Mazar Seeds

About a year or so ago.
Someone mailed me Maxar seeds that were femized.

I had grown them in soil and the results were rather poor because of not enough light and lots of newbie issues. So I put them away for some other time because the number I have are limited.

I recently started 4 seeds in rockwool getting ready for Hydro.
They are babies now and i have a couple of questions...

In the past I took babies from different seeds that at 3 days old...showing first real leaves and moved them directly into flowering mode under HPS.
They did realy well. Grew to a height of 4 ft. ( this is my desired height)

Questions: And I know alot of these are debateable I just want to get a handle on it trying to save time by leraning form others peoples results.

1. Trimming TOPS
Because I don't want my plants to grow much more then 4 ft tall. I plan on cutting the tops when they get to about 8" then cutting them again about 2 weeks later.

2. Hash oil and Hash - I have read alot about using the palm leaves which I call #4 leaves, Secondary palms I call #3 , and leaves around the BUDS which I call #2.
#2 leaves are clearly smokable but when you have 1 LB of good bud every month I am interested in using all the #2,3,4 for oil or hash.

I am looking for a real easy way to gather oil or hash from my #2,3,4

3. Back to trimming for a sec - I always wanted to SOG but I get lazy and it's too eay to just let them do their thing. BUT if I were to make sure the buds get the most intense lighting and use secondary lighting for under the canapy do I just keep adjusting things so the buds are getting all the direct light?
I have topped plants in the past after the tops were done and then have seen the underbuds kick into gear very nicely. If I were to top the plants when they are younger I would have more buds ( smaller ones) but I think the quanity of them will make up for anything I have lost by tipping them.

4. I have read that the plants are done when - the tricomes turn from clear to milky - then if you continue they will turn to amber. This is what I use to time my harvesting.
Milking tricomes yeild a UP high and amber supposibly gives a stronger stoned high, so the reading goes.

I have never had results of some picture I have seen that appear to show a great deal of crystalization. I get plenty of tricomes BUT am I reading these pictures wrong and the crystalization I am seeing is a heavy consentration of tricomes..??

Comments invited and appreciated.

Mow2

 

Well!

After fighting the PH problems with Hydro grows I lost!

The Hydro plants grew Nicely in height but were very shy in the bud count.

BUT the quality of the hydro was very very good.

As I get better handling the PH factor I expect things to improve..