Need some help determining if I need to harvest.

ghosty87

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First off im growing random bag seed which is pretty unpredictable. My main issue is with my "tall plant" it is 10 weeks into flowering has tons of milky trichomes and none of the hairs (pistils) are red which i think is odd. As I have grown 2 other times indoors and outdoors. Also i just found one male flower on one of the smaller buds which means I could be flowering too long? I have three plants 10 weeks into flowering. The tallest one has large calyxes looks kinda sativa (as i know the term) and has shown THC since like week 4. She then had nutrient burn or something, leaves curling. I had to go away for 2 weeks during weeks 4-6 of flowering and had a buddy of mine take care of my plants. He didnt do a very good job as I had 6 and 3 went hermy. The other two plants one of which is showing a decent amount of THC and has small-medium calyxes. The last plant of mine the largest as far as amount of bud just started showing THC at week 9 and a half. The 2 i just mentioned just started recovering from what i believe was a PH problem and nutrient lock out. There leaves started to get very cripsy and turned to dust when i touch them. Even the leaves in the buds.

Now I know they are in only 1 and 1/2 gallon pots. I think this may be the cause, but I do not know. I have to water every day. Do you think my entire growth may be stunted due to the small pots? The plants do drink the water i feed them PH'd at like 6.3-6.6. I am thinking the plants probably suffer from heat stress caused by hot spots from the HPS.

Here are some pictures from 2 weeks ago, the plants have changed a great deal actually much more TH, but I believe they are recovering from nutrient burn/lockout and maybe to much caclium. I think i compounded the problem by givin the plants to much epsom salts and dolo lime. I have viewed the trichomes on each with a pocket microscope. The 2 in the back seem almost done if not done already. I know the stress and problems i have must of added some weeks onto the flowering.

"sigh I always over do the correction of plants problems and end up with even more problems" I

Here are some pictures. The front plant is the "largest one with small calyxes and just started showing THC." The one behind it is the "medium" plant that showed the most crisping. The one in the white pot is the "tallest or one with no red hairs yet and most visible THC".

Anyway since I dont really know how long flowering was suppose to take and I am not sure what kind of strains I have anyway you can tell if i should keep going? Take into account the "tall one" is reallly frosty now.

Any input you can give me about what I did wrong I would appreciate.

Ill try to get some more recent pictures for you. My dang camera's battery wont charge. My dang phone camera has lines in the pictures...
 

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fureelz

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Definitely not ready for harvest...You are having a nutrient lockout causing the leaves to hook. I don't think it has to do with the hps or the cfls, but what is the temp during the day in there? what spectrum are those cfls? what are you feeding them? and why are you watering everyday?
 

darkdestruction420

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you said they were all milky? it looks like your just overwatering. only water when the top 2 inches of soil is dry. chill with the water and they will look better in a few days and keep going to all amber if thats what you want to do. it all depends on what your looking for from the bud.
 

ghosty87

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Thanks for the replies.

The temp is around 78.5-84.5 depending on where i position the fan and the thermometer probe.

I have to water every day because the pots are only 1 and half gallon and the plants are like 3-4 ft tall by 3-4 ft wide. I read the pots are way to small for my plants and they are completely dry every day at lights on time. I read that its good they are drinking at least b/c often root bound plants wont drink.

I used the fox farm line of nutrients Grow big in veg and big bloom. Then tiger bloom and big bloom. Also I used Open sesame, beastie blooms, and cha ching. I think they are much to powerful.

Thanks for the THC pictures that helps. Its really hard to focus on my plants with the pocket microscope and i hate cutting off leaves to check the THC.

Here are updated pictures I just took today. I had to use my phone camera since my digital camera wont hold a charge. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
 
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