Anyone have probs w/ the pistils turning orange/brown too soon? Im talking about orange pistils before the buds have fattened up hardly at all. What are the main causes of this? Is there any way to avoid this? 70% of pistils are already orange/brown and are hella long but still no amber trichomes and the buds are still really small , about the diameter of a dime/nickel.

Couls be your plant was pollenated.

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give it time new white hairs should pop out...unless pollenated like stated above

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there at 55 days of 12/12 ( Nirvana Bubbilicious ). They took about 2-2/12 weeks to show sex after switching to 12/12 so maybe subtract about 2 weeks from the flowering time( really flowering only appr. 30 days ? ). They were topped/fimmed a few times and vegged for appr. 3 1/2 weeks.They were flowered under a 4 ft 6 lamp HOT5. I see mostly cloudy trichs and gave one last feed ( of 2 tblsp tiger bloom and 2 tblsp mollasses per gallon of water ) yestrday. Im going to final flush in 3-4 days.

So now you say 55 days in? That plant is almost done... Obviously the pistills will turn brown. And you said you have cloudy trichomes so in another 2 weeks you should see lots of amber. I really don't get the point of this. Your buds could be small for several reasons. Good luck

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It doesn't start from the time you see the hairs it's the day you switch the lights.

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but its really a "grey area".. the buds are super small and not filled in or fat at all. I was thinking it may be because there just not ready yet because they took like 2 weeks to start flowering after flipping to 12/12 so maybe they are 2 weeks "behind" what I think they should be. So they could actually be 3 days away from chop instead of a week or so.. I do go by trichs, but this is one of those situations where things jsut dont match up.

I dont really agree with that.. Especially if the plants were immature ( no preflowers ) when u flip to 12/12. IMHO its actually from the time they show sex. But hell who really knows. A plant is gonna grow as slow or as fast as it wants to. It doesnt give a damn about breeders specs about flower times.

have you started to use molasses or flush?