New Grower Need help with my first grow...

[slimjim00]

Hello all!! Hope everyone had a happy new year!!
Not much going on..i am on day 56 and about 5 weeks into flowering...2 of my White Widow's are gleaming with trich's, and the last one, the tallest of them all(about 10-12 inches taller!!) is not showing any yet...Not sure if this is normal? Anyway, not sure if they are close to harvest yet....fan leaves are still a really nice dark green...pistols are still white and I am still hitting them hard with Canna Coco A + B nutes!! Not sure when to stop giving them nutes and start the cleansing cycle...Not really any yellowing of any fan leaves yet...there is some dead stuff falling off at the bottom of the plants from splashing when feeding them...I want to, so badly, to take a bud off and dry it and smoke it! lol But I will refrain and continue to be patient, considering they are really 80 days from sprout!!

 

[gone1]

Happy new year!
I feel your pain bro, i want to try a bud too.

 

[elsamurai]

check the color of your tric's with an eye loupe or magnifying glass. if they are clear,wait until they get cloudy. some people wait till 1/4 or so get amber. then stop nute's and give only water. clear/cloudy= more head high, more amber= more body high. hope that help's. I'm just a noob, but that's what I've read. happy growing

 

[slimjim00]

Thanks all for the advice....ok I'm on Day 60 and the buds are fattening up each day..question is..when should I stop feeding them nutes? I'm growing in coco coir. I have heard that they need to be feed plain ph'ed water before they are chopped...so how do I know when to stop feeding them? Thanks for any info! -slim

 

[slimjim00]

DAY61

Any suggestions if and when I should just feed plants plain water for 2 weeks before they get chopped? I am growing in COCO Coir and feeding them Canna brand Coco A+B. Below are a few pics from yesterday...

 

[blue]

Hi Slim Jim!

Looking good in the garden!
I would definately plain water cleanse them at the end of the cycle - CocoA&B doesn't taste nice in the buds

I tend to use all the methods to decide when i "think" my plants are ready.

My Checklist goes

Are the white hairs all receeded and going brown?
Are the trichs NOT clear (i harvested once with clear trichs, maybe only a few cloudy and didn't like it at all - quite the opposite of being stoned)
Are the leaves looking like it's autumn - yellows and browns.

If my above conditions are mostly met then i will be happy to start the plain water cleanse.
For me, this doesnt usually occur until day 70. I like a stony high so I'll take them as far as i can

I harvested my last at just over 80 days i think - i only gave 10 days of plain feed.

Hope this helps

All the best
Blue ^_^

 

[slimjim00]

Hey Blue!! Thank you!! Great to hear from you!! Hope you had a great new years!!

Thank you so much for the Info...from the beginning you have steered me in the right direction...hopefully I can pay it forward on AFN one day when I get more experience!!
I have a jewelers loupe coming in the mail today so I should have a better idea of how my trich's look...I tend to like a stony high, but still be able to wake and bake and function somewhat...lol whatever that means..(-;

Here is something weird maybe you can shed some light on..the pics I sent were from 2 of the WW's, the 3rd, the one that outgrew my light last week, does not have many visible trichs...she is by far the biggest of the 3...a beast...Is she just behind the others or does she have a problem? Give me a few min and ill post some pics of just her...

 

[elsamurai]

man those sure are frosty nice

 

[Cannabinoid Connoisseur]

Two weeks until enlightenment.

 

[slimjim00]

DAY 76

Ok, not much going on....the buds are really starting to fatten up and look just about done. My girlfriend went to cut a small bud off one of the plants and accidently cut the main cola off!! DOH!! (I wasn't home so not sure how you try and snip off a small bud to try and end up cutting the main cola! lol, but I wasn't upset at all..been drying about a week in a brown paper bag. Below are the pics of the cola and the bud she really wanted to cut! (-: