Harvested but tricombs never clouded?

Well we harvested our plant the other week. Stuff seems killer, looks great, smokes awesome so far two hits and you'll be lit for hours. And got a decent yield. How ever the tric's never changed, they stayed mostly all clear. By the end of the 12th week of flowering the plant had dropped nearly all of its leafs. However the trics wear mostly all clear yet, around 10-15% clouded I'd say. Also, nearly all the hairs stayed white. Now I know some strains act differently but could anything in particular cause this? It was grown in miracle grow soil from clone to harvest under six 18" florescent tubes. The plant was from a buddy that grows all year round, was told it was an afganie strain. Im not put off by this first attempt at all im pumped, Just curious as to why the plant never seemed to finish yet dropped all its leafs. Any insight would be great.

Yes, it wasn't ready. You harvested it too early.

I also doubt that it was an afghani strain... it would have been finished in half the time.

monkeymouse said:

Just curious as to why the plant never seemed to finish yet dropped all its leafs. Any insight would be great.

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You must've messed up the feeds, or you got insects... this is why your leaves dropped off.

skunkushybrid said:

Yes, it wasn't ready. You harvested it too early.

I also doubt that it was an afghani strain... it would have been finished in half the time.

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I second that! It sounds more like a sativa, were the leaves "on the skinny side"?

T.H.Cammo said:

I second that! It sounds more like a sativa, were the leaves "on the skinny side"?

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Yes, most definitely a sativa... and by the sounds of it a 14 weeker.

There were no visible mites or spiders and no signs of pests. Also we used a couple different pesticides as we did have those tiny little white spiders but they quickly died off. The leafs seemed normal to me, not real fat and not real skinny. How ever 95% of the leafs were 3 stars not 5, thats attributed to stress correctly? Oh also I should have mentioned this. The very top cone was completly orange and 90% clouded over around the 8th week so it was carefully topped. In hindsight that may have shocked the plant? Oh and it was fed once a week with some worm emulsion. I don't think it was a 14 week plant though. My reason being my friend who I got the clone off of harvested at 9 weeks and his were completly clouded over, hairs were around the same amount changed as ours did. Im just trying to learn things for the next plant. Granted its going to be a completly different strain im sure as I want to grow from seed not a clone.

Looks of the bud, its VERY hairy and just plastered in crystals/trics, doesn't have much leafy matter its all bud. Bright green, light and fluffy. Sound like a sativa?

Heres a couple crappy cell phone pictures, the plant was aprox 2 foot. Ill have some killer dig cam pictures when ever my buddy sends them to me.

Heres about 2-3 weeks



Heres around 8 weeks



When we harvested there was only around 10 fan leafs on the top of the plant and zero fans on the bottom, just the leafs from inside the budds. The bottom half looked almost like some one manicured the buds well it was still on the plant growing haha.

it's the floros.

Ive heard good things about florescent for cheep grows? Can you please elaborate.

monkeymouse said:

Ive heard good things about florescent for cheep grows? Can you please elaborate.

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you said it yourself. cheap grow = cheap finished product. you can only get back what you put out. looks good for floros.

Yeah I get what your saying. Im not dissatisfied at all, stuff is up there with the better buds I've gotten to smoke. Gives you a good clean energetic high, eyes dont get really beat, and I dont seem to get burnt out at all off it. Just looking for any helpful information. I plan to get a decent HPS light or something along those lines once we move into the house this summer.

Looking at the plant do you have any suggestions? Or any good tips for the next one(s)?

Oh also any idea what strain it might be? Or are the pictures to shitty?

monkeymouse said:

Yeah I get what your saying. Im not dissatisfied at all, stuff is up there with the better buds I've gotten to smoke. Gives you a good clean energetic high, eyes dont get really beat, and I dont seem to get burnt out at all off it. Just looking for any helpful information. I plan to get a decent HPS light or something along those lines once we move into the house this summer.

Looking at the plant do you have any suggestions? Or any good tips for the next one(s)?

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if you did that good with floros then you don't really need help do you?

fdd2blk said:

if you did that good with floros then you don't really need help do you?

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Is it really that good? Ive read a ton on this site that helped with the grow, and I've seen that you seem to really know your stuff so thats a nice compliment to me. The top cone we took off was about 3 grams dried. What we just trimmed up was about 35 grams wet. Hoping to get around 18-20grams dry . Sadly we only have a cheepy hand scale at the moment as my buddies gf thought it would be a good idea to see how much her hand weighed and wrecked the diggie.

You're looking at 7g dry from a 35g wet weight.

It seems that you suffered a lot with bad ph... and the plant struggling to uptake nutes.

I believe you locked out nutrients, and stunted the plants ability to grow properly... good thing though, at least your honest... we get guys on here that claim 4oz a plant when using fluoro's.

So, it feels good to talk to a truth teller... next time you're going to need a way of measuring ph, and ec... oh, and a HID lamp. Also a strong fan, and a way of ventilating heat. This could be something as simple as leaving the grow area door open.

well were not trying to get silly with it well were in the apartment. Pretty much the set up will be the same how ever I wanna look in to feeding and fertilizers that can be used well. And really only 7grams once dried? Thats shitty, I really hoped for about a half not a 1/4. But with the 3g we took early thats 10g's off one plant. Not to bad for a first grow I guess. Any more tips with out really changing out the set up?

Plant took so long because of lighting.

You used flouros which isnt that bad, but Im pretty sure you could have gotten them closer to the plant. They seemed a bit far to me.

But either way, you got bud for your first grow <3
Nicely done mate

jackinthebox said:

Plant took so long because of lighting.

You used flouros which isnt that bad, but Im pretty sure you could have gotten them closer to the plant. They seemed a bit far to me.

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The Lights were actually about an inch away from the plant, and the plant was turned a 1/2 turn every afternoon. The lights were just held back for the picture.

Get a digital ph pen/meter, and an ec/ppm meter/truncheon.

Get those two things and you'll be on your way to improved yields.

Yeah I planed on pickin up some meters for the next grow. For Ph last time we just did it the old school way where you mix the soil and water boil it create a percipatae then use a ph paper like you would for any other liquid. The Ph was for the most part neutral the entire grow. This was really done by the seat of the pants here, watered when it looked to need it with good old wegmans spring water, and just given some worm poop every monday lol.

cool... organic. Don't know much about organic, and in soil you could have a ph of 8 and still grow through to harvest, so long as you flush regularly with neutral water regularly. Yields will not be as good obviously, but it can be done.

Here is a good place to buy a digital ph pen: The Skunk House - The top 100 strains from across the globe.