White Widow @ 35 days in to flowering

I am a newbie and waited about 60 days and 21" tall before inducing flowering under my 1000w metal halide hortilux. The 2 plants are now about 40" tall and it is day 35. I think that the plant has been deficient somehow and hasn't looked all that good lately and I just happened to check out the trichomes with a jeweler"s loop today and think they might be ready. I hope not, but I have heard that a good rule of thumb is to wait until you can count several amber colored trichomes. Am I on the right track?

Thanks!
kiss-ass

Looking good! I'd say you got a ways to go, atleast 50% amber 50% cloudy but really it's a personal preference. The longer you wait the better your crop. You said your using a mh lamp you ever think about using a hps hortilux thats what I use and it's working great. Only 14 days on mine though. Keep up the good work.

Dude ur plants have alot of flowering left to do. Sit back and watch ur plants fatten up.

jolly8541 said:

Dude ur plants have alot of flowering left to do. Sit back and watch ur plants fatten up.

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Agreed. Looks like you have several weeks left to go. (thats a good thing, your buds should double in size)

Cool - thanks for the good info!!! Now, I guess that means I have to solve the problem(s) that I have been trying to fix for the last few weeks.

I veg'd for about 60 days and induced flowering at about 21", which was 35 days ago. I am using some kind of f(_)cked up tub system recommended to me by a friend. Basically, it's a soil/water culture-type deal but I used FF Original Planting mix and didn't add perlite, which appears to have caused me problems. Unfortunately, the tubs weigh so much, I can't get the two separated to view the roots that have grown down in to the reservoir. I thought that I had a mag deficiency a couple of weeks ago, so I used Cal-Mag Plus in the nutrient solution and in foiler feeding as well with no change. I decided that I may have just over-fertilized and burned them a little so I flushed them with a gallon of water through the soil (none made it down to the reservoir, as the soil was pretty dry) and left them alone for 4 days. On the 5th day, I noticed that the leaves were very soft and flacid so I thought maybe they needed some nutrient, so I mixed up a weak, early-flowering roots organic solution and added about half a gallon to each reservoir. The next day, which was Thursday, both plants looked like death!!! I freaked out, and drained both reservoirs and here we are. The soil in both containers is pretty dry, but I am totally confused.


Any advice would really help me out! Thanks in advance!

I'm a soil guy so I don't know about what your doing but if your roots go through your soil can't you just water the soil?