flowering: when do pistils stop coming out?

I'm just wondering how close to the end of flowering will the buds stop producing new pistils?

I'm sure it varies, just like everything, from plant to plant, strain to strain, grow to grow, but just give me an idea. Is it like two weeks, one week, a couple days, whatever. Or do they keep spitting out white hairs till the end?

Until you cut it down, that's how you can get two sometimes three harvest from one plant with out re-vegging. As always for the amount of harvest it does depend on the size of the plant.

Pistils are a reproductive organ for females. They want to create life to continue a generation so they will always explode pistils. Although later in flowering most, if not all will recede into the bud because they failed to get pollinated by male pollen.

YungMoolaBaby said:

Pistils are a reproductive organ for females. They want to create life to continue a generation so they will always explode pistils. Although later in flowering most, if not all will recede into the bud because they failed to get pollinated by male pollen.

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This is correct. late in flower they stop popping out.

plantz said:

This is correct. late in flower they stop popping out.

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Thanks for the replies! I appreciate the input.

I guess I was looking for something a little more specific. Like for a plant that went 8 weeks, at what point did it most likely stop putting out new pistils?

Then I'd say, what about a 10 week plant? Then I would make it a percentage of the flowering period. Like if it's the last week for a 10 week plant, it would be 90% through flowering, on average.

lightsgreenaction said:

Thanks for the replies! I appreciate the input.

I guess I was looking for something a little more specific. Like for a plant that went 8 weeks, at what point did it most likely stop putting out new pistils?

Then I'd say, what about a 10 week plant? Then I would make it a percentage of the flowering period. Like if it's the last week for a 10 week plant, it would be 90% through flowering, on average.

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Something like that. For every plant it varies however.

I have never seen it when a plant will pull back it's pistils, That would bee cool to see. I have let a strain go to the point that it produces it own seed in the last a temp to pollinate it self, by then the buds were much for smoking do to it being over rip. We did make hash out of it, lol

spl1 said:

I have never seen it when a plant will pull back it's pistils, That would bee cool to see. I have let a strain go to the point that it produces it own seed in the last a temp to pollinate it self, by then the buds were much for smoking do to it being over rip. We did make hash out of it, lol

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Once bud production slows I let them go another 3 weeks - or so - to let the trichs (THC factories) ripen.

Over ripe plants can still put out new pistols, but once most the pistols pull back into the seed pods, they're close to peak...

spl1 said:

I have never seen it when a plant will pull back it's pistils, That would bee cool to see. I have let a strain go to the point that it produces it own seed in the last a temp to pollinate it self, by then the buds were much for smoking do to it being over rip. We did make hash out of it, lol

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Your not looking close enough or something, thats one way to judge ripenes. how long over ripe was yours? i like to let them get very ripe on the plant if i can (sometimes i need to replenish) and have never seen over ripe where it diminishes quality or potency, only adds to it.

I'd say there's no time.. it's preference with harvest..

once the hairs pull back and no new ones pop out.. then it's time to watch her closely.. she'll fatten up.. after that it's up to you.. some like to let them go and get couch potato fucked.. and some like a nice light mix...

"by then the buds were much for smoking do to it being over rip."

Gibberish.

lightsgreenaction said:

Thanks for the replies! I appreciate the input.

I guess I was looking for something a little more specific. Like for a plant that went 8 weeks, at what point did it most likely stop putting out new pistils?

Then I'd say, what about a 10 week plant? Then I would make it a percentage of the flowering period. Like if it's the last week for a 10 week plant, it would be 90% through flowering, on average.

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If it is kicking out new pistils on matured buds or week 7 or later then the plant is foxtailing. Raise or dim the light, lower your day temps and water with cold water, lower humidity (if possible) stop giving nutrients. This will signal to the plant oh shoot fall is coming, fall is here its time to ripen and die, therefore it will stop kicking pistils looking for a last ditch effort of pollin from a male plant. The plant will literally start ripening by producing Ethylene c2h4 immediately. Ditch the co2, no longer needed. Never run co2 while Ethylene is producing.
To much energy is flowing through the plant. Drop those day temps to 68-70° and night temps to 55-60°.

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Green Cross said:

Once bud production slows I let them go another 3 weeks - or so - to let the trichs (THC factories) ripen.

Over ripe plants can still put out new pistols, but once most the pistols pull back into the seed pods, they're close to peak...

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That's called foxtailing and that's not a good thing. A good grower knows how to eliminate that in 3 days tops.