Any experienced growers out there want to help quell this newbies fears? Please? Lol

[sweettoothforsweetdreams]

I have some HSO Blue Dreams that are really nice looking, but I'm sketching about yield, because if I don't at least get a pound out of it, I'm going to be in trouble.

Here are some pics:



Now the pic of the entire thing is a week old, and the newest pic is one the right. But its DAMN hard taking pics of these things when they are so damn leafy!

So, I'm pretty satisfied with their current frosty-ness, they could always be a little more potent, but I feel like I haven't fucked up too bad for my first grow on potency. Now as far as yield goes, does it look like I'm going to suffer a bit? How long does it look like my buds have to go before they are at the point where the amber trichomes are getting too amber? I'm shooting for under 10% amber.

These things are about 6.5 weeks from the 12/12 switch, but they took a little longer than usual to flip over because I didn't actually change their nutrient regimen until 2 weeks into flowering, because my family member who had his first grow hit his too hard with flowering nutes, and killed off all of the leaves, but he did get big buds pretty fast, but they didn't turn out good at all apparently.

I would like for these things to go at least 9 weeks, but I'm hoping they will be at the perfect point to chop down around 10 weeks. I'd prefer they go longer and fatten up, and I'd think they would because they are very sativa dominant.

Thanks guys, your help is much appreciated.

 

[Canna Connoiseur]

How many plants do you have. You should get 2 oz's or more per plant. Also, if you want, you can get a 20 dollar 30x+ loupe or microscope so you can view the trichromes. You want to have more cloudy trichromes than amber or clear. Cloudy = thc. The more of them the better.

 

[Guzias1]

if this guy is going for weight, i would get the microscope, and chop when at least %50 of trich are amber.. sounds like he loses his head if he misses..

or grow these ladies rigth, and impress whom ever, and grow some more! quality over quantity wins my book, but not so much for impatient heads..

 

[Malevolence]

You should get 1 pound np if you are using 1000+ watts hps or a light mover. at least I would be pretty sad if I couldnt hit .45g per watt w that setup.

 

[marc88101]

if this guy is going for weight, i would get the microscope, and chop when at least %50 of trich are amber.. sounds like he loses his head if he misses..

or grow these ladies rigth, and impress whom ever, and grow some more! quality over quantity wins my book, but not so much for impatient heads..

I would advise against 50% amber, unless your looking for 50% degraded thc.....

 

[Slipon]

don't manicure them to much, keep most small sugar leaf`s on, if they are really frosty and potent enough it wont matter IMO ..

 

[sweettoothforsweetdreams]

How many plants do you have. You should get 2 oz's or more per plant. Also, if you want, you can get a 20 dollar 30x+ loupe or microscope so you can view the trichromes. You want to have more cloudy trichromes than amber or clear. Cloudy = thc. The more of them the better.

Yeah I got a microscope. I like more of a couch lock, so like 10% amber, or maybe 20% if I harvest 4 plants 1 week, and the scraggling ones the next week.

I sure as hell hope I get at least 2 oz's a plant, I only got 6, so thats not even a pound. The roots completely fill 5 gallon buckets, and the bases are fucking trunks, they are tennis ball sized at biggest, and at the knots. I vegged them really long. I'm using pH Perfect sensi bloom nutrients with Big bud, overdrive, sensizym, and koolbloom. They are liking the nutes it seems, and they smell extremely good.

But yeah, with 1600 watts, 6 BIG, long vegged plants, bubble buckets on steroids, pH Perfect and other boosters, perfect humidities/temps, I should get at least 4 ounces a plant shouldn't I? Especially since Blue Dream is such a heavy yielder.