Help with late harvest

OK, so first things first, I live in the southern hemisphere. Harvest is usually early to mid April. However I had an unfortunate start this year, end of December and early January, so I was expecting a late April/early May harvest.

For some reason I am worried my plants are finishing earlier than expected though! They have tiny buds but they are rapidly getting red hairs, especially on main colas. I am including pictures but not sure if they will be visible due to the announcement that there have been some technical difficulties.

I have looked at the trichs and some (especially the first three plants if my pics are visible) seem like they still have quite a few transparent ones and even small trichs that havent matured yet, but a lot are already milky. The first few plants are showing the first signs of amber trichs, probably less than 10% for now.

This is one of my first harvests, hence my problems and the unfortunate yield of what I will get at the end, but I am hoping they still fatten up a bit...

Note: I included roughly 2 or 3 pics per plant, they should all be in order. It might be difficult to tell what plant is which but I am just looking for a general idea anyway

Here are the rest of the pics!

they look not done to me, need another month or so even, and they look hungry out there. good luck

Thanks for your thoughts!

Unfortunately dont have access to high P low N nutrients right now, would nutrients from vegetative phase be better food than nothing?

Vegetative nutrients will work fine for maybe 1 or 2 feedings but try to find flowering nuts as soon as possible. The buds will fatten up much more if plants recieve a lot of phosphorus and potassium. Hope it works out for you

Yeah, I'll get on the proper nutes. But I'm so worried that they're almost done and I should be flushing them, not feeding them.

Anyone else have any thoughts to offer?

Look like they still need 7-18 days yet
Sure u got amber ??
I dont think planting late will change when they finish all it may mean is they will be smaller plants

http://www.canna.com.au/pk_13_14 available all over Aus and helps bulk.

U got 3 to 4 weeks to go (which is normal for the avg strain/ avg climate in aussie). So get ^^ that asap and pray for great weather.

Old Name said:

Yeah, I'll get on the proper nutes. But I'm so worried that they're almost done and I should be flushing them, not feeding them.

Anyone else have any thoughts to offer?

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dont buy into the flushing crap.

flushing seems to be the stoner term for leaching. If u dont want to leach ur soil of salts then dont do it, it will only stress ur plants when they have better things to do.

ruby fruit said:

Look like they still need 7-18 days yet
Sure u got amber ??
I dont think planting late will change when they finish all it may mean is they will be smaller plants

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Amber on one or two of the plants. The rest I am just seeing a lot of milky trichs.

Lucky Luke said:

http://www.canna.com.au/pk_13_14 available all over Aus and helps bulk.

U got 3 to 4 weeks to go (which is normal for the avg strain/ avg climate in aussie). So get ^^ that asap and pray for great weather.

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I actually live in South America but I'm gonna pick up some good flower nutes for coco coir in a day or two.

As for flushing, I just give my plants regular water for last ten days or so to get as many salts out as I can... Especially with coco since it retains a lot of salts.

Thanks all... Seems like general consensus is that I have at least two, maybe three or four weeks to go. Hopefully they bulk up nicely.

Old Name said:

Yeah, I'll get on the proper nutes. But I'm so worried that they're almost done and I should be flushing them, not feeding them.

Anyone else have any thoughts to offer?

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I have not grown outdoors in about four years. But I usually started mine later so they wouldn't be monsters. They always finished when ready, hopefully before hunting season. And I never flush. But to be fair I tried hard to do organic, and stay away only visit the grow five times including harvest

Old Name said:

Yeah, I'll get on the proper nutes. But I'm so worried that they're almost done and I should be flushing them, not feeding them.

Anyone else have any thoughts to offer?

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Don't flush it is a stoner myth and does nothing. Let them buds feed and grow until you chop them

Agreed ^^^ i personally just give them their last water at least 4 or 5 days before a pull thats it

And like mentioned above ....just because you planted later doesn't mean your plants are guna need x-amount of time to finish ......putting them out earlier just means your guna get more veg time before the seasons change/light and flowering begins .......so you'll still harvest at pretty much the same time as you would have putting them out earlier .....just smaller plant/yeild because they didn't get as much long light days to veg .......I've had clones that I didn't use or got left out in late august ,,,,and were just a baby plant with a baby nugg in October ....which is harvest time outdoors where I'm located .....didn't finish any later than my monsters that got put out many months prior ....GL

Hey guys. I know they shouldnt take longer than any other plants that were planted earlier and vegged longer, but my concern was/is that they seem about done and it is still early. I figured it would be mid to late April before it was time to harvest. I also have one late bloomer that, despite being outside, sexed herself late and is only 2 weeks into bloom.

Old Name said:

Hey guys. I know they shouldnt take longer than any other plants that were planted earlier and vegged longer, but my concern was/is that they seem about done and it is still early. I figured it would be mid to late April before it was time to harvest. I also have one late bloomer that, despite being outside, sexed herself late and is only 2 weeks into bloom.

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it will be mid to late April before they are done, depending on weather it could be May.

It sexed its self late because a plant has to mature before it will show sex. (staggered nodes), this takes approx 4 weeks. or its a Sativa of some sort (??) or getting full sun or maybe even some residule light.