Pictureless grow...where's your imagination?

[DomsChron]

looks like my last bagseed man you should have a pretty stoned harvest :banana: :bong1: :bongin:

GREEN MOOOOJOOOO

 

[kailiwela44]

picture 1 and 2 are from 9/5/08. Pic 3 is the Top44 pinched at the nodes, in a 4"pot, and 12/12 from seed, also taken 9/5/08. pic 4 is the second cola, pic five and six are of other shoots. Pic seven is of the top44 showing me pistils--i attribute her deformed look to pinching.
Some of the pistils are turning orange. I plan to harvest the main cola and the second cola. The others will be left to reveg. I plan to use molasses one last time at watering, which is tomorrow, and straight water the rest of the way.

peace,
kailiwela44

 

[kailiwela44]

update. It's been a while. These pictures are from earlier this morning. Most of the larger fan leaves have fallen off, I flushed her last week sunday. She has filled her cola a lot since the flush, and hopefully harvest will be soon. Two days ago the trichomes were clear. I hope they are cloudy when i check at lights on so i can harvest.

kailiwela44

 

[kailiwela44]

This is the Top44 i've been doing 12/12 from seed. She sprouted august 9. The first pic is from 8/18 two days after supercropping. The second picture is her trim job. And the last is from earlier this morning. Her tops are starting to become individuals instead of a conopy.

kailiwela44

 

[4u2sm0ke]

looks good kali...you plan to harvest when trichs turn cloudy? no amber? and what ever happen to our emagination?...lol..pictureless grow..lol..thanks for shareing with us


take care and be safe

 

[kailiwela44]

lol. it was suppose to be enitirely pictureless, but as things came up i have some resources i used to get something up here. I'll be chopping her down when the tri's are cloudy. I really don't like being lazy. I may even leave a couple of the lower buds to overripen and hermie to collect pollen. I plan to use the pollen on the Top44 as an experiment--i've read that this is also a way to get feminized seeds. the process involves not harvest bud spots so they end up naturally creating pollen to self pollinate themselve. I think this is how Soma does it. oh, time for lunch and pipe scraping.

kailiwela44

 

[kailiwela44]

I've done some reading and need some clarification on a few things regarding trichomes.

On the lower branches, i have the normal looking trichomes which some are becoming milky. Along with those normal looking trichomes are non-glandular trichomes--without the head.

In the middle of the main cola are a small amounts of normal looking trichomes with mostly non-glandular.

The top of the cola only has non-non-glandualr tri.

Questions i have:

1. Since the lower branches have some milky trichomes and non-glandualr trichomes, do the non-glandular trichomes develop the bulb over time and catch up? or does it remain a non-glandular/bulbless trichome?

2. If the lower parts of the plant matures first, am i able to harvest from the bottom up? i only read of people doing the opposite top to bottom.

3. How often do i need to check the trichome development? if strain dependant is there a given range for indicas, indica/sativa, sativa strains? i've read that the harvest window varies so i assume checking trichome should vary.


Another thing i read about was when do you consider the start of flowering period. Some say when 12/12 is initiated and others say when flowers show. So, in regards to my Citral, if it is according to 12/12 she is over 10 weeks into flowering period plus another week for the pest problem i encountered. if it is in regards to showing flowers, she is almost eight weeks--if i remember correctly.

 

[kailiwela44]

I watered her for the last time last night and removed the run-off after about a half-hour. I removed the run-off because the past two weeks, she has had her moments of taking an extra day to dry the soil. Hopefully, she'll dry out her soil by either tomorrow so i can chop her down. If not then either way she will come down Sunday night at the latest. Note to self: take before and after pictures. The trichomes have become cloudy so i guestimated to give her the extra days to develop all around (actually i was too lazy to do anything but water)

have a nice weekend,
kailiwela44

 

[kailiwela44]

after all this waiting, she's not the best but damn it feels good to finally harvest!