I will try to sum this up.
Flowering room is roughly 2.5x4... and has 2 150W HPS lamps (although the 2nd one wasn't added until half way through the grow... the plants become much more bushier then I thought, since I did 0 pruning... and I needed more light)... I am only growing 2 plants at the moment. The other plant had all kinda problems from heat stress (it got too tall).
Grow was going great, very healthy... I *believe* this is an indica strain, so I assumed an 7-9 week harvest date. I think my mistake was assuming this, instead of looking at the plant itself to figure out how mature it was... but this is my first grow!
At week 6, I started giving only water, expecting an 8th week harvest... I am watering roughly once a week... I think I used too big of a pot (5 gallon), another mistake I think!... so, as expected, the leaves started yellowing... but the bud didn't seem to progress... at least not to my untrained eye. It seems like they are not very dense and I have a feeling this is because they were no where near ready to be flushed, but I have no clue now... so my problem is that this is week 8, and I am not really seeing any amber trichomes, but the pistils are getting pretty brown and the bud seems to have just stopped developing, the pics may seem like the bud is dense, but I think the pictures may be misleading... the pistils, as shown in the pics, are browning. Should I start back on nutes or just wait it out?... I don't think the buds had a chance to really swell... but again, first grow, so I have never really dealt with the plants themselves. Now the lower leaves are starting to die, which according to my research is expected when flushing... so I am in a panic mode, I don't want to harvest too early or too late... I am looking for a more sativa-like high... I am seeing some cloudy trichs (using 100x scope, waiting for a 30x to be shipped)... the 100X magnifies too much in my opinion, I can see like <10 trichomes at a time, so I have no idea how I can get a 'percentage' off of that unless I look at every leaf of every bud
... but browsing around between diff buds, I am seeing probably 60% cloudy, 40% somewhat clear/a little cloudy... and I have yet to see one amber... I assume it will be obvious?... do you think it is just because there are so many bud sites (0 pruning) that it is just 'spacing out' its growing energy to all of the buds, which is just creating smaller buds everywhere?
Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully everyone will say harvest NOW!... then I could have a 4/20 harvest![Wink ;-) ;-)](/styles/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Flowering room is roughly 2.5x4... and has 2 150W HPS lamps (although the 2nd one wasn't added until half way through the grow... the plants become much more bushier then I thought, since I did 0 pruning... and I needed more light)... I am only growing 2 plants at the moment. The other plant had all kinda problems from heat stress (it got too tall).
Grow was going great, very healthy... I *believe* this is an indica strain, so I assumed an 7-9 week harvest date. I think my mistake was assuming this, instead of looking at the plant itself to figure out how mature it was... but this is my first grow!
At week 6, I started giving only water, expecting an 8th week harvest... I am watering roughly once a week... I think I used too big of a pot (5 gallon), another mistake I think!... so, as expected, the leaves started yellowing... but the bud didn't seem to progress... at least not to my untrained eye. It seems like they are not very dense and I have a feeling this is because they were no where near ready to be flushed, but I have no clue now... so my problem is that this is week 8, and I am not really seeing any amber trichomes, but the pistils are getting pretty brown and the bud seems to have just stopped developing, the pics may seem like the bud is dense, but I think the pictures may be misleading... the pistils, as shown in the pics, are browning. Should I start back on nutes or just wait it out?... I don't think the buds had a chance to really swell... but again, first grow, so I have never really dealt with the plants themselves. Now the lower leaves are starting to die, which according to my research is expected when flushing... so I am in a panic mode, I don't want to harvest too early or too late... I am looking for a more sativa-like high... I am seeing some cloudy trichs (using 100x scope, waiting for a 30x to be shipped)... the 100X magnifies too much in my opinion, I can see like <10 trichomes at a time, so I have no idea how I can get a 'percentage' off of that unless I look at every leaf of every bud
Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully everyone will say harvest NOW!... then I could have a 4/20 harvest
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