Week 7 still no buds?

Cloudz2600

Cloudz2600

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I have a Barney's Blue Mammoth and WoS Northern Lights x Big Bud. Both have had their fair sure of stress(light burns, deficiencies and nute burns). I'm at week 7 for both of them and I have noticed alternating nodes and pistils on the Blue Mammoth, but just alternating nodes on the NL. I'm all for giving plants the time they need to develop, but isn't no bud production at week 7 kind of strange? I'm still getting some vertical growth, but nothing like how it was last week.

Is this normal? Should I turn the lights to 12/12? If I go 12/12 do I need to keep it at that for the remainder of the plants life or can I just go 12/12 to induce flowering then go back? I know 12/12 will hurt my yield, but plants staying in veg will hurt my yield even more lol.
 
Cloudz2600

Cloudz2600

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It's a joke...a reduced yield would be better than plants that don't produce buds since it's still in veg...All the stuff I've reading and seeing say most autoflowers start bud production around week 5-6. How long should I be waiting then? I know the breeder says 60-75 days and that's unrealistic, which is why I assumed 11-12 weeks. There's no way they will be finished by then even if production started today.
 
Amaximus

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Cloudz2600 said:
I have a Barney's Blue Mammoth and WoS Northern Lights x Big Bud. Both have had their fair sure of stress(light burns, deficiencies and nute burns). I'm at week 7 for both of them and I have noticed alternating nodes and pistils on the Blue Mammoth, but just alternating nodes on the NL. I'm all for giving plants the time they need to develop, but isn't no bud production at week 7 kind of strange? I'm still getting some vertical growth, but nothing like how it was last week.

Is this normal? Should I turn the lights to 12/12? If I go 12/12 do I need to keep it at that for the remainder of the plants life or can I just go 12/12 to induce flowering then go back? I know 12/12 will hurt my yield, but plants staying in veg will hurt my yield even more lol.
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I can't speak for the Blue Mammoth but I grew out a WoS NLxBB a few weeks back and it was germed, flowered, harvested in 71 days. And let me tell you, I stressed the shit out of this one. I had no idea it was an auto and I started to LST her. Probably LST'd her for a week or two into flowering before I realized she was an auto.

Don't know if this helps but this is what my NLxBB looked like after about 7 weeks. Keep in mind this ugly bitch was abused to hell. I did not know she was an auto until too late. But we're just talking development here so this is what she looked like.

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Cloudz2600

Cloudz2600

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So then it's safe to say there's something wrong right? Here's pics of my plants. This is right after I was LSTing so that's why the stems and leaves are all weird. Would you recommend going 12/12 or just waiting it out?

Lol I just noticed the fan leaves, man you stressed the hell out of her. What deficiency didn't she have?
 

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Amaximus

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I don't think it is your lighting... I ran mine 18/6 after an initial 2 weeks 20/4 schedule.

Yeah, They're definitely behind though. The one of the left has started to flower, so that is good. The one on the right I can't tell. It looks like it might have started to flower but the leaves are all turned I can't get a good look. If they have started to flower there is 0% reason I can see to reduce the light schedule.

I'd stop all LSTing (Cut whatever ties you have in place would be my opinion) and just give them their nutes from here on out. In the end they should have rapid growth and you should end up with the plants you want it will just take a little longer. That's just my opinion.
 
Cloudz2600

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Actually the one of the left is the northern lights and doesn't have any pistils that I can see. Not sure if you've been following my grow or not, but I've been giving them nitrogen nutes for the past 2 waterings. Pic 1 is the northern lights a week after the stem snapped, pic 2 are the hairs on the Blue Mammoth. I figured it would help if I showed you the stem of the plants.
 

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Amaximus

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Cloudz2600 said:
Lol I just noticed the fan leaves, man you stressed the hell out of her. What deficiency didn't she have?
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^^^ I missed that question first time around...

She looked like utter hell when i harvested her. She smoked real good though. It all went so fast and I didnt even try to correct anything with her. If i had to guess I'd say she had a magnesium, nitrogen & calcium deficiency in the end. At the time she was still on veg nutes and was receiving NO cal-mag.
 
Amaximus

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Cloudz2600 said:
Actually the one of the left is the northern lights and doesn't have any pistils that I can see. Not sure if you've been following my grow or not, but I've been giving them nitrogen nutes for the past 2 waterings. Pic 1 is the northern lights a week after the stem snapped, pic 2 are the hairs on the Blue Mammoth.
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It's hard to see with those photos... I dont see any pistils either but that looks like the beginning of flowering to me just based on my own experiences.
 
Cloudz2600

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We'll I guess I'll try 18/6 this week any if still nothing by week 8 drop it down to 12/12. I'll also switch to my 10-30-20 nutes.
 
The2TimEr

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Is this normal? Should I turn the lights to 12/12? If I go 12/12 do I need to keep it at that for the remainder of the plants life or can I just go 12/12 to induce flowering then go back? I know 12/12 will hurt my yield, but plants staying in veg will hurt my yield even more lol.[/QUOTE]

i say switch to 12/12 and stay.
 
GetNice

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Im a little fickled with my gorw too. im at week 5 tomorrow and no pistils at all, i dropped mine to 12/12 tonight. if its a true auto, she should flower and then i will switch back to 18/6 to tighten up the buds.
 
vilify

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My mammoth started flowering really early under 18/6. just cut it down though.
didnt have room, and dont care for auto's
 
cc08150

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Is that one of those freebie seeds? I got one when I did an attitude order a few weeks back but was too scared to pop it without reading up on it some lol. I may end up poping it and running it under T5's just for shits and giggles to see if it really is an Auto....
 
Cloudz2600

Cloudz2600

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Yea, Blue Mammoth was released on the 4/20 promo as a freebie. You got any pics of it flowering vilify?

Assuming the plants aren't autos, I'm moving in about 6 weeks. Should the plants finish by then?
 
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treyb52

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I am sure your autos took so long to induce flowering because they were recieving heavy doses of Nitrogen. You can tell by just looking at them that they are way to nitrogen heavy. Dark Leaves, Spiraling Leaves, NO FLOWERS...yes I realize this is late but it may help others,
 
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