small buds worth the effort

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KenRu

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #1

on the lower branches there are smaller buds, are they worth the effort or just discard them ?

 

TCH

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #2

Did you harvest that whole plant already? If the top of that is your "mature" buds, you may be chopping waaaayyyyy early.

As far as the popcorn stuff, save it for oil or butter, etc...

 

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KenRu

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #3

TCH said:

Did you harvest that whole plant already? If the top of that is your "mature" buds, you may be chopping waaaayyyyy early.

As far as the popcorn stuff, save it for oil or butter, etc...

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I had two plants that went into a vegetative state and grew to 6 feet with no buds after 3 months. I was ready to trash them but they suddenly decided to produce buds and in just a couple of weeks were looking good. after a few more weeks the buds grew and the trichomes said its time but the lower branches have a lot these timy buds that never took off.

 

Fangthane

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #4

Happen to have any pics of the entire plant right before chopping it?

 

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KenRu

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #5

Fangthane said:

Happen to have any pics of the entire plant right before chopping it?

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This is a few weeks ago when I was going to trash them. You can see they took off. I dont have just before chop

 

go go kid

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #6

you said "did have" does that mean you've chopped them allready?

 

Fangthane

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #7

I don't know, man. Maybe you're running some sort of magic juice. But I've never had a plant go from no buds at all to being ready to harvest in "a few weeks." How about some pics of the dried colas?

 

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KenRu

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #8

Fangthane said:

I don't know, man. Maybe you're running some sort of magic juice. But I've never had a plant go from no buds at all to being ready to harvest in "a few weeks." How about some pics of the dried colas?

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A few weeks was from end of July to now so about 6 1/2 weeks

 

Fangthane

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #9

Not the most experienced grower by a long shot; but I've never personally had a plant go from nothing to finished in even 6-1/2 weeks. Judging by the pics, I kinda doubt you have either. Guess it's impossible to know without seeing what the top buds look like, but I have a feeling you're probably chopping way early.

 

Cpappa27

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• Sep 18, 2023

• #10

Save the lower buds, dry them, throw them in a ziplock bag and in the freezer. When you have everything trimmed and in the freezer, go get a bag of ice and make some bubble hash. no sense in wasting small buds. You can also grind them all up and make yourself a few packs of prerolls.

 

Cpappa27

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• Sep 18, 2023

• #11

As far as those buds in the pic they do look super immature like a 5 week flowering plant, but you can still get something out of them dont trash em.

 

madvillian420

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• Sep 18, 2023

• #12

Considering how immature they are id say trash em. Its a good practice to strip the lowers anyway, thats where the balls hide out on most herm prone genetics. That branch should have been stripped and the tiny nugs trashed (at least the lower 75% of it) weeks before it was

 

Kerowacked

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• Sep 18, 2023

• #13

Dry the popcorn, crush it up and shake it in a coffee basket over parchment paper.