Need some help with my first grow (white widow)

ok so this is my first grow ever and its white widow, its on its about to be on its 9th week of flowering, the buds seem really scrawny and theres not really as many crystals as i see in the images but there are tons of red and white hairs its on 12/12 lighting im not sure where to go from here, ive been using straight water for the last 4 days and this is all i have so far, the pictures are kinda bad but please let me know what you guys would suggest. i read somewhere to turn the lights off completely after 8 weeks but they just dont seem that they are that far along, i need some help please guys
thanks

Welcome to RIU !

Seems like a good effort regarding your first grow, the buds aren't real filled up but doesn't mean the end result will be bad ..
You already started flushing , though say they're not that far along. I would have kept going until the buds show more colors,brown hairs, crystals ..
8 weeks is just a guide line .. depends on the status of your plant.
Its an honest first grow .. you won't yield much, but at the end growing your own sure beats commercial grade bud ..

What nutes, lighting did you use ?

They are not ready yet mate.
Give them another 1 or 2 weeks.
You will see when their actually to an end the buds get really fat.
But yet again it depends on your lighting, and nutes.

Get back to use with those two and we'll have some more answers for you =)

P.S.
She Is Looking Very Healthy, Just Needs More Time!

- Nice Ol' Bud

im using the cfl from sunleaves and im using the tiger bloom and big bloom for the flowering stage. thanks for the inputs guys i appreciate it and i feel better hearing that so is there anything you guys would suggest now, i dont mind goin out and buying new lighting if you guys suggest any that would help
thanks again

You can never have enough CFL's!
As for the nutes you currently have those are fine.
Best bet to do now is just wait for those buds to thickin!

Do you have a microscope of any sort where you can view the trichomes?

no i dont have a miroscope yet but will be getting one soon. how long will it take to start thickening and when i get a microscope what should i be looking for? thanks ol bud

he did say he's been using straight water for the last 4 days .. don't know how that will affect the plant going back to nutes.

Holy shit man, thats some shitty grow u have, and it does not look like a widow, but it could be cas there are many different widow breeders...my first indoor went also down with widow and i yielded like a motherfucker, dunno man, 9 weeks and result is that, u must have some poor lighting , but yeah, she looks healthy, thats at least good!

Oh, and do not harvest it, it looks like it need couple of weeks more, 2 at least, at least!!!!

alright man thanks, any kind of lighting you recommend? would it hurt it if i switch different type of lighting this late in flowering?

it does not matter, go as much as u can go, u know hat i am saying..if u can, get more cfls, or a hps, just add more and u will hopefully yield more...Just know what u are doing, and u can archive that by reading couple of grow bibles, reading stuff in here and so on...Best of luck to you man...

tyler245 said:

no i dont have a miroscope yet but will be getting one soon. how long will it take to start thickening and when i get a microscope what should i be looking for? thanks ol bud

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Look at my guide,
As for how long will it take, 2-3 weeks.

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/386924-when-harvest-mary-j.html