How to stop airy fluffy buds

[Fahn2k]

Quit switching soils, great lakes is water only so you don't need nutrients with it. FFOF has enough nutrients for 4 to six weeks, so don't add before then unless you think the plant needs something. Settle on one soil and stick with it to eliminate a variable. Promix HP or BX would be a good choice if you want to control nutrients cause they don't have any.

If you dry in the tent at the end of harvest only grow one strain in each tent. That way they are all ready to harvest at the same time in each tent. Different strains in each tent means that one or two get pulled on time and the rest maybe be a title early.

Don't start switching back and forth with nutrients. Learn to use what you have. Do you check PH? EC? How often do you water?

Be consistent, do the same thing over and over. Only change enough to solve a problem. Once you start getting problem free harvests, make changes to improve your harvest. If you make one change and it causes a problem you'll know what it is. Right now your all over the place and can't easily pin the problem down.

 

[Bucky024]

Do you have any pictures of the last buds you harvested?

Yes

 

[Bucky024]

Quit switching soils, great lakes is water only so you don't need nutrients with it. FFOF has enough nutrients for 4 to six weeks, so don't add before then unless you think the plant needs something. Settle on one soil and stick with it to eliminate a variable. Promix HP or BX would be a good choice if you want to control nutrients cause they don't have any.

If you dry in the tent at the end of harvest only grow one strain in each tent. That way they are all ready to harvest at the same time in each tent. Different strains in each tent means that one or two get pulled on time and the rest maybe be a title early.

Don't start switching back and forth with nutrients. Learn to use what you have. Do you check PH? EC? How often do you water?

Be consistent, do the same thing over and over. Only change enough to solve a problem. Once you start getting problem free harvests, make changes to improve your harvest. If you make one change and it causes a problem you'll know what it is. Right now your all over the place and can't easily pin the problem down.

I was going to but I use fox farms tri mainly n oceans forest an cocoloco n happy frog but I was going to switch to gold leaf one step nutrient.but right nnow I'm using biothrive bloom with early miss n SME big bud to plump up .. Rest plants seem to pike fox farm trio so I'm sticking with that till next grow but I go by trichomes an round 7-9 weeks plants r usually ready cloudy n clear trihomes mostly cloudy but I'm doing something wrong maybe I should wait longer???

 

[Bucky024]

Quit switching soils, great lakes is water only so you don't need nutrients with it. FFOF has enough nutrients for 4 to six weeks, so don't add before then unless you think the plant needs something. Settle on one soil and stick with it to eliminate a variable. Promix HP or BX would be a good choice if you want to control nutrients cause they don't have any.

If you dry in the tent at the end of harvest only grow one strain in each tent. That way they are all ready to harvest at the same time in each tent. Different strains in each tent means that one or two get pulled on time and the rest maybe be a title early.

Don't start switching back and forth with nutrients. Learn to use what you have. Do you check PH? EC? How often do you water?

Be consistent, do the same thing over and over. Only change enough to solve a problem. Once you start getting problem free harvests, make changes to improve your harvest. If you make one change and it causes a problem you'll know what it is. Right now your all over the place and can't easily pin the problem down.

I also try to keep pH round 6/7-6/3 but I gotta check pH again bin weeks

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Yes

Sorry, do you have better pics. Those are horrible.

 

[Bucky024]

I also try to keep pH round 6/7-6/3 but I gotta check pH again bin weeks

Fahn2k yea I don't have great lakes soil I wanted it I'm not switching around with shit I'm trying to find what works best different grow wanna try something different but yea imbjus sticking o what I have an going take a step back n yea ya kno jus let her do her thing n keep things simple less is best

 

[Fahn2k]

Fahn2k yea I don't have great lakes soil I wanted it I'm not switching around with shit I'm trying to find what works best different grow wanna try something different but yea imbjus sticking o what I have an going take a step back n yea ya kno jus let her do her thing n keep things simple less is best

On my first grow I used Great Lakes in two pots, and FFOF in two pots. I ended up with gnats. Add another $15 for neem oil and another pound of WTF from my wife. I got 2-3 Oz per plant. Good crop, but I had problems in the beginning cause I didn't know how or when to start using nutrients. My crop came out really well for a 1st time newbie, but could've been better. went with Promix HP on the next grow and so far good, I'm in better control of nutrients and the girls are doing great.

 

[Liamp1603]

It can come down to many things …. Genetics is the main one ….. then lights and nutes and so on …. Give a full description of your set up and system along with strain and breeder that way everyone who reads your question will have a good idea of where you might be going wrong and can give you the advice that your looking for …. My first few grows weren’t up to the standard I wanted I read everything I could and still reading now learning something new every day

 

[Liamp1603]

How to get dense bud:
1. Use adequate lighting intensity
2. Keep temps below 85f/30c
3. Wait until plants get a full 10+ weeks in bloom or longer before harvest

How does the 10 weeks work if your trichs have turned amber around 7 - 8 weeks ? I’ve never run a plant to 10 weeks and gotten dense buds ?

 

[Richard Drysift]

How does the 10 weeks work if your trichs have turned amber around 7 - 8 weeks ? I’ve never run a plant to 10 weeks and gotten dense buds ?

Maybe you are just awesome like that; I don’t know but in my exp growing pot indoors under electric lighting it takes about 10 full weeks of 12/12 to get rock hard nuggets on the planet Earth. Can you pick earlier than that? Sure you can it’s your weed but bud density to me is an even more accurate way to determine ripeness; no need to see the color of the trichome heads if you already know the bud is ripe enough to pick.
I’ve sometimes even cut fluffy buds after 10 weeks; sometimes it’s hard to keep temps low and hey wtf some strains are just fluffy. Some strains/phenos can finish in 9 weeks or less yet others take forever to finish. It’s just a general rule of thumb to plan for a full 10 weeks of bloom if dense bud is the goal.