What about the dying sugar leaves on them buds in the pictures? I'm going till Friday then harvesting any other big problems or if then lower buds get worse ill bring her up but my goal is Friday
Turning hermie!! Harvest now or no??
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getogrow
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The dying leaves is completely normal. Especially with the stress she has been through. Im looking at the overall plant health , not just the small ugly buds. You can cut the tops out and let the lower stuff get more mature if ya want but i would just wait it out. She not near as bad as you think. not great but not the trash your thinking about.
What strain is it ?
Cheers mate the top buds I think are brilliant it's the rest of the plant that has let me down but like you say the stress she's been through I guess I can't expect much else I got some pics tonight when the light went off one of the tops buds compared to my hand.. I'm giving her till Friday mate want the best out of the top buds
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Oh and it's stardawg mate
getogrow
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Those look pretty good. How long has it been since you flipped her to 12/12 ?
She can for sure fatten up some more and yes, thats what im focusing on , the upper parts of her.....the rest will be just fine.
I'd say its been about 7 weeks mate since switched to 12/12 come Friday its the 8th week I've read up that stardawg is only an 8 week flower if I'm correct
And that's all I've been doing mate flushing her for the last week she will get just water up untill wedneaday then let it dry for harvest on Friday
getogrow
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sounds good... i would go two weeks but o well i see your pain from here.
Yeah mate I decided an extra week my only worry is literally all the hairs have turned orange brown now isn't that a certain sign it's harvest time? Or am I completely wrong hahasounds good... i would go two weeks but o well i see your pain from here.
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JimmiP
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Yep, at this point just let her finish n' get high. Toss the seeds in a ditch somewhere, forget about them and maybe they will turn into an urban legend. Lol
JimmiP
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I'll respectfully, disagree, some. You really don't have to feed them in the end. And fades are pretty. But it won't hurt either. I just wait till it's ready. Still green or faded, don't really care. But as I said, fades are pretty...
Doug Dawson
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I get opinions vary. I don't care about fade personally, pretty colors is not really what I am after although fall colors do look cool on the plants. I just don't believe in starving a plant. I grow in coco so a week of just water does bad things as long as you have been feeding them right. I prefer to taper back on the nutes during the final stage but to each their own. Now if in soil there will be nutes in there during the water only phase, I suppose there are factors that make it difficult to use a blanket statement for the end of the plants life cycle. As the old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
Doug Dawson
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You are not completely wrong. So when the pistils stop reaching out and turn color it is time to start looking at the trichomes. So you are right that them all turning orange is a sign but not to harvest, it is a sign to look deeper. I am glad you made it to this point, hope the smoke turns our great for you. Here are some good pics that may help you down the road bud.
Thanks so much for all the quick replys guys... Yeah mate I'm seeing literally 10% white pistols if that!! Could that be due to stress? or is that impossible but literally there all orange/brown now mate ill try grab a pic in the morning... I need a bloody magnifying glass or something
JimmiP
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Right on friend. That's why I stick to soil nowadays. Coco, or any other hydro is too big of a chore for me anymore. Heck the way I have everything in the hoop house laid out I don't even have to water much. And that is cool by me. Some times I have waited over a week. And they're still fine. Every now and then I give them a tea or some other form of organic boost or a top dressing. But near the very end there's enough there (between the plants stores and the organic materials in the soil) to make it over the hump.I get opinions vary. I don't care about fade personally, pretty colors is not really what I am after although fall colors do look cool on the plants. I just don't believe in starving a plant. I grow in coco so a week of just water does bad things as long as you have been feeding them right. I prefer to taper back on the nutes during the final stage but to each their own. Now if in soil there will be nutes in there during the water only phase, I suppose there are factors that make it difficult to use a blanket statement for the end of the plants life cycle. As the old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
As to these ways of cat skinning you speak of ,,, there are plenty strays in my neighborhood, and anyone is welcome to use them for honing those different methods. Lol
Man I need a magnifying glass she really does look near ready for harvest me mate keeps telling me I'm now at the 80% orange/brown pistols mark and to harvest bit I feel I can get these fuckers more dence with 1 more week
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Best close up I can get Jim Jim what you thinking?
