Foxtailing?

nick88 · Nov 1, 2012

Quick question on foxtailing. I know that its a trait with some sativa strains. My question is, is it a weakness of the particular strain? Or just a normal thing. The buds will stay dense until bout 3 wks left, then they start popping these fox tails out along the whole bud structure.
I have several diff strains going, and this is the only one that does it.
Tray 1 is pic so you can see the whole bud structure, tray 3 is a diff strain, the other pic is a close-up of the tip of 1 of the buds.
All grown under same lighting, nutes etc.
t5 with cfl supplemented where needed
flood n drain
Dutch masters nutes.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Slipon · Nov 1, 2012

I know some stavia strains dose it in late flowering, don't believe Indican`s should, two most common things to tricker it is high heat witch I don't believe you have with T5s other is to much nitrogen late in flowering and your dark green leaves could point in that direction ? do you have any leaves that clawing (look like a claw) and how much N. do you feed em after the stretch (fist 2-3 weeks of flowering)

ogkush420 · Nov 1, 2012

Fox telling is usually caused by high heat poor conditions for plant conditions but in your case it could be genetics for your fox tails look dank I had a dp blueberry do the same thing what are your temps looking like

hotrodharley · Nov 1, 2012

Just chopped a Super Silver Haze that would not stop foxtailing. No other problems with 8 other strains going.

ogkush420 · Nov 1, 2012

hey them T 5's get pretty damn hot

nick88 · Nov 1, 2012

ogkush420 said:
hey them T 5's get pretty damn hot

Yea, they get a li warm. Use mainly 6tubers, but have plenty of circulation and the room temp stays at 75 lights on, 65 lights off.

nick88 · Nov 1, 2012

Slipon said:
I know some stavia strains dose it in late flowering, don't believe Indican`s should, two most common things to tricker it is high heat witch I don't believe you have with T5s other is to much nitrogen late in flowering and your dark green leaves could point in that direction ? do you have any leaves that clawing (look like a claw) and how much N. do you feed em after the stretch (fist 2-3 weeks of flowering)

Sorry bout delay, I use Dutch masters gold which has a total of 5-8-12. I usually run my veg nutes til the plants are pretty much done with their stretch.
other than the dark green color the leaves look fine, no clawing or anything.
I have several trays with diff strains and it's only 1 that does it.
Wierd thing is, this is supposed to be a 75/25 with indica dom.

nick88 · Nov 1, 2012

Gonna try raising light just a lil. Don't want to get too far away due to using t5s

Slipon · Nov 1, 2012

I use T5HO tubes for Veg. and did a lot of research, even check them with my light meter

need to be with in 2-4 inch`s to provide good light to grow buds, so I do recommend to keep your plants low and bushy, specially if you don't have a HPS to flower with, after 10 inch`s they don't provide much light after 12 I don't even get a reading, my 600W HPS give out 7x as much 1" away ..

instead try to keep good air circulation in there, even more in flowering, but your temps sounds good so try to keep it there ..

about nuts, after the fist 2-3 weeks they wont need much Nitrogen, but a lot P and some K.

get a good bloom nutrients, maybe even a bud booster (do some research) also look in to Molasses ..

nick88 · Nov 1, 2012

Slipon said:
I use T5HO tubes for Veg. and did a lot of research, even check them with my light meter

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need to be with in 2-4 inch`s to provide good light to grow buds, so I do recommend to keep your plants low and bushy, specially if you don't have a HPS to flower with, after 10 inch`s they don't provide much light after 12 I don't even get a reading, my 600W HPS give out 7x as much 1" away ..

instead try to keep good air circulation in there, even more in flowering, but your temps sounds good so try to keep it there ..

about nuts, after the fist 2-3 weeks they wont need much Nitrogen, but a lot P and some K.

get a good bloom nutrients, maybe even a bud booster (do some research) also look in to Molasses ..

Have used Dutch Masters gold for a while now and only a minor prob every once in a while due mainly to operator error.
I'm adding potash+ for a bloom booster .
And iv'e done plenty of research, and i agree that it may be a lil too much nitrogen. But as that is dm's flower nutes i just hate to switch up nutrients in mid stream so to speak.

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