daily and branching out more and more. It's height is now 70cm and it's wingspan reaches 1m.

I've kept the ph around 5.5, temps around 25*c, humidity 50%. I've been using the advanced nutrients range with calmag and silicon.

its been on a 20/4 light cycle so far and is only showing one or two small white hairs on some of the more established nodes.

so far I've been unable to figure out how the hell this thing is taking so long to start flowering properly, so I opted to bring in old-faithful (600w HPS) and begin to transition in bloom nutrients.

ive heard of people getting sick of waiting for this kind of plant to produce the goods but I'm in way too deep now to give up!

Does anyone have any theories or suggestions to make this Big Buddha produce the cheddar?? (Apart from putting it on a 12/12 cycle as it's sharing the tent with some babies)


Any help appreciated....

 

[hiking high]

Put her in the dark for a day or two she might pop. It also could be a genenics.

 

[DWCocha]

Cant help on making her start to flower bud ,other than a dark period or a few days 12/12 maybe ?. She looks hungry though so dont be scared to increase feed strength a bit each week for a while until you see a bit of tip burn even ,then back off a bit .Plus 5.8-6.0-PH is the best range for bloom & she may struggle to get what she wants to flower at 5.5 . :Sharing One:good luck

 

[obeymybud]

I doubt she is a auto I had this happen with G13 pineapple express ordered autos and got a hole pack of photos took me way to long to figure it out.

 

[MattW]

I doubt she is a auto I had this happen with G13 pineapple express ordered autos and got a hole pack of photos took me way to long to figure it out.

Did you just end up running yours on 12/12 from then on?

thanks for the help guys, I'm going to start with a couple days of darkness to see what that brings.

 

[obeymybud]

Yep I went to 12/12 till I seen flowering signs then went back to 18/6 flowering stopped and more veg growth cont. then back to 12/12 to fin.