Advice on Vanilla Kush

[JayBerry]

I'm growing my second VK and I'm having trouble determining how close I am to harvest.
It's been 70 days since I switched to 12/12 and I still have quite a lot of white pistils. My first plant had all pistils change already around 40-50 days.
With this one I tried my hand at supercropping. I don't know if that will effect the timeline. It is also slightly more humid now than wintertime, when I grew my first one.
Some parts have very little amber trichomes, others have quite a few.
Here are some pictures.

Any advice on how to proceed will be much appreciated.

 

[rocpilefsj]

Don't check the trics on your sugar leaves, check them on your buds. Trics start changing to amber on sugar leaves weeks before your buds are ready.

 

[WeedFreak78]

Doesn't look like your calyxs are even swollen. Those hairs should start receding and the calyxs should be swelling well before 70 days, unless you got a long flowering pheno? There is a bunch of amber on that leaf though...

8.5-9 weeks, or about 60-63 days, seemed good for the VK I have. I chopped tops at 70 days last time, let the rest go 75 days, and I'm not impressed, too much couch lock for my liking. If you supercropped after the 12/12 flip, it'll add a couple days because of recovery. Your changing environment will also change the timeline, I finish quicker in the winter than summer, usually by 3-5 days, probably due to to less heat and humidity.

 

[MeJuana]

She's not done so either that's a different pheono type in comparison to your first grow or you have something going wrong. Super cropping doesn't normally effect the strains I deal with but you need to do it all in one day at once then let it repair itself. I can't see the whole plant I don't have a real understanding what is happening with it. One thing that is over looked often is excess Nitrogen delays flowering but makes your plants look really unnaturally healthy. Other small things such as swinging temps and light distance or messing with the plants continuously all will stress or stall the plant. If you could give us a run down of your environmental settings, what you have done to them, nutrients and additives then we can possibly determine if it is something you are doing.

 

[JayBerry]

She's not done so either that's a different pheono type in comparison to your first grow or you have something going wrong. Super cropping doesn't normally effect the strains I deal with but you need to do it all in one day at once then let it repair itself. I can't see the whole plant I don't have a real understanding what is happening with it. One thing that is over looked often is excess Nitrogen delays flowering but makes your plants look really unnaturally healthy. Other small things such as swinging temps and light distance or messing with the plants continuously all will stress or stall the plant. If you could give us a run down of your environmental settings, what you have done to them, nutrients and additives then we can possibly determine if it is something you are doing.

Arh hell. Now I guess I'll have to show my poor attempt at supercropping. I didn't get everything weaved in properly, so I have a couple of tops coming straight up the middle.


I'm guessing I probably did something wrong along the way. I'm not a smart man. I'll do my best to provide more info.
The temperature has been fairly constant around 22 degrees celcius and the humidity has been hanging out around 50%.
I have five, 5 watt led bulbs. Placed 15 cm above the highest top. There's a small fan bringing air in and another for circulation.
I've been watering more or less every other day, or when the soil was dry. Half a liter every time. I used General Hydroponics flora series every other watering. The last week only clean water.
The seed is from the same pack of five as the first plant I had.
The conditions I have to grow in aren't exactly ideal.
Please let me know if you need more info or pictures.

 

[MeJuana]

That looks great awesome job! It's 2 or 4 weeks on top I think and more on the bottom it looks like because the light is really far out for the lower nugs but you yourself noted that issue. Your environment seems very friendly to cannabis and the longer flowering time could be as simple as a different pheono type, which means slightly different characteristics. The other thing I can think of is your watering schedule. Are you picking up the planter to determine when to water or are you feeling the dirt, hopefully not the latter? I been growing in dirt for years and I just pick up the planters so I can be sure it's right. The planter needs to be extremely light it should feel like just the weight of the plant/planter some people suggest, sounds like a good way to describe it. When it first feels like that you probably have at least 1 day left you could not water before droop and leaf death. I suggest practicing this with throw away clones to see how far you can push a plant and when you do take it too far notice how many leaves die, not much mj rocks.

 

[JayBerry]

That looks great awesome job! It's 2 or 4 weeks on top I think and more on the bottom it looks like because the light is really far out for the lower nugs but you yourself noted that issue. Your environment seems very friendly to cannabis and the longer flowering time could be as simple as a different pheono type, which means slightly different characteristics. The other thing I can think of is your watering schedule. Are you picking up the planter to determine when to water or are you feeling the dirt, hopefully not the latter? I been growing in dirt for years and I just pick up the planters so I can be sure it's right. The planter needs to be extremely light it should feel like just the weight of the plant/planter some people suggest, sounds like a good way to describe it. When it first feels like that you probably have at least 1 day left you could not water before droop and leaf death. I suggest practicing this with throw away clones to see how far you can push a plant and when you do take it too far notice how many leaves die, not much mj rocks.

Thanks for the advise and the kind words. I must admit I haven't liftet the planter. But the schedule I described is a bit a bit averaged. Mostly I just watered when she startet to look sad and droopy. I have leaves drying up here and there. Usually, it will be dried up enough that there will be a gap between the planter and the soil.
Ill just be patient and make ekstra sure I don't overwater in the future..
Thanks again.