HELP i THINK MABEY MY PLANT IS READY TO HARVEST BUT IM NOT SURE

iI THINK MABEY SHE IS READY TO BE HARVESTED THIS IS THE TIME WHERE I GET CONFUSED THE MOST! i WENT OUT AND ADDED MORE LIGHT 2 HER ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO. HERES SOME PICS! IM MOST WORRIED ABOUT THE TOP OF THE PLANT AND IM WORRIED THAT I MAY HAVE LEFT IT TO LONG. I HAVE BEEN CHECKIN THE COLORS OF THE TRICHOMES WITH MY MINI MICROSCOPE AND BOY IS THAT HARD TO FOCUS lAST I SAW THAT THERE WERE SOME CLOUDY SOME CLEAR A FEW AMBER! I ADDED THE 2 2700K CLFS ALONG WITH WHAT I ALREADY HAVE

still got a couple more weeks left it looks like in some of those pics...and you have a bit of an overabundance of nitrogen...you need more phosphorous, I'd put some in now if you can to get as much resin produced in the last few weeks

PuffinDaWeed said:

iI THINK MABEY SHE IS READY TO BE HARVESTED THIS IS THE TIME WHERE I GET CONFUSED THE MOST! i WENT OUT AND ADDED MORE LIGHT 2 HER ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO. HERES SOME PICS! IM MOST WORRIED ABOUT THE TOP OF THE PLANT AND IM WORRIED THAT I MAY HAVE LEFT IT TO LONG. I HAVE BEEN CHECKIN THE COLORS OF THE TRICHOMES WITH MY MINI MICROSCOPE AND BOY IS THAT HARD TO FOCUS lAST I SAW THAT THERE WERE SOME CLOUDY SOME CLEAR A FEW AMBER! I ADDED THE 2 2700K CLFS ALONG WITH WHAT I ALREADY HAVE

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Main thing I can see from your pictures is that you need more light to your grow. Cola looked alright but the other buds looked a little wispy. I've seen some PICTURES of some very nice grows with CFL's but never finished with them myself. Just seedling thru veg.

what can i use for a phosphorus product?

why feed at harvest time. waste of food. nothing will pack them with cfl. it is what it is. your doing fine. may also want to remove the plant to look through scope under normal light. light will give false reading sometimes. another sign of ripe time is the pistills will begin to knot back on themselves..or begin to curl back down and begin to turn amber or redish

how many weeks since 12/12

its been at least 10 to 11 weeks the cola leaves are starting to turn brown thats what im worried about because for one the pistils are still white and havent turned that reddish orange color and the lower buds are turning quite faster Im worried that mabey It dying. I went to check on in and its starting to look worse yikes!!

its natural for a plant to sort of look like shit near the end;. its tired. problem with cfl/flouro is lacking oiuytput to rippen and mature at the proper rate so we rarely see properly finished buds under cfl.
i see a few orange but i dont think it will do much more. it will keep popping fresh white ones. i dont know what to say to be honest except it needs more lumen penetration.
its not you. looks fine to me as far as what the grower has done.

I see that it keeps popin white pistils Is that something i should be concerned about because all the bottom smaller buds the pistils are redish amber I looked thru the microscope and i have cloudy to amber trichomes Will the colas pistils ever turn colors or am I at the end

PuffinDaWeed said:

I see that it keeps popin white pistils Is that something i should be concerned about

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nope they do that as they still haven't fullfilled their genetic encoding to produce seeds, this is when you are likely to get a hermie produced, if you want some fem seeds let go on.

it will always pop new hair as its not rippening at the right rate it needs to finish off. id go by them lower amber hairs then. you will never achivgfe full potential unfortunalty due to lack of light, dont worry though some cant with all the light in the world. your new to this so i think you did just fine as a grower. cant be blamed for the equipment

So what happens to that cola is it just wasted?

well all depends who`s garden it is. i think as you said you`ve been flowering 10 or 11 weeks now i dont think youll gain anything by continuing. might be best choice to flush it and move on???.
or would just be spending time on something that just wont finsih off right. unless there is more light added in a big way i dont think it will do much more. you could do the flush and drop lights to 8 hour on to help her finish off ripness. id at least recomend flushing to make it all yellow up, makes for a way better smoke.

drop lights down to 8 hours of light and the rest dark ness for how long?

ya. till you do the flush....week or so. cutting light time will trick it to think its winter time and in nature it wants to reproduce., so if left long enough will hermie and drop pollen on herswelf. then when it does it falls and composts in the ground. and next spring the seed pops and a new plant is born...in nature without us messing with it.
so for you indoor what it will do is same signaling to finish and finishing the cannabinoids is part of that. so will or may help to make it better smoke for you. it may or may not..but it wont harm it.

its it gonna harm it if i flushed it first then drop the lights down?

no...do in any order. when its dry and needs a water or now if it does then ph the water according the medium used and water till run off. heavier than usual. or take to bath tub or a sink and flood it. run water till tds is 100 or less and sit back. cut light same time to 8 hour. within a day or 2 should see yellowing and deff`s showing. let it fully dry right to the bottom of the pot. then cut and dry
but do let the medium fully dry to cut.makes the dry/cure btter

So I just flushed it and now will have my light on for 8 hours a day for one week

cool, let us know how it goes.