Should i just give up?????

Im not an expert but kinda looks like you let it go to long. Looks like it's reveging with all that fox tailing going on. Ive never heard of a strain flowering for 15 weeks even outdoors..

 

green = alive. brown = dead. Lol
Anyways, 15 weeks is a LONG time; and if that were a 16 week strain it'd be nearly done. Letting it finish now would only lead to problems with dying shit; already leaves and buds are being killed off by the plant. I'd harvest it and make some hash; qwiso or bubble. Next grow check that your space is completely dark during dark hours, NO light whatsoever. And grab a pH meter.

Cut off any brown if you want to let it go longer; I see some dead buds which may lead to bud rot later on.

 

Jayjay, your plant is ready for harvest buddy. It has been for a few weeks now. Chop her and start curing, here is a post for ya to read: http://forum.grasscity.com/harvesting-processing-marijuana/424138-simple-harvest-cure-step-step.html

Marijuana isn't like a lot of plants you buy at the store. There is a lot of variety even in-between strains. You can grow three plants from one mother that all look, smell, and grow differently. Most likely the Skunk smell will come around in the curing process (check the link above) if that was a property of the parent genetics.

 

^ I'm sorry but if you grow a red tomato you will get a red tomato. and If you grow Northern lights, you'll harvest northern lights; this'll be different from say, Lemon Skunk. But variety within the same strain? Only with an unstabilized cross using seeds. If you grow three plants from one mother, they should all grow, look, and smell the same if in the same conditions..

Can I ask what about his plant is telling you its finished flowering?

 

I was talking about seed generations, which have genetic variation unless they were inbred for several generations. Not mothers and their clones.

The number of crowns or foxtails, loss of leaves late into flowering, and it being 15 weeks into flowering. What about this plant is telling you its NOT finished? Some plants will not stop pumping out white hairs, but instead produce the foxtails/crowns, which are also a sign of the plant being ready.

 

I must be misjudging the size of the plant in the picture, can you take a picture with something next to it for scale?

 

So its nearly 4 feet tall and almost 2 feet wide. Thats a good sized plant my friend. You're getting more than a quarter ounce off the plant, easy.


I stand by my earlier post. Chop it and enjoy.

 

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So its nearly 4 feet tall and almost 2 feet wide. Thats a good sized plant my friend. You're getting more than a quarter ounce off the plant, easy.

I stand by my earlier post. Chop it and enjoy.[/quote]

Yea I had a 2.5 footer yeild 15 grams dry lol didn't top or train or anything.... just let it grow haha

 

I know plants in late flower can foxtail and produce a new set of white pistils when mature, but this doesn't look like that to me. The buds are too immature, I see no brown pistils whatsoever really; calyxs are TINY and not frosty and not at all prominent on the bud sites. To me it looks like severe light leak during dark stages with a plant that was not exposed to leaks earlier, or just can't rough the leaks. Looks like it kept wanting to flower but never got the conditions to really mature. If shes on 12/12 since seed though, plus the leaks, it could be that 12/12 in maturity now isn't enough to stimulate full flowering? I believe there was a thread on this to correct the cycles to stimulate flowering for a plant that wasn't flowering; if you do a search you should find it.

For me, the signs telling you that its ready are just signs of distress from the plant; crowns/foxtails from the stress from light leaks, dying leaves from nutrient depletion/lockout. 15 weeks is a long time yes, but under the wrong conditions some plants just will never finish.

However, even while immature, I wouldn't say to not harvest it; letting it finish now may take a while troubleshoot and then you can get problem as older buds begin to die off; not worth the electrical bill IMO. I'd just begin anew with some new plants, or take cuttings off this girl and try and root them, with a better environment.

 

Well...

It is hard to tell from those pictures. I wish I could see it in real life, but here's my two cents -

I think the plants are past done. I believe I am seeing really loose bud colas. I think the reason for the buds looking like they do is because of the LED lighting. I have seen plants produce like that (if that is what I am seeing in the photo) because they didn't receive enough light intensity in flower.

Cut off a little, trim it up, dry it, smoke it, and see if it is done.

 

take cuttings off this girl and try and root them, with a better environment.[/QUOTE]

sorry but i have read about this part you cant clone a flowering plant i mean look at it every branches even the very very bottom branches have hairs none of them can be considered cuttings there is no leaf you need new growing cuttings to have any luck at all[/QUOTE]


Actually you CAN clone a flowering plant; they produce some of the best clones too. The revege makes auxins be pretty even throughout and you get a nice even growth from several nodes at each bud site. Why wouldn't you be able to? I've cloned plants in flowering, although not at 15 weeks haha; give it a shot if you cant get new seeds/clones.