Indoor Harvest Problems

[texasboy26]

... seems like I been here before ...

I am in day 80 in my second grow of Barney's Farm Little Cheese.
First grow was wildly successful and pulled me into the Autoflower life. i owe part to all the help I got in this forum especially from Muddy. I am trying to follow his guidelines and the plant has been yellowing (up from the bottom) nicely. But there are no trichomes. Last time the leaves (all of them) were covered with sugar - crystalline trichomes - all over the place. This time they are clean. Squeeky cleen. Ive got a new eyepiece from the internet and I can see it close-up more clearly. (though I cant fotograph it) and there are plenty of hairs - all over the leaves but no trichomes. I have never seen anything like it. Trichomes are supposed to be there from the day the plant is born.
:smoke:
How can I see clear-smoky-amber trichomes if there aint no trichomes at all.

 

[THCRx]

What is your humidity at?

 

[texasboy26]

What is your humidity at?

Low
Got it back up to 35%

 

[THCRx]

Id try and drop in as low as possible without damaging the plant. Trichs form to help protect the plant from low humidities. Has it been a consistent 35%? What strain and additives are you using?

 

[texasboy26]

Id try and drop in as low as possible without damaging the plant. Trichs form to help protect the plant from low humidities. Has it been a consistent 35%? What strain and additives are you using?

They have lived most of their life at very low humidity, too low. My bad. They were starved of all water at the end of last month when I got sick and went to the hospital for a week. They survived it far better than my Photos.

These are Little Cheese from Barneys Farm. Ive grown them before. But they were unlike these except they were my 1st Autos and were exceptionally hardy like these. Both keep on, keepin on and they have converted me to Autos.

They are growing in Canna Coca and I use Canna Nutes to their schedule online: A+ B, Rhizotonic, Cannazym, Boost, PK13/14

 

[THCRx]

Hmm im not too sure man. Im wondering if such low humidity for the entirety of their lives is possible causing them not to form trichs... but i have no idea.

 

[Joe Dirt]

It could simply be a different pheno than the last girl.

 

[texasboy26]

It could simply be a different pheno than the last girl.

:howdy:
Im not sure about phenos. No, I know nothing about phenos. These 2 are entirely different than the last 2 so I dont think so.

About seeds. I understand you often get hermies and they can fertilize anything from itself to several dozen plants. How about non-feminized plants. If 2 plants or 2 pair (isolated with each other, after showing their sex) are in one tent, wont they cross fertilize and produce hundreds if not thousands of seeds? Not breeding just trying to cut down on the seed costs of autos since they dont clone well. Its the only thing that has kept me from autos completely. Photo plants are just so easy to clone and once I find a good one, i just clone it. Once I find a good auto cant I sex it, cross it and harvest the seeds?

 

[Muddy]

Phenotypes are differences in various plants of the same strain. Maybe one is a bush type with lots of side branches while another is a single cola with few or no side branches. They would be two different, distinct phenos of the same strain. Sounds like what you got. These differences are pretty common with autos as they are still relatively new and haven't been fully stabilized.

Actually, hermies are pretty rare in autos. I've grown several hundred plants at this point and have only had 1 hermie and that was in a batch of seed I was testing for a breeder. One of the things we were testing for was hermies so the fact I did get one wasn't surprising. Yes, you can grow plants from regular seeds and make your own. Isolate the male and capture the pollen from it. Use that to pollinate a female. Just pollinating 1 lower branch will give you enough seeds to keep you growing for quite awhile.

 

[roadsidevendor1]

you sure can!!
we just did exactly that:
5 plants were grown to sex,
the fastest growing male was
paired with the best structured female.
they grew together ,in the same tent,
the male was allowed to drop pollen for
2 weeks. then he was pulled out.
10 weeks later and we have viable seed
growing a new crop.
enjoy!!