Show me your foxey foxey tails!

So at first I was embarrassed. I must have done something wrong.

It's Lemon Thai Kush by Humboldt Seeds which I received as clones and the mother definitely didn't flower out like these.

According to the site, and as a reference point, it should have been done around week 10, the mother finished in week 12.

Somewhere I took a left turn, and have found myself in no man's land at the end of week 16. I have decided to see how far these will go while I wait for my new light to arrive before I tear down for cleaning and re-tooling of my room. They keep stacking and pushing out new hairs although it's slowing down.

Not looking to solve any problems, I've got notes and plans for improvements next round, but for now....behold my beauties!

I posted these in another thread where I was worried about bud rot, but they seem fine and are making me laugh every morning when I pop in to see them.

There is nothing funny about marijuana abuse.

And you for sure abused that plant.

I just want to take it and tell it its ok while I quickly and mercifully end its life.

It's trying to grow a hand to flip you off and pimp slap you.

Wizzlebiz said:

There is nothing funny about marijuana abuse.

And you for sure abused that plant.

I just want to take it and tell it its ok while I quickly and mercifully end its life.

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Hey now, I'm the one that's been waking up at 5:30AM to hand water these, and after 16 weeks, if I can laugh, you can too (at me, with me, either way!)

You've seen me on here asking about nanners and hermie's and have helped me before, so if we take the common thread...it's me. I stress my wife out too but she rarely, if ever, throws nanners at me!

Honestly though - they are both being fed differently (one synth, one organic), and were kept 18 to 24" from 600watt air-cooled HPS lamps. The only commonalities are strain (same mother), same lights, same room (so same temps and humidity) and me.

I'm changing lights, and improving air flow and environment for next round. I'll try chewing gum before talking to them next time too.

This was my first run in the room I built, for my first grow in 20 years, so I'm hoping with fine-tuning the room before next cycle, and starting with some more tolerant genetics, maybe these problems will just disappear. If not I'll be back with my tail between my legs!

Skuxx said:

It's trying to grow a hand to flip you off and pimp slap you.

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I figured it was trying to thumb a ride the hell out of dodge!

Wizzlebiz said:

There is nothing funny about marijuana abuse.

And you for sure abused that plant.

I just want to take it and tell it its ok while I quickly and mercifully end its life.

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Would you smoke that?

Wattzzup said:

Would you smoke that?

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Yep. But I once smoked catnip so take that as you will.

Wattzzup said:

Would you smoke that?

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To be clear, I have no plans to. I'm not a great grower, but I'm a very experienced smoker, and have no problem throwing garbage where it belongs.

I actually suspect there is something more serious going on here to cause this, but have stopped caring in favor of seeing where this actually goes. I had another post where I was asking if anyone suspected rot, no one seems to, but they don't say "mmm tastey" to me in anyway and if they don't end up as some sort of extract, they'll just end up in the garbage.

My new light is a full spectrum LED, so I'll actually be able to see the plant in proper lighting next time too which will make it easier to take pictures and ask for help.

I notice no one is contributing their own fox tails (genetic or stress), am I the only one brave enough to publically admit to this? Should I have hid my shame?

Relic79 said:

I notice no one is contributing their own fox tails (genetic or stress), am I the only one brave enough to publically admit to this? Should I have hid my shame?

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Anyone else's foxtailing will pale in comparison to yours.

There is nothing wrong with smoking that weed btw. I was more looking at the nute burn and heat stress in my 1st post tbh

Wizzlebiz said:

Anyone else's foxtailing will pale in comparison to yours.

There is nothing wrong with smoking that weed btw. I was more looking at the nute burn and heat stress in my 1st post tbh

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When you own your mistakes, even a bone-head award is still an award!

For smokeability, I'm mostly worried about the color it is turning, and the smell is disappearing (used to be very diesel-y, now it's very faint). I took a different plant out of the room a couple weeks back that ended badly for me, and has put the fear of mold/mildew into my soul. The darkness and dying leaves made me think it might be starting to rot, but the leaves don't fall off easily.

Heat Stress - I could see that- but never much more than 30-31c for a couple hours over lunch in peak summer. Usually it sits 26c - 27c. RH was high early on, but I've had that controlled at 40% to 45% for the last couple months or more.

Nute Burn - On the synthetic, I was thinking lockout from build up (happened early on once, I flushed and fixed, early flower), but am not sure why the organic almost looks the same and how I managed to lock out both a synthetic plant watered with lots of run off at ph 5.8 and organic with plain water at ph 6.5. I'm doing something right, obviously.

So for next time, I'm scaling back from my two 600watt HPS lamps, to one 500 watt LED and cutting the flower area down to 5'x4'.

This should make my heat easily controllable. Then for medium/food I plan to switch to something like FFOF or other tried and true recipe so I can ask for help without having anything gimmicky or stupid for people to have to deal with.

I'll get more complicated from there, but for all the problems I've had, I need to scale back and prove to myself I can do it right. I may even just grow out one large plant and really work with it and learn it well, then expand. I'm no dummy, I just needed an ego check it seems.