Hey all, so I've been lurking in the background reading posts on here for the past few months and trying to absorb as much information as I can, and then trying to make reasonably educated decisions on what to do with my plant(s). As far as a grow setup goes I'm not working with too much, I built a small box, it's about 2'x3'x4' with two 100 MH lamps. I don't have HPS for flowering, and I don't have the cash to get an HPS setup for flowering, so I'm working with what I have. Plant was on 24/0 for a couple months then 12/12. I had been feeding it the Fox Farm trio through veg and the first six weeks of flowering, and in hind-sight I was over-ferting the plant, curled leaves and brown spots. I'm not positive on the strain, it's a bagseed, I suspect it's lemon skunk of some sort, I've got a good idea when I got the seed and what type of buds I had been getting from the dispensary around that time. And the plant has an amazing aroma of lemon, to the point where my entire house smells like flowering cannabis from just this one plant. This is the third plant I've grown, the first was terribad, the second (Black Widow) I took down at 8 weeks of flowering after finding some budrot, it was nearly ready anyway and I'm still smoking on it's flowers (not the rotted ones, obviously)
So there's my intro, now on to my question. I'm 70 days into flowering this plant and last night I found a small cluster of pollen sacs on the main cola. My intentions were to give this plant another week to two weeks depending on how the trichomes looked, right now they're mostly clear/milky with an occasional amber, and then to harvest the mature colas, give the plant a (needed) dose of tiger-bloom and let the bottom ripen up a bit more. After finding the pollen sacs I'm not sure I can put off harvesting the top cola, but I wanted to get more information before cutting it. Should I carefully remove the pollen sacs and give the plant the additional time I had planned on, or cut it sooner than later to avoid it from seeding?
Should say I don't really need the seeds, I got a few from Attitude seed bank that I'm going to germinate as soon as this plants finished.
I think that's about it, thanks for the help
~Akeyla
So there's my intro, now on to my question. I'm 70 days into flowering this plant and last night I found a small cluster of pollen sacs on the main cola. My intentions were to give this plant another week to two weeks depending on how the trichomes looked, right now they're mostly clear/milky with an occasional amber, and then to harvest the mature colas, give the plant a (needed) dose of tiger-bloom and let the bottom ripen up a bit more. After finding the pollen sacs I'm not sure I can put off harvesting the top cola, but I wanted to get more information before cutting it. Should I carefully remove the pollen sacs and give the plant the additional time I had planned on, or cut it sooner than later to avoid it from seeding?
Should say I don't really need the seeds, I got a few from Attitude seed bank that I'm going to germinate as soon as this plants finished.
I think that's about it, thanks for the help
~Akeyla
