Live Stoner Chat 1st grow, need help!

[MedGrower]

Thanks man, I took your guys advise on board and changed out the res, bought the feed down, I did some defoliation and she seems happy again, just hoping they are going to fatten up now in the next 3-4 weeks!

Honestly this is ridiculously good first grow. She looks like she is going to be fattening up really good at this rate. Just keep it up and remember than most of the time less is more when it comes to feeding.

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

Honestly this is ridiculously good first grow. She looks like she is going to be fattening up really good at this rate. Just keep it up and remember than most of the time less is more when it comes to feeding.

Hey Med, cheers bro, I did my research before embarking on this journey by reading lots of the awesome grows on this forum and lots of articles on the internet but that still doesn' mean anything until you start growing yourself and encountering problems and honestly without your advise I'm sure I would have made some bad decision so thanks a bunch! Just be prepared for some questions lol, oh by the way my grow is tiny compared to your northern lights beast!

 

[Kingflipper]

Thanks man, I took your guys advise on board and changed out the res, bought the feed down, I did some defoliation and she seems happy again, just hoping they are going to fatten up now in the next 3-4 weeks!

Great to hear buddy. She certainly looks beautifully healthy. Those buds will swell like a dog that stuck his nose in a hornets nest! Great job my friend and keep up the good work

 

[Kingflipper]

Honestly this is ridiculously good first grow. She looks like she is going to be fattening up really good at this rate. Just keep it up and remember than most of the time less is more when it comes to feeding.

You're totally right on with that assessment MedGrower. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do so good on a 1st grow. As a matter of fact... Here's some rep for ya. @ChroToker if you have any more questions, fire away... We'll certainly be more than happy to help

Hey @Rebel , can we get this guy a 1st grow badge?

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

You're totally right on with that assessment MedGrower. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do so good on a 1st grow. As a matter of fact... Here's some rep for ya. @ChroToker if you have any more questions, fire away... We'll certainly be more than happy to help

Hey @Rebel , can we get this guy a 1st grow badge?

Thanks man, I do have 1 more question, I am not sure how to tell when to harvest, how long do you think I have left and how do you personally tell when it' ready with autos as I have heard to look at the trichomes for amber but then I have heard that with autos the trichomes sometimes don' show amber and to look out for the leaves turning yellow and dying off

 

[Kingflipper]

Hey buddy, the tricomes will certainly turn amber. Hopefully whoever told you that was just a bit confused, lol

I could give you a general idea if the next time you post, please take a photo 12" or so from one of the bigger colas. As the calyxes mature, the white hairs that are sticking out of each one will shrivel up and turn orange/brown. Once 10% of them have turned brown and shriveled up, that's an indicator that you have around 3 weeks left. DO NOT concern yourself with the number of days the breeder advertises. Usually they'll run longer than what they say, especially in DWC. Harvesting even just a week too soon can cost up to 50% of your weight. The only way to know for sure is to scope the tricomes.
I have a few plants really close to done, and a couple with a few weeks left to go. When the lights are on tomorrow, ill snap a few pics and show ya the difference.
I zoomed in the best i could on your pics and it looks like all the hairs are still white and standing straight. If that's the case, id think you have 25 to 35 days to go. Don't think they've quit growing cause they're not getting any taller. Once vertical growth stops... All her energy goes into swelling the buds. Please don't get impatient and chop anything prematurely. You're doing so good I wanna see you keep it up. Ask away any time you're curious about anything. Keep it up brother!

 

[MedGrower]

I judge the maturity of my plants looking at four things:

- Pistils turning brown. This is usual indicator of maturing but not a reliable one. They can turn brown because of various other reasons than reaching maturity. Stress from environmental factors will do that.

- Trichomes turning amber in color. You typically a collection of milky trichomes, still few clear trichomes and some amber trichomes. I never got them all to turn amber as I've waited and usually will take them down at 10% - 25% amber.

- Fan leaves and / or sugar leaves turning in color. This happens at the end of the cycle of an auto since the metabolic processes are halting and the plant has exhausted all the energy putting up the flowers. Looks like a bunch of different deficiencies.

- In DWC you can see the plant reaching its maturity from her feeding habits. When you first see the requirement of solution strength going down it is an indicator of plant entering the last stage of flowering. When you start to see her not consuming the solution at the same rate, it is usually an indicator that the plant is about to be done. These indicators are to be valued along with other signs such as brown pistils, amber tricomes and / or leaves turning in color.

Hope this helps

 

[AnonymousGrower2]

Thanks man, I do have 1 more question, I am not sure how to tell when to harvest, how long do you think I have left and how do you personally tell when it' ready with autos as I have heard to look at the trichomes for amber but then I have heard that with autos the trichomes sometimes don' show amber and to look out for the leaves turning yellow and dying off

She will look like autmn .......

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[Mr Green Fingers]

Hey buddy, the tricomes will certainly turn amber. Hopefully whoever told you that was just a bit confused, lol

I could give you a general idea if the next time you post, please take a photo 12" or so from one of the bigger colas. As the calyxes mature, the white hairs that are sticking out of each one will shrivel up and turn orange/brown. Once 10% of them have turned brown and shriveled up, that's an indicator that you have around 3 weeks left. DO NOT concern yourself with the number of days the breeder advertises. Usually they'll run longer than what they say, especially in DWC. Harvesting even just a week too soon can cost up to 50% of your weight. The only way to know for sure is to scope the tricomes.
I have a few plants really close to done, and a couple with a few weeks left to go. When the lights are on tomorrow, ill snap a few pics and show ya the difference.
I zoomed in the best i could on your pics and it looks like all the hairs are still white and standing straight. If that's the case, id think you have 25 to 35 days to go. Don't think they've quit growing cause they're not getting any taller. Once vertical growth stops... All her energy goes into swelling the buds. Please don't get impatient and chop anything prematurely. You're doing so good I wanna see you keep it up. Ask away any time you're curious about anything. Keep it up brother!

@MedGrower @guerillagrower#65 thanks guys that's very helpfull! I have got a few hairs turning orange/brown but only about 5%, no I definitely don' want to harvest early but the main reason I ask is because I want to try some shogun Dragon force but I need to use it with 2 weeks to go so just trying to work out when I should add it to my res, in my head I was thinking around 3-4 weeks

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

I judge the maturity of my plants looking at four things:

- Pistils turning brown. This is usual indicator of maturing but not a reliable one. They can turn brown because of various other reasons than reaching maturity. Stress from environmental factors will do that.

- Trichomes turning amber in color. You typically a collection of milky trichomes, still few clear trichomes and some amber trichomes. I never got them all to turn amber as I've waited and usually will take them down at 10% - 25% amber.

- Fan leaves and / or sugar leaves turning in color. This happens at the end of the cycle of an auto since the metabolic processes are halting and the plant has exhausted all the energy putting up the flowers. Looks like a bunch of different deficiencies.

- In DWC you can see the plant reaching its maturity from her feeding habits. When you first see the requirement of solution strength going down it is an indicator of plant entering the last stage of flowering. When you start to see her not consuming the solution at the same rate, it is usually an indicator that the plant is about to be done. These indicators are to be valued along with other signs such as brown pistils, amber tricomes and / or leaves turning in color.

Hope this helps

Hey med, so I have had to drop my EC a lot in the last week and when I did my res change I had to set it at 1 EC but even setting it this low it has still climbed to 1.1 but the thing which is most concerning me is that my ph keeps dropping pretty rapidly whereas throughout flowering it has always risen and never dropped, is this a sign I'm in the last stage now or could I have an issue??