short flowring plant

[MaShi]

hey guys

 

i'v just started my frist grow a few weeks back and i'v ran into a strange problem. i currently have 2 autoflowring fem plants going plantted 1 week apart, one of them is grow all fine but the other one is staying really short and it looks like its flowring already. i have had a fungus gnat problem but i got rid of them real quick with some DE. is there any reason why this plant is soo short? or is there anything i can do to get it to grow taller?.

 

healthy plant

http://i44.tinypic.com/2n20hfq.jpghttp://i43.tinypic.com/33jjz28.jpg

 

short plant

http://i40.tinypic.com/2wh41mp.jpghttp://i39.tinypic.com/2ep1oav.jpg

[allhailthebud]

its an auto flowering strain... its guna auto flower ...

 

nothin ya can do to make it any bigger.. shes just doin what shes genetically bred to do (auto-flowering...) - unless u have a giant magnifying glass handy, then you can hang it above the plant and itll look bigger then ever

[nici]

Stress can keep them short and sometimes that's just how they are - I had a Diesel Ryder that was only 4" tall but was some of the most powerful smoke

[kilindi]

did she end up flowering?

[Kandahar]

I love auto-flowers!

 

Peace

~Kandahar

[forgetiwashere]

i simply dont understand autoflowers?

[kilindi]

what's not to understand? they flower due to some intrinsic trigger, rather than an external one (ie daylight hours). what that internal trigger is i don't know, probably maturity of some description. lot of plants flower like that, especially annuals.

 

i've never grown any autoflowers strains before, hence why i'm curious whether she flowers at such a tiny size.

[forgetiwashere]

no i get how they work i dont understand why anyone would think that it is a good thing. if i wanted a small plant i would just grow 12/12 from seed.

 

the only possible reason for it that i can see is if you only grow outdors and you really wanted to be able to harvest all yr round.

[kilindi]

oh right, sorry

 

yeah i agree with you there, it does seem a little strange. guess they hold appeal for simplicity too, not have to mess around with changing light hours (like a timer is difficult to operate!)

[forgetiwashere]

(like a timer is difficult to operate!)

 

 

i think i might have a slight god complex though so having more control is up my alley