Will they finish?

turnip brain

turnip brain

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Got a late start on these this year, and had to push them along, started taking them in overnight for 12/12 back in mid July. info (pics page 2) here: https://www.rollitup.org/t/messed-up-my-schedule-no-time-to-cook-ss-what-other-options.914014/

I thought they were on schedule. Pistils turned orange and buds packed up and frosted up over a month ago. Now they have sprouted new fresh green pistils and tricomes are NOT ambering. Leaves have seriously faded and are dropping off the stems. They are remaining mostly outside on the porch now that daylight is naturally less than 12/12. The weather has turned to autumn/winter. Had first serious snow a couple days ago, and the plants got covered in it. No worries there, they are still fine, but what can I do to push them to friggin finish? Wont be long and we'll have hard freezes every night.

Note fresh green pistils starting on this bud

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ISK

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I guess you only have 2 options

1) bring indoors under CFL's or whatever lights you have
2) grin and bear it, and hang in with the sunlight as long as you can

they are a few weeks from a full finish, but even if you have have to harvest a bit sooner, you will still have decent smoke
 
turnip brain

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I can certainly bring them inside at night again, will it help to shorten amount of daylight to 11-10 hours a day?

Also wondering would colder or warmer temperatures at night help them finish
 
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Uberknot

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turnip brain said:
Got a late start on these this year, and had to push them along, started taking them in overnight for 12/12 back in mid July. info (pics page 2) here: https://www.rollitup.org/t/messed-up-my-schedule-no-time-to-cook-ss-what-other-options.914014/

I thought they were on schedule. Pistils turned orange and buds packed up and frosted up over a month ago. Now they have sprouted new fresh green pistils and tricomes are NOT ambering. Leaves have seriously faded and are dropping off the stems. They are remaining mostly outside on the porch now that daylight is naturally less than 12/12. The weather has turned to autumn/winter. Had first serious snow a couple days ago, and the plants got covered in it. No worries there, they are still fine, but what can I do to push them to friggin finish? Wont be long and we'll have hard freezes every night.

Note fresh green pistils starting on this bud

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some strains will continue to flower over and over you have to decide for yourself when.
 
turnip brain

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Just a few amber on the larger older green leaves in the buds, not on the calyxes, The rest pretty much all cloudy
 
growman3666

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Uberknot said:
Some don't.....are there any at all yet?

Are they all cloudy?
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Which dont may i ask? When a trichome is finished its cloudiness is the cannabinoids that are full inside the top of the trich. When a trichome can no longer hold anymore and becomes overripe it turns amber and bursts. I have never heard of a strain not turning amber with enough time.
 
growman3666

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turnip brain said:
Just a few amber on the larger older green leaves in the buds, not on the calyxes, The rest pretty much all cloudy
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If you are seeing all cloudy then the trichs have reached peak potency. If you still see clear you have some time to go still. Cold weather can definately cause a plant to ripen faster sometimes making the trichs mature faster than the rest of the bud causing in your case cloudy trichs but a bud that doesbt look ready yet
 
Uberknot

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growman3666 said:
Which dont may i ask? When a trichome is finished its cloudiness is the cannabinoids that are full inside the top of the trich. When a trichome can no longer hold anymore and becomes overripe it turns amber and bursts. I have never heard of a strain not turning amber with enough time.
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There is enough info out there about quite a few that don't or you may get all cloudy and barely any amber.

I suppose if you ran them until dead they might change eventually.

It's just some do not really do it when it's time to harvest....

This goes back to some strains flower over and over again.
 
turnip brain

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growman3666 said:
Cold weather can definately cause a plant to ripen faster sometimes making the trichs mature faster than the rest of the bud causing in your case cloudy trichs but a bud that doesbt look ready yet
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The buds looked very ready a few weeks ago except for amber trics. Then they started re-flowering again, now you are seeing more green pistils. The dried up orange ones are mostly under the new growth.
 
turnip brain

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Uberknot said:
Hopefully it does start changing to a larger % of amber.

Can you turn the heat up on it? :P
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It's been getting really cold outside at night.

I think I'll try lessening hours of daylight: light 10-11hrs, dark 13-14 by bringing them in, and that way they will be warm at night.
 
Bunduki

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I'm wondering, did they start producing fresh pistils a week or two after you started leaving them on the porch?

There might be a light outside, maybe a security light that comes on. Or, was your 12/12 cycle bringing them inside offset from the natural dawn-dusk cycle you put them into once that was under 12? That might have confused them.
 
turnip brain

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Bunduki said:
Or, was your 12/12 cycle bringing them inside offset from the natural dawn-dusk cycle you put them into once that was under 12? That might have confused them.
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This may be the thing. The other thing is the variation in weather this time of year. Sometimes warm like extended summer, other tines rainy/cloudy or snowing. Inconsistent at best starting around mid September.


"There might be a light outside, maybe a security light that comes on. "

Nope.
 
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