Anyways thundercat do dabble with clones?
Well, I decided to take some of this advice into serious consideration.
I fed some nutes last night and I'm planning on at least another week or two until harvest. Depending on trichome color, of course.
Have you and I talked about flower maturations fragasm? I don't want to repeat myself if I have explained this stuff to you already. Trichomes are the LAST thing to look at for determining harvest, and you don't want to ever base your harvest on just one variable. There are atleast 3 that should ALWAYS be considered as you begin to understand plant biology.
Can you tell me more?
Yep for sure.
So I've grown quite a few different strains, and hundreds of plants in the last 13 years I"ve been growing. After doing so I've found that MOST cannabis plants follow a very typical maturation process. Every so often you get a weird plant that doesn't fall in line, but its not very often from my experience.
First let me say breeder times are a loose suggestion based the breeders specific garden, which means your garden and plants will be different then theirs.
As the plant grows it will go through cycles of buds getting bigger, and then slowing and getting denser. Eventually the buds will stop getting bigger outwards, and the stigma will turn colors and actually shrink up most of the time. This is the sign that the plant is in the final stages of growth. It is no longer trying to produce new buds at this point, but it will still pack on weight by swelling internally.
Usually this takes 1-3 weeks AFTER the stigma have receeded. You will notice that the bracts will each actually swell up some, and look plump. That is the signal the plant is just about ripe, and that is when I would suggest looking at the trichomes.
When you do check trichomes make sure you look at the whole plant, and look at the buds only, not the leaves.
If you watch for these signs, the plant will tell you when it is really ready. I think there is way to much emphasis put on looking at trichomes, especially because until you know exactly what you are looking for it is really hard to differentiate.
All that being said I havn't looked at trichomes in years. I've found that if I watch for the stigma to receed completely and the buds to properly swell, then the trichomes are pretty much always right on.
Looking at all 3 metrics will give you the best picture of the harvest window.
View attachment 4352416 Hey thundercat this one has been growing fast it’s a Death Star clone I wanna keep cutting clones from. Any advice on training or topping if needed
View attachment 4352416 Hey thundercat this one has been growing fast it’s a Death Star clone I wanna keep cutting clones from. Any advice on training or topping if needed
On damn fire!!!View attachment 4351997 View attachment 4352000
Here is a Gelato that likes about a week longer, if yours start looking like this, then your almost done.
Yep for sure.
So I've grown quite a few different strains, and hundreds of plants in the last 13 years I"ve been growing. After doing so I've found that MOST cannabis plants follow a very typical maturation process. Every so often you get a weird plant that doesn't fall in line, but its not very often from my experience.
First let me say breeder times are a loose suggestion based the breeders specific garden, which means your garden and plants will be different then theirs.
As the plant grows it will go through cycles of buds getting bigger, and then slowing and getting denser. Eventually the buds will stop getting bigger outwards, and the stigma will turn colors and actually shrink up most of the time. This is the sign that the plant is in the final stages of growth. It is no longer trying to produce new buds at this point, but it will still pack on weight by swelling internally.
Usually this takes 1-3 weeks AFTER the stigma have receeded. You will notice that the bracts will each actually swell up some, and look plump. That is the signal the plant is just about ripe, and that is when I would suggest looking at the trichomes.
When you do check trichomes make sure you look at the whole plant, and look at the buds only, not the leaves.
If you watch for these signs, the plant will tell you when it is really ready. I think there is way to much emphasis put on looking at trichomes, especially because until you know exactly what you are looking for it is really hard to differentiate.
All that being said I havn't looked at trichomes in years. I've found that if I watch for the stigma to receed completely and the buds to properly swell, then the trichomes are pretty much always right on.
Looking at all 3 metrics will give you the best picture of the harvest window.
Different genetics really can grow very differently, and sometimes plants are just runts. Or you may have messed something up lol. Either way you are getting lots of good experience.
If you have any questions on terminology I used or what I said feel free to ask.
Stigma and bract.
Stigma is like the inner structure of the flower?
Bract, are those the sugary leaves coming off the flowers themselves?
Also, thanks a lot for your time and patience.
No problem at all sir! I figured those might have been the terms. I only found out about them about 6 months ago.
So according to botany "stigma" is the proper term for what people usually call a "pistil". The hairs coming from the buds.
"Bract" is the proper term for what is mistakenly called a "calyx". Once I learned this and verified the research I started trying to use the correct terms whenever possible.
My stigmas, or hairs, are still light color and haven't seen any noticeable change.