Blueberry Harvest - White Pistils?

GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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I know it's a bit off the original topic, but the longer harvest times are something that takes a newbie like myself some time to figure out. Perhaps from clone, plants flower quicker because they're more mature, so that may be where the lower numbers come from.

In my current grow, my Cindy 99 plants are at 71 days of 12/12. This is a sativa-dominant strain that people seem to commonly harvest at 50 days, and also known to often be racy. Yet here, on day 71, almost no amber. Maybe if I harvest at the right time, which should be over the next week or so, it won't be so racy. I dunno, but there's no way that these, from seed, were ready on day 50. They were well fed and very healthy looking throughout their grow, and only recently did the leaves begin to fade. I had no signs of deficiencies, and I'm already three weeks longer than what I've read others do.

But the Blueberry is just weird, it's like an alien plant. There are some pics in my grow journal, check 'em out, nothing like the other plants.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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GiovanniJones said:
I know it's a bit off the original topic, but the longer harvest times are something that takes a newbie like myself some time to figure out. Perhaps from clone, plants flower quicker because they're more mature, so that may be where the lower numbers come from.

In my current grow, my Cindy 99 plants are at 71 days of 12/12. This is a sativa-dominant strain that people seem to commonly harvest at 50 days, and also known to often be racy. Yet here, on day 71, almost no amber. Maybe if I harvest at the right time, which should be over the next week or so, it won't be so racy. I dunno, but there's no way that these, from seed, were ready on day 50. They were well fed and very healthy looking throughout their grow, and only recently did the leaves begin to fade. I had no signs of deficiencies, and I'm already three weeks longer than what I've read others do.

But the Blueberry is just weird, it's like an alien plant. There are some pics in my grow journal, check 'em out, nothing like the other plants.
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Clones don’t flower faster, a mature plant is a mature plant. If you are flipping to 12/12 before a plant is mature then it will take longer to transition into flower. However if you start with two identical mature plants one a clone and one the mother they will have nearly the same actual flower time, which begins once the plant starts to form flowers.

My Cindy99 always needed 70ish days of actual flower time, which meant 75-85 days of 12/12 typically. I’ve never seen one done at 50 days, I don’t care what other growers do.

Fact is MOST growers harvest plants too early. Either because they don’t know better or because they don’t care about quality and just want to have more commercial weed to sell.
 
GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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Thundercat said:
My Cindy99 always needed 70ish days of actual flower time, which meant 75-85 days of 12/12 typically.
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That's really helpful. I'm at 72 days now and neither of my two Cindy99s are ready. One is at least a few days out and another is about a week out, so it seems like my schedule parallels yours.

When everyone here says that flowering begins, "when the plant starts to form flowers," would you say that's when you see the first pistils pop out, or when they actually begin to look like flowers?
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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GiovanniJones said:
That's really helpful. I'm at 72 days now and neither of my two Cindy99s are ready. One is at least a few days out and another is about a week out, so it seems like my schedule parallels yours.

When everyone here says that flowering begins, "when the plant starts to form flowers," would you say that's when you see the first pistils pop out, or when they actually begin to look like flowers?
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Pistils can form during veg. So I don’t consider it flowering until the buds actually start stacking up and forming flowers. Really it doesn’t matter how many weeks it’s been or when you start “counting” they won’t be done till they are done, and that can depend on variables other then just the genetics.
 
GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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@Thundercat, or anyone else, here's a pic of my Cindy 99 at day 74 of 12/12. I feel like it's in finally in the window but I might wait until next weekend because of the white pistils. Does that look right to you?

It looks so good, I feel like eating it, lol.

Thanks.

C99 - Day 74.jpg
 
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