Help! Light got too close for 2 days, now airy buD!!

[payn4school]

Im not a pro in soil yet, so I was wondering your guys' opinion on this. here is the scenario, any input would be appreciated.

I have the two moms I am flowering, Ice and mauwi wowie i believe. They are in standard 5 gallon square pots, with promix and perlite 50/50. They are just about done, well actually I was going to cut them yesterday, but when I found them, they were very airy, instead of nice and dense and hard which they were only two days prior. The air cooled 1000 was putting off a little more heat than normal cause of the rise in temp outside. (yea i know that sucks to have to deal with, but thats how it is right now)

So they had sucked nearly all of the moisture out of the soil.
I moved them away from the light, well, the light away from them, and gave them another good watering.
My question is- do you guys think they may still harden back up in a couple days or so? I cant imagine letting them go more than another week.

What do ya think?

thanks
payn

 

[Guest]

I just sent the crystal ball to the cleaners, and you don't give enough information to make a decent guess, so I'll sayyy,,,,,,

could be.

How much wold you have if you didn't try?
it's not the first harvest, it's the knowlege you gain


Get your trusty raido shack microscope and check the trics - I'll bet they are all clear and have weeks to go

If the light got too close - the plants would crisp - sounds like high temps
REALLY HIGH TEMPS

 

[junglistni]

man, im jus sorta finishin my first grow, i chopped the 2 main colas, gona flower the rest for a few weeks, then re veg and try and take some clones.

but i found when i chopped the big 2 last week, they looked really chunky and dense,now i'v jus checked em after bein away for a week (in the dam heheh) and now they look quite airy, a tad dissapointed, but still well chuffed at havin anything wit crystals and pistils 2 b honest.

i am startin 2 think i mayb did chop a bit early, but theyv been nearly 12 weeks now from i first switched 2 12/12 and the "guide" said 6 - 8 weeks!

 

[Nikijad4210]

i am startin 2 think i mayb did chop a bit early, but theyv been nearly 12 weeks now from i first switched 2 12/12 and the "guide" said 6 - 8 weeks!

Unless I misunderstood that, you're saying you let a 6-8 week flowering period plant sit under 12/12 for 12 weeks??

Seems like you over-ripened them, if that's the case. They'd be past their trichome prime now.

 

[junglistni]

well that could b tru as well, i duno, but jus lookin at the plant it wasnt ready, and at the moment i dont have a microscope, so i was goin by the very rough guide of orange pistils, but even when i chopped it only maybe 10 - 20% wer orange, i thot it had 2 b a lot more than that.
either way iv got somethin 2 smoke that i grew so im happy next time round i can try and improve on it. and get a ph meter and a microscope lol

 

[payn4school]

no, the trics are 50/50 cloudy amber right now. I know when to chop and plant and i am certainly no premature echopulator.

The buds were dense and ready to be picked but the high heat from the light made them fluffy over two days> I did not burn them to the point that they got crispy, maby another day like that and then they would have been crispy.

My question again is this> Will the buds harden back up with the proper conditions?

What I am NOT asking is how to grow denser buds.

If this happened with my girls in hydro I believe they would bounce back fairly quickly, but i dunno for soil, Seems like in soil recovery time can be considerably slower than hydro.

Just wondering you soil guys take on it.







I will post a pic of it them later, goin to check on them now for the first time in two days. My guess is that they will be partially hardened back up... I hope

Payn

 

[randude]

Awe you are giving the buds milk. That is the problem.

 

[hazy]

holy cow!

holy cow!

holy cow!! those buds are as fat as the milk jug!

I think payn knows how to grow fat buds.
I think that they got too warm used up their moisture and, yeah, soil does take longer to note changes, but i bet they'll be fine.

 

[payn4school]

lol, thanks for the replies!

im picturing a giant nug with a milk mustash and a speach bubble saying "got milk?"

hazy you are exactly right. Thats what happened to a tee. but they hardened right back up after a good water and 2 recovery days not under direct light, well kinda indirect. anyways, the one is certainly ready and pretty hard, so I got that milf locked up in a cold dark room till tomorrow night, where edward sissor hands will have his way with her.
(yea my pics are horendous, sorry, need to get new camera)


Yea they are goofey looking milfs, kinda got neglected. There just worn out hoes I supose.

here is the other on that will go another couple of days.



so all is well and the moral of the story is that if you let too much heat build up and make the buds airy in the final days of bloom, just add water and wait a couple days. Now I wonder if that stress may have impacted resin content?
but thats just as worthwild as trying to find out of many licks it takes to get to the center of a blow pop...

Thank you IC, and it doesnt have to be skim, it could be whole if you wanted it to.

 

[Nikijad4210]

well that could b tru as well, i duno, but jus lookin at the plant it wasnt ready, and at the moment i dont have a microscope, so i was goin by the very rough guide of orange pistils, but even when i chopped it only maybe 10 - 20% wer orange, i thot it had 2 b a lot more than that.
either way iv got somethin 2 smoke that i grew so im happy next time round i can try and improve on it. and get a ph meter and a microscope lol

Rule numero uno:

This cannot be stressed enough:
Pistils do not indicate the maturity of the trichomes, and are not a reliable guide to go off of.


You can go pretty much anywhere & get a cheap, effective microscope. You could even go to a store like Toys'R'Us & get a kiddie 'scope for $10 like I did, and it works like a charm.
Please, invest in a microscope of some kind so you can accurately monitor the trichome stages in the future.

 

[payn4school]

why do people not bother to read thru the whole whole post before deciding to reply with some irrelevent info!?! This post was not about stages of tricomb maturity...

 

[Nikijad4210]

why do people not bother to read thru the whole whole post before deciding to reply with some irrelevent info!?! This post was not about stages of tricomb maturity...

Because I wasn't talking to you, I was responding to someone else who'd asked a question.
Don't get so bent out of shape, a thread doesn't always stick strictly to the threadstarter---other questions pop up from other people, ya know.