help 3 weeks in flowering but buds seem tiny

mygirls

Medical Marijuana (MOD)
i weigh mine every time. not wet just dry. i'm always pushing to out due my previous grows. always shooting for that grandaddy yield. and i think i got it this time around.
 

amsterdamned

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hi all maybe getting impatient but i flipped them into flowering 3 weeks today and i just assumed i would see bigger buds

does the bud suddenly have a growth spurt as i believe the conditions are 90% ideal and plants are healthy using canna flores and boost at moment and will give pk 13/14 in week 5-6 and so on

heres some pics for you to look on?

what medium are you using ?? if its coco then ok foods are ok but if your in normal soil peat etc then you may find that the foods your using are not suitable.

i had a friend who grew in soil using the "monkey juice " from advanced nuts and they are stella ffor coco but not for soil they did what your plants are doing now.

if you are in a soil then look around as many companies do "for soil versions" of there nutes such as ionic, canna and a few othrs.

hope that helps

oh finally if you grew from seed they do show slower than if you had ben workin from a cutting but three weeks there should be more so there is a problem for sure
 

audi07

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hi!!

can anyone tell me what to look out for or if the bud shoes signs when its ready for harvest??

Nice one
 

laserbrn

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hi!!

can anyone tell me what to look out for or if the bud shoes signs when its ready for harvest??

Nice one
You want to go to Radio Shack (or equivalent) and pick up a microscope that will allow you to see your trichs. When the trichs are 95+% cloudy, it's harvest time.

When they turn amber it's narcotic time...if you want a more narcotic, sleepy high, then you should let them go until about 30% are amber.

If you go to harvesting/curing there is someone that asks this question everyday and someone else who posts a pic of what you're looking for.

Do you have anymore update pics on your grow? I'm kinda involved now...I want to see your progress :).
 

audi07

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i will post some oics in a few days as my phones is getting repaired at the moment.
will i be able to see trichs with a normal magnifying glass???

Thanks for alll the advice mate
 

laserbrn

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i will post some oics in a few days as my phones is getting repaired at the moment.
will i be able to see trichs with a normal magnifying glass???

Thanks for alll the advice mate
I'm not sure how strong the magnification NEEDS to be to get a clear picture, but I use 100x and it's a great little view.

I would fear that a regular magnifying glass would be somewhere in the 20x-30x range and you might not get what you are looking for.
 

audi07

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m using canna terra which is for soil and yes i grew these from seed

as the hairs turn orange do they curl up inside the calayx or not??

right now my buds are putting on weight
but the majority of the hairs are white and are standing near almost upright
 

audi07

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laserburn you may not have seen my updateed pics on page 13-14 check it out see what you think of there progrees as those pics are 5 weeks in i will post some more pics as soon as i get my camera back as they are at the end of week 6 now and will be in week 7 from today the big bang is a 9 weeker 3 more weeks to go will flus a week and a half towards finish and the haze a 10-11 weeker they both started at the same time
 

SlikWiLL13

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i weigh mine every time. not wet just dry. i'm always pushing to out due my previous grows. always shooting for that grandaddy yield. and i think i got it this time around.
i like to get my cost per gram on every grow, i think its just one more satisfying part of growing. its satisfying just growing anything, its satisfying having good smoke, and its satisfying knowing that it cost less than $2 a gram to grow.

i figure nutes, electricity, medium, and a percentage of epuipment cost.


can anyone tell me what to look out for or if the bud shoes signs when its ready for harvest??
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

this is good stuff.
 

mygirls

Medical Marijuana (MOD)
i like to get my cost per gram on every grow, i think its just one more satisfying part of growing. its satisfying just growing anything, its satisfying having good smoke, and its satisfying knowing that it cost less than $2 a gram to grow.

i figure nutes, electricity, medium, and a percentage of equipment cost.




https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

this is good stuff.
ya i just wish the wife would see it that way. but she does not smoke she use to years ago so you think she would understand where i'm coming from when i tell her i need this and i need and would love to have one more 1000 watt hps, but i think she is going to give the o k for two 600wtt hps. its just like what you said and i've old her in order to get satisfaction we have to spend some money.
 

audi07

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hi guys im back thanks for all the help so far

my camera phone not been returned yet so havent got any new pics but will have in a couple days

they have fattened up now and are quite frosty the calyx have swelled to an extent they look frosty also

now im edging to the final few weeks

on cannas websit it says to use flowering nute and canna boost till the end ?? so they are saying not to flush or what help please???

also as im in soil in ten litre pots full how many litres of water would i need to flush these and do i chuck the runoff down the sink if i do flush or let the plant soak it up sorry im confused:?

does the plant show signs of when i should be flushing it like say when 80% of the hairs have turned orange/red??

or if im going for 50% cloudy/50%amber trichs should i flush once trichs have gone cloudyish???

thanx again:spew::hump:
 

audi07

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also will the bud pack on more weight in the final 2 weeks??? if so how drastic is the weight is it lots or just minimal
 

MrHowardMarks

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Audi, they really pack it on in the last two weeks... I watch the pistol growth, once most of the PISTOLS have ambered, they will chunk up, and the trichromes will go from clear and transparent, to cloudy and white... You can see this with the naked eye. They will look like sugar coated instead of crystal covered... This is when you'll want to flush.

For your 10L pots, I'd use 10L of water because I never get the nutes to a toxic level, but some say 2-5 times the container size... So 20-50 liters. (This is more for an emergency flush)


Just collect the runoff, and check the TDS... You can use anything to collect runoff, actual collectors for plant containers, pie plates, anything.



Once they start to slightly amber, I harvest, I don't like narcotic weed...

Go look at the harvesting curing section for some pics.
 

MrHowardMarks

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i tell her i need this and i need that, and would love to have one more 1000 watt hps, but i think she is going to give the o k for two 600wtt hps.

Personally, I grow with 600W lights, and would LOVE to be using 1000Ws...

Just get the 1000Ws, and scratch off the wattage, tell her they're 600s...

My buddy switched from 600s to 1000s and gets 2 pounds per light... I'm still getting just over a pound a light on 600s...

It seems like a waste of effort, when I could nearly double the output with a higher wattage.
 

audi07

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cheers mate i have a 30x magnifier with light but is bloody hard to keep my hand still to check trichs
also if i look at them in the dark the attached microscope light give off and orange glow

so i took the bulb out looked at em under the hps light and low and behold i could see there actuall colour its just some people said look at them without the hps light on as it gives the trichs an orange glow but it worked for me as most of my trichs are 70% clear 25% cloudy5% amber

Just collect the runoff, and check the TDS... You can use anything to collect runoff, actual collectors for plant containers, pie plates, anything.



Once they start to slightly amber, I harvest, I don't like narcotic weed...

Go look at the harvesting curing section for some pics.[/quote]
 

laserbrn

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just trim off a small bit of leaf near a bud and you can take it aside and look at it. That's the easiest method.

We need pictures!!!!!!!!!!
 
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