White Widdow Need Flowering Advice

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KushMe

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This is my first grow and I am in need of some expertise.

So its been 6 weeks of flowering now and I am in need of some advice on how much longer my plants need?

I have done lots of reading and research and have made it this far but have not yet developed the eye to tell how much longer my plants need to flower.

Lights: 12/12
-one 125 watt cfl
-our 40 watt cfls
-all 2700k

Temp: around 83 in the day 79 at night

Want to do a flush about 10 days prior to the end but would love to see a little more bud growth before I finish. Any advice on how much longer I should flower?

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woodsmaneh!

woodsmaneh!

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Nice job, I think you have at least 3 to 5 weeks left to go. The only way to tell when they are done is by the color of the trichromes. You need a magnifier capable of 30x magnification to look at the small leaves close to the bud. You can get them online or at radio shack/ hobby shops. You realy need one of these.

Here's how the colors work
Clear is the start and plants will show clear most of the time till close to ripening.
As they ripen they change to cloudy. Now your getting close, if most are cloudy and you want it now, go ahead and chop, but the buds will get bigger if you wait till you have some dark trichromes.

clear = active, but not ready yet
Clear & cloudy = up high, can get shit done
Cloudy & dark (60/40)= couch lock, not going to get much done
Dark = on the way to garbage, you don't want this

Flushing hummmmm....I don't do it. You would get better results backing off the food in the last 3 weeks than flushing for 2 weeks. Something like 75%/50%/25%/0% your plants will bulk up in the last weeks so starving them when they need it never made sense to me.
 
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KushMe

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woodsmaneh! said:
Flushing hummmmm....I don't do it. You would get better results backing off the food in the last 3 weeks than flushing for 2 weeks. Something like 75%/50%/25%/0% your plants will bulk up in the last weeks so starving them when they need it never made sense to me.
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Thank I man but don't you find you have problems with the chemicals in the bud.
 
klmmicro

klmmicro

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Looking good. I would say that they are half way there. Hairs are all still white and having grown WW a couple of times, the kolas will thicken up a lot over the next 3 weeks or so.
 
The Knuck

The Knuck

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woodsmaneh! said:
Nice job, I think you have at least 3 to 5 weeks left to go. The only way to tell when they are done is by the color of the trichromes. You need a magnifier capable of 30x magnification to look at the small leaves close to the bud. You can get them online or at radio shack/ hobby shops. You realy need one of these.

Here's how the colors work
Clear is the start and plants will show clear most of the time till close to ripening.
As they ripen they change to cloudy. Now your getting close, if most are cloudy and you want it now, go ahead and chop, but the buds will get bigger if you wait till you have some dark trichromes.

clear = active, but not ready yet
Clear & cloudy = up high, can get shit done
Cloudy & dark (60/40)= couch lock, not going to get much done
Dark = on the way to garbage, you don't want this

Flushing hummmmm....I don't do it. You would get better results backing off the food in the last 3 weeks than flushing for 2 weeks. Something like 75%/50%/25%/0% your plants will bulk up in the last weeks so starving them when they need it never made sense to me.
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Agreed, thats all you really need to know right there.

for what its worth i took mine at 9 weeks and probably should have waited until 10- 10 1/2 weeks, but that was mine.

trichs are the only way.
 
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KushMe

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I have a few more questions regarding bud development.

I have heard that molasses is a good thing to give to the plant dose anyone have any advice on this?

Secondly regarding CO2, I do not have the budget to get a CO2 system but have heard of people using Carbonated water and foliar feeding the plants daily to administer the CO2 dose anyone have advice for me, I just want to get the best crop I can on my budget?
 
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