What's going on here?

[Luke Skywalker]

My lady, most unoriginally named Mary, is nearing finishing, the trichomes are becoming large and the calyxes have swollen. About 50% red hairs, with lots of new growth at the tips of each bud. Some of these tips are 1 leaflet and some 3 leaflets. The resin glands themselves are becoming more and more noticable, and they are all clear under 100 and 200 x magnification.

 

Now, here's the thing, or should I say things. The first is probably just a cosmetic thing, I don't really know if this is common or not, but she has no capitate stalked trichomes on her leaf parts, even the ones in the centres of the buds! Is this something that only develops late in the flowering, just before harvest, or is it a genetics thing? (She's bagseed, sativa dom, I think.)

 

The second thing is the real bummer. She's at day 107! Of flowering. She's a total of 137 days old, veg of 4 weeks and flowering, so far at 15 and a bit weeks! Is this even in the ballpark of normal? Because just about every piece of cannabis information on flowering times says a maximum of 12 weeks! So what could it be guys? I'm using new genes for my next crop so if it's a strain specific thing then it should fix it, but if it's culture specific? What can do this to a plant?

 

It's only another 2, maybe 3 weeks I figure until full maturity, so any remedy will probably not do much at this stage, but for future growing, I'd like to know what I did wrong here....

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you all in advance....

peace

[Cypress]

Hi Luke,

 

Just wondering what sort of light the plant has been growing under? Outside in sun, a HID light of some sort or fluros?

 

The plant i have atm started off flowering under fluros, and whilst it wasn't doing badly, it wasn't doing well, now it's under a 400W HPS, and whilst it's suffering from heat stress (i've got very poor ventilation) the flowers have taken off. Maybe your plant is suffering the same fate mine started, I don't think the fluros provide enough light to force the plant to produce the resins we want it to. Just a thought.

[pipeman]

8-12 weeks is for indicas. Its not unusual for a sativa to take 16 weeks to finish.

[Tom]

Yeah, the one in the picture took four months and I would say that 2 - 3 weeks would be a good guess, I would start flushing some where around Wednesday.

 

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[Luke Skywalker]

Hey guys, thanks for the replies, this has had me stumped for a while! Cypress, she's in a 600mm W x600mm D x 1800mm H cupboard that I found during the bulk rubbish collection early last year. I had to fix it up, replace a wall and the door. I didn't really have much experience, but I read up and went for it. I ended up with a small grow cabinet, with an effective growing space of around a metre high. The light is a 400w HPS Son T Agro and she's never done me wrong. I vegged this particular plant outdoors for a month, carefully training and tipping, and ended up with quite a stocky, healthy young plant. She went in to flower at 12/12 just after I lost my last crop to a mould infection that turned my stems to mush. Needless to say, I've learned a lot since then. I have a small 15 cm fan that pushes air from the bottom of the cabinet up, and two 10cm computer fans for air extraction and intake, with ducting pulling air directly from next to the lamp out, to minimise heat. Oh, by the way, these fans were also salvaged from the bulk rubbish collection from an old printer box they used to use to silence loud dot matrix printers. The reservoir is a 40l inner res, with nutes, and an 60l outer res which feeds into the inner one via a float valve. The water level in the inner res is around 25l. And the outer one only needs refilling with ph5.7 water every week or so. I have a small, 590 lph pump, which feeds on a 5 minutes on, 2 hours off cycle.

The container itself is a foam esky around 40 l or so, with a core of growool, (she was growing in growool in a 10l bucket before transplanting around a month ago.) and the remainder is coco/perlite around 50/50 and a base layer of perlite around 7cm thick for improved drainage. She's grown straight into the coco/perlite now, and she will have a massive root run at the end, if what she looked like when transplanting is anything to go by! Ph is kept at 5.5-6.0 manually every day or two, and the e.c. is kept at 2.0/2.2 for a two weeks, with sometimes daily adjustment, and then flushed with .8/1.0 e.c., adjusted to pH 5.5 water which is the tap water I have, until it comes out at the same e.c. as it goes in. She also gets 2ml/10l of oxyclean every 3 days, and she has an airstone and small airpump feeding more oxygen to the res, which goes on and off with the HID.

 

Whew! Is that enough? Oh yeah, one more thing, there was a small light leak around the outtake fans for the first month or so, she went into flowering pretty much straight away though, and figured that the tiny amount couldn't really hurt her. Other that that, there were no other light leaks. Any way, I soon sealed it anyway, thinking that I would be better off safe than sorry. So, that's it. I can't really think of any thing else to tell, except maybe that the photo you supplied, tom, was eerily familiar. She has a similar structure as in leaf size and bud thickness. Of course, mine is cramped and tied down due to constraints of space, bud she does look very familiar. Did that plant end up with many trichomes on the budleaf at harvest? And did they develop in the last week, or days?

 

Thanks for having the patience it requires do decipher one of my posts. I really appreciate your help guys...

 

peace

[Tom]

So, that's it. I can't really think of any thing else to tell, except maybe that the photo you supplied, tom, was eerily familiar. She has a similar structure as in leaf size and bud thickness. Of course, mine is cramped and tied down due to constraints of space, bud she does look very familiar.

“The Monster” (named for her looks) was the same breed as yours (bag seed) and has remained my best yielding plant to date, but it looks like the B'shen (Sativa dominant) from SPC that I have in at present is going to beat her for yield, I expect this one to take an extra month or so to mature than my Indica dominants. In the attached "dawn" shot of her you can see how she has far out-stripped the opposition and the light, it's also a good example of why you should take care when mixing strains in the grow room.

 

Did that plant end up with many trichomes on the budleaf at harvest? And did they develop in the last week, or days?

Not a lot, but it was still a very potent plant.

 

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[Tom]

Bugga, forgot the picture:

[pipeman]

very nice, how long they been in veg?

[Tom]

They were in veg for six or seven weeks, they have been in flower for about four, the B'shen seemed to take forever to show sex (watched pot never heads), I was already fairly certain she was female but it's good to know for sure.

 

Here's a shot of the Indica dominants with the B'sen on the left.

 

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[pipeman]

They were in veg for six or seven weeks,

 

so have mine, how come they're not as big as yours?