Why does this bud suck?

[helpplease855]

swim wants to know why isnt this bud dank.swim told me its a mix of delicious candy and purple thai or ice. swim said it definitely had a lot of the d/c qualities heavy heavy sativa. also went almost 20 weeks in flower. parents were half assed and they had a better smoke then this. it just doesnt get me high at all. i was thinking it just isnt dry enough yet ive been curing it for about a month now and i havent gotten the r/h in the curing jar below 60 it stays around 68. its just been raining like crazy im trying to lower the humidity now hoping that will change the smoke but i figured id give yall some trichome pictures and you can tell me whatcha think. im just super bummed about it

None of these are the top buds it was a large mama and i only got pictures of the very bottom to middle buds.

was it harvested early?

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[Chris Scorpio]

Show pics of the full bud

And who is swim...lol

 

[helpplease855]

s.w.i.m "someone who isnt me" sadly ive only got the micro loop no camera camera =(

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Hard to tell just by the loop pics

Maybe it's a CBD strain

 

[Bilbobudkin420]

Sounds like she was in flower a loooooong time. Maybe this is whats affected it?

 

[helpplease855]

but swim smoked both the parents the high was nothing like this. it looks like there is thc but ive had brick weed that got me higher. do you think the trichomes look like the plant was early?

 

[Bilbobudkin420]

Dont the buds basically start dying off after to long and the plant begins to reveg?

 

[helpplease855]

yeah to be fair it was 20 weeks of 12/12 idk when nodes actually appeared. also last 2-3 weeks were only 8 hours of lights on to hurry her along

 

[Bilbobudkin420]

but swim smoked both the parents the high was nothing like this. it looks like there is thc but ive had brick weed that got me higher. do you think the trichomes look like the plant was early?

After that long in flower I dont see how they could not have been ready. Maybe u missed the deadline or they failed before full maturity? This is all speculation tbh Im pretty green myself.. just food for thought

 

[helpplease855]

she was only getting bigger wanted to let her go a bit longer because she just started to fatten up. heavy sativa strain. plus she kept putting out white hairs and the micro loop looked like it was ripening all over at different periods made it difficult to judge by hairs weren't changing red either it was difficult to tell. i also didnt see any single leafs or bananas so it couldnt ofbeen let it go to long could it?

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Need to see pics or we can speculate for days

Least my opinion anyways

 

[helpplease855]

but wouldnt we be looking at degraded thc under the microscope then does that look like degraded thc to you or under ripe thc?

 

[Bilbobudkin420]

yeah to be fair it was 20 weeks of 12/12 idk when nodes actually appeared. also last 2-3 weeks were only 8 hours of lights on to hurry her along

Well the flower time on my girl is estimated by breeder at 8weeks. After a week of 12/12 she was basically flowering so I estimate after 9/10 weeks of 12/12 she'll be ready. Providing optimal light intensity, temps etc.

 

[helpplease855]

ill try to get pictures but it wont be tonight i finally got the relative humidity in the jar to abouts 66 which is the lowest its been since i put it in the jar a month ago before its rise

 

[helpplease855]

problem is this was an unintentional mix of 2 strains Purple Thai Cannabis Strain Information Buy Marijuana Seeds | Weed Seeds For Sale | Cannabis Seeds the delicious candy went for like 17 weeks outside under deep light cultivation and i still felt that was taken early

 

[helpplease855]

there was a stem snap that probably added time to the flowering at around week 8 of 12/12 and also the temps went from cold to more ideal into flower as the beginning of its 20 week flower was dead winter so i was also thinking that could of effected it? but it also had a heat matt to keep it warm. ugh idk this has got me depressed tho.

 

[Chris Scorpio]

That's a long time, outside, with various light condition and times

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I think she got cornfused outside

 

[TorturedSoul]

And who is swim...lol

It's one of those terms that people who haven't paid any attention to a single relevant court case in the past 25 years uses, (incorrectly) thinking it gives them any legal protection whatsoever - kind of like all those "The content of these posts is made up, imaginary, fantasy, fiction, and NOT ABOUT ME!!!" things that were somewhat common in people's .SIGs a few years back.

The term actually means "ME."

yeah to be fair it was 20 weeks of 12/12 idk when nodes actually appeared.

Err... What?

Hey, Swim, was this plant sexually mature when you switched your lighting schedule to flowering? In other words, did it have the ability to actually begin flowering at that point, or did I have to mature a bit more first? If the latter, deduct those days (weeks?) from the total flowering time.

I don't see a single amber trichome. Which is good... in theory. Ambers denote trichomes that are degraded, past their prime, so to speak. However, in practice, the complete lack of such things might mean that you harvested a bit early. It's not so much that you're looking for them, Swim; they begin appearing (more and more) at about the same time when "new" trichome production has slowed to the point that the aging of cloudy trichomes into ambers has begun out-pacing the "maturing" of clear trichomes into cloudy ones.

And as far as "clear" vs. "cloudy" goes, Swim, it can sometimes be kind of difficult to really tell the difference (IMHO) using cheap magnification devices. Much depends on the quality of the lenses, type of lighting, strength of lighting, the angle of lighting, et cetera. Under certain conditions, clear trichomes can actually appear to be cloudy ones.

Swim, assuming that the plant was, in fact, sexually mature at the time you increased the daily number of uninterrupted hours of darkness in order to induce flowering, how long was the stretch period? In other words, from day one of the flowering light cycle, how many days did the period of vertical growth during the first 40% of the flowering cycle last? While it's not an ironclad rule (especially with 100% - or close to that - sativas), if a cannabis plant's measured stretch period worked out to be more like 60% of the flowering period instead of 40%, and the grower asked me if the bud was premature, I'd reply, "YES!"

Longest flowering period I ever saw was, if I remember correctly, approximately 24 weeks. But that doesn't mean that a strain cannot have a longer flowering period than that.

 

[TorturedSoul]

Need to see pics or we can speculate for days

^This^

Could be that the bud was harvested prematurely, it was grown improperly, it's just a sh!t strain ( / phenotype / specific plant), A and B, A and C, B and C, all of them, none of them.

I think she got cornfused outside

Wait... This plant was grown outdoors? I didn't notice that information in any of Swim's posts. Of course, I started skimming when I saw the term, "swim," used .