New to this, what do you think?

So I have a MM card. I also have 2 greenhouses. I bought a clone from my MM distubuter back in June. I took about 25 clones at different times thinking they wouldn't all go into bud at the same time. lol I was wrong. The plants new what to do....they all budded. I'm trying to send a few of them back into the veg. stage. I pinched off some tiny buds and put them in a different greenhouse with the lights on about 14hrs a day. The other plants are on 12 on 12 off. They are looking good to me. Starting to get the reddish hairs and a bit sticky.I believe they have another 4 weeks before harvest.I have these on advanced bloom nuts.The other ones I put on the veg. nut.I have a 600 watt light with a ballast and hood (sorry I forget the brand but from what a big grower told me this was the one I needed, he just happened to be shopping and helped me out alot)Anyways this is a first for me. I'm 60 yrs old and NEVER thought I would EVER use MM let alone grow it. I've been able to get off all the narcotics my DR. had me on : ) What I need is you to tell me what you think. Do my plants look ok to you? Do I need to do anything different ? Ok so wish me luck I'm going to try to down load the pictures.

More pictures of my first grow.

looking pretty good so far. i would suggest getting a 60x-100x magnifying glass to check the trichomes come close to harvest

What a world, I'm 59 and can get all the narcotics I want. But I have to grow my own marijuana.


I grow indoors, these have about four weeks left also.

When revegging my plants gets 18 hours of light, its harder to convince the plant to stop budding than it was to start.

You can use binoculars if you have some and don't want to buy a magnifier, looking through them backwards works just like a microscope. You have to get the lens up quite close, and just look through one side since they won't both be pointed at the same spot. The magnification power depends on how good the binoculars are, but any decent ones work quite well

Thanks Phaeton, I know what you mean,with health care being what it is you'd think that they would get a clue and have the insurance companys pay for MM instead of all the oxy cotin shit that DR. are writing RX for. I got so tired of pill popping, and the fact that my pharmacy would always tell me they had some of my meds on back order or that no one in this area is going to have it because there is such a drug problem that they just don't stock it anymore. I do so much better on MM. I make caps. and so I don't even have to smoke it.
I just hope that my plants get some big buds on them. I'll put my reveg. plants on the 18 hrs. of light. So far I think they are doing ok, just worried because the buds are really small but the plants for the most part are loaded with them. Do they get lots bigger during the last 4 weeks??

Are trichomes the red hair things on the bud? Or is it the THC that I'm starting to see on the leaves? Or something else?

The hairs are pistils that turn to a reddish color as flowing progresses. Trichomes aren't native to just cannabis, but are the key areas where THC and CBN are secreted by the plant.

Like my name, glandular stalked trichomes are the "crystals" which are visible, particularly on the flowers and the surrounding leaves of a female plant. If you look closely with magnification, the fine hairs covering virtually the entire plant are trichomes, but in reference to bud, people usually mean the ones that show visible signs of secretion like you're starting to see. If you've heard of kief, it's just another name for pure glandular trichomes gathered from sifting or grinding bud or leaves and what not.

Here are a couple of good references if you'd care to check them out. You really should if you're not entirely sure about when to harvest and what you'll end up with based on when you do.

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/how-grow-marijuana/71982-what-trichomes-trichome-101-a.html

http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1938