Makeminefullgrown
Well-Known Member
Let me start by thanking everyone for the great advice given and enduring this extended grow with me. I promise this will be the last post on this grow.
Just in case there’s anyone on the planet that doesn’t know the specs, here they are:
3 Super Skunk autos, 2 very different phenos growing in 3g fabric pots w/ 100% Ocean Forest. Light is a HLG 320 LED. The grow started fairly normal, I fed very light Fox farm nutes from about week 5-6 on. I noticed they were taking a long time to progress. I continued the grow and began titrating the nutes but planned to feed until harvest. Ran my temps in the low-mid 70s.
Around week 12-13 I made a big mistake and defoliated too many fan leaves….I just got carried away and ended up with bud kabobs. The stress then caused many of the remaining leaves to yellow and/or die off.
We are now passing week 17 and the plants are just existing….one has super dense knuckled up buds, all pistils (or stigmata) are orange and receded. To me the buds look ripe…..but the trichs are not turning amber. I’d say easily 80% are milky white but only a handful of ambers on the entire plant. It finally looked ripe about 2 weeks ago and I began checking trichs daily…..same results every time….mostly cloudy but probably 2-3% amber.
The other 2 plants are more similar in that they still have white hairs popping in a few places and many more that have not turned color. The one plant has orange hairs that have been orange for weeks and won’t recede. The trichomes on both of these plants are heavier….way more big mushroom headed trichs. Most are milky white and a few ambers here and there.
I have cut the light back to 11/13, lowered my lights out temps to low 60s, and the last watering I gave only water and Recharge but it was cold water. All of these moves were made in an attempt to encourage the plants to finish up.
The only real change I’ve seen lately is more leaves are dying off by the day.
I’m keeping my RH down in the low 30s for fear of bud rot.
It would be easy to throw in the towel and chop, but I don’t want speed racer weed. Plus at this point I’ve got 18 weeks invested in the them and want them to finish like they should.
Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions??
Thanks again for listening to my many issues since mid October.
Pics are yesterday. One of each plant.
Just in case there’s anyone on the planet that doesn’t know the specs, here they are:
3 Super Skunk autos, 2 very different phenos growing in 3g fabric pots w/ 100% Ocean Forest. Light is a HLG 320 LED. The grow started fairly normal, I fed very light Fox farm nutes from about week 5-6 on. I noticed they were taking a long time to progress. I continued the grow and began titrating the nutes but planned to feed until harvest. Ran my temps in the low-mid 70s.
Around week 12-13 I made a big mistake and defoliated too many fan leaves….I just got carried away and ended up with bud kabobs. The stress then caused many of the remaining leaves to yellow and/or die off.
We are now passing week 17 and the plants are just existing….one has super dense knuckled up buds, all pistils (or stigmata) are orange and receded. To me the buds look ripe…..but the trichs are not turning amber. I’d say easily 80% are milky white but only a handful of ambers on the entire plant. It finally looked ripe about 2 weeks ago and I began checking trichs daily…..same results every time….mostly cloudy but probably 2-3% amber.
The other 2 plants are more similar in that they still have white hairs popping in a few places and many more that have not turned color. The one plant has orange hairs that have been orange for weeks and won’t recede. The trichomes on both of these plants are heavier….way more big mushroom headed trichs. Most are milky white and a few ambers here and there.
I have cut the light back to 11/13, lowered my lights out temps to low 60s, and the last watering I gave only water and Recharge but it was cold water. All of these moves were made in an attempt to encourage the plants to finish up.
The only real change I’ve seen lately is more leaves are dying off by the day.
I’m keeping my RH down in the low 30s for fear of bud rot.
It would be easy to throw in the towel and chop, but I don’t want speed racer weed. Plus at this point I’ve got 18 weeks invested in the them and want them to finish like they should.
Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions??
Thanks again for listening to my many issues since mid October.
Pics are yesterday. One of each plant.