Trichomes & Harvesting
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Kickflipfrontblunt
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I grow a lot of auto fems but switched over to photos due to yield issues... You should wait another week I can see white hairs still sticking straight up .. With autos and a lot of other strains white hairs are indication of plants not reaching full potential yet ... Here's my Chem dog hybrid with light of jah.. Last photo is tricomb growth on the photoperiod used a electric pocket microscope 150x .. What you guys think
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hellmutt bones
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Yes the white hairs your refering to are pistols and they must turn red or brown and recede. I can guestemate another 2-3 weeks but still keep an eye on your trics if they start ambering then its a week window where you should chop. usually I like about 10-30% amber depending if its a haze or hybrids, usually indica turns amber quick so dont let it get more than 10% amber but then again i also like with full cloudy trics but most if not all the trics should be cloudy.
Kickflipfrontblunt
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How's my plant looking ?
hellmutt bones
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Look good next time try not to let ur plant strech too much. Also try and keep the buds on the top ends and remove the lower buds but only when in veg never remove buds after 2 weeks in flower. Also get the light about 20-30 inches from the tops that would give u a more compact plant with less spacing and also more buds.
Kickflipfrontblunt
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good information thank you
Kickflipfrontblunt
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The main stem snapped fully off 1.5 months into veg so the longer horizontal branches started to recieve more light and then started to grow vertical... That's why it looks so stretchy ... But it was in severe shock so i had to rehab her ... That's why she has four tops lol
Kickflipfrontblunt
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Lol .. Thanks laubs... At first I thought all hope was lost and turns out cannabis is extremely resilisant to certain "injuries" like fully snapped main stems...but... The plant must reset its clock so you may have a fully vegged plant but it's like starting from day one interns if bud growth.. For example it was 45 days into veg and then the injury occurred so the next day started day one for ... If that makes sense lol ...that was my expirence... Many other people may have had a different expirence with broken main stems but it just seemed to top the plant 4 times and massive bud growth in the center of the plant where the main stem would of been
bubblenut
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That would explain the foxtailing on my think different correct??? Light has only been about 12 inches max from main cola whilst my rather shorter blue mammoth has dense arse nuggs and only half the height!!!
Kickflipfrontblunt
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Yeah electrical tape works wonders ... My other job involves me to do a lot of splinting on people and when my plant has an accident ( usually caused by my dumb ass) I splint my plant lol... But of course I use Zipties and a kebab skewer ... Use the kebab skewer to straighten out the break to the original position before it broke then just Ziptie above and below the break works really well ... My friend actually breaks the branches into the way he wants the plant to grow and secures the break eventually the break heals and he does this throughout the entire veg stage ... He's had plants that he "Trained" to grow In a spiral and once flowering starts he stops the training and the tops eventually grow vertically from the center ... It's sounds weird but it works and is super space efficient ... Especially if you have a vertical space deficiency in your grow space... Kinda looks like this
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hellmutt bones
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Yes it could be..fox tail happens with high heat.
But yeah that could b.
Kickflipfrontblunt
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yep... Happened with my first autofems .. Blueberry420 .. One had a taller phenotype so it was taller than my other one and the cola was made up of 4-5 big nugs but I could still see the main stem .. My other which wasn't As close to the light had a nice conical cola and was packed nice and tight i then realized the reason why the taller of the two was foxtailing...so I raised the lights and instead of shining directly down I tilted the light fixture so it spreads the light over a greater area and decreases "hotspots" ... And if you grow in a closet put a fan/ small air circulator at the back of the closet behind the plants and pointed towards the closet door/ main opening it will push that heat out of the closet ( just point the fan on an upwards angle ... Heat rises...lol) .. And you can also TRY a light spreader that attaches right to the light bulb ( assuming your using a digital ballast fixture I.e HPS and or metal halide it will help to decrease heat but he reason why I say try is because it might also increase heat ... It works well with rooms with good ventilation and large space
Kickflipfrontblunt
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You tried it? I learned to do that with autos .. And also to wait until there is absolutely no whites hairs ( 1-2 are okay) to harvest and really let them cure other wise you will get an earthy smell to them 1-2 weeks in glass jars should be fine