My First Grow - Coco - Cheese & Blue Cheese week 7.5 flowering

Hi all, quite new to the forums, but the last 3 months have been full of ups and downs, and I do believe it's now around the time to share! This is my first grow and I hope you like it (y)

I do have some questions regarding my plants, but i'll leave that till after i've introduced you to my setup.
EQUIPMENT AKA MY SH*T:
  • Autopot system with a 47l res with 4 15l pots
  • dr120 tent
  • 600 watt hps
  • coco/perlite mix 70/30
  • one 6 litre pot (one of the blue cheese was grown in this, with soil instead of coco
  • canna coco a & b , rhizotonic, vitalink buddy (pk 13/14)
  • tap water let sit for a day
  • ph meter (i sadly lack an ec meter)
  • 5 inch ruck fan for extraction, passive intake



Within my grow tent I manage to maintan constant temps between 75 degrees farenheit and 85 degrees farenheit, I top feed the soil plant every 1-2 days depending on top inch dryness, and as you know , the autopots feed the other two in coco when they want it.


I originally got 3 rooted clones on the 18th of june, one died and so was left with two , 2 weeks into vegetation , my super friendly clone supplier said he had a blue cheese plant grown from seed that he didnt have space for and so I got that. When it came it was already a 16 inch tall bushy beast compared to my 8 inch clones, but as the clones in larger pots all plants were roughly the same height in the grow room so all was great! The bush was in a 6 litre pot full of soil, and to be honest it probably wouldve flowered much bigger had i repotted in something bigger, but i was playin it safe as this was/is my first grow. The two coco plants are now definitely bigger than the soil plant, you guys can probably tell why, but as i said i put it down to pot size, and the fact as a newb first grower I probably could've timed my feedings and stuff much better.

Anywho, I vegged the clones for 3 weeks and the soil plant for a week from when I got it. I started flowering my plants on the 9th of july, which means they are 51 days into flowering, hopefully you guys can tell me if i'm on track for harvesting anytime soon, and if there's anything I need/could/should do within the next few weeks.

One thing I think you'll notice from the pictures is that the two plants in coco are yellowing considerably faster than the plant in soil.The only reason I can think of for this is the fact that around 5-6 weeks flowering i noticed nute burn on some of the leaves of the autopot plants and decided to dilute the reservoir with more ph'd plain water untill the problem went away. I did this and by the time it did, I was appproaching week 7 and as these plants were scheduled for a week 8/9 finish i have added no nutrients since and just left the reservoir to go down, I was told this was totally normal when flushing plants towards the end as they take nutrients from the leaves. And as I only started flushin the soil plant 5 days ago with plain ph'd water , it is yet to yellow that much.

Ive taken some bud shots of my plants and some leaf shots , the cheese and blue cheese in coco both have multiple tops and trust me i've never topped em, only accidently fucked em up lol . But its good, because they've made more use of the space and i assume they've made more use of the lights. The blue cheese in soil more or less has one main top which is starting to look a hefty cola (y) .

From my observations , it seems like the buds have some swelling to do in terms of size, PLEASE let me know if i'm being unrealistic lol, but i'm aiming for atleast a total of 6 zips, but right now i'm not entirely sure when the 6 zips currently are LOL. Everythings as crystally as hell which is a good sign, and upon cutting of a bud and checking the trichomes im realising its quite difficult to tell a clear trich from a milky trick when the lights on my 60 x microscope, but when its off i cant see anything....

But yh, will my early flush cause a fuss? do you think i have long left? As this is my first grow and this is the make or break of the grow, I'm in need of some wise words!

Can't wait to dry and cure these beauts, i don't think I've ever displayed such graceful patience as I have growing these plants! But oh I've enjoyed it!

Blue cheese in soil main colablue cheese soil.jpg One of the blue cheese in coco's cola (it has like 4 and this is a smaller one, lighting was gd there)bluecheese coco 2.jpgone of the cheese colas(notice the yellow?)cheese .jpg a blue cheese in soil smaller bud (notice the green?)bluecheeselittlebudshot.jpg a blue cheese in coco bluecheese coco.jpg an overall shot of the garden, with the blue cheese in coco being the shorter one to the bottom left, the big ones in the middle are the cheese and them dark green leaves with the bud creeping in from the bottom right is the blue cheese in soil bluecheesecocobottomleft cheesecocotallmiddle bluecheesesoilbottomrightdarkgreen.jpg them 3 big ones in the middle are all the cheese, even the two smaller ones underneath are the same plant too cheesecoco3largecolas.jpg another cheese plant shot cheese2.jpg and last but not least a lil shot of one of the stems on the cheese plantcheesecocostemshot.jpg . Whadya think? how mature would you say these plants are?


Thanks in advance

Ticktocksmoker.


***ignore experimental clones in the background, there like 5 weeks flowering, and there mini plants, i'll update you later.
***Coco plants were fed with mixtures ph'd to 6 and the soil plant ph'd to 6.5
***Coco plants were flowered when they were around 10 inches and the the soil plant about 18 inches
***2 - 3 times during flowering there has been possible 1-2 hour electricity cuts during 12hour on time, coupled with the fact iv crept in to feed the soil plant a few times during lights off...will this delay flowering ALOT?
 
yo dude im new to all this forum stuff,
got some blue girls in myself at the moment there just starting there 8th week flower, just woundering what ya yeild was per plant??
 

thehole

New Member
A lot of white pistils left, it's not really a sign of much but I'd say you got a good 2-3 weeks to go.

Now by "I started flowering my plants on July 9" do you mean you switched to 12/12 lighting that day or you saw the first signs of pistils? Big difference when counting flower days. I go from signs of first white pistils and recommended flowering times are much more accurate then going by when I switched to 12/12.
 
yo dude im new to all this forum stuff,
got some blue girls in myself at the moment there just starting there 8th week flower, just woundering what ya yeild was per plant??
Still yet to harvest as of yet bro! but will definitely let you know, by the hopes and looks of thing I can chop down monday coming (y) .
 
A lot of white pistils left, it's not really a sign of much but I'd say you got a good 2-3 weeks to go.

Now by "I started flowering my plants on July 9" do you mean you switched to 12/12 lighting that day or you saw the first signs of pistils? Big difference when counting flower days. I go from signs of first white pistils and recommended flowering times are much more accurate then going by when I switched to 12/12.
Well from that point the pistils have browned up abit more, it's been like 8 days from those pics, I'm gonna upload a few more ones i took yesterday . I switched my lighting on July 9th , pistils appeared about 5 days later , they were from clone and had preflowers from young . Alot of people recommend going by the first sign of pistils , it's just the guy who gave me the clones was 100% sure he gives em 7-9 weeks from lighting switch, and his smoke is always good. Only difference I can think of is the fact he grows in 6L pots and I grow in 15L pots, bigger plants, slightly longer time? + the fact i truly believe I've stunted them somewhat with light disruption caused by electric cuts.
 

kentuckyboy

Well-Known Member
Looks like you are doing a great job for a first timer. It looks like you still have some time to go, but I can't really say much from just looking at a picture when it comes to knowing whether or not they are ripe. In my opinion you are the best person to tell if the plant is ready to harvest. I think it is funny how people seem to think that they can too. I see it all the time here on RIU with people asking the same exact question as you. Lol! I completely understand where everyone is coming from, because I was there once as well. My best advice is to keep checking your trichs and they will start to change colors. More importantly the buds will literally start to just look ripe. After a few harvests you will know exactly what I mean by that. The hairs, or what I think are actually called pistils, on the buds will have mostly all turned from white to brown/orange/red/tan or whatever color that strains pistil color is when ripe. They will recede back into the buds and you won't notice any more swelling in the calayxes and the buds as a whole. Leaves on your plant will most likely have starting turning yellow and falling off. The buds themselves will start to have a golden tinge to them or will just look darker in color than they had. If you still can't figure it out just cut a bud off of your plant and let it dry out naturally and try that sucker out. Then as long as it doesn't taste immature then you know that you are either ready or close to it. From my experience I have been able to get a fairly good idea of when my strains will be ready by what the breeder says, but you can still get pheno's that will finish extremely early or extremely later than what the breeder recommends. My best advice is to just be Patient! I know it is hard but it will pay off in the end. Best of luck!
 
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Looks like you are doing a great job for a first timer. It looks like you still have some time to go, but I can't really say much from just looking at a picture when it comes to knowing whether or not they are ripe. In my opinion you are the best person to tell if the plant is ready to harvest. I think it is funny how people seem to think that they can too. I see it all the time here on RIU with people asking the same exact question as you. Lol! I completely understand where everyone is coming from, because I was there once as well. My best advice is to keep checking your trichs and they will start to change colors. More importantly the buds will literally start to just look ripe. After a few harvests you will know exactly what I mean by that. The hairs, or what I think are actually called pistils, on the buds will have mostly all turned from white to brown/orange/red/tan or whatever color that strains pistil color is when ripe. They will recede back into the buds and you won't notice any more swelling in the calayxes and the buds as a whole. Leaves on your plant will most likely have starting turning yellow and falling off. The buds themselves will start to have a golden tinge to them or will just look darker in color than they had. If you still can't figure it out just cut a bud off of your plant and let it dry out naturally and try that sucker out. Then as long as it doesn't taste immature then you know that you are either ready or close to it. From my experience I have been able to get a fairly good idea of when my strains will be ready by what the breeder says, but you can still get pheno's that will finish extremely early or extremely later than what the breeder recommends. My best advice is to just be Patient! I know it is hard but it will pay off in the end. Best of luck!
Thanks alot bro, I'm glad i'm not the only one who thought I was doing a decent job! I can feel it already that my next grows will be alot easier just from the knowledge of this one, so no doubt with a couple grows under my belt i'll be able to tell chop down times much better. But as you said, when you start off , you just want as much advice as possible lol . But i'm definitely taking all of what you say into consideration, complete ripeness! I'm gonna really try and hold out for the perfect harvest time. Untill this grow I never knew I had this level of patience in me if i'm honest. But yh i'm just waiting on a x30 loupe so I can view some buds on the colas properly instead of cutting of sugar leaf and checking under the microscope. Then I will probably have a better idea of where I'm at, keeping in mind visually the calyxes seem to be swelling also . I'm gonna attach some more photos to the thread in my next post, they are a week later than the last photos, and were taken yesterday, hopefully they are displaying some of the ripening processes you mentioned.
 
These are photos taken around a week later, the pistols are browning more, trichomes are ambering on sugar leaf but I will be checking the bud soon as my loupe comes in the next two days . The calyxes also seem to be swelling up abit too ... lemme know what you think.​
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  • Here are some pics of the plants, I mean to be honest the one in the soil is swelling up quite well, but I must assume that the early flush with the autopot plants has stunted their flowering, they aint really swelling too tough, but pistols are browning. i could be wrong... Considering I started flushing from like week 6 anticipating a week 8 finish, they have now been flowering for 10 weeks and of majority the fan leaves are very dead and the sugar leaves CLOSE to the bud are very dead . I'm worried that this dying could spread to the actual bud, but the cheese plant just doesn't seem to be swelling appropriately and has many remaining white pistols...could this be its genes? hmmm would appreciate any guidance in terms of letting go any futher considering i've found 2-3 seeds on one of my plants, do you think they look done? Got some trichome pics with a digi cam and a loupe, not great , but you guys may be able to make something of it. MANY thanks in advance

    TTS






    EDIT: BTW from what I can make of the trichomes there are very very few amber trichomes, and what seems to be a majority of milky and some clear.​




 
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