5th week bloom auto strain no visible crystals

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mewton

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So i have planted these unknown seeds (supposedly Hollands hope, but they started showing female flowers at 18/6 so it cant be right?) that have been flowering for ~5 weeks. I have lots of small clear white flowers, but no visible crystals. I have been looking, and in all pictures i can find of plants in 4-5 weeks of bloom there are planty of crystals even on fan leaves. Also buds tend to be a lot bigger and thicker.

What can be wrong? Have i possibly been growing industrial hemp or something? :cry:
 
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mewton

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I should maybe add that i have a 400w dual spectrum hps (running at 12/12 even though they started flowering at 18/6)
 
Straightjacket

Straightjacket

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Hard to tell with the HPS lighting, but if they're green and healthy looking just give em time they will come around. Long as you give em the right amount of food, light, water, and good temps they will give the best they got. using 400 watts i would think they would be bigger. how far away is the light? Not knowing the genetics well who knows.
good luck
 
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mewton

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Straightjacket said:
Hard to tell with the HPS lighting, but if they're green and healthy looking just give em time they will come around. Long as you give em the right amount of food, light, water, and good temps they will give the best they got. using 400 watts i would think they would be bigger. how far away is the light? Not knowing the genetics well who knows.
good luck
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Im not sure if you are talking about length, but they are around 1 meter high. The longest 120 cm.

However there are 6 plants in a 75x75 area. So they are fighting for light space. I guess that could affect bud size too?

The light is in a cooltube, and is ~10 cm from the highest plant and 30-40 cm from the shortest.

Would it help determining if the seeds are ok with a picture of the seeds? Or is it impossible to say anything from seeing the seeds? I think i still got some laying around from the same batch.
 
Straightjacket

Straightjacket

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mewton said:
Im not sure if you are talking about length, but they are around 1 meter high. The longest 120 cm.

However there are 6 plants in a 75x75 area. So they are fighting for light space. I guess that could affect bud size too?

The light is in a cooltube, and is ~10 cm from the highest plant and 30-40 cm from the shortest.

Would it help determining if the seeds are ok with a picture of the seeds? Or is it impossible to say anything from seeing the seeds? I think i still got some laying around from the same batch.
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I meant the size of the buds. 400 watt HPS for 5 weeks I would expect larger buds. maybe it's a long flowering sativa. Just give it time. Picture of seed would do no good that I know of. Either they look like healthy seeds or not, cant really tell much else that I know of.
 
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mewton

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Straightjacket said:
I meant the size of the buds. 400 watt HPS for 5 weeks I would expect larger buds. maybe it's a long flowering sativa. Just give it time. Picture of seed would do no good that I know of. Either they look like healthy seeds or not, cant really tell much else that I know of.
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But can an autoflowering plant have a long flower period?

And are there non-breeded/industrial or wild hemp that autoflowers?

Im using basic a basic organic nutrient mixed with an orkidé chemical fertilizer. They supposedly have all the right trace elements and Ok npk values. But could this be the problem?
Some of the fanleaf-stems on some of the plants have turned dark red at times.
More or less all leafs are dark green.

Also, thanks for all your replies.
 
er0senin

er0senin

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It all come down to phenos, some autos need 11+ weeks to finish. I would say your plant definitely looks sativa dominated. They look a little light colored, in that case i would add nutes, but might just be the hps light fooling my eye :). 120 cm tall? thats a bit tall for autos if you ask me. how big are your pots? Btw you might want to make sure you dont have light leaks, that can seriously stunt flowering from my experience. the fanleafstems turning red is another indication to that you need to start adding more nutes. read the stickys on deficiensies to larn what to watch out for. Dont worry about the crystals they will come :) some strains dont start frosting until later in flower :). And make sure your lights are close to your buds. best of luck
 
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mewton

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er0senin said:
It all come down to phenos, some autos need 11+ weeks to finish. I would say your plant definitely looks sativa dominated. They look a little light colored, in that case i would add nutes, but might just be the hps light fooling my eye :). 120 cm tall? thats a bit tall for autos if you ask me. how big are your pots? Btw you might want to make sure you dont have light leaks, that can seriously stunt flowering from my experience. the fanleafstems turning red is another indication to that you need to start adding more nutes. read the stickys on deficiensies to larn what to watch out for. Dont worry about the crystals they will come :) some strains dont start frosting until later in flower :). And make sure your lights are close to your buds. best of luck
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Thanks for your relpy.

I will try adding more nutes then definitely. I cant remember exactly at the moment, but im using airpots, and they are 6-7 liters or something.

I will try to look for leak. Im using a Budbox tent. And im aware that there are some small small leaks. But its hardly noticeble. How pedantic do i need to be? Should i put silver-tape over the tents opening zippers?

I have read the sticky, but i will look it over again. The red stems have diminished, and have almost gone away completely in all plants but one after adding more of the organic fertilizer with magnesium. I have not been able to obtain ebsom salt. But i think i will try ordering it online.

Thanks again.
 
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