still no amber? wtf!!

I have 3 la diva autos on day 60 and there is still no amber trichs. It says it would me done at 50 days. Also have 2 afgans that are supposed to be 55 days and still no amber at day 60. Should I wait longer or just pull them? There has been no growth or change in the last week.

Have you stopped feeding them?

I've been flushing with water only for almost 2 weeks.

Uhhh... usually you start to flush after you see at least some amber trichomes. 2 weeks without nutes... best bet is to chop them soon and figure out what you can be more efficient at next go around. ie lighting, whats your lighting setup?

Remember, those flowering times are purely approximations; many factors can slow down their growth (lights,nutes, etc)

My autos did the same thing cause I had to switch to 12/12, but thats probably not your problem here. Mine been going for 12weeks now but the ambers are starting to come.Are your leaves getting brown around the buds yet, Got Pics!! check out mine on my thread there are blue himalayian diesel.

I wanted to flush for 2 weeks and at the end of that it would be 60 days. Which I thought would be plenty of time because they were only supposed to take 50-55 days. They are still healthy, all leaves have slowly yellowed and a lot have dropped off
They grew like they should, showed sex at 22 days, and were only fed 1/2 strength nutes. Its under a 400 hps on a 20/4 cycle. I have some pics in a journal I started( old style)
they are about 18 inches tall and almost all bud, nice purple hues and tons of trichs. Smells very fruity
They totally look done except the lack of amber.

don't pick em!, reintro nutes for a week or two, then flush another week or two. Auto's are not an exact science at all, and all company's bs about the flowering time to make their beans seem more appealing. Wait it will be worth it, your eyes aren't lying to you about the plants being ready. What the actual plant tells you is more important than the seed company. good luck

Good point waz666 I will fight off the urge to harvest a couple more days, but I'm gonna keep them on water only.

Someone asked for a pic, here is one of the la diva's. Note- I didnt trim any leaves, it didnt produce hardly any big fans, and I removed all the burn or yellowed leaves that were about to fall off.

420forme said:

Good point waz666 I will fight off the urge to harvest a couple more days, but I'm gonna keep them on water only.

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Flushing with a mild nute solution will leach more salts than 'water only' waterings.

Don't get too wrapped up in the amber color harvest thing. If your 80% of your hairs are brown and the plant has started to yellow and drop leaves on it's own, it getting close to harvest. Your plants are yellowing because you're actually doing more harm than good with your 'water only' watering. But of course, some pics would help.

I don't judge by hairs, trichs are the true way to tell. Also they are grown in soil so they are probally never without anything to feed on. They didn't take nutes well even during peak flowering so I don't want to reintroduce them and risk burning them up right at the end.
I just took alook at them and it looks about 80% cloudy with like 1 deep amber trich per leaf. Its weird.

What brand is your soil?

Its a mix of ocean forest, light warrior, and extra perlite.

Ya dude that one looks just like mine, little bit of yellowing but its supposed 2 looks good man just keep the patience I know It sucks. Im gonna have to agree with wazz the time they give you is prob picked out of a bunch ones they grew and picked the fastest one and thats there flowering time, and prob round it down 2 so more appealing. I know next time indoor is for regular plants for me.

And also there was one of my blues that I thought looked done 3 weeks ago, there were only ambers here and there. Dried it, smoked it, wasn't very good kinda got high but not like I want. Kinda did that just 2 see what kinda high it would be. So keep looking at your trichs, not hairs, some of my hairs on my plants have been brown 1 week after flowering so dont cut down. I take it you have a microscope or mag. glass ?

Yeah I have a 30x scope. I've been checking them like every 8 hours. Killing me.

know what u mean. cut down just a LITTLE early, u get nasty tasting weed with a 10 minute headache buzz.

420 just check them once a day you will be fine. Just think how long it took to grow, ambers wont just all show up, keep it up your doing good.

By the way whats light warrior never heard of that?