As many as I have grown, it’s never happened once. I do get the rodelization every once in a while where a bud will have a single seed, and it’s only a few buds, always toward the bottom. Cheers Os
A little bud porn for the freaking hot weather today. I zoomed in on these on my phone and was amazed at the trichomes. Sour Crack day 76 Double grape day 76. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Looking good, and looking like you are on the home stretch. That’s going to be some great smoke as well. Cheers Os
(In a whiny kid voice from the back seat of the car) “Daaaad, are we there yet?!?!” I’m thinking yes and am planning the chop tonight/this weekend sometime. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Thanks, Os. This part of the process is so hard for me to gauge. If I weren’t using trichomes to measure doneness I would likely have chopped already. I also see some clear but also cloudy and some amber which makes it all the more confusing! I’ll temper my impatience and give her a little more time. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
listen to the man. i am a notorious early chopper (usually because i'm running dry), and ime based on your snaps the plant is at the "good" stage of the "good, better, best" gauge. i too am right now in the same situ with one of mine. i know it's on the bubble of good/better but for ONCE in my growing career i'm going to show some self-imposed mental discipline and i'm waiting for better/best which i am hoping occurs in the next 4 days.
It’s all about where you check. The little leaves amber up first, and look more like bumps than mushrooms. Don’t let those fool ya. The trichs right around the spot where an orange pistil recedes into the calyx is the spot to go by. For sure judging the ‘finish’ is the hardest part to learn. I still think another day or two, you are close though and things look great. Cheers Os
and it's never going to be uniform at one time. i peel the budZ open and go deep when i check, and i check all over (usually drooling while checking in the latter days), and i fight the mental challenge for deciding "when". i'm almost always driven by the excitement of the chop so i really, really, have to fight myself to remain objective and pragmatic, thinking "what would OS do", for example. i'm really trying this time with both Speedy and Blueberry. i will succeed at waiting for prime time "best".
I check about once every 1-2 days. Load a bowl, sit and start to scope. I check multiple spots: top, middle, bottom and such. Never have peeled a bud open to look - that just sounds like a sticky mess! Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
haha no doubt it is! and disturbing the terpenes and catching the aromas make it all the harder to hold off on harvest. heck I've got to clean my loupe every day it gets so gunked up. i just dont know any other way to get 'er done.
Got a question for the greenhouse auto-flower growers. Why did my Red Poison stretch 27" in 11 days and I have stubby branches with single buds forming. At what week or stage of life should we place them in the greenhouse? I'm thinking after this experience, it would be after flower starts. This is my first round with the greenhouse. One auto and one photo. Red Poison and Green Poison.Here's the Red Poison, it went in the greenhouse at 10". The spacing between nodes went to around 8". Here's a photo showing the GreenPoison to the left and the goofy Red Poison to the right. I did expect a learning curve with the greenhouse.
That seems to be similar to the plant morphology that I get when I start in the GH. Especially sativa dom strains. My guess would be is that there isn’t quite enough light. The trick I used was a cob right above the plant and on at night to keep em in check. I think even an led bulb above the ‘top’ at night would help. The other side of the coin, you have great open structure. I think the key is to get the most light you can, possibly thru position in the GH, to get the very most light you can at the top. Cheers Os
Thanks Os, I'd agree that it appears to be a lack of light causing stretch. Technically we are legal in NY state. But, I don't want to attract attention to myself with a glowing greenhouse visible from the roadway. We still have a lot of folks around here that will watch us do all the work and steal our crop just prior to it being ready. I'd rather grow strains in the greenhouse that do not need supplemental lighting. As I mentioned above, do you think waiting until they are in flower before putting them in the green house would eliminate this issue?