Why no amber??

Autos can be a fickle breed sometimes and a kick in the pants can help.

A drop in light schedule to 12/12 - 11/13 or 10/14 will force finish some laggy slow autos. Dropping your auto cycle to a regular “ bloom “ cycle will not impact final result since you are in the later stages of bloom anyways . Wonky breeding , stress , etc. can play into issues with autoflowers.

That “ 3rd wheel “ addition of Ruderalis into the gene pool sometimes bring inconsistent results.

Grew plenty of autos over the years - had one go 15 weeks ( stalled ) .
Now I run 20/4 or 18/6 thru week 5 - 6 of flower THEN I drop to 12/12 bloom.
No Prob.

Autos are not light cycle dependent so it cares less what cycle you actually run - so by running a standard bloom cycle it can usually push the stubborn ones.

a trimmers wet dream

Some strains don’t amber up much either ……

Some Triches will turn amber as plant dies and dries anyways.

Budzbuddha said:

Autos can be a fickle breed sometimes and a kick in the pants can help.

A drop in light schedule to 12/12 - 11/13 or 10/14 will force finish some laggy slow autos. Dropping your auto cycle to a regular “ bloom “ cycle will not impact final result since you are in the later stages of bloom anyways . Wonky breeding , stress , etc. can play into issues with autoflowers.

That “ 3rd wheel “ addition of Ruderalis into the gene pool sometimes bring inconsistent results.

Grew plenty of autos over the years - had one go 15 weeks ( stalled ) .
Now I run 20/4 or 18/6 thru week 5 - 6 of flower THEN I drop to 12/12 bloom.
No Prob.

Autos are not light cycle dependent so it cares less what cycle you actually run - so by running a standard bloom cycle it can usually push the stubborn ones.

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I’ve had this one on a 20/4 light schedule from day 1 … should I drop it to 12/12?

waterproof808 said:

a trimmers wet dream

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Lol

114 day auto!!!! Whoever heard of such nonsense ? Well I have and you’ve got a ways to go before you catch me. I’ve stopped counting days and even weeks…..I’m counting by the months. Mine sprouted on Oct. 13….and started flowering hard a month later.
I won’t even get into all the dirty details but I will tell u that I had 3 plants…all super skunk from Homegrown Cannabis Co.
One actually sprouted two weeks later as I decided to add a third. It has been the most “normal” of the 3 and I actually harvested it about 10 days ago. It had minimal ambers, maybe 10% if that. It was totally ripe though with all pistils orange and receded. It only took 18 weeks to get there. I waited around 3 weeks after all the hairs turned and receded…,and finally decided to chop. I couldn’t find a clear trich and decided that was good enough because I was scared of mold, bud rot, or passing away myself of old age.
The other two are still at it. The one real puzzler had tons of thick white hairs and was moving along around week 8-9 to the point where I figured it would ripen up by week 12 or 13. I was wrong. I don’t know that I did anything to cause it but the progress slowed to a crawl and the plant just kinda stayed there….week after week. About Half of the white hairs turned orange but the other half never did and are still there, white as ever.
Around 3 weeks ago it started growing new calyces and thus new white hairs. Except it looks like it ran out of gas and some of the calyces never did spit hairs or spit out a tiny little stub of a hair, which promptly turned rust orange.
Those hairs from week 8 are still there but if you touch one it will likely fall off.
The good news is the trich production kicked into high gear and it’s very frosty. It’s slowly showing more ambers but has a bunch of clears also.
As far as I know, the only real mistakes I’ve made was under feeding around week 6-7, and doing a massive defoliation week 12-13. I got carried away and snipped way too many. This stressed them big time and caused many of the few remaining leaves to yellow and die.
I’ve also wondered if it didn’t start to re-veg for a spell then stop. It has grown some strange leaves after the defoliation. Smooth edges and and oval.
My little plant can’t hold a candle to your beast so I can’t say how the buds will turn out. But my tops should be decent but the lower stuff is way way too leafy.
I accept my share of the blame but can’t help but think poor unstable genetics is also a major factor. 3 plants and 3 totally opposite phenos.
For the record they are growing at a 11/13 Light cycle but were on 19/5 for the first 14 weeks.
Light is a HLG 320 LED.
I feel your pain and sympathize w/ you. Looking at your plant, I’d say you still have some time. You’re not getting any volume of ambers until those pistils stop popping…..IMHO.

Sorry I did manage to get out the calendar and count up the days….today was day 140…..
I don’t wanna hijack your thread but I may hijack any ideas that people offer up as a solution. Lol

Bullmark said:

Sorry I did manage to get out the calendar and count up the days….today was day 140

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Your plant stalled because you removed all the leaves during flower, she wants to finish but can’t. Live and learn, the leaves are there for a reason, if you remove them all the plant stalls.

Bullmark said:

114 day auto!!!! Whoever heard of such nonsense ? Well I have and you’ve got a ways to go before you catch me. I’ve stopped counting days and even weeks…..I’m counting by the months. Mine sprouted on Oct. 13….and started flowering hard a month later.
I won’t even get into all the dirty details but I will tell u that I had 3 plants…all super skunk from Homegrown Cannabis Co.
One actually sprouted two weeks later as I decided to add a third. It has been the most “normal” of the 3 and I actually harvested it about 10 days ago. It had minimal ambers, maybe 10% if that. It was totally ripe though with all pistils orange and receded. It only took 18 weeks to get there. I waited around 3 weeks after all the hairs turned and receded…,and finally decided to chop. I couldn’t find a clear trich and decided that was good enough because I was scared of mold, bud rot, or passing away myself of old age.
The other two are still at it. The one real puzzler had tons of thick white hairs and was moving along around week 8-9 to the point where I figured it would ripen up by week 12 or 13. I was wrong. I don’t know that I did anything to cause it but the progress slowed to a crawl and the plant just kinda stayed there….week after week. About Half of the white hairs turned orange but the other half never did and are still there, white as ever.
Around 3 weeks ago it started growing new calyces and thus new white hairs. Except it looks like it ran out of gas and some of the calyces never did spit hairs or spit out a tiny little stub of a hair, which promptly turned rust orange.
Those hairs from week 8 are still there but if you touch one it will likely fall off.
The good news is the trich production kicked into high gear and it’s very frosty. It’s slowly showing more ambers but has a bunch of clears also.
As far as I know, the only real mistakes I’ve made was under feeding around week 6-7, and doing a massive defoliation week 12-13. I got carried away and snipped way too many. This stressed them big time and caused many of the few remaining leaves to yellow and die.
I’ve also wondered if it didn’t start to re-veg for a spell then stop. It has grown some strange leaves after the defoliation. Smooth edges and and oval.
My little plant can’t hold a candle to your beast so I can’t say how the buds will turn out. But my tops should be decent but the lower stuff is way way too leafy.
I accept my share of the blame but can’t help but think poor unstable genetics is also a major factor. 3 plants and 3 totally opposite phenos.
For the record they are growing at a 11/13 Light cycle but were on 19/5 for the first 14 weeks.
Light is a HLG 320 LED.
I feel your pain and sympathize w/ you. Looking at your plant, I’d say you still have some time. You’re not getting any volume of ambers until those pistils stop popping…..IMHO.
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Ok - 18 weeks … 140 days … yeah, that feels like where I’m going to be *sigh*. I dont think poor genetics are a reason here … this is a Mephisto genetics … Sour Livers. And yeah - she’s fricking HUGE. She outstripped Mephisto’s size quote by a long shot … she outgrew her old tent by the end of December (she was totally pushed into the tent walls).