Late flower plant is confusing me

Themagnata

Active Member
Ok so im pheno Hunting and I think my plants are stalled. This strains are supposed to be ready in 9-10 weeks and I'm on week 14 already.

The leaves are very Yellow, because I thought the plants were supposed to be ready at week 10 i started flushing from week 8 until week 11. I just then realized the plants need longer to finish and then I started feeding them again. I've checked for trichomes and it's like 50 are clear and 50 are milky. No brown trichomes. Some pistills on some strains are still white.

I've done a lot of different stuff that i think a lot of growers don't do and may find weird, like small pots and not PHing my water, but I'm pretty sure you can grow good weed this way because I've seen some threads. i just have to dial in with this way of growing, i'm trying to find out whats the cause of my plants not wanting to finish.

I'm growing in a 5x5 foot tent

2x 600w Lamps

Sog grow in 1gallon pots
Biobizz nutes (the complete line) no pH water

I follow the vpd chart and the temperatures and RH were more stable throughout this grow

I water when I see the plants are asking for water( i think this was a big mistake ) and I also think I've been watering too much water

There were a couple of times where I opened the tent and all the leaves were down like the plant was about to die, but after watering they came back.

i also have some plants in week 5 in this same tent that are going well, well at least yet.. don't mind these, my concern is the more advanced ones

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visajoe1

Well-Known Member
The yellow leaf ones are done, pull em.

I see some clawing on some, but other than that looks all good in there.
 

Rurumo

Well-Known Member
No, don't harvest if the trichomes are all clear. Give them the time they need to ripen. Those breeder timelines are totally arbitrary. You can give a somewhat accurate harvest window for a clone, or even an IBL, but not for 95% of the seeds on the market. You did good to wait, now you just need to wait until they're done. Those plants won't all be finished at the same time. Scoping trichs is fine and provides some good info, but it's only a piece of the puzzle, look for these other signs of ripeness that are just as/or more important. https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/a-guide-on-when-to-harvest.666373/ Looks like you'll have some great smoke in there, good luck!
 

Themagnata

Active Member
No, don't harvest if the trichomes are all clear. Give them the time they need to ripen. Those breeder timelines are totally arbitrary. You can give a somewhat accurate harvest window for a clone, or even an IBL, but not for 95% of the seeds on the market. You did good to wait, now you just need to wait until they're done. Those plants won't all be finished at the same time. Scoping trichs is fine and provides some good info, but it's only a piece of the puzzle, look for these other signs of ripeness that are just as/or more important. https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/a-guide-on-when-to-harvest.666373/ Looks like you'll have some great smoke in there, good luck!
That's what I thought, I'm not taking the plant down just because the breeder said 9 weeks, but I was not expecting them to take so long..

Unfortunately on the day I took the other pictures i watered the plants and gave them too much nutes ( the plants were looking very Yellow and I thought I should give them full strength nutes and went overboard with it). Now the plants are looking a bit burnt.

Here are some pictures:

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hotrodharley

Well-Known Member
Ok so im pheno Hunting and I think my plants are stalled. This strains are supposed to be ready in 9-10 weeks and I'm on week 14 already.

The leaves are very Yellow, because I thought the plants were supposed to be ready at week 10 i started flushing from week 8 until week 11. I just then realized the plants need longer to finish and then I started feeding them again. I've checked for trichomes and it's like 50 are clear and 50 are milky. No brown trichomes. Some pistills on some strains are still white.

I've done a lot of different stuff that i think a lot of growers don't do and may find weird, like small pots and not PHing my water, but I'm pretty sure you can grow good weed this way because I've seen some threads. i just have to dial in with this way of growing, i'm trying to find out whats the cause of my plants not wanting to finish.

I'm growing in a 5x5 foot tent

2x 600w Lamps

Sog grow in 1gallon pots
Biobizz nutes (the complete line) no pH water

I follow the vpd chart and the temperatures and RH were more stable throughout this grow

I water when I see the plants are asking for water( i think this was a big mistake ) and I also think I've been watering too much water

There were a couple of times where I opened the tent and all the leaves were down like the plant was about to die, but after watering they came back.

i also have some plants in week 5 in this same tent that are going well, well at least yet.. don't mind these, my concern is the more advanced ones

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Didn't count the pictures but there's proof that flushing is ridiculous. Unnecessary. Does not improve bud quality or taste.
 

Themagnata

Active Member
I just took some pictures of the root system of one plant i harvested about a week ago

Does this plants look root bounded?

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DrOgkush

Well-Known Member
I’m not the roots dr. But compared to a healthy plant. They should be a nice white and depending on time in that container. Very well throughout side walls and bottom. Before being root bound. Maybe rot. But I can’t tell that from pic. I can from smell lol
 

Themagnata

Active Member
I’m not the roots dr. But compared to a healthy plant. They should be a nice white and depending on time in that container. Very well throughout side walls and bottom. Before being root bound. Maybe rot. But I can’t tell that from pic. I can from smell lol
Are you sure the roots are not just tainted from the nutrients?
 

Themagnata

Active Member
Im just asking but since you're acting like a smart ass im going to wait for someone with real knowledge to help me out. Peace ✌
 

Herb & Suds

Well-Known Member
No you are not root bound
All your issues a related to failure to maintain a proper watering schedule
Every time you watered drooping plants it was a setback affecting rate of growth, potency, taste…
Next time stay up on the watering and remember a month in and they drink a lot more to the point of daily watering
I would just go ahead and harvest at this point
Good luck on the next run
 

Themagnata

Active Member
No you are not root bound
All your issues a related to failure to maintain a proper watering schedule
Every time you watered drooping plants it was a setback affecting rate of growth, potency, taste…
Next time stay up on the watering and remember a month in and they drink a lot more to the point of daily watering
I would just go ahead and harvest at this point
Good luck on the next run
This was my suspicion, i know I have been watering wrong the all along.. I'm thinking about using an automated drip system..
 
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