L.A Confidential Buds not behaving as they should?...Please help

Hi guys and possibly girls. Atm i am doing D.N.A Genetics LA Confidential which ive heard good things about, it's 100% indica. Im quite experienced and have always had success with my grows, this is my 6th one. Usually between day 20-30 I would see the "explosion" occur where the majority of bud grows and fills out, then after that they just slowly get bigger and fatten. I would be left with nice rock solid crystally nugs. I am at day 31 flower now, and the buds dont feel good at all. They are leafy and i can still identify the nodes without looking closely, there are some nice big tufts of white hairs coming from the nodes but they are very loose feeling. There is also some thc crystals spreading out onto the leaves, that looks normal. I can also see the dense bud/calyxs forming at the very top of the stalks, but the lower nodes arent very good. On the lower part of the plant the newer growth is kinda yellowy and weak looking, and the stems are also kinda weak. There are old dead leaves falling off like normal, but there seems to be some smaller "newer growth" leaves coming of with a tiny pull. The upper half leaves are all nice and green, i normally get the lower leaves falling off anyway so it doesnt usually concern me... I have two plants which i can see are way different phenos, so its nothing genetics related.

I am using my usual Biobizz grow + bloom with a bit of grotek flowering booster, and revive (calmag basically) when it needs it. I am growing in canna terra professional plus soil under a 600w.

Its 2ml grow + 3ml bloom every water up until after week 5ish where i just reduce the grow to nothing. I give it the flowering booster twice just before and during the "explosion" period.

Can anybody see something wrong there? The only possibly i can think of is that i am giving it too much nitrogen and not enough potassium? I dont see how that can be possible as the biobizz feeding recommends pretty much the same amount of grow as bloom. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I will also upload some pictures later, as i am not at home. I know a photo is important but this is really annoying me to the point where i cant even function, so much time has gone into this (very long veg) and if its crappy i will be crushed.

Thank you

EDIT: So here's those pics i promised! What do you think?

The first four pics are 1 plant, it's at the front so i could get a pic of the tops and then down the branch a few nodes where you can see poor growth. The last 3 are the plant at the back. Any suggestions help would be greatly appreciated.


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Just for kicks here's some bud porn from the delicious LA Diva i did


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Bugeye

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I had an LA Confidiential last year that was phenomenal. My sense is that this strain does not need much in the way of nutes. I was in a large dirt bay with lots of good organic soil and I don't think she got fed anything else all season, because she never asked for anything more. Monster dark green leaves that didn't even think about fading until very last week.

Post some pictures for sure.
 
Hey Bugeye thanks for reply. Yes it's odd i have nice big green leaves too (except nearest the bottom), and there are no burnt tips to suggest nute burn. You say they don't require much, i've heard this elsewhere too, so that leaves me a bit baffled. No nute burn from a plant that doesnt require a lot of feed, but im feeding it a good bit and still getting this problem. Doesnt make sense to me, hopefully some pics will shed some light on this. I will upload in a few hours.
 

Jimdamick

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I'm sorry to say that DNA's LA Confidential is a POS in my opinion. The genetics are just not there, and they probably never will be in the near future. I wasted a shit load of money and time on that plant (over $150 in seeds) and after planting 16 seeds with 5 popping and out of those only one good plant I feel for you. There is nothing you can do to change that situation, short of witchcraft. I have 4 of them going now, and want to rip 3 of them out and chuck them, but what the fuck, I might get a zip out of the 3, and 1.5 out of the 4th, but I doubt it. I have done everything that I could, and I have surrendered. I even contacted DNA, they sent me new seeds, and they sucked also. Live and learn, and I REALLY wanted to try that strain. Fuck it. You want a great strain, try Serious Seeds White Russian. It is a killer plant and if you like Indica, you will love it. Peace and Merry Holidays
 

Bugeye

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Sorry to hear that Jimdamick. My LA was so good I was planning to grow another next season. Won't bother if more reports like yours come in.
 
I'm sorry to say that DNA's LA Confidential is a POS in my opinion. The genetics are just not there, and they probably never will be in the near future. I wasted a shit load of money and time on that plant (over $150 in seeds) and after planting 16 seeds with 5 popping and out of those only one good plant I feel for you. There is nothing you can do to change that situation, short of witchcraft. I have 4 of them going now, and want to rip 3 of them out and chuck them, but what the fuck, I might get a zip out of the 3, and 1.5 out of the 4th, but I doubt it. I have done everything that I could, and I have surrendered. I even contacted DNA, they sent me new seeds, and they sucked also. Live and learn, and I REALLY wanted to try that strain. Fuck it. You want a great strain, try Serious Seeds White Russian. It is a killer plant and if you like Indica, you will love it. Peace and Merry Holidays
God dammit...I hope i get lucky. I germinated two seeds and they both popped. Ive done two DNA strains so far. The last one was Chocolope, their 95% sativa cannbis cup winner and i gotta say it grew really well with nice big dank buds. The other one was "Strawberry OG" which was decent but not amazing, i knew i was taking a chance with that one though as it was free. I predicted getting less with the LA as dna says "350-450g/m2" as opposed to "500-600g/m2" for chocolope, but i didnt think it could be this bad. I hope the smoke will be super high quality, smells really weird like nothing ive ever smelt. Very like diesel.

Merry holidays to you too! :D
 

Bugeye

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Just out of interest, which breeder did you get the LA from?
DNA Genentics via Single Seed Centre in UK. I've also grown their Connie Chung, Cataract Kush, and Holy Grail Kush (all female). They all went fine for me and my HGK is on par or maybe better than my LAC. Did you get your seeds recently? Guess I'll go search more posts about DNA and see if I've just been lucky or if problems are widespread with them.
 
DNA Genentics via Single Seed Centre in UK. I've also grown their Connie Chung, Cataract Kush, and Holy Grail Kush (all female). They all went fine for me and my HGK is on par or maybe better than my LAC. Did you get your seeds recently? Guess I'll go search more posts about DNA and see if I've just been lucky or if problems are widespread with them.
No i actually got them in Amsterdam over a year ago. I went and got 4 strains, never had problems with any of the seeds germinating, i keep them in the fridge in a blacked out lunchbox. Gotta say that the chocolope and strawberry was nice bud, particularly the chocolope. The strawberry is kinda wild, i got 4 different phenos. I dunno about them to be honest, i went into the shop and it looked amazing. Really clean and professional, and they literally had microscopes on the desk analyzing bud!
 

Bugeye

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Just saw your pics but couldn't open your LA Diva pics at bottom.

I think you'll be surprised by how much she's still going to fill out! I seem to remember mine started flowering slowly and came on very hard in final three weeks. I didn't get purple until last couple weeks but it was very noticeable when it came in. Steady as she goes!
 
Just saw your pics but couldn't open your LA Diva pics at bottom.

I think you'll be surprised by how much she's still going to fill out! I seem to remember mine started flowering slowly and came on very hard in final three weeks. I didn't get purple until last couple weeks but it was very noticeable when it came in. Steady as she goes!
Well that's good news from somebody who's done this strain! I hope for the best! Damn, can you see the thumbnails? I messed the images up the first time, here's a link to imgur if it still doesn't work (2 images just click second image): http://imgur.com/IzBxvn0,lYB2p8v

Thx for help, any other comments/advice would be appreciated. Do you think it would do any harm to increase the potassium and reduce nitrogen?
 

Bugeye

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Now I can see them, looks pretty tasty! Well done. Your original picture post is now working as well.
 
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