Flowering OG KUSH How am i doing?? Pics!

First OD grow. Bought this clone on a whim on 4/20 and threw her out back with no previous grow experience. This is an OG Kush clone in her 5th week of flower. I must have messed her up when I forced her outdoors because she went into flower. Also some kind of animal jumped up into her pot and snapped a bunch of branches. After a lot of electrical tape she has healed 80% of the broken ones. She is now in week 5 of flower and some leaves are beginning to look a little pathetic. Some are beginning to curl, leaves look dry but there are a decent amount of crystals on her, and get what look to be rust spots on them but since she's coming to the end of her life cycle isn't that normal? Here are some pics. Let me know what you think of my low budget OD grow..

Incase anyone wants to know:
FFoF
Smart Pot
1/2 dose Bat Guano P
1/2 dose Rhino Skin
Organic Molasses
pH'd @ 6.8

Without further a do:

If you live in california, you should definitely re veg that plant and let it flower again naturally after the summer. Your gonna get a really bad yield if u continue to let it flower cuz by the time u think ur gonna harvest it its gonna start goin back to re veg and possibly hermy from stress.

I plan to harvest the buds in a month or so. I doubt I'll reveg. I'll probably chop and continue indoor through the winter. It's my first OD grow and I'm not worried about yield size so much as I do have an indoor crop going. I was just wondering how the plant looked in general..

But if u have it outdoors IT WILL RE VEG. Thats not in your control..

I was planning on chopping it after it buds so there will be nothing left to re-veg, lol. On the other hand are you proposing that if I simply pluck the buds (come harvest time) without harming the remainder of the stems or foliage then it will continue to grow and flower again?.. If that is the case I wouldn't mind doing it that way.

CaliPhobia said:

I plan to harvest the buds in a month or so. I doubt I'll reveg. I'll probably chop and continue indoor through the winter. It's my first OD grow and I'm not worried about yield size so much as I do have an indoor crop going. I was just wondering how the plant looked in general..

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Well regardless if you want to re veg or not they are going to re veg. Your plants growth will slow down a lot during reveg. the only way to force flower is to bring the plants in side 12hrs after sunrise. Looks like mother nature has thrown you a curve ball.Good luck the counts full.

No dude ur not listening.. the days are getting too long for it to flower and the entire plant is gonna stop flowering and go back to vegging. the buds that are on it already will dry up and fall off and it flower again in the fall.

Ahh, okay. Then I'll just bring it into my tent then. I'm switching it from 18/6 to 12/12 right now.

Why wouldn't you want it to reach its full potential? The buds on it aren't ripe and won't ripen since its vegging season. Let em grow all summer and harvest in October, the yield and quality will be worth the wait.

obijohn said:

Why wouldn't you want it to reach its full potential? The buds on it aren't ripe and won't ripen since its vegging season. Let em grow all summer and harvest in October, the yield and quality will be worth the wait.

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Exactly. Wat u shud do is trim off the flowers right now (without shocking it) and leave it outside.. it will go back into veg and in a about 8 weeks it start to flower again.

To the OP:
How are you going to finish this plant?. Since you're heading indoors eventually anyways, are you moving this plant into a dark area on a set 12 hour schedule?. If not it will re-veg until August then flip back. The plant itself looks pretty healthy, don't see any deficiencies and you didn't overfeed. A few lower fan leaves drooping during flower is not unusual as plants tend to focus their energies on reproduction.

But this plant needs to finish on 12/12, use a closet temporarily if you have to.

Edit: Remind me to read fully as I see you have a tent...my bad.

Ahh, so the last 5 weeks of this plants life have been a waste..? I've never trimmed a plant before as this is my first grow and I fear I will just shock it to death. After I clip the buds should I dry them and cure them or would that be a waste of time since it's only in week 5 of flower? The buds look like they got some decent weight to them already.. Thanks for all your help guys! It's much appreciated.

@Sunbiz I planned on keeping the plant outdoor throughout the entire season but I'll do what I have to.. Being as there isn't much room left in my tent I may chop the buds, flush all the flowering notes and let her go into re veg. Hopefully I don't kill her while trimming.. =/

CaliPhobia said:

Ahh, so the last 5 weeks of this plants life have been a waste..? I've never trimmed a plant before as this is my first grow and I fear I will just shock it to death. After I clip the buds should I dry them and cure them or would that be a waste of time since it's only in week 5 of flower? The buds look like they got some decent weight to them already.. Thanks for all your help guys! It's much appreciated.

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Yea u can dry and cure them like normal.. then make sure the plant is in MAXIMUM sunlight..

I have been using organic notes on this plant. Should I still flush a few times before I pick the buds and let her go back into flower? I've heard notes can stay in the buds and make for bad smoke.. I flushed her yesterday REALLY good, but should I wait a day or so and flush again and then pick the buds? Or am I okay?..

CaliPhobia said:

I have been using organic notes on this plant. Should I still flush a few times before I pick the buds and let her go back into flower? I've heard notes can stay in the buds and make for bad smoke.. I flushed her yesterday REALLY good, but should I wait a day or so and flush again and then pick the buds? Or am I okay?..

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U wanna flush about a week before harvest, and then dont water or anything after that. Trim all the buds off and leave as many leaves and small undergrowth as possible. Water and put back into the sunlight. It may or may not start new growth.

Make sure you leave plenty of leaves and a few buds on the plant. Otherwise it will over stress and probably decline and die.

Great, I flushed yesterday for about 15 minutes. I am going to let it dry out for the next week and pluck the buds. Lets hope she makes it! I'll post the after pics in 6 days or so. I understand that no leaves = no photosynthesis = no growth so I'll make sure to leave as many leaves as possible and even a few buds. Thanks guys!

So here's the post chop update. I left on a decent amount of foliage. I plan to still dry and cure the buds although I doubt they will be potent. After cutting her I watered with veg nutes. Hopefully she recovers...

Here's after the chop:



And here's the bud I got off it, not much but what're ya gonna do?

CaliPhobia said:

So here's the post chop update. I left on a decent amount of foliage. I plan to still dry and cure the buds although I doubt they will be potent. After cutting her I watered with veg nutes. Hopefully she recovers...

Here's after the chop:

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And here's the bud I got off it, not much but what're ya gonna do?

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Good, except you shouldnt have given those veg nutes. The plant will be really weak right now and that might burn it to death.