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Blayzed said:

Dude this grow is awesome!!! Ive never thought I'd see anything like this hahaha, keep it up!

And man, dont worry about hermes. I recently grew some hermie bud and it was actually some of the best bud ive ever seen in my life. INSANELY resin packed, lime green and smelled DANKKKKKK. If you're worried about it at all you can always take tweezers (and a cup of water), and tweeze off the bananas at the base and that banana will stop growing. be sure to put the 'nanner in water because one tiny puff of air and you will have plant jizz everywhere.... EVERYWHERE lol

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Haha thanks!! I can't wait to test out the hermie (almost tempted to pre-test), some of the leaves on the clones buds are so frosty it's insane, I'll have to get some close ups next update. That's a good idea with the water though because after pulling the nanner's I usually just toss them down away from the plants, I don't really notice pollen in them until they're mature (but I don't let them get to that point), but have seen some pollen from them but luckily the wind up there is almost continuous so it took it, but I still shielded the female quick with myself haha

So bad news with the hermie, something must have hit the top and knocked it pretty hard on saturday night cause I came out and it was bent more than 90 degrees, so I duct tapped it up hopping it would fix itself, but you can tell it was just looking worse and worse past where it was snapped off (2nd super crop location) and everything below it was green and thriving, so I took the top off leaving just the still growing part (bottom half) before it got real bad (Dead), and am drying it out now. But luckily the biggest colas were at the bottom anyways, which are surprisingly bigger than the main cola. But some good news as well, I recently added two new seedlings to the family which include white widow, and an unknown strain we called "fruity pebbles" (due to its smell, and smoke). So I'm not to saddened by the incident, rather kind of happy that I get to test the hermie now .

**Weekly Update**
(10 weeks old, 6 weeks flowered)
(4 days for the newbies)
Well this week was kind of rough after what happened to the hermie, but the bud I dried out from it (not cured yet) has a crazy body high that felt like I just popped a muscle relaxer or something. I really didn't get too much bud off the top, but I wasn't expecting to much bud from the hermie anyways, and still got the other good half of it to harvest. The female is still beasting, and smells so dank (kind of like sour skittles or something) and the buds still seem to be progressing. I also took some pictures of the newest addition's (white widow on the left, "fruity pebbles" on the right), and surprisingly the "fruity pebbles" is doing better (was frosty right when it sprouted from the dirt!!) which I've personally never seen before (usually takes AT-LEAST a few days, if not more to get that frosty stem).

So I noticed today on the female that SOME roots are showing through the watering holes, and googled the signs of a root bound plant (yellow leaves, curled leaves) and my two bottom set leaves died the past few days, and some of the leaves are curled a little like an upside down U. Should I transplant it into a bigger pot this late in flowering, or should I just let it ride??

let it ride, transplant is a shock, probably not going to help all that much this deep into flower
plant looks to be in fairly good shape overall

If you plan on revegging it, then definitely repot, and it looks to me like it is trying to reveg.

growone said:

let it ride, transplant is a shock, probably not going to help all that much this deep into flower
plant looks to be in fairly good shape overall

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Yea that's what I was thinking, it's not really droopy like some of the root bound pictures I've seen, but just making sure.

cindysid said:

If you plan on revegging it, then definitely repot, and it looks to me like it is trying to reveg.

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I'm just going to let the buds finish and chop her. Yea she is trying, but little does she know, she won't.

This is a clone I took off of the very bottom, because it was so small (compared to the others) and it wasn't really progressing at all. Has any one every had bad/good experiences with pruning "Notworthit" clones??

Mojosodope said:

This is a clone I took off of the very bottom, because it was so small (compared to the others) and it wasn't really progressing at all. Has any one every had bad/good experiences with pruning "Notworthit" clones??
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A not worth it clone as u call it could turn into a beautiful 6 foot plant if u take care of it properly..

Kaendar said:

A not worth it clone as u call it could turn into a beautiful 6 foot plant if u take care of it properly..

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I'm not talking about rooting the clone, I'm asking if pruning small clone sites that aren't really growing bud (such as that one) this late in flowering has any bad/good effects on the overall plant.

If they dont have any power-plant fan leaves on em then then it shud be fine

Kaendar said:

If they dont have any power-plant fan leaves on em then then it shud be fine

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Ok but will the plant give more energy to other bud's that it would have spent on that clone?? Which was my main reasoning for pruning it.

**Weekly Update**
(11 weeks old, 7 weeks flowered)
(1 week, 4 days for the newbies)
This week has been pretty good for my baby's. The female is all milky with a few amber trichs, and starting to yellow up (hopefully from flushing and/or being almost done), she dropped three nice dark-lined jumbo seeds today, and after sampling the bud yesterday from the clone I pruned I am very excited to have more of her genetics on standby. The hermie is SO frosty so I had to take some micro shots, but it's starting to produce more nanner's than usual so I think I might chop it earlier than the female. I am going to harvest them based upon this article ( http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com/medicinalherbs.html ), and this calender ( http://www.lunarium.co.uk/calendar/gardening.jsp ), also by the fact that they're both all milky and turning amber. The newbies are doing great, the "fruity pebbles" was really getting tall compared to the WW so I started LST on it.

I've decided to chop them both on the same day, was gonna let the female mature a bit more but the buds are starting to space out to much, and since it is milky already I'll just take what I got while I got it.

sometimes it's best to walk away from the table with money in the pocket
got a grow under the belt, and some bud to show for it

growone said:

sometimes it's best to walk away from the table with money in the pocket
got a grow under the belt, and some bud to show for it

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Exactly what I was thinking, but we got some HEAVY rain today, and the forecast is t-storms next two days, so I'm not sure if I should wait till after the storms or chop em before. I also noticed that some of the calyx's are still opening into flowers, so I'm not sure if I should wait on the female. But the hermie is definitely coming down tomorrow morning cause that storm tore it up, even made one bud fall off.

After reading this:
"Calyx swelling is a major indicator of peak maturity. The lowest, oldest calyxes swell first and the swelling works its way up to the highest, youngest flowers on each bud. At peak maturity about 90% of the calyxes will almost look seeded, they are so fat.

Three quarters to 90% of the pistils will have turned reddish brown as well. For a basic Indica this takes well into the seventh week of the flowering cycle.

By the end of the eighth week most of the calyxes will have swollen and a surge of trichome development has coated most of the buds. It is now that the development of a very discerning palate comes into play to determine the finest harvest time. Remember - patience is a virtue and often a discipline.

The ripening signs for most Sativas are highly similar, except extended over a longer period of time. Occasionally, some Sativas have windows of peak harvest that actually open and close. That is, for a week or so the plant may exhibit signs of peak ripeness.

However, a week later the plant may have a growth spurt, which lowers the trichome-to-fibre ratio and overall potency for a little while. Usually a fibrous growth spurt is accompanied by a corresponding trichome increase. Again, time and experience are the key elements in this regard."

I've decided to wait and let them open, cause they're definitely still opening. But the hermie is coming down tommorow, just cause I don't feel like picking ANY MORE NANNERS!!! haha, I see why people just chop em from the get go.

I didnt realize how tiny these plants were until now..

Kaendar said:

I didnt realize how tiny these plants were until now..

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Yea they are definitely not that big compared to most of the plants I've seen, but they weren't in veg very long and hopefully after there done actually opening the calyx's, it will be fatter. But as long as I get more than the 15 bucks I put into em, I'm happy. Besides actually seeing the bud on the plant is a priceless experience IMO, it's opened my perspective of cannabis, and helped me reinforce the fact that it is JUST A PLANT. You never have much good to say, you must be an angry person...