I am almost at week 11 in the flowering cycle. To date there are plenty of glandular trichomes but none has turned amber. They are barely even cloudy.
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/mar15-1.jpg
Growing hydroponic NFT system with 2-400 watt HID lights. Flowering with one MH and one HPS bulb.
Strains: 4-way, TBS, Deep Chunk
Temp: 68d air, 64d reservoir
Had a problem with nutrient solution once switched to 12 hours. The NTS Greenleaves solution, which I have used many times before, apparently was deficient in magnesium and had some yellowing of the leaves. Once I figured the problem out switched to GH nutrients.
The flowering cycle went okay, if not as productive as best harvests in the past. I needed my medicine so harvested half the crop at 6 weeks or so which has been the pattern in the past. Decided to let the balance go until half the trichomes had turned amber. There are virtually no amber trichomes even at 10.5 weeks.
I am wondering if it is worth waiting anymore. Many of the leaves are yellow as the plants had no opportunity to recover from the magnesium problem.
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/yellow10.jpg
Could the lack of ripening be a result of the magnesium and the yellow leaves? Is it too cold in grow area?
I don't consider myself a novice but I am flummoxed. This is the first time I have bothered to wait long enough to have the trichomes turn amber and it appears to be a bust.
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/mar15-1.jpg
Growing hydroponic NFT system with 2-400 watt HID lights. Flowering with one MH and one HPS bulb.
Strains: 4-way, TBS, Deep Chunk
Temp: 68d air, 64d reservoir
Had a problem with nutrient solution once switched to 12 hours. The NTS Greenleaves solution, which I have used many times before, apparently was deficient in magnesium and had some yellowing of the leaves. Once I figured the problem out switched to GH nutrients.
The flowering cycle went okay, if not as productive as best harvests in the past. I needed my medicine so harvested half the crop at 6 weeks or so which has been the pattern in the past. Decided to let the balance go until half the trichomes had turned amber. There are virtually no amber trichomes even at 10.5 weeks.
I am wondering if it is worth waiting anymore. Many of the leaves are yellow as the plants had no opportunity to recover from the magnesium problem.
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/yellow10.jpg
Could the lack of ripening be a result of the magnesium and the yellow leaves? Is it too cold in grow area?
I don't consider myself a novice but I am flummoxed. This is the first time I have bothered to wait long enough to have the trichomes turn amber and it appears to be a bust.