Will She Finish by Oct.?

Hey guys. She showed her first preflower about 3 weeks ago. Since then she's gotten huge, about 6 ft with the planter

I just checked on her yesterday and she has white pistils starting to show all over.

I figure I will need to harvest in the very latest 6 weeks (or Oct. 5) because she is in a corn field. And corn is harvest after the first frost if i remember correctly.

Here are some pics, let me know what you guys think and when my deadline for harvest should be, if shes ready or not.

tonydash said:

Hey guys. She showed her first preflower about 3 weeks ago. Since then she's gotten huge, about 6 ft with the planter

I just checked on her yesterday and she has white pistils starting to show all over.

I figure I will need to harvest in the very latest 6 weeks (or Oct. 5) because she is in a corn field. And corn is harvest after the first frost if i remember correctly.

Here are some pics, let me know what you guys think and when my deadline for harvest should be, if shes ready or not.

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It depends what strain it is... that should easily solve it for you. Some flower fast and some are really sllllooooowwww. As in my case, Ive flowered some that required 16-20 weeks, though worth the wait.

Good luck and it looks great.

wow there is no way i could go that long....6-8 weeks max.

It's too big to move and I have to harvest before the farmer does.

Once she shows white pistils all over, this means flowering has started?

The first ones were a few weeks ago.

tonydash said:

wow there is no way i could go that long....6-8 weeks max.

It's too big to move and I have to harvest before the farmer does.

Once she shows white pistils all over, this means flowering has started?

The first ones were a few weeks ago.

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Well ya it could be but still it depends on the strain and how long that strain flowers. That would suck if it was a long ass flowering strain. You'd be effed.

Heres a good pic that is an example...the ones in the front were an 8-10 week flowering strain... the ones in the back were the 16-20 see the dif?

yes i do -_-

i think my plant is a longer flowering strain. This thing is impossible to move and I do not have a better place for it to grow atm...

By the first week of october should the buds be almost ready to harvest no matter what? shouldn't it sense the frost coming?

tonydash said:

yes i do -_-

i think my plant is a longer flowering strain. This thing is impossible to move and I do not have a better place for it to grow atm...

By the first week of october should the buds be almost ready to harvest no matter what? shouldn't it sense the frost coming?

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i believe so, i think you will be fine.

well i went today and found out the corn field she is in is FOOD corn (yellow kind).

When is the earliest / latest that yellow corn is harvested? Will I have to *attempt* to move my plant again ?

I plan to harvest in early October.

I'm not 100% but I think they harvest before the first frost

Harvest is in September homie It has to do with how burnt the corn gets.....Hope for rain..

i would harvest in september...i just dont thnk she will be ready,...


i think she's going to need some of october

I think you need to just find a new location. Harvesting too early is gonna really impact how good ur bud turns out. You dont want to do all this work for just a lil bit of what could be a lot.

you're right, I have a good spot but I do not have a pickup truck to transport it.

it's far too big now to fit inside a car

Good point... hmmm.... lemme think... mabye while Im in sleepy town Ill come up with a transport idea. That really didnt cross my mind. I always buy the big paper bags to put your leaves in (from ace) to transport plants if I need to. I think they are about 5 ft tall so you'd have to bend her a bit and lay her accross the back seat... that is, if your willing to move it. I would cuz thats too much invested to just throw it all away.

Run a screw through the side of you pot and get some twine and bend her over.I bet shes still pretty flexable,youd be surprised how much you can bend her over.

a good idea chewwy. i'm scared i will snap her branches though. how far will she bend about? and I should give lots of water beforehand right?

tonydash said:

well i went today and found out the corn field she is in is FOOD corn (yellow kind).

When is the earliest / latest that yellow corn is harvested? Will I have to *attempt* to move my plant again ?

I plan to harvest in early October.

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Here is a little info for everyone, coming from a veteran farmer. lol

Depending on where you live,...typically in the northeast region of the U.S. harvest will be late Sept. to early Oct......
There are some twists to when harvest comes.....weather, variety of corn that is planted (corn is labeled by days....you have 90 day corn, 105 day corn, 120 day corn, etc..etc..) farmers around here plant later day corn first then through-out planting change to shorter day corn, that way it is all ready at the same time. (hopefully that makes sense).

Corn stalks will eventually dry out and turn yellow/brown. Typically it takes quite a while before the corn is ready to harvest..Ears typically (depends on variety) drop and point downward. This helps it dry. (The husks shed rain water, dew, etc.) Most farmers who harvest and truck directly into a grain mill harvest when the corn is around 16% moisture give or take a couple %. Farmers who dry their own may pick at slightly higher moisture and dry it down.

A quick and easy test to see if corn is ready to be harvested is to shuck an ear of dry corn (that means take the husk off lol.) hold the corn in both hands leaving a couple inches between hands, and twist the corn back and forth. If the corn squeeks while twisting, it is dry enough to harvest typically.
Hope this helps some corn field growers out! Just a few tips and tricks of the trade.

~Outlaw~

That depends,I could bend mine completely over without snapping em.If I were you i would start bending next time you visit,then in a few days or the next time you visit bend her a little more til she is bent over enough to fit in your back seat

Scoot your front passenger side seat all the way to the front of your car. Put the pot with your plant on the floor board in the back seat directly behind the front passenger seat. That should be more than enough room for the bottom half of your plant to fit without being bent. The bottom half will be much less flexible than the top. The top should bend any which way you want it becuase its more green and fresh. I've done this once b4 with 6ft plants in a Saturn Ion everyhting turned out ok, urs should 2...

Good Luck & !

Thought I would toss out a suggestion. If you can anticapate when the farmer is going to cut, carry your plant into the woods for a few days and after the corn is cut, bring it back to the edge of the treeline. It will now be more susceptable to deer and deer hunters, so precautions would need to be taken with them.
Good luck.
I have a similiar problem only my cornfield is an empty field waiting to be developed, later this fall. My girls (14 ww and blueberries) are hiding in a berry/briar patch

Peace

There's a plant that just so happens to be at the same stage as yours someplace else... My strain takes 8-9 weeks indoors and she's showing signs just now of veg slow down and staggering internodes, little more beafy than yours and much more urban, haven't done a cornfield grow for ages ILL style, anyway that would mean you'd have to wait another let's say 6-8 weeks to get something decent you've got 6 weeks before the 5th of October so just wait it out I guess. Will upload pics but receiving error as of now, pray for nice weather in September, Indian summer all the way