fat nugs?

Post some pictures. You still have two or three weeks left if you're growing indica.

 

that's because they use SCROG and you dont

 

What light are they under.

 

If those are pictures of your grow, you have a ways to go! They will fill in and fatten up faster than you think!  A lot of the nice, tight nugs are specific to certain strains...I'm finishing up a Blueberry and the nugs are hard already, and all I've done is a wet trim. They should be nice and tight by the time they are completely finished! I do add G-10 (by Humboldt Farms) to my girls....I use 1 teaspoon per gallon of pH corrected water. You can use it everyday, but I use it every other day. Makes a big difference! I'm thinking of switching to every day.....robust plants can handle it. Hope it helps! 

 

They will fatten up a lot....I grow Critical Kush as well and she'll not disappoint! Let her go to the end! Just getting ready (in a couple of days of drying) to try the Blueberry...she's a short but very stocky plant! I'm amazed at the yield for her size....short and stocky and yields close to 2 oz. per. Mine did anyway, so I'm quite happy! The proof will be in the smoke, so I'll check back and let you know....Leafly.com says 'Outstanding' so I'm sure it is! Try the G-10....you'll like it! Not really a nute, per se, but an additive. Love the stuff!!! Let me know how it goes! 2-3 weeks at the end is high quality grow time! Those buds will fatten nicely!! 

 

Patience is a virtue.

 

Word, I hear ya man. But believe me when I tell ya, these last few weeks are a bitch. What I'm saying is wait on em a bit, because some strains will look totally finished, but if you give em another week, they'll really pack on some weight.

Your plants look very healthy. Nice work man.

 

beautiful plants dude, if i were growing that I'd be so satisfied, looks like harvest could be like 2-4 ounces

 

Another one with nine million four hundred thirty five thousand, two hundred and seventeen answers....

Easiest general answer...don't sweat it. Some strains develop loose, fat buds, others long loose buds, some develop tiny dense buds that are damn near rocks. That's the plant, not the way you treated it.

Budding cycle is 54-60 days, most plants (regardless of genotype and phenotype), and just like anything else, it's towards the end of development that any "fattening up" happens. To put it simply, during veg, your plant is going through "childhood", when it shows sexual characteristics first, it's JUST starting to show the difference, physically, between "boy" and "girl"...call it "first heat" for an animal comparison.
 
But...put it in human terms...when they first show sexual characteristics, that's when a human girl first starts getting tits and has her period...but flowering is "pregnancy", which usually won't happen until they've gone through a terminal growth spurt as an adolescent, and remains so small as to be unnoticeable for the first third of it, is noticeable, but small, for the second third of it, but during the third and final stage, the poor girl swells up like she swallowed a self-inflating beach ball.


My last indoor crop, I had a Dion Warwick, and a Cherry Pie in there...the Warwick gave me LONG, skinny, loose buds. Good ones, though. Same exact conditions, the Pie gave me tiny little dense nugs that were rock hard. Yield by weight was about the same, dried. Quality in both was AMAZING. Only difference was strain of plant. Absolutely nothing else in conditions differed between them. Same soil, nutes, feeding pattern, lights, enclosure, amount of manicuring and training, development time, period of vegging.

 

G10 works very well..packs on excessive weight. Just make sure ur plants are staked and have strong branching. Or else they'll lean. My Casey Jones clone at 7 weeks flower. This picture is rotated it's actually leaning pretty bad