Making a bud look delicious

alright, i'm new to growing but have a few babies that are 4 weeks into flowering. please view the pics. this strain is white russian.

i am trying to achieve a bud that would look like on the picture "whiterussianobjective".
this picture is like it is advertised by the seed bank.

it looks so full and soooo damn delicious. will my babies turn like that by the 8th week(64days?)


what should i do to make them produce buds like that? i gave them everything they need, 7500-10000lumens, nutes, co2... etc.

molasses asap, 1-2 tbs to gal, will fatten them out, looks like 2-3 more weeks left, hows the trics now?

what lights are you using? No, your plant probobly wont be as fat as advertized, but you did better than me on my first grow. I think you will be estatic with whater you harvest. They look really good though, and crystally.

Decent nugs. The pistil and calyx formation are much different from the Strain's photo and your actual Grow.

Which isnt a bad thing, I prefer your type of buds to those Foxtails anyday.

Keep it up! nice n Frosty!

looks really good and delicious...

any co2 being used ??

macdadyabc said:

what lights are you using? No, your plant probobly wont be as fat as advertized, but you did better than me on my first grow. I think you will be estatic with whater you harvest. They look really good though, and crystally.

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molasses tell me more about it... 1-2 table spoons with the same dose of the nutes? i don't want to risk overfertilizing them. where can i get it?

what would molasses do to the chemistry of the buds? how does it actually benefit? how does it help?

light are cfls. i have a very tight place, i can't put anything else in there.

Kingb420 said:

molasses asap, 1-2 tbs to gal, will fatten them out, looks like 2-3 more weeks left, hows the trics now?

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ok.. already bought that today. its pretty cheap to buy. i'll just experiment with the nutes and molasses with low doses at first gradually increasing to the recommended dose.

what's trics?

Trichomes the crystals on the plant

The $20 150 watt HPS lamp: https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/113223-skip-cfls-20-150w-complete.html?highlight=skip+cfl's

I bought two of these. They put out VERY LITTLE heat when compared to any number of CFL's. I can get my plants up to 4 inches away from the bulb.

i would like someone to please explain how molasses is going to fatten up your buds
it is my understanding that it is ment only to feed the microbes, that is if you have a colony of beneficial microbes. That will in turn break down certain chemical salts to a more readily available form for the plant

Carbohydrate? I believe that is the idea.

But it really feeds the good bacteria in your res. with hydro or when watering soil.

SenorSanteria said:

The $20 150 watt HPS lamp: https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/113223-skip-cfls-20-150w-complete.html?highlight=skip+cfl's

I bought two of these. They put out VERY LITTLE heat when compared to any number of CFL's. I can get my plants up to 4 inches away from the bulb.

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well, the lowest price is $49.99 i saw there, which $20 you talking about?

besides how would i cover the area and spread the light around with just one bulb. one plant grows and shades everything else. only the tops bloom. this way i got the whole plant covered in buds. hps has lots of red spectrum, so it would strech out the plants in a tight space like i have and i wouldn't get as many bud sites as with blue fluoros. though its true that hps bulb has more usable light spectrum than anything else on the market yet....

in any case my next step is LED, less heat than anything else, and more useful spectrums for the energy used. umm.. let me correct myself, ALL the spcetrums used by the plant for the energy provided.

i fed them molasses, we'll see how this changes them. and yeah trics.. i'm new to the forum. need to get used to the words.

looks delicious to mee..

missaslady420 said:

looks delicious to mee..

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thanks! i put alot of hard work into them.

thats one of the better cfl setups that ive seen. I like how all the tubes are orientated.

Theres one thing you should know about LED grow lights:

They suck. Dont waste your time. Buy a halide for veg and an HPS for flower.

The $20 HPS deal just ended, but I'm sure there are other cheap ones around.

SenorSanteria said:

Theres one thing you should know about LED grow lights:

They suck. Dont waste your time. Buy a halide for veg and an HPS for flower.

The $20 HPS deal just ended, but I'm sure there are other cheap ones around.

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go buy some floranectar and drop your flower room temps at night for massive resin production and ultimate sweetness...flush well...peace

kittykronic said:

go buy some floranectar and drop your flower room temps at night for massive resin production and ultimate sweetness...flush well...peace

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sounds good, seems like thats what i'm doing i gave them molasses.. which is essentially same as floranectar.. just read about it.. molasses got same ingridients the only difference is that molasses is organic. the temps go down to 66-69F during the night time.. so yeah, they are very very sticky already..
its a good point though, thanks, i didn't know about it, and i'm already doing it

umm.. LED.. they work. one day i'll bring this question back its just i need to test the light i designed myself. actually i designed it quite a long time ago, i really needed to learn all tricks of plant's behavior before i go any further.


but my question stiil stays, how to make the bud explode from the inside ... it looks on the picture like each of these hairs or pistils got full pocket behind it..
my buds are covered in trichomes but look a bit more leafy. or maybe its too early to say, i have to wait and see what comes out by day 64. so far its been only 32 days ))

From what I understand about molasses is that is feeds the microorganisms in the soil that in turn release valuable o2 and other nutrients to our lovely ladies. All in all in would not hurt to add. I add it with my tea, and just water and molasses. Hope this helps.

By the way nice buds.

ok, so besides molasses my advice for you would be:

GRAVITY by humboldt's own. i just bought a bottle today, havent used it yet but have read over and over about how it makes ur buds rock hard and fattens them up.

UVB bulb. i just bought one of these today too. lol. theres a thread in the advanced cultivation thread. check it out. its less than 20 bucks at your local pet store. get the 10.0 and like 20 or 26 watts. tell them u have a bearded dragon if they ask.