need expertise on trichome development

those are 8 weeks old, its nirvana PPP soil. just wondering what the trichomes are saying as far as time left

This is another pic of the same plant further down. these are all macro pics

You've still got a few weeks yet. PPP has a 10 week flower time. The trichs look still mostly clear no amber at all. A lot of flash though..

8 weeks old, or have been flowering for 8 weeks??
they look nice, but they are no where near being done, not by a long shot.. at least another few weeks or so imo..

yes they have been flowering for 8 weeks. I thought ppp was an 8 week strain. thanks guys for the help. I will try and take a few shots later without the flash. but the trichs did look mostly clear to me as well. i have a loupe scope but it doesnt work all that well for me being a noob ;p

Im looking for a commercial strain with short flowering time. I will be switching to hydro next run as to shorten flower time even more. Just looking for some input. Ive loaded my brain with enough info to grow pretty good just not enough grows under my belt to tell trichome and finished aperience with the naked eye. all of the tops have foxtailed out of control and i was thinking that was a sign the end is near. getting a little antsy as time at this location is running out.

the times that breeders give are always way off ime.. they tell you the fastest times they could possibly finish if the environment is perfect, and you have the one pheno that finishes quick..
they don't tell you that pheno is one out of 100 seeds, and that the rest will take well over 10 weeks.. i guess they think a lot of people really look at what they say are flowering times when choosing strains, so they say they finish flowering faster to get more sales imo..
if you like sativa's, you should check out c99.. i just grow some, and they were all done at 56 days, the fastest plant i have ever had finish.. incredible pineapple smell, and a great sativa high..

and i don't really think that hydro is going to make the plants finish any faster.. they might grow bigger faster, but they should still take the same amount of time to finish as that comes down to genetics and not grow style..

one last post and i'll leave you alone, i promise, lol..
if that loupe you're using doesn't work well, check out radioshack as they have a small handheld microscope for around $15 or so which is 60-100x's power and works great for checking out the trics.. i don't know what i'd do without mine..

i lied, $11.99.. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2179604

racerboy71 said:

the times that breeders give are always way off ime.. they tell you the fastest times they could possibly finish if the environment is perfect, and you have the one pheno that finishes quick..
they don't tell you that pheno is one out of 100 seeds, and that the rest will take well over 10 weeks.. i guess they think a lot of people really look at what they say are flowering times when choosing strains, so they say they finish flowering faster to get more sales imo..
if you like sativa's, you should check out c99.. i just grow some, and they were all done at 56 days, the fastest plant i have ever had finish.. incredible pineapple smell, and a great sativa high..

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yes it is absolutely a perfect strain...mine are "trippy" as hell as well

one last post and i'll leave you alone, i promise, lol..
if that loupe you're using doesn't work well, check out radioshack as they have a small handheld microscope for around $15 or so which is 60-100x's power and works great for checking out the trics.. i don't know what i'd do without mine..

i lied, $11.99.. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2179604

Your not bothering me at all. I crave input. I read almost a year before i ever attempted as I dont handle failure much. Also, what breeder did u grab your c99 from? i was looking at mosca but havent really had a chance to decide on what i want my next order to be. I heard ppp was nice if you got the right pheno. may be lookin to do some pheno hunting as i also heard a few people call it the holy grail as well as your c99 you speak about.

i already began flushing a week ago, should I hitm with one more shot of nutes and some "overdrive" as im using the AN line

hxvoc said:

Your not bothering me at all. I crave input. I read almost a year before i ever attempted as I dont handle failure much. Also, what breeder did u grab your c99 from? i was looking at mosca but havent really had a chance to decide on what i want my next order to be. I heard ppp was nice if you got the right pheno. may be lookin to do some pheno hunting as i also heard a few people call it the holy grail as well as your c99 you speak about.

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i got my c99s from a private breeder who doesn't sell his gear and was nice enough to hook me up with a bunch of his for free..
but there was just some excellent info in the seed collectors thread that someone posted about that concerned the mosca versions as there is two different versions, the bx1 i think and the f1's i think.. i'll try and find you a link m8 in a few..

hxvoc said:

i already began flushing a week ago, should I hitm with one more shot of nutes and some "overdrive" as im using the AN line

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yah, i would continue to feed them.. i'm not one who believes in flushing to begin with, but just yesterday i read a thread by a guy on here who has decades of growing experience and he is also really against flushing and says it was pretty much started by dutch growers who pump their plants full of chemical nutes, and that it's really not a good idea.. if you'd like, i'll find the link for that one as well..

took me a minute, christ, that thread grows like a monster... here it is though..

Hey Dizzle, Here's a quote frome one of Mosca's testers:

"Here is the breakdown for everyone, Mosca has Reeferman's F4 and Wallyduck's F5, The Reef line was selected and inbred for the Pink Candy Grapefruit phenotype, while the Wally Line was selected and inbred for the Pineapple Phenotype, Mosca's "Prize Male" is his Wallyduck F5 Pineapple. The reason his Cindy is considered an F1, is because the lines were so diverged, essentially they were two different things, most people consider an F4 as stable(if selection is done correctly, that's the big difference between a Breeder and a Chucker), He used a Reef's Pink Candy Grapefruit C99 as the F1's mother, he used his Wally's (prize male) F5 as the father, both being their own thing, being used as P1's, it demonstrates F1-like hybrid vigor because of that genetics difference, A 50% PCGF C99 & A 50% Pineapple C99, this is how he created his Mosca C99 F1. The C99 BX-1 is a female F1 he made, recrossed to his Wallyduck's F5 prize male.
F1----(Reefs f4 mom x Wly's f5 dad)
Bx-1----{(Reefs f4 mom x Wly's f5 dad)mom x Wly's F5 dad}
The Pineapple yields better, so the BX-1 and the F1 yield the same, with the BX-1 you have a greater chance at the pineapple pheno, than with the F1. Flower time is same length, and any yield lost in the BX-1 is offset because you're supposed to be looking for the Pineapple if you get the BX-1, and the F1 is to find a pheno of each, and a blended pheno."

nice read, i was thinking about ak48 nirvana. i think that strain is a 55 day strain and supposed to be a nice yielder.

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That is an old chart containing old outdated info, use this one instead:

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man, i had my shit zoomed out to 500% and still couldn't read that, lol..