[email protected]
Active Member
The dilemma I have is on two prior grows of Northern Lights my plants never produced many cloudy and very few amber trichromes. I followed advice to cut nutes 2 weeks prior. I used the published end of the range of days to maturity as my guide. My plants expired on timetable a bit after two weeks with disappointing results.
I am on my third grow this time with one topped white widow plant and do not want to make any avoidable mistakes. I did take a couple of early buds and the good news is that it is already better than my two previous attempts.
As a beginner, without successful grow experience; I am in a quandary regarding lowering nutrients at this time. My plant is 9 weeks into 12/12 and the range I have most often seen is 8-10 weeks - with the one book I purchased Easy Marijuana Gardening by Ed Rosenthal stating 75 days.
The plant has probably been under some heat stress. It has had a 150 wt hps in a 1' x 2' bubble hydroponics grow box and outgrew the recommended height by a little. I reduced the lighting to 8/16 starting at week seven. In the last week, the buds have not noticeably lchanged much, about 75% of the pistils are dry with new growth replace some that dried. The sampled trichromes were mostly clear a week ago and now are about 40/60 clear / cloudy with very few amber outliers.
Am I over thinking this and stay the course as it until amber appears.
Should I be changing the lighting? The recommendations I've seen are for 0-8 hours two weeks prior (I had targeted 9 weeks and started with 8/16 at week 7).
Should I now/ already be cutting off the food and replacing it with the sucrose solution I have in waiting? My current plan is cut off 10 days prior to 75 days.
4. Do I wait for some future event / observation and then take a specified action - e.g. stop feeding or reduce / kill lights?
Any other suggestions or advise is appreciated.
Thank You
I am on my third grow this time with one topped white widow plant and do not want to make any avoidable mistakes. I did take a couple of early buds and the good news is that it is already better than my two previous attempts.
As a beginner, without successful grow experience; I am in a quandary regarding lowering nutrients at this time. My plant is 9 weeks into 12/12 and the range I have most often seen is 8-10 weeks - with the one book I purchased Easy Marijuana Gardening by Ed Rosenthal stating 75 days.
The plant has probably been under some heat stress. It has had a 150 wt hps in a 1' x 2' bubble hydroponics grow box and outgrew the recommended height by a little. I reduced the lighting to 8/16 starting at week seven. In the last week, the buds have not noticeably lchanged much, about 75% of the pistils are dry with new growth replace some that dried. The sampled trichromes were mostly clear a week ago and now are about 40/60 clear / cloudy with very few amber outliers.
Am I over thinking this and stay the course as it until amber appears.
Should I be changing the lighting? The recommendations I've seen are for 0-8 hours two weeks prior (I had targeted 9 weeks and started with 8/16 at week 7).
Should I now/ already be cutting off the food and replacing it with the sucrose solution I have in waiting? My current plan is cut off 10 days prior to 75 days.
4. Do I wait for some future event / observation and then take a specified action - e.g. stop feeding or reduce / kill lights?
Any other suggestions or advise is appreciated.
Thank You
