Insubstantial flowers?

First time growing so getting excited / anxious. ILGM GDP autoflowers in soil in 3 gal pots. It’s about 9 weeks old under a 260W XL QB V2 Rspec LED.

The buds look much less substantial than many i see. There’s a lot of them but they look smallish / not very thick and filled in. All pistils are white.


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You’ll learn @Ttgm. The more you grow the bigger they’ll get…especially with decent lights.

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Give em time, they fatten up…

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Is my light not a good light?

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Don’t know if it is or not @Ttgm. It may be a great light. Mine are real good because I got tired of airy buds and low yields and I finally listened to our light guru here on the forum and bought good lights. The lights I had grew ok…these grow great.

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They have a long way to go and will fill in and fatten up especially after 6 or 7 weeks of flowering. The last couple of weeks they seem to stall but are just getting denser usually.

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Excellent light Growmie and give them some time to fatten up :love_you_gesture:

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They are just getting started to actually look like buds, and from the looks of it, you’re going to have some nice fat buds! They will get alot bigger, as these pistols start to darken up it will keep growing more calyx with fresh new white pistols and with ever new calyx, the fater the buds get…

Patients and just watch the transformation :relieved:
You want be disappointed

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IMO HLG is the best. Nothing at all wrong with your light. How long have they been flowering and have you used any bloom boosters? I’m a big advocate of PK boosters. Whether you use any or not those buds will fatten up the further you get along in the grow.

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Those are fat colas in the making. Keep it up

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Agree with the rest great light and if your 9 weeks from spout you got at least a month to fatten up plants look healthy nice work

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The flowers are very young. Eventually they will fill out like this:

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Your light is great! I use the exact same one.

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If you have an extra space on your board ( XL ) you can order an upgrade kit and turn that 260 into a 320 with a meanwell driver. With that light, those buds will thicken up and come harvest, youll be super proud of yourself :slight_smile:

This was grown with the help of HLG :slight_smile:

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What size tent are they in? I run two of those lights in a 3x3. Download the Photone app and get your DLI dialed and she’ll fatten up. She still has a long way to go, she’ll start to fatten up as those white pistils start turning orange.

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They started flowering about 2/25 so just over four weeks. They’ve gotten two doses of FF Beasty Blooms, one 1/2 strength and one full.

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I emailed HLG about this exact topic. Not sure if I’ll add a new board before next grow or after…. Who am i kidding?! I’m gonna do it before :joy:

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I keep seeing pics like this one and was wondering if mine were anemic. Nice to hear folks let me know they’re just young :slight_smile:

I’m in a 2x4. I haven’t dug into light metering yet but the devil’s in the details and the details are what counts, so … :smiling_imp:

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I said four weeks but it’s actually closer to 5 weeks