Makeminefullgrown
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone…thanks in advance for taking the time to help me out. I’m nearing the finish line of my first indoor grow. I grew quite a bit outdoors but that was many yrs ago and the two experiences couldn’t be more different. Anyway, I’m having a few issues and need some input.
The facts: growing 3 super skunk autos under a HLG 320XL…320watt led. Plants are in 3gal fabrics, 100% Ocean Forest.
For the first 6 weeks or so, I only gave water and some recharge. Once flowering got going I fed very light doses of Fox Farms bottled bloom nutes.
I had some typical burned tips and yellowing here and there but nothing extreme.
Right now the plants are in day 92 since sprout. For the past 3-4 weeks they constantly look like they’ll finish up in a week or two…..progress has been slow. The breeder timeline, which I know is BS, said 65-75 days….which has long ago passed.
About a week ago the buds started spitting out new white stigmas that are huge thick strands. The calyces are swollen and showing some foxtailing.
I was concerned that they would never finish so I reduced the light intensity a notch, cut my temps, and reduced the light schedule from 18/6 to 16/8, in an effort to cause the plant to finish up. I did all of this 3/4 days ago.
As u can see from the pics there’s a ton of white hairs still showing. I’ve looked at the trichs often and there are a good number of cloudy ones with a random amber here and there…..lots of clear still left as well.
I’ve cut way back on nutes and the last couple of feedings only given a tiny dose of Big Bloom + molasses.
One last thing and I think I may have screwed up big time….about a week ago I took off a pile of big fan leaves. I think this may have stressed them b/c I found 2 nanners yesterday. I plucked and haven’t seen anymore.
My plan was to titrate down the feedings until the buds were totally ripe, then only give water the last watering before they go into 2-3 days of darkness.
By the way, all 3 plants are the same strain from the same seed pack but one plant is very different. Also, on and at the very bottoms of my pots there are salt rings (I guess). I try to wait until the soil is totally dry and pots are light before watering. The top of the soil gets bone dry before the bottoms…which I guess is suspected.
If these were your plants what would u do next?? Thanks again for chiming in.
The facts: growing 3 super skunk autos under a HLG 320XL…320watt led. Plants are in 3gal fabrics, 100% Ocean Forest.
For the first 6 weeks or so, I only gave water and some recharge. Once flowering got going I fed very light doses of Fox Farms bottled bloom nutes.
I had some typical burned tips and yellowing here and there but nothing extreme.
Right now the plants are in day 92 since sprout. For the past 3-4 weeks they constantly look like they’ll finish up in a week or two…..progress has been slow. The breeder timeline, which I know is BS, said 65-75 days….which has long ago passed.
About a week ago the buds started spitting out new white stigmas that are huge thick strands. The calyces are swollen and showing some foxtailing.
I was concerned that they would never finish so I reduced the light intensity a notch, cut my temps, and reduced the light schedule from 18/6 to 16/8, in an effort to cause the plant to finish up. I did all of this 3/4 days ago.
As u can see from the pics there’s a ton of white hairs still showing. I’ve looked at the trichs often and there are a good number of cloudy ones with a random amber here and there…..lots of clear still left as well.
I’ve cut way back on nutes and the last couple of feedings only given a tiny dose of Big Bloom + molasses.
One last thing and I think I may have screwed up big time….about a week ago I took off a pile of big fan leaves. I think this may have stressed them b/c I found 2 nanners yesterday. I plucked and haven’t seen anymore.
My plan was to titrate down the feedings until the buds were totally ripe, then only give water the last watering before they go into 2-3 days of darkness.
By the way, all 3 plants are the same strain from the same seed pack but one plant is very different. Also, on and at the very bottoms of my pots there are salt rings (I guess). I try to wait until the soil is totally dry and pots are light before watering. The top of the soil gets bone dry before the bottoms…which I guess is suspected.
If these were your plants what would u do next?? Thanks again for chiming in.
