The Main-Lining Thread
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Javadog
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Well....welcome back! I am just poking about my old threads....
I am working hard IRL but still have some nice ladies going. No Main-Lines at this time,
but I hope to get back to proper vegging. We will see.
Good luck!
H.A.F.
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Can't really tell. Can you move leaves out of the way? Also if you post "full picture" it will zoom in more on here. I would say to snip one off, but if it's a pollen sack you would want to be careful with that.
H.A.F.
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Show the whole plant. I see lots of frost and lots of brown pistils. How long til you were planning on harvesting anyway?
Not a pro, but I think your worry for pollination will be fresh white pistils, or browns with some white left at the base. It looks like you are close anyway, so I would remove what you can and not worry about it. If you get a few seeds plant them! I don't think it can ruin those buds that are already done.
That said, if you have any other plants going I would put a garbage bag over it and take it outside and chop it. I would also give the room a good cleaning after just to be safe.
McFrosticles
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How did these finish?
morugawelder
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Got my 2 , 260's yesterday , my one lady is 32 days into flower , is it to late to cut off a few smaller lower branches , so the colas can fatten up ? heres a pic. of her now ,
H.A.F.
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Factual answer - yes
Grower answer - plan on that next time.
As a general rule about 3 weeks into flower is when I give mine their final prune. Once pistils pop, the plant stops making new nodes and starts stacking flowers. That node part is what I watch for. If I want big cola I prune off every shoot below the tops that has it's own shoots. So if the sprout has a stem, and leaves just opening, I leave them. If a set of fan leaves has already opened on it and there is another one popping, it's gone.
If you do it now, you'll get bigger tops, but how much weight are you going to sacrifice versus what you gain? You should have brown pistils showing up now, and then they'll start to fatten. Those pistils dying tells the flower it failed to produce a seed. So it tries again and that is when it plumps up.
The problem is that you're at that in between stage. If you snip larf, the trichomes are still clear - little or no THC. So it's trash. Looks like you have good light penetration though, so even those lower ones should make some plump little nugs. That's the stuff you get to play with sooner because it dries quicker
morugawelder
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just starting to get a few brown pistils. so just let her rock as is then ? no fan leaf defoliation yet ?Factual answer - yes
Grower answer - plan on that next time.
As a general rule about 3 weeks into flower is when I give mine their final prune. Once pistils pop, the plant stops making new nodes and starts stacking flowers. That node part is what I watch for. If I want big cola I prune off every shoot below the tops that has it's own shoots. So if the sprout has a stem, and leaves just opening, I leave them. If a set of fan leaves has already opened on it and there is another one popping, it's gone.
If you do it now, you'll get bigger tops, but how much weight are you going to sacrifice versus what you gain? You should have brown pistils showing up now, and then they'll start to fatten. Those pistils dying tells the flower it failed to produce a seed. So it tries again and that is when it plumps up.
The problem is that you're at that in between stage. If you snip larf, the trichomes are still clear - little or no THC. So it's trash. Looks like you have good light penetration though, so even those lower ones should make some plump little nugs. That's the stuff you get to play with sooner because it dries quicker