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Forged

Member
Buddy has G13 cheese (freebie), its his first time growing it. We looked online and not many people have grow logs or flowering times for these. The only two i found both said 50 days (which seems very short). Even G13 website doesnt state flowering time.

He is using a 600 hps in a 3x3 cabinet, 2 waterfarms and up to 1400ppm of fox farm nutes before flushing.

Anyways, he started his flush in the waterfarm on day 42, its now day 49. He has a 60x hand scope, we checked the trichs (on the buds only) this last week:

Day 42 - Flush, 10% milky
Day 45 - 20% milky, no amber
Day 47 - 40% milky, no amber
Day 49 - 50% milky, 10% amber, and 40% clear.

The girls pistols are 80% orange and most are shriveling and receeding. Buds are nice and full, leaves heavily covered in trichs. Leaves are still green, but tips are starting to curl up from the lack of nutes.

I told him i would wait another 2-3 days, he thinks he should cut now. He wants a very heady high, so he is looking for more milky and less amber. We are both noobs, but he said amber is degrading and he wants to pick as soon as ambers show up on the buds. I had heard that clear trichs arent read and you would rather have less clear and more amber.

Anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Would you rather have 50% milky, 10% amber and 40% clear? or 50% milky, 30% amber and 20% clear?

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racerboy71

bud bootlegger
is that 50 days from when you flipped to 12 / 12 or what??

ime, i've never had a plant finish in 50 days, not even close honestly.. maybe the closest was c99, but even that went a bit longer...

and i disagree, the buds will be much more potent if you wait to chop when they're ready instead of taking them too soon..

the best advice i got is put up a few pix, you know what they say about pix and lots of words.. :D
 

(818)MedicineMan

New Member
Anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Would you rather have 50% milky, 10% amber and 40% clear? or 50% milky, 30% amber and 20% clear?
I typically like the first option.

I have had a pheno of NL5 that was very smokable in 45 or so days of 12/12. If the bud is ready it is ready. Take a sample and try it out.
 

cobra28widow

New Member
and i disagree, the buds will be much more potent if you wait to chop when they're ready instead of taking them too soon..
I can appreciate the advice your giving him but theres no way your gonna notice the difference between 1-3 days.. im not saying chop them early. its weed, you put it in your pipe and get stoned.. if I had dried buds from 2 of the same clones and 1 was cut 3 days before the other.. and you smoked a bowl of each.. you would never know the difference.
 

Forged

Member
is that 50 days from when you flipped to 12 / 12 or what??

ime, i've never had a plant finish in 50 days, not even close honestly.. maybe the closest was c99, but even that went a bit longer...

and i disagree, the buds will be much more potent if you wait to chop when they're ready instead of taking them too soon..

the best advice i got is put up a few pix, you know what they say about pix and lots of words.. :D

Ive never seen one done in 50 days, but ive been at his house every day helping take care of them. Its been exactly 49 days since he switched from 24x7 lighting to 12/12. Ive seen the trichs with my own eyes every day, i still am baffled its already finished. This was at 47 days (2 days ago). Looks about the same now, just that the orange hairs have receeded a bit. THis one is on the outside, colas in the middle look the same, just fatter.
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Forged

Member
checked the trichs today, 55% milky, 10% amber and 35% clear. I think we will pull them down tomorrow morning.
 

jayhorn

Active Member
I can appreciate the advice your giving him but theres no way your gonna notice the difference between 1-3 days.. im not saying chop them early. its weed, you put it in your pipe and get stoned.. if I had dried buds from 2 of the same clones and 1 was cut 3 days before the other.. and you smoked a bowl of each.. you would never know the difference.
Last month I harvested 4 NL plants over a 12 day span, I waited 4 days in between harvesting plants. They were all clones taken from the same mother. The first plant was cut at day 56 and the last @ 68. After a month in separate jars, the day 68 bud is definitely the most pungent smelling and most potent, bigger & darker looking, noticeably different from the 56 day old bud, which is smaller and the high doesn't last as long. 3-4 days can really have a significant impact on a the plant's chemical makeup, the critical phase at the last week is where I found the biggest differences.
 

Forged

Member
Its now day 50. Here are a few pics i could get. I see a few amber using a 60x handheld. Not seeing as many using a normal camera.
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zubey91

Well-Known Member
G-13 grows slow, with cheese cross it'll be faster but the g13 genetic will slow the overall time down...I'm currently growing g13
 
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