week 15 of flowering, still not ready. WTF!

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smij54

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Week 15 started yesterday, still have lots of white pistols. They are clones from outdoor plants of unknown strain. Fox farm nutrients and compost tea, molasses a couple times a week. 600w lights. Nice trichs and funky smell. I'm getting pretty frustrated. This is my first grow,I have a lot of time and money invested and I need the payoff...like yesterday! Am I doing something wrong? Are there tricks or techniques to finish that I should be using? I'm going to try more dark time, maybe 14 or 15 hours. Any advice or experience is appreciated! The one pic is round 2, 12 clones from the plants in the other pics with some training. Hope I don't have the same issues.
On a side note. ... I love the Bengals and Andy Dalton, but really pissed! He didn't have to win the game, just don't loose it! Guess he didn't get the memo:'(
 

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smij54 said:
Week 15 started yesterday, still have lots of white pistols. They are clones from outdoor plants of unknown strain. Fox farm nutrients and compost tea, molasses a couple times a week. 600w lights. Nice trichs and funky smell. I'm getting pretty frustrated. This is my first grow,I have a lot of time and money invested and I need the payoff...like yesterday! Am I doing something wrong? Are there tricks or techniques to finish that I should be using? I'm going to try more dark time, maybe 14 or 15 hours. Any advice or experience is appreciated! The one pic is round 2, 12 clones from the plants in the other pics with some training. Hope I don't have the same issues.
On a side note. ... I love the Bengals and Andy Dalton, but really pissed! He didn't have to win the game, just don't loose it! Guess he didn't get the memo:'(
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Picture #4 can you tell me how those 6 plants can mature to finish without FAN leaves? Leave their fan leaves alone until you take them down they grow better that way.

Look at your trichomes. First time with a plant you want about 5% clear and amber with 90% cloudy. You see how the high is and pull a little sooner or later next harvest.
 
cc2012

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Surely that's 15 weeks in total??(I could be Wrong/happens quite a bit..LOL) looking Nice though! Chill beans..Ladies will let you know when they ready for the Chop

Peace
 
DroidBoy

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I have read bud that some strains take 13 or 14 hours darktime to finish u could try it on 13 hours dark for a few days see if it helps , only what i have read on ere bud, Im still on my 1st grow so i cant say for sure
 
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cc2012 said:
Surely that's 15 weeks in total??(I could be Wrong/happens quite a bit..LOL) looking Nice though! Chill beans..Ladies will let you know when they ready for the Chop

Peace
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These are clones from outdoors. He doesn't say where they were when he cloned them. But my guess if they are like my clones and add a re-veg you have about 4 weeks right there. My guess is he's getting closer to a 9 weeks in flower and he looks almost ready to pull. If he hadn't yanked fans my guess is he'd be done now..... le sigh..... we really are our own worst enemies.

Oh and OP don't feel bad, just prior to this harvest I killed 29 4-5 footers with Dawn dishwashing liquid. So this is par for the pot growing course, ha!
 
MrEDuck

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More info would be really helpful. Not as helpful as having fan leaves on your plants but we can't help that now.
Here's some ideas but I'm probably missing some potential problems and with more info many could be eliminated.
-You mention that the clones were taken from outdoor plants, many plants that do better under the sun will fox tail heavily resulting in the appearance of lots of white pistils even when they're ready for chop.
-Sometimes plants will take after their long flower equatorial sativa great grandparent and just take forever.
-Stress is keeping them from finishing. Looking at that last picture which I'm guessing is from several weeks ago you were already losing a lot of fan leaves, try feeding enough N to keep them green.
I've read of people saying extra dark can help. Never needed to try it myself.
 
zubey91

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curious2garden said:
These are clones from outdoors. He doesn't say where they were when he cloned them. But my guess if they are like my clones and add a re-veg you have about 4 weeks right there. My guess is he's getting closer to a 9 weeks in flower and he looks almost ready to pull. If he hadn't yanked fans my guess is he'd be done now..... le sigh..... we really are our own worst enemies.

Oh and OP don't feel bad, just prior to this harvest I killed 29 4-5 footers with Dawn dishwashing liquid. So this is par for the pot growing course, ha!
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Dude how much Dawn did you add? I add barely a drop per 2 gallons of water
 
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15 weeks since 12/12. They were probably close to preflower when I took them. They do have heavy foxtail, which sucks because trichs are on the outer edge only, not the middle of the colas. The last pic is round 2, 5th week of 12/12. Cloned from the plants in the other pics. What causes foxtail?
I have been taking some fan leaves as they get older and to help light get lower
 
vostok

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Ah... the impatience of the Noob, ....lol no worries you got this far hang in there, your question is really strain specific, you don't know the strain so you don't know when they will finish ...but yes I'd go 14 hours night 10 hours day, next grow buy your seeds in, as with clones you really are buying other growers problems, and forget that molasses its been the death of many grows for very little in return
 
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If that plant has been flowering for 15 weeks, you have light getting in at dark period.
 
Alienwidow

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Ive personally had plants go 16 weeks indoors. Thats a long frickin time so i know where your coming from, one cycle i chopped at 14 weeks and it all tasted like hay until it cured for over a month and then it tasted ok, not great. Dont cut early. I actually expected to see more red pistols but you got alot of white there. My advice since you have lots to spare is snag off a bud from the bottom and dry it and see how it tastes. Youll know real quick whats up.
 
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I have used some. I have not heard that it increases flowering time. The molasses is food for the micro-organisms, it definitely doesn't hurt anything
 
Confucious

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vostok said:
Ah... the impatience of the Noob, ....lol no worries you got this far hang in there, your question is really strain specific, you don't know the strain so you don't know when they will finish ...but yes I'd go 14 hours night 10 hours day, next grow buy your seeds in, as with clones you really are buying other growers problems, and forget that molasses its been the death of many grows for very little in return
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None of this makes any sense, you should never put your flowering plants on a 14/10 photoperiod, and molasses being the death of many growers. Buwhahahaha.
 
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Alienwidow said:
Ive personally had plants go 16 weeks indoors. Thats a long frickin time so i know where your coming from, one cycle i chopped at 14 weeks and it all tasted like hay until it cured for over a month and then it tasted ok, not great. Dont cut early. I actually expected to see more red pistols but you got alot of white there. My advice since you have lots to spare is snag off a bud from the bottom and dry it and see how it tastes. Youll know real quick whats up.
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I harvested some last week. That from the taller plants smells really funky good, has a pretty good buzz, but tastes like hay. From the 2 plants in the middle of the 6, not nearly the smell, but good buzz and taste.
 
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