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surfgeo

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super sticky and aromatic, dried a little and it packs a punch - 4 tokes and i wish i had stopped at 3. probably have a hundred or more buds like these, i trimmed one to make it more visible. all the different strains have so much variety in flower colors i just dont know what to look for - this is pineapple punch, sown March 26, all organic outdoor grow.

so do i wait a little longer? its potent as hell as it is. if i need to wait, exactly which "hairs" do want to watch to change color? this strain was stated as 80-90 max temp, but i have TLC'd them with shade cloth and drip irrigation through 2 months of mid to upper 90's/100deg even for a few days ("feels like" for humans was 110+) with excessive humidity. a heat wave thinned them out about 2 mos ago - - one plant barely recovered and is skimpy, the other is very open and thin inside but nice full crown of buds on the outside, i probably have 150+ flowers like these. on a 5'x5' plant. since i have successfully staved off mold and fungus and insects to this point i dont want anything to happen at the last minute!

btw - i found that big okra plants provide great cover - and have the added benefit of acting as a great host/decoy plant for grasshoppers. they stay on those big broad leaves and dont mess with the cannibis!
 

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males were removed at 6-8 weeks, i dont think they could have been pollinated. but reall? 6-8 weeks? i was told that 4 weeks ago. but if it is as strong as it is now then i;ll likely go ahead and harvest and not risk the mold/fungus/bugs
 

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You harvest that now. It will shrivel into nothing. There is no bud. Just calyx and pistils. No swell And your cutting it’s leaves off. It’s your plant. So of coarse you can do what you want. But you might as well grow grass and jar that. Same difference
understood and i appreciate your input, first grow so i need to learn - but i dried a bud last week in the oven at 170 deg, door open, for about 10 minutes and it held up fine and had a real nice kick. so maybe its a little further along than you think?
i only cut the leaves off of one flower to see it better.
- that is not a practice i am doing, just wanted a better photo of the insides for this post. that will get smoked tonight with a good college football game on.... ;-)
 
understood and i appreciate your input, first grow so i need to learn - but i dried a bud last week in the oven at 170 deg, door open, for about 10 minutes and it held up fine and had a real nice kick. so maybe its a little further along than you think?
i only cut the leaves off of one flower to see it better.
- that is not a practice i am doing, just wanted a better photo of the insides for this post. that will get smoked tonight with a good college football game on.... ;-)

The game is on right now. Oregon at Ohio. Ducks up 7-0. We'll see if they can get a win. It's going to be tough on the road against Ohio State. They're a bad ass team.
 
understood and i appreciate your input, first grow so i need to learn - but i dried a bud last week in the oven at 170 deg, door open, for about 10 minutes and it held up fine and had a real nice kick. so maybe its a little further along than you think?
i only cut the leaves off of one flower to see it better.
- that is not a practice i am doing, just wanted a better photo of the insides for this post. that will get smoked tonight with a good college football game on.... ;-)
Congrats on your first grow!
 
@GroBud

ok so here is the whole plant, there is a very skinny separate plant back left but 90-100% of what you see is one plant.

total height 6'3"
 

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Well that looks good your bud development was small after you said you were told 4 to 6 weeks 4 weeks ago I figured you should at least be 10 weeks into flower rn
which means...~~how many more weeks?
the missus is getting antsy, i am pretty cool with the set up - but i am in Texas. like i said i think we are fine, i have tomatoes and peppers and melons and okra out the wazoo with covers here and there, so the cannibis is very low key.
 
You have 6 weeks minimum to go
that still seems long but cool - i am good. i will do so some LST to keep the profile down and open/air out the insides, spray some neem and spinosad, and hope for the best. and in the meantime i can pick one bud a week and get high several times. i cant believe i got ridiculed for pinching an early bud and drying it in the oven for 10 min. hey, it worked! and 3-4 hits put me in a deep comfort zone!

so if my immature weed is this good i can only imagine the fully mature stuff. ;-)
 
that still seems long but cool - i am good. i will do so some LST to keep the profile down and open/air out the insides, spray some neem and spinosad, and hope for the best. and in the meantime i can pick one bud a week and get high several times. i cant believe i got ridiculed for pinching an early bud and drying it in the oven for 10 min. hey, it worked! and 3-4 hits put me in a deep comfort zone!

so if my immature weed is this good i can only imagine the fully mature stuff. ;-)
It's in your head bud that early isn't going to do much nor taste very good. Stop picking off your plant so it can mature in time.
 
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