Hello guys,
* to shorten this post for anyone who wants to skip read, my question is how long does it take for sativa trichs to turn from clear to cloudy to amber? For anyone who wants more detail and an explanation of why I am asking the question, feel free to read on below *
I wonder if someone can help me out - I'm on my first grow, and getting toward the end, but I could really do with some sativa specific advice.
I'm growing a couple of Malawi plants, and so far things have gone pretty well. I think the plants might be very slightly hybridized, because the flowering time is listed as 10-12 weeks, which seems a little on the short side for sativas. The flowers are also nice and dense, which is great, but not necessarily in line with with I have seen of other Malawi ladies online.
We are now nearly at week 10 of 12/12, and I have mostly brown pistils which are receding. There is little sign of new pistils being formed. The plants are fairly heavily laden with trichomes, although I wouldn't describe them as "frosty", but they look pretty good. They smell lovely, and the flowers are getting quite sticky too. Most of the trichs are still clear, although some do appear to be turning cloudy.
Now, to complicate matters slightly, I've decided to use Ripen, which is basically a finisher. The reason for this is that the location of my tent is quite cold, and if I allowed the plants to potentially go 12 or perhaps even 16 weeks, my electric bill for keeping them warm would be huge. I am also a little concerned about bud rot, so decided on this occasion to try to finish early.
So, I have about 4 days left of using Ripen and then about 7 days of flushing still to go. My question is, how quickly do the trichs turn from clear to cloudy to amber on Malawi plants? I have read somewhere that many sativas turn directly from clear to amber - is this true?
My main concern for asking (apart from my electric bill) is that now I have eased off on the feeding, the plants are looking really quite N deficient. Most of the fan leaves are yellow, and a few of the larger leaves on the flowers are turning as well. The sugar leaves are nicely green, but I did give the girls a 1/4 strength feed of N a couple of days ago as I was starting to worry that they wouldn't be able to photosynthesise enough to ripen if I didn't. So I don't want to go into a 7 day flush only to find that the trichs are still clear and I'm an unknown amount of time away from harvest.
Do any sativa experts have an opinion on this? Apologies for the long post - just trying to give you all the relevant info.
Thanks in advance,
spin.
* to shorten this post for anyone who wants to skip read, my question is how long does it take for sativa trichs to turn from clear to cloudy to amber? For anyone who wants more detail and an explanation of why I am asking the question, feel free to read on below *
I wonder if someone can help me out - I'm on my first grow, and getting toward the end, but I could really do with some sativa specific advice.
I'm growing a couple of Malawi plants, and so far things have gone pretty well. I think the plants might be very slightly hybridized, because the flowering time is listed as 10-12 weeks, which seems a little on the short side for sativas. The flowers are also nice and dense, which is great, but not necessarily in line with with I have seen of other Malawi ladies online.
We are now nearly at week 10 of 12/12, and I have mostly brown pistils which are receding. There is little sign of new pistils being formed. The plants are fairly heavily laden with trichomes, although I wouldn't describe them as "frosty", but they look pretty good. They smell lovely, and the flowers are getting quite sticky too. Most of the trichs are still clear, although some do appear to be turning cloudy.
Now, to complicate matters slightly, I've decided to use Ripen, which is basically a finisher. The reason for this is that the location of my tent is quite cold, and if I allowed the plants to potentially go 12 or perhaps even 16 weeks, my electric bill for keeping them warm would be huge. I am also a little concerned about bud rot, so decided on this occasion to try to finish early.
So, I have about 4 days left of using Ripen and then about 7 days of flushing still to go. My question is, how quickly do the trichs turn from clear to cloudy to amber on Malawi plants? I have read somewhere that many sativas turn directly from clear to amber - is this true?
My main concern for asking (apart from my electric bill) is that now I have eased off on the feeding, the plants are looking really quite N deficient. Most of the fan leaves are yellow, and a few of the larger leaves on the flowers are turning as well. The sugar leaves are nicely green, but I did give the girls a 1/4 strength feed of N a couple of days ago as I was starting to worry that they wouldn't be able to photosynthesise enough to ripen if I didn't. So I don't want to go into a 7 day flush only to find that the trichs are still clear and I'm an unknown amount of time away from harvest.
Do any sativa experts have an opinion on this? Apologies for the long post - just trying to give you all the relevant info.
Thanks in advance,
spin.