Will Heat Stress Prevent/Delay Trichome Maturity? PIX

Hi,
I've got 3 plants growing in a 4'x4'x7.5' GrowLab tent under about 750 HPS lights. I'm in week 8 of flowering 2-Bubblegummer and 1-Lemon Skunk. The plants are suffering pretty severe heat stress (high temps around 95 degrees, low around 75) which I can't do much about due to outdoor temps living in the south US. I run the lights from 10PM - 10AM.

The trichome development seems to be slower than I would have expected and although most of the trichs are cloudy, I would have thought some would be amber by now. Here's the question: is the heat preventing the full maturity of trichomes or only delaying it?

Thanks so much for all your collective expertise. These 4 pix are from today.

Yes it is. The high temps not only prevent the tight crystal buds your talking about they stretch, soften and reduce THC in the buds to. You got away with it thru winter not now, get the temps below 80 at all times or quality and weight decline. Cooltubes will fix the issue if hot air is ducted out of grow area.

Also, if I can get the temps down (planning on moving the tent indoors with a/c) will it allow the trichomes to mature again, or is the damage irreversible?

PoodleBud said:

Also, if I can get the temps down (planning on moving the tent indoors with a/c) will it allow the trichomes to mature again, or is the damage irreversible?

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dealing with same problem, temps got waaay to high(high 90's) first month of flower,added a/c unit ($60 craiglist) has prolonged maturation by 2 weeks so far, slowly finishing up, foxtail buds but if allowed to finish should still be strong, just gotta wait, sucks waiting for sub par to finish but sucks is as sucks does...

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