Super Slow Bud Development on Way Healthy Plant Conundrum

[Aku]

So I've got a really, really healthy looking Blue Mammoth. She's under a dbl 3ft. T5 at 18/6. Not overwatering, not killing with nutes. She looks great! Started to flower, alls well. Now its like she's in slow motion! The pistils are there but the buds are sloooooooow. what in earth could cause this?

 

[Aku]

Moved her over to my 12/12 area. Shes now under a 10w COB LED and a warm colored CFL. Hoping she perks up. She was a couple weeks behind my others IIRC. So that puts her around week 7 at the moment. I've seen pistils for a couple weeks or better, just no length or girth growth action at all.

 

[namvet25]

Are you using boom nutes?Don't worry we all go thru this but t takes time for buds to form but they will come.

 

[Aku]

Ya, using tiger bloom. Just wondering if taking a cutting from her lowest branches for a clone would slow her down this much? About the only thing I can think of. I've had other issues with autos not "autoing" well. Can't think of what I might be doing to cause this slow down. Then again, what do I know? This is my 4thish auto so I very well might be mucking something up and not realize it.
Thing is, she looks so very healthy! Pistils came on about right, then just seemed to stop developing. I have had very high hopes for her because she looks to be growing so well.
I can hear it now but (and this helped me once before, perk up my girls) I hit her with some MG bloom food. Half dose really picked up another plant I had as a last resort and it worked well (that time). I'll report if I see any significant growth soon. Its killing me! Plant is so well developed, I had to tie some of the branches down to get light on everything she is so bushy.