This is a pic of my girls, they are 6 weeks into flowering right now. I would say about half of the pistels are starting to turn brown this last week, but the buds dont seem to be to thick. My question is, do these look like they are about ready to harvest or can I get a couple more weeks out of it to thicken the buds out without sacrificing the quality of the smoke. Any insight would be appreciated.
Not Sure How Much Longer
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LostInSpace...
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I reckon you got at least 2-3 weeks to go on those. What kind of lighting are you using?
I used flourescents from seed till now. I didnt use any nutes except a miracle grow bloom booster for 3 weeks when I started flowering so hopefully I dont die when I try to smoke it
"let it burn"
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they look good. i would let them go another 2 to 3 weeks. how many cfls did you use??? how long did you veg for??
LostInSpace...
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They will put on more weight in the last couple of weeks but using fluoros wont get you dense ass nugs. Good job though, they look pretty dank.
"let it burn"
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i disagree...................... i got hard solid buds off my first grow with cfls.
I just used 2 dual 4ft flourescent shoplight ballast's and I changed the color temp on the bulbs. But I vegged for about 2 months I waited until they were about 18in before I switched to flower. And they doubled in size now they are about 3ft tall, but they are very thin because I screwed them up when I flowered because they were in 1gal pots and the roots binded. But I transplanted them about 3 weeks into flowering and they are doing ok now, I probably screwed the harvest because I thought with 5 plants I would have a pretty good harvest but it looks like it will be small.
diddystyles72
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you need to wait at 2 more weeks I say to get the high you going to want what strain is it ?
Brick Top
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Some people do not think it is a problem or much of a problem for a plant to get root bound but it can be. It can cause stretching and they are more likely to run out of water and nutes and also more likely to be burned by nutes and while they stretch they do not grow full and that means a reduced yield. As soon as your plants roots begin to circle the pot your plants are under a degree of stress and it only gets worse the more packed in the roots get.
In the future plant in as large of a pot size as you possibly can and still get the number of plants you are going to grow under your light. If that still means a small pot size then you would be better off growing fewer plants and getting a higher yield from each of them than you would be growing more plants and getting a lower yield from each. In a way you are wasting beans, if you are growing from beans, when you do what you did. If you planted fewer plants in much larger pots you would likely have very thick plants now and still have beans left for another run where you would get even more in overall yield for the same number of beans.
Very seldom do I grow in anything smaller than a 7-gallon pot. What you want is a pot that is large enough that a full grown plant will just fill it with roots. Not as in becoming packed with roots or root bound but as in the roots are using all the pot.
Anything larger than that is not a plus since the plants roots will never use the extra space and it costs you more in potting soil and nutes when you have to keep so much soil wet and if you have any height restrictions/limitations going to a large enough pot might mean you run out of vertical space since the pots are so tall to begin with leaving you less room between the top of the soil and the highest you can raise your lights.