Question for my grow gurus, am wondering how long in days,or weeks diff. strains take to finish. I've got a purple kush,herijuana,afganfem#1,and 2 bubbakush/ogkush crosses in week7 of flowering. All are healthy and happy ! The tri's are clear, the leaves are dying off slowly, and they're thirsty every 3, or 4 days. Has anyone ever put out a chart, or gude for flowering times ?

Lol were stoners man c'mon guides and charts j/k j/k but I think the reason we do not have any chart data or anything like that is because different strains differ ALOT with feeding regiments flowering times, veg time, space, etc. etc.
So to make an accurate chart it would be VERY time consuming if you made a general chart it would be a waste of time and general info like sativas have a 10-12 week flowering and indicas will usually be ripe 7-9 weeks but that's not nearly accurate enough for me...

Yeah just Like Ganja said...from personal experience...they are all going to absorb nutrients and at diffrent rates...and thus will grow at diffrent rates....I dont go on what the expected time is cause it just doesnt work that way at least for me...When there ready they look ready...

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I go simply by trichome color (thru a 40x loupe) and by the look of the plant overall (ie: whether new pistil growth was occurring, if a large amt of the calyxes are swollen, if the pistil hairs were receding). My 2 strains were listed at 10-11weeks and 8-9 weeks by the breeder but actually traded flowering times (no the seeds did not get mixed up). The supposed shorter flowering time plant took 10 1/2 weeks (with one still going -->78 days today) and the longer flowering plant was undoubtebly ready at 9 weeks on the dot (this was under CFL too).

My trichs were atleast 70/30 cloudy/amber for all the plants I cut down and their calyxes were all swollen tremendously. The new pistil growth (appearance of white hairs) had also slowed noticeably for all the plants harvested.

I don't use a watering schedule either, I water when the soil feels dry enough and sometimes its every 3rd day and some of the plants (even in the same strain, cut from the same mother) took as much as 8-9 days depending on if it was producing buds or growing or establishing roots etc.

Lurking variables such as subtle phenotypic differences within the same strain*, undiagnosed or unrecognized stress in plants, medium of growth, nutrient levels, light source (quality and quantity), grower knowledge and experience, TLC (again quality and quanitity), grow room conditions, etc (the list goes on and on) can influence the flowering cycle of any plant.

*Plant genes recombine and can mutate in a similar fashion to human genes (or any other organism), just looking at the vast array of phenotypes in the human popultion can give you an idea of the genetic variability within a species and why the guidelines for flowering periods maintain plasticity.

Nutshell: go by what the plant tells you, b/c every plant/grow operation is different.

Ask and yee shall recieve ! So i now have a 30x lighted magnifier. This is definately the way to go ! Will be checking daily now. Once again i thank you all sofaking much!