New Grower 24K, Sour Livers and Strawberry Nuggets

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Looks like you got it under control. Getting closer to some nice bud. :smokeit:

I think your right, sure do hope so :jointman: I am hoping the one thats flowered longest will finish soon cause I need some bud I want to be self sufficient, white hairs still not retracted all the way and not real brown kinda off white so still have hopefully just like a week or so, her colas are fattening up nicely.
 
Just lst'd the Strawberry Nuggets wasn't bad at all, red pipe cleaners for Strawberrys :vibe:.

The two that had issues are looking quite a bit greener, I am debating on wether or not to add more Nitrogen next feeding, if I did can the Flora Nova Grow and Flora Bloom be combined and if so how much each a gallon? Just concerned that it might have too much of the same nutrients aside from the Nitrogen.
 

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Guys are the white hairs supposed to retract all the way so that they don't stick out when it's ripe or does that mean they just curl back a bit? I feel like there kinda brown now not sure how brown they need to be hard to tell in these pics this is the fast small one in flower that is so far ahead of the other two.

Smell of the buds is amazing smells like sweet berries.

I never really take close up shots so here is some bud porn.
 

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Looks like you got 'em dialed back in. :woohoo1:

I don't know much about the hairs except that they shrivel and die when they get old. :shrug:

Thanks bud! Yeah it's weird I watered them with the grow fert and they got a little greener I didn't give them much water because they weren't quite as dry as I usually like but I needed to get the Nitrogen in so gave them only half of what they normaly get about a half gallon, this time they took a gallon each of just ph'd water besides the Strawberry Nuggets which uses a little less than a half gallon but anyway after watering they got even greener and sucked that gallon each of water right up not much run off at all so not sure if the fert made them thirsty or the water just pushed more nitrogen threw it from last time, could also be that they are using even more water than I thought later in flower.

I switched to a broiler pan that was slotted on top that let the water drip threw I thought it was a good idea so the plants didn't sit in water while watering turned out worse cause with that on I couldn't see the runoff under it to tell how much I was watering so I switched back to leaving the top off the pan.
 
Hey @Time I remember you said you didn't know much about the hairs and stuff with flower I was just doing some research on when to harvest and thought you would find this useful.

Looks like my most mature is swelling around the white hairs nicely some only have a tiny bit till swallowed up buds looking a lot more amber won't be long.

Notice in the pic of the other plant how the lower colas are getting taller they grew about a few inchs from that side light I place it above the lower buds a tiny bit few inchs to get them to stretch.

Anyway here's the article best one I have found.

From CannabisGuru on Rollitup forums:


ARTICLE: Is it ready yet?: This is by no means meant to be the definitive guide to knowing when to chop your plant, only my views on the subject.

Its my personal opinoin that 90% of the noobie growers on this site (And probably in general) harvest too early. By letting the plants go a little longer you're ensuring that the've plumped as much as they're going to.

Despite popular opinion to the contrary(and don't fool yourself, the jury is still out on this one) Recent studies have shown ;contrary to what was previously believed, that THC itself (And its predecessor THC-A) are quite guilty of causing the confusion and drowsiness associated with burnout and other cannabinoids (our friend CBN, and a handful of others) to be the catalyst (along with THC) to being 'high' rather than 'baked'

Regardless, whether or not theres any substance to the aforementioned study, its easy to get the high you want.

If you want a soaring 'cerebral' high: Get yourself a tropical sativa that contains a high level of THC-V and grow it until it is ripe.

If you want the narcotic couchlock stone, grow a rugged indica until its ripe.
Notice a pattern of growing it until its ripe? Its a really good rule to live by.

OF course we have to remember that there is more to a good high than just THC. At last count there are at least 66 cannabinoids, and we don't know what most of them do.


Now alot of people will tell you that you should harvest based on the colour of your trichomes. But (again, in my opinion) that is far too simplistic and there are too many variables to make that an effective strategy. I've made that point a million times before and i'm not going to re-hash it here,(maybe just a bit) but rest assured there is more to the picture than just trich colour.


A ripe marijuana plant will be filled in, will have an amber tinge to the buds. The pistils should have browned (or orange-d) off and receded into the buds. The seed bracts should be swollen and the trichomes should be sticking straight out with bulbous ends. Also, because you're coming close to the end of plant's life cycle, the leaves should have yellowed off and started to die.



Another very important (imho) reason to let your plants mature is Terpenoid production. Terpenes are responsible for alot of the complex (And enjoyable) flavours that cannabis produces. Some of the most intense flavours are produced on the "downslope" of cannabis's life cycle. My personal experience with this first came when i was growing GH cheese. One of the plants i harvested at 8 weeks and it tasted pretty nice and had pretty dense buds. The other i grew until about 9 1/2 weeks and it had most amazing, sour, skunky, delicious taste with rock hard buds.


If I could offer one piece of advice on picking the right time to harvest, it's all about watching the pistils. Not so much the colour, but the movement. They should have receded into the bud and the seed bracts should be swollen.


Follow this information correctly.. and you won't be disappointed. I know there are alot of incorrect articles going around. Hell, IMO, there is WAY TOO MUCH incorrect information floating around out there on the interweb.. and its hard to find correct information. However, this article.. is from my personal experience.. 5 years worth of growing.. and I just shared with the people that read this, how I personally check my plants to see if they are ready for harvesting. Again, keep this article somewhere safe where you can come back for future references. Lastly, once again.. follow this information, and you WILL NOT harvest your plant early.. but you have to MAKE sure you remember these important things in order to have a full ripe harvest.

Thanks for your time and thanks for reading.


Remember the following and you'll do great each and every harvest.. never worrying about an premature harvest again:

Maturation - Eventually the pistils start to turn color from pale white to red or brown At the same time the flowers close up, forming false seed pods. The small glands on the flowers now start to grow. These are called stalked capitate glands and are composed of a tiny stalk supporting a thin clear membrane. As THC is produced near the site, the membrane swells with the potent liquid. The membrane stretches and the gland takes on the appearance of a mushroom. When the glands have swelled and the pistil has receded into the false pod, the bud is ready to pick.

-cannabisguru
 
Going to be watering tonight was going to give the one two some more nitrogen cause I'd like to see them get a little darker but I want to use some flora bloom too only thing is I have no idea how much of each to use as the flora bloom only tells you for flora grow on the back and I have flora nova grow. @archie gemmill
 

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