first off i want to say what up to everybody out there. now that that is out of the way, here's the deal. i have a sativa plant(unknown strain) that has been flowering for about 16 wks.now for the first 11 wks i had it under a 400wt hps bulb that i bought from home depot, which i later found out was of very poor quality, and all seemed to be going well. the pistils had turned, my trichs were somewhat cloudy,i thought it was alomst finished. then about five wks ago i bought some "serious hps" hortilux bulbs, all of a sudden it started kicking out new flowers with four to five pistils in them rather than the normal two, just last wkend it has started growing new leaves at the top part of the buds. my trichs are about 80% cloudy 20% somewhat clear. and i also noticed some amber. can anyone tell me what's going on with this damn plant. i'm really ready to cut it down because it seems to be a heavy trich producer, so with 16 wks of flowering it bout looks like its been dipped in sugar, literally, so needless to say it looks like its going to be some proper shit. but if ther is anybody that can help,or give some advice i'd really appreciate it. Thanks to all in advance for your assistance.


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gottta see a pic...

cut the nugs that are ready, and let the plant re-veg so you can pull some clones..keep that baby going..

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yea some sativa strains usually flower longer than indicas (8 weeks) from what i've heard sativas can take a long time to flower but breeders let them go that long just to get seed stock from them you probably should have harvested around the 10th week of flower letting it go longer buds will grow still and trichrome production still increases but then they start to break down when you harvest and dry out you'll notice more of the trichromes turning amber.so i would harvest soon as possible and know for next time average times indoors indicas 8-9 weeks(early strains 6-7 weeks) sativas 9-10 weeks and thats just average you can let them go longer but typiclly you harvest in that time period looking for cloudy trichromes and 60-80% red hairs

that's just it, ALL of the nugs are doing that. its like you look at a nugget right, and the flowers that look done are mixed with the ones that have recently sprouted. so its no way to chop one without the other.

How cold does your grow space get when the lights are off?

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makes sense since the sucker looked ready around the 11TH wk. i had just thought that the plant was responing to the new light that was of better quality. because i will admit the buds have swollen about twice as much in these last 4wks than they did during the entire time(12wks) under the weak home depot bulbs, but i think you might be right as far as cutting it down because 16wks is a long ass time to wait. just one more question though. with me waiting so long, do you think that the potency or strength of the plant has decreased, or am i just worrying for nothing?

here lately, probably about 50-55. why?

I grew some last year that were an indica cross and instead of my typical 56 days of flowering, it took them almost 80. They seemed to stop growing and then when the temps grew a bit warmer, they started to grow (flower) again. The buds were large but oddly shaped. It was pretty obvious that
something was amiss and the only change to my standard proceedure was that it we had a week of below zero actual temps and my space was much cooler at night then normal.

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A Picture would be nice