Hairs/Pistils turning orange/brown too soon?

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420OldSchoolDJ420

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Anyone have probs w/ the pistils turning orange/brown too soon? Im talking about orange pistils before the buds have fattened up hardly at all. What are the main causes of this? Is there any way to avoid this? 70% of pistils are already orange/brown and are hella long but still no amber trichomes and the buds are still really small , about the diameter of a dime/nickel.
 
moash

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420OldSchoolDJ420 said:
Anyone have probs w/ the pistils turning orange/brown too soon? Im talking about orange pistils before the buds have fattened up hardly at all. What are the main causes of this? Is there any way to avoid this? 70% of pistils are already orange/brown and are hella long but still no amber trichomes and the buds are still really small , about the diameter of a dime/nickel.
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give it time new white hairs should pop out...unless pollenated like stated above
 
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420OldSchoolDJ420

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there at 55 days of 12/12 ( Nirvana Bubbilicious ). They took about 2-2/12 weeks to show sex after switching to 12/12 so maybe subtract about 2 weeks from the flowering time( really flowering only appr. 30 days ? ). They were topped/fimmed a few times and vegged for appr. 3 1/2 weeks.They were flowered under a 4 ft 6 lamp HOT5. I see mostly cloudy trichs and gave one last feed ( of 2 tblsp tiger bloom and 2 tblsp mollasses per gallon of water ) yestrday. Im going to final flush in 3-4 days.
 
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So now you say 55 days in? That plant is almost done... Obviously the pistills will turn brown. And you said you have cloudy trichomes so in another 2 weeks you should see lots of amber. I really don't get the point of this. Your buds could be small for several reasons. Good luck
 
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but its really a "grey area".. the buds are super small and not filled in or fat at all. I was thinking it may be because there just not ready yet because they took like 2 weeks to start flowering after flipping to 12/12 so maybe they are 2 weeks "behind" what I think they should be. So they could actually be 3 days away from chop instead of a week or so.. I do go by trichs, but this is one of those situations where things jsut dont match up.
 
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420OldSchoolDJ420

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It's 5 o'clock somewhere said:
It doesn't start from the time you see the hairs it's the day you switch the lights.
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I dont really agree with that.. Especially if the plants were immature ( no preflowers ) when u flip to 12/12. IMHO its actually from the time they show sex. But hell who really knows. A plant is gonna grow as slow or as fast as it wants to. It doesnt give a damn about breeders specs about flower times.
 
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It's 5 o'clock somewhere

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I'm growing 7 strains from TGA and he said all his times are from the switch not from the onset of pistals. I guess you need to ask your breeder..... Good luck.
 
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420OldSchoolDJ420

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I have given a half of a dozen or so feedings with mollasses yes.. I gave a feeding of Tiger Bloom and Mollasses yesterday and I am pretty sure it will be the last feeding and I will start the final flush when the soil dries out.
 
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420OldSchoolDJ420

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It's 5 o'clock somewhere said:
I'm growing 7 strains from TGA and he said all his times are from the switch not from the onset of pistals. I guess you need to ask your breeder..... Good luck.
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I understand that, but to me that just doesnt make as much sense as counting from the day sex shows after switching.Counting from the day of flipping leaves too many variables.. Some plants can show sex the next day while others can take 2-3 weeks before even showing sex after flipping.. So, to me, its way more exact to count it from the day you see pistils after flipping.. Iunno, maybe im just hard headed.
 
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as I said, I think those times are diff depending on when you flower.If you flower before preflowers show, then all bets are off as far as the breeders suggested flowering times are concerned IMHO.
 
stickystink

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well i have noticed that my girl`s pistil`s turned brown/amber before the bud had even fattened, nothing was happenin to her in growth , she stopped dead at about 17" and there has hardly been any growth with the buds either, they feel hard and are very sticky the smell is ok, none of the hues of bubble-gum at all, when the lights of she smells great then, also the nuggets are very small, and the main colas are not full there are spaces in between , the thc looks nice and sugary too, i no that nirvana bubbilicious say that she is a small -medium , but she is just small, is this too small? i have a 250watt hps for flower in a 1x1x2 she is the only girl in there at the moment could this have affected her height?
 

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1 of these pic`s is 11 days older then the other 2 can u tell, me neither really, the first 1 is the one 11 days younger
 
NecterSecter

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Hey I know this is an old thread but if you guys still on the forum can u let me know how it turned out. I am thinkin this is a phenotype of nirvana's bubbelicous. Cause I was lookin for a reason why my plant's pistils turned orange only about 3 weeks into flower, (since they grew pistils), and the plant stayed so much shorter then the others and it is covered in orange pistils, and the trichomes are all clear still. Guess wat this is also a Nirvana Bubbelicous plant. I searched orange pistils way too early and it seems 3 of us havin the same problem with the same strain. Did you guys end up chopping early, and did the buds turn out ok, also did they stay small till the very end?
 
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