The Hemp Goddess said:
You are not even at 9 weeks yet. I believe that you still have time to go, especially since this is a sativa auto. Mel mentioned 70-80 days and you are only at about 62 days now. How are you checking the trichs?
I feel that you probably made a big mistake feeding them only water for 2 weeks, especially since you are in such a small pot. I feel that you probably still have at least 2 weeks to go and them that will be 4 weeks that it has been deprived of food. I am sure that it has cost you in both yield and potency. There is just not much bulk to the plant at all. I really really think it is too early (and that you should feed her again).
Thanks a lot.
I am checking the trichs with my lab microscope, which is an actual science microscope, not a toy.
The trichs are definitely amber and the fan leaves have been falling off for a few days.
I read that the plant also starts to use up the nutes stored in its leaves near the end so they do keep feeding, and I used so much nutes early on that those leaves could he holding more food than normal.
I read that the smaller pots would speed up the maturation process, so maybe that's why they seem to be done early. The seed info said that the flowering period was 50-65 days.
Also, I made so many mistakes during the grow, not just the tiny pots, that they may be done for anyway.
I don't want to leave the sativa to develop a lot of amber trichs since this tends to result in a heavier stone rather than a greater head high, which is what I want from the sativa anyway.
The two indicas can be left a bit longer, but the larger one is already dropping fan leaves as well, and the smell has become more noticeable in the tent.
I might go back to feeding the indicas some nutes and see what happens, but I'm glad that they even made it this far.
I'm not in any rush to harvest since I don't need to smoke them any time soon, but I wouldn't want them to go on too long and start losing the thc and becoming less potent.
Today, the pistils were also looking more shrivelled as well, so I don't see them having a lot of time left in any case.
The bud that I took last week and dried in the oven was quite nice to smoke and my wife said that the smell was definitely of pot rather than the hay smell that came from an earlier bud that I tried a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe I'll cut off the main cola and leave the rest of the plant alone. None of the plants have grown any higher for over a month although they have gotten a little fatter colas during that time.
I really don't know what to do, but based on all of the info I've read about trichs and pistils, the sativa does indeed seem ready.
You guys are very kind to be concerned about my results and I greatly appreciate it. I wish that there was someone as knowledgeable locally that I could show them the plants and see what they thought.