Harvest time cut short - early harvest is iminent

yup it really does work with 8 hours, but just remember less light - less heat - less WATER dont water before bed or theyll be wet for the next 16 hours mold and so on.... just observe for the first few days then make minor adjustments, mine are flowering niceley, although i might have to do it in two harvests a week apart so the little buds grow a bit longer.
cheers.

farmer.joe said:

yup it really does work with 8 hours, but just remember less light - less heat - less WATER <snip>
cheers.

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Hey Joe,
You said 8 hours of daylight, I said no, 12 hours. So you reply with 8 hours.

I'll go to my backup. This is from Marijuana Botany, by Dr. Robert C. Clarke.


Rob Clarke sez:

Marijuana Botany said:

Research has shown (Valle et al. 1978 ) that twice as much THC is produced under a 12-hour photoperiod than under a 10-hour photoperiod.

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Actually, providing plants with fewer hours of daylight than 12 during flowering will cause the plant to have less THC, but I guess that "it really does work."

Back to you, Joe.

sorry must have missed something any way i was giving you an alternitave to quicken the flowering(as you are in a hurry) i started with 12 hours for about 3-4 weeks then 10 now 8 for final week. i dont think this will lower thc so much just lessen a little of the yield.not a bad thing if your in a hurry and gonna loose it alll.

potroast - thats a good call on cutting them at the base, do you think it would help if i took it a step further and just hung them upside down with the roots and everything?

farmer joe- ive been gradually decreasing the time and im at about 10 hrs im going to keep lowering it until i get to about 9 .

thanks for all the help guys

IMHO i would put a lock on my door and call my landlord and say you are fuming it or something. If i were you, i would start looking for ways to keep your landlord out of your house while your gone, which he shouldnt go in anyway unless you gave him the OK. Yes its his building, but you are renting it (im assuming.) You didnt plan on taking this bud with you on Spring Break did you??? If so, just go buy a bag of dank bud and tell your buds you grew it and let your ladies finish there growing =D.

Godkas said:

Your potency will be ass IMHO.

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Actually the potency will be fine, Sativa plants are ment to be cut short for the uplifting high... and if its Indica... he will have a more uplifting high(head high)which feels like sativa he wont get the true indica couch lock... wont be as much cystal or thc but he will still get high... if it were eny earilier it would be ass, but its a week off so it will still be decent, i dont advise it but he can do what he wants.

well, some weird stuff has been happening lately, both plants look good, but very different. the bigger plant looks like i envisioned it, bushy with a ton of pistils everywhere (mostly still white) and starting to fill out nicely. on the other hand, the smaller plant's pistils have gone almost completely red and are very sparse on the buds. the buds are taller and skinnier and more visible on the smaller plant due to the lack of pistils. this may be due to the fact that i pruned alot more on the smaller plant because a bunch of leaves were dying due to heat stress (i think). anyone have any ideas?

Fewer leaves on the plant will mean fewer buds growing. If you remove leaves, or if leaves are damaged, then you will have less bud.

The leaves are the solar panels. They need the light for the plant to grow buds.

good to know all this.

A landlord can not come in for routine maintence without able notification to a tenant.Un pre disclosed entry is consider breaking and entry unless of total apartment failure such as fire flood or other total distruction.So if he did come in you d be able to sue him til you were rich or black mail him for free rent.Or just but an 8 dollar new lock for the door swap it til you come back and buy a cheap little water pump some hose and a timer. Have the timer come on every 2 days for 5 minutes once a day and watre and saftey are both solved.

I wouldn't test it with a landlord, plus the fact that he/she would be your referrer for when you move.

If you have to sacrifice this crop as a whole, then wow, that sucks, but lesson learned.

Which is better?:

To MAYBE have yield from 2 plants

OR

Not have an apartment and goto jail?

Yes, I realize that he/she's getting trashed on beer and tv every night, as are the cops that come over due to his call, but the world isn't fair, never has been, and never will be.

Ed Rosenthal says that switching to 18/6 hours of light will speed up maturity, but it will sacrafice maybe 20&#37; yeild. not a bad option for peace of mind during vacation.

potroast said:

Hmmm. Keep in mind, when I have bud hanging in a closed bedroom, the people in the next house can smell it.

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can anyone verify the validity of this statement? were you exaggerating, potroast? i have to dry bud in a dorm..

which actually sounds more like the situation... spring break? i know maintanence comes into our rooms over breaks and supposedly check for booze.

no drying is the stinkest time of the whole thing.The smell will be very strong if you grew right stinks a whole house up that why carbon filters are good to have

tetrahydrocannabinol said:

you cant rush the process, and ablazed is right, how you gonna give it water without somekind of dripping system.

The most i leave my plants for is 3 days, and i flood em with water which is bad, but i also know another solution for a long period of time..

1) Put your light far away from them as possible.
2) Make holes in your pot unless it already as some.
3) Put the pot in a tray of water, with at least a few inches of water in it.
4) You can also put saran wrap over the pot so it doesnt evaporate the water as much..

thats it i guess, fairly barbarian way, but it works!

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Im kinda in the same boat as white widow and im wondering if putting the pot in a tray of water would honestly work can anyone verify this? Im gonna be gone for 6-7 days and dont think I can get anyone to come and water them so this may be my only option. Only thing is the bottom of my pot has a layer of perlite so im not sure if the roots would be able to get to the water?

well, reservior, and pump + drip system into the soil?

If you really need to cut it early...what about watercuring? Cut it right before you leave, set up a drain system to release once a day with a timer, and you'll be gone for a week, you got two days to be home to check on it before htey're ready

this post is a year old... what ever happened?

whitewidowgrower said:

well i guess i should have mentioned that i live in an apartment and im concerned that over spring break my landlord might come in and do some maintenence work or something. and im not just paranoid, there is a good chance of his workers coming into the house. but theoretically, if i did let them go another week while i was gone, how could i get them water while im away? since i will be flushing them at this point it will be critical that i get them clean water.

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I have seen some of my friends plants do their best when they went with out water for 7 days... What you think plants do not go with out water for 7 days in nature?

I just noticed this thread was a year old. So I did a Google search on this guy. It turns out he was afraid he freinds would think he was a lame ass-hole for haveing such bunk weed, so he laced it with PCP and ended up killing 5 students, and stealing a $985,000 cigar boat and wrecking it into the rocks.

my bad, just saw other recent replies lol...